Hubble Ultra Deep Field 

Hubble's Ultra Deep field photograph of galaxies as seen in a sample view of the universe.

This image is limited to the depths that the Hubble telescope can perceive, and is unable to see to the edge of the universe.  There remains confusion as to whether the universe is finite or infinite. This sliver of a view contains as many as 10,000 galaxies of all shapes, sizes, colors, with undeterminable ages.  Through the Hubble deep field observance, it is estimated that the universe contains at least 100 billion galaxies, but with better optics may be seen to contain as many as 2 trillion galaxies.

Menu

Infinity                                                    
                                 Creation: What happened in the Beginning of Time. rewritten
Black hole vortex of Sin and Death.         
Creation of Man.                                      
Male and Female.                       
                                               The first Man is Named Adam: The first Woman is named Ishshah
                                              The Mystery of Iniquity, with Man's seduction to the entity of sin. 
    Chips off the old block.  Like Father like Son.
The Mind of Man.                                             
                                           Following the Root of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
                                              Abiding within the Tree of Life: And the Cutting Edge of God's Sword.

Where does Infinity ∞ begin and end  ??? 

There is not a beginning or ending to Eternity.  Neither are there any mathematical calculations to set the boundaries to the inexplicable.   Infinity will forever leave the finite mind of man stumbling over the unfathomable.  The theories in Astrophysics are full of oxymoronic anomalies awaiting for the next definitive solution that will attempt to eternally dismiss the Infinite Yahweh God, Who dwells in Eternity.

Perhaps a note of interest to the reader: The mathematical equations dealing with the black holes of the universe, always ends in mathematical infinity.   Infinity can not be divisible by Infinity, for  ∞ ÷ ∞ = 0 and in mathematical physics 0 or nothing = ∞ infinity.

In the Beginning --- Yahweh God created Time:
The Fabric of Time was the First of Infinite God's Universal Creation
^{(See The Prelude with an explanation for Genesis 1 verse 1)}

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 by Him: and without Him was not anything made that was made.  In Him was LIFE, and the LIFE was the Light of men.  And the Light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. ^{(John 1 verse 1 thru 5.)}

In Infinity, through the Eternal Thoughts of His Infinite Majesty of unfathomable Power, the substance of all things was birthed or conceived in the Heart of the Spirit of the invisible Holy Yahweh God Almighty:  Then from the invisible substance and abundance of the Core of His Being, His Mouth Spoke and His Logos Seed (WORD) in union with Yahweh's Infinitely Holy Spirit created the Fabric of Time that would contain the expanse of the Heavens and all the dynamics of the stars, the earth and other heavenly bodies.  All of the substance of creation is enveloped in the Infinite Yahweh God's creation of time.  Everything that exists, the known and the unknown and that which is to be, are because of the substance of the Thoughts of the only Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, and that substance is expressed through the TRUTH of His Eternal WORD.  All substances or things consist of the TRUTH (the Logos or WORD of God) and are held in the Eternal Power of His dominion over all things.  All matter dynamically consist of the substance of the Almighty's WORD, and as such, all physical matter, antimatter, or even postulated unseen dark matter and dark energy, is imprinted with the Infinite Power of Eternal Yahweh God's WORD that is One with Yahweh's Spirit of TRUTH, and remains in absolute subjection to the Eternal's WORD of TRUTH.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: Though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Looking farther on, though a wise man may think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. ^{(Ecclesiastes 8:17.)}

The incomprehensible Infinite Yahweh God Almighty, Who inhabits Eternity, reveals through His Eternal Word of TRUTH  that which is impossible to be known without His revelation; The secret things ^{(that is the unknowable of the Infinite)} belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed, belong to us and our children forever. ^{(See Deuteronomy 29 verse 29.)}

I AM God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end [of time] from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My Counsel shall stand, and I will do all My Pleasure: ^{(See Isaiah 46 verse 9 thru 11.)}

In the wisdom that possesses a man, the finite man of trickle down science, has involved himself in one oxymoron after another, ever pondering the expanse of all that exist in a universe that moves in the fabric of time.  The greatest oxymoron of this time is the scientists' evolutionist theory that mathematically computes to absolutely nothing as in zero. The mind of man is challenged by the Creation fact that all matter of the universe, visible and invisible, is being held together in the invisible Power of the WORD of the Invisible Creator, Yahweh God Almighty.  There is no explanation for the anomalies of the presence of dark energy or dark matter.  Science only begins its probe with speculation in the inexplicable. But be careful in your probe of the inexplicable, for the defiant all knowing fool, with his considerable conceit has made himself blind to the TRUTH, and in his ignorance expertise declares: "There is no God".

And yet, all that is known is in the knowledge of the Eternal Almighty Yahweh God, Who, with His manifestation of His Everlasting WORD of TRUTH, created all things, visible and invisible.  The beginning first came into existence with His creation of time as one within the expanding fabric of time?  O Yes: For the heavens declare the Glory and Power of the Creator of the universe.  For the firmament shows His work. Day unto day utters (His) Speech, and night unto night shows (His) Knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ^{(See Psalm 19 verse 1 thru 3.)}

Within the Eternal Yahweh God's creation of the free flowing fabric of time. is that which is to be in future time, and is seen only in the Eyes of the Eternal Yahweh God to have already happened.   Then and now, the Eternal Yahweh God is not subject to any aspect of His created universe that moves within His created fabric of time.  However, the Eternal all seeing Yahweh Lord God Almighty, through His Eternal Holy Spirit of TRUTH, would intervene within the fabric of time to establish His Good Will toward mankind.  Yahweh God  would make known His New Covenant WORD of Salvation TRUTH for what would be sin corrupted man kind, through the prophetic Scripture writings of selected Hebrew and Jewish men of the Almighty's own choosing. ^{(See Psalm 25 verse 14 thru 15, and Hebrews 1 verse 1 thru 2.)}  

But we speak the wisdom of [Yahweh] God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which [Yahweh] God ordained before the world (was created) unto our glory:  Which none of the (satanic) princes of this world knew: For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. ^{(1st Corinthians 2 verse 7 thru 8.)} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open My Mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from (before) the foundation of the world. ^{(Matthew 13 verse 35.)} [The Lamb of God, Jesus/Yeshua] Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, ^{(1st Peter 1 verse 20.)} For, in the climax of evil, all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (Satan), whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from [before]) the foundation of the world. ^{(See Revelation 13 verse 7 thru 10.)}

Hear and understand that we are to make sure that individually, we are each written in the Lamb's Book of LIFE, through our patience and faith in being one IN the Body of the risen Christ Jesus.

All things in the scriptures that were hidden from mankind, are now coming to Light through the flow of time, for Yahweh's TRUTH of Salvation is already revealed in the risen LIFE of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua the Light and Salvation of the world.  The Eternal Yahweh God would intervene within His creation of free flowing time to accomplish His Will on earth:  From Eternity's vantage, outside of His creation of time, the Eternal Yahweh God saw in the stream of time, all things that would take place, both the good and the bad.  The good Will of Yahweh God would be with the children of men that would receive His Word of Salvation TRUTH, and it was those children, that He predestined to become sons of Yahweh God, bearing the Likeness of His Only Begotten and Risen Son Christ Jesus. ^{(See Romans 8 verse 28 thru 32.)}  The bad in time, is seen in the historical violence of man kind, fomented by the alien little gods of corruption.

Blessed be the God [Yahweh] Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who [Yahweh] has blessed us with all spiritual blessing IN heavily places IN Christ, according as He [Yahweh] has chosen us IN Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him [Yahweh] in Love. ^{(See Predestination Ephesians 1 verse 2 thru 11.)}

In the next scripture verses, it is the  physical Christ Jesus that is praying to His Father Yahweh God, calling for Holy Yahweh God to reveal Christ's Glorious TRUTH IN His resurrected Body to those who would also believe IN Christ through their word of faith IN Him. The Eternal Yahweh God, not being subject to His creation of time, would manifest the Holy purpose of His Will in His selection of those He saw in time that would love in obedience His WORD of TRUTH. 

Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me that where I AM, they may behold My Glory, which You have given Me: For You loved Me before the foundation of the world. ^{(See John 17 verse 16 thru 24.)}

The prime purpose of Father Yahweh God's Holy Will is to bring forth Children IN the Image and Likeness of the TRUTH of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus/Yeshua haMashiach. 

