THE TREE OF DEATH - Part 2

 Part 2

 

Figure #2 :Is istock) "Neuron")

Next, we shall consider the parts of the “tree” within the flesh and how it performs, but before the flesh is considered, perhaps a better idea of “glorification” should be understood.

Adam and Eve were created in the Image of God (Gen 1:27) and in “our image; after our likeness” (Gen 1:26). They were created both in the Image of God and the angels as some believe from the Hebrew elohim. Neither God and angels are not of material substance as we know it; they were of an alien substance of which little is known.

Adam and Eve were neither carnivores nor were they herbivores. Where scripture indicates “every herb-bearing seed… for meat” (Gen 1:29), the literal translation is “glossy’ (Strong’s Dictionary).

I believe their food (“meat”) was manna for heaven which was like dewy “hoar frost” on the ground (Exod 16:14). It seems that food would not be agreeable to their bodies, so God provided manna that would disappear from their glorious bodies rather than to be digested and released as excrement in their perfect Garden Paradise.

Ancient literature — the Books of Adam and Eve — verify that conclusion — that they had no digestive systems and feared even eating figs because they could not process food, herbal or not.

The two were created “very good” the English translation indicates (Gen 1:39). They were literally created “forcefully excellent” (ibid), or most certainly perfect, or “glorious” because dying and death would not be their ending.

Perhaps they had a mind but no brain was required to process knowledge. They knew no evil, only goodness. They needed not the ability to judge anything but accepted everything as correct because in the Garden there existed only truth.

Before proceeding, let’s first examine forcefully excellent. “Forcefully” would be dynamic, or virtuous, from the Greek “dynamis” (ibid). “Excellent” would be without flaw. It is later indicated in scripture that “glorious” means splendor and without decay, decadence, or corruption.

In the end, when the dead in Christ are raised and God breathes life unto them “in the twinkling of the eye… the dead shall be raised incorruptible (aphthartos), and we shall be changed” (1 Cor 15:52). “Aphthartos” is “without corruption or decay” (ibid). As such, Christians will be changed back to the glorious, virtuously dynamic state in which Adam and Eve were created.

Jesus was manifested in ordinary flesh like any man that could have become corrupted with decay but did not. Death became Him! “Out of His belly shall flow living waters…  this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified” (John 7:38-39).

Upon death and resurrection, Jesus was changed. The Holy Spirit of God became the “Holy Ghost” of the dead man, Jesus. The Body of Jesus had perished but his Ghost, or Soul, had not! Jesus was different after He arose from the dead… Jesus said to Mary after He was resurrected, “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father” (John 20:17).

Mary, nor anyone else, even Thomas, did not touch Jesus because His Body was made glorious again by the resurrection. Like Adam and Eve long before, Jesus had had His “Last Supper” and would no longer require food; He would exist on manna from Heaven. “Manna” is not substance but spiritual “food” from above.

Glorious creatures do not couple in carnal methods. Eve was generated from the Spirit of God that flowed from the belly of Adam (not “rib” as is wrongfully translated.) From Adam’s belly flowed living waters, or the Holy Spirit, to generate Eve. The two were born of the Spirit of God, and like the rest of us sinners, required rebirth of the Spirit, or literally “engendering from above” (ibid).

Manna, it seems, is spiritual food that must not be digested that unleavened bread symbolizes.

The point in all those words, is that man was created glorious and to the dust his body shall return (Gen 3:19) because the new creature will have a flesh of a different, heavenly substance that is alien to this world.

That glorious body is a shoot off the Tree of Life. It shall have the same substance as Jesus after He was glorified. It will no longer be corrupt, knowing only good things, and there will be no knowledge of evil. The mind of the glorious creature will exist, but as silly as it may seem, the brain of the Christian will have decayed long before in the grave, and return to the dust from which it came.

The brain is a faculty of the body, but the mind is a faculty of the soul. Jesus did things while His brain was inactive in the grave; things like deliver the repentant thief to Paradise that day, and escort sin and Satan to Hell that day as well.

The flesh of the Christian, upon dying and resurrection, should be identical to God’s original design. Again, there will be no need for sexual intercourse because multiplication will be spiritual — the addition of souls to the existence. Indeed, like the angels, “In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven” (Mat 22:30).

