What did the eunuch of Queen Candace not understand and what
did Philip explain to the man without any seeds? Perhaps, just of what importance
is “seed” to the gospel. We can only guess at what Philip said, but this is the
way that I see the conversation:
Most people are spiritually blind. We are born blind to spiritual things as well as truth. That “blindness” came with original sin. There seems to be more than the five senses, and perhaps “discernment” is the sixth sense. All the other senses are of the flesh, but discernment is of the mind. Of course, the brain is flesh, but because the rich man was able to think in hell, then the mind surely is eternal like the soul.
Sacred literature (Adam and Eve and Their Conflicts with the Devil) support the notion of the sense of discernment. After they found grace from God, they had bright natures and bright eyes. After the original sin, the two sinners were made new persons who could discern goodness from the evil that had been revealed to them. To this day, Adam’s kind has a problem with discerning good from evil even if they seek to do so.
As David put it, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). Indeed, he was, and everyone was shapen in iniquity because in the womb, they are shapen. That is original sin inherited from sinful Adam. Everyone was born requiring “reshapening”, and that is what Jesus called “born again”. [i] Marvel not at that!
Adam was born “entirely good” which is a closer translation where “very good” is used in Genesis 1:31. Perhaps the translators chose “very” because Adam and Eve both had free wills. They, however, could not choose evil because evil in the world, originated with them. With that said, the Evil One manipulated them. Adam and Eve were created without discernment because there was no evil to discern. They were created “glorious” — innocent, and without sin in the Presence of God. That is the same re-glorification that will occur upon the death of sinners. [ii]
Because everyone is shapen in iniquity, none are born with bright natures nor with bright eyes for spiritual discernment. God must endow anyone with that sense. That defines rebirth, which is the commencement of regeneration. At some point in time, perhaps from babes in Christ to mature Christians, eyes are opened, and Christians begin to see God in all things. That day was my own epiphany. My spiritual eyes were opened when I saw Jesus in Isaac as he was about to be sacrificed. [iii]
Finally, discernment blossomed. I began to see Jesus throughout scripture commencing with the beginning. What is ironic, it was there all the time. John revealed that to me early on in life, but I failed to see it: Jesus was there in the beginning all the time. [iv] Where was He? Creating all things and breathing life unto Adam; to wit:
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 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. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:6-8)
Then, it struck me! My blind eyes were opened. Right then, Jesus, the Person of the Godhead, created mankind. As the Father, Jesus planned it, and provided the power and the glory to do so! Jesus was there providing the power and the glory, and he transferred that power and glory to Adam.
Well, regeneration is a process as well which commences wit this: “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Pet 1:3). As such, everyone is a “Cain” (the “wanderer”) and as they wander aimlessly in the world, God’s aim is for them to see Jesus!
Like Noah, Abraham, Lot, and even King David who found grace, Jesus remains with us (Emmanuel) to find grace. “Grace” is endowment with glory and virtue. Those are the same ingredients from God that Adam received at his first “birth”.
Before, I had missed it. Adam was generated in the beginning and Jesus did the generating. Hence, the Book of Genesis is the “book of generation” as well — how to be re-generated! Then Adam and Eve were regenerated, and so was the earth in the days of Noah.
Then along came Abram and he found grace, and the world was offered the opportunity for regeneration again. The same goes for Exodus. It took God forty years to regenerate the few Hebrews who made it to the Promised Land, and it commenced with seeing the hand of Jesus in Moses.
Even today, regeneration is a process that begins with seeing Jesus and trusting what He can do. [v] Regeneration is fully complete when death saves Christians from the world. That is what Paul meant by, “To live is Christ, for me death is gain.” (Phil 1:21). Power and glory are obtained at death and the person dead to the world is generated afresh.
It was Jesus who generated in the beginning! He took the dry earth, applied his water to it, molded Adam into a shape, then breathed life unto him. It was a process, and Jesus would use that same process when it was finished: “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost” (John 19:30).
