Heavenly Father, we know that time is short, please help us, encourage us, heal us, we are Your servants.
Jesus, You sacrificed Your life for us. Thank You. When You ascended up to heaven You asked for our Father to send the Holy Spirit to dwell in our hearts.
Holy Spirit, we ask You to bless us with Your giftsthe gifts of healing and miracles. We have a lot of work, which we are grateful for. We want results that give You honor and glory, Father God.
So, please when we pray, heal us, bless us with miracles. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Thank You Heavenly Father. Thank You Jesus Christ. Thank You Holy Spirit. Amen
Pray I find my King James concordance Bibible, I was in a coma. couple months felt like I came out of a time capsule I thank The lord for good healed in l past, God heals completely and Having a. wheelchair is not something that I understand.
Pray for my salvation brothers and sisters. Altghough I am a Christian, have been baptised and am in constant reading of the bible I fear for my salvation as I see how weak I am. Mark 7:21-23 haunts me, 1 corinthians 13 also does. I feel like maybe I feel no love towards others. Pray for me please! Thank you all!
Judgment aspect of God is exemplified by the fiery throne, "his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire." (Dan.7:9). Likewise we have His mercies like a river which is what we read in Ge.2:10-12. "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads./The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;/ And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." The same Eden (Ez.28:13) connects us to a river that parts into four heads each imparting a specific quality to lands mentioned. The whole land of Havilah supplies gold, bdellium and the onyx stone. The place names are irrelevant since it is the river that issues forth from the fountain of life. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." Consequently Jesus invites people to the living waters because he signified this fountain of life. The people saw the light according to the true Light that he radiated. So gold that which is of fine quality denoted faith and so on.
The Spirit uses stones to express the quality of God in terms of rainbow."As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. " (Ez.1:28) As mentioned earlier colours are derived from the fountain of life so the mountain of God is to understood spiritually. God is a Spirit so worshipping God in Spirit and truth demands us follow the rule: in thy light we see the light."
The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(Ge.1:2b) As with a rainbow in the natural world no two persons see the same rainbow. It is thus we trust in the light of our Saviour Lord and our works show his quality in our service. Across time and generations quality of the Word never changes. Jesus Christ the same. He.13:8
"For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
End of the covering cherub shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." Judgment of God is a consuming fire while His mercies are like a river.
In the living creatures we have eyes instead of stones, "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."(Ez.1:18) the same we find as memorial, "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind." (Re.4:4) These eyes visually connect to the slain Lamb "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."(Re.5:6). The Spirit (seven spirits) explain the living creatures in the vision of Ezekiel."Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ez.1:20)
They signify the children of God. (Ro.8:14) The two wheels within each other represent the two great lights as a sign (Ge1:16). The same form the mountain of light, Zion and New Jerusalem, and is called the light of the Lamb.
The four beasts in Re.4 had six wings while the living creatures were born of the word of God. They walked straight as directed by the Spirit and they saw by the light of the Lamb. This is brought out by the wheels. "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."(Ez.1:16) We see the colour of the wheel, like unto the colour of a beryl same colour we have in the breastplate of Aaron.
"Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."(28:17-18). His end shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." Judgment of God is a consuming fire while His mecies are like a fire. Jotham's fable predicted, " let fire come out of the bramble."(Ju.9:15). The same fire and it came from within on all those who put their trust in the bramble. In our times the same wicked and adulterous generation to put trust in Abimelech we have eviland he is called good, a bramble nevertheless whose doctrine MAGA or Project 25, is a fire what the people deserve it for their foolishness.
In the living creatures we have eyes instead of stones, "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."(Ez.1:18) the same we find as memorial, "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind." (Re.4:4) These eyes are visually connect to the slain Lamb "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."(Re.5:6). The Spirit (seven spirits) explain the living creatures in the vision of Ezekiel."Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ez.1:20)
They signify the children of God. (Ro.8:14) The two wheels within each other represent the two great lights as a sign (Ge1:16). The same form the mountain of light, Zion and New Jerusalem, and is called the light of the Lamb.
The cherub is called son of God and he walked in the midst of fire which must be associated with fiery serpents in the wilderness. Cherubs belong to an angelic order, as seraphim are (Is.6:2). Cherubim are jealous for the holiness of God as shown in the brazen serpent on a pole erected by Moses. ( "And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people,"-Nu.21:6-9)
"Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."(Ez..28:14) In Ch.10 we see a quartet of cherubim, and in v.12 "And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had." The stones that covered have become eyes instead in these four. Firstly the command number Four is a tag to indicate their service or ministry was led by the spirit of God. "Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ch.1:20).Their walk also was in the midst of fire. The living creatures are introduced"behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." (1:4). This fire is a facet of the holiness of God which the covering cherub had in the mountain of God.
But his pride cast him down. "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."(28:17-18). His end shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." This was what Jotham's fable was driving at." let fire come out of the bramble."(Ju.9:15)
" Though thou set thine heart as the heart of God"
Here Ezekiel is referring to the king of Tyre and he is set as the stand-in for the covering cherub. He is also the son of God, "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire." We have a lamentation which is addressed to the king of Tyre but the context is clear, it is a lament over the fallen angel who was perfect in beauty. This perfection was in term of stones, colors of which we may compare in the natural world as the matter of optics.
Similarly we are considering here the heart of God who as the Father of lights created the covering cherub. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. This has a source" Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined."(Ps.50:2). This is the heart of God.
