Knowledge of God’s Mystery
Here we are again where we find ourselves in a maze of worldly confusion where it not that we have the Holy Spirit to guide us through. All things spiritual start with an understanding of the first three chapters’ of Genesis because it is there that we learn just what it is that was lost to mankind. Genesis is the foundation upon which Christ in all wisdom and knowledge is first seen and known.
For it is there that the first law of “ONE” is revealed which holds the key to all else in the Bible for us. Genesis through Acts chapter 8 and a portion at the end of 9 we find God’s working with the earthy man (This is also seen in Romans chapters one through five verse five) and then those men who have been accounted as righteous or spiritual, that meat God’s requirements. Then in Acts chapter 9 He focuses on one man again just as He did with Moses this man has his name changed by God from Saul to Paul indicating the change of direction and God’s acceptance of him as His voice (from here on into Romans through Philemon).
Those who do not understand the word do not see or hear this change taking place because the god of this evil world has their minds blinded or veiled to it. Men of the intellectual institutions do not have a clue as to what the Lord is doing; they reveal this in their mixing of the scriptures and the bending of them to get them to say something that is not there.
The people that are hungry and thirsty for the truth do not know where to turn to because they have been lead astray and deceived into believing a lie as contained in a feel good gospel a gospel in many cases that was meant for Israel only. From here then let us move on.
Col 2:1-7
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude* you with plausible arguments.** For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order (discipline) and the firmness of your faith in Christ. As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and established in your faith, even as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
* Delude: is to deceive, beguile to turn away from as a wife turns her back on
her husband to pursue another; as Israel and the church have done by turning
toward the spirit of the world.
** Arguments: persuasive words
Col 4:2-6
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison-- that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders,* making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
• Outsiders: unbelievers and the enemies of the cross of Christ (a sinner),
seeing your manner of living (conversation).
Knowledge of the Mystery
Col. 2.1-5 & 4.2-6
Col 2:9-17 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead corporeally as the foundation or federal head of the Body. And you are filled with Him (John 1:16), who is the head of all principality and power. In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand in despoiling (stripping away or destroying by the circumcision) of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of Christ. Buried with Him in baptism (this is an action of the Holy Spirit and not with water): in whom also you are raised again by the faith of the operation of God who has raised (you in Him) Him up from the dead. And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has quickened (made alive in regeneration of the spirit or your inner man) together with Him, forgiving your all offences: blotting out the handwriting of the decree that was against us, which was contrary to us (that which was lost in Adam). And He has taken the same out of the way, fastening it to the cross. Despoiling the principalities and powers (the spirit of the world in the flesh of man), he has exposed them confidently in open show, triumphing over them in Himself (when He was raised from the dead). Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the Sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ.
Eph 1:7-14 In Him we have redemption (present possession) through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace (the seed that is opened by the Gospel of Grace), which He lavished upon us (this is found in Genesis chapters 2 and 3), in all wisdom and insight (the full knowledge of) making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him again, things in heaven and things on earth. In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your redemption, and believed in Him, were sealed(baptized) with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it (our salvation and the home of our hope), to the praise of His glory.
Col 3:1-4 If then you have been raised with Christ (in His incarnation, passion, death, and resurrection), seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, (been crucified in Christ) and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
Php 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself.
Now for the warning:
Col 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Col 2:18-23 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism (rigid self denial) and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations--21 "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" (referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism (which is spiritual pride under the mock guise of humility) and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh and the wrath to come.
Christ Himself warns in Mat 23:27-28 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
2Co 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
1Ti 4:3-5 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Php 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Col 3:5-15 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. Be thankful.
So Sunday or Saturday, Wednesday, Easter, Christmas, Saint Patrick’s Day or any other man made holiday of worship is defilement to the Christian and the Jewish community of believers. Many billions of believers have gone to the death without knowing the mystery of the Gospel of God’s Grace in truth because of mans own ignorance from which there is NO escape. That is why the LORD through Paul and the others warns us time and time again to study the scriptures for ourselves. We are accountable to no one else but to Him for our own selves and our ignorance bears on no one else. Though the blood of all that sit under such false prophets and teachers is on their hands for they carry the heaver load or weight.
All scripture references are from the English Standard version Bible
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Genesis the Untold Story
Genesis
The Untold Story
Genesis is the start of the revelation of Jesus Christ and mans need for redemption, the story of mans fallen nature his origin and his final salvation back to the angelic magical being that he was at the first. Paul reveals that this mystery is only understood by those who of their own free will and accord choose to put to death their evil sinful self will (found in mans flesh) to fall into God’s hands to become sons of God again.
In The Beginning
Gen 1:26-28 God [Elohim-Yehovah] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God [Elohim-Christ] created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moves on the earth.(This ties to Gen. 2:7)
[Man is given authority over all of this renewed creation and is put over it to keep it under his feet, to subdue it and have dominion over it. Man is created as a mirror image, having a portion of each member of the triune Godhead, Elohim in his nature or inward life or Christ with Christ in him (Grace, holiness, righteousness, justice) as a divine creature made of the Elements of Spirit [which are light, fire, and Spirit] eternal or immortal his outward state. Made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honor from the elements of the earth; dust, earthy and other materials, fire, and water. Man has in himself the ability to reproduce other like beings; thusly man has within himself two natures all ready at work. [See Matthew 1:14-23; Luke 1:26-35, 37-38] He walks with God as a divine spirit being a true son of God and is an eternal being.]
[John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
Col 1:15-17 He who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through [in] Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Eph 1:4-6 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption as sons through [in] Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.
Eph 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The names for the Word are; Yehovah-Elohim, Immanuel, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Christ and many others. (EHYEH asher EHYEH)Yehovah means progressive revelation or the ever revealing one.
Eph 4:4-7 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Deu 30:15-18 "See, I have set before you today life and good (water and Life), death and evil (death and fire). If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land (the kingdom of His rule) that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish (death and fire).]
Gen 2:7-9 Yehovah-Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. Yehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (This ties back to Gen. 1:26-28 above)
[The Life force, the vary Divine nature and character (Grace, Righteousness, Holiness, Justice, Love) of God, which is composed of portions of the trinity each contributing a part of Himself so man is a mirror image of his Creator. The Grace of God in Christ this new creation, man, a spirit being in which are life, love, and light, living in the covering of glory and the Kingdom of God that is within him and that is the vary realm of his divine being, immortal. A love creature created to respond to God in love in perfect perfection. Man is born into the Divine life; he has the position of being in both heaven and earth. A spirit being, with a free will, made a little lower than the angels who also have a will made out of the earth in whom was breathed the breath of lives, in order to multiply and bring forth sons of like nature of perfection (with two natures at work within him) . Who has contact with his Creator in heaven and on earth in perfect worship.
