Isa 10:27 And it shall be, in that day his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Adam was by the will of God basically God of the planet earth. God gave dominion to His man over the works of His hands. In other words all authority was given to him on earth. Contrast with Jesus who was and is given all authority in heaven and earth. Both were temted the first adam failed where as the last adam did not.
Our journey begins with looking into the Adam typology and why this is important. The reason for it's importance is to understand Gods heart toward us and His plan for man kind. We are all part of a master plan for God has chosen to in a sense pro-create after His own kind. Jesus is our forerunner as a our after the image and likeness of God son as was Adam.
The first Adam failed to obey one simple command. Abraham was called faithful because of his history of obedience. Joseph was obeidient and faithful even though he was falsly accused. Placing his trust in God he overcame and became ruler over Egypt. Moses was called the most humble man on earth and had this report but Moses I I see face to face. He was fully obedient to God until He faild at the second water pouring from the rock incedent. In his failure to obey because of anger toward the children of Israel's mummering and complaining he lost his opportunity to enter the promise land.
Now lets talk about moses for a minute, and some of the similarities between Adam, Moses and Jesus. When God told Moses to speak to the children of Israel he made excuses because he felt the sting of guilt from the murder of the egyptian.
Exo 4:10 And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not eloquent or a man of words, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and have a heavy and awkward tongue.
Exo 4:11 And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or the deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Exo 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you shall say.
Exo 4:13 And he said, Oh, my Lord, I pray You, send by the hand of [some other] whom You will [send].
Exo 4:14 Then the anger of the Lord blazed against Moses; He said, Is there not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know he can speak well. Also, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be overjoyed.
Exo 4:15 You must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do.
Exo 4:16 He shall speak for you to the people, acting as a mouthpiece for you, and you shall be as God to him.
God was saying I will be your God and you will be like me, God of the earth, basically as it was with the first Adam so shall it be with you! Why did God do that? I believe it was not just because He was displeased with Moses, but this would be the format and indentity type for the old testament prophet. Jesus being the last Old testamnent prophet and the last fully obedient even unto death Adam.
What is important to note here is that God was working to ward the reversal of what the first Adam lost giving us people types to show us the road map back so to speak into the garden of Eden which represents face to face comunion with God. This was His design all along and is the purpose of Gods work in our hearts today. We have this promise that when we see Him we shall be like Him. Like whom.... Jesus Son of the most high God. His Father and our Father. Amen
The first Adam and first Eve, Last Adam and last Eve
The first Adam and Eve are templates if you will for the last Adam and Eve. Because Jesus is called the last Adam and if we take a closer look at the bride of Christ we can see that she is also the last Eve. What was true of the first Eve in the beginning shall be true of the bride or last Eve. What was missing in the first shall be found in the last. The first Eve had dominion and authority with her husband Adam. Also found in the bride or last Eve with her husband. She was created from the rib of her husband as his side was pierced While he slept, not formed from the dust as was Adam. Jesus side was pierced at His crucifixion, while blood and water poured which is symbolic of birth.
Now lets look at the language of the bible......What did Jesus say about Jairus’s daughter wasn't it that she was sleeping although she was actually dead? It was said that adam was put to sleep when God took the mans rib, but given other references it is possible that adam was in fact suspended in a type of death speeking to us of the last Adam Jesus on the cross. There are other verses such as Daniel when He encountered the pre-encarnate Christ, and John the beloved having the same experiance falling dow as one who was dead.
Eve was innocent in her purity I believe this will be the at the heart of the bride which will reveal her dominion in the last days. Where the first Eve did not know exactly what God had said, the bride will be full of Gods word. When the first eve was deceived she did not recognize the deceiver as he challenged the word of God. Because, the last Eve is full of the Word of God, when the deceiver challenges the word of God and God's character, she will say with her bridegroom “it is written”. The last Eve will be crowned with the Glory of God as was the first but, the light in her shall uncover the darkness around her. Where Adam harkened to the voice of his wife and ate the fruit of diobedience. The bride harkens to the voice of her bridegroom and submits or gives herself willingly in the day of His power.
