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Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were in perfect union with God. God walked in the garden and communed with them. This is how it was supposed to be, and will be for us in Glory. Christ, as a man, was God's solution to the problem of sin. Our faith in Jesus as Christ, through the Grace of God the Father takes us back to where we were in the Garden. Jesus already existed, it was he who was the creator of the universe, because God spoke creation, and Christ is the Word made flesh, come as a ransom for many.
Matt 25:34
Matt 25:34
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
This Kingdom was prepared for these blessed ones before Adam was created, for they were to inherit it by virtue of their election in Christ, having been made joint heirs with Him, for Christ, before the creation of the worlds [ages] was the rightful Heir of all things Heb 1:2
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
This was in Eternity Past, before He created us in Adam. This means that the world, the universe, was founded for Mans existence to fulfill God's Eternal Purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord Eph 3:11
11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
For you see, Adam was created subservient to God's Eternal Purpose in Christ, whereas False religion is building upon the foundation that the Eternal Purpose of Christ was subservient to and a back up plan to God's purpose for Adam. Yet we never read in scripture about God having a Eternal Purpose in Adam ?? If God's Eternal Purpose was in Christ Jesus, how could Adam's creation had been God's Purpose before Christ ? This is just man centered thinking in spite of what scripture says about Christ.33
Matt 25:34
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
This Kingdom was prepared for these blessed ones before Adam was created, for they were to inherit it by virtue of their election in Christ, having been made joint heirs with Him, for Christ, before the creation of the worlds [ages] was the rightful Heir of all things Heb 1:2
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
This was in Eternity Past, before He created us in Adam. This means that the world, the universe, was founded for Mans existence to fulfill God's Eternal Purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord Eph 3:11
11 according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
For you see, Adam was created subservient to God's Eternal Purpose in Christ, whereas False religion is building upon the foundation that the Eternal Purpose of Christ was subservient to and a back up plan to God's purpose for Adam. Yet we never read in scripture about God having a Eternal Purpose in Adam ?? If God's Eternal Purpose was in Christ Jesus, how could Adam's creation had been God's Purpose before Christ ? This is just man centered thinking in spite of what scripture says about Christ.33
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I am not disputing that the entire earth was a part of God's kingdom at that time. There is no unholiness until there is sin. So Adam was holy but had not yet clothed that holiness with incorruptibility. That is why some simply say that the tree of life represents God's granting immorality.
And, yes, we can enter that kingdom of God spiritually right now if we rid our spirit of sin so that it is holy as was Adam's before he sinned.
And that is the travesty of failing to understand the purpose of God's grace and salvation.
The entire process of leading Israel through the wilderness, chastising them and setting them straight as to how they ought to walk, that entire process was salvation in progress. But it was not finished salvation.
That is part of the foreshadow which God used the nation of Israel to show to us. We are right now as those Israelis, being led through the wilderness of this world, and so we can say that God has blessed us and is blessing us with salvation. But we ought to not act and speak as though our salvation is finished, for it will not be finished until we have clothed ourselves with incorruptibility.
1 Corinthians 9:25 "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."
1 Corinthians 15:53 "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
1 Corinthians 15:54 "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
1 Peter 1:23 "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible [seed], by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."
Being born again was not finished by the outpouring of the holy spirit. Being born again was began by the outpouring of the holy spirit. But we must keep our eyes focused on the goal of the incorruptibility of a completed salvation, else we will become satisfied and cease growing to achieve that goal and, even worse, we risk faltering back to our old ways.
This race is kind of like climbing up a sandy mountain side. One tends to start sliding back down the moment they cease moving upward. But while vessels that prefer sin exist it is good that the sand is on the sides of the mountain because it's slippery nature keeps all off of that mountain that do not really desire it enough to keep moving upward in their faith.
And, yes, we can enter that kingdom of God spiritually right now if we rid our spirit of sin so that it is holy as was Adam's before he sinned.
And that is the travesty of failing to understand the purpose of God's grace and salvation.
The entire process of leading Israel through the wilderness, chastising them and setting them straight as to how they ought to walk, that entire process was salvation in progress. But it was not finished salvation.
That is part of the foreshadow which God used the nation of Israel to show to us. We are right now as those Israelis, being led through the wilderness of this world, and so we can say that God has blessed us and is blessing us with salvation. But we ought to not act and speak as though our salvation is finished, for it will not be finished until we have clothed ourselves with incorruptibility.
1 Corinthians 9:25 "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."
1 Corinthians 15:53 "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
1 Corinthians 15:54 "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
1 Peter 1:23 "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible [seed], by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."
