Sunday, October 15, 2023

ABOUT MODESTY

Most people think of modesty as properly attired; with enough clothing on to adequately cover the flesh. Adam and Eve sought modesty for after they had sinned; they made aprons of fig leaves (Gen 3:7).

The two had been naked all the time but had no knowledge of nudity because they were innocent. Of course, aprons do cover the genitalia, but they literally made for themselves rudimentary armor because that part of them had been vulnerable. The implication is that they had used their ‘utilities’ for doing wrong. Maybe so, maybe not, but what is, is that ‘nakedness’ therein is from a root word, meaning ‘craftiness.’ They may have had glorious flesh created by God, but after sin, their flesh was crafty like the Wicked One.

It was the same flesh on the same people but its ‘fabric’ changed. The flesh before, strong for God, became weak. Something happened to their flesh.

Jesus was there under the fig tree. He witnessed what happened without their knowledge. Jesus was Spirit, and not of the flesh. Jesus revealed what went wrong in the Garden of Eden when He said, “Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41).

The Image of God within them had been Spirit because that ‘Image’ was a ‘shadow,’ or ‘phantom’ (ibid). Adam and Eve were created with the willingness of God within them, and to be honest, their flesh had been inert — without guile.

Eve was ‘beguiled’ (Hebrew, nasa) by the Serpent (Gen 3:13). She was seduced by the Wicked One; perhaps with physical seduction, maybe not, but the image, called the ‘Serpent’ persuaded her to be disloyal to God.

Before, her Image had been of God (Selem) and afterward it was the image of Lucifer (Nahas). Before sin, Eve was a spiritual being willing to be like God and afterward she was a non-spiritual being that was deceptive like the Serpent. She surely had the same flesh, but it became different. She very soon showed her flesh. Before, it was the Spirit that had dominion in her (Gen 1:26), but afterward the flesh dominated her spirit.

As soon as they were cast out of the Garden, obviously Eve removed her coat of skin that God had provided (Gen 3:21) and forthwith there was a problem, to wit: “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, ‘I have gotten a man from the Lord.’” (Gen 4:1). A man had theretofore been an ‘adam’ in the Hebrew. That was not the man’s name but his kind. He had the gens of God in him.

Adam had not known Eve in a carnal manner, but he saw her, and she appeared to conceive his child. He was still innocent and suspected nothing nefarious. How is that a reasonable assumption? The ‘creature’ that Eve made was not an adam but an is, both in the Hebrew. The man that she had gotten for the lord was just another extant being — a being of a different kind, or a mutation of herself. As such, Eve, as the ‘mother of all living’ (Gen 3:20) became the progenitor of that kind and henceforth all her kind came short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).

Most people rattle that off without understanding it in depth. However, that coming short is iniquity (Psalm 51:5), or depravity, losing the identity of God within. It is relinquishing of the Spirit of God in favor of the flesh of the Wicked One. The flesh never changed, but the nature within did. Before allegiant to God; afterwards allegiant to Lucifer.

Unlike God, Lucifer is confined by time and space. As such, he left his nature within Eve’s kind that is called ‘original sin’ and which is genetic and part of the identification of every person (i.e., it is encoded in the DNA of all the living).

The flesh, since the first sin is the enemy of mankind, so was the ‘apron’ of fig leaves to shield their genitals from the world or possibly to preserve them for future use? You be the judge!

With sin came a new kind. Although we still think of ourselves as mankind; that is a façade. We are Eve’s kind. Before, she too was an Adam, but because she chose flesh over Spirit, she was inclined to sin more than be upright. Ironically, the natural mode of intercourse is on the belly or back, so this new kind was both morally debased as well as spiritually. On her belly she would go, just like the Serpent (Gen 3:14).

Just as adam was not the male’s name, neither was eve the female’s name. She had become another progenitor due to sin… she herself made the new type of man — Is.

Note that the woman was an adam before sin and once she had been beguiled, only then did the word eve come into the picture. (I intentionally dropped the capitalization to distinguish the kinds from the names.)

Eve (haua) means not only ‘life-giver’ but as the wife (issa) of man, she originated the new kind of man ‘Is.’

Before sin, ‘woman’ was issa and also ‘wife’ was issa. The wife was of one flesh with Adam (Gen 2:24). After sin that one flesh — Adam’s kind — became another flesh — Eve’s kind with the genetics of the Wicked One. Is came from Issa, so man was of the female and she became the dominant gender.

Because of miscegenation with the ‘Beast,’ God made for both Adam and Eve coats of another kind of skin. No longer were only the pudenda covered but from the shoulders down. They were to wear a coverlet over their entire bodies, perhaps a figurative “whole armor of God”  for them to “stand against the wiles of the Devil” (Ephes 6:11).

The point is that the flesh is to remain covered to ward off temptation. Note that Cain’s kind — the wicked ones — did not wear coats of skin and his ‘daughters,’ or female progeny, were vulnerable to even more wicked ones… “The sons of God came in unto the daughters of men” (Gen 6:4). “Men” in that context is adam. So, now, not only were Cain’s new kind evil but Adam’s kind as well. The Book of Jasher reveals that the ‘sons of God’ were Grigori angels (giants) and that there would be giantism as a result of miscegenation of what remained of Adam’s kind and increased the number of the wicked ones.

What went wrong? “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose” (Gen 6:2). They apparently saw their beautiful skin because they were clothed immodestly. The demon angels transgressed their fair Spirit from Adam and desired their beautiful flesh. The result was that mankind became so depraved that God destroyed them all with a symbolic washing away of their beautiful flesh. (The flood of Noah’s day.)

