The Mysteries of God Part Part 2.
The Restoration of the Soul
The account of the creation of man is very brief and is contained in just one
verse in the Bible, And God 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 air, and over the cattle, and all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creeps upon the earth.” Gen 1:26. In that one verse God determined
what this creature he called MAN would be, using himself as the model, “In the
image of God,” and then proceeded to declare his dominion over all that he had
created in Gen 1.
The purpose of this study is to explore God’s purpose regarding the generation
of mankind on the earth. This is important for God only brought forth ONE MAN in
Gen 1:26 but we understand his will and purpose was for mankind to fill the
earth. In this beginning of man on the earth we are confronted with certain
facts that form a foundation upon which we can build our understanding of the
process. First of all the plurality of the statement, “Let us make man,” raises
a question as to who does the “US” refer to. Religion rushes forward to assert
that this refers to the so called concept of the “TRINITY’ of God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. However, The scriptures state, Deuteronomy
6:4” Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:”
We need to be reminded that in creation everything came out of God for there was
no other source from which anything could come. All of mankind was already
resident in God as spirit, and Christ also came from the same source. So in a
true sense the being of God contained everything and everyone that has every
been born, all of which were actually a part of himself. So when God spoke, it
became the expression of all that God is. In this sense God and creation are
ONE, just as God and MAN also constitute the “ONE.” Acts 17:26 & 28.
Spirit and Spirituality
The concept of spirit and spirituality remains largely a mystery to man of the
earth today. Even though we are essentially a “Spirit creature” having come out
of God, our physical body and environment seem to deny
any sense of the world of spirit. Our consciousness is regulated by our five
natural senses emanating from the natural or carnal mind, and so we have nothing
in our natural life that connects with the Life of spirit. Therefore, for most
people the spiritual aspect of life has no specific way of entering our
consciousness.
The history of Israel whose origin was by way of a spiritual birthing through a
90 year old barren woman, is an example of mankind’s lack of both understanding
and function of spirituality. The Truth is that the source of LIFE is not to be
found in this physical, material world, but only in the invisible world of
spirit. Science has tried for many years to produce LIFE in a test tube. To this
day no one has succeeded because it is a Proven Principle that it is only Life
that can generate Life. This is because the Source or PRINCIPLE OF LIFE is found
only in the realm of Spirit, and expressly in God.
IF Israel had been a spiritual people they would have accepted the 10
commandments, in the spirit in which God gave it to them. But not being
spiritual they could only receive them as a L-A-W. Now a law is something that
you must obey and to make sure that people obey the law there is always a
penalty for breaking a law. It is the thought of what the penalty will cost us
that becomes the driving force in compliance to the Law. None of which has
anything to do with spirituality. But not even the penalty caused Israel to be
obedient to the law of God. The 10 Commandments given to Israel was actually a
manifesto of the character of God, which if they had used as a pattern for their
own life, would have made them a Holy people.
Obedience
If we understand spirituality we will know that obedience is a part of spirit
life. This is why God said to Israel, “Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice
indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me
above all people: for all the earth is mine.” Exodus 19:5.
The difference is that obedience has nothing to do with Law. Let us
consider a family situation where the father or mother say to the children. I
want you to keep your bedrooms neat and tidy and you will make me very happy. If
those children have been brought up in a spiritual family where God is honored
and love reigns the children will do exactly as they were told, and will be
happy to do it.
However if that family is like the typical household, it would not be long
before the parents will have to say to the children you have not done what you
were told to do, so now this is the way it will be, “If you do not do what you
are told, you will not receive any pocket money for the week, and you forfeit
your T.V time also for the week. What has happened here? It was a reasonable
expectation on the part of the parents for the children to be obedient, but
obedience based upon love has not been forthcoming. So what is the next step in
seeking compliance from the children. The next stage is to make the request for
obedience to become a L-A-W. This law demands there be a JUDGE, and also that
there will be a penalty to pay.
In this simple illustration we see two things. One is that spirituality has been
lost from family life even for many Christians, and with it the true sense of
obedience. For many Christians they come to God with a sense of pride telling
him they are really seeking to do what the Bible says, I refuse to go to the
places where people gamble, and I will not touch alcohol and never break my
marriage vows. So many think that is obedience, when in fact it has little or
nothing to do with obedience but has a lot to do with a law, which they believe
is the basis of obedience. Under this law, if you have failed to repent God will
punish you, and send you to a place called Hell forever.
