The first man Adam and the last man Adam(1)

 

The first man Adam and the last man Adam(1)

 

God's name is Yahweh. He is called in Hebrew, “Hayah asher hayah ֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה The root word of Elohim is El, which is El Shaddai (Almighty God).And the origin of the name Yahweh begins with Adonai. This means that Adonai is also God. It is said that the Hebrew people considered it blasphemous to call God's name, so they left a blank space when writing the Bible. When they “translated the Bible” into Greek, they wrote God as YHWH. The name Yahweh appeared in the Bible when the "Jews living in the Alexandria area" added a and ai to YHWH in the alphabet Adonai and called it YHaWHai (Yahweh). Of course, the original version of the Bible written at the time would have been blank, and when it was later copied, it would have been written as Yahweh(ְהוָֽה).

In Exodus 3:13-14, when Moses asked God to tell him his name, God said, “I am who I am.” The Hebrew word is Haya Aser Haya. The name of God (Yahweh) is 『Haya Asher Haya』. God says this to Moses and says to him, “Hayah sent me.” God said Haya Aser Haya, which is shortened to Haya. Regarding haya, the dictionary explains it as ~is (existence), which corresponds to the verb be in English. Haya is an ongoing “existence” that is neither complete nor incomplete. We cannot find out the meaning at all from a dictionary.

Haya is “the name by which the invisible God appears in the world.” God is invisible to human eyes. The one who came in the flesh is Jesus Christ. So, since God came to the world through the Word, it is Haya Aser Haya.

If we analyze the letter Haya, we can see that God is the One who comes through the window of grace, finishes his work with the word of power, and then returns to the window of grace. Through the words of Exodus 6:7, we can understand the name of Jehovah.

In the words “Haya Aser Haya,” it is Haya of the beginning and end. (It means that the God of God’s kingdom and the God who came into the world are “the same God.”) Between the front and back haya, there is Asher (אֲשֶׁ֣ר ). The letters of the alphabet are Aleph, Sheen, and Lesh. This means being separated by the Holy Spirit of God. Separation means separation from God and separation from the world, and both have the same meaning of separation (barah בָּרָ֣א).

 

The Hebrew word "bara" (בָּרָ֣א) means to create, but on the other hand, it also means to separate. Since there is Asher between Haya and Haya, one is separated from God and from the world. The latter part of “Haya Asher Haya” means God who came to the world. The God who came into the world is Jesus Christ. The Bible testifies that Jesus existed in the Old Testament. Why did God come to the world in the flesh?

He was to save his people, the fallen angels. The angels who sinned came to the material world in physical bodies with the first man, Adam, and when they repent, they put on a body of righteousness and sit at the right hand of the throne with the last Adam. Christ on earth, the first man Adam and the last man Adam call God on the throne their father.

In Luke 3:38, looking at the genealogy of Jesus Christ, Adam's father is God. Jesus is Yahweh God in the kingdom of God, but he was born before all creation into the world, became the first man, and was resurrected as the last Adam to become the first fruit. “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:” (Colossians 1:15)

When the kingdom of God is established in the hearts of believers living in the world, earth and heaven become one.

On the seventh day, God completed the armies of heaven and the armies of earth, and entered into rest. (Genesis 2:1)

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. This part was translated incorrectly. The Hebrew word "chava" means army.

וַיְכֻלּ֛וּ הַשָּׁמַ֥יִם וְהָאָ֖רֶץ וְכָל־צְבָאָֽם “וְהָאָ֖רֶץ” This is the military. Now, when the kingdom of God is completed on this earth, everything will enter into rest. Saints have traces of the first man, Adam, and also the grace of the last man, Adam. In the first man, Adam, there is an old man in the flesh who has no choice but to die due to sin, and in the last man, Adam, there is also a new man in the heart that is born into new life. The first man, Adam, had the image of God (Christ), but after the separation into man and woman, the image of God disappeared. However, the religious spirit (sareksus) of seeking God remains in humans, and there are some who understand the word of God and some who do not. The old man (the first man, Adam) is in the law, but the new man (the last man, Adam) is in the Holy Spirit. Saints do not remain sinners, nor have they become completely righteous. However, the Saint realizes that he is the same as the thief on the right side of Jesus on the cross. When they cry out earnestly to God, He extends His grace. What is a mortal sin against God? That is the greed to become like God. The sins committed in the world are not the point. If we realize that, we confess that we die every day. The first man, Adam, is a reflection of the last man, Adam, who died on the cross.

