Monday, February 23, 2009

The first and last Adam

In the beginning God created the first man Adam in his own image, formed him of the dust of the ground, breathed (the holy ghost) into his nostrils and he became a living soul. He placed him in a garden and gave him dominion over all the fish of the sea, the foul of the air, over all the cattle and every creeping thing. God told Adam to be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth. And God saw everything that he had made and behold it was very good. This is a beautiful picture of the spiritual setting that God put Adam in. Though Adam was formed of the dust of the ground (a physical being) he was also created a spiritual being.

No sin had yet entered into the world. God placed him in the garden (the paradise of God, representing a spiritual condition Luke23:43, 2 Cor.12:4, rev.2:7) and gave him dominion over all the wild animals (this is a picture of the selfish works of the flesh). God brought all the animals to Adam and he gave them names (showing that Adam was fully aware of the traits and characteristics of the flesh and by naming them he was in complete dominion, including over the serpent).

Now in the garden was every tree good for food. The tree of life was also in the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Obviously these are symbolic. The tree of life is Christ, John 6:33 for the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world. John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. Rev.2:7 To him that over cometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Gal.5:22 Now the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law.

The tree of Knowledge of good and evil is Adam, (or the flesh). Notice these connections. Gen.2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die. Rom. 8:13 For if you live after the flesh ye shall surely die. Gal. 5:19 Now the works (fruit) of the flesh are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedition's, heresies, envyings, revelings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have told you in times past, they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Here's another great connection Gen.3:6 and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and pleasant to the eye, and a tree desired to make one wise, she did eat and gave also unto her husband and he did eat. John: 2-16 For all that is in the world is the lust of the flesh (good for food), the lust of the eye (pleasant to the eye) and the pride of life (the desire to make one wise). Surely you can see this connection showing the appetite of the flesh. These scriptures show that Adam was tempted by the serpent (a picture of the selfish nature of the flesh) and did eat. God's desire was for Adam to be fruitful and multiply after the spirit, but when he was tempted he produced the wrong fruit and multiplied after the flesh. Rom.5:12, shows that Adam sinned and could therefore only reproduce sinners.

We being conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity (Ps.51:5) were born wrong and under the penalty of death. Rom.5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression who is the figure of him who was to come. All have sinned but not after the similitude of Adam. Adam was not created under the penalty of sin, we were. Adam was given dominion, spiritually, and was not in a weakened condition under the dominion of sin. And then came Jesus the last Adam!!! To Be Continued..............

5 comments:

  1. Bro Mark,
    I have enjoyed reading so far, and appreciate your writing style. I have never heard The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil as being Adam or the flesh. Would like to hear more on that. Also about Adam naming the 'beasts' good thought.

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  2. Sis. Sarah, I'm sorry for the difficulty leaving comments, I just figured it out myself. You left a comment on facebook about the tree of knowledge of good and evil being in the center of the garden. It's interesting to note that both trees are in the garden the tree of life of which thou mayest "freely eat" and the tree of knowledge of which thou mayest "not eat or even touch" doesn’t this sound like the instructions found al through the scriptures. The garden is a spiritual place where you are fully enlightened and in dominion, a fully matured Christian one who is no longer a "little child" John2:1 that is not to say that you could not fall away because we know that Adam did. But I reference Heb.6:4-6 showing it is where eternal judgment takes place. This is pretty heavy subject matter I know, but I think we know that the only unforgiveable sin is the unrepented of sin. It's just that there comes a point when there's nothing else God can do, it has been settled that in full light you've decided that you "know better than God" But on the up side this is where there is unlimited access to the tree of life or as was said of Jesus he was given the Holy Ghost with out measure. What a concept! This is what were restoring it’s the place the early church was in and it's going to fill the whole earth and never go out of existence. What an environment the 1000 yrs will be, a perfect place for people to be saved.