I remember a preacher whose mother rebuked her son for disobedience telling us,
that she made him stand in the corner for what seemed to him a long time. But
she would call out at intervals from where ever she happened to be in the house,
“Are you standing in the corner?” And this time the boy replied, “I am standing
up on the outside, but I am sitting down on the inside.” I suspect the boys
honesty cost him more than he bargained for.
We are a spirit being because our origin is out of God. Our Body has no life in
itself but it is the spirit, which is Christ in us that is the source of
our life. That spirit is one with God, functioning on the same wave-length.
Therefore whatever God says, the spirit in us receives being One with God and
that spirit would respond without question. If the spirit is LORD in us, then we
will be obedient to all that God says. However, it is obvious that in many
Christians, Jesus Christ is not LORD but there is some other authority in
control who decides what we do or not to do. This function cannot be confused
with obedience.
That authority is the one we birth in our consciousness, based upon our physical
birth and obedience to a mother and father, whose name (Nature) is given to us
by them. This one does not automatically hear the voice of God, for it functions
on a different frequency. This person in known to us as “SELF” but is unknown to
God, having a different origin and owes allegiance to another authority called
the Carnal Mind. Obedience to God is impossible under this alien authority, for
it has no direct connection with God but is dependent upon its own intellect to
know by reading and study of the Bible, what God requires. True obedience to God
is not possible under these circumstances.
Adam had a Love relationship with God that was passed on to all mankind based
upon OBEDIENCE. There was no LAW governing Adam’s life in the Garden of Eden,
but a relationship with God based upon Love.. For Love to function it must flow
unhindered both from the one expressing Love to the object of that love, and
from the one who is loved, back to the source of that love. While the flow is
unhindered the relationship of Love creates a unity beyond any human agreement.
God told Israel, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
But we are told that Eve, who was not a part of the creative process of God, but
was now accepted as a wife by Adam, begins to express herself making her own
decisions under the direction of a serpent and not under God as Adam had done,
since he was put in the Garden. He did not need to be able to make any decisions
for there was nothing he needed, for his every need had been supplied by God in
the Garden.
However, Eve considered the one issue that God has raised regarding the fruit of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of which they were not to eat,
because that fruit carried the seed of a knowledge that would
destroy their relationship. In keeping with our natural or Carnal mind, man has
considered this to be a L-A-W having no understanding of the relationship Adam
had with God. If it was a LAW then it could not be the basis of a Love
Relationship at all, but a legally binding demand on the part of God for Adam to
keep with a penalty attached for disobedience
The Knowledge of good and evil was not a part of the knowledge God made
available to Adam, because it was not connected to TRUTH, and God never created
it. The Bible declared through the Apostle John and others that GOD IS L-O-V-E,
and not just loving. That being so, how could he be both GOOD and also EVIL?
Mankind solves the issue by declaring that God is LOVE but he is also JUST,
which infers that to be “Just,” one has to stop loving and this means that God
must cease to be God. In other words man credits God with having human emotions
making his responses the same as that of a carnal man. So it becomes plain that
if God is both good and evil then he is nothing more than mankind on the earth.
The word to “Know” in the Bible is translated from the Greek word “Ginosko”
which means, to become known, to have knowledge of and understanding. But it
also refers to the knowledge that a man has of his wife. This knowledge is
actually spiritual but for many remains only a natural physical knowledge. In a
court of law if a man has obtained that knowledge of a woman illegally, it is
called, “CARNAL KNOWLEDGE.” In the Old Testament, it is the Heb word “YADA’ and
has exactly the same meaning. The Apostle Paul made the Statement in Phil 3:10,
“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”
Many Christians would say they know God because they read the Bible and go to
Church etc. But the word “To Know” must go far beyond intellectual knowledge as
revealed in the word Paul used to determine the type of knowledge that he is
speaking about. For a man to know his wife requires a most intimate
relationship, which is designed to entwine the spirit which in man is male and
female to function as ONE, bringing together the two aspects of spirit into
union.
Unfortunately today this relationship has been dragged down to the “Animal
Level,” in which the desire is not to unify but simply to produce the greatest
pleasure in order to gratify their lust. Many books have been written on this
subject suggesting ways to increase the pleasure and the amount of satisfaction
through this intimacy.