On the other hand we find the covering cherub, in the mountain of God, and from the description it is called the mountain of light, light of which are a plethora of tints the whole palette of lights cast from the glory of God. In the profusion light it is also called a garden as find in this line. "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God." The stones mentioned here has a bearing on the breastplate of Aaron and also in the description of the twelve foundations for the walls of the holy city of God. In a series of posts we shall set forth the mind of God as delineated by the cherub as well as the mind or the heart of God revealed by Jesus Christ. First on the Son of man, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:/Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:/ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men." (Ph.2:5-7). This shall explain the manner a tree planted by God could produce altogether two different sorts in man. Figs or thistles? "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."(Matt.7:20)
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, "HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME;"
(I'm not sure but in the English this looks like a conscious decision he made before he came into the world!
If so, here's the reason for the premeditated decision.)
"that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Jesus took on flesh to be our
Kinsman redeemer. (go el)
Hebrews 2:11-15.
As a Kinsman Redeemer If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold" ( Leviticus 25:25). By definition, a kinsman-redeemer was someone who redeemed what was lost.
The kinsman who redeems or vindicates a relative is illustrated most clearly in the book of Ruth, where the kinsman-redeemer is Boaz.
Jesus came in the flesh to redeem what was lost in the Garden.
We are his brothern through our "new birth from above" but In Revelation 5:3-5 it had to be a man to open the book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. (This emphasizes a title deed.
In Revelation 5:9the redeemed sung a new song!
"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast REDEEMED US to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
God is incapable of sin, the curse was caused by man and placed on man, and only by man, the only begotten Son of God, a man whose Father was God, could fulfill the prophecies and the law and break the curse by a perfect life. 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Jesus by His perfect life became a life-giving spirit after being resurrected from death by God. Through Jesus's perfect life and only Him, those who have faith in Him can receive this gift of life.
I realize in getting my thoughts out in these posts I have made mistakes. I hope you all can get what I meant. If not, ask me about it and I will clear things up. At a break in making dinner and wanted to go back and reread. Thus, I find the mistakes. My thoughts were flowing quickly as I typed as I had so much in my brain on this topic I wanted to touch all points. I guess I need to practice proofing before posting. So please forgive the errors. This past week I have been studying on this topic and I found that there is just so much in Scripture that shows how God is VICTOR. I realized I needed to select accounts in Scripture that are most important in presenting how Triumphant the Sovereign God is in ALL things. Will get back to this later tonight or tomorrow.
I appreciate all who read these posts and love it when people respond. God bless.
Back to dinner. BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, salad and pineapple. One of my favs.
Hi Jesse: I felt like I had to respond to just a small part of your commentary "Biblical Greek Perspective"
on the NT according to the Greek Texus Receptus.
You basically said in past discussions "that the KJB is the best version among the modern versions and it's the one you use, but there is a problem with them and it." so it appears that you are comparing the two in order to point out the errors in the translation of the KJB; that is was just written by men.
To me the implication then and now is, even though you believe the original writings were preserved by the Holy Ghost, the bibles we have now, including the KJB, were written by men.
In Matthew 1:18 -"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Notice it says, now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, or more literally "in this way," because Matthew is explaining that little presentation in Verse 16 "from whom" or "of whom." The word "birth" in this verse is the Greek word GENESIS which means origin. The origin (not the birth) of Jesus Christ was in this way. Matthew is not calling it a birth. He is calling it an origin."
I looked up the word birth in Strong's Concordance and it says that the definition and usage for the Greek word birth in these verses is
geneses: definition and usage as- birth, lineage, descent. From the same as genea; nativity; figuratively, nature.
The word "origin" is not listed, however in verse one the Greek word generation (ghen'-es-is) has birth, origin: as it's definition; both of them. They mean the same thing. So it seems to me Matthew said birth and meant birth as the Holy Ghost inspired him to write it.
PART 3: You can read and understand the Greek Texus Receptus, however, Christians don't have access to the original Hebrew and Greek and couldn't read them if we did. So if the KJB was not inspired and has errors and we don't have access to the ancient manuscripts how do we trust anything the KJB or any of the other bible versions say? Do we trust and believe that the men who have written these bibles got most of it right but some of it are their own thoughts and ideas and we just have to hope for the best? That doesn't sound like the God I know who would only have the original manuscripts interpreted by the Holy Ghost and leaving it at that when He knew we would need a completely trustworthy translation in the language that would end up to be known by a good part of the world and to be sure it was entrusted to the English who He knew would guard it and keep it exactly the same down through the ages. If the Texus Receptus disagrees with Strong's then I guess we're all up a creek without a paddle and the only few rare Christians who have copies of the original manuscripts and can read and understand them are the ones who are assured of knowing the whole truth.
This is ridiculous, of course. No one that I know of has said that the authors of the modern "so called" versions of the bible were inspired by the Holy Ghost when writing them because we all know they were authored by men. So it seems to me, if we are to believe that all the versions of the bible, new and old, were written by men why trust any of them?
BECAUSE WE NEED A TRANSLATION WE CAN TRUST, ONE THAT WAS WRITTEN BY THE HOLY GHOST NOT HUMANKIND; THE KJB! God Bless :)
Jeus proved to Satan that He was Satan's sovereign and God of gods over Satan. Satan left the wilderness defeated. God W"ON again!
Some people wonder how Jesus could fulfill the whole of the law as if He was not able to sin. But if one understands and believes that Jesus was God in human form-Fully God and Fully Human-then we can understand the Jesus' human nature was tempted along with His divine nature and His humanity was truly tested but His human will chose to align with His always BECAUSE He did not have both a human person and a divine Person within His body. The only Person in Jesus was the divine Son of God and therefore, as a divine Person, He could not be tempted to sin, but his human nature surely felt the temptation as we all do. But, praise the Lord, The divine Son controlled the human nature, being perfectly united with His Divine nature without mixing the two. His human nature always had to submit to His divine nature, who always submitted to the Father.
