Special notice to ALL WHO
DENY two seedline, #13
By: Teacher Clifton A.
Emahiser
1012 North Vine Street
Fostoria, Ohio 44830
Phone (419)435-2836
We need to understand again
that we are at the very zenith of a 7,000 plus year-old WAR. Because of a
misinterpretation of Genesis 3:15, many wrongly apply this passage to a war
between the �spirit� against the �flesh.� While it is true there is a personal
struggle between the spirit (carnal mind) and the flesh, this Scripture does not
refer to that type of conflict. The WAR in Genesis 3:15 is a �hate� WAR. It is
totally preposterous, therefore, to try to apply Genesis 3:15 to Ephesians 2:15
or Romans 8. The �enmity� in Ephesians refers to something quite different!
Actually, Genesis 3:15 speaks about two �hate groups� (a good �hate� group and a
bad �hate� group). You probably have been told that only bad people �hate�, and
that simply is not true. These two �hate groups� are at WAR with each other, and
this WAR is not going to be over until one or the other is totally crushed, and
you can mark that one down for posterity; our posterity.
�ONE SEEDLINE�
AN ANTICHRIST DOCTRINE
This is a very serious
charge, yet it is true, as you will shortly see. Maybe it would be well if the
term �one seedline� were defined. It also might be called �non-seedline� or
�anti-seedline� depending to what extreme it might be taken. If it is taken to
the extreme of reducing the �two seeds� of Genesis 3:15 to be the �flesh� and
�spirit�, as Ted R. Weiland did, then it would have to be defined as
�anti-seedline.� When this extreme position is taken, then even the �seed� of
the Messiah is denied! Truthfully, this stance would have to be defined as
�anti-seedline�, making their position not only �anti-seedline�, but also
�antichrist.� I will now demonstrate why this is so.
When I first started
researching Two Seedline, and realizing how serious were the ramifications �
also observing those who rejected this teaching � it did not occur to me that
such a teaching might be �antichrist.� By delving into the position of the �one
seedliners�, the thought that it could be �antichrist� gradually dawned on me,
along with the realization that the subject of the two �seeds� of Genesis 3:15
is even more serious than I formerly considered. Let me put it this way: There
are certain basic, fundamental tenets to our �Christian� faith. These beliefs
are as follows: We believe that YHWH created all things, visible and invisible;
that He became flesh and dwelt among us, and that He was of one substance
being both man and YHWH when He took on that flesh; that He suffered and died
in the flesh at the hands of unholy men; that He rose again in the flesh
(John 2:19-21); that He ascended into Heaven in the flesh; that from
thence He will return in the flesh to judge both the living and the dead.
Every one of these tenets is essential and indispensable to the Christian Faith.
Consequently, anyone denying these fleshly manifestations of YHWH is
�antichrist�, 1 John 4:3:
�And every spirit
that confesseth not that Christ (Yahshua) is come in the flesh is not of Yahweh:
and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
should come; and even now already is it in the world.�
The denial of the TWO
�seeds� mentioned in Genesis 3:15 is just as wicked, for if there were no �seed�
of the serpent to bruise the heel of Messiah (betrayal and Crucifixion), we
would have no Redemption. If He was not bruised for our iniquities, we have
nothing to look forward to except the grave. It is blasphemous to even infer He
was not bruised, and yet that is what the one seedliners, i.e.
anti-seedliners, insist on doing. It is every bit as blasphemous to say that the
Word was not made flesh as it is to imply that He was not bruised, yet the
anti-seedliners position boils down to just that. To spurn �Two Seedline� is to
reject Isaiah 53:5:
�But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.�
To deny �Two Seedline� is to
reject the �bruising� of our Redeemer, for it was the �seed� of the serpent that
was to bruise Him. Judas Iscariot was of that �seedline.� If there was no �seed
of the serpent� to bruise Him, we have no Redemption! In short, it�s an
antichrist religion! And they should be ashamed! Again: If there�s no �seed�
of the serpent, there was no bruising. If there was no bruising, there�s no
Redemption. Therefore, I will repeat again, the one seedliners and
anti-seedliners (or whatever you wish to call them) are teaching an �antichrist�
(anti-Messiah) doctrine by denying �Two Seedline.� There are those who advocate
that we Two Seedliners declare a truce with the one seedliners, i.e.
anti-seedliners, for the good of the Identity Message. To that I reply: Should
we also make a truce with those who declare YHWH did not come in the flesh?
