ABRAHAM’S SEED



[Gal 3:26-29 KJV] 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.


When Jesus was made flesh and tabernacled among us, becoming one of us, becoming the Son of man (A title looking forward and into all that should be redeemed from former man), a small beginning, a small handful of humanity believed Him. They believed the witness that The Father gave Him, through many miracles and wonders, through the Power of a word that even the most learned scriptural ‘experts’ and ‘scholars’ could not resist nor refute. And nearing the time of rending that He must pass through, in order to fulfill all that the law and the prophets declared of Him, He began to guide and focus their attention to the fact, that He must die, and on the third day, be raised again. This imperative, he spoke not to them through the thundering power of His presence and authority in The Father, but referencing the volume of the writing, in times past, of apprehended individuals moved by the Spirit of God which was (then) in them, concerning what He, Jesus, must accomplish. This Jesus must suffer and die, in order that all be fulfilled. This Alabaster vessel, in whom all of the selfsame Spirit that periodically moved the profits dwelt, in order that this Divine Fragrance become the essence of our place and our very being in The Father, must be broken. The expectation of Messiah, then present in the people was, sadly, very little different then, than it is now, that a man of flesh and blood will sit upon a piece of furniture, in a specific location of geography, and restore a nation to former grandeur (which grandeur at it’s highest apex, was but symbolic). That Messiah is come to make flesh behave in our time, to our satisfaction and for our convenience.

This expectation, born in ignorance and unbelief, is as foolish now, as it was then.

[Luk 24:25-27 KJV] 25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.


His imperative:

[Jhn 12:23-26 KJV] 23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will [my] Father honour.


Our Imperative:

[Jhn 3:3-7 KJV] 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.


The two imperatives accomplished simultaneously:

[Gal 2:20 KJV] 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.


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In the account of the book of Genesis, the promise to the race, of a savior, is to one seed that shall be born of woman. The savior will come to us, among many other things, as a seed. In the first woman, the seed was ‘named’ in one of either Cain, or Abel. It could not have been named in Cain, who was “of” the evil one. Cain was, by choice, devoted to lies and murder. Cain was given a chance to change his thinking, but did not.

[Gen 4:5-7 KJV] 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

[1Jo 3:10-12 KJV] 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

[Jhn 8:44 KJV] 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.


The promise of The Father, of a seed to come, was in the first woman from the time the Father spoke it. That seed was in one who died at the hands of his natural brother, the devotee, by choice, of another father. Cain was given time and space to reconsider, and did not. To the woman (and in a figure, all humanity) now bereft of the promise, God gave another in whom the seed would be revived.

[Gen 4:25 KJV] 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

The seed of promise, named in one who died, is revived in another, Seth becoming the first figurative man of resurrection, and establishing the message of the One Seed of promise, who would eventually fall to the earth and die, and be raised again. Death could not disannul the promise of God, and in fact, ratifies Jesus Christ as the one true seed and heir, by the Power of Resurrection. For this was proclaimed figuratively over time in many, but fulfilled in actuality, once for all, in Christ. Consider the powerful declaration of the scripture, concerning redemption for Adam’s fallen race:

[Gen 5:1-5 KJV] 1 This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

From the transition out of Cain and Abel, the generations of Adam are reckoned in Seth, the figurative man of resurrection. Eight is the number of new beginnings, new creation, and of rest. Adam lived 130 years outside of this. 13 is the number of confusion. The scriptures are telling you from the beginning, that any who survive the generations of Adam, will do so in the man of resurrection. You will notice in the account of Gen. 5, no mention is made of Cain nor Able. And that Abel, by faith, is now reckoned in Seth.

In the course of time, the seed lies dormant in the race. It survives the watery end of an age, named in Noah, and in his son, Shem. And though the seed was named in Shem, the promise was to all by faith:

[Gen 9:9-11 KJV] 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Beautifully, and incredibly, the covenant is to the one seed , and to every living creature. Thus, this seed is revealed to Noah, to be the earnest expectation of all of the creation. But the expectation will not be declared fulfilled in the one seed, but in the many that He would eventually bring forth:

[Rom 8:18-21 KJV] 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

[Psa 22:30 KJV] 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

[Isa 8:18 KJV] 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me [are] for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

[Heb 2:13 KJV] 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

[Isa 26:19 KJV] 19 Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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And so the one seed is named in succession, father to son, from Noah, to Shem, and eventually to Abram. And that the seed was one, and not many, is evident:

[Gal 3:16 KJV] 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Now, if you are Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. If you are Christ’s, you are of the one seed who was in Abraham by faith. The one seed and promise that you can trace back to the fallen race in the garden. Oh, that you see, that to be born of Abraham’s flesh is one thing. But to be born of the seed that was in him by promise, is entirely another.

