Angelic Conflict part 102: Human history – Gen 3:17-24; Rom 5:12; 1Co 15:
length: 63:48 - taught on Jun, 19 2013
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Title: Angelic Conflict part 102: Human history - GEN 3:17-24; ROM 5:12; 1Co 15:
Provisions of the Adamic Covenant are in 4 categories: the serpent, satan, the woman, and the man.
The Adamic Covenant for the man; four provisions, GEN 3:17-19.
First provision: Cursed is the ground because of you and in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
GEN 3:17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it';
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
Second provision: You shall eat what naturally grows in the wilderness. (Meat comes from animals that eat the same).
GEN 3:18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you shall eat the plants of the field;
If man says I’m not going to plant I’m going to hunt and fish then he is eating what is naturally the diet of what he hunts. There are natural things to eat but they are scarce and usually unpleasant and some of them are hurtful and even poisonous.
If he wants something better, which would pale in comparison to the produce of the Garden then the third provision would be that he would have to work exceedingly hard for it and to avoid scurvy for one thing, he’s going to have to do it.
Third provision: hard labor. In order to produce good things from the cursed earth [bread] man would have painful labor with sweat. His ability to eat is now based on his work ethic.
GEN 3:19 By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
Bread doesn’t grow naturally. Whatever man would need that didn’t grow naturally he would have to work very hard for.
The fourth provision: physical death. Hard labor is to continue until the day of his death.
Man is dust and clay and because of the curse now imposed all humanity will die physically and his body will return to the dust from which it was made.
Man had died spiritually and now he must die physically, all as a result of Adam’s sin, GEN 2:17; ROM 5:12; 1CO 15:22.
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die. [muth muth = dying you shall die]
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.
On a humorous note the rabbinic interpretation has Adam cursed with loss of stature, in other words, he was made shorter.
Woman’s curse: menstruation, pain in childbirth, desiring to rule her husband. Man’s curse: Toilsome labor and leadership, which produces a weakness of bitterness.
When I say labor I do mean legitimate hard work and not the sluggard who dreams of success without work. When I say leadership I mean true leadership and not abusive leadership.
Within the responsibility of leadership the man toils to create order from a world that naturally proceeds towards disorder. He is to rule his wife when she naturally wants to rule him. These frustrations can lead to bitterness.
Husbands, love [present active imperative] your wives, and do not be embittered [present passive imperative] against them.
The husband receives the action of bitterness by failing to think with the love of Christ.
It is interesting to note here that no one can actually choose to be bitter. Bitterness is always a response from wrong thinking. So although the man and woman have these curses upon them there is no excuse for being mastered by them now that the Master, our Lord, has overcome them and given us all provisions to rise above every provision of the Adamic Covenant.
Jesus Christ is the strategic victor in the AC and through him we can become tactical victors in the same conflict.
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty [rewards] with the strong;
Rewards are the spoils of war. Every war has spoils that go to the victor. This is why rewards are not earned by the believer, but shared with him by the strategic victor - Christ.
These rewards have existed since eternity past since God the Father, when He decreed angelic and human history, foreknew the victory of Christ and so all believers in Him were blessed with these rewards.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world
this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
The believer who refuses to fight the good fight of faith by choosing a life standing with the enemy forfeits the spoils of war (rewards) but he can never forfeit his position in Christ.
You may ask what you must do to become a victor. The question is not what you must do but what you must think. Correct thinking will be followed by correct doing in whatever capacity that God has called you to. You don’t have to be a pastor, missionary, evangelist, martyr, deacon, administrator, etc.
With positive volition your humility will allow God to show you the works you must do in the proper time.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
There are two things here. Learning doctrine which leads to knowing what the works are and then application which leads to actually doing those works. Both things can only be done under the power of the Spirit and the word of God.
We have a tremendous example of this in the life of David. David was anointed by Samuel as a young man which solidified his destiny to be king of Israel. But that wouldn’t occur for some time [10 years]. He was introduced to king Saul’s court as a musician while also tending his father Jesse’s flocks in Bethlehem. He met and defeated Goliath on the battlefield and then returned to Saul’s court as a very popular man. He was made a captain and had many great victories. He befriended Saul’s son Jonathan and soon Saul became very jealous of him. Soon after Saul desired to kill David and David fled from the court of Saul. For some time he was a fugitive alone in the south, but after a time he returned to Judah and others, malcontent with Saul’s maniac rulership, joined David (400 soldiers along with their wives and families). Saul still pursued him and eventually David had to stay in Philistia befriending king Achish of Gath who gave David and his men (not 600 strong) the frontier town of Ziklag. While David and his army were away in Philistia the Amalekites attacked the city and took everything. The Amalekites were sworn enemies of Israel and the Philistines and they still existed because Saul disobeyed the Lord and didn’t completely defeat them.
David would not become king until 10 years after his anointing and most of that time he was a fugitive with a price on his head. The point - be patient on God’s perfect timing for you will be delivered.
This all occurs around 1060 BC. Joshua crossed the Jordan around 1400 BC.
1SA 30:1 Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;
1SA 30:2 and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.
1SA 30:3 And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
1SA 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.
1SA 30:5 Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.
1SA 30:6 Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
Different people react in different ways to the same circumstances, because what life does to us depends on what life finds in us. [The Bible Exposition Commentary]
What is stoning David going to accomplish? They need a leader more than ever. One receives bitterness from wrong thinking and then emotion takes over and irrational decisions are made.
1SA 30:7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod [breastplate]." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
1SA 30:8 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?" And He said to him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them, and you shall surely rescue all."
David’s prayer is answered while Saul’s, who faces the Philistines around this same time, receives no answer.
When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim [in the breastplate] or by prophets.
1SA 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained.
1SA 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor, remained behind.
1SA 30:11 Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they provided him water to drink.
1SA 30:12 And they gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
1SA 30:13 And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" And he said, "I am a young man of Egypt, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind when I fell sick three days ago.
1SA 30:14 We made a raid on the Negev of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire."
1SA 30:15 Then David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this band."
David had no clue where the Amalekites were but he kept going as it was God’s will. God kept this man alive to inform David.
1SA 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
1SA 30:17 And David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
1SA 30:18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.
1SA 30:19 But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.
1SA 30:20 So David had captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of the other livestock, and they said, "This is David's spoil."
As you review what the Lord did for David in that dark hour in his life, you can better understand how He helps His people when problems and crises come into their lives. First, the Lord encouraged David so that he didn't despair but trusted the Lord to help him. Whenever a crisis comes, we need the courage to face it, and we must not try to blame others or pretend that nothing is wrong. The Lord also gave David wisdom to know what to do and the strength to do it. He and his men were weary, but the Lord enabled David and 400 of his men to persevere in their quest for the Amalekite invaders. The Lord also provided David with the facts he needed so he could find where the enemy was camping in that vast wilderness. When we step out by faith and trust the Lord, He will guide us when we need it. Finally, God gave David and his men the strength they needed to defeat the enemy and recover the prisoners and their wealth.
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
Guess who wrote that.
1SA 30:21 When David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David, who had also been left at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them.
1SA 30:22 Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David answered and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart."
1SA 30:23 Then David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us, who has kept us and delivered into our hand the band that came against us.
1SA 30:24 And who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike."
1SA 30:25 And so it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
All victories are the Lord’s. Both the overt victories and those behind the scenes (lines) are all seen by the Lord and all share in the spoils.
The ones who lose rewards are the ones who stand with the enemy, walk with the enemy, and refuse to walk in the light of Christ’s plan. Naturally I am talking about lifestyle and not isolated lapses.
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