The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #8 Looking for the 2nd Adam

The 1st Adam was the beginning of man, the “head”, the first-made. Out of the seed of Adam and Eve all men and women came.

“Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, humankind is sinful”

is not exactly totally right. Man still has his own free will and has still the same opportunity as Adam and Eve to choose which way to go. But it is true that because of our ancestors having done things wrong, having been part of diseases, our DNA carries also the impurities and makes us more incomplete, more susceptible for weakness in our way of living. By the wrong actions of our ancestors we became part of that sinful world and we are shapen iniquity and conceived in sin.

Psalm 51: 5 Behold, I was born in iniquity, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

By nature we are children of wrath and are dead in trespasses and sins not by acquisition but by imputation to us of Adam’s sin and by generation.

Ephesians 2: 3 Among whom we also had our conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh, in fulfilling the will of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, as well as others.

For man it has become difficult to keep obedience. Around us there is so much diversion and so many who want us to draw away from the Divine Creator that our weakness can easily bring us on the wrong path. Those who prefer to listen to the adversary of God (satan) are children of disobedience and will create further disobedience.

Ephesians 2: 2 Wherein, in times past ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the prince that ruleth in the air, even the spirit, that now worketh in the children of disobedience,

In a way man has therefore become a slave to satan, because they are willingly rebellious against God. The apostle Paul talks about us, who are of the flesh in the first place and often willing to follow the world of man instead of God. The majority want to follow the ways of the world. We too live under the control of the present age, but already in the Garden of Eden, God provided an other way. We do not have to live in accordance with the spirit of this world, following the fashion of this world. The apostle looks at the lower prince of the universe, the evil that wants to reign. Indulging the cravings of this world and of our earthly nature, the apostle looks at the whole man, which he divides into two parts: into the flesh, which is the part that the Philosophers term without reason, and into the thought, which they call reasonable: so that he leaves nothing in man half dead, but concludes that the whole man is of nature the son of wrath, laying under the dreadful judgement of God.

Our corrupt nature has to face many problems and our own thoughts play with us so that we often carry out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. For that reason we do have to look up at that seed out of the woman God promised to mankind. All people then, are in need of his action taken under authority from God to bring redemption.

Death in our trespasses, no matter of our shortcomings, we may count on it that God out of His love is willing to come close to us and to help us. For of the intense love, God called us to share the life of the one sent by him, Jeshua the Messiah or saviour of the world.

Ephesians 2: 4 But God which is rich in mercy, through his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead by sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saved,
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 That he might show in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace through his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast himself.
10 For we are 1his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath ordained, that we should walk in them.

Eve mother of all and bringer of death with Mary bringer of the restorer of non ending life

In this Messiah we should put our faith and know that by that seed of the woman life entered again in the world.

By Adam and Eve their act of sin, condemnation and death came to reign and the way righteousness, justification, and life come to bear upon man. In 4BCE the young girl Mary/Miriam of the tribe of King David got with child in a special way. Out of Eve came the wrong thought that God would hold something back. Out of her act came death. Out of the carrying of the Nazarene woman came new life. She was was moulded so beautifully by the God Who had chosen her because of our integrity of heart. She was the clay, God was the Potter and He placed a treasure inside of her. Her son, God’s Gift, was the one many hearts had hoped for he would be there soon. Also our eyes should now being directed to that son of Mary, the sent one from God who is a son of man and the son of God.

Galatians 4: 4 But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, and made under the Law,
5 That he might redeem them which were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of the sons.

This mother had to suffer a lot. Grace had come to uphold her and not to condemn and crush her. One moment she also was taken by a big shame, even bringing her in danger of stoning to death. But she fully trusted her God, the God of Abraham, and in Him her refuge from shame lies. She came to understand were her task was and how the life of her son served many purposes but his death served the biggest and most important purpose. Redemption – “It is finished” through the death of Christ and the awakening of his Spirit through his ascension.

Adam did not trust the Father in his time of testing, preferring his own will to God’s; whereas Jesus in the many times he was tested kept doing his heavenly Father‘s Will. Even at the most difficult moment in his life he worshipped God as the Only One Who was there for him and mankind. All the time it was not to do his own will or like he wanted it but to do like his heavenly Father, the Divine Creator, wanted.

Lukas 22: 41 And he was drawn aside from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
42 Saying, Father, If thou wilt, take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.

Adam’s disobedience led him to the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, while Christ’s prayer of obedience leads him to the wood of death, the stake — which Christians later would call the new Tree of Life.

A big problem is that we can not see God. Most people are also more afraid of man instead of fearing the Divine Creator God, Maker and Sustainer of everything. That Sovereign God has provided a solution for the terrible consequences of Adam and Eve their act of rebellion against God. He did not make an end to Adam and Eve straight away. He allowed them to provide for children who in their turn could choose if they would follow God His commandments or would follow their own lust and their own ideas. But in time God repeated His promise and told the world they had to look for that seed of woman, the saviour and Kristos or Christ the Messiah. Though people would have to come to believe in that Messiah. At a certain point this even would become part of the condition. 2020 years ago that son of God was born to be the son of man who brought deliverance. From then onwards people could see the sent one from God, hear him speaking about his heavenly Father, the Only One True God all should worship. For those who did not know God, Jesus showed the Way to God. After he died he made an end to the chain of the curse of death and opened the way to come to a restored relationship with God.

In this beginning series we tried to show you how everything started and how evil and death came into the world but also how the world received a solution which fitted the Plan of God. Did you come to see the bigger picture? This is how it is and has been ever since that time, but it has been changed through the salvation that comes through Jesus’ death on the wooden stake, so that a relationship with God is made possible again, and His presence and His power will be available in a measure at least. Yes, it will not be fully experienced until we leave this present life but Jesus’ ministry was clearly to counter the works of this fallen world. Our role is somehow to join in with what he is doing so that we too may counter the broken works of this fallen world. Ponder on that.

* Bible quotes from 1599 Geneva Patriot’s Edition

Preceding articles

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #1 Beginning of everything

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #2 Beginning of mankind

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #3 With his partner

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #4 The Fall

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #5 Temptation, assault and curse

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #6 Curse and solution

The 1st Adam in the Hebrew Scriptures #7 Promise and solution

The Seed Of The Woman Bruised

Jesus begotten Son of God #10 Coming down spirit or flesh seed of Eve

Sayings of Jesus, what to believe and being or not of the devil