ADAM - Part 2 of 2

  In review, the Foundation Stone is of greatest importance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam because, as the navel of the world and the celestial axis, it is the “Potter’s wheel” whereon Adam was molded. We think of Adam as dust arising from the ground into the shape of a human being. Not so! Read the scripture; there was no man before God did this: 

KEY VERSES: But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:6-8) 

  First off, God “formed” the man. Adam did not take on a shape by the forces of nature, but order came from disorder as the elements of the Earth took shape. Not just any shape, but the image of God (Gen 1:27). It is also written, “in OUR image, after our likeness” (Gen 1:26). Just who is the “OUR?” John answered that question: 

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men…  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not… 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 1:1-4, 10, 14) 

  Of course, “the Word,” was the Voice of God that spoke in the Garden who made Man in His image; in the image of Jesus, He made them. Satan despoiled that image and made mankind unlike Jesus!

 However, the original ‘form” was Christlike, and Adam and Eve were shapen in innocence like Jesus. Ever since, mankind has been “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) which David applied to himself.

  A “god” is identified as one who creates; by taking disorder and organizing it into a form. Indeed, Jesus is the Potter and Adam was the clay; “But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our Potter; and we all are the work of thy Hand” (Isa 64:8).

  God’s “Hand” is God’s manifestation of Himself. God’s “Hand” is the Hand of Jesus. As scripture reveals how we were formed, it also identifies the form of Jesus: Light, Truth, Voice, Word, Finger, Hand, and Face of God. The Old Testament shows what God would look like although to see His Face would cause death… until the time was right.

  Israel is God’s people and are the remnant of Adam. The Hebrews carry both the DNA of Adam and of God. The Foundation Stone is the “Potter’s wheel” on which Adam was made as well as Israel. The celestial axis is not only the navel of the cosmos, the navel of the world, but the navel of Adam and the Israelites. Israel was formed there from the elements (twelve sons) of Jacob who God named “Israel.” The Hebrews are God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2), and they represent Adamkind.

  God gave Adam grace with a coat of flesh, and the promise of regeneration (Gen 3:15), the same goes for Israel. They too are under the Covenant of Grace! 

³ Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. ⁴ And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. ⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁶ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. (Jer 18:3-6)

  The “Potter” in this metaphor is Jesus. Just as He shaped Israel (the vessel of God as His chosen people), God formed Adam in the same manner. The “dust” that made Israel is the seed of God and Jacob’s sons; the “dust” that made Adam was the seed and water of God mixed with the same earth that was given to the Hebrews and their posterity. The twelve sons of Israel were the “seeds” planted by Adam back then; not inside Paradise but in Eden outside Paradise. (They should have been planted inside!)

  The Potter marred the clay in the example of Jeremiah. God, as the Word Jesus, allowed Adam to be marred. The Potter made the Israelites, and allowed Assyria and Babylon to mar His handiwork, and is now remolding Israel. It will be remolded in the end.

  The same goes for Adam! Assyria and Babylon both represent the handiwork of Satan who would mar Israel and Judah just as Adam was marred in the “hands” of the Serpent (or Seraph) and whose “hands” were removed from the “beast” (Gen 3:19), as the Serpent would crawl on its belly.

  The Serpent marred Adam (from the dust of the ground) and thereafter the “handless” Serpent would eat dust. That event happened the day Jesus died on the Cross at the dust in the middle of the earth (Mediterranean). That happened back in the “midst of the Garden” and down in the Potter’s field that day, when Judas with Satan in him returned to the dust.

  The death of Judas was prophesied in Genesis 3:15, and that the seed of Eve would do the “dusting.” Jesus has only the DNA of Eve as the mother of all, but the Y-DNA only of a heavenly Being. In my book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, I explain that XX-DNA exists in women but YY-DNA does not in any human. However, XYY-DNA does, and that is in larger people, and perhaps, the DNA from sons of God when they “knew” the daughters of men, that produced giants. The Books of Enoch identify those “sons of God” as Gregori from the fifth heaven.

  So, Adam was formed by the Hand of the Potter. From where did the clay come? “There went up a mist from the earth.” Rain was not known in the Garden. A mist was perfect for Paradise. Water is the basis of life. When scientists seek life, they look for water in the cosmos. Life was generated and found in Paradise where there was life-giving water that “whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14). Adam’s life, from the water of God, was meant to be eternal, and thanks to the promise in Genesis 3:15, Adam’s sin was redeemed.

  The mist from beneath the Foundation Stone was Living Water from God. The Jordan River is “Naral Ha Yarden,” or the “River of the Garden.” Also, the Gihon Spring is right there in Jerusalem. The Gihon River was in the Garden as well (Gen 2). Thus, two of the four rivers from God can be found in Israel. From where do their waters all come? From springs in the ground; from the “mist’ beneath, just as scripture says! The water to form the clay was from God. The “mist” is the “Living Water” from God for eternal life. Adam “drank” of it when God formed him!

  The Living Water in the Garden of God, “watered the whole face of the ground.” It mixed with the earth to enable it to ne formed. God was making clay (Adam and Edom) when he watered the earth for pliability, and to comply with His Hand’s.