God in Christ TRIUMPHED over Satan and sin in this wilderness encounter. Jesus knew this would be so, but Satan misunderstood who Jesus really was, thinking He was only human and the physical SEED of the woman without Being also God in the flesh. The Word says not to put God to the test and Satan did just that by tempting Jesus, who was God, and also asking Jesus to test His Father to spare Him injury instead of fully trusting the Father steadfastly. I don't think that Satan understood that God was Three Persons in the One Being of God. God must have kept this from Satan.
Let's go on to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Here Satan made every attempt to succeed in his plan to usurp God and His plan during Jesus' ministry. When the people of Jerusalem chose to have Jesus executed, Satan must have been rubbing his "hands" together with delight thinking he will finally conquer this Seed of the woman. But the suffering and death of Jesus for our sins despoiled Satan. cont.
Satan did not give up though. After Jesus was baptized He went into the wilderness to fast and fellowship with His Father and the Holy Spirit. Satan, who is not omniscient nor omni-present, must have been at the baptism to hear the Father say, "This is my beloved Son" I think that Satan was there because John was baptizing and showing himself to be the forerunner of the Messiah. Satan was allowed to know this much. And, when Jesus went into the wilderness, Satan decided to meet Jesus there to tempt Him into sin in order to foil God's plan and to corrupt God by getting the divine Son to sin. I think that Jesus, as God, knew already that Satan would tempt Him throughout the 40 days in the wilderness. Jesus had been tempted all of His life externally, since he had not sin nature, and this external temptation was through Satan ultimately. Jesus was well aware of this and had refused to sin all those 30 years of His life. But Satan thought that surely Jesus would succumb to his temptations this time in this desolate place, alone, and experiencing physical hunger, fatigue, etc.. So, Satan thought he had Jesus at his weakest and was so cocky and self-assured that his evil plan would work. But Jesus knew that his human nature would stand the test because He knew He was God in the flesh and as a divine person, He could never sin. There was not a divine person and a second human person in Jesus (2 persons in one being). NO! He was one divine Person with two natures. There was not a human person in Jesus who owned the human nature. This truth is very important, because Satan thought wrongly about this and thus thought he would succeed.
But each time, using Scripture that He inspired to be prophesied and written, Jesus TRIUMPHED over Satan, displaying the power and authority of Scripture over Satan from the One who is the Word of God! Jesus proved to Satan that He was truly God and truly man, but unable to be corrupted by sin. cont. to Pt. 6
When God judged the whole creation in the flood except those God led into the ark, God was the VICTOR over all the schemes and interfering works of Satan and the wicked angels. God judged the wicked angels as well as humans in the flood. This mass extinction overthrew what Satan was bringing about among humanity. He must have thought that He finally had it over on God, but there was the little matter of Noah and his family that God did not allow Satan to bring to nought. God brought the flood upon humanity to stop the downward spiral of wickedness and corruption that Satan was authoring among mankind. And this God did in order to begin once again with Noah and his family (who were a type of the first Adam and Eve and Seth, etc.) who were the bloodline God had preserved from Adam and Eve from which the promised SEED would come. God wins!
We can go through the OT to confirm this Victory of God again and again. But I want to move forward to the NT with the incarnation of the divine Son, Jesus Christ. I don't think that Satan knew exactly where Jesus had been born or to whom. When Herod (ruled by Satan) sought to destroy the new "King of the Jews", he did not know any more than Satan did. God protected the magi and the shepherds from being used by Satan to reveal the whereabouts of the new King. The slaughter of the male children two years old and under was the attempt of both Herod and Satan to eliminate Jesus. Herod, to eliminate his rival to the throne, and Satan, to eliminate the SEED of promise. He probably knew that the time had arrived for the Messiah to be born and that this Messiah would be the promised SEED. He knew Scripture to some extent, but I believe that God disallowed Satan from truly understanding Scripture in a way that would give him clear knowledge of God's plan nor about the prophecies that pointed to the SEED promised. God WON here. He was victorious over Satan and Herod's wicked wills and, just like Job,
Satan thinks that he is wiser than God. From the beginning he thought he actually could rise above God and be the object of worship of all created beings, and perhaps even God, believing he could de throne and defeat God in His sovereignty from the start of his rebellion. He has never learned that this will never occur and continues in his quest to overrule, depose, and God and even to bring corruption in God. But that is not possible.
When God brings a curse on Satan in the Garden after bringing sin in with him and he was the agent of corruption against
Adam and Eve, Satan did not understand what God ultimately meant when God said that Satan will bruise the heel of the promised Seed of the woman and this Seed will bruise his head. Satan did not realize that this "bruising" was really a crushing and a subjugating and a resounding and final defeat of Satan. Satan has always thought that he has a chance of succeeding in his attack on God and the being God has elected for Himself.
In the Garden of Eden, Satan lost, God won. Adam and Eve lost in their effort to be like God and wise in their own devices, God won. And God Triumphed over sin because His plan was going along EXACTLY as He had planned from eternity past. PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ALWAYS TRIUMPHS OVER ALL OPPOSITION!
Next, let us go to Noah. Satan had a hand in the thorough corruption of mankind before the flood. God allowed this to occur, but kept Noah and his family from being taken in by the corruption all around them. They were perfect in his generation (the last before the flood) Gen. 6:9. But the rest of humanity were so corrupted that every intent of their heart and thoughts were wicked continually ( Gen. 6:5) With all who were alive in Noah's day being completely given over to wickedness (I wonder if his father and grandfather were so depraved as well) how could Noah and his sons escape being likewise wicked? Only by the grace of God and the protection of Noah and his family.