With that said, the end of days will be the same as in the days of Noah (Luke 17:26). Perhaps those days will be when women expose their flesh without shame, wearing nothing. I submit that those days are here. Not only are women exposing most of their flesh but so are men pretending to be women. As it turned out, according to Jasher, those ‘giants’ were demon angels pretending to be men. Now, everyone pretends to be what they are not, and even Christian women show their flesh. Not only that, but men have found exposing themselves to serve the purpose of lust.

Love is not love! Love is goodwill (agape). How can anyone have goodwill for another by lusting only after their flesh.

I suppose that with the woman, Eve, she saw the “Bringer of Light” (Lucifer). He was pretending to be God and she fell for his devices. She only saw the luster of the Shining One but failed to see the inner being, the Serpent. She saw its flesh and fawned over that interesting being. According to the Book of Adam and Eve and their Conflicts with Satan, Lucifer continued to use that ruse. Thereafter, the two fell for the ploy and looked only at the outside. Numerous times they sinned again because they looked only at the flesh that demons manifested to them.

The flesh is not mankind’s problem. It is what they do because of their twisted nature. “All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world (1 John 2:16).

So, what is done to this day? People not only decorate their flesh to the extreme but pretend their flesh is of different genders. It does not stop at that. The fleshes of people have becomes their ‘gods.’ They must satisfy the flesh with all sorts of things, from Epicurean foods, to drugs, to body art, and piercings. We are not as trees walking (like blind Bartimaeus might see) but as ‘Un-Christ Trees Stalking’ one another!

But it gets worse! Now, not only is the flesh made to lust after, but the spirit as well.

I believe the ‘spirit’ of Eve was Lilith. She was the ‘screech owl’ of which Isaiah wrote (Isa 34:14). Perhaps that woman was the nature of Eve, her spirit within. She is manifested in a nocturnal competitive dual between herself and the flesh in her belly. As the mother of all living, Eve fit that description, but Lilith, as it turns out, was the mother of all the dying. She seems to be the abortive nature within most women that their own flesh has dominion over the little being inside!

Note that not only did the woman adam beget new flesh but introduced a new spirit into her creature. That nature is the “pride of life.” No longer was the Spirit of God their focus but themselves. Mankind became prideful that they existed; that God was not their Image but Eve, the one who showed her flesh to the Serpent and changed mankind into ‘beasts.’

Her nakedness did that. She was so ignorant of knowledge that she failed to know that Lucifer, just as it lusted to be God, would lust after her!

So it goes, women are no longer women but adulteresses that created adulterers, and it was all caused by one naked woman with her naked man watching!

If Adam was watching, as it seems, then it was the first occasion of voyeurism, and to this day that is the strongest stronghold on men.

Mankind is just about, if not the only kind, that relishes the viewing of intercourse. If I have interpreted that correctly, then Adam was the first when he saw Eve do her thing in her reproduction of Cain, not to be blunt.

Where am I heading with this? The flesh is mankind’s problem. It titillates and tempts. Reacting to the wiles of the flesh is the Greek word, porneia, which is translated, ‘fornication.’ In fact, pornography is what voyeurs do (the effect) and the flesh the cause.

Like it or not, showing your flesh immodestly is pornographic. Hence, modesty prevents others from sinning as well as you from sinning.

The best known case of immodesty was Bathsheba:

2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said,” I am with child.” (2 Sam 11:2-5)

 Glossed over is Bathsheba’s sin. It was the flesh of Bathsheba that attracted David. Whether it was accidental or planned is not mentioned, but regardless, Bathsheba was not a modest woman. She was not bathing in private and was certainly not modestly covered. Bathsheba was the temptress, accidental or not, that tempted David.

Bathsheba could have rejected David. She went voluntarily. We often forget the sin of Bathsheba was immodesty. The consequence of that sin was a child; thus the sin of Bathsheba was the sin of Eve. She could have well said about herself, “I have gotten a man from the lord,” for David was lord to her. He was her man and her his adulteress just as the case of Adam and Eve. In a sense, the Devil impregnated Bathsheba because he was watching as well!

So far, immodesty that has been discussed is about the flesh. However, there is also immodest dress. Adam and Eve used the most natural thing and made a revealing garment. In modern times, that is the normative, not the exception.

But modesty has significantly more to it than dress; it includes decorations as well, to wit:

16 Moreover the Lord saith, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: 17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.”

18 “In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 the rings, and nose jewels, 22 the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. (Isa 3:16-23)

 That list is not exhaustive. Added to that are tattoos and piercings. (Lev 19:28).

Why not decorate your flesh? God is to be adored, but people adorn themselves as if they are the gods! You are the fake god, narcissuses and the true God, Jesus is uncomely to the eye.

Isaiah, referring to the coming Savior, revealed how to identify Jesus, “He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him” (Isa 53:2).

Jesus was not to be desired. He showed His flesh on the Cross and although it was being glorified (John 7:39), it was horrible flesh that had been shredded. The Jews removed the splendor from Him, and nobody desired Him.

All the while Jesus was as if a hideous monster due to the crown of thorns and the whips, even Christians worry more about their appearances than anything, “I will not leave the house looking like this,” they say, but Jesus left the world unrecognizable because of the brutality of those who loved themselves more than God.

Before you buy that new swimsuit, put on fake eyelashes, get that nose ring and such, ask yourselves, “Is that what Jesus would do?” No, He was decorated in His own blood and that sufficed, so that you need never decorate yourselves!

(picture credit; British Museum," Queen of Night:)



 

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