Supernatural consumption

Eve names her boy, the first born, by faith. The problem is Cain’s not a man from the Lord. I John 3:12 says ‘he’s of that wicked one.’

Jordan says, “Now, that’s where the idea comes that the ‘original sin’ was sex and you hear people talk about prostitution being the world’s oldest profession and the idea is what Eve and Satan did in the Garden of Eden was they had sex together and the forbidden fruit was sex. And that’s just baloney; a Neanderthal mentality of unregenerate men trying to take the Bible and make it disrespectful.

“When he says Cain is of that wicked one, that’s like John 8:4, ‘Ye are of your father the devil.’ Now, you know good and well your daddy physically wasn’t the devil; he might have given you the devil. It’s talking spiritually; your spiritual daddy.”

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Exodus 25 says, And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
[9] According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
[10] And they shall make an ark of shittim wood. . .

Jordan says, “God’s telling Moses what they are to put in the tabernacle. Verse 17 says, ‘And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.’

“The ark is like a little cedar-chest box with a lid that you can open up and look in. Inside of it they put the Ten Commandments, the two tables of stone, a little pot of manna and Aaron’s rod that budded. This seat up there is gold; verse 18 says, ‘And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.’

“Cherubim are to be on each side and they’re to be looking down at the mercy seat. Verse 22 says, ‘And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.’ God Almighty was going to meet with them between the cherubim on the mercy seat. That’s where His shekinah glory was to appear; His personal manifestation.

“Think a minute. Here’s Adam and Eve. They come out of the Garden. There’s a place on the earth where they are to go and worship God. God’s presence is going to be there between the cherubim and they come there before that altar and present the sacrifice and the offering unto the Lord.

“That thing remains on the earth until the time of the Flood. And when the deluge comes, this thing is removed away back into heaven. When Noah gets off the boat he builds an altar unto the lord and the first time in Bible that you hear about a burnt offering that ascends up to the Lord, it’s in Genesis 8.

“This thing was on the earth until the Flood, they bring the offerings and things to the Lord there and they come and call on the name of the Lord in this place where God is dwelling in their midst until He goes away. It’s at the gate of Eden and He goes away, the Flood takes place and now they offer the sacrifice here and the things ascend up to God, who’s up there.

“When Israel comes along, God said I’m going to send my manifest presence back down on the earth and I’m going to dwell in the nation Israel in that tabernacle. So, what you’ve got here is a re-establishment of the thing that’s over there.

“You get the details about how things operated. We aren’t given the details before then. He isn’t interested in filling us in in all those details at the time of Adam and Eve, like He doesn’t give us a lot of the details. But we understand the things that were going on but what’s later written down.

“Genesis 4:4 says, ‘And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering.’ Abel brings the sacrifice down through the way, the road that leads back to the presence and he took the blood and sprinkled it there between the cherubim and God came down and accepted that sacrifice.

“In Psalm 20:3, David is talking to the Lord, and he says, ‘Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.’ Now the Hebrew word for accept means ‘turn to ashes.’ You see that’s how God accepted the sacrifices.

Fire came down from Almighty God and consumed the sacrifice. Leviticus 9:23 says, ‘And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.’

“There came a supernatural fire out from before the Lord. My dear friend, you find it over and over and over in the Bible, that the way God accepted the sacrifice that was offered to Him by faith on the altar was the fire came and devoured it.

“In I Kings 18, Elijah goes out on the mountain and there’s the prophets of Baal, and he says, ‘Put your sacrifice up and let’s see who accepts it,’ and they cried to Baal until noon and then he says, ‘All right, throw yours down and put God’s up there.’

"And Elijah’s telling Israel, in one of the greatest texts a preacher could ever preach on, ‘How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.’ Let’s get on with the program!

“Elijah puts the offering out there and he says, ‘Now put the bales of water on it and soak it down where it’s totally water-soaked,’ and he says, ‘Now, Lord, show them you’re God.’ And brother, the fire falls down out of heaven and laps up the water out of the trough around the thing and just consumes the sacrifice.

“Acceptance with Almighty God was demonstrated in times past by the fire coming down and consuming the sacrifice. And that’s how Abel was accepted of God and Cain wasn’t because Cain’s offering just sat there and nothing happened. Nothing supernatural at all.

“The first living thing to die on the earth was a sheep and the first man to die was a shepherd. The ‘chief shepherd laid down his life for the sheep,’ as per Hebrews 13:20. Cain’s religion was too refined, somebody said, to slay a lamb, but not too cultured to murder his brother. Religion is the greatest cause of bloodshed that’s ever been known on the face of the earth.”