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sins and thus offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. Cain was
religious enough but he was of the seed of the serpent and hated the testimony to the
blood, so at the behest of his father, the devil, he arose and slew his brother. Victory

appeared to rest with the seed of the serpent. A dual purpose seemed to have been
served. God‟s testimony had been overthrown and the line from which the special seed
would naturally come had been cut. The serpent, back in the shadows, was highly
pleased. But we read later that God gave Eve another son whom she called Seth, “For

God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew.” And
to Seth also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call
upon the name of the Lord.” So God restored His testimony people and the highway
of the special seed began, as, in spite of Satan‟s overlordship of the world, certain ones

began to “call upon the name of the Lord.”

From this line there came later, Enoch, who by virtue of his close walk with God
in fellowship and obedience was rewarded by being translated that he should not see

death, the bearer of the testimony to incorruptible life, rapture, resurrection, and this in
the face of the increasing wickedness and multiplicity of the seed of the serpent. The
clouds of an approaching divine judgment were already gathering on the on the
horizon before the departure of the godly Enoch, who named his son Methuselah,

meaning “after he is gone, it shall be sent.” So throughout his phenomenally long life
this man Methuselah by his very name carried a warning of a judgment to be visited
by the Sovereign God on a wicked world. This warning of divine retribution was
clarified and supplemented by Methuselah‟s grandson, Noah, born 369 years later.

Instructed of God to build an ark, Noah not only reiterated the fact that a deluge
was in the offing but pointed to a way of escape to all who would repent and believe
and enter in; yet none heeded.

The seed of the serpent by this time were so numerous and so wicked that God
saw that “every imagination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually!”
What a scathing, sweeping indictment! The thin line of God‟s testimony and the

flicker of His light in Noah and his family, it seemed, would be overwhelmed and
smothered by the sheer weight of numbers of the children of darkness and death.

In human law, the sovereign power, while recognizing the ownership of private
property, reserves the right to make a forceful raid on any property where conditions
are excessively bad and the public weal is being seriously interfered with.

So it was with the sovereign Creator of this earth. He made a raid upon this

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