The Church is the house that God built. Jesus said that upon a rock, which is the rock of revelation, He will build His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. His foundation stands sure having this seal, that God knows who are His, and he that names the name of the Lord, let him depart from iniquity. When Christ said He will build "His church", He knows every name that consists it. He knows every stone of it. And we are these stones which Peter described as the lively stones built up for a spiritual house as a habitation of God. Jesus knows who are these stones and they are His. They are foreknown of God whose names are written in the Lambs book of life. God predestinated them and called them in their own season. And whom God called He justified, and whom He justified He also glorified. God calls His people through His Word in His appointed time. And they will hearken unto His voice because they recognize it as the voice of their Shepherd and the voice of a stranger they will not follow.
Every child of God was in Him even before there was a creation. We are part of Him and in Him as we are part of our natural fathers and in them even before we were born. Our spiritual life was in God, eternal with Him. At first we were expressed as creations and Adam was the first created son of God. In the beginning, God commanded Adam to multiply and be fruitful and that through him every child of God be brought forth in this world. If not because of satan who deceived the woman and injected a seed in her through the serpent, the only race of man who will inhabit the earth was God's children. But because of his perversion by beguiling Eve and went into her before Adam did, another race was born. Since then the earth will not only be inhabited by God's children but also by the seeds of the serpent which Cain was the first. This is why he was called in the Scripture as he who is of the wicked one. He was the first hybrid creature that existed who was a mixture of man and serpent. Some may ask how can the seed of an animal mix with man. We should take note that the serpent was an upright creature in the beginning. He could talk like a man. He was the most subtle among any beast which God had created. If he was, then he must be more intelligent than the chimpanzee which scientists consider as a specie that is closest to human. And considering God's way of creation which is from the most inferior to the greatest. Just like the botany life which starts from a simple algae to fungus and to vines then to shrubs and then to trees. If the serpent was more intelligent than the chimpanzee then It must be the closest thing to man before it was cursed. I believe it was the missing link scientists was never able to find. I believe it was that which God had cursed saying , "thou art above every cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly thou shalt go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life". I believe it was the serpent. It was like a man before God pronounce the curse that changed its physical structure. And the only difference between man and the serpent was the soul. Man has the soul for he was created in the image of God being a Spirit which the serpent doesn't have. But just like human, the serpent has a place for a soul which satan took as an opportunity to dwell and take control of this creature. That serpent became like a man because Satan's soul and spirit dwelt in it.
Though Cain was a hybrid creature, which is serpent and man, he had a soul because the superior life will always prevail and dominant in the case of hybriding. Man is a higher form of life than the serpent. And therefore Cain was not to be called a serpent but a man for he has a soul. He will answer in the day of judgment for murdering Abel his brother and no serpent shall be in the white throne judgment. Cain and all his descendants were the other race of man to inhabit the earth other than the children of God. As it is written," And the sons of God saw the daughters of man". The sons of God in this verse were not angels for angels could never be God's children. As it was written, which of the angels saith He at any time, "Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee".
After the flood, Noah was the last to possess the pure blood of Adam. His three children, Ham, Japheth and Shem came from a mix blood of man and animal which was the serpent. The nature of Ham tells us
and proves that the adulterous instinct of satan was in him and Noah's wife consented to her son's act. For the Bible spoke this way, "and Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without". We know that seeing the nakedness doesn't mean what it seems to us.
After the flood, it was the children of Noah who replenished the world. They multiplied and scattered in all the earth. Since then every man that was born under the sun by a woman is stained by the blood of the serpent. But the purpose of God shall never be defeated. His children will still be born in His decreed seasons. And in every season He has His provided way to call them by sending a witness to preach His word. And as they preach every one hears them but not all will believe. Not every one will recognize God's visitation. And that, it was their "TODAY". As it was written, "today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart as in the day of provocation". Some will rejoice for a season for the things they hear but will not endure up to the end as the Lord said that some seed fell by the wayside and some among the thorns and some in the stony grounds. But it isn't so with us as the children of God. For we are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing for the hope until the end.
And what is that hope that we should rejoice for? It is the hope of glory. That at His coming we shall receive the fullness of our inheritance. For we received the earnest. The gene of God which at first was expressed as a creation. That which at first was "created" in His image. That which at first was expressed as a "shadow". But now the real thing has come and it was not a creation. It was born of God. Not a shadow for the light has come. As it is written "the first Adam was made a living soul, but the second was a quickening Spirit". And as we have borne the image of the first, we shall also bear the image of the second. The living soul died (separated from God) because of sin as a penalty. But Jesus took the penalty. And when on the third day He was quickened, by faith the sinful soul was quickened with Him. But not only to become quickened but also to bear the image of the Second Adam as a QUICKENING SPIRIT. And that Spirit is the eternal Gene of the eternal God born from above. HALLELUJAH! That which was once created is now born. Oh, how unsearchable is the wisdom of the Almighty. For flesh and blood shall not reveal it to man but the Father in heaven. And upon this Rock He will build His House.
By: Bro. Alberto Espinosa
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