The thread throughout the Bible is organic. Scripture goes from the “first Adam” to the “last Adam” — “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” (1 Cor 15:45), so said Paul. The soul that was made alive was a body and the Spirit made it alive — “quickening.”
A soul, according to both
scripture and sacred writings, is an invisible substance of a being in the shape
of a body (Luke 3:22). The living soul of Jesus looked just like the person,
Jesus, but of another substance that is spiritual.
Creation, or generation — the
Genesis of Adam’s kind — was about the invisible soul of the first man becoming
alive in a biological sense. The soul of Adam took on some sort of flesh that
was glorious as it was in the image of God.
The re-creation — regeneration — is
the same process wherein Adam’s kind, because of faith, have the Spirit in
mankind “quickened,” or made alive again. Quickened in the sense that it
was once alive but was made dead with the original sin.
The regeneration of Adam’s kind was
made possible by the blood of Jesus which had the capacity to regenerate the
soul in the “dead” — all mankind. Speaking of Jesus, Paul wrote, “God hath set (Him)
forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past…” (Rom 3:25). “Sins that
are past” are genetic, or original sins, not just behavioral and recent sins,
but the animalistic instinct that resides in everyone, “For all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).
That coming short is “iniquity”
in which everyone, including King David, was endowed. Iniquity is depravity;
made glorious in the Image of God, the first sin introduced depravity, and the
nature of mankind has been depraved since then.
Coming short of that glory
is depravity, or degeneration which is remedied by the possibility of
regeneration. The blood of Jesus, already sacrificed is available to all who
would “drink” of the “Living Water,” as Jesus called it (John 4:10).
Of course, the blood of Jesus was
sufficient as the perfect sacrifice one time for all. Those who trust His
Blood, in the end, will be regenned, hence, Jesus said, “Marvel not; ye must be
born again” (John 3:7).
So, just as generation was a lengthy
process, so is regeneration. It begins with a “babe in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1) and
includes those who have retained a carnal nature, and ends with the dead in
Christ, as well as the living souls, wearing incorruptible flesh. It is not
instantaneous but enduring faith that saves, which either resurrection or
regenning concludes.
The human soul was the original
creation, not just before the foundation of the world, but the cosmos, or
before visible things (Ephes 1:4).
Then, God finished the creation by
placing glorious flesh on the man Adam from whose belly flowed living water to
Eve. Her flesh was from Adam but her soul was filled with the Spirit of God from
the belly of the man just as Jesus told the woman at the well, “He that
believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water” (John 7:38).
As stated in the first paragraph,
one thread in the Bible is about organic mankind and God’s grace to make
man spiritual again.
Another thread throughout scripture
is the Tree of Life, first mentioned in Genesis 2:9 and lastly in
Revelation 22:14. The Angel of the Church of Ephesus said, “To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life” (Rev 2:7). That concludes
the prohibition of God who said:
And the Lord God
said, “Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now,
lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live for ever…” So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the
garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep
the way of the tree of life. (Gen 3:22,24)
Man had the right to the Tree of
Life in the beginning because both “Adams” were glorious as they were the very
image of God. With that understood, the reader should understand that Jesus is
the de facto Image of God. The first Adam was the image of the Last Adam
and the two were as glorious as God just as Jesus IS the Glory of God as the
Image of Him.
There were two trees in the middle of
the Garden — the Tree of Life that could be freely eaten and the Tree of Knowledge
of both good and evil whose fruits were forbidden.
The Tree of Life still stands in
heavenly Paradise to this day, but where is the Tree of Knowledge? Does it still
stand anywhere?
…God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. (Rom 8:3-6)
Given: Jesus Christ is the “Tree
of Life” for He is the Author of Life (John 1). Out of His belly flowed the Living
Water for both Adam and Eve.
Who then is the Tree of Knowledge
of Good and Evil and where does it stand? Lucifer, as Satan, is that “Tree.”
In scripture, trees often represent both human beings and apparently other beings.
Satan no longer stands
anywhere. He too is mobile, in the manner of Jesus, but whereas the Ghost of
Jesus is omnipresent, the “Ghost” of Satan is not; it travels to and fro in the
earth, or physical realm (Job 1:7). So where is Satan right now? Perhaps
resident in Hell, or perhaps in the soul of some man, just as Satan entered Judas
for one day… and perhaps as Satan entered Eve for one day.
Original sin was passed down, not
from the man, but the woman as the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).
So where is Satan right now in
the world? He is in us all. Only Eve and all subsequent women have
mitochondrial DNA and only the women can pass it down genetically. With that
said, just as the leaves of the Tree of Life is for the healing of the nations
(Rev 22:22), the Tree of Knowledge is for the death of the nations.
Everyone is as dead even as they are born and need Living Waters to revive them…
to be “born again.”
The Tree of Life was Spiritual
but became Flesh to be as mankind. Hence, the flesh is vessel for carnality and
as such, the “Tree of Death” resides in each of us.
How so?
Look closely at the figure; therein,
in the flesh of all of us, man and woman, is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good
and Evil. Like Jesus, it is the “tree” with mobility that takes special bright
eyes to see. Not only can the nervous system be measured by its signals but has
been dissected by physicians many times and laid out for the eyes of man to see
(Specktor, Brandon; Live Science; Feb 1, 2018).
The Tree of Lucifer, because of
sin, resides in the flesh of mankind. That we are carnal and of the flesh is a
reminder of just whose we are, and by that, I mean children of the Devil,
Lucifer (John 8:44).
Next, we shall consider the parts
of the “tree” within the flesh and how it performs.
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