Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Bible says that Seth was born in the likeness of Adam:  Gen. 5:3  "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image;  and called his name Seth..."

"...In his own likeness, after his image..." Interesting.  Adam was not able to bear children in the image of God.  He could only bear children in his own likeness, in his own image--which lacked something critical .  Something that Adam had but that he couldn't pass along to his own children.  Something that God gave Adam that couldn't be inherited by his children.

Do you remember, way back in the first chapter of Genesis, we read something about images?" Gen. 1: 26-27, "And  God said, Let us make a man in our image, after our likeness..., ...So God created a man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them."  And in Gen. 2:7 "And God breather into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."  Adam was in God's image.  Seth was in Adam's image.  Big difference./

And you remember that I told you that Christ was referred to as the "Second" Adam by Paul in 1 Cor. 15:45.  "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit."   So....from Adam to Christ, no one was born (in between them) that was in "The image of God.   All people after Adam did not have the Spirit within. The Spirit came upon on them.  But Jesus was born with the Spirit within.  He was the Spirit.  In human form.

After Adam, the Spirit came in the form of a burning  bush, a cloud, a pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of fire by night.  The Spirit came upon the tabernacle, in the door of the tabernacle, etc.  But the plan of God all along was to put his Spirit back inside man.  To make us his tabernacle.

But it would take blood.  It would take a sacrifice.

So God wrapped himself in flesh, and became a Quickening Spirit.  His earthly name was Jesus.  And he was preparing to die.

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