The Promised Seed: The Origin of Evil, Mankind and the Godly Seed

By Lloyd A. Atabansi

The Origin of Evil,

Mankind and the Godly Seed

In thistrue storyAdam and his wife sinned, and brought a terrible consequence on the human race. Godjudges them, including the serpent,the one responsible for the fall of the human race. In His divine judgment, God declared that He will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpents seed and her seed. Theserpents head will be crushed by the Seed of the woman, and the serpent will strike the Seeds heel and bruise Him, but that the Seed will strike the final and fatal blow.

As a result of Adams sin, generations of men and women born into the world are death bound. Moved by great love, God intervenes, and sends His Son on a special mission. It would be the redemption of mankind through Gods only-begotten Son. To prevent thismission, the serpent movesto destroy the woman, and her Seed. But God never revealed the identity of the woman that would birth the Seed, and so, the serpent is left guessing and frustrated. His frustration forces him to become the unseen destroyer that would cause the deaths of Gods people throughout the ages of time. In his enmity against the woman, he tries all he can to prevent the Seed of God from being born into the world. He fails and the Seed finally comes into the world. Filled with great wrath, he wages fierce and brutal war on the promised Seed of God. Finally, he overcomes the Seed of God.

But, did the serpent bruise the heel of the promised Seed, or did the promised Seed strike the final and fatal blow? Who will win the battle of the seeds? Find out in this thrilling and adventurous true story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 19, 2010
• ISBN: 9781467059824

Lloyd A. Atabansi

Dr. Lloyd A. Atabansi is a business & information technology executive, consultant, author, lecturer, faculty adviser, educator with many years of experience leading and managing IT organizations. Dr. Lloyd, as he is fondly called, is also a motivational and inspirational speaker, and endeavors to contribute to the entrepreneurial career advancement of the Christian community by providing Biblical enrichment, transformational leadership, spiritual guidance, motivational resources and economic empowerment. He hopes that his ministry will enable Christians to overcome personal obstacles and limitations that will transform them into leaders. A licensed and ordained Pastor, he is the president and founder of Pillars of God Outreach Ministries founded in Dallas, Texas, and now located in Lagos, Nigeria. Since its founding, this ministry is primarily dedicated to preaching the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. He has a BBA in Finance, a Masters of Science in Management Information Systems (MIS), and a Doctorate degree in Administrative Management, with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence & Computer Security. Dr. Lloyd has lectured in several universities in the USA, where he held positions as adjunct faculty adviser & lecturer. He also attended the Tyndale Theological Seminary and Biblical Institute in Forth Worth, Texas, in the USA. Dr. Lloyd and his wife, Christiana, are the proud parents of five children, Ashley, Tiffany, Amber, Joshua, and Trinity.

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© 2010 Lloyd A. Atabansi, PhD. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 3/16/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4490-8786-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4670-5982-4 (ebk)

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

DEDICATION

First and foremost, to the Almighty Father God and the Lord Jesus Christ, without whom, none of this work would be possible. And to you, Holy Spirit, for your insight, knowledge and wisdom, and for giving me the power and gift of creative thinking and imagination

To all the men and women of the world who preach and teach the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and To the Mercy and Grace of God

Demonstrated to us in Christ Jesus our Lord

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (Ephesians 1:7)

Out of mercy and grace of God His Word has flowed. Let every person know that God will have mercy upon him, forgiving and using him to fulfil his glorious plan of salvation

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." (John 3:16-17)

MY VISION, PASSION & PURPOSE

• To share the Word of God with the World.

• To bring glory to the name and the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• To help the believer, both minister and layman, including the unbeliever alike, in his understanding of the grace that is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• To do everything I possibly can to lead men, women, boys, and girls to give their hearts and lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and to secure the eternal life which He offers.

• To do all I can to minister to the needy and impoverished of the world.

• To give the Lord Jesus Christ His proper place, the place which the Word gives Him. Therefore – No work of mine shall receive the glory that rightfully belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

THE PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION OF this wonderful story is of Divine leading and would not have been completed without the proper research and employment of Biblical tools, such as the King James Version (KJV), The New Living Translation (NLT), Earth’s Earliest Ages, by G. H. Pember, Dispensational Truth, by Clarence Larkin, sources and extracted excerpts from iLumina (Bible Software), The Life & Teachings of Christ, by Gordon Lindsay, The Preachers Outline and Study Bible (The Book of Genesis), Leadership Ministries Worldwide, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A special acknowledgement and appreciation to Dr. Henry M. Morris, whose excerpts on the Only-begotten was quite inspirational in the completion of this project.