My sheep hear My Voice, and I know them and they follow Me. I give them Eternal LIFE: They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My Hand. My Father that gave them Me is greater that all: And no man is able to pluck them out of My Father's Hand.  I and My Father are One. ^{(John 10 verse 27 thru 30.)}

God Almighty's WORD of Infinite Power, is the Foundational Constant that maintains the continuance of His created finite universe, and without the Excellency of His Eternal WORD of TRUTH nothing, absolutely nothing would exist of this universe created within the Almighty's creation of time, and nothing would come to pass. ^{(See Hebrews 1 verse 1 thru 3.)} The only Holy Lord Yahweh God Almighty, the Infinite Creator of all things, including universal time that is outside of Eternity, does not change in the Holiness of His Constant WORD of Power that would set His creation into free flowing motion.  From Eternities vantage, the Infinite God Almighty could see within His creation of the free flowing fabric of time, the destructive course of sin that would corrupt free thinking beings with the corruption of death that would infiltrate into Yahweh's creation of free thinking Man.  God's Personal WORD, that was given for the Salvation of man kind had already been pre-determined in the streaming flow of time, occurring before the foundation of the world that would be set in space time.  Sin and death was set in motion, within Yahweh God's creation of space time through the treasonous will of Satan.  Satan's self perverted wisdom alienated angelic beings against the will or their Creator, and then Satan's lie would bring deception and failure to Almighty's God's creation of Adam/Man.   Satan's lying miracles through the now demonic alien beings would continually influence all of humanity. We will see that the deceit of Satan infiltrated the Garden of Eden and planted his seed of rebellion into the free flowing minds of the first Man/Adam and his Woman/Ishshah. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 15.)} 

We note that because of the historical sanctimonious tradition of the Jew that the Name of the Lord God was not to be mentioned.  This has presented a major problem even today, for the use of the word God can be seen as generic without a specific Name attributed to this god.  We recognized the conundrum and through out these writings have made an effort to remove any ambiguity in what should be the recognized Name of the God of Creation.  The Tetragrammaton with its consonants of YHWH, pronounced as Yod, Heh, Waw, Heh,  has been give vowel appointments that help to bring clarity in the pronunciation of the Name of the Only Lord God Almighty.  The pronunciation of His Holy Name would be Yahweh, and when used properly gives clarity to the Name of the Eternal Lord Yahweh God that is speaking to us.

In the written Scriptures, Yahweh God speaks of the existence of others that would be gods more than 70 time.  We make the distinction IN the Name of Yahweh God to give clarity to the Only Almighty God, Who existed Eternally before He brought forth His Creation of all things that freely exist in His Creation of time and space.

O Lord our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but only of You will we make mention of Your Name [Yahweh]. ^{(Isaiah 26 verse 13.)}

You shall have no other gods before Me. ^{(Deuteronomy 6 verse 7.)}

You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; ^{(Deuteronomy 6 verse 14.)}

For they will turn  your son away from following Me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy you. ^{(Deuteronomy 7 verse 4.)}

For your edification, you can view the many scriptures concerning other gods, that have influenced our belief in the UNFAILING WORD of GOD.

The logic of the Infinite Yahweh God Almighty is revealed to mankind through Faith IN the Creator's WORD of TRUTH.  But how is the TRUTH that we seek,  to be found in the self flattering wisdom of dieing man?  Nay; finite sinful man can't be the source of TRUTH!  For the Wisdom we seek is in Faith in the Infinite WORD of Yahweh, the Only GOD of the living.  His Eternal WORD is alive forevermore IN the risen Christ Jesus/Yeshua. But who will believe the report of Yahweh's desire to be merciful towards us sinners? ^{(See Isaiah 53.)} Infinite Yahweh Lord God is Infinitely Holy and it is impossible for sin and its death to come into His Eternal Living Presence.  Sinful mankind can not come into Holy Yahweh's Presence, except by unadulterated Faith IN His WORD made the Flesh of Man, and the Son of Adam Who was crucified to death for the sins of Adam kind.  His Holy Name is encompassed IN Yahweh's Great Salvation, the Incarnate Yeshua the Messiah of His Father Yahweh God.

To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on  What happened in the Beginning.  

What happened in the beginning of Time?

In the Beginning, God (Elohim)  (ALEPHא  TAV ת) created the heaven and the earth.

Before the earth was created, the Lamb of Yahweh God was foreordained to be slain for the sin of mankind. ^{(See 1st Peter 1 verse 18 thru 21, and 2nd Corinthians 2 verse 6 thru 10.)}

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 by Him: and without Him was not anything made that was made.  In Him was LIFE, and the LIFE was the Light of men.  And the Light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. ^{(John 1 verse 1 thru 5.)}

For to us there is but One God, (Yahweh) the Father, of Whom are all things, and we IN Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things (of creation), and we by Him.^{( Corinthians 8 verse 6.)}  Jesus, Who is the Image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For 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: And He is before all things, and by Him (Christ/Messiah/the TRUTH) all things consist. ^{(Colossians 1 verse 15 thru 17.)}

The whole Universe is Pregnant with the Creator's Word of Light.

Nothing in Yahweh God's universal creation, in and of itself, is in the Person of God's WORD and Holy Spirit.  The transcendent Creator of all things is not limited at all by His elemental creation set in time.  All of creation, seen and unseen, is impregnated with the inerrant WORD of the Creator, for all of the imprinted substance of His creation, was birthed and came forth from the Heart of the only Yahweh Lord God Almighty, Who lives and reigns in Infinity. 

When we look and study the Scriptures in Genesis, we see that Yahweh Elohim spoke Light to the fabric of His of creation of time, and His creation, in obedience to Elohim's WORD, did according to the Eternal Word of Yahweh God.  The WORD was given, and the substance of the Eternal's WORD performed as Yahweh Elohim Commanded.  ^{(See Genesis 1 verse 1 thru 27.)}

1st Day of creation.
And God (Elohim) said: Let there be Light, and there was Light. And Yahweh God separated the good Light from the darkness; and called the Light day, and the darkness night.  And the evening and the morning were the first day .

2nd Day of creation.
And God (Elohim) said: Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let the firmament divide the waters from the waters. --- And God called the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day .

3rd Day of creation.
And Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.  And the evening and the morning were the third day .

Yahweh God's Light existed before time and according to Scripture was made evident on the 1st day of the Lord's creation, for the Light of Yahweh God came forth even before the sun was created and would shine upon the earth on Yahweh God's the 4th day.  It is Yahweh God's Light that establishes the evening and the morning of the first 3 days of His creation. The ascribed days of the Eternal Lord are not solar, but are from Eternity, where there is no measurement of time.  The mind of Finite man is lost in his understanding of Eternity.

The 4th Day of creation.
And Yahweh Elohim said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so.  So God made two great lights.  The greater light to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night.  He also made the stars. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day .

5th Day of creation.
And Yahweh Elohim said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.  And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. ^{(Genesis 1 verse 20 thru 21.)}

6th Day of creation.
And Yahweh Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.  And YahwehElohim said: let Us make Man/Adam in our image, after our likeness.  ^{(See Genesis 1 verse 24 thru 27.)}

The Hebrew word for 'day' is 'yowm' and yowm has several meanings that are expressed beyond finite man's day of 24 hours. With the Eternal Yahweh God Almighty, Yowm is a period of unexpressed time from Eternity of the Eternal Yahweh Elohim's creation of the universe..  In this little treatise, we will investigate the enigma that is in the creative 'day' of the Eternal God Almighty.  Moses, the author of the Torah, is attributed to have written about time in what is called Psalm 90.  Moses' Psalm that follows below, is augmented by Peter, will revolutionize our understanding of the TRUTH of our Eternal Yahweh God, Who is Eternal Light that reveals an Eternal Day of His Majesty.

For a thousand years in Thy Sight are as yesterday when it is past, for a thousand years are as a watch in the night. ^{(See Moses' HJV Psalm 90 verse 2,4.)} The Apostle  Peter writes: Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2nd Peter 3 verse 8.)

Now consider the Lord of Infinity and that His 'day' in Eternity would be like a thousand years that is expressed in His creation of time as if it were one day: And the evening and the morning were the first day; being advocated throughout Holy Yahweh God's Eternal time in His universal creation. The TRUTH, is Yahweh God Almighty, and not one jot or title will pass from His Word of TRUTH until all things of His Word have come to pass.  The TRUTH of Yahweh God and His unfailing WORD will continues to be expanded in the Light of the following apologetics.

Yahweh God's creation of the universe and that of the whole of the earth was created by the Light of the World in the unknown length of 6 days of the Eternal Yahweh Lord Almighty.   Everything that Yahweh Elohim created by HIS WORD, was very good in His Eternal Sight: ^{(See John 8 verse 12.)} Almighty God's perspective of His universe is from Eternity, and from Eternity He saw the whole flow of the fabric of time and knew that sin and death would come to mankind by the rebellion of Adam. But God Almighty's understanding all things in His creation, would bring forth His WORD into time and His WORD would become the Man Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah, Who is the very Image and Likeness of the Light of His invisible Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty.  The Lamb of God in His sinless Body, would destroy the sin and death of Man to the Glory of His Father Yahweh God Almighty.

Within Yahweh Elohim's Eternal Light, there is subjected unseen matter and energy, that is imprinted with the dynamic power of the Master's WORD, for the unseen substance of His creation will obey and bring forth the Eternal Yahweh God's immediate Commands.  In the specified third and sixth days of the Lord's creation, through  the dynamics of His spoken Word. the pregnant matter of His earth brought forth, both the order of plant life, and then the animal species. The same obedience and genesis effect can be said for the fifth day, when the waters also responded to Yahweh Elohim's command and brought forth marine life forms, as well the fouls of the air, in accordance to Elohim's Command.  After that, all species had their genetic seed within themselves to reproduce their own kind.