In this question of “Knowing God” concerning God and man, to think of a
relationship with such intimacy would never be considered. Such thoughts as we
have in the physical world would seem to have absolutely no application to the
spiritual relationship a man can have with God. Even just to think about being
intimate with God seems horrendous in the extreme. Then why does the Apostle
Paul use such a term in expressing the focus of all his desires, is to KNOW GOD
to the same degree as a man can know his wife in this natural realm. The answer
is BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO KNOW GOD.
We need to go back to Matt 19:3….
Divorce
The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, “Is it
lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? And he answered and said
unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made (them) at the beginning made
them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder.”
They say unto him, “Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement,
and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your
hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not
so.”
Verse 4 tells us that God made the man in the beginning Male and Female as the
first man was spirit and spirit is male and female functioning as one. God is
spirit and the man was also spirit for the man was made in the likeness and the
image of God so he had to be whatever God is. So the
scriptures tell us that, “FOR THIS CAUSE,” which refers to the separation of the
Female from the Male in Adam, in Gen 2:21-22 causing the female part of spirit
to become a separate entity, and capable of functioning alone without Adam. Now
the Bible says, “For this cause shall a man leave his mother and his father and
will cleave unto his wife in an attempt to make the man complete again as male
and female. But the best that can result from this union is that the two become
ONE FLESH.
This is not how Adam was created in the beginning for there was no mention of
F-L-E-S-h in the beginning. He was SPIRIT with the Male and the Female
functioning together as ONE SPIRIT and no mention of Flesh. It becomes obvious
that man’s concept of marriage does not in any way restore what God gave to man
in the beginning. Therefore the whole question of reproduction no longer
functions as a spiritual reality but simply as a physical experience whereby
neither the Male nor the Female can now reproduce alone, but only as the two
become ONE FLESH.
The Flesh
The word Flesh appears first in Gen 2:21. Genesis 2:21-22 And the LORD God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God
had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
The Hebrew word for “Flesh” is “Basar” pronounced {baw-sawr'} and refers to the
body of Man as well as the animals, also used as a (euphemism) for the male
organ of generation. Neither the man or the woman are now the same as they were
created in the beginning. What God created as ONE in the likeness and the image
of God now has become a duality with the two now being able to function
individually and independently of each other. No longer is the man in the
likeness and the image of God. No longer is the man “Spirit” but is now
characterized as F-L-E-S-H.
This “Flesh” now sets the man apart from his original condition at creation. Man
has experienced a tremendous change that links his body with that of the animals
from a natural point of view. This means that man’s body can no longer be
considered to be the dwelling place of God,
for God has never considered the animal body to be his dwelling place. Most
Christians have never considered these things nor what is required in order to
restore man to his original place in God.
Religion has taught that if a man will give his heart to Jesus, and confess his
sin and believe that Christ died on the cross for his sin, then he is “saved”
and born again and will go to heaven when he dies. It becomes obvious that such
a teaching has nothing to do with the restoration of the soul. There has to be
much more to the restoration of the soul than simply changing our mind about a
few things.
To go back to the beginning we find God surveying all that he had created and
this is what the scriptures declare, “And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth
day.” Genesis 1:31. There is no mention of evil of any kind present in God’s
creation. It literally does not exist. Of course that statement raises a chorus
of voices declaring what about this and what about that, without knowing that
this world we see with our natural eyes is not God’s world. All we can see Paul
tells us is passing away for it is not eternal.
The true realities of life are all in the spiritual world, which is invisible to
natural man. 2Cor 4:18. There was no evil in the Garden of Eden nor was there
any sickness, pain or death. The tree God spoke about to Adam warning him not to
eat the fruit of that tree was not a literal tree, any more than the tree of
LIFE was literal, yet so often I hear Christians speaking of Adam eating the
forbidden apple. That tree represented a KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM that would contradict
the truth that Adam knew about God. This other “knowledge” challenged the truth
concerning the true character of God and is the reason why God is presented by
the religious world as a monster who kills his disobedient children in a fiery
hell.
For Adam, God is LOVE and that was the TRUTH with nothing that could challenge
or add to that knowledge. There was no sense in which one could say, “YES God is
love, but he is also JUST, as if that would challenge the truth about the love
of God. God does not have to stop loving in order to be just. GOD IS LOVE so
there is nothing in the character of God but love and Grace. We use the term
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE when
we speak of God’s Love.
However, human love has very real limitations when expressed by mankind. A man
my say he loves his wife but if she lies to him about anything he feels
justified in resenting her and retaliating. Parents may love their children, but
also can be very cruel to them if they are disobedient. Human Love has very
definite limitations and can change from Love to hate and even murder in some
cases. This indicates the great difference there is between God’s love and human
love.
