The Greek word, doxa, is translated ‘glory’ in the English. Glory is difficult to decipher, because like beauty, glory is in the eyes of the beholder. Some consider glory as ‘splendorous’ because they think of the Light of God; although that is true, doxa can also be translated as “dignified” of which we think of royalty (a sovereign) who deserves to be highly esteemed.
Why should God be highly
esteemed? He is the Creator of all things. As the only Existence (YHWH),
all things came from Almighty God. He is the Progenitor of all things.
As such, in the beginning, Adam
and his mate were created glorious because they were progeny of God, made
in His very Image (Gen 1:27).
Scripture says that all things He
made were “very good.” That is an understatement… very good comes short of the
glory of God. All things were literally, “me’od tob” in the Hebrew — “wholly
good” or “right”
As such, glorious is wholly
right, or reduced to one word, “righteous.”
Now compare that to the loss of
righteousness — iniquity, or depravity. Paul wrote the following:
Even the righteousness
of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of
the glory of God. (Rom 3:22-23)
Righteousness is without
sin. Sinners come short of the rightness of God who is right, or without sin,
in all respects. Coming short of the glory of God is essentially being
unlike God in even one quality. If God is entirely righteous, then sinners, to
some degree, are unrighteous and inglorious.
Since righteousness is the supra-nature
of God, then unrighteousness — depravity — is the nature of sinful man.
Paul went on to say that the
depraved, “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus” (Rom 3:24). So ‘justification’ is making right wherein sinners
all come short of righteousness. It is certainly not just as we never
sinned, but that everyone has sinned, is guilty, but redeemed by Jesus.
“By grace” has an underlying
meaning; redemption is not for the righteousness because we all come short of
that; it is for the unrighteous. Hence justification is more so inglorious sinful
men that are made right. The act of making right was by the blood of Jesus, who
propitiated His blood “for sins that are past” (Rom 3:25).
Most readers gloss over for sins
that are past. Redemption by the blood of Jesus was for all the sins of
Adam and Eve from the original sin to now. He redeemed mankind in total for we
all, since original sin, are no longer right. Something has gone wrong with the
original sin to mutate the Image (Selem) of God that was in our kind to
the image (nahas) of Lucifer.
Selem — the Image of God — is a ‘Shadow’
or ‘Phantom’ of God (ibid). God created the phantom of man first, then
put that Image within a vessel of sorts. The Shadow of the man was a fragment
of the molded image (adama; Gen 2:7). Adam was the inner
substance of the Man and adama the outer. Adama was Adam’s kind,
and the only one of any of the kinds that had a ‘phantom,’ or a soul.
Adam’s soul was the Image of God,
and his body the image of the world — the ground. It was the soul of Adam that
was like God. His flesh was nothing more than a substance that enabled His soul
to do things alongside the animal kingdom, and perhaps for Adam to appear to be
an upright man, and ‘anthropos’ in the Greek. The image of man does walk
upright as anthropoids, but his soul is what was made upright.
Now for the key verse:
When the Son of man shall come in His
glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He
sit upon the throne of His glory. (Mat 25:31)
Jesus was fully adama and
fully God. Just as Adam had the genetics of God — His Image — Jesus was also of
the same substance as Adam. He was fully man as well as fully God.
Mary was not the ‘mother of God;’
Jesus alluded to that; “Who is my mother, or my brethren?” (Mark 3:33). Mary
was a ‘transporter,’ or vessel, to carry the Spirit of God in phantom from another
realm to the world. Think of her as the vessel that carried Jesus from there to
here… an ‘Ark’ of sorts!
Mary’s composition, as in all of
us, was identical to the ground and even in the same proportions by percentage.
The material that held the Image of God in Jesus, as the ‘Last Adam’ was from
the substance of Mary, but Mary was not the mother of Jesus in a biological
sense. God imbued her with His Holy Spirit and made that Spirit a living soul
in the same manner as Adam. Mary like Eve did not really make a man! (Gen 4:1);
God did.
Jesus was not the paternal son of
God but identically God. He was the Image that was in Adam. God formed the
vessel (or cup) in the womb of Mary, and then filled that material vessel with
His Phantom Image, to wit: “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a
dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved
Son; in thee I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). Maybe I am wrong, but the soul of
Adam was made first, then God made an image (adama) to contain the soul.
Implied is that He filled the soul with His Spirit and made the man a living
soul.
The soul of Jesus pre-existed His
coming in the flesh. (John 1:1). God made for Jesus a vessel of flesh that at His
baptism by John descended from above in “bodily shape.” Hence, God took the Old
Testament “Word” and spoke it unto the flesh that Mary carried. Jesus may have been
immersed in the Jordan, but His baptism was of the Holy Ghost.
The point therein is that Jesus
was the ‘Son of man,’ not by the Mary’s egg, but by her maternal DNA that
resided in all women since original sin; that was because Eve is the ‘mother of
all living.’ As such, since mitochondrial DNA is passed down by the mother
alone, Jesus had the DNA of Eve in His flesh. As the “mother of all living”
(Gen 3:20), Eve was the mother of Jesus. Mary passed down the genetics of Eve
to Jesus. Mary may have carried Jesus, but she also carried the DNA of Eve and
passed it down to Jesus.
Jesus was the Son of man through
Mary and Eve. Eve was another kind that resulted because of sin. Before
sin, she was of man, but afterward, she became a much different kind,
and Adam called her ‘Eve’ because of her new nature. She went from of Adam
to of herself with that one sin. It was she that made for Adam, not
another Adam, but an ‘Is (pronounced Eesh; Gen 4:1).
That the Son of man shall come in
“His Glory” means that Jesus will come as wholly God and without sin. He will
indeed have flesh, but flesh that never sinned.
Then, after He comes, Jesus said
about Himself, “Then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.” Remembering
that the Glory of God is his sovereignty and dignity, He will sit in the royal
throne of God in heaven. Scripture says about the ascension of Jesus, “After
the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into heaven, and sat on the
right hand of God” (Mark 16:19).
Jesus is God; how can He sit next
to God? His place is not locational at all but in authority. At the Crucifixion,
Jesus was made glorious (John 7:39) to overcome the world at His ascension. He
was made glorious, or wholly like God, with the dignity of God. He did not sit
on God or beside Him; He received His rightful place having the dignity and
authority of the Father.
So, Jesus is not the ‘Son of God’
in a paternal sense, but He is the very Image of the Father. The Father went
into Jesus at His baptism and made Jesus a living God! Jesus is the Son,
not in a biological sense, but think of Jesus as the very Identity of God, YHWH,
in the Person of a Adama.
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