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Over the years, I have come to know that the tabernacle Moses was ordered to build, was a signification, through and through. Every scrap of wood, every piece of metal, every fragment of cloth, every ritualistic enactment, absolutely everything to do with it, was a divinely ordained model. Though the people to whom it was given, quickly corrupted themselves , it nevertheless stands as readable as a book, as a testimony of Christ, and of all He would be and do. All symbolism is subject to corruption in the sullied hands of man, and all symbolism is eventually corrupted. But the message of the symbolism stands true, from generation to generation, fulfilled in Christ, and fulfill-able in you, what humanity does with it notwithstanding. Though a thousand fall at your right hand, and ten thousand at your left, there is no eternal mandate that YOU fall from substance back into symbology. In fact, it is your Father’s will that you stand. CHRIST IN YOU is substance. Any thing less is symbol at best.
One of the many significations of the tabernacle has intrigued me for many years. I have desired understanding in it, but as in all approach to scripture, have never manufactured it, but waited. Scripture and patience, at least in my experience, go together like a hand and a glove. The thing of intrigue; why was Aaron’s Almond rod raised rootless and with a generation of Almonds, but the almonds sealed in that state, in the Holiest? What, by this, is the Holy Ghost signifying? There they were placed, in the ark of testimonies, as seed in a garner, their fulfillment as completed seed finished, but their fulfillment as individual trees, held in reserve. ( I can testify that I personally in my time in this flesh, walk both fulfilled and unfulfilled. Abased, and yet abounding, having all things, and knowing that I do not yet know what I have) To the seed in the apple, yearning to see the orchard, I would say, “the orchard is withing you’.

In Christ Jesus, EVERY word is yes and amen. Every word of scripture is fulfilled in Him. This is a lot. But in Him, the Word made flesh, the ‘one seed of promise’, which we have seen named from the beginning, becomes no more word only, but flesh. If you were alive at that time, and looking at Him, you were seeing the very individual seed of promise, completely formed, wrapped in the chaff of human flesh. This is monumental. I can imagine that very few knew what they were looking at. But there, standing before you, the very seed promised to the woman who is the mother of us all. Behold, the Lamb of God! One old man knew:

[Luk 2:27-32 KJV] 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, 31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

There is another place in scripture, where we see the exact picture of Aaron’s raised rod, raised to the point of a generation of seed, each seed every bit as much the Word made flesh, as was Christ Jesus, because in them is fulfilled His proclamation, that except a seed of wheat fall to the earth and die, it abides alone. But if it does, is brings forth much fruit.

And again, in a parable, Jesus likens the Kingdom of God:

[Mar 4:26-29 KJV] 26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. 28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

The full corn in the ear…a matured fruiting body, each seed of it containing the same genetic inheritance of the first seed that fell to the earth and died. But not immediately replanted, but gathered into the garner against another season, another planting.

The Gospel of Matthew begins by declaring itself to be the Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ. Not genealogy, but generation…what will come of Him. It gives account of the singular seed of promise named father to son, abiding from Abraham, until it emerges in flesh and blood, in the man Jesus. The account names 42 generations from Abraham to Christ. If you do the very simple math of the head count, when you arrive at the man Jesus, you are on the number 41. You have not arrived at the generation of Jesus Christ, signified as 42 from Abraham, because the seed of promise had not yet fallen to the earth and died, and no full seeds in the ear, as yet, been formed. Jesus named this, His generation to come, “the children of the resurrection”.

The Lord spoke, by the prophets, many years ago, and defined the ‘last days’. He said in the last days He would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh. Jesus, in whom all the Spirit of God dwelt, as the baptizer in the Holy Ghost, revealed that He could not do this, until He ‘went away’. But there, in the outer courts of Solomon’s temple, the day of Pentecost was completely, once and for all, fulfilled. The Holy Spirit came, the last days began. (Therefore it is no mystery that the first apostles wrote and proclaimed that they were walking in the last days). From the day that Jesus sent the Promise of the Father, the Spirit of Truth into the world, the last days began. Some will receive Him. Some not. I have no formula, magic words, or doctrine to know which are which. And neither does anyone else. The Spirit and the Bride, simply say, ‘COME’. Whosoever will, is empowered to come. To say ‘COME’, is the end of my part in the matter. But as a novice beekeeper, I have learned that in my yard, every flower visited by a bee, is pollinated. It has a future sealed in resurrection. Every flower that is not pollinated, though it live out it’s days under the sun, much like any other flower, has no future. The Holy Spirit is no will-o-the-wisp, no ‘feeling’, no small thing. He is God. For God, said Jesus, is a spirit. And they that worship Him MUST (another imperative) worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. From the time the Holy Spirit came, until this moment as you are reading, and until the Father ends these last days, IS the last days. And all who shall have been added to Christ in resurrection, in faith, are the 42^nd and final generation of Mathhew1. They are the generation of Jesus Christ, the Resurrected seed of promise, a generation ready to be revealed. The earnest expectation of the creation itself, lies in this generation. Make no mistake. Christ is not about subtle human behavior modification. He is the New man, and the first in whom all follow. He is the beginning of the New Creation of God. If any man (male/female make no difference) be in Christ Jesus, He is a new creation. Every seed on Aaron’s raised rod, a child of resurrection, ready to be revealed, when the last to be added in faith, are added.

[Heb 3:6 KJV] 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!