The Pergamum Connection: Babylon, Balaam, The Beast & the Final World Religion (CLW-15)

Cain and Abel portray the eternal truth that there are: Only Two Choices, Only Two Destinations.Two lines run through the history of mankind: the line of Christ and the line of Antichrist, the line of the Woman’s seed and that of the serpent. So, there are only two groups of people always on Earth, and they are heading to very different destinies: 1. The Way of God-Followers: like Abel example, they kneel before a substitutionary, blood sacrifice pointing at Golgotha, and justified by faith, they go to Heaven. 2. The Way of Satan-Followers: like Cain, they kneel at the altar of their good works pointing at Babel, and condemned by their own sins they go to the Lake of Fire. There are only two families that everyone is a part of: (God's or Satan’s); there are only two destinies that are ahead of every human that has every lived: (Heaven or Hell); and life is really reduced to only one or the two choices: (repent or reject). Each of us today belongs to one family or the other. You are choosing your own future. Here in Genesis 4 we see that Cain and Abel are not only two actual people who lived and walked on earth a few thousand years ago. They also represent the two roads that head out from the Garden of Eden. Everyone who has ever lived has chosen one of those two paths. Each of us, this morning, are on one path, or the other. Watch the choices made by Cain and Abel. Both were born outside of Eden. Both were sinners and fallen. Both were lost and guilty of each sin they had committed. Neither were innocent, but only Abel would confess that! That is what: Genesis 4 Contrasts: Satan’s Followers (Cain) vs. God’s Followers (Abel) To help us understand the magnitude of this doctrinal lesson that Cain and Abel portray, we need to look at their lives, and the lessons from those lives, one at a time. 2011JUL31

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