After finishing my treatise, I realized that it was not finished, so this epilogue adds to the story.
The man, Adam, is a moving picture
in our minds. We think of him like we think of ourselves. So many people have a
false idea; that “We are all God’s children.” No, we are not! “You are of your
father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do” (John 8:44).
John knew God! He knew that Jesus
is Yahweh and had been since the beginning (John 1:1-14). He was saying,
You are not of God; your father is the Devil.
Adam was a picture of God; “God
created man in His own Image, in the Image of God created He him; male and
female created He them” (Gen 1:27).
First off, “Adam” was not the male’s
name. Adam was our kind in the beginning. Hence, all of us were
made in the Image of God, not our flesh, but our countenance within; what we
now call our “souls.” Right then, God created an Image off His likeness. Since
our souls pre-existed us (Ephes 1:4), we were all at that time, a “picture” of Yahweh.
We call that picture the “soul” because it is what was inside our ancestor and
his woman.
The female was of the male. She
was a picture of the male, so the original picture had a copy made from it.
Everyone thereafter should have been a copy from the woman as the mother of all
the living (Gen 3:20), but with time and repetition, the image faded until it
degenerated in nine generations (Gen 5), so much that God could not longer be
seen in Adam’s kind (Gen 6). No longer could God tolerate the devolution, so He
dissolved the evil pictures of Adam that were not much like him. Mankind had
become fornicators, porno in the Greek.
We think of mankind’s outside,
but the degeneration was within. The soul of mankind no longer resembled God
but looked more like the so-called “Serpent” who was not literally a “serpent”
but cunning in that manner.
“Son” and “father” in those
passages is genetics. The Devil, for instance, never sired us but is in our
genetics because of the original sin. However remote it might be, Jesus said
that we must be born again (John 3:7), literally “engendered from above”
The Shroud of Turin showed how mankind
(Adam) can be redeemed. The first step in the process is a through regenning, a
time related process beginning with rebirth.
We too must spend time with God
for development wherein the “babe in Christ” (1 Cor 3:1) must be set apart
(sanctified) until the picture of God within us develops.
When the time of death nears, it
does not matter what the picture looked like all the time, but how it looks at the
moment of death.
The Shroud shows how Jesus looked
at His death but atop that picture is the “negative” — how he looked then at
the moment of the Resurrection. The Shroud is both the death mask and a mask of
His “quickening Spirit” overlaid onto the same picture (1 Cor 15:45).
The picture on the burial shroud
of Christ caught that “quickening Spirit” mentioned in that passage; “The first
man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”
The Shroud was therefore a
picture of the “Last Adam,” not a second Adam for each generation to us is a
false picture of Adam. The Shroud shows the Image of God that was in the first
Adam. The picture on the Shroud is in the negative. It is essentially the shadow
of the Divine Adam.
In review, what was the Image of
God in Adam? A “Selem” in the Hebrew; literally a “Shadow” but interpolated
to be a “Phantom” (ibid). The dark features contrasted on the Shroud is
what our soul should have looked like in 3:D. What you see on the Shroud is not
a two-dimensional picture of Jesus since it was wrapped around the body, it
revealed all the dimensions of the Body and Ghost of Christ at the same time.
Digressing for a moment, the synoptic
gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke each present one viewpoint of Jesus. For now,
the viewpoints of each will not be discussed, but together they three gospels,
each by one person, reveals a three-dimensional picture of Jesus. To see the
real Jesus, each gospel must be read and assembled.
On the other hand, multiple
people are believed to have provided information about Jesus for the book
written by John. John starts out by giving a view of Jesus that the others did
not; that the Image of God in the Old Testament was as real as the walking, talking,
articulating Jesus that he saw. Therefore, John chapter one is a verbal
picture that correlates with the picture on the burial cloth of Jesus!
John wrote in 3-D because he knew the real Jesus. He did not forget; the picture that he saw of the Living God is related in the Revelation wherein God showed John the picture of Himself fully developed, sometime after He returned to His Father:
I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks One like unto the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. (Rev 12:15)
John saw a Shroud that we could
not see. It was a garment that went down to His feet. Now examine the burial
covering of Jesus. John saw Jesus without His clothes, so to speak. He was
dressed in a garment that was more like the burial covering — like the Shroud
of Turin.
