Devotion 817

“The seed of the adulterer, a seed of falsehood"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 57

The first Adam committed spiritual adultery when he did not believe the Word of God. He believed the word of his wife, which was the word of the serpent. Every seed of Adam is a seed of adultery, a seed of falsehood. Satan is the head of the seed of Afam. When Adam fell, he lost his position as the head of that seed to Satan. Satan became the ruler of the earth. He had authority over the blood body of every seed. Through unbelief or spiritual darkness, every seed of Adam is led by Satan.

The believer is a seed of God. Through faith, they have died and risen with Christ to be seeds or children of God. They are the children of righteousness. They are different from the seeds of falsehood.

Isaiah describes the two.

Let's read.

Isaiah 57:1-2 "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. [2] He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness."

The righteous is a man or woman whose life is hidden in Christ. They are safe from the evil to come. The unbeliever doesn't see things this way. The unbeliever doesn't see the coming evil days, is blind to it. The unbeliever is blinded by unbelief.

We continue our reading.
Isaiah 57:3 "But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore."

God calls all to draw out of the seed of the first Adam, unto Him through death and resurrection with the second Adam.

Colossians 3:1-3 "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. [2] Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [3] For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."

The only way out of the seed of the first Adam is through death and resurrection with Christ. This is how our new life become hidden with Christ in God.


We continue our reading.

Isaiah 57:4-11 "Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, [5] Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? [6] Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? [7] Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. [8] Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. [9] And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. [10] Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. [11] And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?"

That's the diagnosis of everyone in the seed of the first Adam. Enflaming themselves with idols, going to the psychic, going to the witch doctor, with no knowledge of God.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 57:12-18 "I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. [13] When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; [14] And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. [15] For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. [16] For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. [17] For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. [18] I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners."

God will not be contend with the unbeliever. If the unbeliever turns on their light of faith and believes the one that God has sent, then God will restore him and heal him. He will become a seed of God.

We conclude our reading.

Isaiah 57:19-21 "I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. [20] But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. [21] There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."

That wicked is the man who remains in the blood of the first Adam. There is no peace for him, says the Lord. They are like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Become a seed of God. Believe and confess Jesus Christ, the blood seed of God, as we reveal Him from the first Adam, the fallen seed of God. It is through death and resurrection, in Christ!