Lesson # 003 Adam

Adam

Before the beginning, God was and in the beginning, God was.  And after that, man was.  Who is God?  Who is man?  Have you ever thought about or considered how it would be to suddenly open your eyes and be fully-grown?  

Suppose that you came into being full-grown.  One day you just were, a man.  You were not born, you have no parents, your peepers popped open and there, looking at you, was another who looks like you, but He is not; He is Other than you.  

What is a man?  How did you get there, well … wait a minute, where is there?  

How did there get there?  Who is the Other?  Obviously, the Other was there before you.  Why is the Other, other than you?  Besides the fact the Other was first, what makes the Other, other? 

You need the facts of who you are and why you are.  More importantly, however, you need the facts of the Other.  

The first man came into being this way:  One day he just was.  Both the Other that the man is looking at and the man are other than we are.  He was the first man and he was a creation, there was no other like him - that makes him other.  

Jesus, the Other, who was with the man, is God.  He is not a creation; He is One of the three personal beings of Deity.  Deity is Divine in being.  He is Eternal; He is without beginning, He is without end.  He is everywhere present; there is nowhere that He is not.  

God is all knowing, there is nothing hid from Him.  God is Love, Life, and Light.  God is outside of time; but at creation, He entered into time.  God is Righteous; God is Holy; God is Spirit Being and He is Other than all others. 

The “there” where the man found himself is the part of “the creation” - it is the earth.  The creation is a concept that God thought in His mind and brought forth into being by that which He spoke (Genesis 1) – a physical reality.  God spoke into being many things pertaining to His creation.  God spoke into being light, heaven and earth.  God spoke into being bodies of living things with different kinds of flesh - flesh bodies of seed grain, herbs and fruit (Genesis 1:11), flesh bodies of animals, fish bodies, bird bodies, living creatures, cattle, creeping things and beasts (Genesis 1:24). 

However, God was personally involved when He created those things that pertain to His eternal covenant.  God’s covenant plan is to have a universal kingdom of sons of God in His image.  He did not speak this part of His creation into being as He did the rest of creation.  God personally used His hands and then named those things that He made.  With His hands, God created the stars; with His hands, God planted His garden; and with His hands, God formed the body for man. 

God named the stars.  God named the Garden of Eden, the man’s residence, and He named the two trees in the midst of the garden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life (Genesis 2:8).  God also named the man. 

All that God created and made was holy – separated unto God, consecrated and blessed for divine service.  Yet the man was the most unique.  Of all that the Lord God created and made, only the man received the breath of God.  From the dust of the ground, God formed the body for the man - an earthen vessel, which God then breathed into and brought forth a soul of spirit life.  The soul is a personal being with a mind to think, emotions to feel and a will that has the power of choice. 

God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of the body formed of the dust of the ground – spirit life, the life that God is and man became a soul of spirit being, whose life of being is spirit, clothed in a body of dust called flesh.  God did not bring the body into being with His breath; God brings the soul of spirit life into being with His breath - a very personal and intimate act.  

The man is a living soul of spirit being, an uncreated spirit being without end, dwelling within an earthen vessel.  God named this soul of spirit being Adam. 

God brought Adam into being a full-grown man in order for Adam to think along with God; thinking along with God is God’s design and desire.  Adam was not “pre-programed” with data.  He was a soul of spirit being who is to learn of God.  All that Adam had knowledge of, God taught him. 

From the moment God brings the man into being, he is learning of God.  There is nothing to sidetrack him.  There is nothing to divert his attention.  No books to read, there is no written language.  There are no movies or television to watch - nothing to waste the space in his head to keep him from minding God.  There is nothing to distract him.  Free within himself, there is no minding of himself.  There is no thinking, what will the others think?  There are no others!  Adam was the first and only one of his kind.  There was no other like him with whom to converse or interact.  

Free from self-consciousness, Adam is free to be occupied with God.  God brings the man into being full-grown so he is fully free to engage, absorb, and take interest in what God will be sharing with him as they walk and talk together in the garden. 

The man was naked; God brought Adam into being naked.  While it is true that the man’s covering, his body, has no clothing, it is the person; the soul of spirit being that is naked.  The person is naked.  Adam’s body had no life everlasting.  In eternity past God purposed to have a creation of sons in His image.  God designed His image to be an immortal body of His glory. 

God begins His image with a created body – a figure that God will share the likeness of.  A body is an object of time.  The earthly body of dust does not cover the soul of spirit being for eternity. 

