This commentary provides much esoteric, or hidden knowledge, and is important for us to humble ourselves for God to lift us up. Now consider a show that I am ashamed that I watched.
In the sitcom “Seinfeld” (Season
9; episode 9) called “The Apology,” Jerry dated a woman who was comfortable
being naked. It disgusted him to see a grown woman sitting casually on the sofa
doing nothing but being naked.
Unlike most men, Seinfeld found
that disgusting. His male friends did not understand, so he described “good
naked” and “bad naked.” Unknown to Jerry, he was describing a biblical concept
from the passages which follow:
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“The man and his wife “were
both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Gen 2:24) ostensibly
in the Presence of God.
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After eating of the “Wisdom
Tree, “The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were
naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons, and they
heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool of the day
and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the Presence of the Lord God amongst
the trees of the Garden.” (Gen 3:7:8)
Before sin, the two would have
been glorious and full of glory; כָּבוֹד Kabowd. Within them would
have been the “Image” of God, Tselem (צֶלֶם), that provided the Glory of God (Elohim)
to them. The essence of the Presence of God would be Kabowd in the form
of Tselem.
Now to analyze Kabowd first:
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Qof means in a
hidden dimension.
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Bet symbolizes
emergence from hidden probabilities.
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Vav means bound in
both heaven and earth.
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Dalet indicates
entry into what we call the world.
In summary, the state of Adam was
like one emerging from a non-material world into a material one. The “hidden probabilities,”
is perhaps Calvin’s doctrine of “election” for only Adam’s kind would have emerged
from the heavens unto the world with God, Elohim, in him.
Now you might see that scripture
begins to make sense. Adam was before space/time and matter and of Elohim;
and after entry into it, Tselem — the very Image of Elohim in
bodily shape as with Jesus (Luke 3:22). That Image would have been “full of
glory” of which the apostle Paul wrote to Peter in the case of Jesus by then
gone:
That the trial of your faith, being much
more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might
be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ; whom
having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see Him not, yet believing,
you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. (1 Pet 1:7-8)
Paul compared to the fullness of
glory to the human soul (1 Pet 7:9), “Receiving the end of your faith, even the
salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9).
Jesus was the Glory of God in the
shape of a man and as such “the last Adam” (1 Cor 15:45), “The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.”
Therefore, Yeshua (the
last Adam) was the Spirit in the first Adam that was a living soul. Like Jesus,
Adam would have had Elohim in his person from the bodily Presence of God
(Yeshua). John described the
creation of Adam eloquently:
In the beginning was the Word (Jesus to be
made flesh), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; the same was in
the beginning with God.
All things (like Adam) were made by Him;
and without Him was not any thing made that was made, in Him was life;
and the life was the Light of men. (John 1:1-3)
The substance of God in Adam was
His Light as God said it, “Let them be for lights in the firmament of the
heaven to give Light upon the earth: and it was so” (Gen 1:15). The lights of
heaven (Gen 1:6) would cross the firmament between heaven and earth, and would
be the lights of men, most assuredly the immortal souls prepared for only Adam’s
kind.
Just as “stars” in Revelation
reveal angels, the lights of heaven would surely reveal primordial souls
of men.
That action was God’s selection,
or “election” as translators called it; “(God) has chosen us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in
love” (Ephes 1:4).
Adam would have been created from
the very Light of God. As such, the soul of Adam (Tselem) would be Adam
as a “shadow” or “phantom” of God (Strong 2006). God is Light and in
Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Hence, even the shadow of God —
the “living soul” of the man, Adam, would have been full of Light as John wrote
(John 1:3).
The Light of God within the
living soul of the man, Adam, would have been the Glory of God — the Presence
of the Light of God within the soul of Adam.
Christians must do the math,
so to speak. Since Paul was writing about selection before the
foundation of the world, the readers must visit The Book of Genesis to
find out how so, when, and why.
John even added where to find
that (John 1). Genesis was the beginning of things just as John and Paul
revealed. God would not have been a “Particular Baptist” but would baptize all (General
Baptists) of Adam’s kind as His people.
Paul wrote:
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in
one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father
of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephes 5:4-6)
Adam was baptized by the
Elohim of God and was raised from the waters as a living soul. Baptism of the Spirit (The living waters of God —
HaShamayim). The baptism of Jesus was in the same manner as Adam was baptized:
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 You, I AM well pleased. (Luke 3:22)
Adam was also baptized by the
Spirit of God in bodily shape when he was made alive.
God provided for Adam a living
soul, then put his soul into a material vessel.
For Jesus, it was somewhat
different; God Elohim always existed and onto Himself in the womb of
Mary, He added the flesh like a sinful man to become sin for us (2 Cor 5:21).
As such, Jesus required baptism first to cleanse the disgust from His flesh in
preparation for God Elohim to enter His Vessel.
Now imagine the Spirit of God (Elohim)
in bodily shape (Eloha) entering the man, Adam. Jesus always existed but
not in the flesh of a Beast like us. He was glorified (John 7:39) when He
received new flesh much different than before the crucifixion.
So, what does all this have to do
with “good naked” and “bad naked?”
