Wednesday, December 20, 2023

JUST WHO ARE WE?

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Previously Jesus had been under attack because of His supposed parentage. The Pharisees were hounding him because his mother was six months pregnant and not yet married to Joseph. By Mosaic Law, that made His mother the ‘harlot’ and His father a ‘lawbreaker’ because he did not put her away. Unknown to them, Mary was not a harlot, but was a virgin who had broken no law, and to be crude, no hymen, and the latter was always the ‘token’ that they checked.

Joseph was a righteous man who knew the true Father of Jesus, and as such, Joseph was a good step-father that protected his adopted son as his own, removing Him from the jeopardy of King Herod’s sicarii.

By adoption, Joseph was as much the father of Jesus as Christians are the ‘sons of God’ by adoption.

Adoption is a process. Paul wrote about it, speaking of followers of Christ, “And not only they (the whole creation), but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” (Rom 8:23).

Now consider the birthing process: God cursed Eve, “Unto the woman He said, ‘I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children” (Gen 3:16). Sorrow therein is labor, and conception is pregnancy. Hence, rebirth is much like birthing and gestation both of which women were accursed.

Jesus said, “You must be born again” (John 3:7). That should not surprise anyone (“marvel not”) because there is pain in labor and groaning in pregnancy, especially in the delivery.

The same goes for rebirth, according to Paul.

Christians have the firstfruits of the Spirit during their spiritual ‘pregnancy.’

‘Firstfruits’ are “the beginning of the sacrifice” (Strong 2006). Spiritual pregnancy (conception) begins with God sacrificing His “fruits’ in the beginning, just as He did with Mary.

The messenger of the Lord revealed to Mary how Jesus would come about, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also, that Holy Thing which shall be born of you shall be called the ‘Son of God’” (Luke 1:35).

Those who are born again, are the beginning of holy things; things start with rebirth. God provided to Mary, His ‘Ghost,’ or in the Greek, “pneuma,” or wind. Therefore, Jesus was molded in the same fashion as Adam… hence Jesus is the Last Adam’: “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” (Gen 2:7).

Translated ‘nostrils,’ the literal meaning is ‘face,’ or ‘countenance’ (ibid), or archaically, ‘semblance.’ Adam had the ‘Thoughts’ (semblance) of God. Therefore, the Image in which Adam was created was with the Thoughts of God, therefore thinking no evil.  Rebirth would therefore begin with the Thoughts of God in contrast with the thoughts of men. Speaking about the wicked, God said to Isaiah, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways” (Isa 55:8).

The firstfruits that come from the Spirit of God — the Pneuma — are Thoughts. The apostle Paul understood that, when he “reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks” (Acts 18:4). Therefore, the beginning of rebirth is not a carnal act but a Spiritual Thought from God, and as it turns out, ‘multiplication’ was not how it is thought to be, but as Adam and his woman were told, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it” (Gen 1:28).

That ‘fruit’ was the Thoughts of God. They were to multiply living souls by the male breathing the Spirit of God onto his mate, giving her the mind of God. It is not the body that is sacrosanct but the soul which is the ‘vessel’ for the Spirit of God that sembles God and resembles Adam as he was before sin. Hence, carnal knowledge — sexual coitus with pregnancy — was the curse and not the Way of God, remembering that God said that our ways are not His Ways. That would pertain to birth and rebirth as well!

Jesus then began to interrogate the Pharisees who had pride in their knowledge of scripture, knowing all the do’s and don’ts. Rather than saying, you fools, Jesus was more tactful, “He answered and said unto them, ‘Have you not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female?” (Mat 19:4).

The question had been about divorce — putting away one’s wife (Mat 19:3), not for one specific cause, but for “every cause.” In other words, should a man look for just any cause to divorce his wife. Any sin, perhaps, would suffice to them. Therefore, since “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), then just wait until the woman comes short even one time and voila!

It is now convenient to identify ‘glory.’ Glorious is the Image of God and Adam was made in that same Image. First off, it was not his flesh that was the Image of God but his ‘Selem’ (Hebrew), the ‘Shadow’ or “Phantom” of God (ibid). The flesh was nothing — nakedness — to God; it was the living soul that God planted in the Garden; the dust would just return to the dust because it was just a material image of the phantom soul within.

Coming short of the glory of God is not being like God. God is without sin, so coming short is sinfulness, or failing to be the exact Image of God. Everybody comes short of the Image of God — His Divine Presence — because sin is genetic as mankind does what even most beasts will not do.

Beasts were made differently; they were meant to copulate. Even the beasts have natural cycles to reproduce, but coming far short of the glory of God, mankind copulates at will and with whom he will with no thoughts of multiplication. Therefore, man’s kind (us extant beings) without rebirth are as ‘beasts’ or to be more direct, as the ‘Beast’ — the Serpent.

Implied within scripture (Gen 4:1) is that Cain was the first being made from physical activity. Man was an ‘Adam” — a ‘kind.’ Cain was just an ‘extant’ being (ibid) — part man and part ‘beast.’

The smart Pharisees knew scripture, but Jesus had to remind them, “And said, ‘For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?’” (Mat 19:5).