Jesus tasted the vinegar. It was fermented fruit from the vine. It was the “medicine” that the world would provide to preserve mankind, even Jesus. That would not do! He finished what he came to do, and that was to regenerate Adam’s kind who by sin had become Cain’s kind, and Cain was “of the Wicked One” [vi]
Jesus had generated Adam, and the next “Adam” was degenerated somehow by the Spirit in the image of the Beast. Everyone to this day are of the Wicked One, [vii] and we all are the “tares” of which Jesus spoke. Thanks to the sin of Adam, mankind are degenerates who are in need of regeneration. (Adam should have prevented Eve from partaking of the evil in the fruit but he did not).
Jesus accomplished that with His death. That went unnoticed by me for years because I did not discern the depth of the creation of Adam. Just what did Jesus do to regenerate? Did he do something much different than when He generated Adam with power and glory? Why do something else?
Adam came from the earth. Jesus mixed some water with the earth, and voila, out came a living man just like Aaron said happened with the golden calf that he created!
Jesus had consecrated the dust from the ground with His Living Water from beneath the visible, and molded Adam perfectly, and innocent, by the way. Then Jesus breathed life unto that inanimate clay, and it became alive. Jesus made one man and from him should have come many. Like Eve who was “the mother of all living,” [viii] Adam should have been the father of all living. Instead, he was “the father of all the dead” since his sin killed his seed, and the earth became populated with the seed of Cain.
After Jesus became the “bloody husband” as Ziporrah would have said it, [ix] he circumcised the flesh of mankind on their behalf. His Flesh was payment for the sins of all the fleshes of all! John knew that, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Jesus propitiated his own blood for “sins that are past”. [x] That included the sins of Adam, Eve, and even Cain. Right then, all their sins were paid for by the Blood of the Messiah.
Then what happened?
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. (John 19:33-35)
The process continued. He was dead, but the His life was just a start. The death would complete regeneration. Life would be required to return from whence it came for it to be finished! The soldier’s name was Longinus. He bare record that out of the side of Jesus flowed blood and water. And then he believed that Jesus is the Son of God!
The mist from the ground when Adam was generated reversed; the mist went from Jesus above back to the earth. Why the earth? To regenerated “whosoever” is made from the dust of the ground and formed by God. The dust had to return to the ground from which it came. That “dust” was in the blood of Jesus, but His glorifying water would also return to the Father in exchange for life. Glory would be provided for all the world by the death of Jesus:
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:38-39)
Out of the belly of Jesus flowed Living Water like a river onto the earth beneath. That was water from His pierced side. Adam had been born from the side of Jesus just as Eve was shapened from Adam’s side (not specially his “rib” as versions say). Jesus used the same process, and that is “regeneration”!
Jesus, it is written therein, was “glorified” just as Adam was in the beginning. He was made perfect by His own hand, so to speak. Not “very good” but perfect. Then, the corrupted flesh of Jesus went where? Back to the dust from which it came, as with Adam. [xi] Adam’s dust went to the Cave of Treasures where it became dust. Sacred literature reveals that the bones of Adam were buried beneath Calvary — the place of His “kranion” (Greek; or cranium in the English). The dust of Jesus went to Joseph’s tomb, or His “cave” so to speak.
The cover for Adam’s brain and mind may have been preserved so that the blood of Jesus would fully regenerate the mind of Adam; that life would return to Adam. Jesus would continue the work that he started even from His grave, as He started when he made coats from the skins (of lambs) to preserve Adam and Eve from the darts of the Wicked One… perhaps from the hand of Cain.
Satan was in Cain. Not only was Adam regenerated by the death of Jesus, but in the valley of Gehenna (Hell) below, Judas died with Satan in him. The grand finale was the defeat of Satan who would have no flesh until the time of the Antichrist.
What happened on Calvary? Life was breathed unto the world, but just as with Adam, life must be breathed in. [xii] Life is available because all should want life, but few breath life in. Eve breathed in life from the side of Adam just as Longinus did from the side of Jesus!