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  3. "ok let me preface this by saying that i like your style of
    writing.and i trust your word on the confidintiality of our
    mail,please forgive my writing im afraid that i get in a hurry trying
    to get it all out and skip things leave things out misspell
    everything,im afraid orthography has never been my thing.and im
    afraid i havent read my bible in several years but after reading your
    blog on adam im going search my house tomorow when i get home and
    find it,because there are a few things that im prety sure of in
    genral terms but am unable to recall the specifics(by the way your
    research on the seventh horn (i think)and the seventh head looked
    very well put together but thats another mail)so im hesitant to even
    ask questions on somthing i havent looked at in years.having added
    copious amounts of caviots,i wonder if i could have missunderstood
    when you said that God created adam and as we know breathed the
    breath of life in to him,you equivicate this to the Holy Ghost?i cant
    quite get my hands around that(and am greatly wishing i had my Bible
    here because i usualy like to show where and what im talking about
    but its my loss i assure you i will do some reading on these
    things)my thoughts were that no one could get the holy ghost untill
    Jesus had died,was raised from the dead,and left in the physical
    sense.and then sent the comforter(the Holy Ghost) to the church on
    the day of penticost i distinctly recall reading (im assuming in one
    of the gospels)that Jesus spoke to(i cant remeber who) but that he
    said that he was leaving(para phrase) or he had to go or couldnt stay
    but that he would send a comfortor on a certain day at a certain
    place(the upper room)and we know im certain you could tell it better
    than i because i cant remember all the details but we know the
    history there. saying all that im certain that adam and eve walked
    with God(that is to say that iv allwase considred that to meen that
    God did move on them)and that did indeed feel his spirit(in the cool
    of the day) but iv alwase looked at that as being the best that
    anyone could do untill the afor mentioned critera had been met,and
    the apostle Paul wrote (at least im prety sure it was him though i
    cant rember what leter it was in)but he or someone else since i cant
    remember where wrote about the evedince of the Holy Ghost and as i
    recall it was fairly specific though i cannot recall the exact
    wording i know that it stated that the only evidence was either
    speaking in unknown tongues or in other tongues(their are several
    veriations i cant remember them all right now but i do know they are
    distictly differant) i will have to get back to you on this part.in
    genral it seems to me that Moses,Aberham,enock and all the profits
    had a simular relationship with God as adam differing mainly in the
    frequentsy of their visits.on another note as i think answers to
    these isues could clear up my questions and i may have taken what you
    said the wrong way in any case iv often wonderd with all the type and
    shadow of the adam,eve,snake,apple and garden story where do we stop
    with type and shadow where does it start?i personaly think that adam
    is a type of man eve of woman etc.. i dont think there were ever only
    two people i think that its a story to tell about men and women in
    genral terms taking in to account that moses wrote it and the way
    that they learned morals or Gods will or what have you,i just dont
    know about these arbitrary lines of this is litteral while this is
    type you know?why cant the garden be this state of mind/spiritual
    state that the original men/women (in my theory) were in and they
    happend to be(i cant remember exactly)between the eufrates and the
    nile...or where ever it says the moral of the story is still the same
    today.i have asked men of our group why this or that and i couldnt
    believ what i heard it was the same excuse!i call it the adam defense
    its litterly the oldest one in the book!i was shocked!my wife?i felt
    like explaining to him what he had just said!who among us thinks that
    if God wasnt playn the Tu Quo Que then that its going to fly now?but
    paul said it too if a man is married he will have trouble in the
    flesh i para phrase but thats kinda what i think its a picture of
    what paul said in a sentence,it all comes down to self control and
    doing what You know to be right no matter what!its all through the
    bible adam was guilty of the glutony which simply means he couldnt
    control his appatite for you name it,they can all take over and run
    the show it can be food,libation,sex that is often thought to be
    original sin as im certain you are aware but i think gluttony covers
    it from apples to whatever sexual appatite but i could be compleatly
    off the farm on this one you let me know what you think, sorry for
    the length i am given to rant on occasion hope i didnt ware you out
    cus im guna comment on the other one about the seventh horn peace"

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  4. To begin I want say that the above questions are good ones, and the explanation is what makes this revelation so powerful to me. The words breath as transelated in Gen.2:7, ghost as trasnselated in Luke1:35 and wind as transelated in Acts2:2 are from the same greek word "pneuma". I point this out to show that Adam was created with "life"(spiritually). God said that in the day that thou sinnest thou shalt surely die. We know that Adam did not die phyisicaly that day because Gen.5:5 says that Adam lived 930 yrs.So then he dided spiritualy, Rom.5:12 says by one man sin entered the world and death by sin, and death passed upon all men for all have sinned. Adam became a sinner and could only reproduce after his kind. That is why we needed Jesus to come into the world and be the last Adam, born the same, no natural father or sin would have passed on to him in birth just like all the other men after Adams fall.In order for Jesus to be able to take our place in death he could not be under the penalty himself. So Jesus came by the holy ghost and mother earth (Mary) and lived a sin free life and did all the things as a "man" that God wanted Adam to do "be fruitful" in the spirit and was able to go to the cross for us and not for his own sin. Then after his resurrection and asention he was able to send the Holy Ghost and we could be born again, this time in "life" not death. The apostil Paul said in Eph.2:1 you hath he quickened(made alive) who were dead in trespasses and sins. For me, this understanding made the whole thing resonable. Now you can produce the fruit of love that God so desired by not follwing the path that Adam took by doing your own will but by following our exampel in Jesus and doing the will of our heavenly father.As for weather Adam and Eve were actual or a type, Luke 3:38 gives the geneolagy of
    Jesus all the way back to the first man Adam. I hope this gives you at least a good understanding of my perspective on this. please feel free to keep the dialogue going, you If you want to add anything.

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