It was never the Lord God's intent that there should be an American culture or Chinese culture or British culture, etc. He wanted a Kingdom culture, not a French culture or Jamaican culture, but one culture throughout the entire created realm. That culture is the Kingdom culture. This is why the King taught us to pray, Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord God wants Earth to reflect Heaven.
Remember, culture rests on the foundation of law. The Lord God's laws are not to restrict us but to protect us and to ensure that his culture fills the Earth. This is what Adam and Eve forgot when they chose to rebel against the King in Eden. When they ate of the one tree in the Garden that the Lord had placed off-limits, they did more than commit personal sin for the sake of pleasure and enlightenment; theirs was an act of treason against the government of their Creator. Their disobedience and sin for the sake of pleasure and enlightenment, was an act of treason against the government of their creator. Their disobedience was, in fact, a declaration of independence from God and His righteous, loving and benevolent rule. Adam and Eve turned their back on the Lord God's Kingdom in favor of setting up a regime of their own making. Unfortunately, Satan the pretender, illegally seized the throne, began pulling the strings and imposed his own culture of hatred, murder and deceit.
What happened next with Cain and Abel was no accident. It was the first recorded event in the new illegitimate kingdom. It was an act of brother-against-brother, where one murdered the other.
When Cain killed his brother Abel, he was simply reflecting his culture. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” Now 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 killed him.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.” And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven fold.” And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him. Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
Today, thousands of years and billions of deaths later, brother still kills brother in every nation, city and town on Earth. You hear it on the media every day. It is part of our culture, sad to say.
In the beginning, Adam and Eve ruled the Garden realm through the Presence of the Spirit of God. But when they declared their independence, the Holy Spirit departed and returned to Heaven, the home country. Man was on his own and at the mercy of the pretender. But the Lord God promised, I am going to return to My own earthly territory and reclaim it, and them whom I love. I planted a Garden there once, but now I will replant My Garden, in the hearts of My people from where it will spread to the ends of the Earth".
Matthew 6:10 Genesis 4:1-16
(recommended reading: God's Big Idea, Dr Myles Munroe)
~~W.R. Luchie
Remember, culture rests on the foundation of law. The Lord God's laws are not to restrict us but to protect us and to ensure that his culture fills the Earth. This is what Adam and Eve forgot when they chose to rebel against the King in Eden. When they ate of the one tree in the Garden that the Lord had placed off-limits, they did more than commit personal sin for the sake of pleasure and enlightenment; theirs was an act of treason against the government of their Creator. Their disobedience and sin for the sake of pleasure and enlightenment, was an act of treason against the government of their creator. Their disobedience was, in fact, a declaration of independence from God and His righteous, loving and benevolent rule. Adam and Eve turned their back on the Lord God's Kingdom in favor of setting up a regime of their own making. Unfortunately, Satan the pretender, illegally seized the throne, began pulling the strings and imposed his own culture of hatred, murder and deceit.
What happened next with Cain and Abel was no accident. It was the first recorded event in the new illegitimate kingdom. It was an act of brother-against-brother, where one murdered the other.
When Cain killed his brother Abel, he was simply reflecting his culture. Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, 5 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.” Now 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 killed him.
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.” And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven fold.” And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him. Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
Today, thousands of years and billions of deaths later, brother still kills brother in every nation, city and town on Earth. You hear it on the media every day. It is part of our culture, sad to say.
In the beginning, Adam and Eve ruled the Garden realm through the Presence of the Spirit of God. But when they declared their independence, the Holy Spirit departed and returned to Heaven, the home country. Man was on his own and at the mercy of the pretender. But the Lord God promised, I am going to return to My own earthly territory and reclaim it, and them whom I love. I planted a Garden there once, but now I will replant My Garden, in the hearts of My people from where it will spread to the ends of the Earth".
Matthew 6:10 Genesis 4:1-16
(recommended reading: God's Big Idea, Dr Myles Munroe)
~~W.R. Luchie
