JESUS SAVES THE CROP

So often, the casual readers glosses over text with intense meaning. The gospel story — the truth — begins this way; “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Mat 1:1).  Now, compare that to the Old Testament, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1). God generated all things including Adam. Matthew described the generation of Jesus, or the growing of the Vine that God, the Husbandman, planted.

“Adam” was not just the male of the species but his kind, “male and female created He them” (Gen 1:27) “in His own image.” Thus, the first Adamah were generated as God. They had the same attributes of God. The image of God was without mortal flesh but some sort of glorious flesh (Gen 2) covering their souls that God created first (Gen 1).

That is validated by Paul who wrote,

⁴⁴ “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor 15:44:45)

 Where it was written was apparently, “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 2:7). However it appears that the soul was created long before that… “before the foundation of the world” (Ephes 1:4).

What was before the foundation of the world (kosmos)? God created the heaven, then the cosmos. Souls were generated before anything else and were placed in a “storehouse” of sorts to be “elected” (selected) in the process of time to become living souls in the flesh.

What is meant by the “first” and “last Adam”? The first was the species of Adam’s kind. Adam and Eve were both the first Adam because they were one flesh, or one kind distinguished from the other kinds.

Genesis chapters one and two are the first creation, perhaps chapter one the generation of the souls and chapter two the generations of the flesh. Only chapter one was in the image of God.

In chapter two, God made another image and in chapter three, Lucifer, as a cunning creature, degenerated mankind from God’s perfect image, and the Adamah were no longer glorious. They came “short of the glory of God” with sin (Rom 3:23).

The world that God created (generated) in Genesis 1:1 was perhaps another world wherein Paradise was made in heaven (another realm) and chapter two the worldly Paradise in its likeness. The latter no longer exists, but the former remains there, and John described it in the Book of Revelation.

The beginning of the gospels is much like the beginning of the Book of Genesis. The latter describes the old heaven and earth and the New Testament, the new heaven and earth, as Peter said, “We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (1 Pet 3:13). That is our hope, and John saw it in fulfillment, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away” (Rev 21:1).

Implied within the New Testament is that there shall be two generations or phases of one generation.

Matthew chapter one is about the Old Testament passing away, and the rest of the book is about its regeneration. Just as the generation was done in two stages — souls generated and then bodies, so is the regeneration. Hence, the gospels could have been called “Regenesis” because it is also a process of a new generation of heaven and earth, and this time it too was to be the regeneration of souls in earth, then the regeneration of the flesh in heaven. The regeneration is the same, but the places may be different in order.

Why is Matthew chapter one essential doctrine? It is essentially the degeneration of mankind. Included in that long list of trials and failures (coming short of the glory of God), it begins with the last attempt.

Matthew saw Abraham as a second Adam and began with him. His generations failed in that tertiary creation when his righteous genome slowly faded into history because of disobedience and intermarriage to the unrighteous, much like the Samaritans long before.

On the other hand, Luke (in chapter three) included all the regenerations and degenerations: Adam, Noah, Abraham, David, and all the other attempts to restore mankind to the glory of God that ended in corruption. The generations in the New Testament are the regeneration and decay (decadence) of God’s grace over the process of time wherein God gave Adam’s kind chance after chance.

Matthew ends with Jesus. He is the last chance and the last hope. Where all others failed in generating a new heaven and earth, Jesus would succeed.

He was is the invisible Image of God who created and also the visible Image of Adam (the last Adam).

Adam was the first Adam, and in a sense, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, plus David, were subsequent Adams who all came short of the glory of God. Well, Jesus is the Glory of God and He cannot fail! As such, whereas the first Adam failed, the “last Adam,” Jesus, succeeded. None before had died for mankind even though they could have.

Since Abraham sacrificed his own flesh in the fiery furnace of Nimrod in Ur (Book of Jasher), it was only for his own seed. Jesus sacrificed himself for all mankind, hence the total generations in Luke chapter three. Matthew was the penultimate Jew and included his kind only — the Hebrews. Luke included Noah and the ”Table of Nations,” or all of Adam’s kind.

Now re-examine how the gospels begin: ““The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”

Abraham was glorified while in the fiery furnace because his flesh was made incorruptible. Then, with that incorrupt seed sown, the generations in Matthew reveal how it grew — from Abraham to Jesus.

God had again planted a “Garden” in the Kingdom of David, and it grew… but withered because of ”tares” around God’s “chosen” and “peculiar” people (Deut 14:2). Because the Hebrews intermarried with pagans, primarily the decadent seed of Canaan, the “crop” failed. The generations of Matthew are the generations of failure, even after God “reseeded” the garden in Israel.

The generation of Jesus Christ is about the history when Jesus was planted. Matthew saw Jesus planted with the Covenant of Abraham but Luke saw the planting of Jesus as the Adamic Covenant.