God's love is glorified in this eternal covenant within the Godhead. Out of His internal love withing the Persons of the Godhead, God's amazing love is brought forth in creating all beings in order to bring his love to the elect angels and the elect saints in history. He loves all that He has made, but His love is especially set forth in these two groups of beings, one eternally sinless and the other sinless but saved by grace through the Son, Jesus Christ. I believe that when we all get to heaven and the last judgement has occurred, the saints will all the more realize the perfection of God and His eternal plan in creating the church to be gloried in. Romans 9:21-24. Eph 1:6 shows us that the apex of the glory of God is the glory of His grace in the church. Without the redeemed saints from sin, death, and the devil, the fullness of God's glory cannot be manifested. His glory would be imperfect. So, this is why allowing for sin to emerge in Satan and the angels that followed him and in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Even were able to fall into sin when Satan led them to do so God is ordaining the way for his total glorification which is includes the redeemed saints in Christ Jesus. So, here God is the Victor, now and forever, even in the fall of man and angels.
I don't believe that Satan knew what God's eternal plan and covenant was (which was made before creation within the Godhead only). God did not reveal all of His plan or will to the angels. That is why Scripture says that angels long to look into the salvation of mankind to understand that was preached in the Gospel in 1 Peter 1:12. In the consummation of all things, both the saints and the elect angels will finally be able to understand together the fullness of God's eternal covenant and plan for creation and together we will glorify God all the more with our praise and worship.
Satan truly thought he won out against God. But he is always proved wrong in all of his actions.
Good afternoon brother Spencer. I will meditate on your words that you have written. I do believe that Adam had a spirit that was in alignment with the will and obedience of His Father as God breathed a living soul into him.
I am in Mississippi not too far away from you. Nice to be in this part of the country again. We are here for a wedding reception and learning to know our daughter's husband and his family and our Church people here in Mississippi and the townsfolk too. Might be awhile before I can get back to you again. Thank you!
Eve did not recognize or understand that the serpent who confronted her was a fallen being. She thought that the serpent must be telling the truth and correcting her misunderstanding. So she was deceived, not knowing what deception was. This shows that their state in the beginning was sinless and innocent of evil. This innocence made them vulnerable and easily swayed by the tempter. It seems that they had not been in the Garden very long before this happened, so they may not have had much time to observe the natural behaviors of the animals, so the serpent talking may not have seemed out of place to them. But who really knows, as not much is really said of this time in the Garden.
God won over Satan in the fall of Adam because in entering the Garden and being determined to ruin God's new creation with his wickedness, Satan played right into God's eternal plan that was to redeem for Himself a sinful and corrupted people who are made righteous and forgiven through and for His divine eternal Son, Jesus. God's plan proceeded just as God had ordained it to progress when Satan was ALLOWED by God to enter the Garden and tempt Adam and Eve to sin. His will cannot be thwarted, even when His will is accomplished through the emergence of sin among the angels and among humanity.
We can be baffled by this and/or wondering why God didn't just choose to bypass sin altogether. But, because God always seeks to maximize His glory to the fullest, this was the best and wisest way to do so with His wrath, judgement, grace, mercy. If there was never any sin, then He could not be glorified in these attributes. So, some may say that this is a cruel way for God to get glory for Himself. But if we truly study God in all of His attributes revealed to us, we cannot judge God on this matter. He is the sole sovereign of all and no one can overrule, counsel, or alter His ordained will. We just have to accept that by allowing sin to emerge after creation, cont. to Pt.3
"This new covering of love with skins and a Promise happened in the garden. His mercy was their salvation. Mercy was free of the works of righteousness which we have done and they too.
Even by faith and hope Adam and Eve went to sleep in their own works of righteousness. We can hope that this covering of Mercy carried them to the second Adam our Christ whose blood is our true covering for our own sin, as we pray by faith for ourselves and every neighbor. End quote.
You also stated: Adam and his wife Eve were predestinated to the first estate of being made very good physically, emotionally and spiritually for the purpose of dressing and keeping the garden.
I believe the covering God provided represents the Covering of Christ.
No one is predestinated "AROUND" Christ. He's the door, you have to go through him.
I believe Adam and Eve was saved by a provided sacrifice that pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, God placed Adam and Eve on the Garden but that doesn't mean they were in no need of a savior.
Like us, Adam had to be aware of his depravity before he could be saved. That happened when his eyes were opened.
Again, this is not a bash Adam. He's the first man created with the purpose to multiply the earth.
God could have chosen me or you and put us in the Garden to keep it and have dominion over the earth.
We would have done the same thing Adam did, fail and Put mankind under the necessary means of needing the knowledge of our nakedness and the necessity of a rebirth by way of sacrifice.
And there is only one that could qualify to do that and that's Christ. Acts 4:12.
A sacrificial offering had to be flawless! Adam proved he wasn't flawless.
God gave the best he had to offer and that was his Son who died even though he was incapable of sin because he came out of the bosom of the father.
This aspect of God is congruent with His sovereignty, authority, and infinite power. He is the Victor in all circumstances, even when it seems to us that He is not. When I speak of God, I am speaking of God in the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This truth will come to play as I show how God is always the Victor.
For instance, starting at the beginning. when Satan rebelled, it was no surprise to God. He ordained that this would occur even though Satan chose on his own to rebel. God did not lose anything in this turn of Satan from preferring God above all else to preferring himself. In reality, God won in this situation, not only that He judged Satan and stripped him of his place as the covering cherub and the prominent position God originally chose for him, but in that allowing Satan to fall along with the other angels that did so, too, God wins because this put into time and history the fulfillment of God's eternal plan that was decided and ordained to occur without fail before creation of anything. So, in Satan's fall, God is truly the Victor. Satan suffered great loss in his sin, but God lost nothing.