The genesis power of Yahweh God's spoken WORD over His created elements, is absolute.  For that matter, all 'matter' will be whatever Yahweh God says it will be. Again, this is because all matter is the substance of the Almighty's creative WORD, and is subject to the Spirit of His Self engendered WORD of Power. All things in the Universe came forth from the only Infinite God Almighty, and as such, is pregnant with the creative essence within the abundance of His Infinite WORD.  Yahweh God is the God of the living, and not the god of the dead, therefore the substance of life comes forth from the abundance of His heart.  The Infinite Spirit of His Holy WORD is forever alive, and is not anything that we can remotely fathom, and neither can we understand His absolute Holy Nature that dwells in Infinity. For thus says our God, "My Thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My WAYS.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My WAYS higher than your ways, and My Thoughts than your thoughts". ^{(Isaiah 55 verse 8 thru 9.)}

Finite mankind is subject to time, and with mankind's time on earth, each person is subject to their thoughts that were engendered within their mind of flesh.  It is difficult to purge the engrained mind of false thoughts that were engrafted by the false teachings of persons we might have held in respect. And who or what being authored their thoughts? Children are extremely susceptible to these days of unsubstantiated evolutionary rhetoric that is presented in the class rooms.  If the adult child has paid for an education, then we may have sustained double indemnity by encumbering our minds with errors from teachers that embrace the errors of their teachers, and so on.  We are free to believe whatever we choose to think, even the influence of vain dreams seeded in the darkness of night by the enemy of our souls.  But, the earthen ground of our thoughts will be subject to the Truth, and if the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD shakes the shallow ground of sand upon which we stand, then it is now time to move our thoughts to Higher Ground.  Let us begin to reason together: For thus says the High and Holy One Who inhabits Eternity: I dwell in the High and Holy Place, and also with the one that is of a contrite and humble spirit: For I will revive the spirit of the humble, and will revive the contrite ones. I will not contend forever. ^{(See Isaiah 57 verse 14 thru 16.)}

I Thank the Almighty Yahweh God for His Patience with my prolonged ignorance of His Holy WORD of TRUTH.  We very much appreciate the devout men who maintain a young earth and its changes in a specific 6 day period of time.  Unfortunately there are some that promote a dogmatic view that is in error as to what a day of the Infinite Lord Yahweh God would be:  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ^{(See 2nd Peter 3 verse 8 with Psalm 90.)}  Peter confirms what Moses had already written in the Beginning of Genesis and confirmed in Psalm 90.

Moses, the man of Yahweh God. wrote the book of Genesis. Therefore, Moses certainly would have understood what he wrote about Yahweh God's six days of creation, as he expressed God's days in Psalm 90 as being likened to a thousand years. 

Our premise for a creation day of the Lord being like a thousand years, is relatively established by Moses in his Psalm 90.  The Apostle Peter reminds us of this certainty as he writes in 2nd Epistle: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ^{(2nd Peter 3 verse 8.)}

The Almighty Yahweh God is Eternal and He inhabits Eternity, therefore, El Shaddai is not tied to our finite understanding of what a day is in His creation of the fabric of time and space.  We all can create stumbling blocks for ourselves and others, when we insist upon our own understanding as being the only logical truth.  Peter implores us to be mindful of one thing:  For indeed,  one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  One day with the Lord of Eternity is not a 24 hour day of our earthly time, but unto us finite creatures of time, God Almighty's day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day.  In other words, the Infinite God is timeless, and yet His universe is established by His Word and His creation of time.  In God's eternal timing of His first day of His universal creation, [Yahweh] God said let there be light and the Eternal God saw that the light was good and divided the light from darkness, He then called the light day, and the darkness, He called night.

Also, if the sixth day of God's creation was just a 24 hour day, set in earth time, then what a rush of timeless minutes would have taken place in the 24 hour crush of time in the sixth day of Yahweh Elohim's creation.  In the rush of that 24 hour day, Yahweh God first created the animals out of the dust of the earth.  But Yahweh God needed a care taker for the Garden of Eden. so then in the same sixth day 24 hours of creation, God created Man/Adam out of the dust of the earth, and then breathed life into the nostrils of Adam, and Adam became a living soul.  Then in the same 6th day of 24 hours, Elohim brought the multitude of the animals He had previously created from the dust of the earth to Adam to see what  Man would name then.  Then in the latter time of that same 24 hour period, God put Adam into a deep sleep and took Woman/Ishshah from Adam's side and brought her/Ishshah to Adam to see what Adam, as the first Man would call her.  Adam/ Man named his wife Ishshah meaning in English Woman.

The Eternal Yahweh Elohim speaks of  His day of time in the Garden of Eden when Yahweh Elohim gave Instruction to Adam: Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat, but of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, you may not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.  Adam and Ishshah, with their selfish disobedience, did not die in that one 24 hour earth day, but would perish within the expanse of the time frame of that one day of the Lord.  Again we hear Peter's reminder: Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ^{(2nd Peter 3 verse 8.)} The Scriptures do not say when Ishshah, now renamed Eve, would have died, but like her husband Adam, it would have been in the expanse of the 'day'; of the Lord, for all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ^{(Genesis 5 verse 1 thru 5.)} If a 'day' of the Lord is likened to a thousand years, then Adam would have perished seventy years short of a 'day' of the Lord Yahweh Elohim.

Time is only relative to mankind, for the inexplicable Day of the Lord is an enigma in Eternity.  That which  is written in Scripture is for us to understand; and now understand that the Creator is not subject to His creation of the fabric of time, but from Eternity, the timeless Elohim intervenes in His creation of time to bring forth the finality of His Will for His Salvation of man-kind.   So then, know this, that from the beginnings of creation, the Will of the Almighty God is to bring forth children born of His Seed after the Image and Likeness of His only Begotten Son, His WORD Jesus Christ.  For like the only Begotten Son of God, the children of God shall know to despise the evil and choose the good. ^{(See Isaiah 7 verse 15 thru 17.)}

Chapter 2 of Genesis begins by saying that the heavens and the earth were finished, and (with) all the host of them. If you had clicked on the green highlighted 'host', then you would understand that the transliterate word 'host' is addressing organized angelic armies of which Lucifer would have been a designate.  And so, in the 7th day, after completing His very good creation, God rested from His creation work and set the 7th day apart from all other days.  The 7th day was declared by God Almighty to be the Sabbath, and He said: Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it HOLY. ^{(See Exodus 20 verse 8 thru 10.)} These are the generations of the heavens and the earth, when they were created in the time that the Lord created the heavens and the earth.  The following Scriptures in chapter 2 were and remain a synopsis of events which took place during the Eternal God's 6 days of Creation.  We will attempt to interplay our own rational thoughts into the context of God's 6 days of His universal creation.  However we understand our state, and agree with the Scripture in Ecclesiastes 8:17

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: Though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Looking farther on, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

In the course of God's very good creation, It should logically appear that Lucifer had already rebelled against God his Maker and brought a third of the angels into his rebellion against the Creator.  The exact time of God's creation of Lucifer, and then his rebellion is not known, but with the God of Eternity, knowing all things in time, including sin's rebellion, planted the Tree of Knowledge for the deceiver to attach himself within the midst of the branches of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil.

In the third day of the Lords' creation. the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He (would) put Adam, whom Elohim formed and gave Life to in the latter end of the Sixth day. On the Third day: Out of the ground, the Lord made to grow every tree that is pleasant in the sight of Man, and also that which is good for food.  He planted the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden: and also the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The angel Lucifer was perfect in all his ways from the day that he was created (by God), until iniquity was found in you.

The Scriptures in Ezekiel 28 states that Lucifer, depicted as the king of Tyrus, had been in Eden the Garden of God, and every precious stone was his covering. The sum of Lucifer, as a creation of God, was that he was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. Lucifer's heart was lifted up in pride because of his beauty, and his created beauty corrupted Lucifer's wisdom, and the corruption elevated his conceit, bringing him to rebel against the Eternal God.  It is impossible for the created Lucifer to have ever been in timeless Eternity to witness the Infinites Eternal Power and His Glory.  What the Eternal God has purposed IN His creation, He will bring to pass.

Lucifer was a creation in God's time, and we could logically conclude that the angelic Lucifer would have already rebelled in time against God and brought a third of the angels into his rebellion against the Creator.  The exact time of Lucifer's creation, and then his rebellion is not known, but with the God of Eternity, knowing all things that would take place in His creation of time, had planted in the 3rd day, the Tree of Knowledge for the deceiver to attach himself and be found among the branches of good and evil.

In the chapter Creation of Man we will consider the wisdom that Satan the deceiver possessed, as he sought to destroy the credibility of Elohim by what ever means he thought possible.

Black Hole

What Lies at the Bottom of This ?

Rude Table Manners

Note: In the above accompanying credits, we begin to understand that galactic closeness is measured in hundreds of light years.  To grasp the size of this Black Hole phenomenon, one light year is the distance traveled by light in one year, which is approximately 5.9 trillion miles of travel.  Our entire solar system would be less than a micro speck in the midst of the inferno's vortex.

The Black Hole Vortex of Sin and Death.

We see in the above NASA Hubble Space Telescopic photographs an image of what was once a magnificent giant solitary star, having extinguished the fuel of its glory of that which gave it life and brilliance, imploded upon itself, and in its death was reduced to a smaller hard core of unfathomable density.  Because of its immense gravitational pull, the black hole, also known as a singularity, has created a vortex that sucks in all matter and light that comes remotely close to what is called the event horizon, an apparent point of no return.  All the outward beauty of the natural phenomena is the result of the violent clashing of light energy and matter as they are inescapably being devoured, to eventually become one with the single core.  All light is extinguished at the bottom of that old former star.