For God so loved the WORLD that he GAVE his only begotten Son, whosoever
receives him as the reality of who they ARE, and believes into the reality of
his and our death, burial and resurrection, shall have everlasting life in which
there is no condemnation, and there is no death. Think about that statement for
a moment, God loves everybody in the whole world. Generally speaking not even
the Church believes that GOD LOVES EVERYBODY.
Christians say no, that could not be true because that would mean that the bad
people are loved equally by God with the good. In our society today it sounds
like the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil has infected all of mankind. The
only satisfying answer to the true expression of God’s love is that it is based
upon LIFE IN THE SPIRIT and not on human, moral or mortal life.
Spiritual Love, has a very different basis on which it is founded. Once we
believe in good and evil we are excluded from spirituality, for in the spirit
world there is no good and evil. In the world of spirit there is no sickness,
pain, suffering, or death and there is no poverty or lack of any kind for
everyone who is part of the spirit world is in the image and the likeness of
God. ALL have the same abilities, wisdom and knowledge of God, and having
dominion over all the works of God’s hands. God watches over his kingdom with
every citizen being considered equal regardless of what country they may come
from or their language or skin color we are just ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY.
But you may ask where is this Kingdom of God today, and I will tell you which
Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is IN YOU.” This means that it
begins in the HEART OF MAN, with the King Jesus Christ ruling and reigning, and
will expand across the world until every man has been included.
Eve the Living Soul
Eve rationalized the prohibition concerning the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, deciding that she would not die if she ate the fruit
of that tree, but instead there would be a great benefit for her in that her
eyes would be opened to see much more that she has seen before. Not having been
connected to the source of Life in God she believed that there was much more to
be had, than what had been made available in the Garden for Adam. So she ate the
fruit of that tree, and her eyes were opened to see another world which Adam had
never seen and had no desire to see, for he was satisfied in Love.
Many want to argue about the restriction put upon Adam regarding the tree of
knowledge, seeing it only as a L-A-W. But instead it was a Father speaking to
his son, telling him, Son I do not want you to touch that tree, because I know
what the consequences of your doing so, will be. We will no longer enjoy this
love relationship we now have because YOU will have to break our love
relationship to accommodate the knowledge you will receive from the fruit of
that tree.
The trees represent our thoughts which are like the fruit of the tree that can
reproduce itself. For you cannot see me as the author of both Good and Evil and
truly Love me. I do not want you to be separated from me which will cause you
much pain, and I will suffer also. Beloved understand that the result of eating
the fruit of that tree, did not cause GOD to instigating some retribution on
Adam, as it would have been if it had been a Law, but it was a natural
consequence of Adam’s own actions.
In the discussion Eve had with the serpent, which played the part of the NATURAL
MIND of Eve, she finally developed the idea that she had a mind capable of
thinking and making decisions, not knowing the TRUTH which can only be known by
the spirit. Eve had become a LIVING SOUL which was now a separate entity from
Adam who is spirit, so she has no input from the spirit, functioning out of her
SOUL LIFE. Now she is eager to
share her newfound knowledge she has gained from eating the fruit of the tree,
with Adam so she gives him also of the same fruit.
Many Christians have never understood what took place at that time and so the
ignorance of the carnal mind has been the reason for many false concepts of
truth. For instance religion has called this action of Adam as the ORIGINAL SIN
by which all mankind was brought under the sentence of death, and condemned to
an eternal judgment by God. This presents God to mankind as a Monster who has
decided that unless mankind repents and fulfills certain religious obligations
they will be subject to an eternal hell fire forever. This abominable doctrine
does not come from God as Truth but from the serpent deceived minds of men who
have never heard the voice of God.
The truth is that when Eve gave the fruit to Adam, he was able to make a
considered decision because he never spoke to the Serpent and was not deceived.
He was spirit and as such could not be affected by the serpent. As the Christ he
understood the situation that was before him, and knew that Eve had eaten the
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and therefore she was
subject to death. However death from God’s viewpoint is totally different from
what we understand today by the natural mind. Death for us mortal people
involves the cessation of life and the body being buried in the ground. But
death from God’s viewpoint is a broken relationship with God, and has nothing to
do with the cemetery.
