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The Serpent Seed

You see, the forbidden fruit had two faces: the face of evil and the face of good. When the devil deceived man, he knew that if man chooses to eat off the evil side by disobeying God, using his free will, evil will become dominant in man. If man chooses the good side, by obeying God, using also his free will, then good will become dominant in man. But Adam and Eve chose the evil side.

Thus evil, which is the serpent seed, became implanted in man. It grew and it has been dominant ever since.

We still have good within us but we cannot do what is good because we do not have the power to do it. The devil knew this from the very beginning. This was the essence of his deception.

You know what is good and you know how to do it, but you keep on doing that which is not good, because that is the instigation of your spiritual DNA. That is your spiritual genetics. You cannot escape from it.

Paul was faced with this dilemma when he became an apostle. He said in Romans 7:13-25: “Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind that I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”

There is a war that is happening within us. In our mind, we know what is good and we want to do it, but our body, which is our carnal flesh, is more powerful because it is in control.

So if we follow our will, we really have no hope in saving ourselves because even Paul the Apostle admitted that. He said, “In essence, if I am left to myself without a Savior, I am wretched because I cannot save myself. I am brought into captivity by sin. This is what is dominant within me. Who will save me?”

According to Paul, we need a savior to save us from this dilemma. Who is this Savior? Paul said, “The Lord Jesus Christ is that Savior.”

Salvation from the Serpent Seed

When Jesus Christ came as a Savior, He came to save us from the clutches of the spirit of disobedience. He gave Himself up as a model for us to follow the perfect will of the Father. He came into human flesh so that He might give the verdict for sin. By the example of the Son of God, sin would die within us. He showed us how to do it—that we must obey the will of the Father. This was the message of repentance. He was showing us the new pattern for bringing man back to the perfect plan of the Father.

Jesus Christ, who is called the Second Adam, had chosen to obey the Father just as the first Adam had chosen to disobey the Father. The Son of God in the Jewish setting came and chose to obey the commandment of the Father though it meant His death. This was the example of obedience that He set. The Second Adam also ate of the forbidden fruit, but He ate of the good side. The Bible says, “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Rom 5:19)

All through the ages, the Father had tried to bring man back to His perfect will. He chose a people through Abraham, so that He could make an example of how salvation will be accomplished. Abraham begot Isaac and Isaac begot Jacob and Jacob begot the twelve tribes of Israel.

This was His chosen people to whom He gave the covenants, the laws, the promises and the patriarchs. The Jewish people were made the model for the entire world. From them the light of salvation would have come because it was to them that the promises were given.

The Jewish people were religious in the Old Testament laws, but they kept on rebelling against Him. They were given commandments, but they didn’t want the commandments. Their religion, their rituals, their temple and tabernacle were enough for them; they didn’t want to go further than that.

But at last, they asked for the Messiah and He sent them the Messiah, the Son of God. But the Jewish people had a different perception of the Messiah. They wanted a physical King; they wanted a physical Messiah to save them from political and physical bondage.

When Jesus Christ performed miracles in their midst, they wanted to make Him their king. (John 6:14-15) But Jesus Christ refused their offer because He knew that they only wanted Him to be a physical and a political King. This was not the nature of His Kingship. His Kingship was a spiritual Kingship. He had not come to do a physical work. He came to create a new spirit within them. He told them, “Except you be born again in the spirit you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”

This was exactly what the Jewish nation could not take. So when Jesus Christ offered them His Kingship, they rejected it. They did not want a spiritual Kingship.
They were given the Messiah to complete the work of salvation, but they rejected it. Instead of receiving it, they crucified the Son of God.

The End of the Jewish Heaven and Earth

In Matthew 24:2, Jesus Christ pointed to the temple, telling all the people and all the disciple that were around Him, “Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

In the Jewish age and in the Jewish world, life centered around the temple because the presence of God was in the temple. The temple had two divisions—the Holy Place where the people could go and the Holy of Holiest, where only the high priest could go.

In the Holy of Holiest, the Shekinah glory of God dwelt there. There was no natural or man-made light in the Holy of Holiest, but it was lighted by the Shekinah glory. That was where the presence of God dwelt. But the temple was only a type of the things to come.

Now, understand this: the Holy of Holiest, where the presence of God could be found, was the Jewish heaven. The Holy Place, where the people could go, was the Jewish earth. When Jesus Christ told His disciples ‘heaven and earth will pass away but my Word’—the word of the Covenant—‘will never pass away,’ the heaven that He was referring to was the heaven of the Jewish age.

It was not the heavens as we know it—the sky, or the universe, that will be changed and burned, as Christendom believes this verse to mean. At that moment in time as Jesus Christ said this, the glory of Israel lay in the temple.