Man looking upon the nature of the created things about him desired to know what their nature was made of for they were different than himself. This desire was mixed with his will which caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow, as this mystery is held inside of God as part of His supernatural magical powers.
The elements of the earth are wind, minerals, water and fire. The materials of the earth are darkness, fire, death, wrath, sickness, and thickness. These relate to pride, selfishness, wrath, envy, and murder and all manor of evil or what is called or known as Satan. Nature is broken off from God because it contains all the materials and elements of the natural nature of the fallen angels and is a reflection of the nature of the invisible God. All this was caused by the fallen angels of the rebellion (when their will became defiled by self-will, envy, pride this was caused by Satan). When they fell they took their portion of the crystal sea from which they ministered to the throne of God. This (corrupted portion of the crystal sea) became gross darkness, they, the fallen angels, being incased within its thickness and darkness. God compacted the broken portion creating earth after calling His Light into it.
The earth will return to the Kingdom of God in Light, in the form as the fluid glassy sea of Revelation 4:6, 22:1, as revealed in 2 Peter 3:12.]
Gen 2:15 The Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
[This is heaven on earth, in the goodness, love, and pleasure of the Kingdom of God.]
Gen 2:16-17 Yehovah Elohim commanded man, saying, of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will certainly die.
[This is a spiritual separation from the nature and character, (known as Christ or Grace) of God a separation from Christ both inward and outward. This putting man on the level of the animal life: fleshly, carnal, earthy, reasoning, natural with the animals fearing man and man having the bestial nature or having the nature of all that is evil. The exchange of the divine nature and character of Christ is that of his free will choice to have the eyes of man opened, from the heavenly things to which man is now blind, to flesh and blood the natural life that all the rest of creation experiences or lives in, in anguish of sin.]
Gen 2:19-20 The Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
[Adams first signs of craving or desiring through reasoning for the nature of the animal, something more within himself, the spirit of the world is given seed causing a stronger draw on him, than his normal relationship with God and His love. This desire is what caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow, it produced its fruit because of the desire of man, a flaw of mans will and proves to become his down fall, just as it did the fallen angels who’s evil nature covers the earth in the form of dust. God warns man not to eat of it because He knows that when man does that man will suffer death. The death of his eternal nature and love of God his creator and that he will take on the nature of nature, sin and death the result of corruption. The animals have no ignorance of what concerns them, they have a sensible intuitive knowledge of everything that is required for food, shelter, protection and reproduction and Adam desired this knowledge. It is better known as the knowledge of the natural world of nature or the spirit of the world (Satan is deception, materialism, wealth, desire for things of the bestial nature or more stuff.)]
Gen 2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like to himself.
[Woman is mans first line of redemption, for Adams turning from God and His love, to desiring what he saw in the animal kingdom in the pairs and in the plant life or the natural nature of things of God’s creation. Woman is mans completion or helpmeet, being taken from Adam, man now carries the seed of Christ within. As man was Christ’s helpmeet being taken from Him and will be reunited within Him again and the two shall become one flesh because of the seed spoken or the word of God.]
[Rom 11:29 The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
1Co 1:25-31 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. Because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
2Ti 1:9 Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through this Gospel of God’s Grace, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.
2Pe 1:5-11 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.]
Gen 2:21-23 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
[Rule of the first is seen here in that He, Yehovah had created man a complete being in himself and therefore is required to take from that which was created to create again, a mystery hid in scripture because it was spoken and is the Word of God. A thing that angels can not do, they are not able to reproduce or regenerate in themselves.]
Gen 3:1-7 The serpent was craftier than any animal of the field which Yehovah-Elohim had made. It said to the woman, “is it even so, that God has said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” The woman said to the serpent, “we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘you shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die’.” The serpent said to the woman, “you will not certainly die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as god, knowing good and evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
[The chief angel, Satan (the first deceived self, pride, covetousness), also called the dragon, that led the rebellion, who took with him his regiment when thrown out of the presence of God and of Heaven, taking a portion of the crystal sea with him and his angels, which underwent corruption and compaction to become the earth (Revelations chapter twelve). He is the spirit of the world that corrupts everything on it and in it. Questioning the vary word of God and causing doubt, or reasoning [unbelief] that birthed lust in the mind of the woman. The seed of self will the desire or lust for the things of the bestial nature is given root in mans divine nature again. The eyes of the flesh will be opened and the eyes of the spirit or soul will be closed or veiled in man. Adams free will choice separates him from being a little below angels, a spiritual being, that God had made him to be, and changes him into the bestial nature of the serpent. He takes on the animal nature of life, temporary as it is in its life to death, in corruption, and is now subject to the worldly spirit and all manor of evil, demonic and makes him a slave to that nature. The nature and character of God and the glory of God, Christ, dies and becomes a seed within man, this seed then is passed on through woman. The blood is defiled, for the life of man is in the blood. This seed contains all the nature and likeness of God in Christ but requires the operation of God the fire, light and love, the Holy Spirit and the death of the bestial nature for this seed to come to life again. An action of mans free will of choice, that allows the light of God contained in the word and the Spirit to give life (quicken) to this seed. As a seed of grain has to have the out ward husk, this is the evil that sealed the good of God, to die before the ovule can bring forth new life, God in Christ in man again in regeneration. This seed when properly feed on the word of God grows into a large tree that is drawing it’s nourishment from the root which is also Christ the Father of mankind.]
Gen 3:9-13 The Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you Adam? He said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said to him: And who has told you that you are naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? Adam said: the woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. The Lord God said to the woman: Why have you done this? She answered: the serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
[The results of mans eating now having the inward knowledge of good and evil and the ability to see Gods hand in all of the creation or nature around him, his spiritual eyes are now closed. All mankind is without excuse for all is revealed to him by nature itself (and within man is that desire for his original nature to be restored again, known as anguish). The second encounter with deception and again the choice is turned to self will above that which was commanded the vary thing that caused Satan to fall in the first place. Now man is the slave of the bestial nature and all of its ugly components, the thing that the earth is made up of; darkness, fire, thickness, death, wrath, disease and all the offspring of them.]
[Eph 2:4-9 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together within Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up within Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. By grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 1Co 15:22 In Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.]
[It should be noted that had Christ not been in all things from the beginning He could not have been allowed to do the works of righteousness in bring redemption to mankind. To redeem or buy back that which was lost of mankind and the earths rule and dominion and the taking of the title deed from Lucifer which is now awaiting the seals to be broken that keep it sealed. Revelations 5:1-9]
Gen 3:14-20 The Lord God said to the serpent (the influence of Satan’s fallen nature, corruption, of self): because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon your breast, belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel. To the woman he said: I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you. To Adam he said: because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return. Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
[The seed of evil that is at work in merchandising worldliness and its passions of self will and their evil offspring (through reasoning and philosophy).
