LITERALLY Part 3

 

  Looking again at the key verses, we are now at “which He had made” (verse 2) as can be seen below:

KEY VERSES:  ¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended his work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made. ⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. (Gen 2:1-4)

  “He” is not in the Hebrew text. The entire phrase meaning “which He had made” is one word, ‘asah. The Father is not specified as a male. Words have “gender” and those verses with “He” are based on the gender of the noun or verb to which it is associated. God is “Father for two reasons: (1) In the Old Testament, He is Creator. That is from, “Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?”  (Mal 2:1). “Father” therein is ‘ab in the Hebrew. The word ‘ab is abstracted from abawun (Wikipedia). Abba is another abstraction, also meaning “Father.” Thus the Creator is the Father of Creation, the World, Life, and Mankind. He is also the Father of the Son, as Jesus is the Son of God.

  “Son of God” in reference to scripture does not imply that Jesus is created, for He is not. He was “borne” as can be seen from, “The Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me” (Jhn 5:37). “Witness” is identification or manifestation. The Father has “borne,” or transported (Merriam-Webster Dict.) Jesus. From whence? From the invisible realm of God to the visible realm of the world; from the Garden of God where He was in the beginning to the land of milk and honey, Israel. Jesus was not transported a distance but from another realm. He was not transported from the past but from the present!

  Jesus was not “birthed” but “borne.” Rather than created in the womb of Mary, Jesus was transported from another realm. That is why there was no coitus required but only a pure womb. Jesus could not be contaminated by his transportation! A womb is not the internal organs, but the placenta. Placentas are temporary; they are on loan from God for babies to be born. In the case of Jesus, Mary’s placenta was provided by God as with all others, but not for birthing. For Jesus, Mary’s placenta was like all the others except for one thing: Placentas do not belong to the woman, but are temporary vessels on load from God for nine months. For Mary alone, hers was uncontaminated by the seed of any man! Like the tomb in which Jesus was lay after death, that had never been used, neither had his womb. Both were virginal!

  Thus, Jesus is not the Son of a man, but the Son of God. God bore him there. That is past tense of “borne” but the transportation was in their present. However, Jesus is the Son of Man. How can that be? Jesus was created in the flesh, which is the image of mankind. True, but Adam (Man) was created in the image of God. The form of Jesus and mankind was created in the beginning in the same image. Adam was even born glorious just as Jesus who was not shapen in inquity (Psalm 51:5) but was transported in purity. Adam was “shaped,” men are molded in the womb according to mankind, but Jesus was already imaged, and need only to be transported. Obviously, the “vessel” for transportation was small (the uterus) so unlike Adam who was molded a “man” Jesus was transported an infant.

  That Adam was “molded” should be clear: “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” (Gen 2:6-7). God took water from the ground mixed it with dust, and voila, clay was formed for shaping Adam. Then inanimate Adam was made alive by breathing the breath of life. The soul of Adam was transported from the invisible world to the visible. Thus, Adam was like Jesus who was transported, except for one thing. Adam’s dust was formed directly from the ground, but the material for Jesus was indirect. She also needed to be “virgin
 soil. Jesus was made from the elements of Mary, or her “dust” and “water” so to speak.

  The unborn child’s blood is his own. It is not the mother’s blood at all! The placenta even keeps blood and water from passing through its walls. Jesus is not like Mary other than her form. He is like God but in the form of Mary. It is important to note that the Spirit of God that entered Jesus was in “bodily shape” (Luke 3:22), not the shape of a dove as paintings portray, but the shape of a man. As such, our “ghost” has form before we are ever born(e). That is because our bodies are birthed but our souls borne, or transported from another realm. God not only knew us in the womb, but before the foundation of the world, as our immortal souls that look like us — in our bodies’ forms!

  Perhaps it is now clearer why Jesus is both the “Son of Man” and the “Son of God.”

  Next, from the key verses, “He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” The seventh process was equilibrium. I have likened that to yeast “working” by rising, then it is kneaded again, rises, and then rests until the yeast becomes inactive. The process of rising to make bread ceases as all the life in the yeast is depleted. That yeast is the seed of life sown in the bread to make it alive. When the dough has been transformed by the yeast (borne), the finished product is bread. Jesus is the Bread of Life (John 6:35), and like manna, God transported His form from heaven, as in the invisible realm. The form, or shape, of Jesus’s specific Spirit from God was in His own bodily shape. The shape of His Ghost fit the shape of His body. That is because the soul was made with the specific Spirit of God when men were molded in the beginning. “Election” is more selection — God fitted our flesh to the form of our specific soul. Perhaps the soul is the Spirit of God fit to our shape! That is worth considering, is it not?