The glory of Israel centered upon the temple that Solomon built. It was magnificently made. It had white marble outside, and inside, it was inlaid with gold. This was where the Jewish power came from. It was the source of their strength. It was their whole universe.

When Jesus Christ came, He introduced the New Covenant to the Jews, effectively ending the Old Covenant, or the old economy, or the old system, or the old Jewish world. He was changing all that was old and was introducing to them the New Covenant, which was a more perfect covenant. In the New Covenant, the Father would not dwell in a place made by human hands, however beautifully inlaid with gold it was. In God’s New Covenant, His plan to dwell in man would finally be fulfilled.

In the Father’s New Covenant, the Ten Commandments would not be placed into the Arc of the Covenant and then permanently placed inside the Holy of Holiest. In His New Covenant, His commandments, or His laws would be written in the heart and in the mind of man, completing the work of salvation that He was unable to complete in the creation of Adam and Eve. He was not able to complete this plan because before the Father could get His seed inside of us, the deception came upon our first parents. Instead of us receiving the seed of the Holy Father, we received the serpent seed that you and I have inherited.

So the work of salvation continued. The Father chose a people whom the Messiah would come to save, and to deliver the final blow that would end the problem of sin. But the Jews did not receive it. They rejected what would have completed their salvation.

What would have happened if they had accepted it? What if they had received the Messiah? What if they had repented? What if they had accepted the new spirit, totally ending sin in the human race?

Then they would have become the model. They would have become more than just the chosen people; they would have become the model for all human kind. When we look for righteousness, we would have looked towards the Israel because the Son of God would have been glorified with them. The Father would not need to call an Appointed Son from the Gentiles because at that time, collectively, Israel was His Son. The Father looked at the collective nation of Israel as just one person.

But the Son (Israel) was rebellious. He did not accept the complete will of the Father.

In fact, the Jews could never accept it. If they had, I would not be here today. We would not be here today talking about this. Our eyes would all be upon the Old Jerusalem, which would have become the New Jerusalem, where the new creation or the new man could be found. We would all strive to go there. His own chosen people would have become the model for our salvation.

And because they rejected it, the floodgate of salvation was opened to the Gentiles.

In 70 A.D., the prophesy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 24 was fulfilled by the coming of Titus, the Roman General. He destroyed Jerusalem and the temple, throwing down every stone of it. He burnt the temple and the whole city of Jerusalem.

As He burnt the temple, he saw the inlaid gold melted in the cracks between the stones. To get all the melted gold out of the crevices, he took down every single stone from the temple, one by one.

The burning of the temple in 70 AD effectively ended the Jewish age. That was when the Jewish nation was rejected once and for all. Their heaven was finally closed down.

After the Jewish age, the Christian Age or the Church Age began. In this age began the progressive revelation of the life of Jesus Christ. This was when what was stated in Mark 4:26-28 began to be fulfilled.

The Progression of Faith

Mark 4: 26-28 said, “So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.”

In the parable of the seed, the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that cast seed into the ground. The seed that was planted is the Word of God or the life of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

Just as the farmer’s purpose when he plants a corn seed is the harvest to come, the life of Jesus Christ was planted so that it will produce a harvest of souls bearing His image and His life.

After a corn seed is planted, the life of the seed undergoes a progression of phases, the first of which is the appearance of the blade of corn. This is the first thing that you would see growing out of the ground. This progression of stages is in consonance with Romans 1:17, which says, “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.” So there is not only one kind of faith, but faith is from level to level, from glory to glory. This is called the progression of faith.

The progression of faith is likened to a school of learning. There are levels that you must go through to complete your education. There is the elementary level, the high school level, and the college level. When you get an education, you will graduate from all of these levels one by one.

All of these religions that bear the name of Christ are called Christian. They belong to what we call the Christian world. They belong to the Church Age where the life of Jesus Christ is progressively revealed from one Christian religion to the next. If they were smart, all of these Christian religions should have waited for the last revelation, the summit, which culminates in the harvest!

After the corn seed is planted, the life of a corn plant passes through four stages before it is ready to be harvested. First, comes the blade of corn, then the stalk, then the tassel appears, then after that the corncob, and finally, the seed reappears, now not one, but many. This is what the farmer will harvest.

Each of these phases of the corn plant’s life represents a revelation of the life of the spiritual seed, who is Jesus Christ. Faith progressed from one revelation to the next, until the final culmination. Jesus Christ produces many others who are exactly like Him in the spirit. Now, not one seed but many. (John 12:24)

Many cannot accept this revelation that has been given to the people of the Kingdom. But whether they accept it or not, it does not matter; it will not change the truth. The progression of faith reached its final culmination in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name Above Every Name.

(Next week, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy will discuss the progression of faith and it’s culmination that effectively ended the Christian Age and opened up a new age—the Kingdom Age where the Father reigns as King through His Son.)

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