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Tale of Two Seeds

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Part I

The missional charge ever abides to communicate with increased perceptivity our place in God’s universal plan. The fast-paced changes of these end-times seasons cause us to lose grasp of our true position because our earlier spirit reference points are made obsolete in face of them. To meet this challenge, the Father desires our reference points to continually graduate to higher levels that can keep sync with our ever unfolding eternal destiny.

 

We previously wrote an article on Father’s will to birth an eternal progeny from before the creation, wherein His making of a fallible creation in time was ordained to fulfil that purpose. The Lamb was intentionally slain from before the creation, not as an afterthought to remedy creation “in case it fell.” His slaying was purposed in eternal divine Need, designed to ultimately bring forth that pre-envisioned eternal family. All the rest is, as they say, “history” in service of that pre-creational Purpose. (The closer we come to immortality, the more these things are being made known and will come clear to us.)

 

Today, my burden is to focus on the reality of dual competing seeds within this eternal Purpose. Not only was it necessary for God to create a fallible creation in order to birth this eternal family, but it was necessary for a competitory spirit seed to also be birthed inside that creation in order to bring the eternally purposed divine Seed to eternal fruition. History from the fall forward is the story of that competition. We are of course now speaking of the seed of satan.

 

This is very hard to accept, but the fact is, the Father’s eternal purpose for divine Satisfaction through Christ’s death unto producing an eternal offspring could not be realized without allowing a satan figure to birth a hellish seed to oppose the Father’s seed in its ages-long development.

 

Yet scripture is clear that satan serves God’s purposes, which means satan’s seed does too. Nor is there any fault with God for this allowance, such being the price of a truly autonomous humanity. (You were granted a free will, O man, yet this was what you were inevitably fated to do with it. For it was not within your created will’s power to eternally maintain your creational perfection. Selah.)


Two Irreconcilable Seeds from the Start


The fact of two mutually exclusive opposing seeds in the universe having different fates never to meet is set out at the very beginning of Genesis, carrying through to the very end of Revelation. Genesis 3:15 NKJ outlays this for us in no uncertain terms:

“And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

 

It is vital to see at this start that the enmity between these seeds is both purposely divinely ordained and is never closed—ever, anywhere throughout all scripture. The enmity is permanent to the culmination of their existences. There is never a possible reconciliation between them, nor any conversion from the one to the other. What a seed is, it is always to be (to be clarified further).

This means that there is no salvation available to the seed of the serpent. That seed is destined to irreversible destruction, while the Seed of the woman, that is Christ—and ultimately all His offspring whom the Father will bring to eternal birth through Him—will go on to realize their precreational destiny—for which sake the whole of the cosmic plan was even set up.

 

The concept of salvation throughout all scripture is thus confined entirely and only to the bringing forth of the Father’s precreational Seed from out of a certain limited redeemable sector of mankind. It has nothing to do with changing the ordained destiny of the seed of the serpent. (If this proves jarring to the universalistic view of redemption on which we have all been raised, just keep following….)


The Seed Parables

Jesus picks up the seed motif in His parables, again with no uncertainty. There are different parables pertaining to seeds. The two most outstanding are the parable of the sower and that of the wheat and tares. Each parable has a different focus relative to the two seeds.

 

The parable of the sower deals only with the seed of the woman / Christ, showing how Christ’s seed may land on many who nevertheless do not have the Father’s eternally precreational implantation (called “a good and honest heart”) within them. In this, it reveals a two-part aspect to what it fully means to be the eternal seed of Christ (i.e., a work of both the Father and the Son, not just the Son). This parable also reveals a cosmic snatching operation of the serpent who seeks to prevent Christ seed from coming into eternal being and fruition in mankind. But also note: this parable does not speak at all about the seed of the serpent, which is its own distinct seed altogether. 

 

The wheat and tares parable however deals directly with the construct set up in Genesis 3:15. It specifically identifies the seed of the serpent as well as the seed of Christ. The serpent seed embraces a certain portion of mankind into whom the serpent is given ability to directly plant his own spirit seed. This is beyond his merely snatching Christ seed away from potential precreational Father hearts.

