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"As
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Chapter 3
"The Kenites"
This chapter is to help us understand who the Kenites are, and
identifying them is the important part in understanding the "Key of
David." The book of
Revelation chapters two and three discussed seven churches that existed
in the end times. Of these
seven churches, only two had the "Key of David", and
could identify who those that "blasphemy of them which say they
are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan".
Those two churches were the churches of
Smyrna
and
Before we look at the results of Eve's sin, we must understand what
happened in the Garden of Eden, to cause this sin to come about.
Genesis 3:1, 2, 3
"Now
the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he [Satan,
as the serpent] said unto the woman, "Yea, hath God said, `Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden'? " [1]
"And the woman said unto the serpent, "We may eat of
the fruit of the trees of the Garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said, `Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest
ye die.' " [2, 3]
The serpent and the trees represent men, and the reference to
"beast" also includes men, in fact God called Himself the
Evergreen thee, or fir tree in Ezekiel 31:8.
Satan had many titles as we read in Revelation 20:2;
"And He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil, and Satan," so Satan is the person called the serpent here
in Genesis 3 because he was more subtle than any other form of mankind.
He was created in the perfect pattern, full of wisdom and
understanding as we shall cover in our study later.
When Satan asked the question to Eve, "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the Garden?" He was not asking the
question for the sake of inquiring, but to draw her attention to the
matter, like the questions asked by a slick car salesman.
The purpose of the question is to break down the resistance of
the client so they will buy the goods.
The key to overcoming the mental barrier of a person is by
telling a series of half truths so they will accept what you say, where
by twisting their mind so that they will go along with what they are
trying to sell to them.
Satan's quotation of God, "Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
Garden?" is stated in the form of a lie from what God actually
stated in Genesis 2:16, 17.
The exception to "every tree" was, "...but
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat."
This was Satan's first utterance of Scripture, and it shows from
the start his opposition to God's Word.
God's Word from the first earth age sentenced Satan to death, and
that is why only he is called the "son of perdition.
Satan took God's Word "Thou shalt surly die", and in
the confusion of twisting the Word of God, Satan states "lest ye
die. By the way, are we
talking about apple trees here, and apples as the fruit of Eve's sin?
No we are talking about the man Satan, and the woman Eve. The
fruit that comes from the union of man and women are not apples, but
children. Paul referred to
this seduction of Eve in II Corinthians 11:3; "But I
fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
suability, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is
in Christ." In
other words stay within the Word of God.
The word "beguiled" in the Greek is # 1818; "exapatao,
from #1537 and #538, to seduce wholly, to beguile" and of
course this is in reference to sexual union. The point Paul is making is
that Christians do not lose their "virginity as Eve did, by being
wholly seduced by the serpent [Satan].
Genesis 3:6
"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
her husband with her, and he did eat."
Are we talking about apple trees and apples here?
Don't be silly; this is talking about a man deceiving a woman
into sexual relations, and her husband taking part with her also.
The seed from any sexual union bares babies, not apples.
Once you get over this traditional nonsense of apples, then you
can start to understand who the Kenites are, where they came from and
what their purpose in the Scriptures will be.
In this same chapter we see the first prophecy concerning the
coming of the Messiah and His sacrificial offering was made by his death
on the cross. By the sexual
act of Satan and then with Adam, Eve conceived two seeds and produced
twins; Cain’s father was Satan, and Abel’s father was Adam.
This was the sin in the Garden of Eden.
Follow along with your, Strong's
Concordance with numbers and the Smiths
Bible Dictionary. Look up the word. "Kenite",
# 7014; "Qayin, kah'-yin; (the same as #7013, with a play on
#7017); Kajin, the name of the first child, also of a place in
Pal. and of an Oriental tribe, Kenite(s)."
Lets go to #7017; "Qiyniy, (I Chronicles
The name, "Kenite" is from the family "of the
first child, an oriental", and we know from Genesis 4:1
that this first child was Cain. "And
Adam knew Eve his wife: and she conceived, and bare Adam, and said, I
have gotten a man from the Lord."
