Why Jesus Part 5

The Mystery Of The Two Adams.

As we read the scriptures, we see that there are mentions of two Adams—the first Adam and the second Adam. The first Adam is the father of us all, who brought us into captivity by disobeying God’s laws and aligning himself with the devil, and the second Adam is Jesus, who redeemed us from the curse brought by the first Adam.

“Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.” 1 Corinthians 15:45-46 ESV

Here is a mystery. When God created man, He created one man and one woman. From these two people, the whole earth was populated. There is only one race—as the Bible teaches, and not two races.

“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,” Acts 17:26 ESV

What people call races today are nothing but people groups because every man and woman on earth came from one father and one mother.

Just as God created every kind of skin colour from one man and one woman, so He created many blood groups and blood types in each people group. This is the reason you can see two people from one people group with different blood types.

And after the flood in Genesis, the whole world was destroyed and had to be repopulated again by Noah’s three sons and their three wives.

Genesis 9:1 AND GOD pronounced a blessing upon Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. AMP.

Since the whole earth was destroyed by the flood and had to be repopulated again by Noah’s three sons and their wives, we can say that we’re all the descendants of Noah and his children.

Here is the mystery:

1. For Jesus to be the second Adam, he had to have had no earthly father like the first Adam.

2. For Jesus to properly be the second Adam and a rightful kinsman redeemer, He had to have been made from the dust that came from Adam as Adam was made.

3. For Jesus to be the second Adam, God had to put Him to deep sleep and cause His bride—the church, to come out from His side as was when God made the first Adam go into a deep sleep and had a rib pulled out of him to make Eve.

Every one of these requirements was satisfied by the Lord Jesus, thus making Him the only way to God and salvation.

Requirement 1.

We see the first requirement met when the angel Gabriel goes and tells Mary that she'll have a child by the power of the Holy Spirit. She asks the angel how that could happen without her ever knowing a man. When Joseph found out that his wife-to-be was pregnant, he wanted to put her away secretly until he was told not to do so by the angel of the lord.

Luke 1:26 Now in the sixth month [after that], the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth,

Luke 1:27 To a girl never having been married and a virgin engaged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

Luke 1:28 And he came to her and said, Hail, O favored one [endued with grace]! The Lord is with you! Blessed (favored of God) are you before all other women!

Luke 1:29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled and disturbed and confused at what he said and kept revolving in her mind what such a greeting might mean.

Luke 1:30 And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found grace (free, spontaneous, absolute favor and loving-kindness) with God.

Luke 1:31 And listen! You will become pregnant and will give birth to a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus.

Luke 1:32 He will be great (eminent) and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of His forefather David,

Luke 1:34 And Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I have no [intimacy with any man as a] husband?

Luke 1:35 Then the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you [like a shining cloud]; and so the holy (pure, sinless) Thing (Offspring) which shall be born of you will be called the Son of God. [Exod. 40:34; Isa. 7:14.]

Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place under these circumstances: When His mother Mary had been promised in marriage to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be pregnant [through the power] of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:19 And her [promised] husband Joseph, being a just and upright man and not willing to expose her publicly and to shame and disgrace her, decided to repudiate and dismiss (divorce) her quietly and secretly.

Matthew 1:20 But as he was thinking this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary [as] your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of (from, out of) the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:21 She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus [the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua, which means Savior], for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].

Matthew 1:22 All this took place that it might be fulfilled which the Lord had spoken through the prophet,

Matthew 1:23 Behold, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel–which, when translated, means, God with us. [Isa. 7:14.]

Matthew 1:25 But he had no union with her as her husband until she had borne her firstborn Son, and he called His name Jesus.

Requirement 2:

In Genesis, God creates Adam out of the dust of the earth. Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. [I Cor. 15:45-49.]

In Genesis 3, God calls man dust and says that from dust man came and to dust man will return because of man’s disobedience.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Jesus was born of the virgin Mary because for Him to be a full kinsman redeemer who was to redeem the seed of Adam, He ought to have been of the same dust as Adam and the seed of Adam and not from another dust. If God had created Jesus’ earthly suit (body) that was to be sacrificed from a different dust and not from the dust which was the Virgin Mary, then Jesus would have been of a different race totally separated from the human race. Here, the Virgin Mary was the dust in which God put His hands to mould a second Adam from the dust that came from the first Adam.

Requirement 3:

God brings out the woman Eve from Adam, thereby causing every human to come out of the woman who came out of Adam.

Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.

Genesis 2:22 And the rib or part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built up and made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23 Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.

In the same way, Jesus was pierced after He had died on the cross, causing blood and water to come out from His side, thereby bringing out the bride, which is the church and her children, from the side of Jesus.

John 19:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from hanging on the cross on the Sabbath–for that Sabbath was a very solemn and important one–the Jews requested Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away.

John 19:32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first one, and of the other who had been crucified with Him.

John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came (flowed) out.

Here, we see that from the first Adam came the natural woman, but through the second Adam came the spiritual woman—the church(the redeemed of God).

Revelation 22:16 I, Jesus, have sent My messenger (angel) to you to witness and to give you assurance of these things for the churches (assemblies). I am the Root (the Source) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and brilliant Morning Star. [Isa. 11:1, 10.]

Revelation 22:17 The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost. [Isa. 55:1.]

And in the scriptures, only these two Adams were given the title—the son/Son of God. Not that the first Adam was in any way equal to the second Adam, but they both had no earthly father.

Luke 3:38 The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. [Gen. 5:3-32; 11:10-26; Ruth 4:18-22; I Chron. 1:1-4, 24-28; 2:1-15.]

In Jesus, and only in Jesus, is salvation. It doesn't matter what people believe. No one can be saved without accepting, believing, and confessing Jesus as Lord.

Romans 10:8 But what does it say? The Word (God's message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach, [Deut. 30:14.]

Romans 10:9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

Romans 10:11 The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed. [Ps. 34:22; Isa. 28:16; 49:23; Jer. 17:7.]

Stay tuned for Part 6.