FOOD FOR ANGELS NOT FOOD FOR BEASTS

I have written that the substance of original man of the genus of adama was not flesh as we think of it. It was of some glorious substance that would not age, decay, nor die. Implied therein, I wrote that death is not ceasing to exist but being transformed from one substance to another, or from one kind to another, or from incorruptibility to corruptibility.

Scripture says about the purification of souls that “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Pet 1:23).

That is the process of regeneration; it is just like the original generation, to wit: 

⁷ 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. ⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:7-8)

 Rebirth is God replanting His Garden on Earth but destined for Paradise in Heaven; both begin with God planting His Seed and watching it grow. Life is essentially growth of the Seed of God and death is the withering of the seed. Man withered the first and in subsequent times (Adam, Noah, and Abraham for instance) and it can wither in the end. That withering is “falling away” (Heb 6:6), called “apostasy.” To remain alive requires nourishment. For us, it is the Word of God — Jesus — who is the “Bread of Life.”

“I am the ‘Bread of Life:’ he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35).

Where, before, was that necessary to keep man alive? In the Garden of Eden. There, God generated man in His Image. What was the Image of God in the beginning? Some Glorious Substance made not of flesh. We call that substance, “Spirit,” and when embodied, so to speak, it is a “living soul.” The human soul looks just like the person, only of a different substance — an incorruptible, or immortal substance, “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (1 Cor 15:53).

When God put “coats of skin” (Gen 3:21) on Adams kind, although some believe it was the skin of lambs, it was not coats which could be removed per se but human flesh that God made for that purpose. The nakedness of which they were ashamed (Gen 3:7), and never before (Gen 2:25), were two: (1) the aprons were to cover their shame in that they now had pudenda. That is the worst part of the flesh; and (2) their flesh was of a different substance. It was no longer glorious and incorruptible but decadent and depraved. Sin transformed them from immortal beings with perfect, or glorious, flesh to flesh that would decay over time.

Imagine your future if you are a Christian. You will be regenerated in the same manner as Adam and be planted by God into the “ground” of Paradise in heaven. Hence, I believe that Genesis chapter one is the planting of souls “before the foundation of the world” (Ephes 1:4) and that chapter two is about planting the Garden in that “foundation” — in the ground (Hebrew; adama).

All the animals in first of the two Gardens, Paradise in Heaven, had for “meat” (food) herbs; for mankind it was the seed of the herb (Gen 1:29) and for animals the green herbs (Gen 1:30) themselves. Note that food was not mentioned in chapter two. They were to experiment like the other animals for what was good to eat, and God advised them what to eat to support their immortal bodies to avoid corruption.

The translators thought “herb” and “green grass” because those are what animals eat. I propose that neither the animals nor the human souls were of the same substance as is thought. They required more than what we think of as “food.” The First Book of Adam and Eve supports that notion, as it relates that glorious man had no digestive tract.

So, what would have they eat in the beginning? Foods from trees were prescribed by God, but those “trees” were not corruptible trees because there was no death theretofore.

It seems that the “Serpent” corrupted one tree of which they could not eat. The “Serpent” was the nature of the angel, Lucifer. He perhaps added some invisible substance to the fruits of that one tree. We call that substance “sin” but since sin is to “come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23), it is not having the Glory — Image — of God. God is the Beginning and the Ending and is immortal. Lucifer changed the Image of God (Selem) to his own image (nahas). The Image of God was His Identity. Today we know that the complete identity — physical characteristics and nature — is encoded in the composite DNA of the organisms — their genomes.

Eve had planted into her the seed of the “Serpent” with its DNA in the vessels of mitochondrial DNA. She was the mother of all living, and as such, every person in the world comes short of the glory of God because they have mutated genes from another kind of being. Adam named that being “Nahas.” We call it “Serpent,” “Satan,” and such.

When Cain was born, he came short of the Glory of Selem, having some of the genome of the “Beast,” Nahas — what he named Lucifer since that was the serpentine image of that angel.

Cain would look like Adam and Eve. We know that from Genesis 4:15 because God marked him to reveal his identity that differed from righteous Abel and Seth. It was a physical mark that any could see. As it turns out, his own kind killed Cain; Blind Lamech did the dirty deed, according to the Book of Enoch. Lamech could not see the mark of God because he was blind.

It is supposed that the image of Seth’s line differed from the image of Cain’s line as revealed in the days of Noah. I believe the mark of Cain that God endowed unto him was giantism because there were giants in those days (Gen 6:4). Blind Lamech, like David years later, killed the giant that would harass God’s people.

The point so far is that original man was created much different as the depraved people we think of in modern times. Mankind never evolved from stooped to upright but from upright like Jesus to stooped like the humble beast that God sees.

Original man required special food. It was translated as “herb” but (Gen 1:12) but in the Hebrew it is “eseb” — “from an unused root meaning to glisten” (ibid). That could be grass of course, but more generally, it was some substance that reflected light. What could it be?

Remembering that the setting of the story is Paradise, then it is some heavenly substance that glistens.

Well, consider this, “Then said the Lord unto Moses, ‘Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no” (Exod 16:4).  

What was God doing in the beginning? Testing the two! He rained bread from heaven and that would be their food, but He tested them by forbidding them to eat not bread from His Heaven but from the body of Lucifer. What did the “bread” look like? 

¹⁴ And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. ¹⁵ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, this is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.”^. (Exod 16:14-15)

 Round things (seed) that looked like hoar frost in the morning would certainly glisten. My hypothesis is that God had provided to Adam and Eve in Paradise in heaven, not herbs, but manna. Furthermore, they thought that the fruit of the forbidden tree was better that the manna from heaven, much like the Israelites in the wilderness of Sin were unappreciative of the bread that God gave to them. They were committing the original sin in the desert in the same manner as Adam and Eve had in Paradise.

Any theory must be examined. Has any before me thought that?

In the pseudepigraphic Book of Adam, Adam suggests to Eve that they test God no further. 

Then Eve told him, “Arise, let us both seek vegetables” (3.3). And they did not find (anything) tasting like the fruit of the tree which was in paradise.” (4.1) And Eve told him, “God created that for the (wild) beasts to get their food; but our food was that by which the angels live (4.2). Now, come and let us repent in penitence for forty days, so that God might pity us and then give us better food than that of (dumb) animals, lest we should be like them. (4.3)

 Animals were to eat the produce of the seed (ostensibly green grass) but the two people were to eat food like they had in Paradise — “the food by which the angels live.” They were to eat manna from heaven!

That is not to say that the Book of Adam is canon, but it is commentary, if nothing else; commentary which shows that ancient Hebrews thought the “glistening” substance was not herbs like the cattle ate, but the food of angels.

That notion also supports the idea that Adam and Eve were not meant to eat food that animals eat nor kill any living thing. Their dependence was on God alone in all things because they were of the same Genus as God! After they fell, they ate vegetation and soon, in the manner of the real beasts, who like Cain, was said to have drank the blood of Abel; they became carnivores as they degenerated even further. (Gen 9:3).