by Dora Van Assen
5. ADAM IN REDEMPTION FORM
"Since we, God's children, are human beings - made of flesh and blood, he became flesh and blood too by being born in human form; for only as a human being could he die and in dying break the power of the devil (adversary) who had the power of death. We all know he did not come as an angel but as a human being. And it was necessary for Jesus to be like us, his brothers, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God in dealing with the sins of the people. For since he himself has now been through suffering and temptation he knows what it is like when we suffer and are tempted, and he is wonderfully able to help us." Heb. 2:14-18 Living Word Bible
"Let the very spirit (mind) which was in Christ Jesus be in you also. From the beginning He had the nature of God. Yet He did not regard equality with God as something at which He should grasp. Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men. And being recognized as truly a human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; and that too a death on the cross." Phil. 2:5-8. Weymouth. Compare John 17:15
"Sending his own Son in the FORM OF SINFUL HUMANITY to deal with sin, God pronounced sentence upon sin in human nature; in order that in our case the requirements of the law might be fully met." Rom. 8:2-3. "For the One not knowing Sin, He makes to be THE SIN OFFERING for our sakes that we may be becoming God's rightousness in Him." For God took the sinless Christ and POURED INTO HIM OUR SINS. Then, in exchange, he POURED GOD'S GOODNESS INTO US." Living Word Bible. 2 Cor. 5:21.
"In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loves us, and dispatches (sent) His Son, a PROPITIATORY SHELTER (personal atonement, remedy) concerned with our sins...yet not concerned with ours only, but concerned with the whole world also." 1 John 4:10; 2:2 CCV.
We can readily see through these different versions that Jesus was born in a human, flesh and blood form. He stripped himself of his former glory which he had with the Father, taking on human nature, becoming a man like other men. The redeemer of all men came in the FORM OF SINFUL HUMANITY! He did not come as an angel, but as a man in order to die. God made him the SIN OFFERING for the sins of the whole world. He is the Lamb of God that is taking away the sins of the world. God poured our sins into him and now he is pouring his righteousness into us. He is the only remedy for our sins; and not ours only but for the sins of the entire world.
There are many scriptures indicating that Jesus was a direct descendant of David, Abraham, and Adam: "who was the Son of God. " Luke 3:38. "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham." Matt. 1:1, 16-17. "Hath not the scriptures said, that Christ cometh of the seed of David?" John 7:42.
Many times Jesus speaks of himself as the Son of Man (mankind or humanity). Adam is a generic word, meaning all humanity male or female. In the generations of Jesus every man "begets" except Joseph who is called the husband of Mary, of whom was "born" Jesus. We read he was born of the Virgin Mary. Joseph was actually only the legal father of Jesus, for it was "supposed" that Jesus was the son of Joseph.
"And He, Jesus, when beginning was about thirty years, being a son (as to the law) of Joseph." Luke 3:23 CCV. Therefore Jesus, who is called Christ, being the Son of David is the natural heir of David's throne. "The Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David." Luke 1:32
When God removed the Kingdom from King Saul, He established it with David, saying that it would be an agelasting dynasty. Through Nathan the prophet, God told David, "And when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his Kingdom." 2 Sam. 7:12, 16.
God made an unconditional promise unto David concerning his throne. Of Solomon, David's son, he said, "If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul." 2 Sam. 7:14. "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven." Psa. 89: 29-37. God swore in truth unto David: "Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne"..."There shall not fail (said he) a man on the throne of Israel." Psa. 132:11; 1Kings 3:4.
It suddenly occurred to me that God swore by Himself, TWICE, when he could swear by no greater:
1. He swore by himself when he made his unconditional covenant with Abraham, concerning THE SEED that would bless all the families of the earth.
2. Again He swore by Himself when He made a covenant with David, concerning the throne.
"For when God made promise to Abraham because he could swear by no greater He sware by Himself, saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. "..."Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on His throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption." Heb. 6:13-14; Acts 2:30-31; 2 Sam. 7:12; Psa. 89:3-4; 132:11-12.
The promise of the Seed was literally fulfilled in Jesus Christ (the Son of Adam and the Son of Abraham). He actually came in the flesh, a partaker of humanity. Therefore, God's promise of David's throne and his SEED ruling on it for the eons, must also be literally fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and His great Body of Sons - the heirs of the promise. "Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of the promise." Gal. 4:28; Heb. 6:17.
Paul makes it plain who Jesus was. We read: "Concerning his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Rom. 1:3-4.
If God could preserve the seed line of Levi 430 years before he actually was born in the flesh, he could surely do it for David, a man after His own heart unto whom He confirmed His covenant with an oath.
"And as I may say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father (ancestor) when Melchizedec met him." Heb. 7:9-10. If this is possible, then we can carry it further; that all humanity was in the loins of Adam, dying in him when death entered his loins because of disobedience; then we can even extend it into the invisible realm when Jesus Christ pre-existed as the Son of Mankind. Hear him say concerning himself, "What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before? John 6:62; 3:12. Adam was but a dim figure of this Son of Man "who was to come." In this pre-existent state he was known as the Angel of the Lord, who Paul called: "The Lord from heaven." Gen. 48:16; Ex. 3:2; Acts 27:23; 1Cor. 15:47.
Jesus, by partaking of humanity "was made flesh", becoming the last Adam. By overcoming the limitations of his flesh, rising triumphant over death, hell, and the grave, he "was made a life-giving spirit." 1Cor. 15:45. "He was declared the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." Rom. 1:4. Three times God affirmed that Jesus Christ was his son:
1. When he fulfilled all righteousness by being baptized by John in the river Jordan.
2. When he attained unto the transformation he displayed on the mountain.
3. And when God raised him from the dead.
Paul brings forth his witness concerning this resurrection. "And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second Psalm: "Thou art my Son THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE."...Now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise: "I will give you the sure mercies of David." Acts 13:32-34. While Jesus walked here in the flesh he walked in the realm of death, or corruption, but he has been raised into a realm of LIFE that death cannot touch. He is the first to put on immortality and life. He is the King, Eonian, Immortal, Invisible.. 1 Tim. 1:17; 6:16; 2 Tim 1:10 CCV.
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