THREE DOCTRINES STAND
OR FALL TOGETHER
While there are several
doctrines taught in Genesis 3:15, three of these stand or fall together. These
three fundamental doctrines are the Incarnation, the Crucifixion and the
Resurrection of our Messiah. They are mutually interdependent. Each one is equal
in importance and cannot be separated from the other two. Since both the
�bruising� (betrayal and Crucifixion) and the �birth� of Yahshua (His coming in
the flesh) are prophesied in Genesis 3:15, they stand or fall together! We can
see from this that the �bruising� and Incarnation are of equal importance, and
to deny one is to deny the other. Therefore, I repeat, these three tenets in
Genesis 3:15 stand or fall together. Without the Incarnation there could be no
�bruising� � without the �bruising� there could be no significance to the
Crucifixion or the Resurrection. Remove one element and we have nothing, zip,
zero. Therefore, Genesis 3:15 incorporates the Incarnation, Death and
Resurrection all in one verse. Why else would YHWH be so careful about
preserving Cain and his posterity (Gen. 4:15, 23, 24) if it wasn�t to prevent
the Serpent�s seed from being exterminated before the fulfillment of Gen. 3:15?
In order for YHWH to keep his promise, the serpent�s seedline had to be
preserved as well as the woman�s.
Genesis 3:15 is also
somewhat unique inasmuch as it speaks both generally and specifically. It speaks
generally of a �hate� WAR between two genetic groups of people � it speaks
specifically of an individual �bruiser� (betrayer) from the one group and an
individual Redeemer from the other. Among other things, Genesis 3:15 predicts
the outcome of this seemingly unending war. While there are many conflicts in
this war between the two �seeds�, there are two specific significant events; the
�bruising of the heel� and the �bruising of the head.� The blow to the heel of
our sinless Messiah was only temporary as He rose again. The blow to the head of
the serpent and his seed will be fatal and final to all belonging to that
genetic line. Resurrection is implied in Genesis 3:15 because the blow to the
�heel� was not fatal to the Messiah. Again, I repeat, the Incarnation,
Crucifixion and the Resurrection cannot be taught separately. We either have
ALL three or we
have none. To teach just
one or two of these three elements alone is nonsense and heresy. This is, in
essence, what the one seedliners, i.e. anti-seedliners, are doing. What
it all boils down to is: if one cannot understand the full implications of
Genesis 3:15, one cannot comprehend the rest of the Bible. It is obvious, then,
that the one seedliners with some of their irrational statements on that verse,
do not fathom the implications of that crucial and pivotal passage. With the
prophecy that the serpent�s seed (power) would be totally crushed, no wonder
they are sensitive to the word �genocide� � and create so-called �hate� laws. No
wonder they cry �never again.� It would seem that deep within their satanic
spirit they are already aware of their final fate.
DEFINITION OF
�ANTICHRIST�
You can search in almost any
Bible commentary and dictionary and the definition for the term �antichrist� is
pretty much universally given as one who denies that YHWH came in the flesh. If
this is a proper definition, then it follows that according to the
�anti-seedliner�s� position, He also was not �bruised by the seed of the
serpent� (betrayal and Crucifixion), nor did He rise from the dead after three
days. This denial of a literal �seed� of the serpent, propounded by the one
seedliners, forces the same conclusion as that defined as �antichrist�,
putting them in the same category (that claim being: there never existed a
literal �seed� to bruise His heel). In other words, by denying a literal �seed
of the serpent� the one seedliners also become guilty of claiming that YHWH did
not come in the flesh. While some commentaries point to the Gnostics of that day
as being the �antichrists�, other commentaries point to the �Jews.� Actually,
there were �Jewish� Gnostic groups, so both are probably true. Over the last
approximately 2000 years the �Jews� have pretty much fulfilled this definition
as being �antichrists.� If, then, the one seedliners want to take the same
position as the �Jews�, let them be �marked� for what they really are! Since
John Wilson and Edward Hine first brought us the Israel Identity message, we
must pass through a refining process to clear away some false presuppositions:
claiming today�s �Jews� as a part of true Israel being one of them. With the
teachings of men like Bertrand L. Comparet, Wesley A. Swift and San Jacinto
Capt, the �Jews� instead have been more properly identified as Israel�s
formidable enemy. I admit that before knowing anything about the Israel Identity
Message and the two seedlines of Genesis 3:15, I too, was ignorantly holding
this same �antichrist� view herein described as �one seedline�,
and didn�t know any better, as that�s all they ever taught in the churches that
I attended until that time!