The establishing of this covenant the placement of the seed of redemption to reestablish the Kingdom of God in the soul of man, the way is made for the death of mans selfish will and slavery to all evil in his fallen nature which requires its being dealt with. The promise of a coming redemption for all mankind that will destroy the evil nature that is at work in and through fallen man. God is setting up for the wrath to come in the enmity of the two natures now found in man. One a physical, fleshly, earthy life in sorrow and shame under the lordship of a heavy task master the fear of death caused by sin (which is revealed in the law) and the sting of that death. Man no more having the dominion over creation, having lost that to the enemy of God and man, Satan, the dragon and beast. The curse reveals the fallen nature of all created creatures, nature and creation which has been broken off of God and waits in anguish for the revealing of the sons of God. All have only this consuming fire, which is a part of God, contained in them which are wrath and darkness because the presence of God is removed from them. Adam put out the life, light and love of God and put man into the natural nature of the fallen angels and the creatures in this fallen nature, temporary as it is. Man is now the carrier of the seed in his/her soul that will be the destroyer of the power of darkness, mans eternal separation from the love and light of God, who will bring the truth, the way and the life back into man, his redeemer. Man now carries the spiritual torch awaiting the flame to reignite the fire of eternal life the promise of mans redemption to a spirit being again and the future salvation in which we now hope for.]
Gen 3:21-23 The Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them. He said: behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. The Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
[The first action of atonement with the shedding of blood and the covering with the skins to cover mans new nature of sin and death, temporary as this new. This is the first action of the covenant to the recovery and redemption of man to a place of at-one-ment with his creator. No one ascend unless they are born again, born from above or regenerated into the eternal nature the first true state of created man. This covenant was taught to the sons of Adam. Seth carries on in place of Abel who Cain the earthy man killed. Remember the law of the first hidden in scripture; the first born son is usually the spiritual one of the family when he is conceived according to God’s program. This however is not the way God deals with the individual, first the earthy nature when the earthy is dealt with then the spiritual nature. See Paul’s writings Romans through Philemon, and Jesus’ teaching on the narrow and broad way Matthew 7: 13-14, the pearl of great price Matthew 13:45-46, and the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 and the seed John 12:24-26.]
[1Co 15:45-49 It is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. It is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Rom 1:19-21 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.]
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
[Seth carries on in place of Abel who Cain the earthy man killed. Seth is the father of Noah, Noah is the father of Shem, Shem is the great grand father of Eber a relative of Abram, [who will become known as Abraham] as found in the book of Jasher in it, it is told that Abram [at the age of ten] stayed with Noah and Shem to learn the ways of the Lord for twenty-nine years. Shem is the king of Salem and the high priest of the Most High God. His heirs will become the children of Israel who will become the nation of promise through whom Yehovah will come in the flesh or the humiliation of man as Immanuel, Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah of Israel the incarnation of Adam again as at the first perfection. And Paul will show by revealed revelation to be the redeemer of the world and all mankind.]
“The will of the creature is the only opener of all evil or good in the creature. The will stands between God and nature and must in its entire workings unite either with God or nature. The will totally resigned and given up to God is one spirit with God and God dwells in it. The will turned from God is taken prisoner in the wrath, fire, sickness and darkness of nature.”
A quote in part from William Law 1686-1761
Now, from this original doctrine of the creation of man, known to all the first inhabitants of the world, and published in the front of the first written Word of God; these great truths have been more or less declared to all the nations of the world. First, that all mankind are the created offspring of the one God. Secondly, that in all men there is a spirit or breath of lives that did not begin to be out of nothing, or was created out of nothing; but came from the true God into man, as His own breath of life breathed into him. Thirdly, that therefore there is in all men, wherever dispersed over the earth, a divine, immortal, never-ending spirit, that can have nothing of death in it, but must live for ever, because it is the breath of the ever living God. Fourthly, that by this immortal breath, or Spirit of God in man, all mankind stand in the same nearness of relation to God, are all equally His children, are all under the same necessity of paying the same homage of love and obedience to Him, all fitted to receive the same blessing and happiness from Him, all created for the same eternal enjoyment of His love and presence within them, all equally called to worship and adore Him in spirit and truth, all equally capable of seeking and finding Him, of having a blessed union and communion with Him.
These great truths, the first pillars of all true and spiritual religion, on which the holy and divine lives of the ancient patriarchs was supported, by which they worshiped God in a true and right faith; these truths, I say, were most eminently and plainly declared in the express letter of the Mosaic writings, here quoted. And no writer, whether Jewish or Christian, has so plainly, so fully, so deeply laid open the true ground, and necessity of an eternal, never- ceasing relation between God, and all the human nature; no one has so incontestably asserted the immortality of the soul, or spirit of man; or so deeply laid open, and proved the necessity of one religion, common to all human nature, as the legislator of the Jewish theocracy had done. Life and immortality are indeed justly said to be brought to light by the Gospel of the Grace of God revealed to Paul; not only because they there stand in a new degree of light, largely explained, and much appealed to, and absolutely promised by the Son of God Himself, but chiefly because the precious means and mysteries of obtaining a blessed life, and a blessed immortality, were only revealed, or brought to light by the Gospel of God’s Grace.
But the incontestable ground and reason of an immortal life, and eternal relation between God, and the whole human nature, and which lays all mankind under the same obligations to the same true worship of God, is most fully set forth by Moses, who alone tells us the true fact; how, and why man is immortal in his nature, therefore, because the beginning of his life was a breath, breathed into him from God; and for this end, that he might be a living image and likeness of God, created to partake of the nature and immortality of God.
This is the great doctrine of the Jewish legislator, and which justly places him amongst the greatest preachers of true religion. That Paul used a very powerful argument to persuade the Athenians to own the true God, and the true religion, when he told them, "that God made the world and all things therein; that He gives life and breath and all things; that He has made of one blood, all nations of men to dwell on the earth; that they should all seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after, and find Him, seeing He is not far from any of us, because in Him we live, move, and have our being." {Acts 17:24.} And yet this doctrine, which Paul preaches to the Athenians, is nothing else, but that same divine and heavenly instruction, which he had learned from Moses, which Moses openly and plainly taught all the Jews. The Jewish theocracy therefore was by no means an intimation to that people, that they had no concern with the true God, but as children of this world, under His temporal protection or punishment; for their lawgiver left them no room for such a thought, because he had as plainly taught them their eternal nature and eternal relation, which they had to God in common with all mankind; as Paul did to the Athenians, who only set before them that very doctrine that Moses taught all the Jews. The great end of the Jewish theocracy was to show, both to Jew and gentile, the absolute, uncontrollable power of the one God, by such a covenanted interposition of His providence, that all the world might know, that the one God, from whom both Jew and gentile were fallen away, by departing from the faith and religion of their first fathers, was the only God, from whom all mankind could receive either blessing or cursing.