When God created Adam and Eve, He chose to make them able to sin, just like Satan and the angels that sinned with him. Like Satan and the angels, Adam was created in a realm where there was no sin whatsoever and no corruption of anything that God had made in the physical realm, as it was in the spiritual realm when God created the angels. When Adam and Eve sinned, God did not lose. Adam and Eve lost, and critically so. Satan lost here, too, because He brought upon himself a more profound curse than when he first sinned. In the Garden before sin entered, God told the first humans He created that they would die if they disobeyed His command concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They did not know about evil or about evil beings. cont. to part 2
Jesus, You sacrificed Your life for us. Thank You. When You ascended up to heaven You asked for our Father to send the Holy Spirit to dwell in our hearts.
Holy Spirit, we ask You to bless us with Your giftsthe gifts of healing and miracles. We have a lot of work, which we are grateful for. We want results that give You honor and glory, Father God.
So, please when we pray, heal us, bless us with miracles. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Thank You Heavenly Father. Thank You Jesus Christ. Thank You Holy Spirit. Amen
God Bless
Judgment aspect of God is exemplified by the fiery throne, "his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire." (Dan.7:9). Likewise we have His mercies like a river which is what we read in Ge.2:10-12. "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads./The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;/ And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." The same Eden (Ez.28:13) connects us to a river that parts into four heads each imparting a specific quality to lands mentioned. The whole land of Havilah supplies gold, bdellium and the onyx stone. The place names are irrelevant since it is the river that issues forth from the fountain of life. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men." Consequently Jesus invites people to the living waters because he signified this fountain of life. The people saw the light according to the true Light that he radiated. So gold that which is of fine quality denoted faith and so on.
The Spirit uses stones to express the quality of God in terms of rainbow."As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. " (Ez.1:28) As mentioned earlier colours are derived from the fountain of life so the mountain of God is to understood spiritually. God is a Spirit so worshipping God in Spirit and truth demands us follow the rule: in thy light we see the light."
The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.(Ge.1:2b) As with a rainbow in the natural world no two persons see the same rainbow. It is thus we trust in the light of our Saviour Lord and our works show his quality in our service. Across time and generations quality of the Word never changes. Jesus Christ the same. He.13:8
"For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
End of the covering cherub shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." Judgment of God is a consuming fire while His mercies are like a river.
In the living creatures we have eyes instead of stones, "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."(Ez.1:18) the same we find as memorial, "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind." (Re.4:4) These eyes visually connect to the slain Lamb "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."(Re.5:6). The Spirit (seven spirits) explain the living creatures in the vision of Ezekiel."Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ez.1:20)
They signify the children of God. (Ro.8:14) The two wheels within each other represent the two great lights as a sign (Ge1:16). The same form the mountain of light, Zion and New Jerusalem, and is called the light of the Lamb.
The four beasts in Re.4 had six wings while the living creatures were born of the word of God. They walked straight as directed by the Spirit and they saw by the light of the Lamb. This is brought out by the wheels. "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."(Ez.1:16) We see the colour of the wheel, like unto the colour of a beryl same colour we have in the breastplate of Aaron.
Please read as follows: "Judgment of God is a consuming fire while His mercies are like a river."
"Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."(28:17-18). His end shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." Judgment of God is a consuming fire while His mecies are like a fire. Jotham's fable predicted, " let fire come out of the bramble."(Ju.9:15). The same fire and it came from within on all those who put their trust in the bramble. In our times the same wicked and adulterous generation to put trust in Abimelech we have eviland he is called good, a bramble nevertheless whose doctrine MAGA or Project 25, is a fire what the people deserve it for their foolishness.
In the living creatures we have eyes instead of stones, "As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four."(Ez.1:18) the same we find as memorial, "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind." (Re.4:4) These eyes are visually connect to the slain Lamb "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."(Re.5:6). The Spirit (seven spirits) explain the living creatures in the vision of Ezekiel."Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ez.1:20)
They signify the children of God. (Ro.8:14) The two wheels within each other represent the two great lights as a sign (Ge1:16). The same form the mountain of light, Zion and New Jerusalem, and is called the light of the Lamb.
The cherub is called son of God and he walked in the midst of fire which must be associated with fiery serpents in the wilderness. Cherubs belong to an angelic order, as seraphim are (Is.6:2). Cherubim are jealous for the holiness of God as shown in the brazen serpent on a pole erected by Moses. ( "And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people,"-Nu.21:6-9)
"Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."(Ez..28:14) In Ch.10 we see a quartet of cherubim, and in v.12 "And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had." The stones that covered have become eyes instead in these four. Firstly the command number Four is a tag to indicate their service or ministry was led by the spirit of God. "Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels."(Ch.1:20).Their walk also was in the midst of fire. The living creatures are introduced"behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire." (1:4). This fire is a facet of the holiness of God which the covering cherub had in the mountain of God.
But his pride cast him down. "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."(28:17-18). His end shall be from fire. " therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee." This was what Jotham's fable was driving at." let fire come out of the bramble."(Ju.9:15)
" Though thou set thine heart as the heart of God"
Here Ezekiel is referring to the king of Tyre and he is set as the stand-in for the covering cherub. He is also the son of God, "Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire." We have a lamentation which is addressed to the king of Tyre but the context is clear, it is a lament over the fallen angel who was perfect in beauty. This perfection was in term of stones, colors of which we may compare in the natural world as the matter of optics.