Mortality
Life begins in God and is of such a character that it must always be connected
to its source. As a fetus in the mother’s womb is connected to the mother by the
umbilical cord, and if that connection is broken before the fetus is ready to be
birthed, it will die. So it is for us today, if the flow of life which we
received from God in creation is broken, DEATH occurs. But this death does not
involve the cemetery, but simply we are DEAD TO GOD as the flow of his life
which is eternal has been broken from our side of the relationship and so we
become MORTAL and our LIFE IS IN OUR BLOOD. The Bible refers to this life as
MORTAL LIFE. What Came direct from God to the man is ETERNAL LIFE as in Gen 1:26
and 2:7.
When the Lord God brought forth a manifestation of himself according to Gen 2:7
the Bible says he formed a body from the dust of the earth, remembering that
everything including the dust came out of God in creation. Then when the form
was complete it says he put that same life he had received from God in Gen 1:26
into the man with the body, not by a blood transfusion but by BREATHING into the
nostrils of the man with the body. Man is the only creature that God breathe his
life into, not into a dog or a cat only into the M-A-N.
We must also understand that the Greek word “PNEUMA” means Spirit, Wind and
breath. We also have the same meaning in the Hebrew language, as the word
“RUWACH” means wind, breath, mind and spirit. Ezekiel 37:9 “Then said he unto
me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these
slain, that they may live.” It is interesting that Jesus Christ breathed on the
disciples before he returned to the Father, John 20:21
“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me,
even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith
unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:”
Apart from us receiving the breath of God we will only have mortal life which is
subject to every disease and sickness and subject to death also. There is only
one spirit, which is male and female functioning together as one. Reproduction
from God’s point of view is spiritual and has nothing to do with anything
physical. In Genesis 1:27 Scripture declares, “So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him male and female created he them.
The Image of God is SPIRIT which is “Male and Female functioning together as
one.” Keeping this in mind we discover in verse 28 that God gives the MAN an
assignment. Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Many Christians read this verse considering that this command was given to Adam
and Eve, but I assure you that Adam was SPRIT and there was no EVE as a separate
entity at that time, for ADAM WAS SPIRIT. In the account of the creation of man
in Gen 1:26, there is no mention of God having created a woman as a separate
entity from Adam. God never recognized Eve as a separate entity from Adam, but
in Gen 5:2 it states that GOD CALLED THEM ADAM.
He only created his SON who is Spirit which is MALE and FEMALE, functioning
together as ONE. This is so important for us to understand, for TRUTH is either
established or lost right here in Gen 1:28’
Responsibility
This assignment given to Adam is of vital importance for everyone today, to be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. This command was originally given to
the MAN created in Gen 1:26 as a direct command, but the majority of Christians
have never considered that this requirement applies to every MAN on the earth.
Remember that God only created ONE MAN and that man was Christ Jesus. Eph 2:10
tells us, “We are God’s workmanship (concerning our Body formed in our mother’s
womb) but WE, our true being as spirit was CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS.” Every other
man on this earth has come out of Christ Jesus the first man God created.
God’s covenant made with Abraham depended upon him producing the Covenant Son
who is the sole heir to all the promises of God given to Abraham and through him
to us today. The promise was to Abraham and to your SEED, which is CHRIST. The
continuation of the covenant promises depends upon Abraham producing the DIVINE
SEED which is CHRIST.
James 1:18, “Of his own will begat he us with the Word of Truth, that we should
be a kind of first-fruits of his (God’s) creatures.” We are told that the
purpose of our being brought forth as the offspring of God, is that we might be
the true expression of the “Seed of God,” from which we are to birth the
generations that are yet to come, as we bring forth the Christ in us. This is
vital if Jesus Christ the King is to rule and reign over the Kingdom of God on
this earth. The continuity of the Covenant made with Abraham, is dependent upon
the “Seed of God” being
birthed through his people. It was to Abraham and HIS SEED that the promises
were made, and Paul declared that HIS SEED IS CHRIST. Gal 3:16.
The Process of Reproduction
For that to be the truth, there must be a “Spiritual Birthing” as Paul declares
in Galatians 4:19 “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you.” Only then can we say with the Apostle Paul. “I am
crucified with Christ nevertheless I LIVE, but it is no longer the “I” that
lives but CHRIST THAT LIVES IN ME.” This is the man God created in the
beginning, and who is now the dwelling place of God giving Christ visibility on
this earth.. He is the one to whom God gave the assignment to be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth.