Sin is just like that celestial black hole with its immense gravitational pull.  Sin’s nature, on first appearance may have wonderful and beautiful allurements that tantalize the natural sensual appetites of the solitary man, but it too is a vortex that leads to the violent depths of hell.  The author of this black hole of sin and death, was known as Lucifer, whose name ironically means the Morning Star.

Hear of the Fall and Judgment of Lucifer. 

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!  How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!  For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High".   Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.  Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,  who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, and who did not open the house of his prisoners?"  All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house;  But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot.  You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named. ^{(Isaiah 14 verse 12 thru 20.)}

Lucifer, before he progressively set his will to be above that of the Creator, was perfectly magnificent in the day that God created him, that is, until personal desire and lust was conceived within his own heart of reason.

The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: the ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl.  Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.  You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.  You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.  Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.  Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.  By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching.  All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more." ^{(Ezekiel 28 verse 11 thru 19 .NIV.)}

And as you can see, Lucifer, who is depicted in the above scriptures as the King of Tyre, became vain and arrogant with the great beauty and wisdom that God gave to him.  Lucifer became Satan by feeding upon his own glory, thus consuming himself away and then imploding into a dark hole of self importance.  With his conceited perception of his own allure and brightness of wisdom, he appealed to a third of God's created celestial beings, pulling them down with his rebellion into the dark abyss of  his own existing death.

Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.  His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. ^{(Revelation 12 verse 3 thru 4.NIV.)}  And there was war in heaven, and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: He was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. ^{(Revelations 12 verse 7 thru 9.)}

To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on  Creation of Man.  

Mystery Iniquity
 

The books of the Bible did not originally contain chapters or verse references, but were inserted during the 12th and 13th centuries to help find and make Scriptures more accessible.  In some places, the inserted chapter breaks are poorly placed, and as a result can divide content that should flow together.  Within Genesis the chapter demarcation between one and two is one that has created confusion in the mind of some theologians who believe themselves to be the authority on the Word of God's creation.  There are some who propagate an error of a second creation in God's order with a fictitious replacement mate for Adam.  Search and you will see that all of God's creation work was finished after the sixth day as it is reported in the account in Genesis chapter one, but there would follow a generalized summary of Man's participation in the 2nd chapter. We will do our best to present the order of the sixth day events according to God's Will as they took place in Elohim's very good creation.

And God said: let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so.

Creation of Adam.

Adam, in English called Man, was not an evolutionary accident that depended upon billions of evolutionary accidents to form a single organized cell that would undergo billions of more accidents to evolve into a more sophisticated organism of organized cells that would require billions of more accidents to merge into the very beginnings of a primate that by some kind of unknown mechanism would evolve thru the eons into what is called intelligent man.  Even now, the accidentally evolved scientist with some knowledge of genetics, remains puzzled as to what came first, the male or the female of the organism.

And on the sixth day, God said; Let Us make Man (Adam) 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 creeps upon the earth. So God created Man (Adam) in His own image, in the image of God created He Man (Adam): male and female created He them. ^{(Genesis 1 verse 26 thru 27.)}

For a fast forward moment, we will go to the summary of the Second Chapter of Genesis, and witness God's finished creation of Adam.

And the Lord God formed Man (Adam) from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his (Adam, Man's) nostrils the breath of Life: and Man (Adam) became a Living soul. ^{(Genesis 2 verse 7)}

In this sixth day of God's creation, Elohim God would have already brought forth His creation of Adam's wife.  As we shall see, Adam's wife was first named in Hebrew Ishshah meaning in English Woman.  We would understand that Adam and Ishshah were both present to hear the Word of their Creator, because it is implied that Elohim speaks in the plurality of 'them' having dominion over all the creatures of God's creation He made in the 5th and 6th days.

God is the Author and only Sustainer of Life, and from out of His infinite knowledge and power, He personally and lovingly, formed out of the base elements of His creation, the first Adam (Man), male X Chromosome and female Y Chromosome, made into the image of His own Person.  There is none like Adam, for he was a brand new order of Life in God's creation.  God did not speak to the earth or waters to bring forth the form and the Life of Adam/Man, as He had done with His early creations, but God formed Adam into an image resembling Himself and when the Almighty God breathed His Spirit of Life, into the nostrils of the form He had created, then Adam's form became one with his now living soul.  Adam's soul was filled with the Life of the Spirit of God, and God's Breath of Life (His Holy Spirit) was to sustain the True Life of God's Spirit within Adam's physical being and that of his very soul. For when Elohim God breathed into the nostrils of His created form of Adam, then the LIFE of God's Spirit flowed into Adam, and Adam became a living soul in the Likeness of his Creator.

Then the Lord God told His creation of Adam/Man of the food He had provided for them to eat: Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: To you it shall be for food. ^{(Genesis 1 verse 29.)} In this Scripture, we see that the Lord God Elohim made a distinction as to what foliage was good for Adam and his wife Ishshah to eat for nourishment.  The plant life, no matter whether it is large or small, must have its own seed within itself to propagate itself.  At this juncture in Scripture, we would understand that Adam, created male and female, were both created to be vegetarians.

And God saw everything that He had created, and behold it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

We will see in the following 2nd Chapter, a summary, of the events in the sixth day of God's very good creation of Man:  Then, in the 3rd Chapter of Genesis, we witness the rebellious fall of Adam and his wife Ishshah through the cunning of Satan.

Man's arbitrary insertion markings, referencing a change from the first to the second chapter of Genesis, can truncate the whole of the beginning message of the Eternal God's days of His creation. When the noted 2nd chapter delineation is removed, then we are able to discern that chapter 2 is a summary with generalized clarifications of events in Genesis chapter one. Witness in the first sentence of chapter two that the beginning word Thus is overlooked as well as all of the following conjunctions of 'and' that are found in the 2nd chapter.

'Thus' the heavens and earth were finished, and all the host (angelic beings) of them. 
And on the Seventh day Elohim ended His work, which He had made.
And He rested on the seventh day from all His work, which He had made.

And God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart: Because that in that (7th) day He had rested from all of His work.

These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. ^{(See Genesis 2 verse 1 thru 3.)}  The day is obviously not 24 hours in our time, but is of the Eternal God's gross time period as seen in the creation generations He brought about in timeless Eternity.

The statement, "These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created", can be interpreted to be of a possessive past tense or possessive future tense of what follows in the text? Not being made clear, let's just think it to be inclusive, for it is speaking of an expanse of time, beginning to end.

The rest of the designated second chapter of Genesis, is a general summary of the events that came to pass during God's time within His days of His very good creation.  The Scriptures are not specific concerning the time within the Eternal God's six days of creation as to when the angelic hosts were created, but God's good creation of the free thinking arch-angel Lucifer was among the host of heaven.

Elohim, the Almighty God, initially created Adam/Man male X Chromosome and female Y Chromosome into His Image, and then breathed into Adam/Man the Spirit of His Holy Likeness. 

2nd Chapter of Genesis

"These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were created",

In the time that the Lord God had made the earth and the heavens, He had not yet planted the herbs of the field nor the trees bearing fruit, for He had not caused it to rain on the earth
And there was no Man to till the ground.
And the Lord God formed Man (Adam) from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his (Adam, Man's) nostrils the breath of Life: and Man Adam became a Living soul. ^{(Genesis 2 verse 7)}
And the Lord God planted a Garden East ward in Eden. There He put Adam, whom He had created, to observe the work of His Lord God Almighty.
And a river went out of Eden to water the Garden.
And the river parted and formed 4 heads; The Pison, the Gihon, the Hiddekel, and the Euphrates.

And the Lord God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to dress it to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded Adam saying: Of every tree of the Garden you may freely eat: But 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 shall surely die. ^{(Genesis 2 verse 16 thru 17.)} 

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was the one tree in the garden that did not have its own seed, therefore it had no life within itself that could bring forth life of itself.  This one tree in the Garden was the only tree of its kind, and the fruit it produced lacked life within itself to reproduce itself.  Therefore Elohim declared that the fruit of this tree was not fit for Adam's consumption. For protection, the Lord God Almighty, instructed Man to completely avoid the tree.

And the Lord God Said: It is not good that Adam should be alone. I will make him a help mate.
And out of the ground the Lord God created every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:
And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the "name" [shem] thereof. but there was not a help mate for Adam. ^{(See Genesis 2 verse 18 thru 20.)}

It would appear that the Almighty and all knowing God had no need to name the creatures of His creation that He then brought before Adam for Man to name: For Elohim, the Creator of time, already knew what Adam would call or name the creatures.  Also having made Adam, male and female, He knew the mate He would create for Adam.

Creation of Ishshah Woman

At the appropriate time in the 6th day, Elohim took from Adam's side, a part of Adam's genetic flesh a rib, and then with the female genetic portion, God created Woman with XX Chromosomes.  

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He [the Lord God] took one of his [Adam's] ribs, and closed up the flesh: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from Man [Adam], made He Woman (Ishshah), and brought her unto Man [Adam].
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman (Ishshah), because she was taken out of man ^(ish-Adam).