Although Adam is naked in his earthen vessel, he is not ashamed.  Is there reason to be ashamed?  God never does anything without design.  The nakedness will serve as a teaching truth for the man.  Adam, the soul of spirit being needs a covering suited to his being of spirit life; Adam needs a body of spirit life.  Adam needs life everlasting.  The body the man dwells in is not a body of spirit being, but a body of earth, dust.  Of the earth, the covering for the man is temporal and the life of that body is in the blood.  It is created life dependent upon breath. 

After The LORD God formed the man, He put the man in His Garden, the Garden of Eden, and assigned the man the pleasant task of dressing and keeping the LORD’S garden.  This assignment will serve several purposes.  

First, this will teach the man he is responsible to the LORD God in his undertaking.  Is the garden Adams to do with as he pleases?  No, it is the Lord’s garden.  Adam’s task to dress the garden will teach Adam to be reliable, dependable and consistent.  The responsibility of the LORD God’s garden will prepare Adam to be disciplined both in body and in mind. 

The word dress and the word till in the Hebrew is the same word and means to work or serve.  However, when used in reference to things, it is usually followed by an accusative (object) of the things upon which the labor is expended, e.g., “to till” a field (Genesis 2:5 and often elsewhere) “to dress” a vineyard. 

A field and a garden are two different things.  A field is a piece of cleared land set off or enclosed for raising crops or raising livestock.  Tilling a field is associated with hard labor, the sweat of one’s brow (Genesis 3:19).  A garden is planned space set aside for cultivating plants and other living things, a place filled with living things pleasant to the sight and good for food.  Often a garden is a place of quiet and beauty, a haven or sanctuary from the bustle of outside things. 

The LORD’S garden, like the rest of His creation, was holy.  God’s garden was the holy of holies because God’s garden was His sanctuary - the place He set apart from the rest of the creation to draw the man to Himself.  The LORD’S garden was a garden of Delight.  Because the word “dress” is often used to mean vineyard, it is reasonable that God’s garden included a vineyard. 

The second task of keeping the garden implies that Adam is to give diligent attention to guarding the garden against intruders.  The Hebrew word for keep means to take care of or guard.  An interesting thought to consider:  Would Adam know what an intruder is?  Obviously, God would have shared with him the meaning of intruder - one who is a trespasser in a place not designed to be occupied by the squatter.  The possibility of an intruder brings with it the necessity of guarding the garden. 

The evening and the morning of Adam’s first day was the sixth day of creation, the dawning of the seventh.  Adam begins his life in the “evening” but not literally in the dark.  Evening is dusk; dusk is the period of daylight when it is more difficult to discern the true intent of visible things.  This also will be a picture to the man; God brings true clarity of the things of the spirit; they cannot be discerned without Him.  

Before the darkness of the night, do you think that Adam and His Creator had a little “look-see” around the garden?  The plan was for everything in Adam’s life to be a picture truth for Adam – a picture truth of what God planned for His creation of mankind. 

Adam has his first encounter of Joy in the garden of delight.  Just consider for a moment the wonder of it all:  the different sights and sounds - the hues of green and all the different colors of fruit and flowers and the blue of the river with the sparkle of the setting sun shining off it. 

1 Corinthians 15:46 (ESV) says, “But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.”  In the garden was the “natural” pictorial of the spiritual pictorial of the truth revealed in the stars. 

In preparation for the nighttime star-gazing lesson, it is very likely that God explains that in order for seed to reproduce, it must have life in it.  In the garden was seed for life.  All life comes from seed.  Also in the middle of the garden were the two trees that the Lord named, each bearing fruit, whose seed is in it, after its kind. 

All the trees of the garden were pleasant to the sight and good for food.  However, the two trees planted and named by God have a distinct purpose.  The two trees are teaching tools and speak of reaping what is sown.  Pictured in the symbolism of the two trees is life and death - the two ways man may choose to go – God’s way or man’s way.  The Tree of Life symbolizes what is needed to become a son of God in His image and after His likeness – the Seed of Life for life everlasting. 

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil illustrates the beguiling of knowledge; knowledge will not produce life everlasting.  Information gathering, wanting to know apart from God, does not bring life.  God gave man everlasting life – this life is in His Son.  The heavens declare this glory.  

Everything Adam heard and everywhere that Adam looked expressed his Creator’s will for His creation of mankind - one must be born again through Christ Jesus – the Man God has in His image – the body raised from the dead. 

Talking “seed” with Adam would bring understanding that the Other is the Seed grain needed for more bodies that would live forever – God’s Eternal Covenant.  God pictures His Eternal Covenant in the stars.  Can you imagine that night?  There is nothing artificial or synthetic.  The air is clean and free of pollutants; the fragrance smelled is sweetness all around like the Rose of Sharon and the lilies of the field.  