After the fall Adam named his wife Eve which is interpreted life spring, Jesus said “out of your belly will flow rivers of living water”. John 7:38 He who believes in Me [who cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] as the Scripture has said, From his innermost being shall flow [continuously] springs and rivers of living water. I find it interesting that Jesus renames His disciples and we the bride in Revelations are given a white stone with a new name of His choosing on it. The first Adam named His wife Eve after the fall before that he her called woman. Something else that is interesting is when Adam blamed the woman before God, he said “the woman you gave me”. Which suggests that Adam was in possession of the woman according to his dominion over the works of Gods hands. Jesus now exercises that right over the works of the Fathers hand and is in possession of His bride or the last Eve. Which He purchased with His blood.paper.
Obedience and sacrifice
Obedience ...........
What turned Abram into Abraham, “he believed God” yes but, it was his obedience to what he believed that produced a nation. Abraham was given many promises some of which we would not see fulfilment while He was alive. Other promises cost Him such as casting Ishmael out, and Abraham cutting him off from his presence. That was a high price of obedience. That is what is meant by “faith without works is dead”. Faith works though our obedience and our obedience fuels our faith.
Each time we believe Gods word or pray with full assurance it is because of our obedience. Without obedience our hope is deferred because, we cannot see our prayers come to pass apart from an willing and obedient heart. That is not to say we must always walk in complete perfection or God will not answer our prayers. We are still children growing in understanding of our Lord’s ways. Even repentance is an act of obedience and a gift as we come into agreement with God about our sin His compassion, mercy and lovingkindness always follows. We obey as we seek in prayer forgiveness for our transgressions, and obey as we forgive others.
We are being trained though the things we suffer how to walk in obedience to our father’s will. Through disobedience Adam learned but, what a price he paid! Now we all suffer because of Adams disobedience. Jesus was obedient to His Father’s will even to death upon the cross. So now we learn by Jesus obedience what the will of the Father is. That we obey regardless of circumstances whether good or bad we follow the Son of God.
Heb 3:6 But Christ (the Messiah) was faithful over His [own Father's] house as a Son [and Master of it]. And it is we who are [now members] of this house, if we hold fast and firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope [in Christ].
Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,
Heb 3:8 Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,
Heb 3:9 Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.
Heb 3:10 And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.
Heb 3:11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. [Psalms 95:7-11] Heb 3:12 [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.
The garden of Eden is the place of rest which Adam was born into where the tree of life resided which now lives in heaven with our Father. All that was required to remain there was to be faithful and observe a simple command do not eat from one tree. Out of all that abundance God his father set before him only one tree stood between rest and labor, fellowship and exile. Only one tree, one command one act of disobedience stood between a life of tirlessly trying to somehow forge out an existance of pain and misery. One choice beteen trying to be his own god, doing life his own way apart from the one true God.
The garden of Eden represented intimacy, which remained as long as obedience to one command continued. Once the obedience turned to rebellion the fellowship was broken and exile began. From the tree of self pursued wisdom and knowledge we become our own God using our own sense of reason (our 10% mental capacity) so that in our own labors we struggle. I believe that Adam lost the ability to know his Father (other 90% of our mental capacity) in the fall, the part of us that made us not just in His image but also His likeness. Now unlike God we could no longer comprehend or know Him intimately. What an incredible loss! Now our carnal lower nature rules over us and the lust of our flesh prevail as our hearts are hardened and our eyes darkened from sin.
Heartbeat of God
One night while sitting at the dinner table reading the word I began to receive a revelation of a different aspect of the cross and Jesus sacrifice that I had never seen before. The revelation did not come by verbal dialogue but more like the Spirit of God communing with my spirit. You could say that the eyes of my understanding were being enlightened by the Holy Spirit. I am extensively describing the way this revelation occurred because, we often receive revelation in this manner but do not recognize who or what is touching our inner most being with treasure from heaven. For me it began with several verses of scripture, an unfolding of a story you could say or a different perspective of a three dimensional object such as a cube. When viewed from only one side strait on the cube looks flat but, move a little to the right, left or stand up then you see more fully that the object is more than a flat square .