Similarly we are considering here the heart of God who as the Father of lights created the covering cherub. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. This has a source" Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined."(Ps.50:2). This is the heart of God.
On the other hand we find the covering cherub, in the mountain of God, and from the description it is called the mountain of light, light of which are a plethora of tints the whole palette of lights cast from the glory of God. In the profusion light it is also called a garden as find in this line. "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God." The stones mentioned here has a bearing on the breastplate of Aaron and also in the description of the twelve foundations for the walls of the holy city of God. In a series of posts we shall set forth the mind of God as delineated by the cherub as well as the mind or the heart of God revealed by Jesus Christ. First on the Son of man, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:/Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:/ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men." (Ph.2:5-7). This shall explain the manner a tree planted by God could produce altogether two different sorts in man. Figs or thistles? "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."(Matt.7:20)
In this context Ezekiel is called the Son of man.
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, "HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME;"
(I'm not sure but in the English this looks like a conscious decision he made before he came into the world!
If so, here's the reason for the premeditated decision.)
"that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Jesus took on flesh to be our
Kinsman redeemer. (go el)
Hebrews 2:11-15.
As a Kinsman Redeemer If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold" ( Leviticus 25:25). By definition, a kinsman-redeemer was someone who redeemed what was lost.
The kinsman who redeems or vindicates a relative is illustrated most clearly in the book of Ruth, where the kinsman-redeemer is Boaz.
Jesus came in the flesh to redeem what was lost in the Garden.
We are his brothern through our "new birth from above" but In Revelation 5:3-5 it had to be a man to open the book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. (This emphasizes a title deed.
In Revelation 5:9the redeemed sung a new song!
"And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast REDEEMED US to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Blessings.
God is incapable of sin, the curse was caused by man and placed on man, and only by man, the only begotten Son of God, a man whose Father was God, could fulfill the prophecies and the law and break the curse by a perfect life. 1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Jesus by His perfect life became a life-giving spirit after being resurrected from death by God. Through Jesus's perfect life and only Him, those who have faith in Him can receive this gift of life.
God bless,
RLW
I appreciate all who read these posts and love it when people respond. God bless.
Back to dinner. BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, salad and pineapple. One of my favs.
MATTHEW
Hi Jesse: I felt like I had to respond to just a small part of your commentary "Biblical Greek Perspective"
on the NT according to the Greek Texus Receptus.
You basically said in past discussions "that the KJB is the best version among the modern versions and it's the one you use, but there is a problem with them and it." so it appears that you are comparing the two in order to point out the errors in the translation of the KJB; that is was just written by men.
To me the implication then and now is, even though you believe the original writings were preserved by the Holy Ghost, the bibles we have now, including the KJB, were written by men.
In Matthew 1:18 -"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Notice it says, now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise, or more literally "in this way," because Matthew is explaining that little presentation in Verse 16 "from whom" or "of whom." The word "birth" in this verse is the Greek word GENESIS which means origin. The origin (not the birth) of Jesus Christ was in this way. Matthew is not calling it a birth. He is calling it an origin."
I looked up the word birth in Strong's Concordance and it says that the definition and usage for the Greek word birth in these verses is
geneses: definition and usage as- birth, lineage, descent. From the same as genea; nativity; figuratively, nature.
The word "origin" is not listed, however in verse one the Greek word generation (ghen'-es-is) has birth, origin: as it's definition; both of them. They mean the same thing. So it seems to me Matthew said birth and meant birth as the Holy Ghost inspired him to write it.
This is ridiculous, of course. No one that I know of has said that the authors of the modern "so called" versions of the bible were inspired by the Holy Ghost when writing them because we all know they were authored by men. So it seems to me, if we are to believe that all the versions of the bible, new and old, were written by men why trust any of them?
BECAUSE WE NEED A TRANSLATION WE CAN TRUST, ONE THAT WAS WRITTEN BY THE HOLY GHOST NOT HUMANKIND; THE KJB! God Bless :)
I'll get back to this later.
Pt. 6
Jeus proved to Satan that He was Satan's sovereign and God of gods over Satan. Satan left the wilderness defeated. God W"ON again!
Some people wonder how Jesus could fulfill the whole of the law as if He was not able to sin. But if one understands and believes that Jesus was God in human form-Fully God and Fully Human-then we can understand the Jesus' human nature was tempted along with His divine nature and His humanity was truly tested but His human will chose to align with His always BECAUSE He did not have both a human person and a divine Person within His body. The only Person in Jesus was the divine Son of God and therefore, as a divine Person, He could not be tempted to sin, but his human nature surely felt the temptation as we all do. But, praise the Lord, The divine Son controlled the human nature, being perfectly united with His Divine nature without mixing the two. His human nature always had to submit to His divine nature, who always submitted to the Father.
God in Christ TRIUMPHED over Satan and sin in this wilderness encounter. Jesus knew this would be so, but Satan misunderstood who Jesus really was, thinking He was only human and the physical SEED of the woman without Being also God in the flesh. The Word says not to put God to the test and Satan did just that by tempting Jesus, who was God, and also asking Jesus to test His Father to spare Him injury instead of fully trusting the Father steadfastly. I don't think that Satan understood that God was Three Persons in the One Being of God. God must have kept this from Satan.
Let's go on to the death and resurrection of Jesus. Here Satan made every attempt to succeed in his plan to usurp God and His plan during Jesus' ministry. When the people of Jerusalem chose to have Jesus executed, Satan must have been rubbing his "hands" together with delight thinking he will finally conquer this Seed of the woman. But the suffering and death of Jesus for our sins despoiled Satan. cont.
