God blessed mankind:
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God provided for His
creatures an existence (Gen 1:1)
·
God lighted that world.
(Gen 1:3)
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God provided a heaven for
man to rest. (Gen 1:8)
·
God provided land for
habitation. (Gen 1:9)
·
God provided water for life
to exist. (Gen 1:10)
·
God provided nourishment for
His creatures. (Gen 1:12)
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Do provided for life “clocks”
to measure life. (Gen 1:14-18)
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All moving creatures were
placed on land and seas (Gen 1:20-21)
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God provided for the lesser
creatures a means of reproduction (Gen 1:22-25).
To this point, God made all the
things for lesser creatures — those of a lower state of existence. To this
point all things were “good” (Gen 1:25).
Then God made the greater creature:
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God then made man after His
own image and likeness. (Gen 1:26).
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Man was a creature of a
higher state of existence, having dominion over the lesser creatures (Gen
1:26). Dominion would be a fragment, El. of Elohim in man alone.
·
God made man in two
distinct forms: male and female (Gen 1:27): זָכָר
and נְקֵבָה. Note that the male form had dominion and
the female form lesser — the male’s help-mate (Gen 2:18). The male was to be
the dominant of the species, not the female. The male (zakar; זָכָר) would be the virile of the two (neqiba;
נְקֵבָה) “the pierce” from the root verb “naqab”
(נָקַב). Hence, the male Adam had dominion over
the female Adam in addition to the lower state of the other creatures.
Literally, the male was cut (zayin) from the Godhead (resh)
before time began (qof). Note that the male was perceived before the
foundation of the world. Like Jesus as well, “(God) has chosen us in Him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will…
Adam’s kind was predetermined from the
beginning as the chosen kind and also that man over woman would be the dominant
kind. However, when time began outside the Garden, the woman because of sin
held the dominant role (Gen 4:1), her saying, “I have gotten a man…” She had
become the male figure. She chose herself to be a higher state of creature,
albeit she was of a lower state than the male. So, like the first Adam, the “last
Adam” (Jesus) was born male and the Chosen One who would reproduce man with His
quickening (life giving) Spirit (1 Cor 15:45).
Given that background, mankind, and the male of that kind, would have
been the chosen “elect” predestined to be in Christ. The predestination is
rightfully before the foundation of the world (Gen 1:1); hence the world was
made for Adam’s kind.
Adam was the man made in the Image of
God, but the woman (Isha), Eve, made man (Ish) in her image. To
be one of the elect, therefore God would transform (provide genes from above) the
common mortal man, Ish-kind, into Adam’s kind (John 3:7).
The concept of election is found in
Genesis 1:26-27 wherein the male Adam is chosen above the female as well as all
the other creatures, and that was God’s Plan from the beginning.
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God stated that their kind
was chosen, and that mankind would multiply God’s type via the
prototype male, Adam. (Gen 1:28)
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Until the creation of man,
all things were “good” but with Adamic man “it was very good” (Gen 1:31). God
had created His seed in the form of firm things. Next, God would place His divine
seed in His Garden to grow (Gen 2:7). His kind were the “elect”, not any of the
others.
·
God put the man whom he had
formed in the eastward of Eden in the Garden (Gen 2:8). “Eastward” is an ancient
way of saying “before time began.” So, the Creation, although the clocks had
been created, time was for mankind and the creatures.
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God made the Tree of Life
for man in the middle of the Garden before time ever began (Gen 2:9). The Garden
of Eden would have pre-existed time, and then time began with sin (Gen 4:3).
God made mankind and put him and
his mate in a sanctuary with Himself as the Tree of Life as the focus of
attention. Because Adamic man was non-vigilant and not sober, Adam’s kind
became a lower state — common mortal man, Ish (Gen 4:1).
Before, glorious man had been safe
in the sanctuary of the Lord God, and after sin very unsafe as The
Books of Adam and Eve portray their existence after being cast out of their
sanctuary (Gen 4:26).
With that background, while in the
Garden sanctuary of the Lord God, Jesus stood right there in the middle as the
source of life in the Tree of Life. Afterward, they would provide for themselves
after sin and removed from their sanctuary.
The exodus of the Israelites was
not directed to the real estate of the promise land but beyond that land, “You
shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
in the place, O Lord, which You have made for You to dwell in, in the
Sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established” (Exod 15:17).
Moses’s destination was not
Canaan land but for sanctuary in the Garden of the Lord where Moses would go,
not where they would go. Moses died and found the true promised land and
there he rested in the bosom of Abraham who had gone there previously as lord,
according to The Book of Jasher.
And afterward Moses went into the garden
of Reuel which was behind the house, and he there prayed to the Lord his God,
who had done mighty wonders for him. And it was that whilst he prayed he looked
opposite to him, and behold a sapphire stick was placed in the ground, which
was planted in the midst of the garden.
And he approached the stick and he looked,
and behold the name of the Lord God of hosts was engraved thereon, written and
developed upon the stick.
And he read it and stretched forth his
hand and he plucked it like a forest tree from the thicket, and the stick was
in his hand.
And this is the stick with which all the
works of our God were performed, after he had created heaven and earth, and all
the host of them, seas, rivers and all their fishes.
And when God had driven Adam from the
garden of Eden, he took the stick in his hand and went and tilled the ground
from which he was taken.
And the stick came down to Noah and was
given to Shem and his descendants, until it came into the hand of Abraham the
Hebrew.