When we look at the cross where Jesus paid the price for our sin. We often see from our own human horizontal vantage point, especially in view of that movie produced by Mel Gibson "The Passion". We think of His experience, the physical pain that hanging on the cross brought. The sacrifice Jesus made in mankind’s redemption how horrible a death he died. These things are all true but, we are not looking beyond the front of that cube if that is all we see. There is a length, height, depth and breadth to the workings of God. There are many patterns in the old Testament which have been repeated and some still speak of things yet to come. So Jesus has even become a picture or pattern son as in the first Adam before he fell was perfect and in harmony and union with God his Father.
So I submit to you yet another view of the Son of God and His cross. What an incredible sacrificial love, in obedience to His Father Jesus endured, so that He may have our love with complete devotion. The first place the Spirit of God took me was to the garden of Gethsemane where Jesus sweat great drops of blood. The question arose within me why would there be such anguish over His death on the cross as He openly spoke of events to come. Through the scripture it was foretold that Christ would suffer, He knew this. I mean He is the word of God. So why the dramatic scene in the garden unless there was more to it than we have reasoned.
Then I was taken to the cross where Jesus said “ My God, my God why have you forsaken me ?” He was always with the Father. As it was written in John’s gospel declaring “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God”. Throughout the gospels the lord Jesus is always recorded referring to God as “My Father” never my God. We know that “ My God, my God why have you forsaken me ?” was also a quote from Psalm 31:5.
When we read further after Jesus had risen. He now says “I have come from my God and your God , my Father and your Father”. Why is The Father suddenly His God? Especially when He is God reveled in John 1. Jesus himself said before Abraham was IAM. Was His cross more than the flesh taking our punishment and the wrath of God upon sin for us? Then I was taken to Genesis back to the garden where Adam fell. The question came “What happened to Adam and all his offspring when he disobeyed his Father?” He was separated in is relationship from his Father who became then became his God. with all of creation falling with him.
In the gospel of Luke at the recital of Jesus lineage Adam is called the son of God Luke 3:38 KJV Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. Jesus is also referred to as the second Adam. Then I returned to the garden of Gethsemane with a question “Why did Jesus who was upon the earth as the son of God need to learn obedience?” This question puzzled me because, the Father said “This is my Son in whom I am well pleased” (obedience). Jesus always did the will of Him who sent Him, He said I only do what I see the Father doing, as many other such phrases are found in the New Testament.
So how did Jesus the Son of God learn obedience scripture says by the things he suffered. Ok then we are talking about suffering but, if there is more to his suffering than flesh and blood. What kind of suffering are we talking about? Now I am looking at the cross again with the Son of God saying “ My God, my God why have you forsaken me ?” The word separation comes to my mind. Suddenly I see it as sin came upon Jesus (our scape goat) it covered or was laid upon him. For the first time the eternal Son of the living God was clothed in a body of sin. Causing His Father to turn, hiding his face from His beloved Son for the first time in all eternity the son is separated from the Father.
Now I see the garden and the reason Jesus anguished over the cross and how he learned obedience. It was the Fathers will for Him to endure the separation that our sin laid upon Him would bring. Now we see Adam in the garden with his disobedience. Which caused all of mankind to become separated from our father. Here is Jesus with his obedience he became separated from his Father. Now I see it! By Adams disobedience we were all separated from our father as Adam was called the son of God. Through Jesus obedience He was he was separated from his father. Jesus reversed what was done in the garden Eden through his obedience. There by restoring us to his Father and our Father, His God and our God through the blood atonement and his resurrection.
The relationship that had died in the first Adam was now resurrected through Jesus the second Adam. Adam who committed sin condemned us to death. Where as Jesus who became sin condemned sin to death. Gods own Son came to earth in the likeness of sinful man was obedient unto death. So that he could reverse by His obedience what Adam by his disobedience subjected all creation to, separation from our Father and introducing sin which ultimately brought death. Thus the same effect of sin in the garden of Eden repeats itself now Adams father becomes his God.
