Yesterday we left off with this statement which is partially correct:
"These are all part and parcel
of the promised New Covenant the Covenant of an Endless an Eternal
Life which Jesus, as the second Adam, declared as being only found in
Him as recorded by John in 11:25 and attested to in Psalm 36:9 and
Isaiah 38:16."
Here's where this covenant actually was started and again we'll need to go to Genesis chapter 3 and verses 14-15, 21: "The LORD God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shalt you go, and dust shall (will) you eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it (He) shall bruise your head, and you shalt bruise His heel.'".... Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them." Within the context of verse 15 is the first Covenant of all of scripture, wherein is found the promised redeemer. And the Newness of His Life restored to man and it speaks of who? Christ Jesus. Because it was His life or spirit in the beginning in chapter 1:26-27 and then in 2:7, which is attested to by John. Just as do all the Covenants and Promises, Psalms and Prophets spoken to or revealed to Israel but because of the spirit of reason as a familiar spirit they did not comprehend the veiled language because of their hardness of heart which was given mankind at the moment of his separation by death into sin, and were separated form God.
Exodus 23:20a
"Behold, I send an Angel..."
Now, that is capitalized! So
Who is the Angel when it is capitalized? It’s God the Son again!
It’s the Lord, Yehovah, or in our New Testament Yeshua-Messiah,
Jesus Christ. The Angel that redeemed me is the way Jacob puts it and there
is only one Redeemer in scripture. So, it has to be God the Son! Here
is another good example. Who is speaking? God the Son! Who is He
going to send? God the Son! We have to remember that all through
Scripture, God the Son can speak to God the Father but what are they?
They are one and the same so far as all practical purposes are
concerned. We can not have one without the other they are
inseparable if you will. And it should be pointed out that king David bears this out in his Psalms.
The
only difference that we have is in Christ’s earthly ministry when
He spoke from the flesh through the Holy Spirit and now He addresses
or prays to the Father, what makes the difference? Well, now He is
speaking from His humanity and indeed He can address God the Father
as His Father. But, when He speaks from His position of Deity, then
we think it was Martin Luther who came to the tremendous conclusion
that it was God speaking to whom? To God!! So, don’t let that throw
you - sometimes God the Son speaks concerning Himself. With this
revealed it might here be that we need to say that when God swore by
No greater than Himself, in His covenants or pledges. Though they had
a mans name on them, He addressed toward an individual that
individual was not the man but is in fact Christ. Or in other words
He was speaking to Himself as the greater one and the lesser one as
the Son of man. Just as was just revealed, God was speaking to the Son
of promise who is Christ. Just as the seed of woman found in Genesis
chapter 3 is Christ.... and the Adam of Genesis 2 is also Christ (the
second Adam) this is then revealed in Hebrews chapter 10 and verses 5
and 7 where it says: “Wherefore
when he (Jesus) came into the world, he said, Sacrifice
and offering You would not, but a body have You prepared me....Then
said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God.” (verse 5 ties with
Psalm 2:1-5, and then 6-8, 40:6-8; 50:8-23; Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah
6:20 and then Amos 5:21-22. Then verse 7 ties with Genesis 3:15; and
in the synoptic gospels where He though limited speaks of Himself as
the Light, Life, Resurrection, Revelation, Knowledge, Wisdom of God,
bread, wine, vine...etc.; Hebrews 10:9-10; John 4:34, 5:30, 6:38) And
since the cross we like Jesus can say in agreement with Christ, “in
the volume of the book it is written of me, I have come to do They
Will of God” and not do harm to the scriptures, for with
the Apostle Paul we can ask, “what do You require of me O
Lord?” as found in Acts 9:6. For it is of these phrases
and others like them that we can enter into promised New Covenant and
become a God-child, a second Adam in Christ. “Except you
become as little children (a
second Adam in innocence and with a tender heart or) you shall not enter
the kingdom of heaven or of God.” (Matthew 18:3
paraphrased) For John said that we're given the power or the right to
“become a son", which simply means we're not yet there (John 1:12).
For we have to
accept the offered redeemer and His redemption before we have right
or power to enter even though in Jesus that redemption is complete,
He enacted it, He enforces it and empowers it but we have to receive
both Him and it as our own. Through action of our free will choice
just as it was a free will choice of Adam to eat of the forbidden
fruit. Because of the first Covenant of Redemption given man was through
Adam our receiving and acceptance is through the second Adam.
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