Tuesday, December 12, 2023

THE SON OF MAN

Jesus, still speaking about the little children implied so much. One was that if the children (of God) suffer offenses, the consequence is that the offender will suffer hell fire (Mat 18:9). Jesus then continued with these words: 

(Key verse) In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost (Mat 18:10-11)

 Jesus was speaking of the children of God who would see the face of the Father which is in heaven. That ‘Face’ is the Face of Jesus.

“Face” therein is literally the Person of God.

Many have been taught that there are three Persons of the Holy Trinity — the ‘Godhead.’  A Person is a human being. God is one Person and He has a personality, or countenance. Although Webster also uses it as three Persons of the Holy Trinity, that should be questioned because a spirit is the ghost of a Person. A ‘ghost’ is the phantom that shadows a person and is the “Image” in which Adam was made in the first process (Gen 1:27; selem). The material substance of Adam was made in the second process (Gen 2:7).

Therefore, the outer material image is the exact shape of the invisible Image, but that inner image is the Image of God, and God was not a Person until He was born of the virgin Mary.

The Spirit of Jesus — the Holy Ghost upon His death — is the ‘Son of God’ (Mat 14:33). The Spirit, or soul, of Jesus is the very Image of God.

That Image is genetic; the word ‘son’ makes it so. Jesus was not fathered in a human manner but engendered with the Holy Spirit of God. As such, the Soul of Jesus was genetically of the ‘Father’ and Jesus had within Himself the very Genome of God — the genetic Identity of God within every cell of His Holy Body.

Consider that for a moment. Most people think of the soul as a vessel of some sort, perhaps even the Holy Grail. Jesus referred to Himself as a ‘cup’ if it had been in the English (Mar 14:36). Jesus used the Greek word, poterion.

The word ‘pottery’ came from the French word ‘poterie’ and as you can see, Jesus may have been referring to the material image of the ground in which mankind was made. Of course, ‘ground’ in the Hebrew is ‘adam.’

Was Jesus asking the Father to remove the Adam from Himself? Not to forget, Jesus was called, ‘the last Adam’ (1 Cor 15:45). Jesus redeemed sinful Adam as well as Adam’s kind. Taking the ‘cup’ from Him was Jesus asking the Father to not put sin into His flesh.

Now back to the key verses.

Then Jesus referred to Himself as the ‘son of man.’

The words, “son of man,” in general refer to those of the genetics of Adam — his kind. Ezekiel in his prophecies referred to the coming Messiah as the “Son of man” (Ezek 4:16), “ben Adam” in the Hebrew. Hence, Jesus was referring to Himself genetically as the “Son of Adam,” not that Adam was His father, but that Adam was in His own genome.

Whereas the genome of Adam was not corrected in scripture, God provided for them another flesh (Gen 3:21) obviously to ward off the fiery darts of the Wicked One.

Jesus was the ‘Son of Adam’ but not sinful Adam because He was without sin. Within, Jesus was the Image of God and without the image in which Adam was made — a material image. Jesus was what the first Adam was meant to be. His Spirit was the phantom Image of God and His Body the material image that God molded with His own ‘hands’ so to speak.

When Jesus referred to Himself as the ‘son of man’ just meant that He was mankind and was of the same material as the first two ‘Adam’s’ (The woman was of the kind of Adam as well.) Jesus got His ‘Adam’ from Mary and He got His Spirit from Yahweh.

When Jesus took on all the sin of mankind, whereas the two Adam’s sinned, Jesus made Himself sin for Adam and his kind. Hence, “Son of man” is very significant because unless He was Adam’s kind, He would not propitiate His blood (Rom 3:25) for some other kind. He had to be of the gens (genetics) of Adam to redeem Adam and his kind.

To ‘propitiate’ is to appease God, and the method was by sprinkling of blood on the mercy seat of the Ark of God. His blood appeased God, making it unnecessary that we die, die, die (Gen 2:17) to save ourselves (“surely die” which I assume to mean die in all three substances – mind, body, and spirit.)

That propitiation is necessary as God revealed to Moses, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lev 17:11).

“Atonement” therein is to pacify, or appease, God. Propitiation is that atonement, specifically for the souls of Adam’s kind; that inner person made in the Image of God.

There were two ‘creations’ of Adam’s kind of sorts. In chapter one of the Book of Genesis, the soul of Adam was made in the Image of God and in chapter two, God made for Adam a material image. Chapter one is the creation of the heaven and chapter two possibly the creation of the earth, or material world.

Regarding the key verses, Jesus referred to “their angels,” in reference to the children of God. Of course, the literal meaning of angel is ‘messenger,’ but the context seems to refer to the innermost substance of the children which, again, is the soul, or the Image of God within, not that children of God become angels at all!

The use of “our image” (Gen 1:26) is “selem” in the Hebrew — a shadow or phantom. Angelic creatures are invisible, of course unless they reveal themselves in some other image.

Adam’s kind was made in that same Image (Selem) and God revealed that Image when He made flesh for Adam. Angels never have flesh in the heavenly realm, but apparently put on flesh supplied by their ‘father the Devil” for lascivious purposes (Gen 6:4).

Adam’s original flesh was incorruptible. He could not beget until after sin. God begot both Adam’s from the same “very good” (Gen 1:31) material, obviously without evil within the cells of the flesh.

In other words, the flesh that we wear is from “our father the Devil” (John 8:44), not that the Devil sired us, but that we all have the genetics of the Devil within. Jesus came to transform our genetics back to the Image in which mankind was made in the beginning.

The blood of Jesus has the DNA of God in every nuclear cell. Springling by the blood of Jesus made Adam, perhaps buried at the place of his skull, [1] redeemed by that atonement once and for all his bloodline.

With Jesus gone, sinners are cleansed by the Remnant of God remaining — the Holy Ghost which is the very Invisible Image of God! The Holy Ghost imbues children of God with the Image of God, which given time, makes them glorious again.

Multiplication was meant to be spiritual, not carnal. Now, everyone focuses on carnality rather than spirituality. The ‘Great Commission’ is the proper form of multiplication because it is the way that God did it.

The son of man came to save those who were lost. Previous verses indicate what it is that the lost are saved from… Hell. ‘Lost’ therefore is without finding Paradise in heaven.

It is their souls, or angels, that are saved. Their flesh goes back to the dust from which they came. The flesh is never saved. It is reconstituted at best.

Those dead in Christ are not raised in the flesh, but their souls, or angels, are removed from Earth to the realm of heaven and God outs onto them incorruptible coats of skin. Their soul is regenerated but their evil flesh discarded because its filthy genetics probits entry into a pure realm.

In the end, all those who follow Christ to their death, become like original Adam whose soul is the very Image of God — Glorious — and their bodies the very Image of Jesus — Incorruptible.

The fact that the Devil could not transform Jesus with temptations proves that our kind can avoid sinful acts if the Ghost of Jesus resides in us. The Holy Ghost of Jesus is perhaps the “whole armor of God,” or the coats of the skin from God of Genesis, remembering that the ‘Skin’ of God was a ‘Shadow’ of the One to come.

Such simple words of Jesus have so many significant meanings. All we need to do is let the Spirit reveal the intense meaning of simple words.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



[1] Read more about that in my book, The Skull of Adam.

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