I should point out here that
we owe a debt of deep gratitude to British Israel. While doing so, though, there
are some areas in which we cannot agree: (1) We cannot take the position that
the great German people are Assyrians as they are truly of the Tribe of Judah.
(2) We cannot agree with British Israel that the Cainite �Jews� are under the
Covenant of our fathers, and, (3) As British Israel is ignorant of Two Seedline,
we cannot agree with that either.
The one thing that I learned
when getting into this Israel Identity message is that it was necessary for me
to unlearn many things that I thought I knew, and start all over from scratch.
This is what a lot of people getting into this Message refuse to do. Paul, after
his conversion, had to go to the desert for three years to be reeducated,
Galatians 1:17-18. Three years would have been a reasonable amount of time for
him to have reviewed all the Scriptures of the Old Testament in a new light. Why
should we be any different than Paul? The problem in this Identity movement is
there are a lot of people who haven�t been to the desert yet (Identity pastors
not excepted).
Let us read some commentary
to help grasp the implications concerning what is considered �antichrist.� There
are a lot of opinions along this line, but we will concentrate on the definition
of denying that YHWH came in the flesh to dwell among us, and read the other
three passages on this as found in 1st John:
1 John 2:18:
�Little children,
it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now
are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.�
1 John 2:22:
�Who is a liar but he that denieth that Yahshua is the Christ? He is antichrist
that denieth the Father and the son.�
2 John 7:
�For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Yahshua the
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.�
The Zondervan Pictorial
Encyclopedia of the Bible,
volume 1, page 179, says the following on the subject of Antichrist, under
�References in Scripture �:
�... First John
2:22 defines antichrist as one who �denies that Jesus is the Christ.� Such a one
also �denies the Father and the Son.� According to John�s definition, an
antichrist is anyone who denies that Jesus is God and Christ. In 1 John 4:3,
reference is made to �the spirit of antichrist� which again is described as
coming in the future and also �now it is in the world already.� In this passage,
also, an antichrist is defined as one who is a denier of the deity of Jesus
Christ.
�In 2 John 7, a
more specific reference is made to contemporary rejection of Christ by those who
deny the reality of the Incarnation: �For many deceivers have gone out into the
world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh;
such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.� John is anticipating docetism,
the view that Christ merely appeared to be in the flesh and was not actually
incarnate. From these four passages it is clear that antichrist, according to
John�s definition, is a theological concept primarily and relates to rejection
of Christ or heretical views concerning His person ...�
[Ed. emphasis]
The Interpreter�s Dictionary
of the Bible,
volume A-D, page 142 says this concerning �antichrist�:
�... Polycarp,
however, is in agreement with the Johannine letters that the Antichrist is the
spirit of heresy, that everyone who denies the actual incarnation, is in
fact, an antichrist, and that he who denies the resurrection and
judgment is the first-born of Satan (Polyc. Phil. 7:1).�
[Underlining mine]
From the Dictionary of
the New Testament by Hastings, �The Apostolic Church�, volume 3, under the
topic �Antichrist� we find some interesting information. While Hastings uses the
words �Jewish� for Israelite and Judaism for the beliefs of the Israelites, he
has some interesting statements to contribute to our enlightenment on this
subject. Interestingly, Hastings connects the subject of �antichrist� with the
Temptation in Genesis 3. Thus, there seems to be a close affinity of Two
Seedline doctrine with the subject of �antichrist.� Reading excerpts now from
pages 67-68:
�... Although the
word �Antichrist� does not occur till we come to the Johannine Epistles, we have
many evidences in the pre-Christian Jewish [rather Israelite] literature,
canonical and extra-canonical, that there was a widely spread idea of a supreme
adversary who should rise up against God, His Kingdom and people, or His
Messiah. The strands that went to the composition of the idea were various and
strangely interwoven, and much obscurity still hangs over the subject ... Traces
of this dragon-myth appear here and there in the Old Testament, e.g. in
the story of the Temptation in Genesis 3, where, as in Revelation 12:9; 20:2,
the serpent = the dragon; and in the later apocalyptic literature a dragon
represents the hostile powers that rise up in opposition to God and His Kingdom
(Pss. Sol. ii. 29). But it was characteristic of the forward look of
Prophetism and Messianism [prophets and Messiah] that the idea of a conflict
between God [YHWH] and the dragon was transferred from cosmogony to eschatology
and represented as a culminating episode of the last days (Isaiah 27:1; Daniel
7) ... Side by side with the dragon-myth must be set the Beliar (Belial)
conception, a contribution to Jewish [rather Israelite] thought from the
side of Persian dualism, with its idea of an adversary in whom is embodied not
merely, as in the Babylonian Creation-story, the natural forces of chaos and
darkness, but all the hostile powers of moral evil ... And in the interval
between the Old Testament and New Testament Beliar is frequently used as a
synonym for Satan, and Devil or arch-demon (e.g. Jubilees, 15; cf. 2 Cor.
