That Jesus is “The Second Adam” is not 100% correct; Jesus was “The Last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45). That distinction is important because there were many “Adams” in between. Adam was the “protoplastus” — “the one that was formed first” (Merriam-Webster 2021). Since, Jesus was “The Last Adam,” He was also “The One Formed First” because although He came after Adam, He was before Adam, as John the Baptist said about Jesus in comparison to himself (John 1:15).
The flesh of Jesus came after John and after Adam, but His Spirit was before either one. In fact, the Spirit of God was in many of the patriarchs before John the Baptist and Jesus! Many of the patriarchs appear to be protoplasts, coming from a “plant cell that has had is wall removed” (ibid).
Protoplastus seems not to apply to the animal kingdom, but Adam was the first to be planted in the Garden of God, “…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 2:7-8). Adam was the “plant” but what was his “wall” that was removed. Only he and the “Second Adam” Eve had their wall removed.
Often forgotten is that Eve was “Adam” as well because Adam was not the man’s name but his kind, or species. He was the only kind that had a Living Soul and as such, and in the beginning Adam could translate between the Earth and the heaven without restriction, according to sacred literature. The “wall” was the barrier between heaven and Earth, and perhaps it might have been the gravitational field of which I wrote in an earlier commentary.
Therefore “Adams” are those who can pass through the wall between the seen and unseen worlds, if protoplastus is the state of glorification. In the book Pseudo-Philo (PS-P) “protoplastus” is the word from which “Adam” is derived.
Since Eve was “The Second Adam” (perhaps) then Abel would have been “The Third Adam.” Abel appears not to be the Son of the First and Second Adams but of God and the Second Adam, called “Eve” — “the mother of all living” (Gen 3:20). Everyone living today has the mitochondrial DNA from Eve that is passed down through the ages by the female gender alone. God knew His biogenetics much better than modern scientists when He identified both genders uniquely. (As a sidenote, transgenders are not born that way.)
Abel was therefore a protoplastus in the sense that he was the first formed from God and the woman. Since Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and Eve, then Cain was not an “Adam” and not a protoplastus. Hopefully, the reader gets the point that God made many “Adams” one after another until “The Perfect Adam” without sin was made. Only righteous Abel was without sin before Jesus and perhaps it was for Abel to reconcile Cain with God but was “crucified” before he could overcome the sins of the world. (In a previous commentary, I pointed out that Abel was not an antediluvian “Jesus” but a “proxy” for the coming Messiah at best.)
The blood of righteous Abel, God said, cries out from the ground (Gen 4:10). Protoplasts are those who are born to be righteous in like manner as Adam, Eve, and Abel. Both Adam and Eve failed God, but Cain failed Abel, so as Cain was like his father the Devil, so are all those who are not protoplasts — those first born of God whose wall between Earth and heaven will be no barrier.
Then came another “Adam” — Noah who found grace (Gen 6:8). After his progeny sinned like the first, the wall was again put up. No longer could angels translate between heaven and Earth, or visa versa, because the two kinds mixed and sinned by confounding their genes (Gen 6:1-4). The mixture of two kinds had created depraved beings, and soon, with Ham, evil genetics had made it through the flood waters, not only through Canaan but other sons of Ham, specifically Cush.
Then came Nimrod. “Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the Earth” (1 Chron 1:10).
Nimrod, “the mighty hunter,’ decided to stalk God and kill God in His own realm just as any mighty hunter would do, so the “Stalker” would attempt to build a tower to the heaven on the plain in the Land of Shinar (Mesopotamia). Many believe that the Tower to heaven was in Babylon, but Ur is the more specific location. While everyone is searching for the tower’s location, it failed to ever exist! The best guess is that “The Gate of God” was in Ur, and there is an explanation for that hypothesis.
The meaning of the word Ur is “flame” or to “shine.” Like any great raccoon hunter knows, coons are treed and blinded when hunters shine light into the tree. Since the Tree of Life was in the Garden, Nimrod would build his own “ladder” to the heaven in the form of a tower. It would not be of wood like a tree but bricks because wood would obviously fail. As it turns out, wood (the Sacred Cross) was not the ladder to the heaven but the Tree of Life (Jesus) Himself. So, Nimrod was “barking up the wrong tree,” as the saying goes. Calvary was the true access to heaven, but Nimrod was in Ur (if my theory is right.)