There are no lights, but overhead in the night sky is the splendor of the stars, God’s banner of love.  All is quiet, no noise, chatter, or irritating sounds.  Then, the voice of the Lord, powerful and full of majesty, yet gentle and soft, speaks.  Hushed in the love of God, in the stillness of the Garden of Eden, the Last Adam (the Other) shares with the First Adam His purpose for being.  

God shared His Eternal plan with Adam; two bodies of seed were required.  Adam is the figure of his Creator - the Last Adam, who was with Him in the garden.  How is Adam a figure?  Adam like His Creator is spirit being.  Adam is clothed with body.  God formed Adam’s body from the dust of the ground, a body of humanity.  The body of Adam is Adam’s dwelling place.  Adam’s Creator explains to him that he is a soul of spirit life, a spirit being of humanity.  

His Creator, the Other who is with him is also Spirit Being; He is Spirit Being of Deity in the likeness of the image of the man He has created.  He and the man share the same likeness – a body of flesh. 

The Other explains that Deity is different from humanity.  Humanity is created; Deity is eternal.  Deity is pre-existent and self-existent, uncreated Being.  Deity is Spirit; Deity is Righteous.  Deity is One God in three Persons - a God of Spirit being of Deity with three personal beings.  Each being is God – each has a mind, emotions and will - as one – all of the same Spirit of Deity. 

“[But] when the fullness of the time was come, God would send [sent] forth his Son, made of a woman…” (Galatians 4:4).  Spirit Being of Deity, Jesus, God’s birthed Son, would be birthed in a body prepared for Him in the womb of a virgin - a body enlifed with the life God is, the life of spirit being.  His body is in the likeness of man’s - flesh. 

For God to have a kingdom of sons of God in His image, God needs a mortal seed body – a seed coat to bring forth a Body of Spirit being - a Body with uncreated Life, a body where the Life of the body is life of Spirit Being, – from the breath of God, the life He is.  The body of Spirit is an immortal, incorruptible, imperishable body.  The body of Spirit being will be a Body of Life everlasting - a body that is deathless, a body of flesh and bone. 

A body of spirit being will require One of the persons of Deity to come in the likeness of man, having a body.  God cannot be other than He is, Spirit Being of Deity.  He is Life.  The Creator comes in the likeness of man in a body specially prepared for Him.  Jesus is not a God-man, nor is He a man who is a god but God “clothed” with the garment - the likeness of man.  The body prepared would be a flesh and bone and blood body, a mortal body, the seed of the woman.  

God cannot die; He is eternal life; He is Spirit Being (1John 1:2).  The mortal body in the likeness of man, the seed coat, could die and did but held within the seed coat of flesh and blood is the incorruptible Seed – life of Spirit Being.  Within the seed coat (the mortal body) is the Seed of Life everlasting.  It takes the death of the seed coat to bring forth the image of God, a flesh and bone body of Spirit (1Corinthians 15:45-48). 

Life everlasting is what the body needs.  Without the Life of Spirit being for the body, man is naked (Genesis 2:25).  Man needs a body of Spirit being.  The Creator has the covering needed.  God explained to Adam that man is brought forth a soul of spirit being clothed in a body of flesh that he might choose to become a son of God in the image of God and experience the rest of God forever through a union of love.  

Adam understood that he was other than His Creator - he understood he was the creation of His Creator and belonged to His Creator.  Being a creation and being a son are different; Seed life is required to become a son.  Being a son of God in God’s image requires a union of love - a joining together.  

The image of God must be after His kind - a body with Life of Spirit being.  For such a body God must have a Seed.  The Seed will bring forth an immortal imperishable body.  The immortal imperishable body brought forth from that seed will have Seed for much fruit of immortal imperishable bodies – flesh and bone bodies bearing the image of God. 

Man’s image is the dust body called flesh.  God’s image is the body of the First Begotten Son raised from the dead.  The First Begotten Son is the First Son of God in God’s image, a glorified body.  

Without the union between the Seed and man, there is no body of glory.  Without the union, there are no sons of God in the image of God.  This union is voluntary and the one created makes a deliberate decision.  God does not force His creation of man to choose to become sons of God.  

That would be unreasonable and unjust of the Creator.  The union of love is a love union.  God does not force His creation of man to love Him.  Love is voluntary.  

When Adam saw the lights of that night sky - What a thrill it was!  It was beautiful!  Adam had never seen such beauty and such glory.  Actually … Adam had not seen anything until that night.  But! That night, wonder of wonders, God His Creator began to share with Adam His glory - the way of life everlasting through the gift of righteousness, the Last Adam.  God began therefore before the beginning with … God. 