And when Abraham had given all he had to
his son Isaac, he also gave to him this stick. (Jasher
77:38-45)
That sapphire stick was Adam’s
and represented him as “king” of the Garden of Eden. It became like a baton
that was passed down. Abraham became the token lord and king of the Garden of
the Lord, not in the land of Canaan, but the Garden of the Lord; then that
stick was passed down to Moses, which is symbolic of the Tree of Life as revealed
to John as Jesus.
The stick of Jasher passes
along the right of inheritance— to whom the stick should go. It was finished
when Jesus was glorified. The big stick stopped with Jesus and now the dead
rest, not in Abraham’s bosom, but the bosom of Jesus.
Passing the stick meant to be for
Adam seems to be the concept of “election” wherein He is to be our king and us his
people.
All the bullet items in the list
previously are by the grace of God. Adam’s kind were pre-decided before the
foundation of the world, but when Adam failed, the baton was passed along.
The New Testament would be
when the stick of Adam is passed to one new kind — those in Christ Jesus. Those
holding the sapphire stick at the end shall become members of the royal
priesthood in the kingdom of heaven, as Paul wrote to Peter, “You are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you
should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into
his marvelous light” (1 Pet 2:9).
Darkness was separated from the
light of God in the beginning, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the
waters” of light and darkness. Hence, the firmament would be a distinction
between light and darkness, or truth.
A “sanctuary” in the Hebrew from
Exodus 15:17 is the mountain of God’s inheritance — the world. It would be
calvary — the place of Adam’s skull. [1]
Sanctuary in the Old Testament
points to Calvary. God said, “Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell
among them” (Exod 25:8). Hence, the tabernacle was to be a sanctuary, until
Jesus was manifested as the sanctuary of God.
Hence, in Christ is the
sanctuary. To be in Christ, a Christian to remain a Christian, must abode in
Christ (John 14:33); that is to abode in Jesus for sanctuary. The Garden of
Eden was once the sanctuary wherein Adam’s kind abode with the Lord God — as “The
Tree of Life”.
“Sanctuary” in the Hebrew is miqdas
— asylum away from the things of the world; set apart from it.
Sanctuary is an asylum providing
safety from threatening elements wherein a person is safe, as in the Garden of
the Lord.
Abraham wasn’t seeking Canaan’s
land but the true promised land, “even the Garden of the Lord” (Gen 1:10)
wherein the Hebrews would have a sanctuary to live in safety. With that said, “Abraham’s
bosom” (Luke 16) is a sanctuary wherein mankind was safe until Jesus would get
the sapphire stick.
The fire of Ur sanctified Abram
and made him “Abraham”. God breathed life (hey — the letter “H”) into
him to set him apart, and then God granted the seed of Abraham asylum in the
land of Canaan.
“Aliens” are persons out of their
own places. As Christians, we are not of this world but are aliens from another
world; “This world is not our home; we are looking forward to our everlasting
home in heaven” (Heb 13:14-16 ESV). The same applies to sinners in the world of
Christians:
That at that time you were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ
Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (Ephes 2:11-12)
Christians are brought close to
Jesus by the blood of Christ. As such, Christians are yoked with Jesus just as
a new calf is yoked with a mighty and learned ox to become an ox as well. One
ox is brought nigh (close) to an ox of a higher state. All oxen are born calves
of bovine creatures and become oxen as they are taught by another ox in a higher
state.
In Christ is yoked with
Jesus in the same manner, and the yoke is the Word of God.
Sanctuary is an inalienable right
to be nigh to God just as a servant should not be an alien to any king.
Sanctification is what? Paul
wrote about it:
You, brethren — beloved of the Lord —
because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. (2 Thes 2:13)
In that passage “salvation” is
the in the Greek “soteria” — a state of preservation, or in safety. How
to be saved? Through sanctification, “hagiasmos”— set apart, ostensibly
for and by God. A sanctuary is a state of being set apart in the safety of a
sanctuary.
A sanctuary can be some type of
an asylum or a safe space wherein no threat can penetrate. Hence, sanctuary is to
be set apart in the Word of God. It is a state of safety until the time
of salvation arrives.
If it was a ship, so long as the
ship is in the harbor, there is safety, but salvation is not until the ship has
reached sure ground.
That sure ground, is Paradise —
the Garden of the Lord — where thing alien to God can no longer get in (Gen 3:24) because Jesus is the
Way back to the Tree of Life.
With that said, salvation would
not come before sanctification, but sanctification until salvation. The doctrine
of Nazarenes is saved and sanctified. Better said is sanctified until
salvation.
God sets the Christian apart (sanctifies)
until the time of salvation in a sanctuary where like in the Garden, with Him
as the “Husbandman” who provides all things to nourish, feed, and keep you safe
from the Wicked One. Like the woman of Adam, although safe, because of insobriety
and non-vigilance, even glorious woman could still be beguiled. With that said,
even in a sanctuary, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil,
as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).
The background from the Book
of Genesis reveals the grace of God and who carries the big stick. It is
never you, but God who places the stick in the hands of the elect. Going to a
church of some doctrinal theory is not the stick, but the sapphire stick is
from God. In the hands of the elect, it is a stick of safety until the coming
of Christ. Now, it is Christ’s way, not Adam’s, Noah’s, Abraham’s, nor even Moses’s
way, but Jesus’s.
Having the stick of God is for
those set apart. Adam’s kind began the good race, and certain patriarchs and
their seed were set apart in a sanctuary of sorts, but each failed. Only Jesus
is the Way and still carries the baton.
Being finished, the only Way to
the original sanctuary of God is by Jesus who alone carries the only stick for
a way in — the Holy Cross.
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