This was the great thing intended to be proclaimed to the entire world by this theocracy, that being, that only the God of Israel had power to save or destroy, to punish or reward, according to His pleasure; and that therefore all the gods of the heathens, were mere vanity. If therefore any Jews, by reason of those extraordinary temporal blessings and cursing which they received under their theocracy, grew grossly ignorant, or dully senseless of their eternal nature, and eternal relation to God, and of that one true religion, which by nature they were obliged to observe in common with all mankind; if they took God only to be their local or tutelary deity, and themselves to be only animals of this world; such a grossness of belief was no more to be charged upon their great lawgiver, Moses, than if they had believed, that a golden calf was their true god. But to return to the creation.
It is impossible, that this world, in the state and condition it is now in, should have been an immediate and original creation of God: this is as impossible, as that God should create evil, either natural or moral. That this world has evil in all its parts; that its matter is in a corrupt, disordered state, full of grossness, disease, impurity, wrath, death and darkness, is as evident, as that there is light, beauty, order and harmony everywhere to be found in it. Therefore it is as impossible; that this outward state and condition of things should be a first and immediate work of God, as that there should be good and evil in God Himself. All storms and tempests, every fierceness of heat, every wrath of cold proves with the same certainty, that outward nature is not a first work of God, as the selfishness, envy, pride, wrath, and malice of devils, and men proves, that they are not in the first state of their creation. As no kind or degree of moral evil could possibly have its cause in, or from God, so there cannot be the least shadow of imperfection and disorder in outward nature, but what must have sprung up in the same manner, and from the same causes, as sickness and corrupt flesh is come into the human body, namely, from the sin of the creature. Storms, tempests, gravel, stone, sour and dead earth are the same things, the same diseases, the same effects of sin, produced in the same manner in the outward body of nature, as corrupt flesh, fevers, dropsy, plagues, gravel, stone, and gout, are produced in the outward body of man. For that, and that only which produces stone in the body of man, did produce stone in the outward nature, as shall plainly appear by and by. For nature within, and without man, is one and the same, and has but one and the same way of working; a stone in the body, and a stone out of the body of man, proceeds from one and the same disorder of nature.
When therefore you see a diseased, gouty, leprous, asthmatically, scorbutic man, you can with the utmost certainty say, this is not that human body which God first created in paradise; so, when you see the disorders of heat and cold, the poisonous earth, unfruitful seasons, and malignant qualities of outward nature, you can with the same certainty affirm, this state of nature is not a first creation of God, but that same must have happened to it, which has happened to the body of man. For dark, sour, hard, dead earth can no more be a first, immediate creation of God, than a wrathful devil, as such, can be created by Him. For dark, sour, dead earth is as disordered in its kind, as the devils are, and has as certainly lost its first heavenly condition and nature, as the devils have lost theirs. But now, as in man, the little world, there is excellencies and perfection enough to prove, that human nature is the work of an all-perfect being, yet, so much impurity and disease of corrupt flesh and blood, as undeniably shows, that sin has almost quite spoiled the work of God. So, in the great world, the footsteps of an infinite wisdom in the order and harmony of the whole, sufficiently appears; yet, the disorders, tumults, and evils of nature, plainly demonstrate, that the present condition of this world is only the remains or ruins, first, of a heaven spoiled by the fall of angels, and then of a paradise lost by the sin of man. So that man, and the world in which he lives, lie both in the same state of disorder and impurity, have both the same marks of life and death in them, both bring forth the same sort of evils, both want a redeemer, and have need of the same kind of death and resurrection, before they can come to their first state of purity and perfection.
That this outward world was not created out of nothing is plainly taught by Paul, who declares, Rom.1:20, that the creation of the world is out of the invisible things of God; so that the outward condition and frame of invisible nature, is a plain manifestation of that spiritual world from whence it is descended. For as every outside necessarily supposes an inside, and as temporal light and darkness must be the product of eternal light and darkness, so this outward, visible state of things necessarily supposes some inward, invisible state, from whence it is come into this degree of outwardness. Thus all that is on earth is only a change or alteration of something that was in heaven: and heaven itself is nothing else but the first glorious out-birth, the majestic manifestation, the beatific visibility of the one God in Trinity. Thus we find out, how this temporal nature is related to God; it is only a gross out-birth of that which is an eternal nature, or a blessed heaven, and stands only in such a degree of distance from it, as water does to air; and this is the reason why the last fire will, and must turn this gross, temporal nature into its first, heavenly state 2 Peter 3:10-13. But to suppose the gross matter of this world to be made out of nothing, or compacted nothing, is more absurd, than to suppose ice that has congealed nothing, a yard that is not made up of inches, or a pound that is not the product of ounces.
Taken from a book written by William Law 1686-1761 which is found in the public domain.
Gen 1:4-5 God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Here we are given the two realms that are at work around us; the one is light or day and is good, the other is darkness or night and is evil for more evil deeds are done under the darkness of night then during the day.
Gen 1:20-22 God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
Gen 1:23-25 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Here we have the creation of all natural creatures that have in themselves the intuitive nature to know how to hunt for food, reproduce, seek shelter, and that when they die they return back to the earth from which they were created. They do not have a soul, spirit nor are they spiritual they are not eternal in nature or makeup, they are temporal. They are beasts only and as such live according to there
government, though after the fall of man they do take upon themselves a slightly different nature because they become subjected to the curse as all the earth and nature is put under it’s government, which is only temporary. For all creatures and creation wait the revealing of the sons of God and the regeneration that starts when this happens.
Gen 2:19-20 Out of the ground (Jehovah-Elohim) God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature that was the name thereof. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.
This ties to Genesis chapter one verse 20 and 24-25 and this is the ground of all scripture for scripture dovetails into scripture or agrees with scripture. As Peter said in 2 Peter chapter one: 19-21 We have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
This first principle is not to be lost sight of and that is no writer is to be an uninspired or not a Spirit lead writer and no scripture is to be subject to an uninspired persons interpretation. For it is God’s inspiration by His disclosure and origination to us that make known and understand His word.
