The purpose of this paper is to help clear the air about what is meant by redemption and salvation and to come to a true Biblical understanding of both terms. To gain an understanding of what was lost that required redemption we must go back to the book of beginnings or the Book of Genesis. In Genesis are found the keys for unlocking our understanding of the whole of scripture, in Genesis is the pattern for the rest of scriptures unveiling; Genesis is the book of first principles in the way that God deals with man and the temporary state that all creation is now in known as sin and under a curse.
Then the nation of Israel as His chosen people is to become a nation of priests onto God and to the world they are the chosen because Christ is to return through them. From Genesis chapter twelve into Acts chapter nine we learn Gods methods and means of training and dealing with a rebellious, hardhearted and unbelieving people as earthy man with some or a few exceptions, those who become righteous or spiritual. From this point God changes the program by turning to the Gentiles or nations and the birthing of the spiritual nature back into mankind as Israel refused it.
We’ll see as we go along God’s dealing with man, Israel and mankind again but in different ways an in what He calls dispensations which are no more than time periods and ways of dealing or dispensings, like a druggist dispenses out your prescription. Each has its own does and do not’s or limits when these are met all goes well for everyone. Many of today mix the Old Testament up with the New which is based on better promises paid for by the blood of Christ and which He warns everyone not to do in His earthly ministry to Israel during His first advent [see Matthew 9:16-17 and Mark 2:21-22 Also the two thieves that were hung with the Lord point toward this.].
We’ll see mankind is no longer in the period during which God was dealing with the nation of Israel only, but are now under the age of God’s dealing with mankind again under His Gospel of Grace which was kept hidden in the mind of God as a mystery. This is a stumbling block for the religious Jew in that he still believes that he is set apart from the Gentile as they were under the Old Testament. God changed the rules and the game play in Acts chapters 6, 7 and 8, when Israel refused the Kingdom of Heaven that was promised them by the stoning of Stephen. He even changed the chief leader from Peter to Saul of Tarsus whose name He also changes to Paul to indicate the change. Paul then begins the ministry that the risen Lord calls him to as He also called Moses to minister to Israel and bring them out of Egypt, but Paul is sent not to Israel again but to the Gentiles. This is where we are in this day an age of the church, a waiting the taking away of the mystical Body of Christ, some 2000 years after Christ’s first advent suffering, crucifixion-death, burial, resurrection and ascension in salvation to the right hand of God the Father into His Kingdom. In this Gospel of Gods Grace are revealed the mysteries and promises for our learning and understanding and the perfecting of our regenerated spirit. The Spirit of Christ in us again as He was in the beginning and the redemption and salvation for those who will come to this revelation knowledge by faith.
So why does mankind need a redeemer and what was lost and by whom was it lost? What is man that God places such a high value on him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen, dead man? I shall look at these questions in this paper and answer them. First things first let us go to Genesis to see what may be revealed to us, we’ll need to look with open eyes to see and open ears to hear what the Spirit tells us and not through rose colored glasses. A thought just came to me about salvation and now where does it fit and how does it work in mans redemption? In other words what actually is salvation?
Remember that this is intended to be a Bible study therefore there is a lot of scripture used or referenced so if you are one that gets easily confused in the use of the word, follow along as this will train you how to read and come to an understanding of it. First things first PRAY for the understanding in all wisdom and truth, and then star the study.
But first we have to acquire some word knowledge.
Redeem: To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.
Thayer's Definition: redeem
1) to release on receipt of ransom
2) to redeem, liberate by payment of ransom
2a) to liberate
2b) to cause to be released to one’s self by payment of a ransom
2c) to redeem
2d) to deliver: from evils of every kind, internal and external
Part of Speech: verb
Thayer's Definition: redeem
1) the price for redeeming, ransom
1a) paid for slaves, captives
1b) for the ransom of life
2) to liberate many from misery and the penalty of their sins
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Thayer's Definition: redemption
1) to redeem
1a) by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off
1b) metaphorically of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death
2) to buy up, to buy up for one’s self, for one’s use
2a) to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own
Part of Speech: verb
Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Redemption: Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. The deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or from forfeiture either by money, labor or other means. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
Redeeming: Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.