Pt. 5
Satan did not give up though. After Jesus was baptized He went into the wilderness to fast and fellowship with His Father and the Holy Spirit. Satan, who is not omniscient nor omni-present, must have been at the baptism to hear the Father say, "This is my beloved Son" I think that Satan was there because John was baptizing and showing himself to be the forerunner of the Messiah. Satan was allowed to know this much. And, when Jesus went into the wilderness, Satan decided to meet Jesus there to tempt Him into sin in order to foil God's plan and to corrupt God by getting the divine Son to sin. I think that Jesus, as God, knew already that Satan would tempt Him throughout the 40 days in the wilderness. Jesus had been tempted all of His life externally, since he had not sin nature, and this external temptation was through Satan ultimately. Jesus was well aware of this and had refused to sin all those 30 years of His life. But Satan thought that surely Jesus would succumb to his temptations this time in this desolate place, alone, and experiencing physical hunger, fatigue, etc.. So, Satan thought he had Jesus at his weakest and was so cocky and self-assured that his evil plan would work. But Jesus knew that his human nature would stand the test because He knew He was God in the flesh and as a divine person, He could never sin. There was not a divine person and a second human person in Jesus (2 persons in one being). NO! He was one divine Person with two natures. There was not a human person in Jesus who owned the human nature. This truth is very important, because Satan thought wrongly about this and thus thought he would succeed.
But each time, using Scripture that He inspired to be prophesied and written, Jesus TRIUMPHED over Satan, displaying the power and authority of Scripture over Satan from the One who is the Word of God! Jesus proved to Satan that He was truly God and truly man, but unable to be corrupted by sin. cont. to Pt. 6
Pt. 4
When God judged the whole creation in the flood except those God led into the ark, God was the VICTOR over all the schemes and interfering works of Satan and the wicked angels. God judged the wicked angels as well as humans in the flood. This mass extinction overthrew what Satan was bringing about among humanity. He must have thought that He finally had it over on God, but there was the little matter of Noah and his family that God did not allow Satan to bring to nought. God brought the flood upon humanity to stop the downward spiral of wickedness and corruption that Satan was authoring among mankind. And this God did in order to begin once again with Noah and his family (who were a type of the first Adam and Eve and Seth, etc.) who were the bloodline God had preserved from Adam and Eve from which the promised SEED would come. God wins!
We can go through the OT to confirm this Victory of God again and again. But I want to move forward to the NT with the incarnation of the divine Son, Jesus Christ. I don't think that Satan knew exactly where Jesus had been born or to whom. When Herod (ruled by Satan) sought to destroy the new "King of the Jews", he did not know any more than Satan did. God protected the magi and the shepherds from being used by Satan to reveal the whereabouts of the new King. The slaughter of the male children two years old and under was the attempt of both Herod and Satan to eliminate Jesus. Herod, to eliminate his rival to the throne, and Satan, to eliminate the SEED of promise. He probably knew that the time had arrived for the Messiah to be born and that this Messiah would be the promised SEED. He knew Scripture to some extent, but I believe that God disallowed Satan from truly understanding Scripture in a way that would give him clear knowledge of God's plan nor about the prophecies that pointed to the SEED promised. God WON here. He was victorious over Satan and Herod's wicked wills and, just like Job,
cont. to Pt. 5
Pt. 4
Satan thinks that he is wiser than God. From the beginning he thought he actually could rise above God and be the object of worship of all created beings, and perhaps even God, believing he could de throne and defeat God in His sovereignty from the start of his rebellion. He has never learned that this will never occur and continues in his quest to overrule, depose, and God and even to bring corruption in God. But that is not possible.
When God brings a curse on Satan in the Garden after bringing sin in with him and he was the agent of corruption against
Adam and Eve, Satan did not understand what God ultimately meant when God said that Satan will bruise the heel of the promised Seed of the woman and this Seed will bruise his head. Satan did not realize that this "bruising" was really a crushing and a subjugating and a resounding and final defeat of Satan. Satan has always thought that he has a chance of succeeding in his attack on God and the being God has elected for Himself.
In the Garden of Eden, Satan lost, God won. Adam and Eve lost in their effort to be like God and wise in their own devices, God won. And God Triumphed over sin because His plan was going along EXACTLY as He had planned from eternity past. PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ALWAYS TRIUMPHS OVER ALL OPPOSITION!
Next, let us go to Noah. Satan had a hand in the thorough corruption of mankind before the flood. God allowed this to occur, but kept Noah and his family from being taken in by the corruption all around them. They were perfect in his generation (the last before the flood) Gen. 6:9. But the rest of humanity were so corrupted that every intent of their heart and thoughts were wicked continually ( Gen. 6:5) With all who were alive in Noah's day being completely given over to wickedness (I wonder if his father and grandfather were so depraved as well) how could Noah and his sons escape being likewise wicked? Only by the grace of God and the protection of Noah and his family.
Thanks for replying.
Man can't overcome the curse of death. Only a Life-giving spirit can do that.
Thank and God bless.
Pt. 3
God's love is glorified in this eternal covenant within the Godhead. Out of His internal love withing the Persons of the Godhead, God's amazing love is brought forth in creating all beings in order to bring his love to the elect angels and the elect saints in history. He loves all that He has made, but His love is especially set forth in these two groups of beings, one eternally sinless and the other sinless but saved by grace through the Son, Jesus Christ. I believe that when we all get to heaven and the last judgement has occurred, the saints will all the more realize the perfection of God and His eternal plan in creating the church to be gloried in. Romans 9:21-24. Eph 1:6 shows us that the apex of the glory of God is the glory of His grace in the church. Without the redeemed saints from sin, death, and the devil, the fullness of God's glory cannot be manifested. His glory would be imperfect. So, this is why allowing for sin to emerge in Satan and the angels that followed him and in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Even were able to fall into sin when Satan led them to do so God is ordaining the way for his total glorification which is includes the redeemed saints in Christ Jesus. So, here God is the Victor, now and forever, even in the fall of man and angels.