1Co 2:13-14 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches; combining spiritual things with spiritual words. Now the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. (discerned, understood, accepted) This is how the scripture are compared or proven, when they compliment each other. This passage compliments that of 2 Peter 1:19-20, in this way confusion is removed and the truth is revealed and understood. The spiritual person when under the yoke of the Lord and in agreement with Him as the Lord tells us in John chapter 17 becomes one within Him and He within that person. The secret is then disclosed to that person and he passes through the gates of redemption into regeneration to the first created state again, with Christ as his Father.
Rom 12:6-8 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teaches, to his teaching; or he that exhorts, to his exhorting: he that gives, let him do it with liberality; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
The point here is found in the first verse for it is by grace that is given or that seed that receives new life as grace is a seed faith planted within all mankind by God and can by found in Genesis chapter two verse eighteen. Remember that some scripture has a double meaning.
Rom 8:1-10 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled (restored) in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.(restored or regenerated to it’s first state)
Note: Lucifer (the ruler of Tyre and Persians king who was Satan personified), Adam, mankind, and Jesus were all tempted by thought. Thought when it becomes desire is united with the will and it is spoken freely becomes a force. Jesus resisted this thought and the desire by quoting the word, our two edge sword which destroys the thought and desire by taking it into captivity. Christ came to put to death self will contained in the flesh of mankind because it is the source or origin of thought and desire, which opposes the knowledge of God in man. The thought, given into, becomes desire and mixed with the will of man can create a thing. Satan is the corruption that can cause the thought to become a force for evil because of the desire for self gratification in what ever form. This corruption is what caused Lucifer to desire to be higher or above God (it is known as selfishness or self love, pride, it is a self pleasing love) and caused him to be cast out of heaven. This is what caused Adam to first desire to know nature and the nature of the beasts that were around him, it caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow. This force of self love brings with it wrath, disease, darkness, thickness, death and destruction. Satan was found to be in Lucifer as the chief of the fallen angels, the evil and prince of darkness, mankind’s enemy that is also found in the self ego of fallen man. This is who keeps fallen man (and some "Christians") under a veil of deceptions, especially those who have not submitted to the word of God by their free will into His Word or Will, when it is received by them.
All scriptures are taken from the American Standard and the English Standard Version Bible.
The Untold Story
Genesis is the start of the revelation of Jesus Christ and mans need for redemption, the story of mans fallen nature his origin and his final salvation back to the angelic magical being that he was at the first. Paul reveals that this mystery is only understood by those who of their own free will and accord choose to put to death their evil sinful self will (found in mans flesh) to fall into God’s hands to become sons of God again.
In The Beginning
Gen 1:26-28 God [Elohim-Yehovah] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God [Elohim-Christ] created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moves on the earth.(This ties to Gen. 2:7)
[Man is given authority over all of this renewed creation and is put over it to keep it under his feet, to subdue it and have dominion over it. Man is created as a mirror image, having a portion of each member of the triune Godhead, Elohim in his nature or inward life or Christ with Christ in him (Grace, holiness, righteousness, justice) as a divine creature made of the Elements of Spirit [which are light, fire, and Spirit] eternal or immortal his outward state. Made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honor from the elements of the earth; dust, earthy and other materials, fire, and water. Man has in himself the ability to reproduce other like beings; thusly man has within himself two natures all ready at work. [See Matthew 1:14-23; Luke 1:26-35, 37-38] He walks with God as a divine spirit being a true son of God and is an eternal being.]
[John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
Col 1:15-17 He who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through [in] Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Eph 1:4-6 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us for adoption as sons through [in] Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.
Eph 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The names for the Word are; Yehovah-Elohim, Immanuel, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Christ, Christ and many others. (EHYEH asher EHYEH)Yehovah means progressive revelation or the ever revealing one.
Eph 4:4-7 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Deu 30:15-18 "See, I have set before you today life and good (water and Life), death and evil (death and fire). If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land (the kingdom of His rule) that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish (death and fire).]
Gen 2:7-9 Yehovah-Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. Yehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (This ties back to Gen. 1:26-28 above)
[The Life force, the vary Divine nature and character (Grace, Righteousness, Holiness, Justice, Love) of God, which is composed of portions of the trinity each contributing a part of Himself so man is a mirror image of his Creator. The Grace of God in Christ this new creation, man, a spirit being in which are life, love, and light, living in the covering of glory and the Kingdom of God that is within him and that is the vary realm of his divine being, immortal. A love creature created to respond to God in love in perfect perfection. Man is born into the Divine life; he has the position of being in both heaven and earth. A spirit being, with a free will, made a little lower than the angels who also have a will made out of the earth in whom was breathed the breath of lives, in order to multiply and bring forth sons of like nature of perfection (with two natures at work within him) . Who has contact with his Creator in heaven and on earth in perfect worship.
Man looking upon the nature of the created things about him desired to know what their nature was made of for they were different than himself. This desire was mixed with his will which caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow, as this mystery is held inside of God as part of His supernatural magical powers.
The elements of the earth are wind, minerals, water and fire. The materials of the earth are darkness, fire, death, wrath, sickness, and thickness. These relate to pride, selfishness, wrath, envy, and murder and all manor of evil or what is called or known as Satan. Nature is broken off from God because it contains all the materials and elements of the natural nature of the fallen angels and is a reflection of the nature of the invisible God. All this was caused by the fallen angels of the rebellion (when their will became defiled by self-will, envy, pride this was caused by Satan). When they fell they took their portion of the crystal sea from which they ministered to the throne of God. This (corrupted portion of the crystal sea) became gross darkness, they, the fallen angels, being incased within its thickness and darkness. God compacted the broken portion creating earth after calling His Light into it.
The earth will return to the Kingdom of God in Light, in the form as the fluid glassy sea of Revelation 4:6, 22:1, as revealed in 2 Peter 3:12.]
Gen 2:15 The Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
[This is heaven on earth, in the goodness, love, and pleasure of the Kingdom of God.]
Gen 2:16-17 Yehovah Elohim commanded man, saying, of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will certainly die.
[This is a spiritual separation from the nature and character, (known as Christ or Grace) of God a separation from Christ both inward and outward. This putting man on the level of the animal life: fleshly, carnal, earthy, reasoning, natural with the animals fearing man and man having the bestial nature or having the nature of all that is evil. The exchange of the divine nature and character of Christ is that of his free will choice to have the eyes of man opened, from the heavenly things to which man is now blind, to flesh and blood the natural life that all the rest of creation experiences or lives in, in anguish of sin.]
