Mankind was made glorious. While most fail to understand the meaning of that; it should be clear. “So, God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” [i] So what? God said, “After our likeness.” [ii]
That ‘likeness’ is as a ‘Shadow’ of God. He is the ‘Light’
and mankind is to be His Shadow, not that man was meant to be darkness, but to be
a ‘fragment’ of God. Shadows go where the real object goes. Shadows are images
of the real things and even walk like them.
To become a Christian is understanding that God is real, and
the commitment is where He goes, you shall follow.
Flesh was provided to you to endure the world outside the Garden of Eden. While in the Garden, mankind, both the man and the woman, had a different sort of flesh. The pseudepigraphic Books of Adam and Eve reveal that the flesh of the two were of different substances than what it was after sin. Hence, the flesh that you wear is imperfect, or ‘corruptible.’ Paul explained that quite clearly to the Gentile Romans when he wrote,
Professing themselves
to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.” [iii]
The man and the woman degenerated what God had made perfect.
All the different fleshes have identities. Scripture calls
them ‘kinds.’ Adam’s kind had dominion over the other kinds. [iv] Scripture is referring to
genetic taxonomy. God endowed mankind with dominant genes; genes that were
superior to the other kinds. He ‘elected’ mankind to be the kind most like
Himself. That election is what geneticists would call ‘natural selection’ but
Christians (excepting Calvinists) believe it is Divine election.
The point to that background is that God made man like
Himself but not quite Himself. Again, man is not the real Substance of God but
a mere ‘fragment’ of Him. Sin caused mankind to believe that both Adams were real
gods just like the LORD GOD. [v] As such, even the first
two human beings came short of the glory of God because of their twisted
thinking that was introduced by the new doctrine that they had consumed.
Eve immediately became the ‘Creator’ as she was the one who
gave another kind of being to Adam. [vi] Eve did become a ‘god’ in
a sense. She conceived Cain who was of the wicked one and passed the new kind
off to Adam as his kind. [vii]
As the ‘mother of all living,’ [viii] it is implied that
humans are not directly from Adam, but from Eve. It seems that the ‘father,’ or
progenitor, of all of her kind is the Devil, Lucifer (aka Satan).[ix] As such, Eve’s kind are
inglorious, thus coming short of the glory of God. After many generations,
what genetics of Adam that remained fell far short of the glory of God until by
the time of Jesus about everyone was depraved.
Jesus even commented about that, saying to the scribes and
Pharisees, “Fill you up then the measure of your fathers, you serpents, you
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” [x]
Most often, the casual reader glosses over that accusation
as mere rhetoric. Jesus was speaking truth to them, and it applied to
all mankind as well! When Jesus measured them against their ‘fathers,’ it was
more than their parent but all who came before them. Jesus was speaking
of genetics. Do you think not? He said, “you generation of vipers” and even
referred to them as ‘serpents.’
Jesus called them, and us as well, for what we are! We all are
the progeny of the so called, ‘Serpent.’ Not to be vile, Jesus implied that we
are ‘inglorious bastards’ — children of Eve and not Adam! Humans are the
bastard progeny of the Devil, the ‘Serpent.’
Think not of a different kind of earthly being, but the ‘Serpent’
as a being from another realm that is not of our kind.
Isaiah the prophet said it out loud; he described the ‘Serpent’
as a ‘seraph’ (Hebrew; sarap); specifically a sarap ‘up sarap — a
fiery image of a flying Seraph. Isaiah was denoting a being from another realm
that could translate freely in between. Isaiah saw a type of angel whose image
was as fire, just like the Holy Ghost of Jesus. [xi] The ‘Serpent’ is a being
that takes on the form of God but is not God. Thusly, the ‘Serpent’ is not a
glorious being but a defiled one, and the protype of sinful man. The ‘Serpent’
is the “Old Man’ archetype of which Karl Jung wrote.
The ‘Serpent’ is far from glorious! He is the angel of
darkness that presents itself as light and truth but is darkness and deception.
Few would recognize the ‘Serpent’ for what it is, but
Isaiah saw through its façade. (Note that therein I use the word ‘it’ rather
than ‘him’ because angels in heaven are without gender, but on earth that is
perhaps not true!)
Lucifer fell from heaven and his genetics changed:
Your pomp is brought
down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee,
and the worms cover thee. How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! how art thou cut down to the ground. [xii]
Glorious man and woman had the flesh of God that He put onto
their ‘Shadow’ (the soul) in Genesis one. In the second chapter, God
molded some special, glorious flesh for the two.
The two beings had been ‘naked’ in a sense. They were
glorious beings with totally good flesh. After sinning with the wicked one, the
two acquired another kind of flesh like Lucifer’s, the ‘Beast,’ of which they
were ashamed. They immediately covered their newly acquired genitalia that
caused them to have shame.
Because they covered their genitals with aprons of fig
leaves, implies that they were ashamed of their new flesh. [xiii] That was their own
version of circumcision; rather than cut-off what offended them, they merely
covered it up. That is what wicked ones still do to this day but most still do
not care!
The point to this is that you are not what you think you are!
Humility is realizing that you in fact come short of the glory of God… far
short. We are not truly homo sapiens (wise men) but foolish alien beings,
alien to God. Neither are we really upright men, but ‘worms’ as Isaiah saw
Lucifer, or as ‘Serpents’ as some say.
Think not of snakes and earthworms as such, but beasts from
another realm! The ‘lost’ are not as God but as the Beast, all the while like
Lucifer, we highly estimate ourselves.
