What is man, that You should magnify him?
and that You should set Your heart upon him? (Job
7:17)
What is man, that he should be clean? and
he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14)
What is man, that You are mindful of him?
and the Son of Man, that You visit Him? (Psalm
8:4)
Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge
of him! or the Son of Man, that You make account of Him! (Psalm 144:3)
So, just what is “man”? Hidden within the English, but
exposed in the Hebrew, are two kinds of man. First consider the eighth psalm
above.
The word “what” is “ma” in the Hebrew: mem – hey,
meaning “What kind (or beheld from the letter hey)? David was asking two
questions; (1) what is common, mortal man (enos), and (2) what is
the glorious man (adam) — the son (ben).
Ben in the Hebrew is the “builder”. The builder of
what? Nun: the seed, waters. or genetics of the Builder. Of course,
according to John (John 1), God is the Builder and Jesus (Yeshua) His
seed.
Jesus is a special man — the very Elohim of El
seeded in one man (adam). In royal terms, therefore the “Son of Man” is of
“The House of Adamic man”, and Adam from the “House of God”.
El owns the glorious Estate of the world — both the
visible and the invisible. As Jesus was of the “House of God”, He would be the
sovereign king of all things in existence.
The silly politicians that crucified Jesus didn’t care about
the real Estate of God but the lower estate of Judea with Jesus as the “son
of David” and rightful heir to that one throne. Jesus saying, “They know
not what they do” (Luke 23:34) was an understatement for they killed the King
of kings and Lord of lords of all creation (Rev 19:6).
Hence, the “Son of Man” means that Jesus had within His
Adamic kind of flesh the very seed of God. Adamic flesh is a glorified covering
of some sort, as the letter bet indicates.
Now consider what is man: “The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” (1 Cor 15:45).
From the Greek, the first man Adam is protos anthropos adam with adam
retaining the Hebrew for “man”.
Man (“Adam”, also retained in English) was the original Adam
signified by protos. The first man, Adam, was the proto man whose form
was anthropoidal (anthropoidea — a suborder of higher primates). Hence, Adam “man”
was a higher state than the common, mortal man, called “enos” in the
Hebrew.
Adam was made “a living soul” with uprightness, or the
highest state of all the primates. He was a higher state of man because Adam’s
person contained elohim life within, not just any life but the very
essence of God that was breathed unto him.
Sin surely degenerated Adam’s kind — the male and female — for
soon after sin they noticed a change in their bodies. They would have acquired
flesh like the other beasts of the field, implied by the aprons that they made
to cover their sexual organs (Gen 3:7).
What is man (enos)? A lower state than Adam’s kind. Enos
man was a lower state than before sin. Of what substance was original Adam
remains unknown, but it was inorganic as his Name implies, “clay”, of course as
a metaphor for incorruptibility.
Proto Adam’s kind would have been inorganic, but with sin
became organic and mortal since carbon in all organisms will decay. Hence,
before sin, Adam man was immortal and after sin, common man Enos mortal
with short lifespans.
What is common man? Decadent just like feces for what they
ate they would become.
What is man? Common men are organic and mortal with a short “shelf
life”. What was man before the advent of mortal flesh? Immortal and of a
glorious incorruptible substance — Sons of God with some elohim in him.
Returning now to Psalm 8:4, “What is man (enos),
that You are mindful of him? and the Son (Ben) of Man (Adam),
that You visit Him?”
Now consider mortal man, Enos (אֱנוֹשׁ; pronounce en-oshe).
Like words, letters mean things in Hebrew.
David wrote only of two sub-kinds of men: adam and enos.
However, Cain’s “man” was an“is” (pronounced eesh) from his “wife”
mother, issa (Gen 4:1, sounds like eesha).
Is came from issa
alone for she said that she created a “man” for her “lord”
instead of the Lord God.
The Beast had warned that they would become as gods, and the
woman (issa) implied that she was the god (Gen 4:1). Since “is”
is from the woman/wife, issa, and not the male adam (who only
watched), then “is” would have been another extant being as the word
means. Cain was some other form of life, and with time, Cain would die. Hence, is
kind led to mortal men (enos) as well.
Eve made a name for her new kind of male — “Is” (אִישׁ).
Enos comes from the root Hebrew word, meaning weak,
or sick
Now lets take a close look at “Adam” man: the root אָדָם from הָאָדָם. The first letter (on the right) is hey, meaning “breathed” or “revealed”.
The root word is el –
dahlet – mem. First off the mem indicates “kind” not just one. The
letter dahlet indicates the door, or way and the el the generating Power
of God “El” Himself. The name “Adam” fairly well describes the ontology
of God’s kind. Adam was not the man’s name but his kind and the woman was of
the same kind. With that said, issa (the woman) was the vessel of elohim,
the Power of God, as well and she would produce more elohim — God’s
glorious kind.
Could it be that God
breathed life, not just into one man, but many of Adam’s kind as the mem
implies, or was the mem just the living waters of God? After all, God
has almighty Power (El shaday). As it may be, intercourse between different
states of anthropoids was inevitable.
How did Enos come from Is? Is would
pertain to only one man, Cain, but Enos to numbers of men or “mankind.”
David was questioning, what is mankind? Then he questioned what is
God’s kind? referring to Jesus.
What is man, is? He was from issa, the wife of
whom? Note that she was of Adam’s kind as the woman, issa. The woman (issa)
was the wife (issa) of the man (adam), but she created is-man
herself for her lord.
It appears that Adam was deceived as well as ignorant of
procreation. Like an innocent child, he would not have understood that he was
watching God’s kind die to be replaced by a new kind of existence (is).
Adam’s kind did die as the penalty for eating of the forbidden tree, but another
kind arose from his ashes. Some other lower state of man — a beast perhaps —
would be required to supply the seed, the letter nun in enos (אֱנוֹשׁ).
Now let’s critique the meaning of the letters in enos.
Aleph is characterized by the ox, one of the many
beasts of the field. The ox may represent flesh, hence common, mortal “man”
would have the flesh of a beast, and that we do.
The letter nun would imply seed-bearing and that we
are. The letter vav, by its shape, could imply upright man as it often
does.
Finally, the letter shin with a dot to the right
branch makes it pronounceable as the “sh” sound. One of the meanings of the
letter shin is fire, and its use “fusion”. Hence, enos sort of
spells out that a fusion of two kinds by the fiery darts of the Wicked One. The
one lucky sperm that penetrates the egg of a woman issues a zinc flash for just
an moment as it breaks through. Perhaps that “flash” is one dart from many fiery
darts.
Hence, adam was planned and came about but Cain was
generated by chance, or probability with it not planned by God.
What is mortal man? Sperm-bearing upright creatures with
flesh of the beasts.
What is man? Somewhat upright, godly man and half beast/man
lower in state — the “creeping thing” (remes) of Genesis 1:26.
Perhaps now you might want to examine all the evidence for
the conclusion in my latest book, The Creeping Things of the Bible,
which explains what is man that God should care for us. Perhaps we are
not totally depraved as Calvinism proposes but with just enough “el” in
us to make us worth improving and glorifying again. For us to be improved, “for
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23), a fragment of
God (el) must penetrate our minds for elohim to fill or souls.
“What is man that You should magnify him?” (Job 7:17). Not
make him larger, but to make common man glorious as God intended;
to change man from a lower state (enos) to a higher state (adam).
Jesus was the “quickening Spirit” that made proto man alive
and remains the Way from a lower (enos) to a higher state (adam) of
Existence (Elohim) — in Christ, the Messianic God.