God revealed something to Abraham: “I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it” (Gen 15:7). Most often, theologians focus on the land of Ur in Chaldea, and that is correct. However, God also uses place names and such to pass along esoteric information.
Rather than Ur of the Chaldees (kasdima), it could have been translated literally, “the flame of loving kindness” in that Chaldeans were “as one,” according to God (Gen 11:6). With that, their intentions in building the tower were for good, but they were beguiled by Nimrod to do evil, thinking that they were doing good things. They did not hate God; they only respected the wishes of their evil king (Nimrod).
Why was Ur of the Chaldees so important? Nimrod was king of the Chaldeans, according to extant literature.
Abram (later Abraham) was noted for destroying the idols of his father, Terah. Joshua, 24:2 seems to say that God brought Terah out of the flood, which is not true. Terah was not in the ark during the flood, but his genes were. Only Noah had found grace, but all the others onboard had not. Shem, as such, the ancestor of Terah, carried the genetics of Terah through the flood. (The word “even” is not even in the Jos 24:2 but was added by the translators). There seems to be two thoughts: (1) sin before the flood with Terah’s progenitors, and (2) sin after the flood in the progeny of the sinners from before the flood.
Terah (of Shem) had allied himself with Nimrod (of Cush) and both had gods of stone and wood. Shem’s progeny had become just as evil as the progeny of Ham! Now consider the building of the Tower of Babylon from Pseudo-Philio.
Remembering that “the fire of loving kindness” is the meaning of Ur of the Chaldees, Philo (chapter 6) indicates that: “they said every man to his neighbour,” so there was camaraderie in building the tower and they thought, “in the latter days we shall be fighting one against another,” indicating that they had not been fighting at that time but feared the future. To demonstrate their accordance, they said, “Let us, each one, write our names upon the bricks and burn them with fire.” [1]
Twelve men would not contribute their names to the bricks in the tower. Among the twelve were Abram (PS-P 6:3). Why would the twelve be such spoil-sports? “One Lord know we, and Him do we worship.” That tower was for Nimrod and the twelve would not be fooled or party to that façade! They would not do as they were told, so Nimrod had mandated the tower.
Because the twelve would not do as they were told the “princes” (Terah was a prince of King Nimrod), “The princes were wroth and said: ‘As they have said, so do unto them, and if they consent not to set bricks with you, ye shall burn them with fire together with your bricks.’” (PS-P 6:5).
They were given seven days to comply with the majority and their princes or else they would be burned with the bricks. The seven days was time for them to repent for failing to go along with the crowd. No longer were the builders of the temple kind neighbors but adversarial. The time that they had dreaded was upon them. The mandate to build the tower divided the once loving neighbors! (Does that sound familiar?)
The king, likely Nimrod, gave orders to the prince (Jectan) to take fifty men to the twelve to convince them of their error. “And the prince called unto him those twelve men and said to them: ‘Be of good courage and fear not, for ye shall not die. For God in whom ye trust is mighty, and therefore be ye stablished in Him, for He will deliver you and save you. And now lo, I have commanded fifty men to take [you with] provision from my house, and go before you into the hill country and wait for you in the valley.” (PS-P 6:9). The prince of Shinar had repeated the words of the Serpent when he spoke to Eve... “Ye shall not die!”
The plan was to feign that the twelve had broken free, so the fifty-man army would turn their madness upon them. Eleven of the twelve had been persuaded to build the tower, so they would say. The plan was to say, “Thy servants have found favour in thy sight, in that we are set free out of the hands of these proud men,’ but Abram only kept silence” (PS-P 6:10-11).
Only Abraham refused to build the tower because he realized it was not a tower to honor God but to kill God! The tower would reveal the power of mighty hunter — Nimrod and his people — not honor Almighty God. As such, Nimrod would be the “useful idiot” that would make Lucifer’s dream come true — to put God down (Isa 14:12-14). Abraham would be no part of that conspiracy!
Then the plan was implemented, saying, “This fellow which is found alone, let us burn him. And they took Abram and brought him before their princes and said to him: ‘Where are they that were with thee?’ And he said: ‘Verily at night I slept, and when I awaked I found them not’” (PS-P 6:15).
