The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat
『And the man said, The
woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman,
What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat. 』 (Genesis 3: 12-13)
People say that Adam
is making excuses. People say that Adam is an unscrupulous man who blames his
wife. Even people say that Adam made all humans sinners. In Genesis 2:24,
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the
tree of life. In Ephesians 5: 31-32,『For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother,
and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a
great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 』
The church
means the spirit. It is true that before the creation, Christ and the Spirit
were one. However, because the spirits were deceived by Satan and wanted to be
like God, they tried to leave God. God sent the spirits who wanted to leave to
the material world, and Christ first put on the clothes of the flesh. So, the
existence of Adam was born. "Adam received fruit from his wife and ate
it" explains this situation.
Therefore shall a
man(Christ) leave his father and his mother(God), and shall cleave unto his
wife(spirit): and they shall be one flesh.
Originally, Christ
and the spirits were one, and since the spirits were separated from Christ,
Christ will come to save their spirits. So, the apostle Paul described the
relationship between Christ and the Church as a secret. It is the spirit that
the church was born again.
Jesus prayed to be
one before the cross. In John 17: 20-23『Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which
shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the
world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I
have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou
in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 』 Salvation must be one
with God in Christ.
In Genesis 1: 26-27『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 over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. 』 God's image means the
spirit that is one with God in Christ. In other words, it means that Christ
came to the earth in the flesh. The first man, Adam, acts as a body that traps
all spirits as sinners. The last Adam is to act as a body that frees sinners.
In Romans 5:14『Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them
that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. 』 Those who have not sinned, such as Adam's sin, are angels who have not
kept their position to leave God. It was that Adam ate fruit from a woman, and
that woman ate fruit directly. The woman has tried to leave God in violation of
God's command, and that Christ bears the responsibility of the spirits to leave
and has left God.
In John 1:51『And he saith unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of
God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. 』This expression is
also mentioned in Genesis 28:12. This is what God showed to Jacob (Israel), and
the Gospel of John (1:51) is what Jesus said to Nathaniel. The Son of Man is
Christ. The ladder also means Christ. It means that angels who have sinned
through Christ come down to this earth and through Christ to the kingdom of
God. The first man Adam and the last Adam are the same Christ. The expression
of the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:45『And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made
a quickening spirit. 』
『What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 』(Genesis 3:13) It may seem that God is asking the woman why she
ate the fruit, but the Bible explains the process. And the key reason is to
reveal through a woman. It is a confession that the spirits of the kingdom of
God wanted to be like God after being deceived by Satan. Here God expresses the
delusion of Satan and the greed of the spirits (self-righteousness). It wasn't
that Satan approached her because she was greedy first, but she was greedy with
Satan's delusion. Soon, Satan's delusion can be used synonymously with greed.
In Colossians 3: 5『Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which
is idolatry: 』
Being on earth means
dying. The Bible says, "There is covetousness in the fleshy tabernacle of
the earth, and they must die." So, the apostle Paul described "a member
of the earth" as an old man in Romans 6:6『Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin
might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 』 The old man (a member of the earth) must die and be reborn as a member
of the spirit from heaven. In Romans 6:4『Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』
Everyone who is not
born with a new life is a child of the devil. Jesus also said to Israel, who
did not abide by the Word, as devils. If people don't eat what God gives, they
are all children of the devil. It expresses what the spirits who sinned in the
kingdom of God followed by being deceived by Satan. Spirits who did not
maintain their status have sinned against God, but Satan is the object of God's
judgment. The angels who have sinned come to realize their will in the world
with the spirit and come back after realizing that their thoughts are wrong.
People can repent and
use Christ as a ladder to return to the kingdom of God. However, Satan is deceiving
that "the righteousness of his own" can still be achieved on this
earth. Eternal life is not something humans can achieve for themselves, but it
is God-given. It is impossible to return to the kingdom of God unless you deny
yourself, because you are greed (idola). The difference between those who
follow the Holy Spirit and those who follow the law is whether they deny
themselves. The law is to try to fulfill the righteousness by observing the
Word of God. However, those who follow the Holy Spirit are those who have died
of the body of the flesh and have been regenerated into the body of the spirit.
So, it is to escape the law in Christ and live only as the Holy Spirit leads.
To hear the Holy Spirit lead, you must remember that you died with Christ every
day.
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