Take immediate notice that Adam, in concert with his Creator's naming of His female creation, also named the new formed person to be his mate 'Woman'. 

Therefore shall a man ^(ish) leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife (Ishshah): and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, and Adam ^(Man) and Ishshah ^{(his wife)} were not ashamed. ^{(See Genesis 2 verse 21 thru 24.)}

Note: Sin brings shame to mankind, and Adam and Ishshah, man and wife, were not ashamed of their nakedness, for they were one flesh, that is until they rebelled against Elohim and then tried to clothe their nakedness with fig leaves.  It should be understood that during this time the female of Adam was not called Eve, until after Man's rebellion against God their Maker and they were forced from the Garden of Eden.

The Infinite all-knowing God is not impersonal with His creation of Adam, male and female, for Elohim personally named the male 'Adam', and the female from Adam, He personally named 'Ishshah'.  The name Adam has a translated meaning in English as Man, and the name Ishshah has a translated meaning in English as Woman.  So then, the Hebrew Scriptures of Genesis would remain constant in its reference to Adam as a person of God's affection, and so it is with God's affection for Ishshah.  As with His creation of Adam meaning Man, so then Elohim would maintain the same intimacy of His creation when He first called the genetic female, Ishshah meaning Woman.  With redundancy we again repeat for emphasis that the first man of God's creation was called by his name of Adam, and likewise the first woman was called by her name Ishshah.

Unfortunately, in man's 16th century analysis of the beginnings of Genesis, the generic KJV English words of 'the woman' or 'a woman' has become the norm in the various  prejudiced translations by man that creates confusion in humankind's understanding of the Seed of Woman/Ishshah that would crush the head of the evil one. 

The articles "the" and "a" are not in this Hebrew scripture, and their insertions in the interpreted text 'the' woman or 'a' woman', are dismissive to the pure genetic seed of Ishshah, and the pure, original female genetics of God's good creation that was taken from the side of the first Man named Adam.  This beginning narrative in Genesis is a prelude to the very last Adam, crucified before the foundation of the world, Who will be born in time of the genetic flesh (seed) of Ishshah that is carried forth by the daughters of God's Hebraic people from the first Adam.   God's creation of the original genetics of Adam will come to be in the ovum of Mary, the very last daughter of Adam's race.  The virgin Mary would carry in her ovaries, God's promised genetic seed, for the Spirit of Father God Almighty would conceive His Word in a chased ovum of Hebrew decent, to be born Immanuel.  For Jesus was born the Son of Man, through Mary's flesh,  and the only begotten Son and Christ of God, would be known as 'God with us'.

At this point in the narrative of chapter one of Genesis, God's creation of Man/Adam, male XY and femaleYY chromosomes, were already present in the Garden as a couple of one flesh, and God blessed them and said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply 'to fill' the earth and subdue it. The English words 'to fill' is more correct rather than the KJV transliterated word 'replenish' that implication may breed confusion. ^{(See Genesis 1 verse 27 thru 28.)} Logically, there must be the male and female paired together to be able to multiply and to fill the earth with their fruitfulness.  And when God had finished His Garden instructions to Adam, then God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. ^{(Genesis 1 verse 31.)}

Note: We relate to this storied account as that of Adam and Eve, but Adam first called his mate the name of 'Ishshah' having an English carry over name of Woman, and then after their failures in obedience to Elohim, Man and Woman  were removed from the Garden of Eden.  It was at this time that Adam would change the name of his wife Ishshah to that of Eve (Chavvah), having a meaning of 'life' or 'living'. The meaning of Eve's new name is more than appropriate, for not only will the life of all of mankind come from her genetics, but also the Sacrificial LIFE of God's only Begotten Son.

Current science, in the genome of mankind, has revealed that women alone, carry a reproducible circular organelle called mitochondria within their XX Chromosomes. This small organelle from the DNA of women, or the females of all kinds, is the dynamic powerhouse cell that produces all of the energy for the nuclear cells in the body.  The DNA that Mitochondria produces (mtDNA) is more subject to multiple mutations than the DNA of the body cells, and the mtDNA can affect the function of the genome of mankind. It is for this reason that the Creator of Man, removed from Adam the female portion of Man's own genomics, and made Woman/Ishshah with the perfection of the whole Woman, containing within her, the unadulterated energy making mitochondria of the Almighty's creation.  Yahweh God's original creation of Man, male and female was of wonderful  design, and the genetic Son of the first Adam, Jesus Christ, of absolute necessity would be of the same genetics of Adam before sin entered into his body.  The genetics of Ishshah/Woman was removed in the perfect order of her creation by God, and God would maintain the genetic order of the first woman, named Ishshah throughout the generations of Man until God's Spirit would impregnate the ovum of the Hebrew virgin Mary.

The 3rd Chapter of the Book of Genesis reveals the circumstances of the fall of Man in the Garden, for they, male and female, fell into the clutches of Satan.

In the Garden of Eden we found out that our first parents Adam and Woman/Ishshah were put in charge of the Garden, and were free to participate in all of which was good, especially of the Tree of Life that was in the mist of the Garden of Eden.  However, as you know, there was the one exception or condition!  For the LORD God commanded Adam, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." ^{(Genesis 2 verse 16 thru 17.) (NKJV.)} 

Now we see in the Garden setting, that there were three individuals, who knew the command and the authority of God.  Adam is in the midst of the Garden with his wife Ishshah/Woman, where she becomes engaged in conversation with the wondrous speaking serpent that is intertwined in the the branches of  the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

The serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field, of which the LORD God had made. The serpent said unto Ishshah: Has God said, You shall not eat of every tree in the Garden?
And Ishshah replied: We may eat of the fruit of the all trees of the Garden, but the one tree in the midst of the Garden, God said, you shall not eat of it, not touch it lest you die.

And he (Satan the wise serpent) said to Ishshah/Woman: You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ^{(Genesis 3 verse 1 thru 3.)}

This is the very first time that Man, the male with his female, begins to hear the subtlety in the questioning of God's Authority and Word.  Satan, the author of sin and death, is in the subtle form of a talking serpent.  This serpent was a beastly creature that God did not create to be in His Garden of Eden.  The corrupted Satan, in the form of a super intelligent talking serpent, challenges Ishshah/Woman with his implied devilish question: "Did God really mean what He Said ---?"

Ishshah/Woman, no doubt, seeing and hearing her perception of a common serpent being able to speak with wisdom, is enchanted with the prospect of receiving greater wisdom and knowledge for herself, and then being made equal with God. 

So when Woman/Ishshah saw that the tree was good for food, and (saw) that it was pleasant to the eyes, and (saw) a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.  She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ^{(Genesis 3 verse 4 thru 6. NKJV.)} 

Adam and his wife Ishshah, in self contemplation, began to have their eyes of self desire opened, while listening to the beguiling words of the serpent, whose physical being was intertwined with that Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

With their eating of the forbidden fruit, the eyes of both Adam and Ishshah were fully opened, as they became aware of their nakedness and became exceedingly ashamed of their actions: For indeed they became mentally locked into the knowledge of their naked sin against their Maker. They both lusted for power as that of gods, and now lust had become one with them.  Adam and Ishshah tried to cover their nakedness with fig leaves, but were encountered with the TRUTH of their Maker. The all-knowing God called to His creation of Man: Where are you Adam? The shame of their sin of rebellion against their God, caused then both to deny their own accountability. Adam placed an expanded blame on Ishshah and God:

And Man said:  Ishshah, Woman, You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

While Adam's wife Ishshah placed blame on the serpent. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 6 thru 13).}

And Ishshah, Woman said: The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty cannot change in His Holiness, for the Almighty God will be Eternally perfect IN His Judgments, Justice and IN the very nature of His Person of Good Will toward Man.

And the Lord God said unto the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field, and upon your belly shall you crawl eating dust all the days of your life.

Then the Lord God made known in the hearing of Adam and Ishshah/Woman, of His ultimate Provision against evil, when He stated to Satan:

I will put enmity between you and [the] Ishshah/Woman, and between thy seed, and her Seed: and it (that Seed) will crush your head, and thou shall bruise His Heel. 

To Ishshaw, the Lord God said to her, that in her conception she would bring forth children in pain, but her desire would remain with her husband Adam. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse16)}

The Lord God Almighty finished speaking directly to Adam when He told Adam of His Judgment against his rebellion: Because you listened to the voice of Ishshah, and not My Voice, then cursed is the ground for your sake.  In the sweat of your efforts, you shall eat of the thorns and the thistles from the earth, until you return to the ground: For you are dust and to dust you shall return. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse17)}

And Adam called his wife (Ishshah) her new name of Eve, because she would be the mother of all living.
The Lord God then clothed the nakedness of Adam and his wife Eve with coats of skins. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 20 thru 21).}

God gave one warning Command to Adam too prevent them from self serving idolatry: But Adam and his wife's contemplated together their same desire, and they willfully rebelled against the Will of God.  Forsaking the good Will of their Maker, then death and corruption would take command of their lives and all of their offspring producing mankind. God's Likeness, being the LIFE giving Spirit of Holy Lord God Almighty, was spurned in their rebellion, and departed from Adam, male and female, leaving them to be their own rulers, deciding for themselves what is good or what is evil.  Now without God's Holy Spirit of LIFE, the first Adam, Man, male and female, became their own little god's deciding for themselves a mixture of what is good and what is evil. The Wisdom of God was ignored by Man, for when Adam rebelled against His Maker, he exchanged true Life for sin and death.  Now death came to Adam and to all of his genetic prodigy: For all of mankind, like their father Adam, were made to be rebellious sinners with a death sentence chained to them.

