The Strong Ones

"So Cain killed Abel over the displeasure found in his own sacrifice, and the devil thought he'd prevented what God promised to do."

HE CREATED THE EARTH and all that is in it in order to create man in His image to live and walk with Him upon it. We carry His breath within us. Our lungs expand and contract because He filled us with His life. Our heart beats and our blood circulates throughout our bodies because Jesus’ blood would need to be shed from them. And of such value was this, that He became an infant to perform it.

Psalm 139 says God knows the infant in the womb, that He who formed the earth, who created the sun, the moon, and the stars, who wrote His name in us upon the earth, knows each one of us from our most minutest state and has a plan for us which He delights to fulfill. My life before ever I existed was known by Him and planned by Him and I was loved by Him.

The words of the Spirit through the angel to Zacharias over John’s prophesied birth provide the most beautiful example of God’s care for infants. He said, “He will be filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit even in and from his mother’s womb (Luke 1:15 AMPC).” We see this when Mary, the mother of our Messiah, Jesus, the Christ, approached Elizabeth, John’s mother. We are told the babe (John) leapt in her womb (Luke 1:41). If God was in John before his birth, God was in Jesus before His. God filling God with God so that we could become like God again. How beautiful this is!

Man has cast his care of the infant aside, relegating life in the womb to something unimportant and invaluable. But God, who doesn’t change, whose Word is ever-working upon the earth, constant and faithful, hasn’t altered His will from what He called for John to do. John was, for that time, the greatest prophet, called from before birth, to make the way smooth for the Messiah, and he did this, fulfilling completely what was placed upon him. Yet, Jesus said we who are in the kingdom of God today, because of His life, death, and Resurrection, are greater than John.

“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matthew 11:11)

“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)

How much more valuable, wanted, DESIRED, is the infant in the womb of his mother now? God, who knew John, who knew Isaiah, who knew Gideon, who knew David, who knew Abraham, who knew Cain and Abel, knew us when we were but cells.

There is a truth from Genesis which speaks to this HUGE. When Adam and Eve hid from God, their eyes opened after their sin, God found them in the garden and spoke of their future. But before He told of Eve’s suffering in childbirth or Adam’s toil to produce fruit upon the earth, He spoke to the snake and the enemy, the devil, which had inhabited it. “You will crawl on your belly, eating dust, from now on,” He said to the snake. “And the Seed of woman shall crush your head and you shall bruise his heel (Genesis 3:14-15).”

That Seed was Jesus Christ, but the snake (the devil) did not know that. So Cain killed Abel over the displeasure found in his own sacrifice, and the devil thought he’d prevented what God promised to do. In one swoop, he’d made Cain a murderer and Abel’s blood stained the soil. He (the devil) then tried to kill as many men as possible, to stir up as much hate and rage as possible and ruin the human race. Except for Noah, who was found righteous, this might have been true. Noah and his family alone were saved from the flood. Eight souls. (Genesis 6:8-9; 2Peter 2:5).

One Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born in a stable in Bethlehem to parents who chose to believe despite what anyone else would say. God filled a baby, an unborn fetus, with Himself, and that child went on to become the Savior of the world. He is now King of Kings and as in love with the unborn as He ever was.

“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” (Daniel 7:9)

You cannot kill the spirit of man. Our spirit man is eternal, and the spirit man of the child of God is filled with God’s eternal life (quantity and quality of life). Man can only reject life and thus fall into death. But though the body may die and return to dust, who we are inside, our spirit man, lives on. Who we are as spirits can only begin with a birth on earth. This makes us so valuable to God and a great enemy to the devil. If he can destroy the defenseless, then he can perhaps stop more of those Strong Ones from inhabiting the earth.

He doesn’t care what the deception is. If we believe the unborn are worthless, then all the better to him. I’m telling you this belief is wrong. God Himself has proven it in becoming one.

“But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:20-21)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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