With all due respect Pariah,earth ages and the serpent seed doctrine are not distractions,if understood it aides the believer into seeing the deeper meaning of our Father's Word,ie,the meat of it.
For the last time, meat is for discerning what is of faith, what is not of faith.. what is serving the Lord and what is not serving the Lord, making the distinction between good and evil... thereby presenting the believer as a chaste bride to Christ if you bothered to read down from verse 2 to the 3rd and fourth verses.
Now let me show what Paul meant by being presented as a chast virgin to Christ,spiritually and Physically.SpiritualII Corinthians 11:2 "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."
2 Corinthians 11: 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.Verse 2 has to deal with putting the extras on the simplicity of the Gospel that moves believers from their rest in Jesus.
For a young woman to be "espoused" to her husband means that she is completely committed to him, even before the vows have been exchanged. Paul is using this relationship whereby we could understand the emotions of Christ towards His bride. The feeling and commitment goes both ways, and applies to the man as much as it applies to the woman. It is no great secret what causes virginity to be lost, for it is being unfaithful sexually to the one you are espoused to marry.
This is where certain comparison end. There is no religious commitment from our part in regards to the relationship we have with Christ excpet on His part as it is His Covenant. Our part is to trust the Lord at His word as trust is the basis for all relationships. Either our eyes are on Him to live by faith or our eyes and focus are divided and thus becoming double-minded in our walk with Him, doing the best we can as if we can finish His work in us by the flesh of keeping our commitments to Him and to follow Him. Either we are known by our faith in Christ to help us live as His or, we are known to the religious world of our commitments, our will, and our flesh to follow Him. Either we are in a relationship by faith or we are in a religion of man in the name of Christianity. We either follow Him by faith or we follow Him by our commitments. We cannot do both for by doing both, we void the faith from being seek as apart from the religious striving being done in the world. A believer's commitment speaks of himself and receives the praise of man. A believer's faith in God speaks of Him as God receives the glory for the good in you and the good that you do.
If a woman has been unfaithful, and is with child, how could she expect that she could be accepted by the man she was espoused to, when she is carrying another man's child? Paul is afraid that if Christians start listening to these fairy-tale preachers, they will be taken by the wrong christ, or Satan the Antichrist [the instead of Christ]. Then when Jesus Christ returns at the seventh trumpet, they will be found unworthy to be part of "the bride of Christ". Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 24:19; "And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!" He was not referring to a mother with a child in her womb, but spiritually speaking, Christians that have given themselves over to the wrong husband. In ignorance they will have been deceived into climbing into the spiritual bed of Satan, and their hearts have been given over to the Satan.
All believers that have been chasing after the Holy Spirit when He is in us are being unfaithful to Christ for not coming to the Son directly as the Bride is to come to the Bridegroom.
PhysicalII Corinthians 11:3 "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."Paul is bringing this event out here in II Corinthians 11:3, where the serpent deceived Eve, and being very subtle about it Satan lied to her. When Satan seduced Eve, a son came from that sexual union named Cain.
Satan deceived Eve by tempting her in eating the forbidden fruit; not by seducing her in having sex with him. If he had done so, there would be no point in saying that Adam knew Eve, and then she concieved, and brought forth Cain. Eve stating that she got a manchild from the Lord was not addressing Satan as Lord. The scriptures explain later what she had meant and that is all children are a heritage from the Lord. Psalm 127:3 Scriptures cannot be broken. Either they are all from the Lord or they are not. To make Eve the first adulterous is a false witness as it is clear that Adam knew Even and THEN she concieved and brought forth Cain.
Paul is saying, "...so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." Your "mind" is something that you think with, and it determines everything you say and do. If your mind is corrupted, then what you say and do becomes corrupted, and the "simplicity" that we have in Christ is also corrupted. Paul is saying that "as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety," it then becomes necessary to know what the Greek word for "beguiled" means. In the Strong's Greek dictionary it is # 1818; "exapatao, ex-ap-at-ah'-o; from 1537, and 538; to seduce wholly: beguile, deceive."
This deception is being caused by those that seduce believers into thinking more is required in that they cannot rest in Jesus just yet and they do this by preaching another Jesus, another gospel, another spirit to recieve which they had not received... like preaching another baptism of the Holy Spirit that comes with evidence of tongues when there is only one baptism of the Spirit at salvation.
"Exapatao" has one meaning and that one meaning is "to seduce wholly". It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what "to be seduced wholly" means. It means to be sexually seduced completely to where your virginity is take from you. It means that the woman has lost her virginity completely. It is one of those things that you either have or you do not have, for there is no in-between. So the analogy that Paul is using in this verse relating to "exapatao" is also being translated into the English as "beguiled", and "deceived", when it should read, "being wholly seduced".
No. That is not how it is to be applied. Those that seek another baptism of the Holy Spirit that comes with evidence of tongues are falling away from the faith and for this cause, God will allow a strong delusion for them to believe the lie as they are suffering a thief to break through so they can speak in tongues which comes with no interpretation and is already found in the world as the world has tongues that are gibberish as well.
So if you could understand what Paul is saying here, then you would understand completely why the Kenites wearing the priest's robes, and sitting in the seat of Moses. The whole time these scribes were judging Christ, they were so mad they wanted to kill Jesus. Jesus had revealed their secret when He said in Matthew 23:2; "Saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat"." The fact is that they were not of God, nor of any part of Israel and Judah, but of their father the devil, who is Satan. Jesus had exposed their identity, as written in John 8:44.
Truly wondered if I get you guys in this camp to face off with those in another camp that believes that the Jews are not of Israel, but are the ruling Pharisees and such like as being of the descendents of Esau from the region of Edom, who would win? Nobody.
John 8:44 "Ye are of your father the devil, [Satan] and the lusts of your father ye will do. He [Cain] 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."Jesus had just identified these Kenite priests and scribes as being the offspring of Cain, the first murderer, who came from that sexual union between Satan and Eve. Satan is the father of lies, and his son Cain was the first murderer. That can't be all that hard to understand.
I can understand the misconception now, but hardly logical. Jesus specifically referred to their father as being the devil because they would do the lusts of the devil they would do. He never specifically said Cain and therefore cannot switch from the devil to Cain when Jesus referred to the devil killing Adam and Eve by tempting them to eat the forbidden fruit whereby sin came and death by sin. That is how the devil was a murderer from the beginning.So let us read before that verse regarding the identity of those He was rebuking so that we may see how He is rebuking them.John 8: 31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 37I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. 38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. 39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44Ye 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. 45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
47He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Jesus PLAINLY acknowledged those He was rebuking as being of Abraham's seed in verse 36 so verse 44 was not being addressed to the Kenites or some secret lineage of Cain as being of the serpent's seed.So it wasn't about a physical lineage at all, but how they'd lived that determined their father as to whom they were serving by their seeking to kill Him. 1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.Since all had sinned, we were all under the works of the devil till He had saved us, having bought us with a price and sealed as His with that Spirit of promise, thus we have been reconciled to God by faith in Jesus Christ.May God deliver all those that read this at last from the falsehood of the Serpent's Seed doctrine.