Jesus achieved salvation by dying on the cross as the last Adam.

The first man Adam and the last man Adam are Christ, the Son of God. From Genesis to Revelation, there are many passages that express this symbolically.

 

Genesis 1:1

The word Beresht(בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית) appears in Genesis 1:1. This means the head of the house of God. It shows God, the leader, taking his people somewhere. The first man, Adam, the head, brought the spirits of angels who sinned in the kingdom of God to this earth, and the last man, Adam, brought them back. So, sinners who left God return to God's house. This is salvation.

 

Genesis 1:26

『 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:…….』  The image of God is Jesus Christ. In Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: He means the first man, Adam. The first man, Adam, means Christ, the image of God. The first man, Adam, is a model of the last man, Adam. The first man, Adam, was born as a human to give us a body of sin, and the last Adam came to this world to give us a body born from heaven after the body of sin dies and is resurrected. The first man, Adam, has traces of the last Adam, and the last Adam has traces of the first man, Adam. The first man, Adam, wore leather clothes as a promise to the woman's descendants. The leather garment becomes Christ's garment in the last Adam. The last man, Adam, is the body of the first man to die, representing death on the cross.

 

Also, those who bear the image of God are those who are in the kingdom of God. Those who bear the image of God will become angels, sons of God. When God created angels, he gave them also the image of God.  However, in the case of the angel who sinned, the image of God disappeared as God imprisoned him in the material world.“He who enters into Christ restores the image of God” is as follows. Those who were thrown into the world realized that they had come into this world in opposition to God. So, it means that when they repent to God and enter into Christ, they become those who bear the image of God.

People in the world were originally spirits with the image of God, but due to being trapped in the material world, the image of God disappeared.

Some of them have a religious mind and meditate deeply as if they were plowing the ground, so they repent and enter into Christ, so it can be seen that the image of God has been restored. The church says: Originally, humans had the image of God, but when Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, the image disappeared, but now we must strive to restore the image of God. This is said without knowing the meaning of the image of God. The image of God is not given to physical mind, but can be seen as the power of God given to spirit. So, those who enter into Christ have their dead spirits revived and the image of God restored spiritually.

 

Genesis 2:1

『 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.』

The word ‘finished’ means ‘to complete, to finish.’ In Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.』 The work that God has been doing is to complete the reorganization of God's army in the kingdom of God and the material world.

In Genesis 2:3, “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” What God created and was doing was reorganizing angels in the kingdom of God. God took off the clothes of angels who could not keep their positions, placed them in the dirt, and turned them into humans. These humans became the army of the earth.

『Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.』 All the host of them is the military. The army of heaven is made up of angels, excluding angels who sinned, and the army of the material world is made up of angels who sinned. Accordingly, 『and all the host of them.』They refer to the army of God's kingdom and the army of the material world. That God is their master. All things (army) apply not only to what is on this earth, but also to what is in the kingdom of God. When God created the heavens and earth, all things did not refer to matter, but to the angels that God created.

The Bible describes humans who left the kingdom of God and were created in the material world in various ways.

Jude 1:6 “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day,” 2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;』 The place called hell is none other than the material world, and it refers to the body called dirt.

1 Peter 3:18-19For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;』The word prison means body. Jesus Christ went to the spirits of all flesh, knocked on their doors, and preached the word. However, most people do not open the door and do not understand the word even if they hear it. Just as it was said that no one was saved except the eight souls on the ark in the Age of Noh, this means that there are very few people who will be saved.