Contents

DEDICATION

MY VISION, PASSION & PURPOSE

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

PART 1

CHAPTER 1 The Beginnings

CHAPTER 2 Satan Prophet, Priest & King

CHAPTER 3 The Creation of Man

CHAPTER 4 The Promised Seed in the Book of Genesis

CHAPTER 5 The Great Flood

CHAPTER 6 Esau and Jacob

CHAPTER 7 The Deliverer

CHAPTER 8 The Visions of God

PART 2

CHAPTER 9 The Annunciation

CHAPTER 10 The Birth of Jesus

CHAPTER 11 The Temptation

CHAPTER 12 The Triumphal Entry

CALL TO SALVATION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PROLOGUE

HE CAME FROM THE BOSOM of the Father, and proceeded forth and stepped out from the Godhead and became the Seed of the woman. With this great action, He dwelt amongst humanity. He humbled Himself when He set aside His great glory and lofty position and clothed and wrapped Himself in human flesh. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1: 14, KJV).

This is the most awe-inspiring of all declarations in the Scriptures – God became flesh! The glory was manifested in the person of the Only Begotten of the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Mighty One who had no beginning, divested himself of his great wealth and lofty position, and became a Man. He is the exceptional stature in the world’s history, the sinless, perfect One, perfect God and perfect Man. It was the greatest act of love that was ever demonstrated. The incarnation was the greatest miracle ever recorded, in that the Son of God became a Man.

From this very act and miraculous work, He revealed Himself to His creation and His creatures when He died for our sins on Calvary, and was raised from the dead. From that time onward, God exalted Him on high, and has given Him the name that is above all names, that at the name of Jesus, every knee must bow, of those in heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and every tongue must confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

His perfect obedience and sacrifice was necessary for the salvation of humanity, and to reverse the curse of death. What great humility is this great act of the Savior and Redeemer of Souls, that God loves us so dearly, that He gave His most beloved and priceless possession, his Only Unique Son, as a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin. For it is said in the Scriptures concerning him, Great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh.

In this mesmeric true story… the first man, Adam and his wife, tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, sinned, and brought a terrible consequence on the human race. God quickly pronounces curses on Adam, his wife, and that old serpent, Satan, the one responsible for the fall of the human race. In His divine judgment, God declared that He will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpent’s seed and her seed. The judgment also indicated that the serpent’s head will be crushed by the Seed of the woman, and the serpent will strike the Seed’s heel and bruise Him, but that the Seed will strike the final and fatal blow.

As a result of Adam’s sin, generations of men and women born into the world are death bound and trapped in Hades, the prison of the righteous and unrighteous dead, with no way of escape. Moved by great love, God intervenes, and sends His promised Seed on a special mission. The mission would be the redemption of mankind through God’s only-begotten Son, the promised Seed. To prevent this special mission, the serpent moves quickly to destroy the woman, and her Seed. But God never revealed the identity of the woman that would birth the Seed, and so, the serpent is left guessing and frustrated. His frustration forces him to become the unseen destroyer that would cause the deaths of God’s people throughout the ages of time. In his enmity against the woman, he tries all he can to prevent the Seed of God from being born into the world. He fails and the Seed finally comes into the world. Filled with great wrath, he wages fierce and brutal war on the promised Seed of God. Finally, he overcomes the Seed of God.

But, did the serpent bruise the heel of the promised Seed, or did the promised Seed strike the final and fatal blow? Who will win the battle of the seeds? Find out in this thrilling and adventurous true story.

Lord Jesus, we worship you, we adore you, we love you. You are the Seed of the Woman, you, the Promised Seed from the bosom of the Father.

INTRODUCTION

IN THIS RIVETING STORY, WE see the mother of all missions. It is a battle between the godly and ungodly seed. It is a divine mission of God to rescue a lost race of people created in His likeness and image. Out of the goodness of His heart, God created the heavens and the earth, and gave it to Satan, who as Lucifer, before his fall was the fairest and wisest of God’s creatures.

Satan was created a prophet, priest and king, and was given the outer heaven, the atmospheric heaven and the earth as provinces to govern for God. In addition to this great charge conferred to him, he was the anointed Cherub who covered the very throne of God itself. He was the great angel put in charge of the glory of God’s very own throne.

God made a demand and a declaration throughout the universe, that all praise and worship should be ascribed to his eternal Son, who was one, united and indivisible with Him. The invisible God declared that His visible and eternal Son is Lord, and that all created order in God’s universe should worship Him. The universe, consisting mostly of the hosts of God, accepted this declaration by God and complied with this mandate, but for a period of time. Worship was routinely ascribed to the Son of God, whose identity had been a mystery to the universe and who as an associate and co-worker of Jehovah, sat down with the invisible God on His throne.