Eve was in a period of innocence here; and in the Hebrew text it
states; "ish eth Jehovah".
This literal version translates, "With the help of
Jehovah".
Genesis 4:2
"And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
ground."
It's strange that Cain would draw the duties which Adam was created for.
The word "again" as stated here, in the Hebrew text was
"Yacaph", #3254 in the Strong's
Hebrew Dictionary; "to continue, conceive again, to continue
to do the same thing." So
if Eve had just bare Cain, and she continued to conceive again, to do
the same thing, she had another child.
She had twins. These
two children are not identical twins that Eve conceived, because they
had two different fathers; as we see from Genesis 3:15.
Identical twins are not born from the same bag of water in the
mother, but they are paternal twins, born in separate bags of water,
with two different fathers.
These twins were conceived with two separate conceptions, and there is
no great mystery about these conceptions.
So we see then that Eve continued in labor, and had her twins.
Cain's father was the man Satan, and Abel's father was Adam.
These two boys grew up and when they reached the time for their
first offering to God, Cain brought the first fruits of his ground, and
Abel brought the first fruits of his flock.
God accepted Abel's offering to the Lord, but God refused Cain's
offering.
Genesis 4:7
"If
thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well,
sin lieth at the door. And
unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
So what this is saying from the Hebrew text is; "If you were
honest, I would accept your offering.
" So where did Cain get his anger, sin and dishonesty?
It came from his father Satan.
Genesis 4:8, 9
"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to
pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him." [8] "And
the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said,
"I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?" "
Cain knew exactly what happened to Abel, because he slew him.
Cain lied to God, which is another trait he received from his
father Satan. The Lord knew
what happened to Abel. Jesus
even talked about what happened to Abel when He was confronted by the
"Kenite" scribes and Pharisees of His day.
John
"Ye"
[to the Kenite scribes and Pharisees], are from your father the Devil.
Satan is the devil, and was playing the role of the serpent when
he deceived Eve and she became pregnant.
Who was "a murderer from the beginning"?
We just read that Cain was the first murderer when he killed
Abel. Jesus called these
Kenites exactly what they were. He
wasn’t afraid of them.
We know that Jesus was speaking of Cain we just read about in Genesis
4:8, 9. Where did Cain
get all this corruptness? It
began with Cain's father Satan, Jesus knew it and spoke about it, "When
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he [Satan] is a
liar, and the father of it [lies]".
The simplicity of Jesus Christ's teaching and His Word is
foolishness to many religious leaders today.
As we see in Matthew
Matthew 13:14, 15
"And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which
saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye
shall see, and shall not perceive:" [14]
"For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed: lest at any time
they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
them." [15]
These Kenites are the people that God does not intend to offer His
salvation to in this earth age. If
they do hear and confess though, God will save them.
Though it sounds like a contradiction; it is not.
In the churches today the Kenites have entered and so distorted
the Word of God with fairy tales and false teaching that God's people
don't even know they have to be on guard against these Kenites.
Confusion in the church is at an all time high, as many church
leaders actually believe that God respects sodomites.
The religious world is being turned upside down.
Godless deception is everywhere, and most Christians are blind
and can't see through all the lies.
Many in innocence even take the life of their unborn, and think
that the little soul's within them is just a mass of matter.
They listened to Satan's lies, and they believe it, just as Eve
did.
However you must understand that everything that is happening is in the
plan of God, and God is using these Kenites, sons of Satan through Cain
to test His children. Most
Christians will be deceived when Satan arrives on earth for the great
tribulation; but they will not expect that war of the end times to be a
war of words and great deception. The battle in our life time is when
Satan arrives here on earth is fought with words and with his twisted
idea, lies and half truths. He will be filled with supernatural powers
and the ability to out think human beings. This
is why we are told to allow the Holy Spirit to do the talking through
us.
Mark 13:11
"But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take
no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate:
but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is
not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost [Spirit]."
Jesus faced these Kenites again in Matthew 23 when he told them
of the eight woes. The woes
are the exact opposite of the eight blessings that Jesus gave in the
"sermon on the mound" in Matthew 5.
