The enemy of God, (enmity) is the flesh. God is a Spirit. The living soul was made from the breath of God (the Spirit). Jesus crucified the flesh as an example so we that have the breath of God (living souls) (the portion that was created as an eternal being) would know the flesh is but nothing in the scope of eternity.It is a person who walks and talks in the flesh that will attempt to rise above what God created. Keeping forefront of our minds that flesh has already been crucified and we are to follow the Master as believers, we can understand or discern what is of flesh and what is of spirit. In as much as possible we walk accordingly knowing we still live in the flesh, yet one day we will be as He is, for this we have the promise of Jesus. It is not the heart born of flesh that can percieve these matters as the flesh is already crucified. Flesh is already dead but does not know it.
Eph 2:15having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, Ge 3:15And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."Flesh= the original enmity.
Tristanrobin. This is from the New King James version. If you read the Bible read it from your heart. As words of the Bible touch your soul, these are the ones you will understand and take to heart. In time if to know God is what you seek, God is what you will find. Not one walking this earth will ever know all the ways of God. How could we as we are but mere mortals of flesh that long for eternal peace with the creator of all. We have faith and hope that we can walk as God created us to walk with Him. I cannot force you to be something anymore than you could force me to be something I am not. That does not mean I have to like or accept what I do not like or do not believe in. Yet I know that God created and rules all things and anything only happens if He allows it. I can understand from a parent's point of veiw the Love God has for each of His children.
Babylon= confusion Isaiah 14:4-23 4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers;
6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.
8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To meet you at your coming; It stirs up the dead for you, All the chief ones of the earth; It has raised up from their thrones All the kings of the nations. 10 They all shall speak and say to you: 'Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.'
12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.'
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
17 Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'
18 "All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;
19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
20 You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."
22 "For I will rise up against them," says the Lord of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity," says the Lord.
23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of hosts.