PART THREE

But back to the division of the Kingdoms, and its repercussions.

The descendants of the kingdom of Judah - a mixture of Jews, Benjamites and Levites - remain visible to this day.  But what happened to the descendants of Israel, the kingdom of Jeroboam?

It suits Satan to have the world believe that the people of the Kingdom of Israel just faded away and no longer exist.  But it's simple logic that if the descendants of the Kingdom of Judah exist today, then so do the descendants of the Kingdom of Israel.

Because people, and peoples, don't just disappear. People of a culture stay together. They may move and migrate, but mostly they move and migrate together, as a people. They intermarry with outsiders, and adopt new ways and languages, but they are still essentially the same people.  Their true identity may be lost to themselves and others, but they remain the same people, with the same ancestors.

So we can confidently assume that somewhere on the planet there exists peoples who are the descendants of the kingdom of Jeroboam. That is, all the other tribes of Israel apart from Judah, Benjamin and Levi.

How to find them? And why is it important?

It's important because God laid permanent enmity between Satan's descendants and the descendants of the Woman. Permanent enmity. So if we can trace the two lines from the Garden of Eden down to our times, we can identify the important players of these last days.  We just have to examine history and politics in order to discover who is, and has been, on the receiving end of permanent enmity.

Jesus was one victim of the enmity of course, but since that time in the Garden of Eden there has been a continuous attack by Satan's people against a particular line of the Woman's descendants. A Godly line of descendants. This enmity has been, and still is, one of the driving forces of human history.

The enmity originally displayed itself between the first two humans born on Earth, the brothers Cain and Abel.

Cain became Abel's murderer and revealed himself as the first of Satan's seed.

Murder was not preordained in Cain's heart, it grew there with his own consent, from a seed planted by Satan. It didn't have to grow, Cain could have been different. As God had said to him:

“If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you,..” (Genesis 4:7)

In the normal course of events Cain, being Adam's firstborn, would have inherited the Godly line. But Cain, by his actions, spurned the responsibility and became the beginning of Satan's seed.  The Godly line passed to Adam's third son, Seth.

[It seems, possibly, that in the time of Seth God withdrew His permanent physical presence from the Earth, and thereafter humans connected with Him in spirit, through prayer: “And there was also a son born to Seth, and he called his name Enos. At that time men began to call upon the name of Jehovah.” (Genesis 4:26)]

The Godly line descended through Seth, down to Noah:
”...Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.” (Genesis 6:9)

The Satanic line, the Establishment of the time, prospered and ruled the earth. With evil's inevitable result:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth. And, behold, it was corrupted! For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.” (Genesis 6:11-12)

Satan is a murderer and a liar. What is more natural than that Satan's human tools fill their domain with violence? (To this day.)

So God decided to destroy the world which Satan's humans had established:

“And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” (Genesis 6:13)

The history we have seen so far makes it seem that God is always on the back foot and reacting to Satan's moves.  In a way that's true.  Because God has given the rule of the earth to Satan, and therefore must allow Satan to rule in his own (Satan's) way. (Within the limits originally allowed to him.)  But Satan has been given only a certain period of time as ruler of the earth:

“Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and those dwelling in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and in the sea! For the Devil came down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a little time.” (Revelation 12:12) [“knowing that he has but a little time” means that there is a definite, specific time when Satan's rule will end.]

So while God is indeed reacting to Satan's efforts to destroy humans, it is certain that Satan's rule of the earth will end in complete failure. It already has.

The only crucial time in the history of the world - the history of God's interaction with humans - was the three decades or so when one of the Gods became a human.  If Satan had seduced Jesus into sin, then Satan would have succeeded in unfathomable murder. Satan would have killed one of the Gods.

But Satan completely lost the contest against Jesus, and the Gods won their great gamble. Death was destroyed and can never be revived. Humans can live forever.