And the Lord God said: Behold Adam, Man, has become as one of us knowing good and evil.
And now, less Adam should eat of the Tree of LIFE and live forever, God drove them from the Garden, to work and eat of the fruit of their own making.
And the Lord God placed a cherubim with a flaming Sword, in the East of the Garden, to protect the WAY of the Tree of LIFE. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 22 thru 24).}

After Adam's rebellion to the God of the Living, all of humanity will come into this world with a nature corrupted by the will of sin.  The physical corruption of sin's desires will continue to pursue humanity until the very end. The will of sin, is centered on self being first, and this idolatrous disposition of man is at war with the ultimate good and Perfect Will of the only Creator Elohim, the Author and Life Sustainer of His creation.  With man choosing the will of self being first, God in His infinite holiness, imposes an absolute quarantine upon Adam and his wife Ishshah, as they are expelled from Eden and the right to God's Tree of Life.

The final rendering of Satan's challenging statement is that, "Man, male and female, with their acquired knowledge does not need God, and without the Eternal God, then Man as a god, can by his own sampling and self-enlightened wisdom, can determine and proclaim what is good and what is evil and acceptable in their own sight". In other words, every man, both male and female, would be right in their own eyes, and man-god can decree that there are no absolute rights or wrongs. 

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness: Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! ^{(Isaiah 5 verse 20 thru 21.)} Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.  The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just; both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. ^{(Proverbs 17 verse 13 thru 15. NKJV.)}

Faith, in the only God of the Living, was broken off in Adam's treasonous rebellion, and the LIFE giving Spirit of Holy God departed from Man.  Now, each individual of humanity walks alone, apart from the council of Almighty God's Spirit of Holiness, embroiled in confusion with in their own judgmental insight of good and evil. ^{(See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 7.)} There is no life for Man without Holy God's Spirit of LIFE.

The first Adam or Man, was of the earth, and within his beginning desires over what he saw as his own self esteemed rights, he chose himself.  In so doing, Adam chose to rebel against the good Will of his Maker, thereby spurning a son's intimacy with the God of the Living, and obviously forfeiting a right standing with the Eternal God, Who is Life Himself.  Even though Adam was forewarned by God about the death that was hidden in the forbidden fruit, nevertheless Adam, from the moment that he chose to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, was participating in the evil choice of his own death.   Adam, along with his wife Ishshah, essentially broke faith with their Creator, even before they ate of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Their self perceived rights came to the front of their free thinking minds, and at this point they had already chosen for themselves, the right to make their own decisions about what they each, individually saw as good or what is evil.  Without repenting of his thoughts, the first Man/Adam as the head of the house, was to forsake his covenant with the God of Life, and would consummate a new covenant with death by willfully eating of the good and evil of the Tree of Knowledge.  Sin, itself had taken Adam, both male and female, captive to its will.

When Adam rejected the Word of God, even God's true conception of Love was corrupted in the heart of the Man, male and female, giving way to the autonomous reign of sin and death in their now self centered flesh.  Tragically, in Adam's decision for total independence from God's reign, a son's Love of God the Father, is displaced with self love, and that love will be fostered with self gratification, based on an individual's autonomous choices that will serve the individual first.   Everything about the nature of sin, is for the self serving independence of the creature from his Infinite Creator God, and now with a separation from the Spirit of God's Love and Grace, the spirit of death enslaves them. 

And so, with the disobedience of our first human parents, the one twisted root of that Tree of good and evil has sprung up and entangled itself into the spirit and soul of all mankind, and its corruption breeds the fruit of self-idolatry, followed by all manner of corruption that is contained within the poisonous fruit of that infamous tree of sin and death.

So mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power.  Have nothing to do with them. ^{(2nd Timothy 3 verse 1 thru 5.)}

For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, His Eternal Power and Divine Nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools  and exchanged the Glory of the Immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.  Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the Truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, Who is forever praised. Amen. ^{(Romans 1 verse 20 thru 22.)}

Because of this God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.  Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.  They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.  They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful: They invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;  they are senseless, faithless, heartless and ruthless.  Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them. ^{(Romans 1 verse 26 thru 32. NIV.)}

The author of Sin and Death, is crouching at your door, waiting to devour anyone who leaves the door of their mind open to his self serving corruption.  ^{(God cautions Cane about the crouching spirit of sin Genesis 4 verse 1 thru 7.)} Understand this: The entity of sin is a law unto itself,  and is absolutely separate from the Good and Holy Will of the Almighty God.  Satan, as sin, is in absolute opposition to the Eternal God of the living, and looks to destroy God's one Standard of Love.  For God is Love, and when faith in the Absolute Standard of Love is forsaken, then His one universal law of Love is broken, and the Spirit of His Living Holiness cannot live within the soul that is in the corruption of death.   All of self serving mankind are found guilty of sin, being made subject to their covenant agreement with death's final corruption.

When the one Garden law of the Lord God was willfully breached by Adam, then obviously Adam's faith in God was corrupted with self designing sin.  Adam's insurrection against the Will of God, set in motion the flourishing of the renegade law of sin, and all manner of corruption within the mind set of all of humanity.  The door of sin is laid wide open in the mind of man, affecting even changes in man's genetic, lessening the length and quality of natural life.  From the beginning, it would appear that all of humanity had its beginning destiny from Adam's genetic seed, but the seed of corruption from rebellious angelic beings would further corrupt the genome of ignorant human kind.

However, before the world was created: God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, His Lamb, that whosoever believes IN Him, should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE.

The Eternal Lord God, the Creator of all things In His time, would bring forth His victorious Covenant Word, as a Lamb slain even before the foundation of the world.  For God's Lamb is His Word and would be conceived in the ovum of a virgin Woman, and would be born the Man Christ Jesus, Who would crush the head of evil. 

God's Covenant Word  that He gave in the Garden, was foreordained before the world began, and certainly before any creatures would be made to exist on earth. From Eternity, Yahweh God saw that sin would come into His creation and He would make the Way for faith in God to remain kindled in the heart of man through God's Promised Seed through Ishshah (Woman).   Without reservation, this the beginning prophecy of Elohim's Covenant Word of Salvation, and in His wisdom and foreknowledge, Elohim God would bring to fruition exactly as His Word had declared in the Garden.  The Promised Messiah of God, would be conceived in the ovum within the womb of the Hebrew virgin Mary through the Power of the Almighty's Word and Spirit of Life.  The Word of God's Salvation became One with the flesh of Man, and as Man, Jesus Christ dwelt among His people, who did not know Him.  But the Word of God was conceived in the flesh of Adam and we beheld His Glory, the Glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of the Almighty's Spirit of Grace and TRUTH.  Jesus Christ, the Son of Adam, through His offering of absolute Love and trusting Obedience to His Father Yahweh God, would endure the cruel torture and His physical death on the cross, perpetrated at the hands of sinful man. 

With Christ's resurrection from the grave through God's Eternal Spirit of Life, Jesus/Yeshua destroyed within His Body of Adam's flesh, the very nature of the self serving sin that demands death to the corrupted creation of the first Man, Adam.  The first Adam, was a created son of God, but this son broke faith with the Almighty God of the living, and with the absence of God's Spirit of Life, Adam's propagating genetics sentenced all of mankind to death and their enslavement to the rebellious author of sin and death.  Jesus Christ, the Last Son of Adam, would restore to man kind a faith that is born again by God's Spirit of Life, through the Obedient Faith of God's only begotten Son, the resurrected Christ Jesus, and the Lord our Righteousness.

Let us understand within the depths of our thoughts that the natural man is dead in sin, and must unequivocally be born again of the Spirit of Life IN Christ Jesus.  The Spirit of Holy God, is the God of the Living, and He gives abundant Life to the sinning dead who through God given Faith, believe in the Salvation Faith of Jesus Christ. From the beginning of  Christ's conception, the Spirit of Grace and LIFE was IN Christ Jesus, and those IN Christ Jesus, have the Grace of the Holy Spirit of LIFE availing within them the LIFE that is in the resurrected Christ of God.

In the day that you eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall surely die.  Adam and Ishshah would perish within the expanse of the time frame of that one day of the Lord.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ^{(2nd Peter 3 verse 8.)} And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ^{(Genesis 5 verse 1 thru 5.)} Adam, the male with the female, Ishshah both ate of the tree of confusion, and both perished within the one day of the Lord.  The consequences for the breaking of this one just and holy law, given by the Law Maker of the universe, remains catastrophic for mankind, for now the preexisting rule of sin brings its consequences of death, and death reigns in the heart of man.  Even Adam's once pristine genetics would be laid open to the seduction of the evil one. But the climax is God's beginning, for He that believes IN the Salvation Name of Christ, should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE.

Chips off the Old Block.