Adam never would have understood the purpose of God, apart from God.  It is God’s plan; God would explain it.  Adam is a creation.  He does not have it in himself to understand.  

That first evening God began to lay out His covenant plan illustrated in the pictorial of the luminaires and to shine His glory into the heart of His man.  

“Do you see that cluster of stars there Adam?  Yes, those right there.  Well, my heavens stretch out like a curtain in the sky all around the planet.  I have placed and arranged 12 of those clusters in a certain pattern for a purpose.  

“Three smaller clusters are attached to the twelve primary clusters.  The clusters are called constellations and the smaller clusters are called decans.  “Each stellar constellation and its three decans have a minimum of 12 star names.  That is 576 star names, at a minimum.  It’s very important that you have the light of the knowledge of these for they speak of Me. 

“This first stellar constellation …is the Virgin.  That bright star that she holds in her hand means “The Branch” and speaks of the Anointed Son, the Seed grain of the Woman.  

Who is the Woman?” ... well, she is symbolic of a vineyard in a very fruitful hill (Isaiah 5), the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel and so God begins to share His plan.  Night after night, week after week, month after month, 365 days God shares the glory of God declared in the heavens – His plan.  

From the Son of His love, the Son of Man, God has His kingdom of sons of God in His image, a royal priesthood - the kingdom produced from the Seed of the Woman, the Branch of Life.  Like reproduces like. 

The number of days, weeks, months or years that God shared His covenant plan with Adam is not recorded in scripture.  However, consider this:  When you enter into time, you live within God’s laws of physics. 

It takes a year for the earth to revolve around the sun; thus, it would take Adam a year to complete the cycle of the covenant as it is written in the stars.  God works within His laws of physics.  

Forty-eight starry clusters are God’s banner of love written in the luminaires; God shares them with His first Adam in the evenings.  

Then in the early mornings, in the cool of the day, God and Adam meet in the Garden of Delight and discuss the truth taught the night before, possibly while they tilled the ground and dressed the garden. 

There is something special about digging in dirt; there are the smells of the garden, the warmth of the sun, the sound of living water, not to mention watching the rewarding result of the labor and finally the eating of the fruit.  

Night and day and day and night, week after week, month after month, God makes known the knowledge of His glory.  Knowledge is the information of facts.  Understanding is the enlightenment of the knowledge of facts as they really are through the Holy Spirit.  Adam took into his mind the knowledge of God’s heavenly pictorial in the evenings.  And in the morning in God’s garden, he took in his hands the practical substance of that picture:  the dirt, seed grain, water.  

In the garden, Adam sees in a different form the same pictorial - the natural realm gives confirmation to the spiritual realities seen in the stars.  The earthly is a pictorial of the heavenly realties.  The stars are a heavenly pictorial of an earthly reality. 

Thus, God brought the message of the glory of the “Life coming” that “The heavens declare” down to earth, so to speak, picturing to Adam the same truth in a different pictorial.  Faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God. 

The fulfilling of the covenant in time and space is in a future garden.  The Seed will lay down His life – as a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying lest He should abide alone (John 12:24).  That garden will not be a garden of Delight but of agony, distress and sorrow.  The pressing of the soul will occur in that garden, but the Seed looks to the joy set before Him, sons of God.  He willingly endures the suffering and despises the shame for the glory of the fruit, sons of God.  

The Life-Giver - the Rose of that garden, whose very fragrance is sweeter than any earthly aroma, will bear a crown of thorns upon his head and hang on a tree and be accursed, “…for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree” (Galatians 3:13).  

Like the white trumpet lily announces the life brought forth from the seed planted in the ground (to die), so the resurrected Creator brings forth resurrection life - everlasting life.  The resurrected Creator (the Other) is the first begotten Son of God.  

John 19:41 says, “Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never a man yet laid.”  Luke 22:44 says, “And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly:  and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”  

Unless the seed grain falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone.  The “relationship” between God and man is through union.  Unless man unites himself with the Seed, the Branch of Life, there will be no “relationship.”  The bond for the relationship is in the body; the understanding of the union is through the spirit.  

Without the union – without the Seed of life everlasting planted in the heart of man, the body is not redeemed and man does not receive the image of a son of God - a body of glory.  Man puts clothing on to cover the naked body.  God puts clothing on the man – a body.  The pictorial in the stars above and the earth below complement each other perfectly; they are a prophetic revelation of God’s purpose for sons of God.  