And in full this is the outcome of Abram’s dissidence to King Nimrod:
16 And they took him and built a furnace and kindled it with fire, and put bricks burned with fire into the furnace. Then Jectan the prince being amazed (literally melted) in his mind took Abram and put him with the bricks into the furnace of fire. 17 But God stirred up a great earthquake, and the fire gushed forth of the furnace and brake out into flames and sparks of fire and consumed all them that stood round about in sight of the furnace; and all they that were burned in that day were 83,500. But upon Abram was there not any the least hurt by the burning of the fire. 18 And Abram arose out of the furnace, and the fiery furnace fell down, and Abram was saved. And he went unto the eleven men that were hid in the hill country and told them all that had befallen him, and they came down with him out of the hill country rejoicing in the name of the Lord, and no man met them to affright them that day. And they called that place by the name of Abram, and in the tongue of the Chaldeans Deli, which is being interpreted, “God.” (PS-P 6:16-18)
Since Pseudo-Philio is not canon, this should be tested by scripture. What is known from scripture is that Abram was favored by God because he destroyed his father’s idols. Abram left his father in Ur (Gen 12:1) and went to the plain of Moreh and there, “He builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the Name of the Lord” (Gen 12:8).
Before fleeing Ur, Abram destroyed his father’s many idols because they could not move nor speak. They were worthless and as such were only images. (This is recounted in many sources outside the Bible including the Jewish Midrash.) As such, Abram escaped from Nimrod (of the Wicked One) and his Luciferin “god” and turned to the One True God.
Apparently, while in the fire, because of Abram’s trust in God to save him, a Divine Spark in the fire, perhaps pre-incarnate Jesus Himself, changed the nature of Abram after living in “Ur” — the flame of the fiery furnace. All this is similar to the story of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, who while inside the fire, received the Divine Spark from God and their flesh was changed from corruptible to incorruptible.
After being engendered from God above
while in the fire, Abram’s flesh was changed. It would not last forever, but
for 175 years, well beyond the 120 that God granted in the days before the
flood. His flesh was not incorruptible, but his life extended long enough for
God’s purposes — to father Isaac and provide the seed for Jesus! His seed had
been tested by fire!
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ… (1 Pet 1:5-7)
The faith of Abraham would be tested by whether he would sacrifice his God-given son to the fire as he had done so himself! He was willing to sacrifice himself but was he willing to do so for his son. That is much like Yahweh who was in the fire with Abram in Spirit, but would the Almighty God sacrifice His only Son? God sacrificed Himself alongside Abram, but His “flesh” was incorruptible… But would He sacrifice the corruptible flesh that He had put on Jesus for such an occasion?
So, you believe without a shadow of a doubt that you are saved? as some brag. Would you survive the test of fire? Would you sacrifice your own flesh? How about your son or daughter?
Abram not only destroyed his father’s idols, but the Tower of Babel was King Nimrod’s idol… a huge one made of bricks to honor his “god of self.”
Abram, by civil disobedience, destroyed the king’s idols, yet Christians today do whatever the dictators say! Sure, we are to honor authority but only for order, not for chaos. Would you die for your leader? Not me! Would you gamble your life by succumbing to scientific testing? I did not and would not. I would rather die than altar my Divine Spark that God impulsed into my genes when I was converted from a lover of pleasure to a respecter of God!
Remember the wall to be removed in the protoplastus? Well, the Tower of Babel was the “wall” that Abraham removed to deny access to kill God. Abram could have built that tower and even climbed it to make a name for himself, but by trusting God, God made a name for Abram – “Abraham.”
Abraham was a protoplast, molded, hardened, and tested in fire. He was "The Fifth Adam," coming after "The Fourth Adam," Noah. He too was a proxy for "The Last Adam" Jesus in keeping the flame a burning until Jesus came to probate "The Last Will and Testament of God"!
(picture credit: Wikimedia Commons; "Abraham in the Fiery Furnace")
[1] Putting names on bricks of monuments is still done. As an example, funds were collected for the Corvette Museum by selling bricks with the names of the donors on them, ostensibly for the “neighbors” to make a name for themselves. (I was one who would not put my name on the brick.)
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