Being born again was not finished by the outpouring of the holy spirit. Being born again was began by the outpouring of the holy spirit. But we must keep our eyes focused on the goal of the incorruptibility of a completed salvation, else we will become satisfied and cease growing to achieve that goal and, even worse, we risk faltering back to our old ways.
This race is kind of like climbing up a sandy mountain side. One tends to start sliding back down the moment they cease moving upward. But while vessels that prefer sin exist it is good that the sand is on the sides of the mountain because it's slippery nature keeps all off of that mountain that do not really desire it enough to keep moving upward in their faith.
A corruptible Life
The Life that the elect had in Adam in the beginning was a corruptible life, capable of and indeed became corruption. ; But that life God had prepared for His chosen people for eternity was incorruptible per 1 Pet 1:4
4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
This life had to come through the Last Adam, and they [ elect] had to be born of His incorruptible seed instead of Adam's corruptible seed 1 Pet 1:23
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Adam's seed was corruptible as was evidenced in the garden Gen 3, Christ seed was incorruptible as evidenced in the Christ temptation lk 4.
The elect had been chosen in Christ [ The Last Adam] before they had been created in the First Adam, because the Last Adam, though not manifested first [ 1 Jn 3:5,8] He did exist first, and He existed as the head of His body, the church Col 1:16-18
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
The elect by the wisdom of God, had incorruptible life given them first in Christ their preexisting head, before they were given corruptible life in their earthly head Adam.60
The Life that the elect had in Adam in the beginning was a corruptible life, capable of and indeed became corruption. ; But that life God had prepared for His chosen people for eternity was incorruptible per 1 Pet 1:4
4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
This life had to come through the Last Adam, and they [ elect] had to be born of His incorruptible seed instead of Adam's corruptible seed 1 Pet 1:23
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Adam's seed was corruptible as was evidenced in the garden Gen 3, Christ seed was incorruptible as evidenced in the Christ temptation lk 4.
The elect had been chosen in Christ [ The Last Adam] before they had been created in the First Adam, because the Last Adam, though not manifested first [ 1 Jn 3:5,8] He did exist first, and He existed as the head of His body, the church Col 1:16-18
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
The elect by the wisdom of God, had incorruptible life given them first in Christ their preexisting head, before they were given corruptible life in their earthly head Adam.60
Dah, so would the first Adam have been a tree of life to us had he remained faithful and put incoruptibility on in his spirit.
But to Adam, that tree in the garden represented that goal and the gift of immortality which would come of putting on that incorruption.
Jesus wears that incoruptibility and he made the most excellent replacement of the first Adam to us for that reason.
Jesus is most definitely our tree of life in place of the one we lost in the first Adam. That is why 1 Cor. 15:45 calls Jesus the last Adam.
Knowledge is called the tree of life in Proverbs: Proverbs 3:13,18 "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. ..... She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
And the following is how Jesus is our tree of life: Proverbs 11:30 "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."
Jesus is the perfect righteousness of God toward us! Wisdom and understanding is what he represents to us so that we can know how to obey and honor God. It gives birth to incorruptible holiness if we commit to Jesus.
But to Adam, that tree in the garden represented that goal and the gift of immortality which would come of putting on that incorruption.
Jesus wears that incoruptibility and he made the most excellent replacement of the first Adam to us for that reason.
Jesus is most definitely our tree of life in place of the one we lost in the first Adam. That is why 1 Cor. 15:45 calls Jesus the last Adam.
Knowledge is called the tree of life in Proverbs: Proverbs 3:13,18 "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. ..... She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her."
And the following is how Jesus is our tree of life: Proverbs 11:30 "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."
Jesus is the perfect righteousness of God toward us! Wisdom and understanding is what he represents to us so that we can know how to obey and honor God. It gives birth to incorruptible holiness if we commit to Jesus.
Ponder a bit deeper.
We go through changes in how we see things and we grow if we don't make the mistake of writing too quickly what we believe in stone.
That is normal to us all.
If you pay attention to the plural Greek pronouns, you can figure out that it is the group that is chosen from the beginning of man's fall (which was before the world began with the birth of their first child). The individual elect God searches out as time goes along.
Would you like me to show that to you?
We go through changes in how we see things and we grow if we don't make the mistake of writing too quickly what we believe in stone.
That is normal to us all.
If you pay attention to the plural Greek pronouns, you can figure out that it is the group that is chosen from the beginning of man's fall (which was before the world began with the birth of their first child). The individual elect God searches out as time goes along.
Would you like me to show that to you?
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