Gen 2:19-20 The Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
[Adams first signs of craving or desiring through reasoning for the nature of the animal, something more within himself, the spirit of the world is given seed causing a stronger draw on him, than his normal relationship with God and His love. This desire is what caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow, it produced its fruit because of the desire of man, a flaw of mans will and proves to become his down fall, just as it did the fallen angels who’s evil nature covers the earth in the form of dust. God warns man not to eat of it because He knows that when man does that man will suffer death. The death of his eternal nature and love of God his creator and that he will take on the nature of nature, sin and death the result of corruption. The animals have no ignorance of what concerns them, they have a sensible intuitive knowledge of everything that is required for food, shelter, protection and reproduction and Adam desired this knowledge. It is better known as the knowledge of the natural world of nature or the spirit of the world (Satan is deception, materialism, wealth, desire for things of the bestial nature or more stuff.)]
Gen 2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like to himself.
[Woman is mans first line of redemption, for Adams turning from God and His love, to desiring what he saw in the animal kingdom in the pairs and in the plant life or the natural nature of things of God’s creation. Woman is mans completion or helpmeet, being taken from Adam, man now carries the seed of Christ within. As man was Christ’s helpmeet being taken from Him and will be reunited within Him again and the two shall become one flesh because of the seed spoken or the word of God.]
[Rom 11:29 The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
1Co 1:25-31 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. Because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
2Ti 1:9 Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through this Gospel of God’s Grace, 11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.
2Pe 1:5-11 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.]
Gen 2:21-23 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
[Rule of the first is seen here in that He, Yehovah had created man a complete being in himself and therefore is required to take from that which was created to create again, a mystery hid in scripture because it was spoken and is the Word of God. A thing that angels can not do, they are not able to reproduce or regenerate in themselves.]
Gen 3:1-7 The serpent was craftier than any animal of the field which Yehovah-Elohim had made. It said to the woman, “is it even so, that God has said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” The woman said to the serpent, “we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘you shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die’.” The serpent said to the woman, “you will not certainly die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as god, knowing good and evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
[The chief angel, Satan (the first deceived self, pride, covetousness), also called the dragon, that led the rebellion, who took with him his regiment when thrown out of the presence of God and of Heaven, taking a portion of the crystal sea with him and his angels, which underwent corruption and compaction to become the earth (Revelations chapter twelve). He is the spirit of the world that corrupts everything on it and in it. Questioning the vary word of God and causing doubt, or reasoning [unbelief] that birthed lust in the mind of the woman. The seed of self will the desire or lust for the things of the bestial nature is given root in mans divine nature again. The eyes of the flesh will be opened and the eyes of the spirit or soul will be closed or veiled in man. Adams free will choice separates him from being a little below angels, a spiritual being, that God had made him to be, and changes him into the bestial nature of the serpent. He takes on the animal nature of life, temporary as it is in its life to death, in corruption, and is now subject to the worldly spirit and all manor of evil, demonic and makes him a slave to that nature. The nature and character of God and the glory of God, Christ, dies and becomes a seed within man, this seed then is passed on through woman. The blood is defiled, for the life of man is in the blood. This seed contains all the nature and likeness of God in Christ but requires the operation of God the fire, light and love, the Holy Spirit and the death of the bestial nature for this seed to come to life again. An action of mans free will of choice, that allows the light of God contained in the word and the Spirit to give life (quicken) to this seed. As a seed of grain has to have the out ward husk, this is the evil that sealed the good of God, to die before the ovule can bring forth new life, God in Christ in man again in regeneration. This seed when properly feed on the word of God grows into a large tree that is drawing it’s nourishment from the root which is also Christ the Father of mankind.]
Gen 3:9-13 The Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you Adam? He said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said to him: And who has told you that you are naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? Adam said: the woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat. The Lord God said to the woman: Why have you done this? She answered: the serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
[The results of mans eating now having the inward knowledge of good and evil and the ability to see Gods hand in all of the creation or nature around him, his spiritual eyes are now closed. All mankind is without excuse for all is revealed to him by nature itself (and within man is that desire for his original nature to be restored again, known as anguish). The second encounter with deception and again the choice is turned to self will above that which was commanded the vary thing that caused Satan to fall in the first place. Now man is the slave of the bestial nature and all of its ugly components, the thing that the earth is made up of; darkness, fire, thickness, death, wrath, disease and all the offspring of them.]
[Eph 2:4-9 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together within Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up within Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. By grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 1Co 15:22 In Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.]
[It should be noted that had Christ not been in all things from the beginning He could not have been allowed to do the works of righteousness in bring redemption to mankind. To redeem or buy back that which was lost of mankind and the earths rule and dominion and the taking of the title deed from Lucifer which is now awaiting the seals to be broken that keep it sealed. Revelations 5:1-9]
Gen 3:14-20 The Lord God said to the serpent (the influence of Satan’s fallen nature, corruption, of self): because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon your breast, belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel. To the woman he said: I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you. To Adam he said: because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return. Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
[The seed of evil that is at work in merchandising worldliness and its passions of self will and their evil offspring (through reasoning and philosophy).
The establishing of this covenant the placement of the seed of redemption to reestablish the Kingdom of God in the soul of man, the way is made for the death of mans selfish will and slavery to all evil in his fallen nature which requires its being dealt with. The promise of a coming redemption for all mankind that will destroy the evil nature that is at work in and through fallen man. God is setting up for the wrath to come in the enmity of the two natures now found in man. One a physical, fleshly, earthy life in sorrow and shame under the lordship of a heavy task master the fear of death caused by sin (which is revealed in the law) and the sting of that death. Man no more having the dominion over creation, having lost that to the enemy of God and man, Satan, the dragon and beast. The curse reveals the fallen nature of all created creatures, nature and creation which has been broken off of God and waits in anguish for the revealing of the sons of God. All have only this consuming fire, which is a part of God, contained in them which are wrath and darkness because the presence of God is removed from them. Adam put out the life, light and love of God and put man into the natural nature of the fallen angels and the creatures in this fallen nature, temporary as it is. Man is now the carrier of the seed in his/her soul that will be the destroyer of the power of darkness, mans eternal separation from the love and light of God, who will bring the truth, the way and the life back into man, his redeemer. Man now carries the spiritual torch awaiting the flame to reignite the fire of eternal life the promise of mans redemption to a spirit being again and the future salvation in which we now hope for.]
Gen 3:21-23 The Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them. He said: behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. The Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
[The first action of atonement with the shedding of blood and the covering with the skins to cover mans new nature of sin and death, temporary as this new. This is the first action of the covenant to the recovery and redemption of man to a place of at-one-ment with his creator. No one ascend unless they are born again, born from above or regenerated into the eternal nature the first true state of created man. This covenant was taught to the sons of Adam. Seth carries on in place of Abel who Cain the earthy man killed. Remember the law of the first hidden in scripture; the first born son is usually the spiritual one of the family when he is conceived according to God’s program. This however is not the way God deals with the individual, first the earthy nature when the earthy is dealt with then the spiritual nature. See Paul’s writings Romans through Philemon, and Jesus’ teaching on the narrow and broad way Matthew 7: 13-14, the pearl of great price Matthew 13:45-46, and the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 and the seed John 12:24-26.]
