THE FIRST EFFECTS OF THE LOSS OF IDENTITY: THE SEVERING OF THEIR SPIRIT FROM GOD'S SPIRIT

Eating of the fruit actually awakened within them an independent spirit. This spirit caused them to have to stand alone. Through this independent spirit they lost the recognition of their oneness with God’s Spirit and had to find other ways to reach God.

The cherubim now blocked the free passage they once had into their communion with God by prohibiting entrance into the garden. They could not eat of the tree of life without being one with God. They had acquired their independence from God. Many people think that independence is freedom but actually is a deception. God had given them everything they needed for a perfect life, but as they were tested as to their willingness to depend on God for the life of their inner man, they failed. Their flesh cried for independence to know good and evil for themselves.

“Then the LORD God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever’ – therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.” (Genesis 3:22-23)

As their spirits were severed by this choice of independence from God, their source, the child of independence was born - Cain. From this child of independence came forth this offspring, Mehujael, which means everything divine dies.

In the third generation of Cain when Mehujael was born, all the life of God which was created in the first generation of God’s creation, was dead. We were made to depend on God, and without this dependency on Him for our life, eventually everything within us will die.

Out of the need to fill the vacancy created in the inner man from the death of his spirit from God’s Spirit, man searched for other means of fulfillment. Now man created Culture as Cain went into the land of Nod to appease his restlessness. Nod means “restlessness”.

In this land of restlessness, Cain built a city. When his first son, Enoch, was born, he named the city after his offspring. Enoch means “dedicated to, giving to”, and at this time in Cain’s life he gave his life-seed over to the development of culture, society and man’s creation of things.

This was the full establishment of man’s independent spirit and his loss of oneness with God. Man was now open to the depravity of his mind.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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