In the upper room we see the Son of God calling his Father, God and Father. But not to Him alone but toward all of us as well. I was reminded of something the Lord had said to me that He made man in His image and likeness, He has not changed his mind. He made man to fellowship with him with the quality of fellowship and intimacy enjoyed by the God head. From the beginning Adam was designed for union with the Godhead as pictured in Jesus prayer in John 17. The first Adam lost the most important gift given to him created in the likeness of God. Another reminder of a past revelation from the book of Genesis every seed produces after its own kind. Thus the Godhead reproduced after their own kind and called him man. Our Lord Jesus is coming for a bride who is like Him, in His image and likeness.
The Promise of Entering into His Rest
While I was sharing this with my husband I received a vision I saw myself on the cross a blow came to my head, my arms forced to open with nails placed into my open hands, then I saw my feet nailed together, also a blow to my rib came with yellowish clear liquid and blood pouring fourth, after that I saw the beating with stripes on my back. Revelation poured into my being as the Lord expounded on the vision. It was obvious to me that this was the Lords sacrifice not mine. Also I understood that each place of wounding was planned and not a coincident.
As if the cross were circumstantial and kind of just happened to be the death sentence of the era. But rather each place of wounding reflected a two fold suffering. That which the Godhead had already suffered in Adam as well as a place for healing of that which was suffered. One first things I noticed is that the Lord did not show me His beating at the beginning of the vision but reversed the order placing that experience last. I wondered why and stumbled over weather or not the vision was real because it did not follow biblical order. The initial image returned to my head. Became the blow to his head.
When Adam chose to disobey, he chose to become his own God separating himself from a father and son relationship wounding the Lord. The Godhead had already through Adams rebellion experienced the wounds of the cross. The cross itself was a prophetic picture of what he endured through and because of our Lords separation from that which he loves. The crown of thorns was the expression of the pain and sorrow for He could no longer enjoy the son He loved. This pierced His mind, knowing what He must do in response to man’s rebellion. To curse all that He made upon the earth would change His relationship with mankind and all creation would suffer in the process. Including the Godhead over it this caused Him great pain.
Then I beheld his hands nailed to the cross. Because His hands were tied bound by His own word. He could no longer embrace The son He created to be loved and cherished made for His good pleasure. As I continued to receive revelation with the Lord grating me understanding into his sufferings. The image of His feet appeared nailed to the cross. It came to me as God had made man for fellowship His greatest enjoyment was walking with Adam in the cool of the day. This place of pain and wounding was endured because he could no longer walk with man face to face as he was accustomed. The earth also became subject to corruption so that when ever He would set foot upon the earth as God the earth would tremble and the mountains would melt before Him. In a way the earth and all of mankind would become quarantined from the one who loved him most.
The costly price of rebellion the Lord’s wonderful love and presence. After that I saw the blow to His side pierced through the rib and upward to the area of the heart. From this image the Lord began to speak of his broken heart as death would now reign in the place of life. Great darkness would cover the earth. With judgement upon sin issued from the throne room. Man would now become slaves to sin and their lower nature which was never meant to rule, man with his spirit darkened would have no other choice but to become a slave to darkness. This truly broke the heart of the Godhead, as man was now separated from His loving kindness and great mercy. Now this is the part that puzzled me at first.
At the end of the vision I saw the stripes on His back and the crown of thorns as Jesus was being beaten and mocked. The Holy Spirit revealed last place of suffering in the vision was actually an on going place of suffering this was because it was the place where the devil mocked the Godhead over His creation. Also because Adam was given dominion over all the work of Gods hands. The devil usurped Adams authority or the right to rule adding another element to the suffering. By Adam relinquishing his right to rule through submitting himself to the devil rather than God, he gave the devil access to accuse man before the throne of God. Now as an accuser of the brethren he mercilessly accused mankind of sin.
The Lord because of righteousness was required to judge His creation. Thus lift His hand against man which cause Him pain by punishing us. Each place of wounding that Jesus endured He already suffered in mans rebellion. He was now acting out what had already occurred before the foundation of the world. This was not only a place of healing and restoration for man but a place of healing to the heart of God as His beloved would be restored to Him. For the joy that was set before he endured ......
So what are the sufferings of Christ? Separation from that which He loves. How was he separated? Mankind though his own disobedience. Jesus from His Father through perfect obedience even unto death. What separated Him from that which He loved? Sin and rebellion! Jesus hated sin because but, loved his creation It was our sin that caused our separation from Him. That’s what sent the Son of God to the cross lovesickness. It was because of the impending separation from His Father due to sin being laid upon Him.
