Here are my thoughts on God's conversation and demonstration of His sovereignty regarding both blessing and cursing, which He performs in His own power and maintains in His own sovereignty over all that He has created, even all who are created equal in His image, and preordained to salvation through the bloodshed of Jesus Christ. Amen.
He is the savior of the whole world, [meaning nothing would continue to exist without His blessing and divine sustenance.] Especially of those who believe in His mercy and compassion through faith in Jesus Christ for eternal reconciliation and redemption in the body to immortality.
God's proclamation of a curse over Cain outside the confines of the Garden is in likeness to His curse against the serpent, while as beforehand contained inside the confines of the Garden, whose influence is the root cause of both, but for Cain is levied the eternal responsibility and without remedy because God had fully pleaded with him in the interim making intercession both for him, and for Abel, that he would not kill his brother, and indeed offered him the alternative in His pleasure.
It was revealed to him not only from the conversation of his father, Adam, his mother Eve, and his brother Abel, but also in the instance, from the first instance of consuming fire as first demonstrated in this case that fell from heaven to confirm Abel's offering.
His own conscience bearing witness, as the voice of God began in intercession for him not to kill his brother, but rather to seek reconciliation through the same offering with an affirmation that he would be accepted.
Reconciliation through the bloodshed of the lamb was signally revealed to him in God's preference of Abel's offering in allegiance to what God had revealed to Adam and Eve in the Garden for securing His blessing and favor as they were released into the world entirely blessed to exercise their empowerment from God, in reconciliation with Him and in expectation of His goodness revealed over them. [Clothed with His righteousness in the animal Lambskin slain before the proliferation of humanity.]
They were both informed, and filled, with hope in the promise of redemption bodily from death, at the end.
This as I assert they understood it, meant an opportunity to eat according to God's will, from the tree of life and immortality as reserved, planted in Eve's womb, which they observed in a figure enclosed within the Garden, as the tree of life and immortality was demonstrated and referred to, in the foreknowledge and revelation of God to them. And it is for this purpose of encounter and revelation that God placed man in the Garden after creating him from the dust of the earth.
It is expressly written that before God formed Eve from Adam's earthly substance, He had placed Adam in the Garden of His own cultivation for encounter and revelation of Christ as His only begotten and ever beloved Son, that was preordained to come, before blessing them out to found and populate the whole world.
Eve was formed in the Garden, and before either of them had sinned she was fully invested in the ordination for the birth of Christ, as the mother of all humanity. Therefore God preserved her seed at the flood, and made His beloved Son, manifest by tracing out His heavenly lineage through Mary.
So that, after God had fully demonstrated the same truth as given to Adam and Eve in the Garden, and which was adopted by Abel, 2nd born in nature outside of the Garden, so that Cain the firstborn son of Adam, was more than aware of the necessity of the bloodshed of the animal, the creature lamb, for reconciliation with God, in hope of redemption in the body to immortality at the end.
According to the gospel as revealed to Adam and Eve in the Garden, they were put out to be restrained from eating from the tree of life and immortality, which they had observed and heard about as God began to speak about inside the Garden.
We can recognize that Adam and Eve, taught both Cain and Abel, about this, and that Cain was introducing another concept altogether, out of his own invention and imagination in discord with God's conversation in revelation, and thereby it is understood by us that God cursed him for this, in his refusal to be reconciled to the truth in reverence towards, God, and redemption in Christ.
Abel became the first martyr for Christ in his honest and sincere God endorsed expression of offering. He was preserved for eternal life, investing his blood into the ground, still crying out for God's vengeance upon the wicked. Cain became the first man condemned by God, cursed to everlasting separation from Himself and His Son for redemption, forever.
Luke 11:51 denotes that Cain is the first cursed murderer, and those who do likewise throughout the generations will be condemned like him. Jesus defines the moment of His own stated judgement against them up to John the Baptist in this way, and no one can reverse His decision on this matter of demanded accountability as pronounced by Him on the occasion.
Remember, He began already before His ascension to condemn whole cities that refused His salvation, and they were subsequently destroyed.
Paul said, Behold both the goodness and severity of God.
Note: We also know in heaven, under the altar, there is still a cry among the martyrs for a final punishment to be levied against the wicked who murdered them. 1 John 3:12, Revelation 6:9-11 (wicked also conveys a meaning of allegiance, or self-identification, with the accursed of God) Acts 13:46
Further, we know the blood of animals, as was revealed in the necessity of a model in transition for eternal reconciliation, the blood of rams and bulls, etc., was not capable of producing this full redemption in the body, or of cleansing the conscience, but rather only of sustaining humanity in relational correspondence with God in the interim, for the future and final covenantal reconciliation once and for all, by the blood of Jesus Christ Himself voluntarily offered at the appointed time, called the fullness of time for Israel.
My perspective begins with God's original intention to subject humanity to vanity, in hope, as Paul describes in Romans 8:20, as a means to secure voluntary consent for reconciliation, and ends at the final redemption for everyone who desires to please God and live with Christ forever, at His command to make us immortal like He is when He comes again.
In my view, the wedding party is of those who are ascending before us at the death of the mortal body, to where He is now, and the marriage consummation is our final rejoin with Him in the redemption of the body to immortality, and so we will be with Him forever after. Amen!
God is sovereign, as Job's testimony defines, He gives and He takes away, He blesses and He curses, blessed be the name of the Lord. He revealed His blessing out of the Garden over Adam and Eve, and His cursing upon the first man who rejected His salvation in Cain.
He will have mercy on whomever will call upon His name, as inherited by Jesus Christ alone for the salvation of every other human being by voluntary solicitation.
I encourage all to seek Him diligently while He may be found in the glory of His patience for salvation to the greatest number possible by voluntary solicitation in every generation until He rises up from His Mercy seat to close the door. According to the whole Bible and 2 Peter 3. Amen.
Blessings for everyone who reads and understands, calling upon the name of the Lord while there remains still a day for it. Amen!
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