The first man Christ Jesus now fulfills his responsibility, in Gen 2:7. “And the
LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” In this simple statement he
fulfills his obligation to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. He
simply brought forth a manifestation of “himself” as spirit and formed a body
suitable for the man to live and function on the earth according to God’s will
and purpose. It is important to understand the when it came to giving that man
LIFE, it was not transmitted by a “Blood Transfusion,” but by breathing into his
nostrils the same breath of Life he had received from God. This man with a body
is now ready to be put into the Garden of Eden especially prepared for him.
The first man Christ Jesus out of whom all of mankind has come, is dependent
upon this Man Adam in the Garden to reproduce in order to fulfill his assignment
to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. How wonderful is the fact that
the one out of which all of God’s children are to be birthed dwells in that MAN,
for he is spirit and that spirit is the “SEED OF GOD” which is Christ. For the
earth to be filled with the offspring of God the man has been so created that he
has the capacity to reproduce out of himself, being spirit which is Male and
Female functioning together as ONE. The purposes of God must be fulfilled
through the man as God has not made any other provision to fulfill his will.
In Creation God never produced any more offspring other than that first man, of
Gen 1:26, except that we know that IN THAT ONE MAN is all of mankind that have
been born, or will be born on this earth. Eph 2:10. Now he has fulfilled his
assignment by bringing forth a manifestation of himself in the likeness and
image of God. Now Adam is the “Off spring of God” and becomes responsible to do
the same and bring forth a manifestation of his true identity as Christ. If he
fails to do this then there is a disruption in the plan and purpose of God, for
God has NO PLAN “B.” God would then have to search for another who will birth
the Christ in obedience to his will and purpose, and continue the divine “Seed.”
Paul declared in Acts 17:26, “God hath made of O-N-E (Source and ONE Beginning)
all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.” The
“SEED” of all mankind originates IN GOD uniting all of mankind in a divine
family relationship, with no division caused by Borders, Language, Culture or
Color. The true seed of God is in every man, but for many it has been dormant
having never been activated to produce the CHRIST.
Before we can proceed in understanding the Process of Reproduction we must
examine the next stage in Adam’s development.
The Garden of Eden was quarantined from the rest of the earth where Adam could
live and function as the companion of God. Each day Adam would hear the voice of
the Lord God and he would be there to enjoy fellowship and oneness with him. God
and Adam were O-N-E sharing together the same spirit, the same purpose and
desires, and the same life. It is not known for how long this peace and
tranquility lasted but the time came when the Lord God stepped in and said, “It
is not good for the Man to be alone, I will make a “Help Meet” for him.”
The Woman
The Hebrew word used here comes from a root meaning, “To prove, or to test
thoroughly.” So this change was designed as a test to prove Adam’s faithfulness
to God. In Gen 2:21-22, that the Lord God caused a deep sleep (A Trance) to come
upon Adam and he slept. This indicates that he has no personal involvement in
what is taking place while he is asleep. The Bible declares that a “Rib” was
removed which included the Female
part of the spirit in Adam. The Hebrew word for “Rib” is “tsela” which has
reference to the side chambers in the wall of the Temple. However, we know that
the result was the removal of the Female part of the spirit in Adam, which now
became a separate entity to Adam.
This change was to allow Adam to make a choice, for he could decide to join
himself to the woman, or remain true to his spiritual identity and remain in
fellowship with God. Remember his assignment is to be fruitful, multiply and
fill the earth. It would seem that the sight of this “Woman,” the like of which
he had never seen before, did not even raise a question in his mind. God only
created the Man who is spirit and the Female was an integral part of his spirit
being, but is now walking beside him. No mention is made of where her life came
from as with Adam., and she functioned independently of Adam altogether.
The scriptures declare, “The ways of God are past finding out, or are
unchartable.” Isaiah the Prophet said, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your
thoughts.” Isaiah 55:7-8. The tests of life are not there for God to discover if
we will be faithful to him or not, for that is already known to God, but to
reveal to us what is our true reality.
Every need of the man was supplied and there was no lack, for the Garden of Eden
was designed specifically for him. He was instructed that he could eat the fruit
of every tree in the Garden with the exception of the Tree of the knowledge of
good and evil in the midst of the Garden. The fruit of that tree he was not to
eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die. A river also had its
source in the Garden flowing out to water the rest of the earth outside the
Garden. This represented the flow of life from God himself sufficient for all
mankind. It was Adam’s responsibility to “Dress the Garden and to Keep it.” This
involved taking care of the Garden and to guard it from anything that would seek
to upset its peace and tranquility.
