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)
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)
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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