So, what then is ‘salvation’? It is regenerated to glorious
— a return to the Image of God and how He made us. Salvation, therefore, is
regaining an upright soul, made glorious again — alive just like when God blew
His Breath in the beginning, [xiv] He will do so again!
“Born again,’ [xv] is literally “engendered
from above”
Darkness hid that Shadow, because to have a shadow, Light
must shine. Lucifer brought darkness and the Shadow of God was changed to a real
‘fragment’ of Lucifer. Mankind became its kind! Thereafter, no longer
did Adam have dominion over the kinds because Lucifer became dominant. The “Beast’
still rules as the ‘Prince of the Power of the Air.’ [xvi]
In a sense, everyone already has the mark of the Beast. That
mark came to Lucifer’s kind through its son, Cain (of the wicked one)
who was marked somehow, but God was merciful and put His own mark onto Cain. [xvii] He regenned Cain with
His own Image that would soon degenerate because of the world.
Cain was perhaps a ‘giant,’ [xviii] not in stature, but like
‘Grigori’ beings from the Fifth Heaven. God would have given Cain some physical
mark to cover his shame — whatever deformity it was that came from the wicked
one. That deformity was depravity that could not be seen by the naked eye. As
is written in the 1st Book of Enoch, blind Lamech, Cain’s own
seed, saw Cain inwardly and killed the man. Blind Lamech saw the depravity in
Cain that others had been unaware!
We are all in a sense, ‘Cains’ and everyone is depraved; it
is very well hidden and can only be revealed when God calls us to see ourselves
as we really are!
Paul called a spade a ‘spade’ when he said to the Gentile Romans,
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” [xix]
Everyone, including the Jews, have sinned. By grace, for
thousands of years, the Jews were safe because God engendered Abraham
and his son Isaac became the ‘Shadow’ of ‘Father Abraham.’ They are no longer
safe because they have not been engendered by God Himself!
It is not the flesh that God preserves, but the souls of man;
the images that are like Himself, not the flesh which is like Lucifer!
Just when is a Christian saved? Of course, walking
the course, all the Way, is shadowing God but to be in Christ requires more
than shadowing Him. His Image must reside in us. That ‘Image’ is an invisible
one — a phantom just as in the beginning — the Holy Ghost that is the Shadow of
God, a fragment of His Substance, that remains on Earth to Comfort Christ’s
kind.
Certainly, after the seed is planted, rebirth begins, but is
not fully grown until maturity. As Paul said it, “Death is gain” for those in
Christ. [xx] The gain is what? Salvation!
Speaking of the resurrection of the dead, Paul wrote, “Rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even
the salvation of your souls.” [xxi]
Note that glory is achieved at the resurrection; when
Christians receive, “An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades
not away, reserved in heaven for you.” [xxii]
‘Salvation’ is therefore glorification. It is not
when the flesh is saved but when the soul is resurrected in the phantom Image
of God. With that said, the old flesh is not saved; it is regenerated
(regenned), and the old creature is given new flesh, not of the old creature —
the ‘Serpent,’ but like the glorious flesh put on Adam as related in Genesis
two. Christians are not reincarnated, but the soul is resurrected in the Image of
God again to be given new flesh at the General Resurrection.
Now you should know. Salvation is not of the flesh, but of
the soul, and it occurs at the end of your faith, not at its beginning!
When does faith cease? When it becomes reality at the death of the Christian.
Test all things by scripture. Are you glorious yet? Are you
perfect and upright and the very Image of God? Not so! Gloriousness of the flesh
is rewarded when Jesus comes again to resurrect the dead. The souls of the Christians,
at that time, will received new flesh just like Adam acquired in Genesis
two.
The ‘Big Lie’ is something so absurd that it cannot be true.
It has always been, “You shall not surely die.” [xxiii] Right now, if you
follow Jesus and shadow Him all the Way, you are safe, but you are still
in danger of apostasy — a falling away. [xxiv]
It is not that you trip, slip, and fall but that the
affection that a person once had for Jesus has degenerated, and a theretofore
follower of Christ defects through the loss of affection. The flesh is the
barrier because it is weak. It seems strong to us, but it is weak to sin. During
all our walks with Christ, we are tempted as Jesus was tempted.
Why would the Beast stalk Christians?
Speaking to Christians, Paul wrote to the apostle Peter…
even Peter, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” [xxv] Peter was nearly ‘devoured’
one time right before the crucifixion. What was he still to do? Remain sober
and be vigilant. That is what any Christian must do because the flesh is so
weak that the soul can be subdued by the desires of the flesh. You all know
what I am talking about!
Just how safe are you, still walking and talking like
the Devil, and even shadowing him?
(picture credit; Bob Yandian Ministries; "Our Glorification")
[i]
Gen 1:27
[ii]
Gen 1:26
[iii]
Rom 1:22-24
[iv]
Gen 1:26
[v]
Gen 3:5
[vi]
Gen 4:1
[vii]
1 John 3:12
[viii]
Gen 3:20
[ix]
John 8:44
[x]
Mat 23:32-33
[xi]
Acts 2
[xii]
Isa 14:11-12
[xiii]
Gen 3:7
[xiv]
Gen 2:7
[xv]
John 3:7
[xvi]
Ephes 2:2
[xvii]
Gen 4:15
[xviii]
Gen 6:1
[xix]
Rom 3:23
[xx]
Phil 1:21
[xxi]
1 Pet 1:8-9
[xxii]
1 Pet 1:4
[xxiii]
Gen 3:4
[xxiv]
Heb 6:6
[xxv]
1 Pet 5:8
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