  “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” which is next from the key verses. “Blessed” is the Hebrew word barak. (Not that Obama blessed us for that is just his name.) The root verb of that is “kneel.” Servants kneel to those they serve, do they not. God kneeled to Adam. Adam was the serve and preserve the Garden of God, and for that God would serve Him. Adam failed with his service to God, but God did not fail Adam! He just assumed Adam’s job assignment. When Adam should have been resting, taking a Sabbath, God was as well. What for? In preparation of further work! God had served up Adam on day six, and he would preserve Adam on day seven and day eight. That may be a new day to you, but although the seventh day is God’s, the eighth day is yours. It is eternity.

  God kneeled to Adam. Just as He had legs to walk in the Garden, God has legs to kneel to Adam. If Jesus was there in the beginning, as John wrote, then what was He doing in the beginning” Serving mankind by creating for him a place, creating Adam in His own image, walking in the Garden, and kneeling to Adam as Adam’s servant. What did “Jesus” first serve to Adam. Himself when he blessed him by kneeling. What next? When he provided His own flesh, perhaps an innocent lamb to make them coats of skin (Gen 3:21), not merely leaves to cover their shame, but flesh that died to cover their entire fleshes!

  Thereafter, even after being cast out into the world in sin. God still preserved them with one provision — He would be their God and they would be His people (Exod 6:7). With that, if mankind kneeled to God, God would kneel to them. Why the word, “blessed?” Because it means blissed? “Enjoying the bliss of heaven” (Merriam-Webster). When God kneeled to Adam, He was allowing Adam to enjoy the bliss of heaven,” not the Garden Paradise, any longer, but the hope of Paradise in heaven. When would that be? It would commence with the present coat of skins that would preserve them in the world outside Paradise, but bliss would come actuality after Adam’s body would have its soul breathed back in Him again at the resurrection. The God would snatch the glorified Adam into heaven only to await the New Heaven and the New Earth. When God kneeled to Adam, that was a promise to one day serve them again so that their minds, bodies, and souls could be in homeostasis again, just as they were in the beginning when they were in God’s Image, Jesus.

  Ministers “serve.” That is their role. Adam was to serve God and the soon to be living souls. That did not happen; he served Adam and Eve served him by passing the sin to him. Jesus’s job replaced Adam’s: “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Other versions use “serve” rather than “minister.” The deal is, If you serve God, He will serve you. Adam broke that covenant, and so have we, because we are Adam’s kind. We are his seed (DNA) and God is not in us, until we are born again. With rebirth, God adopts us as new creature that He re-creates, and then because we are willing to serve Him, He serves us.

  The ultimate service is giving your life. That is what Jesus did. When God kneeled to Adam to bless him, that was not only a promise of bliss in heaven, but redemption to fulfill that promise. The blood of Jesus was propitiation (payment) for Adam’s original sin, and all the sins of all Adam’s kind.

  “Sanctified” is from the Hebrew “qadash.” I have explained that earlier, but that means that God “consecrated” or cleansed it, then set it apart. What God made clean, men must not dirty as is written, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common” (Acts 10:15). Adam sinned when God rested. He made vulgar (dirtied) or common what God has just set apart for the spiritual. With that said, Christians must not do common things on the Sabbath, because that day is sort of God’s Spiritual Womb that is ver much like the room in His mansion where Christians will live in Glory. The Sabbath is the day that God prepared for Adam in Paradise, and was set apart for rest.

  Likewise, that heavenly room in His mansion in a return to Paradise, is a place prepared for you to live eternally (See John 14:2). If Adam would not rest on the Sabbath, there would be no rest (or room) for him in God’s mansion in heavenly Paradise. Why keep the Sabbath from common things? Those are things that we do all other days. The Sabbath is to serve the Lord that He may serve us!

  Tomorrow, I will continue with the literal interpretation of the key verses. Please come back.

(picture credit: St. Albans Catholic Church; "The Holy Ghost")