[1Co 15:45-49 It is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. It is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Rom 1:19-21 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.]
Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
[Seth carries on in place of Abel who Cain the earthy man killed. Seth is the father of Noah, Noah is the father of Shem, Shem is the great grand father of Eber a relative of Abram, [who will become known as Abraham] as found in the book of Jasher in it, it is told that Abram [at the age of ten] stayed with Noah and Shem to learn the ways of the Lord for twenty-nine years. Shem is the king of Salem and the high priest of the Most High God. His heirs will become the children of Israel who will become the nation of promise through whom Yehovah will come in the flesh or the humiliation of man as Immanuel, Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah of Israel the incarnation of Adam again as at the first perfection. And Paul will show by revealed revelation to be the redeemer of the world and all mankind.]
“The will of the creature is the only opener of all evil or good in the creature. The will stands between God and nature and must in its entire workings unite either with God or nature. The will totally resigned and given up to God is one spirit with God and God dwells in it. The will turned from God is taken prisoner in the wrath, fire, sickness and darkness of nature.”
A quote in part from William Law 1686-1761
Now, from this original doctrine of the creation of man, known to all the first inhabitants of the world, and published in the front of the first written Word of God; these great truths have been more or less declared to all the nations of the world. First, that all mankind are the created offspring of the one God. Secondly, that in all men there is a spirit or breath of lives that did not begin to be out of nothing, or was created out of nothing; but came from the true God into man, as His own breath of life breathed into him. Thirdly, that therefore there is in all men, wherever dispersed over the earth, a divine, immortal, never-ending spirit, that can have nothing of death in it, but must live for ever, because it is the breath of the ever living God. Fourthly, that by this immortal breath, or Spirit of God in man, all mankind stand in the same nearness of relation to God, are all equally His children, are all under the same necessity of paying the same homage of love and obedience to Him, all fitted to receive the same blessing and happiness from Him, all created for the same eternal enjoyment of His love and presence within them, all equally called to worship and adore Him in spirit and truth, all equally capable of seeking and finding Him, of having a blessed union and communion with Him.
These great truths, the first pillars of all true and spiritual religion, on which the holy and divine lives of the ancient patriarchs was supported, by which they worshiped God in a true and right faith; these truths, I say, were most eminently and plainly declared in the express letter of the Mosaic writings, here quoted. And no writer, whether Jewish or Christian, has so plainly, so fully, so deeply laid open the true ground, and necessity of an eternal, never- ceasing relation between God, and all the human nature; no one has so incontestably asserted the immortality of the soul, or spirit of man; or so deeply laid open, and proved the necessity of one religion, common to all human nature, as the legislator of the Jewish theocracy had done. Life and immortality are indeed justly said to be brought to light by the Gospel of the Grace of God revealed to Paul; not only because they there stand in a new degree of light, largely explained, and much appealed to, and absolutely promised by the Son of God Himself, but chiefly because the precious means and mysteries of obtaining a blessed life, and a blessed immortality, were only revealed, or brought to light by the Gospel of God’s Grace.
But the incontestable ground and reason of an immortal life, and eternal relation between God, and the whole human nature, and which lays all mankind under the same obligations to the same true worship of God, is most fully set forth by Moses, who alone tells us the true fact; how, and why man is immortal in his nature, therefore, because the beginning of his life was a breath, breathed into him from God; and for this end, that he might be a living image and likeness of God, created to partake of the nature and immortality of God.
This is the great doctrine of the Jewish legislator, and which justly places him amongst the greatest preachers of true religion. That Paul used a very powerful argument to persuade the Athenians to own the true God, and the true religion, when he told them, "that God made the world and all things therein; that He gives life and breath and all things; that He has made of one blood, all nations of men to dwell on the earth; that they should all seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after, and find Him, seeing He is not far from any of us, because in Him we live, move, and have our being." {Acts 17:24.} And yet this doctrine, which Paul preaches to the Athenians, is nothing else, but that same divine and heavenly instruction, which he had learned from Moses, which Moses openly and plainly taught all the Jews. The Jewish theocracy therefore was by no means an intimation to that people, that they had no concern with the true God, but as children of this world, under His temporal protection or punishment; for their lawgiver left them no room for such a thought, because he had as plainly taught them their eternal nature and eternal relation, which they had to God in common with all mankind; as Paul did to the Athenians, who only set before them that very doctrine that Moses taught all the Jews. The great end of the Jewish theocracy was to show, both to Jew and gentile, the absolute, uncontrollable power of the one God, by such a covenanted interposition of His providence, that all the world might know, that the one God, from whom both Jew and gentile were fallen away, by departing from the faith and religion of their first fathers, was the only God, from whom all mankind could receive either blessing or cursing.
This was the great thing intended to be proclaimed to the entire world by this theocracy, that being, that only the God of Israel had power to save or destroy, to punish or reward, according to His pleasure; and that therefore all the gods of the heathens, were mere vanity. If therefore any Jews, by reason of those extraordinary temporal blessings and cursing which they received under their theocracy, grew grossly ignorant, or dully senseless of their eternal nature, and eternal relation to God, and of that one true religion, which by nature they were obliged to observe in common with all mankind; if they took God only to be their local or tutelary deity, and themselves to be only animals of this world; such a grossness of belief was no more to be charged upon their great lawgiver, Moses, than if they had believed, that a golden calf was their true god. But to return to the creation.
It is impossible, that this world, in the state and condition it is now in, should have been an immediate and original creation of God: this is as impossible, as that God should create evil, either natural or moral. That this world has evil in all its parts; that its matter is in a corrupt, disordered state, full of grossness, disease, impurity, wrath, death and darkness, is as evident, as that there is light, beauty, order and harmony everywhere to be found in it. Therefore it is as impossible; that this outward state and condition of things should be a first and immediate work of God, as that there should be good and evil in God Himself. All storms and tempests, every fierceness of heat, every wrath of cold proves with the same certainty, that outward nature is not a first work of God, as the selfishness, envy, pride, wrath, and malice of devils, and men proves, that they are not in the first state of their creation. As no kind or degree of moral evil could possibly have its cause in, or from God, so there cannot be the least shadow of imperfection and disorder in outward nature, but what must have sprung up in the same manner, and from the same causes, as sickness and corrupt flesh is come into the human body, namely, from the sin of the creature. Storms, tempests, gravel, stone, sour and dead earth are the same things, the same diseases, the same effects of sin, produced in the same manner in the outward body of nature, as corrupt flesh, fevers, dropsy, plagues, gravel, stone, and gout, are produced in the outward body of man. For that, and that only which produces stone in the body of man, did produce stone in the outward nature, as shall plainly appear by and by. For nature within, and without man, is one and the same, and has but one and the same way of working; a stone in the body, and a stone out of the body of man, proceeds from one and the same disorder of nature.
