The mystery of God? Just what is God’s Mystery? Perhaps there was not a new and old Covenant, but that the New and Old Testaments are contiguous! That understanding of the same message was quite different from one age to the other. That is not to say that the time of the Abrahamic Covenant was the time of the Covenant of Grace but that both Covenants are identical in purpose.
Just what is the Great Mystery? Paul revealed it, “And to make all men see
what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ” (Ephes 3:9).
Salvation was never by works; it was Jesus all along. John validated that
when he wrote that Jesus was there in the beginning. What was Jesus doing? Serving
and preserving two persons, by grace He covered Man’s and Woman’s soiled flesh
with pure flesh from a lamb; flesh that He made! By grace, the Lamb of God was
already there saving sinful mankind. Paul wrote many times about the Mystery
— that there were not two Covenants but one misunderstood Covenant (Ephes
3:4).
Christians ought to know the Abrahamic Covenant. It is in three parts, but
it also has several characteristics. Foremost it is and everlasting
Covenant, Therefore, it is the Covenant of Grace. The New Testament did not
start with the four gospels but long before. The entire “Pentateuch” (Five
Books of the Law) begin the gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus performed the miracle
in the first Words, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth” (Gen
1:1). John validated that mystery as well (John 1-3,14).
The three parts of the Abrahamic Covenant is the Covenant of Pieces: (1) Blessings
for the seed of Abraham, (2) Promised Land (Gen 12:1-3). “Land” therein was
misunderstood. It was heavenly Paradise brought down to the land of “milk and honey,”
and “blessings” was not prosperity in Israel, but in Paradise. And (3) Abraham
to be the father of many nations. The deal was sealed by the cutting-off of
sinful flesh by circumcision.
Scripture implies that sins of the flesh are mankind’s greatest sins. Adam
and Eve covered their genitals with aprons of fig leaves. Their genitals made
them ashamed. Just as the first Man, Abraham cut off the flesh of his organ, not
to cover his own sins, but that pleased God who promised to do the covering…
which, by the way, God did for Adam long before.
Where is the Savior in the Abrahamic Covenant? It is known from the beatitudes
that Jesus blessed the righteous. The Abrahamic Covenant was a quid
pro quo (something for something). The seed of Abraham would be righteous (quid}
and for (pro) that, they would be blessed (quo). As a
reminder, “blessings” are bliss in Paradise.
A Savior would be born of Abraham’s seed who would provide a Way to return
to Paradise, the “Promised Land” that the Hebrews misunderstood was their
present destination.
The Hebrews broke the deal. They to this day, still give up the blood of
their foreskin, but not of their hearts. That was the Law from the Old
Testament, “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked” (Deut 10:16). God had never wanted Adam’s foreskin; He only
desired His heart. God never wanted the foreskin of the Jews; he wanted their hearts.
That was the Law all along, and someday 144,000 Jews will forget their foreskin
and give to God their hearts! (Rev 7:4). It may cost them the circumcision of
their heads, however, since the Antichrist “circumcises” with the sword (Rev
20:4)!
The Abrahamic Covenant remains valid to this day and to the
end of time, to wit: “Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy
seed after thee in their generations” (Gen 3:9). God’s Covenant with
Abraham does not overlap with the Covenant of Grace but are the same! Likewise,
the metrics (measurements) of the Abrahamic Covenant is the Mosaic Covenant
with its “Ten Words” (Sayings of Jesus) that should be thought of, not as “Ten
Commandments,” but Ten Ways to Love God and Others. The beatitudes are
the blessings for the Ten Words (Commandments).
You see? The Covenants, even the Adamic Covenant, are all
the same. However, it is just as matter of understanding. The Forbidden Tree’s
fruit blinded Man from truth. Most Hebrews never understood truth and were in
bondage to the Law of Works. Jesus came to reveal the truth; to take the
blinders off!
Now for God’s Covenant with Adam: It was Jesus who provided
the Promise in this passage: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel” (Gen 3:15). Rewritten for clarity, Jesus will cause animosity
between the offspring of the Serpent and the offspring of Woman. That war will
end when the heel of Jesus, the Son of Eve through Mary, will step on the head
of the offspring of the Serpent.
That eventually happened on the Cross, perhaps 5500 years
later, or 5-1/2 “days” in God’s time. With that said, the time that was divided
in Rebecca’s womb began when Jesus promised Adam (mankind) reprieve. That
Covenant was based on Adam-kind being righteous in that long war. Adam and
his posterity would endeavor to trust God because of the coat of skin, and as
such, God would keep them safe until the Serpent is put away. Jesus stepped on
the Serpent on Calvary. He had been in Judas, but surely, he went back to his
first love, Adam, who it is said, is buried beneath Calvary. [1]
Is it coincidence that Jacob grabbed the heel of Esau? Was
that not the first of many battles for the heel? Jesus Himself said of Judas, “That
the scripture may be fulfilled, he that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his
heel against me” (John 13:8). That would seem that the heel of Judas would
crush the head of Jesus, but that is not the way it turned out. Jesus stepped
on Judas.