What took place in producing the woman was done with Adam under a deep sleep
having no consciousness of what now has taken place. This is
important to know as Adam had no part at all in this whole process for he is
asleep. This indicates to me that this whole episode of removing the woman from
within Adam and making her a separate entity from Adam is purely an allegory.
There are two reasons why I believe this to be true. One is that Spirit cannot
be divided, because spirit has no GENDER, which means that there is no such
thing as a MALE spirit nor is their a FEMALE spirit. There is only spirit which
is male and female functioning together as one.
The second reason is that GOD IS SPIRIT and you cannot divide God. Deuteronomy
6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is ONE LORD.” Throughout the Old Testament
God is referred to as THE “HOLY O-N-E.” This means that the removing of the
female aspect of spirit from Adam is an “Allegory” and not literal. To consider
that the woman is a part of the creation process of God cannot be substantiated
from the Scriptures. Finally the Apostle Paul concluded his consummation of the
Church in Galatians 3:27-29
“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female: for ye are all O-N-E in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then
are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
It appears that Adam considered the presence of the woman beside him instead of
IN HIM, quite normal. So it was not questioned, indicating that he was still in
that state of deep sleep whereby his spiritual consciousness had not been
restored. The reason for the allegory would seem to be so that we would be fully
aware of how the SOUL in man functions. In the wisdom of God he had decreed that
man would be brought into an experience of separation from God, in order to see
if he would voluntarily choose to establish a love relationship that required
obedience to God.
The woman immediately leaves Adam and declares her independence from him
charting her own course and making her own decisions. She meets a serpent who
found her “Natural Mind” easy to influence, causing her to ignore what God had
said about not eating the fruit of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent convinced her that she would not die
if she ate the fruit of that tree, so without any reference to Adam she picks
the fruit and eats it. Her eyes were indeed opened and she takes the fruit to
Adam asking him to share it with her.
Adam was not deceived by the serpent having never spoken to it, so he had a
choice. He could let Eve face whatever would be the consequences for her
disobedience but Adam must have known that this woman was an integral part of
his own being so that he did not have a choice but to join her as they were one.
He shared the fruit of the tree with her but not in disobedience as the woman
had done, but knowing they were connected in creation.
That day Adam did not respond to the voice of God as he had previously done, but
he hid himself behind the trees. The first words God speaks is a question to
Adam. “Adam where are you.” Gen 3:9. The literal answer was already known to
God, but the question was to cause Adam to know W-H-Y he was hiding and not out
there walking with God. There was no accusation in this question, and the word
“SIN” is not mentioned.
Adam’s answer was, “I heard your voice in the Garden and I was afraid because I
was naked, and I hid myself. God replied with another question, “Who told you
that you were naked, have you eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you not to
eat? And Adam replied, “The woman you gave me to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat.” And the Lord God says to the woman, “What is this that you
have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.”
Again notice God’s reply to the Serpent that represents the carnal mind that
controls the Living Soul, “Because you have done this you are cursed above all
cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” The “Dust” that the serpent would
eat is the flesh (body made from the dust) causing the disease, sickness and the
mortality in man. The word “Serpent,” comes from a word that means, to practice
divination, divine, observe signs.” Paul says, “But the natural man receives not
the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can
he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
Religion declares that this is the ORIGINAL SIN, which results in all mankind
now being guilty before God and is subject to eternal judgment. This is not
supported by God’s response to Adam for the word “Sin” is not used at all.
However it is interesting that the Lord God said to the woman,
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you will
bring forth children, and your desire shall be to your husband and he shall rule
over you.” How many Christian parents sit up at night not knowing what their
children are doing, or if they are on drugs, or waiting for that dreaded knock
on the door and hearing a policeman saying, “I am so sorry but your son or
daughter has just been killed.”
Now we must pause to declare that “The Garden of Eden,” is not a literal garden,
and Adam’s experience there must also be seen as SPIRITUAL for this man is in
the IMAGE OF GOD which is SPIRIT. Everything concerning Adam that takes place in
this Garden is also to be understood as Spiritual. It is important for us to
acknowledge this before we consider the events recorded concerning Adam in the
Garden.
There are two ways of understanding the events in the Garden of Eden, One is to
see them as a Test of Adam’s obedience, or it is God setting the stage for man’s
entry into life on planet earth, according to a complete and well thought out
plan. In the process of which he finally subdues the earth, and brings it under
the Authority and Control of the MAN who was given dominion over all the works
of his hands.