I don't believe that Satan knew what God's eternal plan and covenant was (which was made before creation within the Godhead only). God did not reveal all of His plan or will to the angels. That is why Scripture says that angels long to look into the salvation of mankind to understand that was preached in the Gospel in 1 Peter 1:12. In the consummation of all things, both the saints and the elect angels will finally be able to understand together the fullness of God's eternal covenant and plan for creation and together we will glorify God all the more with our praise and worship.
Satan truly thought he won out against God. But he is always proved wrong in all of his actions.
Every answer the Lord gave Satan was scripture!
God bless you.
I am in Mississippi not too far away from you. Nice to be in this part of the country again. We are here for a wedding reception and learning to know our daughter's husband and his family and our Church people here in Mississippi and the townsfolk too. Might be awhile before I can get back to you again. Thank you!
Pt. 2
Eve did not recognize or understand that the serpent who confronted her was a fallen being. She thought that the serpent must be telling the truth and correcting her misunderstanding. So she was deceived, not knowing what deception was. This shows that their state in the beginning was sinless and innocent of evil. This innocence made them vulnerable and easily swayed by the tempter. It seems that they had not been in the Garden very long before this happened, so they may not have had much time to observe the natural behaviors of the animals, so the serpent talking may not have seemed out of place to them. But who really knows, as not much is really said of this time in the Garden.
God won over Satan in the fall of Adam because in entering the Garden and being determined to ruin God's new creation with his wickedness, Satan played right into God's eternal plan that was to redeem for Himself a sinful and corrupted people who are made righteous and forgiven through and for His divine eternal Son, Jesus. God's plan proceeded just as God had ordained it to progress when Satan was ALLOWED by God to enter the Garden and tempt Adam and Eve to sin. His will cannot be thwarted, even when His will is accomplished through the emergence of sin among the angels and among humanity.
We can be baffled by this and/or wondering why God didn't just choose to bypass sin altogether. But, because God always seeks to maximize His glory to the fullest, this was the best and wisest way to do so with His wrath, judgement, grace, mercy. If there was never any sin, then He could not be glorified in these attributes. So, some may say that this is a cruel way for God to get glory for Himself. But if we truly study God in all of His attributes revealed to us, we cannot judge God on this matter. He is the sole sovereign of all and no one can overrule, counsel, or alter His ordained will. We just have to accept that by allowing sin to emerge after creation, cont. to Pt.3
Part 2.
Again, quoting you:
"This new covering of love with skins and a Promise happened in the garden. His mercy was their salvation. Mercy was free of the works of righteousness which we have done and they too.
Even by faith and hope Adam and Eve went to sleep in their own works of righteousness. We can hope that this covering of Mercy carried them to the second Adam our Christ whose blood is our true covering for our own sin, as we pray by faith for ourselves and every neighbor. End quote.
You also stated: Adam and his wife Eve were predestinated to the first estate of being made very good physically, emotionally and spiritually for the purpose of dressing and keeping the garden.
I believe the covering God provided represents the Covering of Christ.
No one is predestinated "AROUND" Christ. He's the door, you have to go through him.
I believe Adam and Eve was saved by a provided sacrifice that pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yes, God placed Adam and Eve on the Garden but that doesn't mean they were in no need of a savior.
Like us, Adam had to be aware of his depravity before he could be saved. That happened when his eyes were opened.
Again, this is not a bash Adam. He's the first man created with the purpose to multiply the earth.
God could have chosen me or you and put us in the Garden to keep it and have dominion over the earth.
We would have done the same thing Adam did, fail and Put mankind under the necessary means of needing the knowledge of our nakedness and the necessity of a rebirth by way of sacrifice.
And there is only one that could qualify to do that and that's Christ. Acts 4:12.
A sacrificial offering had to be flawless! Adam proved he wasn't flawless.
God gave the best he had to offer and that was his Son who died even though he was incapable of sin because he came out of the bosom of the father.
God bless.
This aspect of God is congruent with His sovereignty, authority, and infinite power. He is the Victor in all circumstances, even when it seems to us that He is not. When I speak of God, I am speaking of God in the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This truth will come to play as I show how God is always the Victor.
For instance, starting at the beginning. when Satan rebelled, it was no surprise to God. He ordained that this would occur even though Satan chose on his own to rebel. God did not lose anything in this turn of Satan from preferring God above all else to preferring himself. In reality, God won in this situation, not only that He judged Satan and stripped him of his place as the covering cherub and the prominent position God originally chose for him, but in that allowing Satan to fall along with the other angels that did so, too, God wins because this put into time and history the fulfillment of God's eternal plan that was decided and ordained to occur without fail before creation of anything. So, in Satan's fall, God is truly the Victor. Satan suffered great loss in his sin, but God lost nothing.
When God created Adam and Eve, He chose to make them able to sin, just like Satan and the angels that sinned with him. Like Satan and the angels, Adam was created in a realm where there was no sin whatsoever and no corruption of anything that God had made in the physical realm, as it was in the spiritual realm when God created the angels. When Adam and Eve sinned, God did not lose. Adam and Eve lost, and critically so. Satan lost here, too, because He brought upon himself a more profound curse than when he first sinned. In the Garden before sin entered, God told the first humans He created that they would die if they disobeyed His command concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They did not know about evil or about evil beings. cont. to part 2