And in 2 Corinthians 5:6, “Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord,” and in Leviticus 25:23, “The land shall not be sold for ever.” : for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.』 The meaning of Genesis 2:1 is to summarize and explain the various works of God in creation in Genesis 1. So, in chapter 2 verse 2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.』 In the Bible, God is not only the God of Israel, but also the God of the kingdom of God and all the people on earth. The spirit of all people born on this earth is God's army. However, the armies of God born on this earth did not realize this and followed Satan through Satan's deception. Those who followed Satan became Satan's army.

 

Genesis 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.』

To make a human shape out of clay, water is needed. When soil meets water, it is like baptism. Baptism means that the soil is dissolved in water, God breathes in the spirit, and a person is born in human form.Baptism is the same event as the creation of the first man, Adam, the crossing of the Red Sea in the Exodus, the death of the believer's old man, and the rebirth in the heart. The fact that sinful spirits are born as people in the material world means that they already receive salvation through the first man, Adam (Christ). Receiving judgment from God is death in water, baptism, and the beginning of salvation. So, the birth of sinful spirits into the material world is a judgment, but it is also the beginning of salvation.

In Chapter 1 of Genesis, the things expressed as fish and land animals are not simply animals we know, but God wants to express a certain fact by metaphorizing animals. Although they are the same nephishhai (living soul), God did not breathe life into animals through their nostrils. To breathe life is to give the Holy Spirit. By giving them the Holy Spirit, they become spiritual beings with the image of God. However, even though they are the same nephishhai, fish and land animals are not spiritual life forms but simply living beings.

The first man, Adam, whom God created, refers to God Himself. He projected himself into the dirt. However, it can be said that fish and animals represent the spirits of sinful angels sent to earth from the kingdom of God and trapped in the dirt. “What causes the earth to produce beasts” means being trapped in the material world represented by the earth.“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind”

Creeping refers to things that crawl, such as reptiles (mainly snakes). This means one who becomes one with the earth (an unclean one). Livestock were also made according to type. They are divided into those with and without hooves, those that chew the cud and those that do not. Animals that have hooves and chew their cud are said to be clean, while those that do not are unclean. Rumination means looking back and thinking. It means that they realize where they come from. Those who realize and turn back become those who realize that they have sinned and immigrated to this land from the kingdom of God (travelers). What is expressed as the beast of the earth (Behemah בְּהֵמָ֥ה) is the livestock of the earth. Livestock are generally animals that have split hooves and chew the cud.

 

Genesis 2:15

『And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.』

The man is Adam. God created Adam in God's image. In 1 Corinthians 15:45, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam created a quickening spirit.』 Adam is a symbol of Christ. 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.” Jesus is the image of God revealed in the flesh. 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.” These words were spoken by Jesus during a conversation with Nathaniel. The same content is found in the Bible. In Genesis 28:12, “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” This means that the spirits who sinned in the kingdom of God come down to this earth through the first man, Adam, and ascend through the last Adam. Adam also came in the image of God, but because he was trapped in the dust, his relationship with God was cut off, and his spirit became a dead soul.

 

Genesis 2:21-23

『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. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.』

The first man, Adam, is a symbol of the last Adam. “the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam” These words symbolize Jesus Christ dying on the cross. So, just as Eve was brought from Adam, in Christ, those who have left God are brought back to God.

『 The rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman (Bana)』 The Hebrew word Bana means to build. It means that the woman (the sinful spirit) escapes from the first man, Adam, who is the symbol of Christ. Living beings born with a physical body have a limited life. Therefore, humans born in the image of God must realize that there is something eternal through limited living beings. Realizing eternal life is the way to restore the image of God. This is because eternal life is Christ, the source of all things. The reasons why God created Adam and made woman from Adam are as follows: God made sinful spirits into humans in this world, Let them know that they must live and die in this world, Make them realize why they are in this world, It is to enable them to return to the kingdom of God through Christ.