And when the inhabitants of the heavens worshipped before the sapphire throne, they saw an invisible living Being covered in light and fire. What was Lucifer’s mandate before he became Satan? He was required to serve God in the capacities of prophet, priest and king consecutively. As a prophet, he was required to proclaim the goodness, holiness and greatness of God to all the inhabitants of the world that then was. As priest, he was required to lead the universe in the worship of God, and to conduct all priestly functions in honor to the invisible God. As King, he was required to govern the created order of God, as its regent-in-charge, or ruler.

Lucifer, as prophet, priest, and king complied with the mandate to a point in time when he suddenly ceased. Rather than continue his function as the heavenly prophet of God, he turned against God, and sought to proclaim himself as God to be worshipped. Rather than continue his function as priest, he divested his priestly vestment and abdicated his priestly duties. Rather than continue his function as king, that is, as The Mighty Guardian, or The Mighty Cherubian Guardian, that is, The Anointed Cherub that Covereth, responsible for guarding the holiness of God’s throne. Rather than execute his functions in the capacities by which he was created, he set his eyes on the very throne that he was created to guard, and desired it for himself.

Lucifer decided to establish and install his kingdom above the kingdom of the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, God Himself. His evil and nefarious activities led him to design a process of pretend and false worship before the glorious invisible God who sat on the throne. He thus deviated from his three offices, and began to think about setting up an apparatus that would ascribe worship to none other than himself in heaven and on the original earth. From this very act, he ceased to be Lucifer, and changed into Satan, the wicked and despicable creature in God’s universe.

This was the first act of rebellion in the universe. God saw it coming and took measures to protect His holiness from being defiled, for sin cannot be allowed to dwell in the presence of a holy God. Through the sin of pride, and because of his perfect wisdom and exalted beauty, Lucifer rebelled and was expelled immediately from Eden, in the Paradise of God, and from the Holy Mountain of God, where he was allowed to reside and govern the universe as regent for the invisible God.

It is probable, though there is no definitive evidence recorded, that he may have been given some time to repent so that he can be restored to his original position. This is questionable, though probable. The God of the universe is a fair and just Person. He is righteous and compassionate. It is possible that He may have given Lucifer a window of repentance to turn back from the abyss of destruction and condemnation that loomed in front of him. But it is very apparent, that he did not repent. Rather, he pursued his own wicked will and agenda.

God’s grace for Satan runs out. He is immediately cast down from heaven and quickly establishes his domain in the Original Earth. He persuades a third of the angels of God to follow him in his rebellion against God, charging that God was a theocratic tyrant. Through his eloquence and oratorical skills, he alleged that God was not fair, and that His ways were too difficult to follow. He further charged that the laws of God denied His creatures their inalienable rights to be free to exercise their moral liberties.

His persuasive efforts are accepted by a third of God’s angels. They followed Satan in his rebellion against the eternal and invisible God. It is possible that they may have been a race of creatures living in the Original Earth, whom Satan had persuaded to join in his rebellion against the theocracy of God. If this is true, they joined Satan in his rebellion, and brought great ruin upon themselves through their infernal association and merchandising in Satan’s activities. God would pronounce judgment on them. Great calamity comes upon the Original Earth, and it is destroyed, perhaps by God, though the Scriptures do not allude to this fact.

These inhabitants of the Original Earth are also destroyed and they descend into the pits of hell as disembodied spirits, revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures as demons. These demons are restless, in torment, ruthless and tremendously wicked. They are confined in the bottomless pit where they are agitated, restive and fidgety, and seek for opportunities to enter into the earth and live out their sinful desires, wicked pleasures and ungodly passions through people. They are the offspring of Satan, and they share in his infernal nature, and final doom.

God destroys the earth, and it becomes a place of chaos, a garbage dump. That is, it became Formless and Void, and was submerged in water and darkness. It was not to be originally so, because we are told in Isaiah 45: 18, For the Lord is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. He made the world to be lived in, not to be a place of empty chaos. I am the Lord, he says, and there is no other. From this, it is seen that God created the earth not as a waste, but as a place to be inhabited.

But what caused the earth to become a Waste? after its original creation is not clearly revealed in the Holy Scriptures. However, we do know from Ezekiel 28: 12-19, and through the account of the fall of Adam and Eve that sin already existed before man was created, and we have already established that this sin was caused by Lucifer, who became Satan.