When therefore you see a diseased, gouty, leprous, asthmatically, scorbutic man, you can with the utmost certainty say, this is not that human body which God first created in paradise; so, when you see the disorders of heat and cold, the poisonous earth, unfruitful seasons, and malignant qualities of outward nature, you can with the same certainty affirm, this state of nature is not a first creation of God, but that same must have happened to it, which has happened to the body of man. For dark, sour, hard, dead earth can no more be a first, immediate creation of God, than a wrathful devil, as such, can be created by Him. For dark, sour, dead earth is as disordered in its kind, as the devils are, and has as certainly lost its first heavenly condition and nature, as the devils have lost theirs. But now, as in man, the little world, there is excellencies and perfection enough to prove, that human nature is the work of an all-perfect being, yet, so much impurity and disease of corrupt flesh and blood, as undeniably shows, that sin has almost quite spoiled the work of God. So, in the great world, the footsteps of an infinite wisdom in the order and harmony of the whole, sufficiently appears; yet, the disorders, tumults, and evils of nature, plainly demonstrate, that the present condition of this world is only the remains or ruins, first, of a heaven spoiled by the fall of angels, and then of a paradise lost by the sin of man. So that man, and the world in which he lives, lie both in the same state of disorder and impurity, have both the same marks of life and death in them, both bring forth the same sort of evils, both want a redeemer, and have need of the same kind of death and resurrection, before they can come to their first state of purity and perfection.
That this outward world was not created out of nothing is plainly taught by Paul, who declares, Rom.1:20, that the creation of the world is out of the invisible things of God; so that the outward condition and frame of invisible nature, is a plain manifestation of that spiritual world from whence it is descended. For as every outside necessarily supposes an inside, and as temporal light and darkness must be the product of eternal light and darkness, so this outward, visible state of things necessarily supposes some inward, invisible state, from whence it is come into this degree of outwardness. Thus all that is on earth is only a change or alteration of something that was in heaven: and heaven itself is nothing else but the first glorious out-birth, the majestic manifestation, the beatific visibility of the one God in Trinity. Thus we find out, how this temporal nature is related to God; it is only a gross out-birth of that which is an eternal nature, or a blessed heaven, and stands only in such a degree of distance from it, as water does to air; and this is the reason why the last fire will, and must turn this gross, temporal nature into its first, heavenly state 2 Peter 3:10-13. But to suppose the gross matter of this world to be made out of nothing, or compacted nothing, is more absurd, than to suppose ice that has congealed nothing, a yard that is not made up of inches, or a pound that is not the product of ounces.
Taken from a book written by William Law 1686-1761 which is found in the public domain.
Gen 1:4-5 God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Here we are given the two realms that are at work around us; the one is light or day and is good, the other is darkness or night and is evil for more evil deeds are done under the darkness of night then during the day.
Gen 1:20-22 God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.
Gen 1:23-25 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Here we have the creation of all natural creatures that have in themselves the intuitive nature to know how to hunt for food, reproduce, seek shelter, and that when they die they return back to the earth from which they were created. They do not have a soul, spirit nor are they spiritual they are not eternal in nature or makeup, they are temporal. They are beasts only and as such live according to there
government, though after the fall of man they do take upon themselves a slightly different nature because they become subjected to the curse as all the earth and nature is put under it’s government, which is only temporary. For all creatures and creation wait the revealing of the sons of God and the regeneration that starts when this happens.
Gen 2:19-20 Out of the ground (Jehovah-Elohim) God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature that was the name thereof. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.
This ties to Genesis chapter one verse 20 and 24-25 and this is the ground of all scripture for scripture dovetails into scripture or agrees with scripture. As Peter said in 2 Peter chapter one: 19-21 We have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
This first principle is not to be lost sight of and that is no writer is to be an uninspired or not a Spirit lead writer and no scripture is to be subject to an uninspired persons interpretation. For it is God’s inspiration by His disclosure and origination to us that make known and understand His word.
1Co 2:13-14 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches; combining spiritual things with spiritual words. Now the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. (discerned, understood, accepted) This is how the scripture are compared or proven, when they compliment each other. This passage compliments that of 2 Peter 1:19-20, in this way confusion is removed and the truth is revealed and understood. The spiritual person when under the yoke of the Lord and in agreement with Him as the Lord tells us in John chapter 17 becomes one within Him and He within that person. The secret is then disclosed to that person and he passes through the gates of redemption into regeneration to the first created state again, with Christ as his Father.
Rom 12:6-8 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teaches, to his teaching; or he that exhorts, to his exhorting: he that gives, let him do it with liberality; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
The point here is found in the first verse for it is by grace that is given or that seed that receives new life as grace is a seed faith planted within all mankind by God and can by found in Genesis chapter two verse eighteen. Remember that some scripture has a double meaning.
Rom 8:1-10 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled (restored) in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.(restored or regenerated to it’s first state)
Note: Lucifer (the ruler of Tyre and Persians king who was Satan personified), Adam, mankind, and Jesus were all tempted by thought. Thought when it becomes desire is united with the will and it is spoken freely becomes a force. Jesus resisted this thought and the desire by quoting the word, our two edge sword which destroys the thought and desire by taking it into captivity. Christ came to put to death self will contained in the flesh of mankind because it is the source or origin of thought and desire, which opposes the knowledge of God in man. The thought, given into, becomes desire and mixed with the will of man can create a thing. Satan is the corruption that can cause the thought to become a force for evil because of the desire for self gratification in what ever form. This corruption is what caused Lucifer to desire to be higher or above God (it is known as selfishness or self love, pride, it is a self pleasing love) and caused him to be cast out of heaven. This is what caused Adam to first desire to know nature and the nature of the beasts that were around him, it caused the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to grow. This force of self love brings with it wrath, disease, darkness, thickness, death and destruction. Satan was found to be in Lucifer as the chief of the fallen angels, the evil and prince of darkness, mankind’s enemy that is also found in the self ego of fallen man. This is who keeps fallen man (and some "Christians") under a veil of deceptions, especially those who have not submitted to the word of God by their free will into His Word or Will, when it is received by them.
All scriptures are taken from the American Standard and the English Standard Version Bible.
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