The phrase 『This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:』 means 『God's army on this earth is the army of God's kingdom』. In Genesis 2:1, “the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” means, “the armies of heaven and the armies of the earth were finished.” The word ‘finished’ means ‘to complete, to finish.’

In Genesis 2:2, “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.』 The work that God has been doing is to complete the reorganization of God's army in the kingdom of God and the material world. Christ said, “You are my members in heaven, and you are my (Adam’s) members on earth.” So it contains the meaning that I (the last Adam) will definitely come to get you. 『she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.』 God took women (sinful spirits) out of Adam (a symbol of Christ). This means that the man is not Adam but the husband. The word “husband” means that there must be another person (wife). Ultimately, it means that the husband is with his wife. However, Adam has lost his partner. So, in order for him to become a husband, he must meet his wife. Man and woman mean that one body was divided into two, not that there was a man and a woman and they should become one. Being one body in Christ represents the relationship between God and angels in the kingdom of God.

 

Genesis 2:24-25

『Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.』 In the front is a man, and in the back is Adam. The man represents Christ, and the woman represents spirits who have left God. A man leaves his parents and comes to a woman. So, if you are outside of Christ, you become man and woman, but if you enter into Christ, man and woman become one and return to Adam (the symbol of Christ) before they were separated. God wants us to realize this mystery through the institution of marriage. Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 5:30-32, “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

』Church means spirits.

 

Genesis 3:1-4

『 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:』

『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 which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.』 A snake approaches a woman and deceives her. Why is she a woman? Woman is a separate being from the first man (Adam). So only when we become one can we become a complete being. The serpent's deception of the woman is the same as Satan's deception of the spiritual being within God. When an angel who is one with God becomes separated from God due to Satan's deception, it means spiritual death. This was in the kingdom of God, and it also appeared in the temple on earth. Being in the kingdom of God refers to an angel who did not keep his position. What appears on this earth shows that the Word of God is being distorted through false prophets. And it can happen in our minds. This happens when you do not follow the Holy Spirit, but follow the flesh.

Chapter 4 of the Gospel of Matthew is about Jesus being tempted by the devil (Satan). The first man, Adam, failed to obey the word of God. It was not because he fell under the devil's temptation, but because his wife Eve disobeyed God's word and sinned. This is the result of him becoming a criminal himself because he “ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil given to him by the sinful Eve.” Because of Eve, he knowingly became a sinner. It is a moment to become one with sinners for the sinner. That is why he is born as the first person in the world and shares his body of sin with people. However, the last Adam overcame Satan's temptation and eventually came out with the glory of resurrection by dying on the cross. Therefore, everyone in Christ becomes a participant in resurrection. The last Adam dies to the body of sin and becomes a new life. The first man, Adam, entered the world with sinners, and with the last Adam, the sinners became righteous and returned to the kingdom of God.

“She also gave to her husband” does not mean giving one fruit. The woman represents a sinful angel in the kingdom of God. Adam is a symbol of Christ. It is a confession that the angels ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In other words, they confessed to God their decision to leave God and achieve righteousness on their own. Christ promises, “Through me the angels will descend and through me they will ascend.” “That the husband ate it” contains the meaning of this promise. Because the husband ate it, he was first born into the world with a body of sin, and then he created the bodies of all the spirits who came after him, and the last Adam created a spiritual body for all the spirits who repented and took them back to where they came from. Satan told the spirits, “If you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will die, but God will save you from the second death.” The sinful spirits believed it. But, that actually happened. Christ came to this earth to save them. However, Christ does not take just anyone. He will only take those who have entered into a new covenant with Him. The covenant is that the greed that arose in the beginning to become like God must die.

 

Genesis 3:17-19.