6:15). The Beliar idea was a much later influence than the dragon-myth, for
Babylonian religion offers no real parallel to a belief in the Devil, and
Cheyne�s suggested derivation of the name from Belili, the goddess of the
underworld ... has little to recommend it. But a subsequent fusion of Beliar
with the dragon was very natural, and we have a striking illustration of it when
in Wisdom 2:24 and elsewhere the serpent of the Temptation is identified with
the Devil. Cf. Revelation 12:9; 20:2, where �the dragon, the old serpent�, is
explained to be �the Devil and Satan� ... But, so far as the New Testament is
concerned, the earlier Antichrist tradition is taken over with important
changes, due to the differences between Judaism [correct this time] and
Christianity, and especially to the differences in their conception of the
Messiah Himself. At the same time it must be noted that nothing like a single
consistent presentation of the Antichrist idea is given by the New Testament as
a whole. Elements of the conception appear in the Gospels, the Pauline Epistles,
the Apocalypse, the Johannine Epistles, but in each group of writings it is
treated differently and with more or less divergence from the earlier Jewish
[Israelite] forms ... In the Synoptic Gospels it is everywhere apparent that
Jesus recognized the existence of the kingdom of evil under the control of a
supreme personality, variously called the Devil (Mt 4:1; 13:29, etc.). Satan (Mt
4:10; 12:26; Lk 10:18 etc.), or Beelzebub (Mt 12:24), who sought to interfere
with His own Messianic mission (Mt 4:1-11; 16:23), and whose works He had come
to destroy (... He 2:14) ....�
With this quotation on the
subject of �antichrist� we should be beginning to get a conception of what this
whole thing is all about. In order to delve into this matter a little further,
let�s consider the term �Belial.� For this I will quote again from the same
volume in Hastings, page 146:
�BELIAL ... Taking
the meaning �worthlessness�, we note that the ordinary use of �Belial� in the OT
suits it very well; �sons of Belial� or �men of Belial� means �worthless or
wicked men�, according to the common Hebrew idiom which substitutes a genitive
for an adjective. The word is, however, twice used in the OT as a quasi-proper
name. In Ps 18:4 we read of �the cords of death�, �the floods of Belial�, �the
cords of Sheol�,
�the
snares of death�; here Belial = the under world. Again, in Nah 1:15 we read that
Belial shall no more pass through Judah; he is utterly cut off. In this passage
Belial almost exactly corresponds to the �man of lawlessness, the man of
perdition� of St. Paul (2 Th 2:3 ...) ... In the Sibylline Oracles ...
where the reference to the �Augustans� ... shows the passage to be a later
interpolation, probably of 1st cent. A.D. ... Belial is Antichrist ... There are
many forms of this name, chiefly due to the phonetic interchange of the liquids:
Belial, Beliar, Beliam, Belian, Beliab, Belias, Berial.�
Conspicuously, �Belial� is
#1100 in Strong�s, which is from the same root as #1098 meaning �mixed�,
and therefore as we should know, �worthless� (Kenites, Canaanites, Edomites
etc.). Check #1100 in Psalm 18:4 and Nahum 1:15. For another definition of
�Belial� we will use The Revell Bible Dictionary, page 143:
�Belial
... As a proper noun, a name for Satan. In common use, a Hebrew word for
�worthless.� The phrase �sons of Belial� appears several times in the OT (Deut.