Jesus was going somewhere with that saying or He would have not said it. He drew on scripture to remind them how it was in the glorious condition of the Garden Paradise.

They were one flesh. They were both of Adam’s kind, and woman came from the man, and the man from God. Just as Adam was the Image of God, so was his woman. She was his helper (Gen 2:18), meaning that one with the other is the whole! They were one kind when in the glorious state.

Then Jesus described the divisive moment when sin entered into the woman: ‘Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mat 19:6).

Marriage is a return to the original state. The Serpent divided the one kind into two. We think of Adam and Eve as the names of the male and the female, but in the Garden, the two were both ‘Adam’s;’ him the ‘man’ and she the ‘woman’ — the same kind but two very different genders.

Note that sin split the couple into two kinds. The man remained ‘Adam,’ but the woman was a new kind, ‘Eve.’ No longer were the two Adamah the parents of all the living, but sin caused the one kind to degenerate into two. After conceiving Cain of the wicked one (1 John 3:12), “Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, ‘I have gotten a man from the Lord’” (Gen 4:1).

Eve became godlike… “I have gotten” rather than God begot. Her countenance had changed. She became like the Beast, ‘Lucifer,’ who aspired to throne of God (Isa 14:13-14).

Adam did not beget Cain as afterwards men would. Adam “knew” Eve, his wife! He saw her do something (ibid). She was no longer a glorious ‘Adam’ but an inglorious ‘Eve.’ That name means ‘symbiotic’ (ibid) — “being (in) a close physical association between two or more dissimilar organisms” (Merriam-Webster 2023). She had intercourse with the Serpent, and probably not just verbal intercourse. The Serpent beguiled her (Gen 3:13), surely putting his guile, or cunningness, into the woman, and modifying her kind.

Her ”man” that she begot was cunning like the wicked one. He was not really ‘man’ — an ‘Adam,’ but an ‘Is (Hebrew), just another “extant” existence.

Not only that, but the woman was no longer an Adam, but an ‘Eve’ (‘Issa; Hebrew) the female counterpart to another kind of being.

The male and female genders called, ‘Adam,’ once one kind was divided into two kinds, Adam and Eve.  

Adam retained his countenance (Image) but Eve did not. I believe her new countenance was the “screech owl” of the Book of Isaiah — Lilith. She is known for her kind perishing children in their nests (the womb – abortion).

What is common among humans that is almost unheard of in other animals? Abortion. The animals have dens to birth in and for comfort. Humans have ‘dens of thieves’ wherein the lives of children are traded for money!

It was the original sin where Adam came short of the glory of God, and now everyone born lacks that countenance and are “born in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). ‘Iniquity’ is the state of being inglorious and without the Image of God. Because we all come short of the glory of God, being born in iniquity, rebirth is necessary to be made glorious again, as in the beginning.

It begins with persuasion. The Thoughts of God from the Word must hit sinners squarely in the face, or mind. No wonder Calvary is the ‘locus of the cranium.’ The divine Impulse that kicks off rebirth is that indeed Jesus is God and He showed us the Image of God within Himself at Calvary (Mark 15:37).

Since Jesus is the “Last Adam with the “quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45), then it is the Image of God — the Holy Ghost — in the man, Jesus — that makes sinners alive again. The Holy Ghost of Jesus breaths life into the mind of sinners, so that our thoughts are Thoughts such as His.

We should begin to think like Jesus from the Word and walk the Way that He walked. Our countenance begins to change, at first being “babes in Christ” (1 Cor 3:21), and remaining ‘pregnant’ with tribulation in the world, and with the process finalized, the agony of death to be saved!

Jesus finished his lesson about the creation and the division of the kinds. He was saying that there was one kind in the beginning and that was meant to be. The first sin was a division of the kinds — a ‘divorce’ where one kind was divided into two, and usually with animosity between them rather than a spirit of accord.

As such, regeneration is mankind being one kind again with the Divine Impulse from the Holy Ghost to start the rebirth. Only at death is a person totally alive and for some, remade in the Image of God and on the Way to Heaven, reverting to the glorious image of Adam, with incorruptible flesh not like Eve’s.

Hence, regeneration is a reconciliation under the auspices of God wherein our kind returns to one kind with Jesus as King and Lord of all.

Why all that explanation? The Pharisees, as smart as they were, failed to understand Mosaic Law. It was not that the Law was not good, but that God knew Eve’s kind quite well. He explained even further:

They (the Pharisees) said unto Him, “Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”

He said unto them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so” (Mat 19:7:8). He got that saying from His own Word from the beginning. Man was to remain men and woman remain women. Cain was a transhuman, and that was the worst of the inglorious.

Jesus could not be fooled. He said it all along, yet the dumb Pharisees were comfortable thinking themselves still glorious. Jesus burst their ‘bubble’ and mine as well; we are not Adam’s glorious kind, but Eve’s inglorious kind and we are symbiotic with our ‘father the devil” (John 8:44). We are of the Serpent’s genes, and Jesus was truthful enough to call a spade a ‘spade,’ or better said, a sinful man a “fiery dart” of the wicked one!



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