『And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.』

The overall meaning is “Adam is the first man, Christ.”God curses Christ with the cross. God gives him the judgment of thorns and thistles, and through the toil of pain,  he dies on the cross and bears the fruit of life in resurrection.『And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it 』 What the wife said does not appear in the Bible. But what her wife said to her husband may have explained the situation. The woman (angel) said to her husband, “After listening to Satan, she thinks she can become like God and is about to leave God.” So the man (Christ) ate the fruit the woman gave him. Eating the fruit did not mean being deceived by Satan like the woman. Since spirits must enter this world, the husband (Christ) takes his wife (spirits) and enters this world. Entering this world means becoming a body of sin. If Adam simply received and ate the fruit in the Garden of Eden and sinned, he could not be the symbol of Christ. The symbol of Christ means bearing sin instead. As he enters the world from the kingdom of God, the earth becomes a curse to the kingdom of God. So the land produces thorns and thistles.

 

Genesis 3:20-21

『And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.』

Mother (em אֵ֥ם )is the living Word of God. So, Calvin said that the church is a mother who nurtures with the word of God. The woman represents the covenant that Adam had. But because she became one with the serpent, she became dust. However, Adam has the meaning of restoring a spiritually dead woman with the living word of God. This means that the last Adam will save the spiritually dead who came into the world with the first man, Adam, by giving them life. This is the covenant.

In Ephesians 2:1-5, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)』Women (spirits who sinned in the kingdom of God and came to the world) were dead in sins and trespasses. However, Christ saved them.

This explains that spirits who sinned in the kingdom of God entered this earth through Christ (the first man, Adam). And Adam named the woman Eve. Becoming Adam and Eve means that the door that was divided into two becomes one again. These words contain a promise that the last man, Adam, will save his spirits. That is why the Bible calls the spirits who will be saved the living. This has the meaning that Eve represents the sinful spirits, and that all spirits coming to this world will be saved through the last man, Adam. So, God clothes Adam and Eve in leather clothes.

Regarding leather clothes, Leviticus 1:6 says, “And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.” It is related to leather clothes. The Hebrew word for skin, “ohr,” refers to a lump of flesh in Leviticus 1:6. And the clothes correspond to the skin of the burnt offering. In leather clothes (flesh and leather), ohr corresponding to leather means avoiding nakedness. The naked body is fresh and is also where the spirit is trapped. The spirit being imprisoned means that the spirits of angels who committed sins in the kingdom of God are imprisoned. In 2 Peter 2:4, “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;” Those thrown into the world are all naked. All humans inherited from the first man, Adam, are like this. So, they wear clothes to avoid being naked.

Fresh received from the first man, Adam, contains traces of God's promise of salvation (woman's descendants), but people do not realize it. God is still sending the message of salvation to everyone in the world. Fresh represents a religious mind (Greek sarko). So most people are looking for the God they want. These are nature worship, animism, and idol worship. God tells us to burn away all kinds of spiritually polluted religious hearts. In other words, this means peeling off the skin, cutting the flesh into pieces, and burning it. And God clothes them again with the flesh of seeking the true God. The old things (old people) are burned with fire and put on new clothes. This is the leather clothing of the saved.

 

Genesis 3:22-24

『And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which』

『the man is become as one of us. 』The Hebrew Bible for the man is Ha-Adam.

Ha is a definite article and there is a definite article with Adam, but since there is a definite article, it is not Adam as a name. In other words, it means man. . No definite article is added to the name. However, in Genesis 2:5, 7, 8, 15, 16, and 18, Adam is translated as man, but in Chapter 2:19, 20, and 21, it is changed to Adam, which means name. What is translated as man is Christ, the first man, Adam, and the name Adam means Adam, the man, and the man Adam, from whom the woman is a separate being. Why was it translated so differently? It's a translation error. Eve sinned, and God sent Adam (that person) out of the Garden of Eden. There is no word about Eve. The reason is because there is no living creature called Eve in the world yet. That person refers to Christ as a person before separation, and is the first person who came into the world to give up a body of sin. Sending man out of Eden means that God becomes the first man (Christ) and is expelled.