The War for the souls of men were won on Good Friday when
Judas hung himself (by his own works), and Jesus Himself (by grace). The Centurions
drove the nails and the multitude convicted Jesus, but it was God that served
His Own Flesh for the sins of all Adams!
The Covenant was written as a deal between God and Abraham. He
is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but not Esau. The Covenant needed to
be divided into pieces.
God had previously made a Covenant with Abraham about
Ishmael as well. His seed is indeed a great nation — the Arabs. Then God
further divided the Covenant between Jacob and Esau, or between Israel and Edom.
Israel’s was the Covenant of Grace that God presented to Abraham. Esau’s was
the Law of Works. Ironically, both were of the blood of Adam, but Israelites
became more like Edomites. The epitome of that is Islam whose prophet, Muhammad,
took Jews and Christians and rejoined them in the “womb.” I am speaking of the paradise
that is still called, “Israel,” but is more like Edom.
Edomites, in the form of Palestinians, are still warring in
that “womb” to this day. Jacob grabbed Esau’s heel. The promised land is and
always was who would grab the land that became Israel. Eventually, Jacob got
the land of Israel that God promised but only after along struggle. As Ezra was
told, that battle in the womb divided time: “Esau is the end of this age, and
Jacob is the beginning of the age that follows. For the beginning of man is his
hand, and the end of a man is his heel, between the heel and the hand seek for
nothing else.” Not only time was divided, but the promise of a divided land. It
also divided religions into heaven and hell. It also divided Christ — into
Jesus and the Antichrist.
In apostolic times, Judas was the “Serpent” hanging from a
tree. At the end of days, the Antichrist will be the Judas whose heel attempts
to step on Jesus. In the beginning, the Serpent was the Antichrist messing with
the skull of Adam. The gospel story is contiguous from beginning to end, from
Genesis to Re-Genesis (Revelation).
Just as Rebecca’s womb divided time, it has always been divided.
The first division is the six days of work to make the heaven and the earth,
ending in God resting on the seventh day.
Adam divided time when the Serpents heel stepped on Jesus as
he messed with Adam’s skull, specifically his mind. Why else would the Serpent
loose its legs (Gen 3:14)?
The time from generation to degeneration was seven “days,”
or as I wrote in my book, On the Origin of Man and the Universe, seven processes
with seven times for each process. Likewise, the time from degeneration (of
Man with Adam) to Regeneration of Man (Adam) is seven processes, as well,
ending on the seventh “day” when Jesus reigns for one-thousand years.
On “day” six, Adam would be reprieved. Whether it was the
crucifixion or the rapture, I do not know, but indeed on the sixth “day” at the
end, Adam will be raised from the dust and be made whole again. That time is eminent!
I have several ideas on how time was sub-divide from Adam’s
Sin to the second coming of Christ. Of course, two of the benchmarks are the
Rapture and the Millennial Reign. Perhaps the birth of Jacob is another benchmark
wherein time was divided.
God divided time by the Zodiac as well. The time of each
constellation is slightly different but divided as if they are equal. However,
Jesus was born exactly at the dawning of the Age of Pisces, but the time
of the Antichrist at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is not known because
the exact widths of the signs are unknown. Why would the timing of the Rapture be
unknown? Because the exact precession of the Earth during that time is inexact.
Jacob was born, according to literalists, in 2137 BC.
According to their calculations, Adam was born on 4246 BC. Because I take that “birthdate”
to be in the world as the “son” of the Devil, that would not be when Adam was
generated, but when he emerged from the womb into the world.
Since time as made for Adam and mankind, then the promise
would have been made to Adam 4246 BC. That is approximately, as is the Zodiac, 2000
years, and is correct as close as is known to scripture. Thus, Jacob and Esau
warring in the womb certainly divided time. Approximately 2000 years later, Jesus
divided time again (a new “day” one) when he was born just long enough for
Judas to try to grab His heel in revenge.
Jacob made the grab. Judas’s hand slipped off, ironically off the limb. Jacob lives on through his seed. Judas was likely to have left no biological seed, but he left many spiritual seeds. And the War continues until Jesus grabs Satan’s heel and throws him into Hell!
THE END
NOT YET. THAT IS AFTER DAY SEVEN.
[1]
That is the premise of my book, The Skull of Adam, and even this day,
the crevice beneath Calvary is celebrated as the tomb of Adam. According to the
promise, Jesus’s heel would crush the head of the Serpent and the only way that
could happen is if Satan, when Judas died a few minutes before, went unto Adam’s
skull.
(picture credit: The Life Institute; "Twins in the Womb")
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