  “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.” The elements were not formed by time and chance, but the LORD formed man. He is the “Potter” to whom Jeremiah was referring. When Adam was formed, Israel was as well since Jacob had both the DNA of Adam and of God. Adam was the “seed” of Israel planted right there on the very spot that would become the middle earth (Mediterranean). That place is in the “midst of the Garden” back in Paradise. Where is Paradise? From the Nile to the Euphrates, the fertile crescent, with Jerusalem, “the foundation of peace” in “the midst of the Garden” just as scripture says.

  Jesus came “Home” to Paradise to die for the sin against God’s Paradise — Adam’s sin. The dust that made Adam will be regenerated by the same Living Water that formed him.

  After Adam was shapened by God, it was lifeless clay. What was “clay” then is glorified flesh made from entirely good material as all things God made were “very good” (Gen 1:31). The flesh Christians will have in heaven is that same perfect flesh made from the same “clay” of which Adam was generated. Of course, the “clay” was material man, what scripture refers to as “the flesh.” But God was only partially through with His work! God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

  The clay was the vessel that is translated “cup” in Jesus. With what did God fill the vessel? “The breath of Life.”

  Not by coincidence, that is what Jesus did for us so that we can be reborn. When Jesus “gave up the Ghost” was when, “one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34). When Adam was “born” God breathed Living Water from His Side unto Adam, and the “blood” unto Adam was the Breath of God, or the Holy Spirit of God. Is that not the same as what happened at Calvary” Right there in the “center” of the Garden of God, God gave eternal life to Adamkind!

  The water and blood gushing from his lungs as He gave up the Ghost was what God did to generate Adam. God did the same thing to generate Adamkind as he did to generate Adam. His death was fulfillment of the Promise in Genesis 3:15. My book, The Skull of Adam, is about fulfillment of that Promise made back in the Garden of God.

  Thus far, God had made the Earth and Adam on His Potter’s “wheel.” The Earth is a spinning “wheel” that Isaiah called the “circle of the Earth” (Isa 44:22). Spin the circle and the circle of the Earth becomes a sphere. The Earth is the “Potter’s Wheel” whereon Adam and Israel were formed.

  Adam was the “seed of God” planted in the Garden Paradise, but thus far, it was not a “garden” but barren earth. I call that, “The Womb of God.”  Adam was the first thing planted in the Garden of God, “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”

  The Garden of God was real. It was surely in Israel at Jerusalem. We think of the Garden as trees and vines, but the Garden of Eden was also a “Garden of Metaphors.” It was a Garden of human “seed” that God planted to grow; to give life to mankind, and especially Israel.

  Throughout the Bible “trees” are used as metaphors for men with different personalities of people and are represented by different trees. My favorite is what blind Bartimaeus saw when his vision was partially restored in the Presence of Jesus. “I see men; as trees walking” (Mark 8:24),

  That seems like casual words, but Jesus was right there! Before Bartimaeus, who was blind from birth, saw God in the Flesh, he saw Him as a “Tree.” Bartimaeus saw Jesus as the Tree of Life! That Tree is a metaphor for Jesus and cherubim at the Garden of Eden are there to protect the Way to the Tree of Life (Gen 3:24). They remain in Paradise in heaven protecting the Tree of Life on the River of God (Rev 2:7).

  So, God planted a Garden of human beings. He is the Husbandman, Jesus is the Vine of the Tree of Life, and Adamkind its branches. (John 15:1-2). But God was resting. In His place, He gave Adam a Great Commission; to “dress and keep the Garden” (Gen 2:15) of Living Souls. Adam and Eve were to multiply — to plant more seeds in the Garden — but before that occurred, they sinned and were cast out. His children were born outside the Garden, and Adam never did His Great Commission as he should have. However, the Books of Adam and Eve show that Adam did do the Great Commission in the world. A better translation of “dress and keep” is to “serve and preserve.” That is what Christians are commissioned to do. It is a humble job but imperative. With that responsibility, those meek enough shall inherit the Earth; meaning they will physically return to Paradise at the General Resurrection!

  My hope is that not only have you learned something about Adam, but about God’s Plans for us for the future. For a few, it will be a return to Paradise, but the Potter will cast marred “vessels” into the Well of Souls, which by the way, is beneath the Foundation Stone. Ironically, or by careful planning, the Foundation Stone is the Potter’s Wheel on which Adam was made, and beneath it is the Well of (Dying) Souls where marred “vessels” shall be cast.

  The Potter’s Wheel has a lever that God uses to power life. It is the Holy Cross that Jesus died upon — a mere Tree. Think of it as Jacob’s Ladder whereon, at the celestial axis, he saw angels ascending and descending. The Cross is the Way to Jesus and the Way to the Tree of Life! It is Jacob’s Ladder that in the end 144,000 Jacobites (Israelites) will be escorted by angels to Paradise.

  The trip is short! The thief on the Cross, late in the day, would, “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). He did not go anywhere. He was translated from Paradise in earth (the physical world) to Paradise in heaven (the spiritual realm), the same place in different realms!

  What is our hope? With rebirth, that we shall be regenerated just as Adam was. Adam’s generation was not his choice, but the choice is ours. Adam was forgiven because of misunderstanding of what life and death is. We should know that death is not cessation of the flesh but the Spirit.

  We must fear the one who can destroy both the soul and body. Satan can only destroy the body as God only allows that. God, the Potter, can cast the marred vessel with the tainted soul right into the Well of Souls. The Potter does that, not Lucifer, whose “flesh” was buried as Judas in the Potter’s Field.

  Now you know more about Adam, and my hope is that you know more about yourself as Adamkind.

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