The Two Seeds

We are told in Isa 46:10 that God declares the end from (out of) the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

In the beginning, we are told, God created the heavens and the earth, Gen 1:1. We then see in verse 11 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."

Gen 1:21 "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Gen 1:24 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."

Gen 1:26 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

We see from these verses that all living things produce and multiply after their own kind. This pattern is repeated throughout scripture in agricultural concepts that we can relate to; seeds, trees, gardens, vineyards, wheat, weeds, vines.  Once we understand the principles hidden in these simple, natural things, we begin to recognize them throughout our Bibles and our minds are opened to truths we never before could have imagined. The scriptures come to life in new and exciting ways.

When God created Adam and Eve, He created them in His likeness, after the God kind.  Gen 2:8 "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen 1:29 "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Gen 2:9 "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."

This introduction to a tree of life and a tree of knowledge of good and evil will be a recurring theme throughout scriptures and that which influences man's days on this earth. You see, we are taught in the very beginning that there are two seeds and ultimately two ideologies that man must choose between as a way of life. There is God and there is an enemy, Satan the devil. God's seed is imbedded in a tree that produces life, while Satan's produces mixed seed resulting in death.

After Adam and Eve disobey God and partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they create a separation between themselves and their Creator and the mixed seed that is now inside them will multiply through their offspring, as like kind produces like kind. Our first parents now have both good seed and bad seed within themselves, and throughout man's history on earth we see the battle lines drawn between these two seeds.

To the serpent, representative of Satan, who beguiled Adam and Eve to partake of his tree, God says in Gen 3:15 "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."

As time moves on, we see these seeds multiplying in Adam and Eve's offspring, in Abel and Cain, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, on down throughout history.

Jesus (Yeshua) teaches the principle of the seed in his parable of the wheat and the tares. When he confronts the Pharisees regarding their rejection of God's Torah and replacing it with man-made religion, he tells them in John 8:44 "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."

Paul clearly explains the principle of the two seeds in Romans 11. He uses the analogy of two trees; a natural olive tree and a wild olive tree. The natural olive tree is representative of the spiritual seed of Abraham, the father of faith. Gal 3:29 "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."  The wild olive tree contains the seed of the evil one and his offspring.

Most of humanity are the branches of the wild olive tree, influenced by the god of this world, Satan the devil, who has deceived the whole world (II Cor 4:4, Rev 12:9). This tree cannot produce good fruit. One must be grafted into the natural tree in order to produce good fruit. In John 15, Yeshua tells us He is the true vine, we are the branches. If we abide in Him, we will produce much fruit, but without Him we can do nothing. If we do not abide in Him, we are an unfruitful branch that is destined to be cast out and burned in the fire.

Modern Christianity today worships Jesus (Yeshua) and sincerely believe they are obedient and faithful followers of their Messiah. That said, most have no concept of the lengths Satan has gone to in corrupting the worship of God and replacing His Torah with the trappings of ancient pagan, sun god worship. Believers in Messiah have unwittingly accepted a form of worship that is diametrically opposite of what was handed down by Yeshua and the first century apostles. In 325 A.D., Emperor Constantine of Rome made Christianity the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire, but also merged it with the symbols, customs and traditions of sun-god worship, which God calls an abomination. We are the recipients of that hybrid religion, unaware of it's dangers. It contains mixed seed, which God hates, and will not accept.

Today, the two pillars of the Christian faith are Christmas and Easter. Both embody the seed of ancient paganism. Christians are misled into thinking they are worshipping God in the celebration of these two "Holy" seasons, but they are not the ways in which our Creator has revealed (out of the beginning) the way in which He wants us to worship him. Many know the origins of these two festivals, but say "That's not what they mean to me." What's important, though, is what they mean to Him.

We needn't guess. He tells us plainly in His word, if we will accept it. When God brought the children of Israel into the promised land, He knew they would be surrounded by the sun-god worshippers of the land. He therefore warned them in Deut 12:30 "Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise." In Jer 10:2, he tells us not to learn the way of the heathen. We can take these ancient customs and traditions and replace them with new meanings. We can recycle them into the worship of God and believe that He will accept them. He will not. They are an abomination to Him.

Lets revisit the lesson of the two trees and reason together. We might find that we are trying to graft Yeshua into the wild olive tree rather than allowing Him to graft us into the natural tree. Only the natural tree produces good fruit, because Yeshua is the root of that tree. If we truly want to follow Him, we need to leave the wild olive tree with it's adoption of pagan worship and move into the natural olive tree, which is the tree of life.