Tselem was the Image of
God and the substance kawbod.
However, the next act of God was
a covering for the soul of man. Before that, the substance of Adam would have
been the Elohim “Spirit” of God in the shape of a man without a
covering. Then “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7). God
then made a vessel and put the Spirit in the shape of a man into the man, Adam.
Adam would have therefore pre-existed
as a Spirit-shaped man. In the creation process, that Spirit, shaped like Adam,
would have received a covering. Translated “dust” let’s examine the substance.
Dust would be the earth, ‘eres in the Hebrew, but Adam was formed from
the dust (‘apar) of the ground (adama).
His covering would have been a
particle (‘apar) of adama. So, what is the substance adama?
Adam is the root word (אֲדָמָה) of “the ground,”
thus a material in substance. Let’s examine that material:
אֲ
represents the Power of God (El)
as Light.
דָ symbolizes
the Way or process to become matter.
מָ represents
the Living Waters, or Holy Spirit Elohim.
ה is symbolized
by a man-like figure beholding, or praising, God.
Adama would have been Spirit
from God in the shape of a man. It would not necessarily have been ground or
even clay.
The vessel for the Spirit of God
in Adam would have been some divine covering, that Adam was naked and not
ashamed tells us much.
Divinely “naked” is symbolized by
the Hebrew word ‘arom (עָרוֹם). Without going into all the symbolism, I visulaized naked and
not ashamed, as “transparent,” and AI CoPilot® deduced the same
thing.
That situation, with adama
as the covering of Adam, makes sense since it would cover the Glory of God in
the man-like Spirit.
As a covering, adama can
either be full of something, or even empty. Adamic man was surely full of the
Spirit of God and was not ashamed. Since Glory is the Goodness of God, adama
would have been “good naked” as Seinfeld called it.
Adam was not ashamed because he
would have been transparent and the Glory of God revealed within him.
Now for “bad naked” (‘erom;
עֵירֹם compared to ‘arom (עָרוֹם). They are both modes
of nakedness because they share three letters עָרם. The
difference is between the letters yod (י)
and vav (וֹ).
The letter vav represents, among other things, the Messiah. That
agrees with the relationship between the first Adam and the last Adam of which
Paul wrote (from earlier). That would be “good naked.”
Bad naked is not all bad but with the letter yod (י) alone, it is God Ya (the sound of His
Voice). Bad naked would be without the quickening Spirit of the last
Adam, but only the potentiality of Father God, Ya.
Just as with Seinfeld’s concept of bad naked, Adam had new flesh
from the old creature making God within himself hidden… and he was indeed
ashamed.
After sin, God Ya would have been hidden by flesh that was acquired
from some beast — perhaps an organic covering, containing chromosomes from some
beast of the field.
Among the beasts of the field that are listed are the “creeping things” —
lower states of men as the Hebrew word Remes indicates (Gen 1:26). (See
my book, The Creeping Things of the Bible for more.)
Bad naked, to be ashamed of
it, would be God hidden from view with organic flesh as a covering. Therefore,
the flesh has become the idols of what was once Adam’s kind but are now Enosh
kind — common mortal men.
Cain was the first of that kind, “Ish” as the genetics of Isha (the
woman). Before, God had been the Creator “Husbandman,” but after sin, the woman
would have become the “husbandman” with her as the creator (Gen 4:1), or as
John wrote the words of Jesus, “For all that is in the world: the lust of the
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
but is of the world (1 John 2:16).
Of what flesh was Adam ashamed? That with sin, and the flesh of the old
creature covering his divine body, Yahweh would have been hidden from
sight.
Adam was not totally depraved but ashamed of his flesh.
God remedied that by the grace with which he covered the beastly flesh of
Adam and his mate: “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats
of skins and clothed them” (Gen 3:21).
God would have covered bad naked but good naked was also still
covered. By grace, we must be born again and engendered with a new Spirit (Elohim)
of El of which we are never to be ashamed, as it is written, “For
whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of man (Jesus)
be ashamed, when He shall come in His own Glory, and in his Father's, and of
the holy angels” (Luke 9:26).
Jesus — God in the flesh — upon death and resurrection was glorified (John
7:39). As “bad naked” creatures, we would be ashamed of a soul covered by the flesh
of a beast, but with a particle (Eloha) of God Elohim within us,
we should not be ashamed for that one particle (Eloha) of the blood of
Jesus would cover the shameful naked flesh of His new creatures. That is the
meaning of “born again” (John 3:7).
Somehow God shielded Adam and Eve’s corrupted flesh with grace that He
provided out of mercy, for in the beginning, they had been His Creatures.
Satan to Job called that shield a “hedge” and surely it was the
Garment of Adam that covered Job, and later even John the Baptist, who wore a
coat of camel’s skin. (More about that in a future commentary.)
Seinfeld… there does exist both good naked and bad naked.
Whereas, good naked is transparency of some sort for God to be seen within,
perhaps the very YY-chromosomes of God; bad naked means “exposed” to the
sin within mankind, not even covered with the flesh of beasts (John 8:44). Grace
covers all sin and it is a from God for us to not be ashamed of Him in our
souls, for those who belong to Him.