Figure 2; Shroud of Turn
Note that John saw into another
realm. He saw Jesus with white hair, and He was alive for His eyes were “as a
flame of fire.” Those eyes would have provided the Divine Light that put the
picture on the Shroud. The Angel of God seems to have projected His Image onto
the burial cloth and in 3-D by hovering around the Body of Christ as He had
done with Mary to conceive the original 3-D Living Picture of Yahweh!
The real Image of Jesus — the
objectified Image of Him — would look like this if the covering was wrapped which
it has been by use of computer technology.
Figure 3: YouTube
This could be an actual
photo of the last Adam. If so, the first Adam would have resembled Jesus before
he sinned and deteriorated the Image.
John saw something in his vision
that pointed toward “The Word” which was the very Image of Jesus before He put
on flesh; the one that Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fiery furnace.
The king had three men put into
the furnace, but he saw a fourth: “I see four men loose, walking in the midst
of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son
of God.” Jesus was walking in the fire. His Divine feet would have been singed
by fire. John saw that in the risen Christ! What John saw validated the story
of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego.
However, not only that, but John
saw evidence of intense Light that had altered
the feet of the glorified Jesus. His feet had signs of penetration by intense
Light, “His feet (was) like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace.” Not
only His feet, John, but His entire Body was burnt in the tomb by the Shekinah
of God! That was why His death was a “holocaust.” I submit that the Image of
Jesus that John saw was very much the same Image that we see on the Shroud!
Now for a moment, consider the
first Adam again. He was naked before sin and was not ashamed (Gen 2:25); not
that he was literally naked but that his soul could be seen through whatever
his glorified flesh was. After sin, he was naked, both of them, and they were
ashamed. Their souls had changed, so for that reason, they attempted to cover
their genitalia — their genetics — for it would degenerate mankind, and that
has been the case. I believe the flesh that we have to this day, since sin, is flesh
mutated by the genome of Lucifer — the cunning serpentine-like creature.
With that said, after Jesus was
glorified, He assumed new flesh; flesh that could not be touched nor torched.
It seems to have been a very different incorruptible flesh that Jesus wore that
could overcome the world (1 Pet 1:23).
The picture on the Shroud reveals
the wounds that Jesus received, but wounds that failed to kill Him. It is a
picture of His incorruptibility as well. In a sense, the burial cloth reveals His
nakedness, and He was not ashamed. Note that a closeup view of the Shroud shows
the genitalia of Jesus covered by his folded hands. In glorification, Jesus was
not ashamed for He was indeed the last Adam.
Morticians generally bury people
with their hands folded on their abdomens. Perhaps that is because of the folded
hands of glorified Jesus; who knows? However, it makes more theological sense
for Christians to be buried with our hands over our genitalia for throughout
the course of history our genitals have been our shame.
So is it true; did John see the
gloried Jesus as we see Him on the Shroud? I believe so! I trust that the Image
on the Shroud is our Savior demonstrating the resurrection is possible for Him
and us!
There is no shroud of it, but the
first Adam may have been one of the saints on Calvary that were resurrected
with Jesus that “came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into
the holy city, and appeared unto many” (Mat 27:53). [1]
In regard to Adam, he was made in
the Image of God. He was a negative picture of God, not in the sense that he
was created wicked, but that although God could not be seen, Adam could. Whatever
the substance of that Image, it could be seen because it was a picture of God.
How did God make Adam. He took a 3-D picture of Himself and put it into the
man, and then made it a living, articulating anthropoid (anthropos is “man”
in the Greek) that stood upright.
Adam was then covered with a
flesh that revealed his inward image.
Only with sin came human skin
like the beasts. As the last Adam, the photograph on the Shroud may very well
be what we should look like when we too are resurrected, hopefully minus the wounds
and such. The burial Shroud of Jesus might very well be a picture of the dead
when they arise, not in the sense of elevation from the grave, but when
our bodies are assembled again with our souls and made incorruptible. It
is a picture of us in Christ if we are born again.
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