At the end of giving the eight woes, Jesus called these scribes
and Pharisees, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell?"
(Matthew 23:33)
The first prophesy concerning the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ
was given back in Genesis 3:15.
Let’s review it.
Genesis
Eve's Seed is Jesus Christ, Luke 3:23-38 and Matthew 1:1-16
will trace Jesus lineage all the way back to Adam.
Satan's seed are his children to the last generation, and they
are called Kenites, sons of Cain. Satan's
offspring are born from a sexual union between Eve and Satan [the
serpent and the tree of good and evil from Genesis 3].
So God is telling us that He will put trouble between Eve's
children through Seth, and Satan's offspring through Cain. They are
called the Kenites.
It's Jesus that "shall bruise the head" of Satan, at
Christ's return at the Second
Advent, while it was Satan's children [the Kenites], not
Most religious leaders acknowledge that Genesis
As Jesus went around the country side teaching, he gave his lessons in
Parables. Understanding who
these Kenites are, how and where they came from is essential in
understanding the parables of Christ.
Jesus even gave us the key to understand His parables in Matthew
13:10-12.
Matthew
Jesus disciples turned to Jesus and asked Him, "Why are you
speaking in parables", in riddles that these people can not
understand.
Matthew
A mystery is something that is unknown.
The answer may be in plain sight, yet if you cannot put all the
details together, by taking all the clues and come to an understanding
of the facts, you still wont know the answer to the mystery.
There are things dealing with the kingdom of heaven that seem
foolish to most mankind, and will always remain hidden, unless the
Spirit of the Living God reveals them.
We see today many things are mysteries, and mankind is going to
great lengths to understand the past, when all the time it is written in
His Word. However those
truths simply will not be understood because God has blinded their eyes
for their own protection.
If a person understood, and was tried and tested by Satan in his role as
the Antichrist and his system, which is coming shortly, they would not
have the ability to stand against Satan.
It may be because of the lack of will power or faith, but the
elect will be required to completely turn them selves over to the Holy
Spirit for their protection.
Matthew
The subject here is reveling God’s truth to others.
If a truth is given to you, we can sow it and plant that truth in
someone’s mind, or just sit on it.
Jesus is telling us if His Spirit opens a truth to us and we sit
on it, we will not only lose the understanding of that truth, but other
things from His Word also.
Matthew
Jesus Christ gave many parables to the multitudes because the Kenites
followed after Christ to trip Him up.
Yet all the time they missed the entire teaching.
He spoke of them continually as the tares, and they just never
understood that Jesus was talking about them.
He told how the farmer sowed the wheat in his field, and after
the seed was in the ground, along came the enemy and sowed the tares in
the same field. So who are
these enemies that are out to destroy truth, cause confusion, and
destroy the children of God? These were the Kenites.
Matthew 13:24, 25
"Another
parable put He forth unto them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field;" [24]
"But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares
among the wheat, and went his way." [25]
The word "tares" in the Greek is "zizania",
and not "darnel". It
is a plant in
When parables were given, those who listened will remember the story,
but fail to understand it’s hidden meaning. The man that owned the
field sowed the good seed, and when he was resting, his enemy came to
sow bad seed to destroy his crop. Remember
from Genesis 3:15, the word given in the text for "seed"
was sperm, we’re not talking about grain in this parable this refers
to children. The
understanding of this parable is hidden to those who were listening.
When
the servants want to go and gather the tares before the wheat is ripe,
the owner tells them not to. The
reason is that you might destroy some good wheat when you pull up the
tares. That separation will
be done later by those that harvest the crop. So
many like the Disciples of
Christ want to understand the lesson that Jesus was giving here.
Matthew
Jesus did exactly as the prophets of old said that He would do, and this
is how those secrets from the start of this earth age of flesh man were
kept. Satan used his sons,
the Kenites who continually tried to overthrow the plan of God, and it
is impossible for them to succeed.
