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   The Genesis of mankind is a foreshadowing of the Crucifixion of Jesus. Think of Genesis 1-3 as the generation and temporary regeneration of the human species called adam-kind in that Adam was not the man’s name but the identity of both the man and woman to differentiate them from the beasts.

  Likewise, the Crucifixion of Jesus was again to separate the men from the beasts.

  Consider the trees of the Garden. There were two that stood tall in the middle of the Garden — the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

 Well, in the Garden Paradise of Jerusalem stood two trees as well. Jesus, the Tree of Life on Calvary, and the “Judas Tree” with Satan hanging from its limbs in the valley of Gehenna below.

  In the beginning, the two most docile “animals” stood under the “Judas Tree” and worshiped Satan as their “lord,” Lucifer (Gen 4:1). At the crucifixion, all the feral “beasts” stood around the “Jesus Tree,” and not only mocked their LORD GOD, but withered His “Tree” in just a few hours as they crucified Him.

  Now consider the adami — Adam and Eve: They were generated already domesticated and had dominion over the other species (Gen 1:26). Scripture says that everything was “very good” (Gen 1:31) or literally entirely good.

  Both Adam and Eve had only the perfect DNA of God which may have been YY-DNA as is written in my book, On the Origin of Man and the Species. Subsequent After sinning, somehow the blood of the human species made them more like the beasts over which they lost dominion, and Lucifer gained dominance over man and beast. In other words, Adam relinquished his duties to Lucifer!

  Thus, Genesis chapter three is about defiled blood. By apostolic times, there is found a similar situation, “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled” (Tit 1:15). Sin defiled the human species until all have sinned and have been defiled by the Wicked One, Lucifer.

  After Eve was defiled by Lucifer, and perhaps Adam as well, God covered them with grace with the skins of slaughtered lambs (Gen 3:21). The Word, Jesus, had crucified the most innocent of all the species to cover the sin of mankind… all of mankind! Man finally saw death for the first time and would finally understand it.

  The same thing happened at the crucifixion. God presented His only Son as the perfect sacrifice to make the propitiation of sins that are past, “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God” (Rom 3:25). The Whom in that passage is the perfect Lamb of God, called “Jesus.” The Baptist, John, called that out when he saw Jesus approaching the Jordan, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).

  You see, the coats of skins, the Garments of Adam and Eve, had to be lambs, and sacred literature identifies them as such.

  So, two lambs were skinned to take away the sins of all mankind in the beginning of the death process — a “process” because death took about nine-centuries.

  Likewise, the reconstitution of the blood of Adam’s kind, the human species, began with the death of the Lamb of God. The regenesis process will end in God’s time on the Day of the Lord that theologians call the “rapture.” Then mankind will be made entirely good again. Theologians call that resurrection, “glorification” and that is the state of perfect goodness and residence in the Presence of the LORD GOD.

  The Lamb propitiated His Blood for sins that are past. Certainly, that applies to Adam and Eve way in the past as well as all of mankind to that time. That implies that there must be something in the future that would save them after redemption, and Jesus called that accomplishment “born again” (John 3:7) and explained that it was to trust in the LORD GOD alone for salvation. (John 3:14).

  Jesus shed his blood for Adam and Adam’s kind — the human species that had since became less human and less kind. In fact, downright devolved to gorilla kind as one example!

  When Jesus died it had much to do with Adam. Finally, the species would understand death. It would not be prolonged or fair, but immediate and unfair. They should have learned that God means it when He wants that “none should perish” (John 3:16); enough that He would perish Himself as the perfect and final sacrifice, once and for all (Heb 10:10)!

  Adam and Eve never understood death until they wore “death” upon there own flesh. The outcome was that Adam would work by the sweat of his face in an ideal Paradise with a heavy and unnecessary coat of death. He worked hard when he could have worked smarter with only the knowledge of good, but without the burdensome knowledge of evil.

  Adam could not keep from perishing because the consequence of sin is death (Rom 6:23). What could he do? Depend on God!

   It turned out (1 Adam and Eve) that Adam would be justified in 5-1/2 days which God explained was 5500 years. Jesus was crucified on the “sixth day” just as God promised. Jesus died to save his “brother” and son of God, Adam, and all his seed.

  Hence, the crucifixion was all about Adam and all the past sins of the species of adami (plural for adam). Since Genesis is about the generation of adami, then the crucifixion should be about the regeneration of adami, commencing with Adam himself.

  It occurred to me one day that Golgotha is not only “the place of the skull” (Mat 27:33), that it must be the place of a peculiar and specific skull. It turns out that Golgotha is the place of Adam’s cranium (cranion in the Greek). Indeed, Calvary (Latin; calvariae) means “cranium.” (My book, The Skull of Adam, expands upon that notion.)

  Something happened on the Holy Cross that would reverse the curse of Adam, and it must have something to do with how God generated man in the first place.

   Tomorrow, we will continue with that thought.

(picture credit: Free Bible Images; "Jesus suffers on the Cross")