Satan's Attack On Motherhood

February 16, 2014
MF Blume

Gen 2:8    And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Eze 28:13    Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Eze 28:14    Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.


This is identical to the picture of God bringing his lady Israel to a mountain to enter a covenant with her.

This woman would bring froth a seed to crush the serpent's head.
Jesus is called the LAST ADAM.

1Co 15:45    And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46    Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47    The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

So this shows a consistency among the original plan with adam and mankind after Adam sinned.

Israel is that woman who becomes corrupted in her struggles against the temptations of the serpent.
Eze 16:1    Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 16:2    Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Eze 16:3    And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Eze 16:4    And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Eze 16:5    None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
Eze 16:6    And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Eze 16:7    I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
Eze 16:8    Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Eze 16:9    Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
Eze 16:10    I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Eze 16:11    I decked hee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Eze 16:12    And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Eze 16:13    Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
Eze 16:14    And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 16:15    But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

Everything we read is taken from the TABERNACLE designs which God sees as adorning his bride.

Verse 10:
Eze 16:10    I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

Exo 25:5    And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
Exo 25:6    Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
Exo 25:7    Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
Exo 25:8    And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exo 26:36    And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Notice whom she fornicates with.

Eze 16:26    Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Eze 16:28    Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

Eze 16:31    In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
Eze 16:32    But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Compare with:

Eph 5:25    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26    That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27    That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28    So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29    For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30    For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Eph 5:31    For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Eph 5:32    This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Rev 21:1    And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Rev 21:2    And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3    And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev 21:5    And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Rev 21:9    And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Rev 21:10    And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

God calls his PEOPLE a CITY.

Isa 62:12    And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

New Jerusalem is not haven because it comes down out of heaven.

Rev 21:2    And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

We are concerned with the issue of the ADAM AND EVE pattern with a SEED to crush the serpent's head.

The whole overall plan with the woman is a MARRIAGE COVENANT.
Jesus said he was the SEED!

1 Jn 3:8    He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Heb 2:14    Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Women were always attacked in the bible.

Motherhood was always a problem.

Gen 11:30    But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Gen 25:20    And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 25:21    And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Gen 29:31    And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

The wives of the patriarchs whom Jesus would come through were all barren!

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, FOOD, MOTHERHOOD and CHILDREN

Land, food and motherhood are all very central elements to the story of mankind's fall in the Garden.

God had man put in a certain piece of property.

Revelation 21:10-11 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

But Adam did not build it.
Jesus did.

John 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

God took ADAM and put him into a certain land.
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain,...

Genesis 4:11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

He went to the EAST OF EDEN, NOD, and built a counterfeit of God's planned construction
The most sinful of man.
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

Time went on and the world became so wicked that God flooded it out sparing Noah and his family.
God starts out again, giving Noah the same mandate He gave Adam.

Genesis 9:1-2 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

But only three generations later, Noah's great grandson, Nimrod rallies men around to build a tower.

Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Building in a land of Shinar while God's construction project was on hold.

Genesis 12:1-2 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

The issue of LAND is noted, and children to be born from his WIFE.
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And when food became an issue in Genesis 3, what then came into focus?
Genesis 12:11-13 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

Genesis 12:15-17 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Abram left again, then rich, but the episode over the crucial element that would bring God's promise to pass of having many nations, his WIFE, led to another problem.
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:5-7 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

So Abram told Lot to pick which land to dwell in.

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

LAND LIKE THE GARDEN was what Sodom looked like.
Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

AND REAL ESTATE.

Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Satan manages to get into the picture again and implants odd thoughts into the MOTHER about Abram begetting children through HAGAR, an EGYPTIAN.
Recall that when his wife brought on the trouble in Egypt, and handmaids were given to Abram there.

Genesis 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

This was where Hagar came from.
From her came the ARAB nations.

Her son Ishmael fought and fought with Sarah's boy who came along a little later, named Isaac.
As food brought the woman to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the serpent.
Genesis 19:34-38 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

The vile daughters' minds were so twisted that they felt Lot's lineage would continue through his children born of incest through them!
Genesis 20:1-3 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

And when Isaac grew older, the pattern repeated.

Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Genesis 26:7-9 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

ABIMILECH -- THE SAME MAN WHO HAD PROBLEMS WITH ABRAHAM'S WIFE!

Why the MOTHER always being a cause of tension?

Because Satan was hating the thoughts of God's people multiplying and the seed being born.
He wanted Rachel, and worked seven years for her.
Rebekah could have no children due to barrenness.
Food was an issue as it was in the Garden that led to trouble.
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

They built the temples of Pharaoh and their devil worship rather than God's Garden project.
MOTHERS BECAME A CONCERN.

Exodus 1:15-17 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

A mother had a baby named MOSES.
And there they CONSTRUCT a TEMPLE.

A model of the Garden of Eden.
Satan has been dealt with.


As ADAM laid his life down and in a deep sleep lost his rib that God might make Eve, Christ was crucified into the sleep of death and the cross brought about the CHURCH!
Ephesians 2:20-22 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

The church is God's precious love.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Look at God's words given to people concerning the care of the church.

Let God build your life!


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