Sure they will mess up millions of Christian's lives and lead
them to the Antichrist Satan, but to the elect that have these truths
planted in their minds, they will not be deceived.
Ephesians 1:4 tells us that the elect earned that right
before the foundation of this earth age.
They made their stand in that first earth age, and for their
stand, they were judged at that time and found to be without blame, and
will be here in this earth age to make that stand again.
Matthew
Jesus is not teaching the crowd here, but in the house He is talking
only to His disciples. They
want to know exactly what the parable of the tares is all about.
Jesus is going to explain it in detail, yet even today it flies
over the head of most Christians.
Matthew 37, 38
"He answered and said unto them, "He that soweth the
good seed is the Son of Man;" [37] "The field is
the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the
tares are the children of the wicked one;" [38]
This good man had a good seed and He went out and sowed that seed in a
good field, well prepared. The
"Son of man" within this Greek expression is, "God in the
flesh"; for the Son of God, Jesus Christ sowed the good seed.
Remember that in the parable seed was a grain of wheat, which
represented a different seed, called "sperma", or the seed of
man; a child.
The field that Jesus is talking about is the entire world, this earth
age of flesh man. The good
seed are the children of God's kingdom.
It did not say that these were apple seeds, or any other fruit of
trees; they were children of the kingdom.
Many people get all messed up and can't tell the difference
between apple seed and babies. The
good seed are the children of Seth, and the bad seed are the children of
Satan through Cain, called Kenites.
Now He tells us exactly who the enemy is: "The enemy that
sowed them is the devil; and the reapers are the angels."
It can't be that hard to understand, for everyone knows that Satan is
the devil, and his children through Cain are called the Kenites.
Jesus just told you that Satan is the enemy, the wicked one that
plants his Kenites in the
midst of the good seed, in their church houses and where every good
Christians go. We are
not to gather those Kenites, for many of them will come to know the
truth, repent and come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
That’s why the separation had to happen after the field was
ripe unto harvest. Jesus
told us that if they repent as you have, they will be saved and have
salvation just as it is offered to you.
Yet the Kenites are the negative part of God's plan, and they
will prepare the way for their father Satan, when he is cast out onto
the earth [Revelation 12:7-9].
Matthew 13:40, 41
"As therefore the tares are
gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this
world." [40] "The Son of man shall send forth His angels,
and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;" [41]
The true gathering of the Kenites will be after the Millennium age, when
each soul will be tested after they
know the truth. God the
Father can read their minds and know the intent of their soul, and only
He is able to judge the righteous and the wicked.
That is the duty of the Creator, not the created creature.
No one will slip into the
These Kenites received their first lasting infiltration into the tribes
of
King Omri of Israel and King Earbaal of Hamath had their peace sealed
with the marriage of Ahab and Jezebel, and through the son and daughter
of Jezebel, Judah was brought under ties to the Kenites also to
Jehosaphat's two children. By
naming each of their children by the same names, confusion exists by
many. They were not able to separate the Kenite lineage from those of
Abraham.
By the time the House of Judah came out of
Ezra was leading this wagon train of over 43,000 people broken into
twelve groups, and heading back to Jerusalem at King Cyrus' orders.
The purpose was to rebuild the
God said that the Levites were the only ones to stand before the altar
of God to make the sacrifices. Yet
when they were out on the trail Ezra finds that the entire religious
order is made up of Nethinims.
The priesthood had been turned over to the Nethinims, these Oriental
strangers given to service, and they would set their traditions and
mixed to what would be taught in the
I Chronicles
These same Kenites that had their identity hidden at the time of Christ, will also have their identity hidden in these end times, Jesus talked about them in both Revelation 2:9; and 3:9 as being "those that blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not but are the synagogue of Satan." Friend, you know them by what they say, and do. When they say something that goes against what the Word of God says, they are not of God. Sure they will be in the Christian church houses, but their traditions will go against the Word of God. This is why it is up to each of us to seal the truth from God's Word away in our minds so that we will not be deceived. If you want to believe a lie, God will allow you to, for it is up to you to study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed; on that day when each of us will stand before him.
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