The following thoughts seems to be more than plausible considering the age old question of "Why ?".  Our first human parents, Adam and his wife Ishshah, with their inquisitive minds, undoubtedly had a prior curiosity and exploratory discussions about the forbidden tree.  We find them in the midst of the garden in close proximity to that Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Now enters Satan, the malignant spirit of evil and deceit, who has disguised himself as a common serpent.  This serpent is intertwined in the Tree of Knowledge that to Ishshah and Adam, seemingly gives it the ability to talk, and communicate with wisdom.  This uncommon serpent, with his innuendos, begins to plant his malignant seed of rebellion into the free thinking minds of Adam and his wife Ishshah, and thus begins the human saga with its calamities and curses for all of mankind. 

In spite of God’s instructions and warnings about the dangers of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Ishshah/Woman (to be renamed Eve after Adam and Ishshah's rebellion), when hearing the serpent speaking from the Tree of Knowledge, was deceived within the lust of her own reasoning mind; You shall not die, You shall be like God, knowing the good and the evil:  And then Ishshah/Woman sampled of the fruit of the tree of confusion.  The Woman of Adam was the first human person to transgress God's command:  But witness that Adam, the head of the house, entered the clutches of sin’s control, freely by his own will.  Adam, knowingly acted against the divine Will of God, and partook of the forbidden fruit.  Please notice that Adam was standing with His Woman/Ishshah, and was listening to the devil's enchantments with his own ears and with the eyes of his heart opened to receive deceit. 

Woman (Ishshah) saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.  So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he also ate it. ^{(See Genesis 3 verse 6 . N.A.B.)}

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they hid themselves in fear from the Presence of Elohim.  A tremendous change has taken place in the nature of the Man and the Woman of Adam, for death has begun its fearful process because God's Spirit of Life had departed from both of them.  When God confronts Adam, Adam, the spiritual head of the house, didn’t take responsibility for his actions, and did not cover his wife after her own deadly deception.  Adam further compounds his offense by first placing the blame on his Woman/Ishshah, and then upon God, for having given him the gift of his wife Ishshah/Woman.  With simple deduction, the now changed Adam, within his own confused self-righteous justification, was not repentant for his own gross act of treason, and certainly was not apologetic for his willful insurrection against God the Father, and the Sustainer of the Life of His creation. 

In the beginning of sin, desire and lust was conceived within the neuronal mind of Adam, inevitably infecting and affecting the whole of the essence of His being containing his soul and spirit of mind.  Adam's rebellion would eventuate into catastrophic consequences to Adam's body and his genetic offspring.  Adam and Ishshah/to become Eve, wanted what they were told they could not have and did not need.  The only true goodness was already present in the freedom they had in the expanse of Elohim's Love for them and in His Life Provisions present in the Tree of Life.  

Now contrast the Gift of Life in God, with the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil that in the eating of the fruit  gave birth to death, and would confine their corrupted remains to the dust of the earth.  Without God's Spirit of Life, Adam and his wife now called Eve were left naked in their own confused judgment of good and the evil.  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man:  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.   Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. ^{(James 1 verse 13 thru 15.)} Adam’s intellectual pride, agreed with Satan, and now the autonomous will of sin, caused Adam to judge God, as being unjust, and a liar for keeping the secret of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil from him.

Adam’s first  willful act of self serving sin, was the ultimate seditious offense against God. Now, in Man's naked shame and guilty conscience, the offence quickly proliferated into a second.  Adam trying to cover his naked tail, by whatever means possible, started with fig leaves.  Then, after God searches him out, Adam finds his scapegoat in his wife, and places the blame on someone other than upon himself.  Responsibility for any wrong doing, is lacking because of the lie of self justification with the offender attempting to preserve themselves with their own individual right to choose what is good or evil for the sake of self.

Remember, Adam by his own reasoning, made the final judgment or decision that initiated the corruption of sin's lustful desire with its on going force of sin bring death.  Ultimately, sin’s conception in the soul of Man, had its beginning with its appeal to self desire, and would proliferate in the mind of Adam, compelling him to not only reject God, but to blame God as the principle cause of his failure.  With the birth of sin in Adam's spiritual mind, faith with a love of God now disappears within his soul, for stealthy sin reasonrf in his mind: Didn’t God make himself an accomplice to the crime, by giving him his Woman/Ishshah?  Or, why did God place the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden in the first place?  Indeed, can God be trusted at all?  After all, as bright as I am, I know what is best for my self!   Without God's intervention, Man, even all of mankind, will follow his own pernicious ways, justifying his wrongful actions with his own accusing judgments, which will lead to his own destruction and death. 

Then He (Elohim) asked, "Who told you that you were naked?  You have then eaten from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!  Man replied; "Ishshah/Woman whom You put here with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate of it".   The Lord God then asked Ishshah; "Why did you do such a thing?  Woman answered; "The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it." ^{(Genesis 3 verse 11 thru 13 .(N.A.B.).}

Stealthy Sin hates to be discovered, and hides in the lowest, darkest and weakest place of prideful, self-preservation, and acts repulsively in the Light of the Word of God.  Because it is more convenient and more comfortable in self-mindedness, sinful man would rather choose the lie than to face the truth about themselves.  As noted before, the humility to admit guilt with true God-ward sorrow, not for the temporal loss, but toward the person offended, is an attribute that is absolutely missing in sin’s dark covering of itself.  A malignancy, as in cancer, has a hardened cellular covering that opposes the natural immune responses in the body, and so it is with the spiritual malignancy of sin, as it hardens the heart, and cowers in the darkest recessive pathways of the mind, trying to avoid God's light of discovery and cure.  And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.  For every one that does evil hates the Light, neither comes to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.  But he that does Truth comes to the Light that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. ^{(John 3 verse 19 thru 21.(NKJV.)}

When the minds' of Adam and Eve, rejected the living God, both of them were changed into instruments of death within their individual bodies and souls, for God's Spirit of TRUTH and Life left them in their own choices.  Their own mind's would make decisions based on what each thought to best for their own individuality.  The Spirit of God's sustaining Life and Immanent Presence, had  left the two of them to fend for themselves, with their own corrupted natures.  The poisonous sting of sin is death , and death was set in motion in that day of the Lord.  Now, within the depth of themselves, Adam and Eve felt their once godly natures corrupted into a mutated earthly nature.  With their very own choice, Adam and Woman/Ishshah/Eve seemingly voided the Grace of the Creator God of Love.  Even so, God in His mercy sacrificed an innocent lamb, and clothed Adam and Ishshah in animal skins, to help cover the nakedness of our first parent's shame and guilt.  And, unto Adam and also to his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. ^{(Genesis 3 verse 21.)}

The God of Covenant, by His own hand shed the life blood of an innocent lamb, and clothed the nakedness of Adam and Eve with lamb skins.  Even before the foundation of the world, God had set in time His Promised Lamb of His Covenant  Mercy: For the Messiah of God would come in time and would provide the only remedy for humanity's conflict with evil and death.  Elohim, the Lord God, had already made a Covenant with His Eternal WORD and set the time of Man's deliverance in motion when He Said to Satan the source of all evil: "I will put enmity between thee and Woman, and between thy seed (of evil) and her seed (that will be of righteousness).  It [He] shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise His Heel".  ^{(Genesis 3 verse 15.)}

God's Covenant in the TRUTH of the Lamb of God was set in time, to destroy the violence of sin that would be set in motion by Man's rebellion.  With Adam's rejection of God's Love, now Lucifer, the author of sin and death, has entrenched himself into the world, where his initial rebellion reigns with its corruption of death with in the first Adam, and all of mankind.  From that moment on, and into the present, mankind, including all life forms, corrupt and decay into the rudimentary elements of matter.  The earthly Adam and Eve and their natural seed prodigy, will all return to the base elements of the earth, from which they were originally taken from. 

Through out time, systematic theologians would have put forth a series of named Covenants attributed to the WORD of God.  All well and good, but all of these seemingly individual Covenants confirm the faithful TRUTH of God, for they are an extension of God's first Covenant Promise given in the Garden of Eden, where, in God's time, the Promised Seed of Woman/Ishshah would defeat Satan and sin.  The Beginning and the End is that  God's Everlasting Word of Covenant TRUTH Promised that the genetic Seed of Ishshah/Woman would be victorious over the head of evil. 

For the Lord is our defense and the Holy One is our King. Then You spoke in vision of your Holy One and said: I have laid help upon this One Who is mighty: I have exalted this One Who is chosen from out of the people. ^{(Psalm 89 verse 18 thru 19.)}

The Lord God said to Moses: I will raise up unto you (Israel) a Prophet from among your brethren like you (Moses) I will put My Words IN His Mouth and He will speak to Israel all the Words that I command Him. It shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto My Words which He shall speak in My Name, I will require it from him who will not hear the TRUTH. ^{(See Deuteronomy 18 verse 17 thru 19.)}

The enemy shall not exact upon Him, nor the son of wickedness afflict Him. ^{(Psalm 89 verse 22.)}

He shall cry unto Me: Thou Art My Father, My God and the Rock of MY Salvation.  I will make Him My First Born, higher than the kings of the earth. My Mercy will I keep for Him forevermore and My Covenant shall stand fast with Him.  His seed shall I make to endure forever and His throne as the days of heaven.  My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Lips.