“Marriage” is a coupling in sexual intercourse. The glorious being will be without reproductive organs, which we can assume, neither Adam nor Eve had, since they both covered their newly acquired pudenda with fig leaves immediately after they sinned. They had been remade with flesh of which they were ashamed, especially their sexual organs, and the next thing Eve did was to experiment (without Adam) and made a man herself (Gen 4:1). She had become the “god” just as the Serpent warned! It was she with her new “lord” the Wicked One who shared that newly acquired knowledge.

All the evidence points to the original creature as a being alien to this world, and when God cast them out, they were different creatures that required protection, so God pout onto them coats of skins from dead animals (Gen 3:21) which sacred literature says were from lambs that God had provided.

Perhaps, those skins were like the skins of lambs. Perhaps before the flesh that they acquired was more like Lucifer’s — their new “father, the Devil” (John 8:44). Look at the body with its flesh in figure #1. Perhaps that flesh is the “coat of skins” that mankind acquired upon sinning. Perhaps that skin is from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Look closely, just as Jesus is the Tree of Life, that tree is the “Tree of Death” and death became Adam and Eve.

The inglorious flesh that they acquired when God coated them may have been what we know as human flesh, no longer like God’s but in the image of the Beast. But that may not be the case as you shall see, so read on!

The “Serpent” in scripture was not a viper at all but the evil image of Lucifer who was cunning (Gen 3:1). Adam and Eve not only received the flesh of the Beast but the mind of the Beast as well. Isaiah described the “Serpent” as a seraph; a seraph whose alien flesh was different and became the image of mankind.

Again, look closely at the form in figure #1. Of course, you can see the image of a man very clearly. Look closer now; can you see a “tree” inside the image?

Where is the Tree of Knowledge? It was the Serpent’s Tree but because Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12), the tree of knowledge is in each of us, imbued into the human creature at birth, or as King David said, “I was shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5), or depravity.

Adam and Eve had died right then because they were no longer immortal beings. The flesh will die because it is from the genetic tree of death. We must be regenned by Christ above because the flesh shall perish unless the genes are corrected that Lucifer made depraved when he degenerated mankind to his kind.

The flesh is only material but within the flesh is a dynamic network. By a process called “’action potential,’ a neuron's function involves sending electrical impulses and chemical signals to and from the brain” (verywell-health.com).

People are wired just like the animal kingdom whose pursuit is for pleasure and dominance.

The neurological network was in the disfigured flesh of man after sin. Perhaps Adam and Eve acquired that flesh with sin and the coats of skin was to prevent the world from dominating mankind in a reversal of God’s original intent, with man having dominion over all things (Gen 1:26), but only in his own glorious image.

The conclusion is that with sin the image of mankind changed. Whether by the degeneration of the Wicked One or by the coats of skin is ambiguous but mankind became like the creature of old (Lucifer, who is called “Satan”).

Therefore, since men as born are “old creatures’ the evidence is that with sin the flesh of the Beast overcame Adam and Eve and that the coats of skins were by God’s grace to protect the two old creatures who were so much like their father, the Devil.

With sin, mankind became controlled by pleasure from the Tree of Knowledge. Before, the desire was for God and only an appreciation of His Goodness.

The fleshes of both man and woman were changed to be more like the Devil’s.

In heaven, Lucifer would not be able to couple with sexual intercourse, but in the world, that was not stated.

Satan as Lucifer was cast out into the world and things would be different for him here. I submit that Adam and Eve had no sexual knowledge at all, and that their multiplication, was by reproduction of the Spirit of God in them. Satan endowed them with the reproduction of his manner of “flesh” with all the sensory perception that he had.

Returning to the man in the figure, his flesh is more than skin and dermal layers. Within the flesh is the DNA of Lucifer and his network of neural fibers. That network is dynamic and sends impulses from the world to the brain. Is it only coincidental that you are all “children of disobedience” who have “walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air” (Ephes 2:2).

In other words, Satan is not in you! He cannot be because he is limited to one place at any given time. However, his flesh is in your flesh and the neural network within the flesh is how he controls us all, unless we hand over control to Jesus.

That beautiful lady at the beach that you glance at so often… that is the DNA and “tree” in you that was inherited from the “Image” so long ago. You cannot help yourselves from looking because you are of the Wicked One. It is in your DNA, in your neurological system, and in your mind. You are remotely controlled by the Prince of the Power of the Air, and you still think that you are in control!

For you reference: figure #1 from the previous installment:

More on this later.