From this passage recorded in the Book of Ezekiel, there is revealed to us under the designation of The King of Tyrus, or The King of Tyre, a being of surpassing beauty and wisdom, who had been in Eden, the Garden of God. As we have seen, Satan dwelt in Eden, the Garden of God. This Garden of God in Eden is not the garden in Adam’s Present Earth. It is the Eden found in the Paradise of God on high, for Satan dwelt on the Holy Mount of God. In this Eden was situated the pavilion or palace of Satan, which was extremely well decorated in priceless and heavenly gems.

Satan is referred to as the Anointed Cherub that Covereth, who walked upon the ‘Holy Mountain of God’, and was perfect in all his ways from the day that he was created, until iniquity was found in him. But his heart was lifted up because of his beauty, and his wisdom was thus corrupted. According to Clarence Larkin, As no King of Tyrus answering this description has, as yet, existed, this passage is taken to be a prophetic portrait of the Antichrist," and as Antichrist is to be an incarnation of Satan, it is probably a description of Satan before his fall in heaven.

The intimation in this Scripture then is, that Satan, with a host of angelic beings, was placed in charge of the original or primeval earth, and that he through pride sought to be equal with God, and that to punish him the earth was thrown into a chaotic state, and Satan and his angels, amounting to a third of the angelic hosts (Revelations 12:4), were excluded from heaven, and took their abode in the lower heaven, located between the atmosphere of our earth and the heaven where God dwells, and thus became the Principalities, Powers, the Rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places, of whom we are warned in Ephesians 6:12.

According to Larkin, This seems very plausible, for the fall of man was a scheme to regain the control of this earth by Satan. If there were human beings or other creatures on the Original or Pre-Adamic Earth, they were doubtless involved in Satan’s fall and destroyed. In fact, continues Larkin, the ‘demons’ are believed by many to be the disembodied spirits of the inhabitants of the Pre-Adamic Earth, and their efforts to re-embody themselves in human beings, as in the days of Christ, is looked upon as evidence that they once possessed bodies similar to human bodies.

From this, concluded Larkin, It is clear that ‘demons’ are not Satan’s angels, for angels are free, while the demons are confined in the Bottomless pit and are only given liberty as it suits God’s purpose (Revelations 9: 1-21). Neither are demons the Fallen Angels of 2 Peter 2: 4, and Jude 6-7, for they are reserved in chains under darkness against the Judgment of the Great Day.

We see that God moves quickly and restores the Present Earth in six days. God had created the heavens and the earth, and had given them to Lucifer to govern. Unfortunately, Lucifer failed in this mandate, and turned into Satan. God moves quickly and decides to create man, a lesser and inferior creature to the angels, and gave him dominion over the restored earth. God creates the first man, and calls him Adam, and installs him as overseer over the restored earth. Satan is slighted, upset and enraged by this move of God concerning him. Satan is furious about this move of God, and desires to reclaim the earth back for himself, as well as vindicate his battered pride. He sets out to establish his rule and dominion over the earth. But first, in order for him to reclaim and regain control of the earth, he would have to wrestle it away from its present occupant, the man that God created, Adam. He had succeeded in seducing and luring a third of the angels in Heaven to follow him. He had succeeded in luring the Pre-Adamic inhabitants of the Original Earth, in following him. Would he succeed in luring man to follow him? This is a good question. He would have to tempt man and cause him to rebel against his Creator. His strategy being, that if he is able to accomplish this diabolical purpose of reclaiming and regaining control of the earth, he would populate it with his ungodly seed, and then rule over it through his supersede, the Antichrist, a mystical being that would manifest himself in the future.

From the lower heavens, Satan and his fallen angels watched as God created the man and the woman. Perhaps, he had seen a very similar creation before and during the time of the Pre-Adamic race. He was there when God created those creatures. He had tried to take the earth from them, and had not succeeded because God had intervened and destroyed the earth as a punishment to Satan. He roamed the lower heavens, biding his time and waited for the opportune moment.

That moment came, when he watched as a mound of red clay was gathered by supernatural invisible hands and was formed into a living soul that became Adam. He watched as the breath of life filled the nostrils of the red clay, it stood upright and began to move around. He heard the dreaded instructions from God to the man, You may freely eat any fruit in the garden, except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die.

With calculated precision and exactitude, Satan flew into the Garden of Eden and put his hideous plan into motion. Emotions filled his heart. He recalled the original Garden of Eden. It was his then. But God had taken it away from him, and had destroyed it and the rest of the earth. God was not about to let him have the restored earth. He knew that God would not voluntarily give it to him. He would have to take it by force or by subtlety.