For Noah, only a few breathed life from the “nostrils” of Noah because only Noah found grace from Jesus. [xiii] His sons found grace from the loins of Adam just as Eve did from Adam. That also applies to Isaac from Abraham, and Jacob from Isaac. It also applies to us and Jesus! We must breath in the Life that Jesus breathed out.
It was the finish for Jesus, but a regeneration of the world for us. What stands in the Way of breathing in Jesus? Our minds. We must be fully persuaded. Adam was persuaded by grace in the Garden, but it was finished in the Garden Paradise alongside the River of the Garden (Jordan) where it all started in the beginning. Jesus had come home to regenerate and from the same place it all started, it was finished.
I now see that clearly. I now have “bright eyes” because my nature was brightened when I learned to trust Jesus somewhat after when I first believed. Only, then did I discern it was not the Serpent dead on his tree, but Jesus still alive and off His. Some see the Serpent as dead in John 3:14 but I see Jesus as alive because sin is finished, but he has yet to finish off Satan.
Everyone focuses on the generation of Adam. Few focus on his regeneration. Even fewer catch the continuity of scripture. The creation of “things” does not stand alone. God, when He created Adam’s kind, seeded the Garden.
It seems that the story was switched from creating Adam to creating the Garden, never noticing that with Adam, God was preparing the Garden, and after preparing the seed, God planted Adam’s kind in the Garden, “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
Adam was the first seed of man planted in the Garden of God alongside the River of the Garden (the Jordan) for growing. God commanded His seeds to grow, to wit: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 1:28). That is called the Edenic Covenant. Just as today, people plant seeds and desire they grow, the Husbandman (the Father) did the same thing. But God commanded it because His Will be done and it is done.
Then, Adam was told to “dress and keep the Garden” [xiv] That is to vine out and preserve the forthcoming seedlings. The Book of Genesis is about growing the Garden.
Due to the first Adam, the crop failed. Tares grew in the Garden that were planted therein by Lucifer. Cain was the first tare whose wandering bramble overcame the good-seeded plants. God was growing a “Garden of Living Souls” and in the dust of the ground He planted them, and then watered them with Living Water, His own blood, and they sprang to life much like the plants did but without the breath of life in them.
Because the tares took over, the Garden needed to perish and be planted afresh. Jesus did that on Calvary, with the cranaei locus of Adam’s kind (his skull), as He did with Adam in the beginning — by breathing life into the nostrils of Adam’s cranium again.
“Locus” infers the mind. God would breathe life into the mind of Adam’s kind again. Calvary was to persuade Adam’s kind to do it all over again without the influence of the Wicked One. Calvary saved mankind from sin, as the Tree of Life in the Garden was planted to do. Was the “Tree” the Cross as Luke wrote in the Book of Acts, or was it Jesus who was the real Tree?
The Tree of Life remains to the end in the Garden Paradise in another realm. [xv] Just as the Serpent is the “image” of Lucifer and the Forbidden Tree is the image of evil, Jesus is the Image of God and the Holy Cross the image of Truth.
I call the generations in the Garden, “The Gospel of Adam” since it is about the growing of the Garden of Adam’s kind. The Garden was more than a garden of trees and vines but a perfect Garden of Living Souls.
Now in the midst (and mist) of the Garden lies a rock that covers the “Well of Souls” specifically a well of lost souls! The Dome of the Rock is in the Garden’s midst and so is the “cave” that covers the lost souls ever since Cain sinned. And all these things happened in the same place with 4000 years between the generation and regeneration of Adam and his kind.
Now perhaps you see what I see. Is it the Mystery of Christ revealed, or
only a dream? Soon, inquiring minds will find out!
(picture credit: Pinterest: "Biblical Characters")
PERHAPS PHILIP EXPLAINING THE IMPORTANCE OF SEED
TO THE EUNUCH
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