God, never using the vulgar, is always polite in speech; hence, “loins” mean much more than muscles in the backsides of the torso against the backbone. Peter stood up and explained the Lord God to the crowd at Jerusalem:
30 Therefore (David) being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in Hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. (Acts 2:30-31)
As will soon be presented, the “Soul”
of Jesus was visible to some as the Soul of Jesus was to Jacob long before.
Judas had Satan enter into him
before he betrayed Jesus and died because of it (Luke 22:3). The Soul of Jesus released Satan and then it
seems that Jesus deposited Satan in Hell since he hung himself in Gehenna — the
“gateway to Hell.”
Ironically, Jesus had the “backbone,”
in today’s vernacular, to defeat sin and Satan, whereas nobody else could have
done that! The “backbone” of Jesus was His “firm and resolute character”
That the flesh of Jesus never saw
corruption implies much. He never sinned, and hence Jesus never died in the
sense that He decayed. Jesus was immobilized in body but not in spirit. His
body was asleep, but His Soul was restless, doing many things the days He was
in the tomb; He accompanied Dismus, the repentant thief, to Paradise that day,
and delivered Satan to Hell almost immediately.
The nature of Jesus was from His
Father but his backbone from David. David had the backbone to kill Goliath because
he depended on God and not himself. As such, Jesus was the Son of David — “the
son of man” — and at the same time, the “Son of God.” His flesh was the flesh
of David and His Soul the Holy Spirit of God.
As the son of man, Jesus was of
the gens of David, and of course, was legitimate heir to the throne of
David. He was born a King.
As the Son of God, Jesus was born
LORD, not just as lord but the “LORD of Lords.”
The oath that God had sworn to
David was how He reproduced. Jesus was the Promised One and He was born as King
of the Promised Land. God, the Father, creates by Thought. He thought, then
commanded, that Light come out, and Light came out. No type of activity is
required for God to reproduce, and time does not constrain Him. God breathed
life unto Jesus the moment that David received the oath of God. “How so?” you
ask.
Jesus was put into the loins of David
at the oath, or Promise, of God. In the genealogy of Jesus, Jesus is of the
genes of David (Mat 1.) That genealogy is there to validate that the Promise
had come true; that Jesus is the Son of David, and as such, Jesus had the right
to the throne of David.
On the other hand, in Luke chapter
three, the genealogy passes right on by David and ends with Jesus as the Son of
Man (Adam) and the Son of God (the Father). Jesus was in the loins of Adam as
the first man, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45).
As the “last Adam” Jesus was both
the Son of God and the Son of Adam (mankind). His gen is of both God and
man.
Adam received the Promise seed as
well, even Eve, “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins, and clothed them” (Gen 3:21).
Coats (kutoneth) therein
are coverings, taken to be some type of garment, perhaps a coat. “Skins”
is from the root “laid bare” (‘ur) and from the noun (‘or) — “skin”
or “hides” (ibid).
With that said, before, they may
have been “naked” in the sense that the two were without worldly flesh, but by
grace, God covered their guilty souls with animal flesh and made beasts of them
on the same order as the other animals, but still with living souls. Hence,
Adam was both the Son of God and the son of man in that he had both a soul and
flesh.
The Books of Adam and Eve
validate that conclusion. The two were in a fallen state, and flesh was that
substance. God gave to them the same oath that He gave David, “GOD said to
Adam, ‘I have ordained on this earth days and years, and thou and thy seed
shall dwell and walk in it, until the days and years are fulfilled; when I
shall send the Word that created thee, and against which thou hast
transgressed, the Word that made thee come out of the garden and that raised
thee when thou wast fallen’” (1 A & E 3:1).
The coats of flesh were likely
the graceful covering once their fallen state became apparent. It seems that
before then, Adam and Eve were as the angels (also called ‘elohim) but
afterward of the flesh. The flesh was required to exist in this realm outside
the Garden Paradise.
The Word Jesus was planted right
there in the world in the fleshes of Adam and Eve, and as the “last Adam” Jesus
was made perfect as Adam was now lacking in character with his glorious nature gone.
As the “last Adam,” then Jesus
would repopulate the world but not with human genetics but Divine. He was the “last
Adam,” and not the “second Adam” as some say. There were many “Adams” in
between; others being Noah and Abraham. All those of the Covenants were the “Adams.”
Jacob was the offspring of
Abraham. He was another “Abel” to Abraham’s “Adam.” Abraham, like Shem before
him, replaced Abel as the righteous son.
Jacob carried the oath as well as
Abraham and David. Jacob wrestled with a “man” who turned out to be God in the
flesh. Jacob prevailed for the moment, but then, “When He saw that He (the Man)
prevailed not against him, He touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow
of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him” (Gen 32:25), and
soon after, “He (the Man without a Name) blessed him (Jacob) there (Gen 32:29).
Jacob became the new man, “Israel” and it was the seed of his altered loins
that were carried down to Jesus.
The “hollow of Jacob’s thigh”
implied something else. Just as Abraham’s servant swore to find a wife for
Isaac by putting his hand under Abraham’s thigh (Gen 24:9, that action was
swearing an oath. In like manner, Jacob
(Israel) became part of the oath and the Angel of God with whom Jacob wrestled
did that to Jacob. He became part of the oath for a Savior.
The disjoint of the hollow of the thigh was polite talk for changing the genes of Jacob and he became the new creature, Israel. Jesus — that “Man” — passed His genes into the loins of Jacob, making him one of the many “Adam’s” in His genealogy.
To this day, Jews celebrate that
act, even though they have no idea that Jesus endowed Jacob right then with His
Divine genes, and as such, Jacob was “born again” when his he was engendered
from the Man from above.
Why all the genealogy in scripture?
Because the Promise of a Savior was genetic. Once the Savior was born, then genealogies
became worthless (Tit 3:9), as anyone could be regenned just for trusting God! No
longer were the loins so important because regeneration was again by the “Living
Water” that God breathes into those who trust Him.
Now you know why Jesus disjointed
the thigh of Jacob. It was an oath for a Savior from his loins. Several hundred
years later, Mary passed along those Divine genes from Jacob to Jesus and God
came forth from her womb.
Finally, after all those years, “Adam”
was exonerated because His germline, Jesus, propitiated for all the “sins that
are past” (Rom 3:25) from the first Adam down to those of His day.
Any sins that Adam, Noah,
Abraham, Jacob, or David had done were covered by the blood of Jesus. It would
not be Jacob who prevailed (Israel) but the Angel of God, Jesus, Himself.
(picture credit; Sar Shalome; "Jacob Wrestles")
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