That was the cause for Jesus agony in the garden of Gethsemane. Causing Causing him to pray let this cup pass from me.... He even further proves His great love for us by allow himself to be made sin for us and His father to become His God. Jesus now takes a lower position upon the throne of God than before the incarnation. Before the cross He is God together with His Father. Why even in the form of man the Father declares this is my son in whom I am well pleased.
After paying the price for our sin following the resurrection He becomes the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. With the His name above all names. Yet the Word of God says “I have exalted my word above my name!” Which places Him under His Father’s rule. We see the pattern In Mosses and Aaron Where the Lord says I will be your God and you will be like God to Aaron. This is why rebellion to Mosses received such great punishment as judgement fell.
Also I believe that if Adam had not fallen He would have been God of this Earth under His Father’s rule. Jesus declared that He was the son of man and the son of God while upon the earth The Father, Son And Spirit were agreement in placing Jesus lower than the Father in submission to Him. This occurred after the resurrection otherwise why would the Father need to highly exalt His son who was already God. Unless for a time they had chosen this path so that Jesus as an living example to His creation could first become the living way. Fully submitting to His Father in all things. Jesus was made a little lower than the Godhead, the second person of the trinity became man. The creator became the created lowering Himself and putting off the glory that He shared with His Father. Became man, then as mortal man was anointed by the Holy Spirit. Died as mortal man for us so that we could rise with Him to glory as Kings and Priests. Once again we see another place of great sacrifice.
The Lord also revealed to me that He was willing to go to the cross because it meant that the flesh would be circumcised once and for all. Circumcision being a prophetic act of the true cutting away of mans flesh on the cross so that man once again could be ruled by his spirit as was intended from the beginning. Union with God who is Spirit according to the original design. Man in union with the Godhead by His spirit which dwells within us. As I began to ponder this I realized that none of us really comprehends what complete union with God is really like. We have only a glimpse of that eternal joy and not a complete revelation.
The pain of understanding this, produces a question with the heart. How do we really comprehend what our Lord and savior really did in allowing himself to be separated from His Father which had never occurred before. We have never experienced union with Him so how can we even detect the degree of our own separation from Him. We only know that we are to some degree near but, we know all to well not in union with God. His Spirit also delivers this revelation to our spirit as we draw nearer still we are unable to fully comprehend the depth of His love and companionship.
Yet through our Lord’s prayer in John 17, we discover that we are invited to become one with Him. Jesus walked in full union with His Father for He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. If we only focus on the pain of the flesh in His death at the cross our view is dim. Through the eyes of flesh we miss what lies behind. I am reminded that once the flesh dies it is dead there is nothing more that can be done to it. When Adam died, He died to the Holy Spirit’s life flow and leading that was found in the river of life that flows from the throne of God. Jesus said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. What He is saying is that the same river of life that flowed from the Father through him will flow through us from our inner most being. that is in union with God.
I am left with a question .How do I enter into the union that Jesus asked His Father for in John 17? the answer ...by invitation. We yeild to Him in whar ever and where ever He takes us. Then it is by His spirit nit our striving that takes us there as if we could choose to take a trip to heaven and get there by our own will! The Holy Spirit causing us to long for the revelation of who Jesus is. If we give our self to this longing and pursue Him. He will reveal some aspect of Himself causing even greater hunger to fill us and replacing some worldly desire. This is how he removes the idolatry of this world and it’s lust. As we let go of this world he purges us more and more. Only the Lord can open the eyes of our understanding and give us revelation into his very heartbeat.
The Lord told me once “As I am revealed to you, I am revealed in you, as I am revealed in you, I am revealed through you”. As He is moving us from one place of glory to the next there is one thing on His heart. He can only become joined or wed to that which is like Him. As every seed produces after it’s own kind. In the beginning God made man after His own kind. Since He “changes not” then He has not changed his mind on what and who man would be like. It is safe then to assume that His original plan to make man in His image and likeness has not changed. This then would give us understanding as to what this glorious church without spot or wrinkle will look like.
The glorious Son of God!
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