Thursday, February 19, 2009

SEED - we believers are according to "His kind"



These are the generations of the heavens and earth (Gen 2:4), of Adam (Gen 5:1), of Noah (Gen 6:9), of Shem, Ham and Japheth (Gen 10:1), of Shem (Gen 11:10), of Terah (Gen 11:27), of Ishmael (Gen 25:12), of Isaac (25:19) and the list goes on and on...

The fusing of the sperm (seed) and egg gives rise to these generations. The Strong's Hebrew dictionary indicates H2233 reference to "seed" occuring 230 in the Old Testament.
H2233 = זרע = zera‛
Total KJV Occurrences: 230
seed, 221
Gen 1:10-12 (5), Gen 1:29 (2), Gen 3:15 (2), Gen 4:25, Gen 7:3, Gen 9:9, Gen 12:7, Gen 13:15-16 (3), Gen 15:3, Gen 15:5, Gen 15:13, Gen 15:18, Gen 16:10, Gen 17:7-10 (5), Gen 17:12, Gen 17:19, Gen 19:32, Gen 19:34, Gen 21:12-13 (2), Gen 22:17-18 (3), Gen 24:7, Gen 24:60, Gen 26:3-4 (4), Gen 26:24, Gen 28:4, Gen 28:13-14 (3), Gen 35:12 (2), Gen 38:8-9 (3), Gen 46:6-7 (2), Gen 47:19, Gen 47:23-24 (2), Gen 48:4, Gen 48:11, Gen 48:19......(only reference from Genesis are copied here).

God prophesied the "Incorruptible Seed" in Gen 3:15 and we have Jesus coming into the world born of a virgin Mary. Adam's corrupted seed was not part of this Child. Luke's account in the Gospel (Chapter 1 verse 35) the angel, answering Mary said, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God".

The 'generations of' or 'the genealogy of' Jesus is covered both in Luke 3:23-38 ending "...with the son of Adam, the son of God" and in Matthew 1:1-17 ending "...the 14 generations in all from Abraham to David, 14 from David to the exile to Babylon and 14 from the exile to the Christ".

I cannot begin to imagine what the generations on earth will be like if God only made Adam and another Adam and stopped there or Eve and another Eve and stopped there!

Praise God for make them male and female in His image and likeness. They were blessed and commanded to reproduce. Adam and Eve reproduced after their sinful nature and so according to their kind - sinful nature (initial or natural birth).

But thanks be to God for the second birth (Spiritual birth) so that we who believe and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are now "born again" according to "His kind" - the incorruptible SEED!

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