Thus, Adam had everything he needed to get the picture.  God set before him life and death.  God taught Adam the ins and outs of becoming a gardener, the different kinds of seeds and herbs, taught him the names of the trees and different fruits and vegetables.  

God instructed Adam about the mannerisms of the animals, explaining to him that man’s behavior mirrors the animals’ mannerisms.  That one (fox) is sly, that one (lamb) gentle and over there (mule), well he is stubborn. 

Then “The LORD God brought to Adam every beast of the field and every fowl of the air to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called them: … that was the name” (Genesis 2:19). 

All the aspects of heading a creation took considerable time – how is Adam to remember the revelation God shares in the stars?  It stands to reason or makes sense that he wrote an account.  As the first prophet and priest of God, Adam most certainly would have preserved the message of the glory of God by writing it down in the first star charts.  

The preservation of the glory is of vital importance, because just around the corner is an intruder, an enemy willing and able to pervert the truth - an intruder who would come to the Lord’s garden and deny the truth of God and call Him a liar.  The perversion of the truth is not merely a changing of the facts; it is the denial of the sacred.  The message of the stars is sacred; changing the facts calls God a liar. 

Like the rest of the creation, the stars are ordained of God (Psalm 8:3) fixed in position for the divine purpose of making known the glory of God.  To pervert the message in the stars given by God is to deny the incorruptible Seed, the Word of God, and is a renunciation of the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.  

The perversion of the truth is the replacing of the glory of the un-corruptible God and substituting that glory with an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things (Romans 1:23).  To change the truth of God into a lie you must first have understanding of the truth of God - “that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it” in the stars (Romans 1:19).  You cannot pervert what you first do not understand. 

“To change the truth of God and worship and serve the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever” (Romans 1:25) is to hold the truth in unrighteousness.  To worship the heavenly host, the sun, moon and stars, as Deity is an act of depravity.  

Having understanding of the righteousness of God, why would men pervert the truth?  So that others will not know God?  Where is the source of such thinking?  Who would do such a thing?  The enemy of God pictured in the stars - that old serpent, the devil and Satan (Revelation 12:9).  

Those who hold the truth in unrighteousness serve another master and refuse the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. 

As we begin our study of the stars, I want to make sure, absolutely sure, that it is understood that this study is not promoting the worship of the stars or their message.  

We give adoration, love, reverence and devotion to God the Creator of heaven and earth and NOT, let me repeat, NOT to the heavenly host; that is the sun, moon and stars.  That is blasphemy!  It is profane and wicked to set our affection outside of the sacred.  Sacred is where God or the glory of God is.  Changing the glory of the incorruptible Seed – making the glory of God a man perverts the sacred.  

We are looking at the heavenly pictorial that God placed and named on the fourth day of creation for the sole purpose to know Jesus and Him crucified and the power of His resurrection.  The heavenly pictorial is the message of God’s plan for an earthly kingdom of sons of God – sons in His image, a royal priesthood, united in a union of love with the incorruptible Seed, the un-corruptible God.  

The message of the heavenly pictorial is the glory of God - the hope of life everlasting and a holy calling; it is God’s eternal covenant to have sons of God.  It is Jesus! 

God gives man the message in the stars so man might choose to become a son of God through the union of love and in so doing might preach the message of reconciliation and regeneration to others – becoming the “voice” of the silent preachers. 

Glossary for Adam

Adam – the First – is the first man God created; who was full-grown.  Adam was a figure of His Creator, God’s last Adam, Jesus Christ, God’s Son. 

Adam – the Last – is another name for God’s Son, Jesus Christ. 

Eternal Covenant – is God’s agreement with Himself to have a universal Kingdom of Sons of God in bodies of glory in two realms – the heavenly and the earthly. 

Everlasting Life – is life that goes on forever in a body that will not die – life one receives from God by faith in His Son Jesus Christ. 

Image of God - is the body of the glorified Son of God. 

Naked – is what the personal being is if there is no forever-living body to cover or house the spirit being of man (See Soul). 

Seed Coat – is the mortal body of the First and Last Adam.  The first Adam has a seed coat with NO life everlasting in it and the Last Adam has a seed coat WITH everlasting life in it. 

Soul – is a personal being with a mind to think, emotions to feel and a will that has the power of choice (See Naked). 

Spirit Being of Deity – is the Life that God is - uncreated Life. 

Tree of Life – symbolizes the need to become a son of God – believing into the Seed of Life for life everlasting. 

Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil – illustrates the beguiling of knowledge; knowledge will not produce life everlasting. 

Union with the Seed – is in the body.  If man chooses to unite himself to Christ’s body by believing into Him, he receives a body of glory and lives forever.