Various theologians use different verses for the Adamic, or Edenic, Covenant. However, I believe the Covenant was alluded to in both Genesis 3:15 and 3:21, “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them,” Genesis 3.15 refers to the crucifixion and Genesis 3:21, safety until the Messiah would come. The coats of skin were surely a reference to the putting on the grace of God.

It is written that “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8). Jasher says that grace was the Garment of Adam. So, grace was put onto Adamah back in the Garden, and the Adamic Covenant was perhaps that they would wear the Spirit of Jesus until the Word was made flesh (John 1:14).

Thus, the gospel is about replacing the old Abrahamic crop with a Jesus crop. Abraham was only a “shield” (in etymology), but Jesus is “Yahweh saves.”

Matthew and Luke wrote about the generation of Jesus throughout time and Luke revealed all the Covenants.

Matthew never took the generations back to the Garden and the Glory of God, but on the other hand, Luke went back to God by the human route — through all the patriarchs back to God.

John saw the generation of Jesus a little differently, to wit:

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life; and the life was the light of men… ¹³ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1-4, 13-14).

 Matthew and Luke wrote of Jesus as the “son of man.” John saw Him as the immediate “son of God.” He was thoroughly pure of decadent genes and this Man would work. Even faithful Abraham still sinned and came short of the Glory of God, but Jesus was and still is the Glory of God, or “Light” as John wrote (John 1:4-5).

Did Mark provide the genealogy of Jesus. Yes, Jesus was baptized with the Holy Ghost — the Spirit of God peculiar to Himself. Then He was baptized, “And there came a voice from heaven, saying, ‘Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” (Mark 1:11).

Of course, the Holy Ghost came on Mary and Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit of God. His baptism was a sort of “Garment of Adam” that Jesus wore to keep Him safe from harm until He too was Glorified after experiencing death (John 7:39). Then after Jesus arose, the Comforter (the Garment of Adam, or better said, “Garment of God”) came and remained here for the safety of Christians.

In the Old Testament, God planted the soul of Adam in heaven and it grew in the world. The gospels are the planting of souls and Revelation about the preview of the crop of Christians when they are glorified — made incorruptible and full of grace.

Matthew started it right. It was about the generation of Jesus throughout the Old Testament and the New about the last Adam full of grace.

The soul of Adam (the image of God) was generated in Genesis one and Adam was planted in the Garden in the world in Genesis two: “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Gen 2:8).

Likewise the Word was the Spirit of God who planted the Garden and was the “Vine” that God planted in the souls of the two Adams.

Not forgetting that the Father is the “Husbandman” and Jesus the “Vine” (John 15:1), the human seed of Jesus was planted in the world, and the generations of Abraham was the lineage of that seed until Jesus arose from the loins of God who planted His immaculate seed in Abraham until it became flesh with the birth of Jesus.

Jesus was not “born” in a human sense but always existed, according to John, in the Holy Spirit of the patriarchs. Jesus was revealed (manifested; 1 John 1:2) in the flesh for all to see, touch, feel, hear, taste with the fruit of the vine, and to savor!

Jesus was always with them (Immanuel), but only those with bright eyes with bright natures could sense Jesus through the ages.

Abraham saw Jesus. When he was in the fire, just like Shadrach and his brothers, he knew that Jesus was in there saving him.

Nimrod built a tower to reach the heavens to see God, but Abraham saw God along with himself in the fiery furnace. Jesus was God with him in peril and in faith.

Therefore, just like Genesis one and two, the gospels are all about growing a Garden wherein God has planted the last Adam just as He had the first. The first crop failed miserably but the last crop, after Noah’s, Abraham’s, and David’s, would grow and grow and grow just as God promised Abraham: “I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies…” (Gen 22:17).

Matthew knew that and started with Abraham because of the Promise. Luke went indirectly back to God because He promised Adam multiplication of Living Souls. John went directly back to God and skipped all the crops that failed.

You see… the generations of Adam’s kind are important because all of them, but the last Adam failed. Where even King Abraham sinned in Egypt, and David sinned in Jerusalem (The earthly Paradise, Zion), Jesus never fails!

So, most skip over Matthew 1:1 just as so many Christians fail to acknowledge the importance and truth in Genesis 1:1. Who would have ever dreamed that in that one verse so much is inferred?

Never skip the Word because it is there for a reason, and in this case, Matthew described the Garden that God planted with Abraham and Luke described the Garden that God planted in the beginning. God would grow His Image, not just very good, but glorious, and the Edenic Covenant was about growing the Vine that would be manifested as Jesus the Christ.

On the other hand, John saw the Word as the “Vine” and realized that the Word was the “Seed” planted by Jesus that would become flesh despite the human progeny in His supposed father, Joseph.

Now you know why it is there.