Kingdom: Of God the government or universal dominion, the power of supreme administration, without limitations reaches into the known universe and beyond. It does not touch that which is evil but does rule or preside over Satan’s realm. The governmental rule; supreme administration as the Kingdom of Heaven will have with Christ as He reigns as its federal King and the nation of Israel its primary ruling people. Also in nature’s history, as it is in division; as the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms as they had their beginning in creation.
Elohim: Hebrew for the triune God Head of the, Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost
Yeshua is Hebrew for the Son of God, angel of the Lord [Old Testament], means ever present one and progressive revelation, the ever revealing one, the Word of God, LORD, who is Immanuel, Yeshua or Jesus of Nazareth the Messieh, Christ [New Testament also revealed in creation], LORD, the Lord Jesus Christ and Head of the Body.
Church: 1.The worshipers of the true God [El, Elohim, Yeshua Messieh, Jesus Christ]; as the Jewish church also called a synagogue or temple, in Acts the first Jews, Hebrew believers were called “Christians”.
2. The followers are believers of Christ in that they believe that He was a prophet or the Son of God, they are followers only.
3. The disciples in that they have learned the discipline of the cross and the mysteries of Christ assembled for worship in a particular place, as in a private house.
[Here we have three meanings for one word which has lead to the twisting of the scriptures because the word is not rightly divided or understood by natural men and his application of that word.]
Thayer's Definition: church or God’s family where qualified
1) a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly
1a) an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating
1b) the assembly of the Israelites
1c) any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously
1d) in a Christian sense
1d1) an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting usually in a synagogue
1d2) a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order’s sake, which followed their Jewish roots or order of worship and government
1d3) those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body
1d4) the whole body of Jewish Christians scattered throughout the earth
1d5) the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Thayer's Definition: church
1) the body both of men or animals
1a) a dead body or corpse
1b) the living body
1b1) of animals
2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)
3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body
3a) so in the NT of the church
4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Thayer's Definition: redeem
1) to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
1a) one (from injury or peril)
1a1) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
1b1) to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue
1b) to save in the technical biblical sense
1b1) negatively
1b1a) to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment
1b1b) to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance
Part of Speech: verb
Thayer's Definition: family
1) lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry
2) a nation or tribe
2a) a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin
2b) the Israelites which distributed into twelve tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, these were divided into families which were divided into houses
3) family, in a wider sense, nation, people
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Thayer's Definition: savor
1) generator or male ancestor
1a) either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents
1b) a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David
1b1) fathers, i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation
1c) one advanced in years, a senior
2) metaphorically
2a) the originator and transmitter of anything
2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself
2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds
2b) one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way
2c) a title of honor
2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received
2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others
3) God is called the Father
3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler
3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector
3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men
3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father
3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature
3d1) by Jesus Christ himself
3d2) by the apostles
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Salvation: The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity, the taking out of harms way. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage to the sin nature and liability or penalty of eternal death caused by that sin nature, and the conferring on him everlasting life and happiness. This is the great salvation. (Taken from the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)
Thayer's Definition: salvation
1) deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation
1a) deliverance from the molestation of enemies
1b) in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation
1b1) of Messianic salvation
2) salvation as the present possession of all true Christians
3) future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Thayer's Definition: salvation
1) saving, bringing salvation
2) he who embodies this salvation, or through whom God is about to achieve it
3) the hope of (future) salvation
Before we get into our study what many do not grab hold of is that there have already been three of four redemptions these are:
Adam lost and redeemed, Genesis 3:7 lost, Genesis 3:21 redeemed;
Israel lost and redeemed, lost in Genesis 37:26-28; 46; redeemed in Exodus 12; and 14:13; then again in Luke 1:67-78;
Humanity or Man kind lost in Genesis 3:7, redeemed in Romans 3:19-25, 26; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, Galatians 1:11-12 (Galatians 3:10-12, 13 warning here);
Earth lost in Genesis 3:7 and is yet to be redeemed Revelations 16.
Many in our church economy or dispensation of this day are operating in the warning of Galatians 3:10-12 and they are not aware of it because they stay away from the scriptures that we are covering in this study.