13:13; 1 Sam. 2:12; 2 Chr. 13:7). Modern versions usually simply translate this
�worthless persons�, since belia�al means �worthless� or �lawless.�
However, the proper name is retained in 2 Cor. 6:15 where Paul asks
rhetorically, �What harmony is there between Christ and Belial?� In Jewish
literature from the second century on Belial (or Beliar) was a name for Satan.
In the 2 Corinthians passage Paul urges Christians not to compromise with the
ways, the practices, or the people of Satan.�
Again, in The Revell
Bible Dictionary there is a good definition for the word �antichrist� on
page 73:
�antichrist
An opponent of Christ, or a substitute Christ. The name, coined by John and
found only in his letters, is rooted in ancient biblical prophecies concerning
an evil person who will appear at history�s end to rally mankind against God.
�John also speaks
of �many antichrists�, and of a spirit of antichrist which is active even before
the end times (1 John 2:18; 4:3). These antichristian false teachers can be
recognized by their denial of Jesus as God in the flesh. Such persons are
�deceivers� who may masquerade as Christians, but whose true character is
revealed by their refusal to affirm the full deity of Jesus Christ.�
I would point out here that
to refuse to rightly identify the two �seeds� of Genesis 3:15 is to deny the
deity of the Messiah. In order to rightly identify our Redeemer, it is necessary
to profess Him not only as YHWH in the flesh, but also to identify Him as the
One who was �bruised� by the serpent�s seed of Genesis 3:15 for our iniquities.
If He was not bruised as such, He is not YHWH in the flesh! Further, we must
recognize His Resurrection. If He was not bruised (dying in our place), He could
not be resurrected. If He didn�t die in our place and resurrect to life again,
He is not YHWH in the flesh! The one seedliners deny His bruising. If He
suffered and died a literal physical death, then the serpent is also a
literal physical seedline. By teaching against Two Seedline, the one
seedliners, i.e. anti-seedliners, have made themselves ANTICHRISTS!
And that by their own choice!
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE
INCARNATION
I do not believe that the
average follower of the Nazarene has ever taken the time to contemplate the
implications of the Almighty taking upon Himself a fleshly body. We could ponder
why He did this, but that thought is not the before us. The question is, what
happens when the Almighty El entwines Himself in a fleshly body that is
condemned to die? Yes, when He decided to do that, He knew He was going to die
the death of a man. It wasn�t a question, then, of whether or not He was going
to die, but how and when. Once committed, it was a one-way street; there was no
turning back. The difference between our Messiah and man is, YHWH had the power
to lay down his life and take it back up again, but nevertheless, He was going
to die a man�s (an Adamite�s) physical death. The next important question is,
did He die according to Scripture? Scripture says (Genesis 3:15), He would die,
or be bruised by the seed of the �serpent.� If this is true, the �serpent� had
to have literal children! This is the very CORNERSTONE of SCRIPTURE,
and if our Redeemer didn�t die in that prescribed manner, the whole foundation
of our FAITH is for naught!
Conclusion: While it is
paramount that we have faith that our Almighty came in the flesh, it is
important to the same degree in what manner that flesh died and the fact that it
rose to life again! The one seedliners (anti-seedliners) talk a lot about the
�Sovereignty of God�, which is all well and good, but if Yahweh did not come
in the flesh; be �bruised� and die in the flesh; resurrect to life
again in the flesh; ascend to heaven in the flesh, He is not
Sovereign. The one seedliners really don�t believe He is �Sovereign� for they
deny His �bruising� inasmuch as they deny there was a literal seed of the
serpent to bruise Him. How can anyone claim that the woman was to have a
literal, fleshly seed (Yahshua), but then do a complete about-face and claim
that the serpent�s seed is only figurative? Now, who�s not �consistent�?
Those anti-seedliners will
probably try to disclaim any charge of teaching an �antichrist� doctrine! Any
further effort on their part to explain away their position will only result in
digging themselves into their own quagmire. Without their realizing it, they
have earmarked themselves in unequivocal terms as �antichrist
anti-seedliners.�
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