 

This parable also clearly shows the irreconcilability and inconvertibility between these two specific seeds. It further shows how the generic seed of man (being neither the seed of the serpent nor of Christ) is an open field of contest for the planting and harvesting of these two universal spirit seeds. (And just for the record, let it be made utterly clear up front that neither spirit seed is identified by any specific human categorical racial seed.)


Inconvertibility Between Seeds – The Misperceptions


Let’s pause to now clarify this issue of (in)convertibility.  We have shown from Genesis and the wheat and tares that there is no convertibility imagined between these spirit seeds within man. The issue of convertibility pertains only to the converting of the generic human seed (the field) into one of the two otherwise irreconcilable spirit seeds. Christ is planting into the field of man, and so is satan. Each works a conversion of generic human seed into its permanent irreversible spirit type.

 

          - All of Lost Mankind is Not the Serpent Seed

 

A war of spirit fathers is thus fought over the generic human seed. In this, we must dispel two misperceptions regarding these planting operations.

 

The first misperception is that all of mankind sold under sin is the seed of the serpent. This mistaken idea is based in a misunderstanding of Ephesians 2:1-3,

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.       

 

If you can receive it, there is a difference between being a child of disobedience and a child of satan. The term “child of satan” is reserved in scripture only for people of a specific depraved nature and kind (Ex. – “You brood of vipers!”). All mankind is born under the power and spirit of disobedience, and rightly destined for wrath as a result. But to become a “viper” seed of the serpent is another matter far deeper than this. It involves an impartation of satan himself into the heart and bloodstream of a people, not just subjection to the power of sin in the bloodstream under which all are born.

 

By contrast meanwhile, the Father is able to plant His “good and honest” precreational eternal planting into the field of disobedient mankind who are not yet confirmed satan seed. From there, the seed of Christ then seeks and finds the Father’s pre-planting to bring forth eternal birth conversion out of the field of disobedience—as shown by the parable of the sower.

 

          - Not All Men are Candidates for Eternal Christ-Birthing

 

Now the opposite misperception to be dispelled regarding the seed of Christ is the evangelical perception that all of mankind without exception is a candidate for eternal new birth. This idea derives from the non-discriminate way Christ’s atonement and gospel are otherwise spread out over mankind at large without distinction as seen in these passages:

 

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.—Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations—Therefore I exhort … that…prayers … be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, …in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved…— that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. I Jn. 2:2—Mt. 28:19— I Tim. 2:1-4—Jn. 3:16

Nevertheless at the same time, scripture equally asserts that certain sectors of men by nature cannot be saved:

1 But there were also false prophets among the people, …, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction…. 12 …like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed,… 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”  II Pt. 2

 

The animals in this passage signify inconvertible natures destined for destruction. In other words, the inherent satanic nature of these people is such that they cannot become anything else in spite of encountering and “accepting” the gospel and its atonement; rather, they are actually made for destruction, as Paul also alludes here:

 

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? Rom. 9:22

 

These are in fact the seed of the serpent.


Serpent Seed throughout Scripture History


The reality of irreconcilable serpent seed destined for destructive harvest peppers scripture through various statements that prove offensive to evangelical ears, but must be accepted if we are to rightly understand what is happening to mankind at large now. Serpent seed appears throughout the Old Testament in all places where God orders merciless destruction upon certain peoples once their harvest has come forth, such as the Canaanites, Amalakites and Edomites (“Esau have I hated”). It especially appears in reference to Nephilim, which are the offspring of serpent seed people and fallen angels—a reality forcefully predicted to reappear at this end time.