Why a Redeemer
We will be looking only at those scriptures dealing with man here in Genesis chapters one through three as our material of interest in this study will only be dealing with man kind or humanity as a whole.
What was lost? Who lost it? How was it lost? What is man that that God is mindful of him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen man, who is in truth a dead man because his spirit is separated from God?
In The Beginning
Gen 1:26-28 God [Elohim] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created Man in His image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moves on the earth. God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
[Man or Adam is created in Christ with Christ in him as a divine creature made of the Elements of Spirit [light, fire and Spirit] eternal. Made a little lower than God, and crowned with glory and honor from the elements of the earth; earth and other materials, fire, and water. Man has in himself the ability to reproduce other like beings [see Matthew 1:14-23; Luke 1:26-35, 37-38] and is given authority over all of this renewed creation put over it to keep it under his feet, to subdue it and have dominion over it. He walks with God as a divine spirit being a true son of God a mirror image of Elohim in bodily form. He has eyes that see only the spiritual things of his creator in a marriage of eternal being. This is added to in Genesis 2:7-9]
[John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that has been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. [fallen man]
Col 1:15-17 He who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through [in] Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Eph 1:4-6 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through [in] Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.
Eph 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The names for the Word are; Yeshua, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Immanuel, Jesus the Messieh, Jesus Christ and many others. EHYEH-asher-EHYEH means progressive revelation or the ever revealing one, found in Exodus 3:13-15.]
Gen 2:7-9 God, Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward and there put Man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(see also Genesis 1:26-28 above as these two are the same time frame of creation one has more information than the other. In this one the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is added as it was not in the first.)
[The Life force, the vary Divine nature and character, is composed of portions of the trinity each contributing a part of Himself so man is a mirror image of his creator. The Grace of God in Christ this new creation man a spirit being in which are life, love, and light, living in the glory and the Kingdom of God that is within him and that is the vary realm of his divine being, immortal. A love creature created to respond to God in love in perfect perfection. Man is born into the Divine life; he has the position of being in both heaven and earth a marriage union unlike any other. A spirit being, with a free will, made a little lower than the angels who also have a will made out of the earth in whom was breathed the breath of lives, in order to multiply and bring forth sons of like nature of perfection. Who has contact with his creator in heaven and on earth in perfect worship. The elements of the earth are wind, earth, water and fire. The materials of the earth are darkness, fire, death, wrath, sickness, and thickness. These relate to pride, selfishness, wrath, envy, and murder and all manor of evil. Nature is broken off from God because it contains all the materials and elements and is in its self self producing after its own likeness. All this was caused by the fallen angels of the rebellion when they hit the crystal sea. Producing earth and took possession of it by being increased within its thickness and darkness within its center, in eternity past. When the earth was still apart of the Kingdom of God in the Light a fluid nature like the crystal sea of Revelation 4:6, 22:1 to which it will return 2 Peter 3:12 .]
Gen 2:15 The Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.
[This is heaven on earth, in the goodness, and pleasure of the Kingdom of God.]
Gen 2:16-17 Elohim commanded man, saying, “of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will certainly die.” (: or ; is a time period break in many scriptures, so there was a time period between the two statements though some translations have removed this marking and thereby changing the meaning of scripture.)
[Here is mans first test of obedience to the voice of God and for us the word written of God, do we trust God? Can we hear God’s voice in His word printed with ink and pen? Or are we so in tune with ourselves and the spirit of the world? That we tune out the voice of God, when heard through His word or His voice spoken in our inner man? This is a spiritual separation from the nature and character, which reveals to us the Grace of God, who God really is. This is separation from Christ both inward and outward. This putting man on the level of the animal life: fleshly, carnal, earthy, reasoning, natural with the animals fearing man and man having the bestial nature or having the nature of all that is evil. The exchange of the divine nature and character of Christ (the separating of the conjoined divine being) to that of his free will and choice to having the eyes of man opened, from the heavenly things to which man is now blind, to the flesh and blood a son of man and the nature of the natural life that all the rest of creation experiences or lives in. We here see the first commandment with a promise or a law placed into effect that covers the earth and the entire human race and even reaches into nature or the natural order of things until it is removed or broken.]
