"THE SEED & THE FIRST FATHER"

June 21^st Father’s Day

FATHERS…and a day to remember them!

FATHERS are the HIGHEST rank in God’s Creation order!

ALL men were created with the SEED for procreation of Mankind…he is the NECESSARY requirement for human life!

*All the barren women in Scripture, whose wombs were opened, all had husbands with the seed that God used!  Think on that one for a bit…

***God’s genealogy order for the Jews was…”father to son” and they recorded and identified their birth and lineage through the father and son…See Genesis 5, 10 & 11 and Matthew 1.

PART 1 ~ INTERESTING FACTS about Adam, the First Father ~ Genesis 4

…he and Eve did not conceive until AFTER they left Eden!  They had intimacy but no conception.  Think about that one!  A child born BEFORE the sinful nature would have been PURE AND SINLESS just like Adam and Eve even though a child would have still had the nature to choose!  I think we can see why God prevented this from happening…Him knowing ALL THINGS and our choices!

***Back to the facts…it is supposed that the First Child was a son, named Cain. (I have a thought abut this to come back to.) 

Like Adam, Cain was a tiller of the ground.  Adam & Eve had a second son and he was named Abel.  He was a keeper of sheep.

***Obviously these two boys had to grow up and become old enough to work.  During these growing up years, Adam and Eve would have spent time telling them where they came from.  Wouldn’t you think it strange that there aren’t any others around?  They would have been told the creation story and how they disobeyed God, The Creator and that the penalty for disobeying was death.  However, God killed an animal and made them clothes from the skin to cover their sinfulness and to be made fit for God’s Presence.  And the process of death and dying began.  God had instituted the sin offering of atoning blood of an animal to be shed as a substitute sacrifice for man’s sin.  They were living east of the Garden of Eden that was protected by Cherubims and a flaming sword because the Tree of Life was still there.  The Eastern side of the Garden of Eden would have likely remained the place of worship with God where they would have come to bring their offerings. 

…So…one could imagine that Abel chose to be a keeper of sheep for the purpose of providing for sacrifices.  Scripture doesn’t say that this event in verse 3 was the first time Cain and Abel brought offerings to the Lord; but on this occasion Cain decided to bring an offering from the fruit of his labors; which would have been fine for a Thank Offering, but he was bringing for a sin offering and that’s why it was not acceptable.  Abel brought required sin offering and he made it the best of his sheep.  God did not accept Cain’s offering because it was not a blood offering and when he got angry God reminded him that there was no reason to be upset, just bring the acceptable offering or sin would lie at his door.  Cain’s chose to remain angry; and he became resentful of Abel.  Sin truly took hold of Cain and he shed blood but it was his brother’s; and then he lied to God.  His punishment should have been death, but instead God saved his life but it was not blessed…the ground would no longer respond to him because it had blood on it; he would be cast out and become a fugitive and a vagabond.  Cain protested to God that it was unfair punishment and that everyone would want to kill him.  God gave him a mark and said that vengeance would come on whoever killed him sevenfold.  He was sent out from the Presence of the Lord unto the land of Nod east of Eden.  He and his seed built a city and established a splendid material civilization, arts and industries; but no moral state.  That’s all we know about Cain because his lineage was destroyed in the Flood.

***When Adam and Eve were 130 years old they  had another son and he was named Seth.  Eve said God had appointed another seed instead of Abel…then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Chapter 5 gives us the generations of Adam and his seed Seth that will lead us to Godly men and finally Noah who found grace in the eyes of The Lord.

***Back to my thought about the First Child.  I think the first and perhaps several others before Cain were girls.  Eve said of Cain “I have gotten a man from the Lord.” Verse 1

Then we know that Adam is 130 years old when Seth is born.  So there was a lot of time between Cain & Abel and Seth to have those daughters that had to help be fruitful and multiply and provide a wife for Cain and all the other sons he had for 800 years after Seth.  I don’t even want to imagine how many children Eve actually gave birth to.  Remember “Adam called her Eve because she was the mother of all living.”  Gen. 3:20

PART 2 ~ INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOD THE FATHER ~ John 5:17-47

*** Genesis 3:8-15  ~ A woman with Seed!

…The miracle of Mary was that she was not barren, but she did NOT have the seed from a husband.  The SEED that produced her CHILD was from THE CREATOR…GOD …thus, why HE would be called FATHER!   *Up until the birth of JESUS, GOD was identified as I AM, CREATOR, THE ALMIGHTY and SPIRIT  OF GOD.

…when was The Son of God created?  Answer:  at conception…God became flesh!  Life always begins at conception!

…So, what kind of relationship does The Son of God have with His Father.  Let’s take a look at John 5:17-47.

***What do we need to learn from Jesus about how to respect and honor our fathers?

Death should not cause that respect and honor to cease…neither should marriage!

Thank You, Lord, for fathers...and for being our Forever Father to those who have been born again in Your Spirit!  May we give you both our Love, respect and honor.