Let us Make Man in our Image !
Scripture is quite clear that Adam was made in the Image and Likeness of God Gen 1:26
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Now scripture also tells us what that Image of God is that Adam was made like unto ! Notice 2 Cor 4:4
4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This verse tells us who it was that Adam was made in the Image of, it was Christ, who is the Image of God ! See also Col 1:15; Heb 1:3
This is confirmed also by Rom 5:14
14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Now Adam is here said to be a Type of Christ, a prefigurement, a pattern.
That is as Adam was a Public Figure, representing his offspring in him at creation, so likewise, Him to come, which is Christ, was representing His Offspring, those Chosen in Him before the foundation Eph 1:4
But remember, Adam was made after His Likenss, who is the Image of God.
This reveals to us a profound mystery, that being, though the First Adam from the dust of the earth, was the first man to be manifested on earth, the Last Adam and the second Man, who is the Lord from heaven, existed before he did ! He existed as God the Eternal Word Jn 1:1 and as Christ Jesus the Mediator Man, the Son of God 1 Tim 2:5
5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
As Mediator, He was the Head of His Body the Church, and it's Surety, before the world began !
Prov 8:22-31 speaking of Him says :
22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. Because He was their Mediator, and as stated in vs 23, He was set up as Mediator from Everlasting !
And it was after this Pattern that Adam from the dust was formed, So it was definitly the Triune God who said Gen 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:199
Scripture is quite clear that Adam was made in the Image and Likeness of God Gen 1:26
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Now scripture also tells us what that Image of God is that Adam was made like unto ! Notice 2 Cor 4:4
4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This verse tells us who it was that Adam was made in the Image of, it was Christ, who is the Image of God ! See also Col 1:15; Heb 1:3
This is confirmed also by Rom 5:14
14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Now Adam is here said to be a Type of Christ, a prefigurement, a pattern.
That is as Adam was a Public Figure, representing his offspring in him at creation, so likewise, Him to come, which is Christ, was representing His Offspring, those Chosen in Him before the foundation Eph 1:4
But remember, Adam was made after His Likenss, who is the Image of God.
This reveals to us a profound mystery, that being, though the First Adam from the dust of the earth, was the first man to be manifested on earth, the Last Adam and the second Man, who is the Lord from heaven, existed before he did ! He existed as God the Eternal Word Jn 1:1 and as Christ Jesus the Mediator Man, the Son of God 1 Tim 2:5
5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
As Mediator, He was the Head of His Body the Church, and it's Surety, before the world began !
Prov 8:22-31 speaking of Him says :
22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. Because He was their Mediator, and as stated in vs 23, He was set up as Mediator from Everlasting !
And it was after this Pattern that Adam from the dust was formed, So it was definitly the Triune God who said Gen 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:199