[1Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, “Has God as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of God? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”
Col 2:8-12 Take heed lest there shall be any one that makes spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him you are made full (having the fullness of the Godhead), who is the head of all principality and power (the head of the mystical Body of Christ): in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ (the opening of the mystical seed hidden in man); having been buried with Him in baptism, wherein you were also raised with Him (John12:24) through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Rom 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.
Rom 7:4-6 Wherefore, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law in commandment, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from that law of commandment, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not the oldness of the letter.]
Gen 2:19-20 The Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.
[Adams first signs of craving or desiring through reasoning or an interest in worldly intelligence the nature of the creature, something more within himself, the spirit of the world is given seed causing a strong draw on him in his flesh, than his normal relationship with God and His love. Here then is a mystery as to the power of mans will and the desire for intelligence or knowledge that caused the tree of knowledge of good and evil to grow. This desire is a flaw of mans will and proves to become his down fall, just as it did the fallen angels who’s evil nature covers the earth in the form of dust. The animals have no ignorance of what concerns them, they have a sensible intuitive knowledge of everything that is required for food, shelter, protection and reproduction and Adam desired this knowledge. It is better known as the knowledge of the world or the spirit of the world. For all natural man sin and death. For the entire animal kingdom, plant kingdom and all nature carries this death of corruption and decay and material breakdown.]
Gen 2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like to himself.
[Woman is mans first line of redemption, for Adams turning from God and His love, to desiring what he saw in the animal kingdom and nature, in the pairs and in the plant life. Woman is mans completion or help meet, being taken from Adam to carry the seed. As man is Christ’s help meet being taken from Him and will be reunited within Him again and the two shall become one flesh.] (Here there is another example of a change in the placement of scriptures, though it does not seem to be much it to does alter our understanding.]
Gen 2:21-23 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
[Rule of the first is seen here in that He, Elohim, had created man a complete being in himself and therefore is required to take from that which was created to create again, a mystery hid in scripture. A thing that the fallen angels can not do, they are not able to reproduce or regenerate themselves. It is also during this operation that the mystery seed of Christ’s image and likeness is placed dormant within man as it will be required at some future time or epoch. Few of the gentiles and Hebrew children will energize this seed and they will be known as “righteous” men throughout the scriptures. ]
Gen 3:1-7 The serpent was more crafty (subtle, cunning) than any animal of the field which Elohim had made. It said to the woman, is it even so, that God has said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die. The serpent said to the woman, you will not certainly die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as god, knowing good and evil. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
[The chief angel, Satan, also called the dragon and the beast, that lead the rebellion, who took with him his regiment when thrown out of heaven and fell into the earth. He is the spirit of the world that corrupts everything on it and in it. Questioning the vary word of God and causing doubt, and reasoning [unbelief] that birthed lust in the mind of the woman. The seed of self-will self-love the desire or lust for the things of the bestial nature is given root in mans divine nature again. The eyes of the flesh will be opened and the eyes of the spirit or soul will be closed or veiled in man. Adams free will choice separates him from being a little below the angles, a spiritual being, that God had made him to be, and turns him into the bestial nature of the serpent. He takes on the animal nature of life, temporary as it is in its life to death, in corruption, and is now subject to the worldly spirit and all manor of evil, demonic and makes him a slave to that nature. The nature and character of God and the glory of God dies and becomes a seed within man, this seed then is passed on through woman. The blood is defiled, for the life of man is in the blood. This seed contains all the nature and likeness of God in Christ but requires the operation of God’s power in the fire, light and love, the work of the Holy Spirit and the death of the bestial nature for this seed to come to life again. An action of mans free will of choice, that allows the light of God contained in the word and the Spirit to give life to this seed. As a seed of grain has to have the out ward husk die an break open, this is the evil that sealed the good of God inside of it, it has to die before the ovule can bring forth new life, God in Christ in man again in regeneration. This seed when properly feed on the word of God grows into a large tree that is drawing it’s nourishment from the root which is also Christ held in a mystery. ]
Gen 3:9-13 The Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you Adam? He said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said to him: And who has told you that you are naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? Adam said: “the woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” The Lord God said to the woman: “Why have you done this?” She answered: “the serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”
[The results of mans eating now having the inward knowledge of good and evil and the ability to see Gods hand in all of the creation or nature around him, his spiritual eyes are now closed. All mankind is without excuse for all is revealed to him by nature itself. The second encounter with deception and again the choice is turned to self will above that which was commanded the vary thing that caused Satan to fall in the first place. Now man is the slave of the bestial nature and all of its ugly components, the thing that the earth is made up of; darkness, fire, thickness, death, wrath, disease and all the offspring of them.]