 

Serpent seed appears anywhere that God speaks of directly hating certain people. This is seen in the Psalms for instance,

 
The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.—Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies. Ps. 11:5—139:21-22

 

Serpent seed specifically appears in the prophetic references to beastly personages both in Daniel and in the Book of Revelation, which are further described elsewhere as a “man of sin” or “son of perdition” or “sons of belial.” These are in fact states of irredeemable nature from birth. See here:

 

Referring to Judas, Jesus says, “It would be better if that man had never been born,” calling him to his own face “a devil.” This is a statement of Judas’ ordained destruction from birth as serpent seed. No way could Jesus have ever made such a statement if it were possible for all men without exception to be saved or eventually reconciled to God in eternity future! As seed of the serpent, Judas was an instrument ordained by spiritual descent of satan to be the bruiser of the Lord’s heel. He was never and could never have been a candidate for the Father’s eternally envisioned family.

Most notable of all statements are both John the Baptist’s and Jesus’ references to the Pharisees as a brood of vipers, children of the devil and the synagogue of satan:

Mt. 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 12:34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 23:33 Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

    

Jn. 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do….

 

Rev. 2:9 “… I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 3:9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

 

Most notably about all these verses going back to II Peter 2 above, they all reference the serpent seed as operating within the body of God’s own people, specifically Israel. This is a critical point we will discuss in the next part of this article.

 

The Nearing Manifestation of the Serpent Seed

 

Before doing so however, we want to know why this discussion of the two seeds is even relevant and necessary to us.

Failure to discern the mutually exclusive boundaries between the seeds of the serpent and of Christ over the field of man—including the failure to understand the inherent irredeemability of the serpent seed and refusal to embrace the whole word of God concerning God’s destructive crushing of that seed—has left the church susceptible to false expectations and doctrines about what God has intended to accomplish through our call to convey the gospel to “all men” worldwide. Even more importantly, it has left us very unprepared for what is shortly to manifest throughout most of mankind against us in its full-blown revelation as irredeemable seed ordained to harvest destruction at Christ’s appearing.   

 

The Universalist-passionist vision of God’s love defining evangelical missional belief the last many generations has left the church emasculated and compromised in ability to rightly prophetically speak to the evils now ripening at this harvest season. Blind to God’s revealed mind regarding the serpent seed throughout scripture, the church has no room for discerning, much less expressing, anything of God’s hatred for that seed as He does.

 

Rather, we choke on every verse that speaks of God’s hatred for wicked people, and feel embarrassingly compelled to apologize for the pitiless “war mongering” God who orders the unmitigated destruction of satanically harvested peoples—not only in the Old Testament, but at the end of the New Testament (meaning, our time now). Neither have we stomach for the railings of John the Baptist, Jesus and the apostles against Talmudic Pharisees and Gnostic false prophets.

 

Rather, we believe that God’s loving invitation to “whosoever believes” means we can venture into darkest lairs of sodomic activity expecting we can heroically bring “revival” to the Nephilim—a belief leading only to our own imprisonment under the serpent on his own turf. We are blind to realizing that God’s love for man shown by redeeming His precreational Christ seed from the larger body of mankind exists only in juxtaposition to His equal hatred of an equally irredeemable satanic sector of man necessarily allowed to lie outside the scope of His precreational plan to birth His eternal family.

 

Many contrary questions arise in the human heart about the fact of an irredeemable serpent seed. But just as we are not responsible to explain why it was necessary in God’s grand scheme to allow for a satanic angelic host who would only end up in a lake of fire, or why it was necessary to allow for even one human (never mind tens of billions) to end up there for any reason outside His precreational eternal intent for a family, neither are we responsible then to explain why He should allow for the fact of an irredeemable serpent seed among mankind from the very start.  

 

No. It is rather for those of us so graced to partake of His eternal birthing plan to just awaken to this reality at the very foundation of His Word that defines the landscape of our redeemed existence against a certain non-redeemable sector from which we were utterly mercifully spared! Grasping this change in perspective regarding the limits on human redemptibility is vital to our partnering with the Father as the harvest of both universal spirit seeds unfolds.   

 

Part II

Chris Anderson

First Love Ministry
- a ministry of Anglemar Fellowship
http://www.firstloveministry.org

05/24

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