I am of the opinion that the latter constitutes the format for what took place
in this Garden of Eden. Therefore we must bear in mind that God has no intension
of changing what Adam was, as he came from the hand of the creator. He was
spirit, which is Male and Female functioning together as ONE in the beginning,
and he is still spirit even after he left the Garden of Eden, but Adam was made
responsible for his thoughts and his actions just as we are today.
Before we bring this book to a close let me remind you that you were created
Spirit in the beginning and you are still spirit today and that spirit is
male and female functioning together as one. But we have to face the fact that
when we see a woman we have to make up our mind what we consider her to be. If
we see her simply as a woman we declare that what happened in the Garden of Eden
was literal and God actually created a woman as well as a man. But we know that
this is not so, therefore the woman we can see with our natural eyes, can only
be a manifestation of the woman that is part of the spirit in man.
This changes our whole concept of marriage, for the wife walking on the outside
of me is simply a manifestation of the woman that was created within me as
spirit, which is male and female functioning together as one. Spirit is what
characterizes the MAN who is in the image and likeness of God, who also is male
and female and is able to reproduce out of himself.
If we fail to see our wife as being an inseparable part of our true spirit
identity, it indicates that we have forgotten who or what we are as spirit. But
the real issue here is that we are required to be fruitful and multiply and fill
the earth with the God kind of people. The required process is for us to Bring
forth the Christ as the reality of our true identity. Paul acknowledged this is
Gal 4:19 as he speaks about “Travailing again until Christ is formed in you.”
Remember that Christ is the Covenant Son who is heir to all the promises given
to us through Abraham. He is to inherit everything, so when we birth that Christ
we become joint heirs (Equal Parts) with him to possess the promised land
representing our body, bringing it under the authority of the Christ and
sickness and suffering and death can no longer touch us for HE IS LORD. Because
we have not understood this the promises that were given to Abraham and TO HIS
SEED, we cannot access, because we have not brought forth the Christ.
If we look upon a woman today and believe that she is a part of God’s creation,
then we are walking in the same dream world that Adam found himself in when he
saw the woman standing out there . He saw here as bone of his bones and flesh of
his flesh, and called her woman because she was taken out of him.
This is an allegory and not literal, because no where do we find God
creating a MAN AND A WOMAN., only a MAN who is spirit the same as GOD. God is
not a MAN and a WOMAN, God is spirit and that spirit is male and female
functioning together as ONE., therefore God could begat us OF HIS OWN WILL
without any help from a woman. James 1:18. Because we have not understood spirit
nor spirituality these things seem very strange to us. However I am going to
share with you the truth.
In Gen 18:9 The heavenly messenger asked Abraham a question, “Where is your
wife?” He replied she is IN THE TENT. Paul refers to our body as a Tabernacle or
Tent. 2Cor 5:1. If this was what Abraham was referring to then he was right. But
I do not think Abraham understood the truth of spirit being male and female
together because Sarah laughed when she heard what the visitor said. “I will
certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy
wife shall have a son.”
For a woman that is 90 years old to birth a son was in her understanding an
impossibility so she laughed. But is anything too hard for the Lord? But it is
God speaking to Abraham so he must know something we do not know. The messenger
asked Abraham about his (Real) wife to see if he understood that his true wife
was an integral part of his spiritual identity. THIS IS THE ONE who will bring
forth the SON and HEIR, not 90 year Sarah the independent woman (SOUL) he can
see on the outside of him. Then who is Sarah the woman on the outside? Abraham
came to understand that Sarah was a visible manifestation of the SPIRIT WOMAN
who is a part of the SPIRIT which is male and female in himself. (Meditate on
this)
The child was conceived by the spirit in Abraham just as Jesus was birthed by
the spirit in the Virgin Mary. who was betrothed to Joseph, but not married.
Isaac was born as the messenger said, and he was the Covenant Son who is CHRIST.
Matt 1:1 “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son
of Abraham.” God’s promise to Abraham was realized because now his SEED would be
as the STARS OF HEAVEN. For in that Christ is all of mankind . When the truth is
understood then marriage is not the two becoming ONE FLESH any more but he that
is joined to the LORD IS ONE SPIRIT. Only then will the Soul be restored to its
rightful place as part of the SPIRIT that is M-A-N.
May the spirit give you enlightenment and spiritual understanding of these
things that are the eternal realities of our life in Christ. Be wonderfully
blessed in the Lord as you hear that still small voice of the Father from
within, for your body is the dwelling place of God.
Written by Des Walter
September 2010