[Eph 2:4-9 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together within Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up within Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. By grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 1Cor 15:22 In Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
[It should be noted that had Christ not been in all things from the beginning He could not have been allowed to do the works of righteousness in bring redemption to mankind. To redeem or buy back that which was lost of mankind and the earths rule and dominion and taking of the title deed from Satan which is now awaiting the seals to be broken that keep it sealed. Revelations 5:1-9]
Gen 3:14-20 The Lord God said to the serpent: “because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon your breast, belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.” To the woman he said: “I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.” To Adam he said: “because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return.” Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. [now for six thousand years +/-]
[The seed of the devil that is at work in merchandising worldliness and its passions of self will and their evil offspring. The establishing of this covenant and the placement of the seed of redemption to reestablish the Kingdom of God in the soul of man, the way is made for the death of mans selfish will and slavery to all evil in his fallen nature which requires its being dealt with. The promise of a coming redemption for all mankind that will destroy the evil nature that is at work in and through fallen man. God is setting up for the wrath to come in the enmity of the two natures now found in man. One a physical, fleshly, earthy life in sorrow and shame under the lordship of a heavy task master the fear of death and the sting of that death. Man no more having the dominion over creation having lost that to the enemy of God and man, Satan called the dragon and beast. The curse reveals the fallen nature of all created creatures and nature, which has been broken off of God. All have only this consuming fire, which is a part of God, contained in them which are wrath and darkness because the presence of God is removed from them. Adam put out the life light and love of God and put man into the natural nature of the fallen angels and the creatures in this fallen nature, temporary as it is. Man is now the carrier of the seed in his/her soul that will be the destroyer of the power of darkness mans eternal separation from the love and light of God who will bring the truth, the way and the life back into fallen man, his redeemer. Man now carries the spiritual torch awaiting the flame to reignite the fire of eternal life the promise of mans redemption to a spirit being again and the future salvation in which we now hope for.]
[Mat 4:8-10 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'"
2Cor 4:3-5 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2Thes 2:7-12 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Rom 3:9-11 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
Rom 3:21-26 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
The following is Paul’s explanation of the law of sin that is at work in mans flesh, and the requirement of death for the flesh for the awakening of mans spirit and the redemption of the same.
Rom 7:5-25 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members (physical body) to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (the Old Testament and Levitical Law with its ordinances of men). What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. (The Gentiles were out side the law given to Israel but not the commandment of God given to a man in Genesis 2:16-17 as seen above.) For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, (Spoken to Adam and the serpent) which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (How? In Christ on the tree both laws were destroyed and ended in the flesh of the son of man, by revelation.)
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (This is the Mosaic Law) Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (The Law of Moses gave no place or room for neither repentance nor forgiveness it required death for disobedience.)
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (covet or lust) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (The Royal Law of loving God with all our soul, body, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves.) but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Here is where he is released from the law of sin and death through his seeing himself in Christ on the tree as it was revealed to him by the Lord. This is found in Galatians 2:19-21: For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.) Here we see another interesting phrase; faith in “the Son of God”, Paul uses this phrase many times in his letters but how did the Lord refer to Himself during His ministry? He used the phrase “Son of man,” this phrase was also used by the Prophets; Job, Daniel, and Ezekiel probably more than all the rest. This can be traced to reference Adam after he sinned. It is this nature “son of man” that was put to death on the cross in the flesh of Christ and in us when we see ourselves on that tree within Christ, as He was within the first man before his fall into the bestial nature. The term is used as a common reference by Christ Jesus to His relationship to natural man while He was in the flesh of man, as the Prophet Ezekiel used it when referring to himself.
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