(Servias’ Note: Once again, the following part should be studied thoroughly, especially the referenced Scriptures. The reader should then reread this part after studying associated passages in the Bible before making any determination about accepting or rejecting Kemper’s discussion. We are providing his writing to provoke the reader to challenge his or her current doctrine for its validity as many have done in the past with the doctrine of the origin and nature of the devil. Each of us must test our own doctrine given to us by the teachers in our past to see if it truly lines up with FATHER’S Divine Intent. Each of us is responsible for seeking out the Truth and to reject doctrines of men. We discussed this section in great detail with our Hebrew scholar friend concerning the initial mention of the devil, or serpent, in Genesis prior to our posting. It is most important that each of us focus our daily lives in pursuit of being fully led by THE SPIRIT. However, we should no longer allow ourselves to be subject to the wiles of the devil {Ephesians 6:11} so we should have a deeper understanding of the adversary’s nature. Jesus was well aware of the devil and his children, and you might read John 8:31-48 prior to beginning this part.)
Kemper continues:
Man Owns Evil
Although man has been sustained by God’s mercy during this age, he must for justice sake be accountable for his own works. The scripture is adamant to present the fact that man owns what he initiates outside of God’s will.
Psalms 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Proverbs 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.
Man owns corruption! It must be understood that Satan is not an entity independent from man, Satan is a product of man. Man is not just a victim of the evil in this world but is also the producer of it. All of it! To say, “The devil made us do it” is acknowledging that we are subject unto our own wisdom. John 8:44, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus in this verse is speaking to the Pharisees who wanted to kill him. He calls them children of the devil, assigning the principality (the devil) initiated by Adam as their father. John records in 1 John 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. Consider this, how can the devil sin without disobeying a commandment? Adam is this devil that sinned from the beginning.
The Seed
Afterward, Adam produced seed in the likeness of his self-preserving nature, the serpent. This seed of the serpent is referred to in Genesis 3:15; And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The seed of the serpent came from Adam, however the woman’s seed came from God. And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew (Genesis 4:25).
God promised Eve that Their Seed would bruise the head of the serpent (destroying the works of the devil, 1 John 3:8). The summation of this was conceived by Mary upon hearing from the messenger Gabriel in Luke 1:35, And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing (seed) which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. In verse 38 Mary agreed, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (John 1:14).
The seed of the woman has been the remnant that God has reserved unto Himself over the generations unto the fulfillment of His Word made flesh. They have transferred God’s promise of the destruction of the serpent from one generation unto the other until it manifested in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, whom was raised from the dead and become the firstfruits of them (the remnant) that slept (1 Corinthians 15:20).