But there was a puny little creature on the earth. His name was Adam. God had placed him on the Garden of Eden. Satan’s heart was filled with intense jealousy and deep hatred towards this man. He watched as one day, God put the man to sleep and formed another creature out of a rib taken out from the man’s side. He watched as God brought the creature before Adam. He watched as Adam took the new creature and declared, At last! Adam exclaimed, She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of a man.

Satan was furious when he heard God tell them to take dominion over the earth, be fruitful and multiply. The word dominion stirred further abhorrence and revulsion in his evil heart. He hated God more when he heard those words. He recoiled at the thought that there was once upon a time when he was God’s golden star in the heavens. But today was not that day. He would not allow these puny creatures made from the dust of the earth to control the earth. He was the master of seduction and calumny. He knew that no one could withstand his persuasive and suggestive abilities, neither can anyone resist him. He decided to tempt these puny innocent humans into disobeying and rebelling against God.

According to Larkin, Satan’s purpose in the ‘Temptation’ was to thwart God’s purpose in the creation of man (the peopling of the earth with a holy race of beings), and to regain control of the earth which he had lost by his rebellion. He played his game with consummate skill. Fearing that if they were approached together they might withstand him, he awaited the time when the woman, Eve, should be alone. It is not improbable that Eve, curious to know the cause of the prohibition, had stolen away from Adam and gone off by herself to examine the Tree, and that Satan, discovering her there, was not slow to take advantage of his opportunity.

And so, continued Larkin, If Eve had avoided the vicinity of the Tree, she would not have been able to cast that look at it which made her desire to eat of its fruit. Satan saw that Eve was disgruntled about something. He wisely surmised that it was because God had forbidden Adam and Eve to eat of the Tree, so he approached her and spoke to her. The fact that Eve was not afraid to talk with the Serpent is an indication that it was not a loathsome creature, and that it was no stranger to her. She had seen it often and probably talked with it before, for Satan does not make his supreme effort until he has first prepared the way. What the Serpent was like before it was cursed and caused to crawl instead of stand upright, we do not know, but it must have been a beautiful creature. Whether it had the power to talk, or simply became the mouthpiece of Satan we are not told. What we do know is that Satan incarnated himself in it.

From here, Satan got the upper hand. He had succeeded in bringing ruin to the human race. He was extremely delighted of his accomplishments. He leapt for joy. He had gotten even with his Creator, the Lord. He knew that this act of treachery would score big in his camp. He knew that God would be grieved. What he did not know was that God had anticipated his every move and had indeed set him up, for his complete destruction. In fact, his actions had neither shocked nor surprised God. Unbeknownst to Satan, he was indirectly assisting God in His divine purpose for the earth. God closes in on Satan’s treachery, and curses him.

Of great interest is the curse placed on the Serpent: "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Genesis 3: 14-15, KJV).

Satan jubilated at his achievement. Finally! The earth is his, declared Satan to the inhabitants of heaven. He had regained control of the earth. He had reclaimed it as his. He had taken it away from Adam. It now belongs to him. He would now proceed and set up an ungodly civilization that he would rule, a society devoid of the rule and principles of a holy and moral God. He would establish his own new world order.

But hold on for a moment, deduced Satan. There was something else wrong in the equation of success. What was wrong with this picture? Hmmm, it was the issue of the Seed. There was a curse placed on him. This was the curse that triggered Satan’s attitude towards the woman and her seed. It was the pronouncement of his direct demise and ultimate destruction. It had been revealed to him that the seed of the woman would come into the world and destroy him. That stirred him. He was not about to let this happen to him. He was bent on regaining control and reclaiming the earth. The earth was now his, and he wasn’t about to allow any so-called seed of the woman take it away from him. He knew that this so-called seed of the woman would be an incredible personage. He knew that this seed would need to be conquered if he were to continue to control and lay his claim on the earth forever. Who was this promised seed of the woman that would come and take the earth from him?

Frustration set in, and from that day, he set his eyes on the woman. But because he did not know which woman would birth the promised Seed, he regarded all women as his mortal enemy. He would engage in mortal combat with the woman, and her offspring. When men and women began to populate the earth, he put his plan in motion. As a spirit being, he cannot be physically seen with mortal eyes. He decided that he would kill all the godly seed of the woman that would come into the earth. But how would he achieve such a feat? The solution: introduce his ungodly seed through the woman. He would bring his ungodly seed into the earth to destroy the godly seed of the woman.

No wonder he influenced Pharaoh to kill all the male children