Satan Always Counterfeits God’s Plan When Satan as the Serpent in the Garden tempted Eve, he made her question whether God’s plan was best. Satan always offers his own plan, a counterfeit that is meant to derail humans from what has been revealed in the Word of God.
Only Two Choices, Only Two Destinations
Two lines run through the history of mankind: the line of Christ and the line of Antichrist, the line of the Woman’s seed and that of the serpent.
So, there are only two groups of people always on Earth, and they are heading to very different destinies: Some like Abel example, they kneel before a substitutionary, blood sacrifice pointing at Golgotha, and justified by faith, they go to Heaven. Others like Cain, kneel at the altar of their good works pointing at Babel and condemned by their own sins they go to the Lake of Fire. Genesis 4 Contrasts: Satan’s Followers (Cain) vs. God’s Followers (Abel)
To help us understand the magnitude of this doctrinal lesson that Cain and Abel portray, we need to look at their lives, and the lessons from those lives, one at a time.
Satan’s religion: The Wicked Way of Cain Cain neglected God’s example of a bloody substitute for covering sinners; and got angry when God corrects him.
Cain portrays salvation based on human merits—the natural, self-righteous, self-sufficient, and lost person; the formal, external-only professors, who are trusting their works. Cain was rejected and cursed by God; denied his lost ruined condition; refused the Divine remedy; and became a merely religious, but lost person.
Cain looked for help from within himself to please God; he makes an un-bloody offering; and ignores the curse removing, substitutionary, blood sacrifice offered by Abel. Cain was the father of all those who seek earthly security; and those that God calls “Earth-Dwellers”. Cain turned from the true altar of worship to God, ignored the message, and founded the first earthly city (Genesis 4:17).
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