If His children foresake My Law and do not walk in My Judgment, then I will chasten their transgessions with a rod, and their iniquities with stripes. Nevertheless My loving kindness I will not take from him, nor permit My Faithfulness to fail. For My Covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My Mouth. ^{(See Psalm 89 verse 26 thru 34.)}

God's Everlasting Covenant with Man/Adam and Woman/Ishshah/Eve, will be accomplished by the Last Adam, Jesus Christ, for He was born of the true Seed of Woman that was conceived by the Word and Spirit of Life of the Eternal God.  God would send forth His Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, and save all those who would come to His Salvation offering, for Almighty God would cloth the believing sinners nakedness in the Righteousness of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ. ^{(See Revelation 13 verse 8.)}

If any person is faithful to God and the Eternal's Covenant with mankind, then in the very end that person will know and see the Love of God, Jesus Christ: For He is the Promised Seed of Woman and Jesus/Yeshua is the victorious Son of the first Adam/Man.  As the Incarnate Son of Man in the flesh, Jesus the Christ of God  with His Perfect Love and total obedience to His Eternal Father, would overcome the evil one, the source of sin and death.   Adam, the first Man and a created son of God, in his prideful ignorance, became guilty of all of the violence and blood shed upon the earth.  However, in God's Righteous Justice, the Last Adam of the race of Man, Jesus Christ, will atone for all the sins of death that were attributed to the first Adam. For Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He Man/Adam.  ^{(Genesis 9 verse 6.)} The first Adam's choice, initiated unbelief and treason against God, and brought death and destruction to his offspring: But the incarnate Last Adam made His Righteous choice to belief in His Father God that led to the sacrificial Love He had for His Father and His fellow man.  Jesus Christ's Perfect Love and obedience to His Father God, quenched the wrath of sin with its condemnation of death, for God's Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus would liberate all those who have Faith in Christ Jesus and in loving the Lord God, their souls would be born anew of the Word of God.

What Matters?

The elemental structures within earthly or universal matter, possesses only the imprint of God's creative Word that creates structure.  Such matter does not contain God's Intimate Imprint upon the soul  that is made alive by God's Breath from His Holy Spirit and Word of Life.  The Almighty God can Command the elements of His earth, to bring forth structured obedient life, but He can not Command Love from the heart of the free will of man.   Yahweh's Holy Spirit of TRUTH brings forth only His likeness of Faith, Hope and Love from the children of His heart. 

Remembering again, "For dust thou art and unto dust shall thou return."   The elemental dust of this earth, has no soul that loves, and "The soul that sins shall die". We are not familiar with the original deceptive form of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but nevertheless the generations of the Tree are here today, springing forth from the dust of the earth, to be seen in human form.  The beginning family of man, became one with that tree of corruption of the heart, and from the former text and the text that follows, you can see the corrupted fruit of the human tree's offspring.  Ironically, the geneticist finds that seventeen per cent of Man's DNA is associated with plants and trees that wither away.

Therefore, with the original seeding of rebellious sin in the Garden of Eden and unto the present day, the manifestations of the spiritual malignancy of sin, and the resulting autonomous judgmental reactions of all earthly fathers, beginning with our first father, Adam, continues into all generations of rebellious mankind.  Yes, it is true, we are all decaying chips off the old log!  Adam and his wife Ishshah ate of that Tree, and became one with the Tree, having judged God out of the imaginations of their heart, and thereby separated themselves from the heart of the Eternal Father God Almighty.  Adam chose expediency, and what he thought was instant god-Identification, rather than being a son of the Most High, and waiting on God’s patient Wisdom, perfect Love and understanding that Yahweh would freely provide to His people who would have been free born within His creation of time.  Now instead, all of mankind has been infected with the will of rebellious sin, and we have all taken on the nature of the spiritual infection, with its consequential judgments resulting in the ultimate manifestations violence that is innate to the flesh if Sin and Death.

And so, in the beginning with Adam eating of the iniquitous fruits of the Tree of Knowledge, then the sin blossomed in the first Man, causing Adam to reject the only Living God, the Creator and sustainer of life.  Adam, by committing the highest of treason, through his own autonomous judgment and censure of the TRUE God of LIFE, even knowing of the penalty, consigned himself to death and quite naturally, all of his genetic seed within him.  Therefore, mankind, born of the seed of Adam the first Man, has genetically inherited death, and all of its genetic consequences and anomalies to the whole body and soul of man.  Unfortunately, to this very day, mankind continues to eat of that Tree of our own individual confused self determinations of good and evil for ourselves, that only leads to sin’s propensity towards moral corruption of the mind, heart, and genetic mutations of the human body.

The Creator Elohim God gave Man the gift of free will, but quite regrettably, and apart from the Holy Presence of God with His Love and His wisdom, the gift was corrupted with man's self-centered body of flesh that is bent on sin.  Now, the natural man and his mind is alienated from his Creator, and the will of sin has taken all of mankind prisoners of death.  Man does not know nor love the Only God of the Living, and certainly does not understand the Holiness of the Creator.  The unregenerate mind and soul of man, has become enamored with his own darkness, and is enslaved to his own deceptions conceived in sin and those of its author, Satan.  Man, in rebellion to his Creator, lost his sovereignty on the earth, and Satan usurped the authority and became the new lord of this earth. ^{(See Luke 4 verse 5 thru 8.)} It is Satan’s will of death and destruction that presently reigns in this world, and not the Love of God.   For God made not death: neither has He pleasure in the destruction of the living. For He created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth: (For righteousness is immortal:) ^{(See Wisdom of Solomon 1 verse 14 thru 15.)} Righteousness is immortal, because righteousness is centered in the Love of God, where there is no self centered corruption through the defiling works of sin and death.

Satan, sin, death, and darkness, are spiritually synonymous, for they are contemptuous of God, His Word and God’s creation of Man.  Satan, in desiring to discredit God, has laid claim to all of mankind through Adam succumbing to sin's deceits. With Adam’s insurrection, then the willful seed of Satan, held within the darkness of sin and death, has been spiritually sown into the inner fabric of humanity, where sin's desires, in unison with Satan, will seek to destroy even the genetics of the first Man Adam.  When God promised that the Seed of Woman/Ishshah would crush the head of Satan, He was also promising that the genetics of the first the Adam, through the genetics of Ishshah, would be maintained in the true genealogy of Man/Adam.  Ishshah, Woman's female X chromosome from the original sinless genetics of the first Adam would be found in the Last Adam, the Incarnate Christ of God, being born from the genetic flesh of the Virgin Mary.  God's Eternal Word is full of Light, and is not a hybridization of the confused thoughts of fallen man kind.  Those who are born again, are not to be under the misleading direction of Satan, sin, and death, that is enclosed in darkness.

Elohim first established His Covenant Word in the fabric of time before the world was created, then confirmed His Promise in the Garden of Eden, and fulfilled His Promise of the Seed of  Woman/Ishshah that would conquer Satan, sin, death and the darkness of the grave: For since by Man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead.  For as in Adam all die, even so (those) in Christ shall all be made alive.  ^{(1st Corinthians 15 verse 21 thru 23.)}  Christ Jesus is the Last Adam, born of the Will of His Father, and is The True Son of the Almighty God, begotten in the image and likeness of His Holy Father.

To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on The Mind of Man.

The Mind of Man.
Following the Root of the Tree of Knowledge.

A Logical Rebuttal to Pelagianism:
If you break one law, then you have broken them all.  All comes back to the first Commandment: Thou shall not have any gods before Me.  Because of self idolatry, self justification, by Pelagius or any man, is an impossibility before Holy, Holy, Holy God Almighty.

With a general observation of the brain along with a little anatomy, we hope to increase the readers understanding of our base nature, by producing an allegory for your physical and spiritual evaluation. Anatomically, the root of man’s thinking, reasoning and judgment begins in the frontal portion of the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain.  The two larger frontal areas of the cerebral lobes of man are designed with greater potential intellect when compared to the cerebrums of animals.  The sensory perception of man, is processed in the frontal lobes of potential intellect, where the interpretation of body life, such as emotions, pain and pleasure, hearing, learned speech, touch, taste, with life’s experiences coming together through the brain's limbic system of associated structures to form the mind of reasoning.  Within the mind of reasoning is the conscience of a person that together is the candle of the Lord.  The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. ^{(Proverbs 20 verse 27.)} What the Bible calls the inner man is the spirit of man conceived in the mind of reason.  This is where both the perceived good and the bad are determined on an individualist bias, and the choices of the good or the evil affects the soul of the person.  The Light of the World is God's Holy Spirit IN Christ Jesus, and the Lord is absolutely necessary to keep the candle of man lit.  Contrast that thought with this scripture: There shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. ^{(See Proverbs 24 verse 19-21.)}

The baser portions of the brain, the cerebellum and brain stem are similar in created function to that of the animal kingdom.  The cerebellum principally deals with coordination, while the brain stem controls the autonomic responses necessary for breathing, the heartbeat, wakefulness and involuntary body functions of all animal species.

If we look at the human brain with its nervous system extended throughout the body, the brain itself looks like a root ball of a tree, while the spinal cord has the appearance of the trunk of an inverted tree or a tap root with its many out branchings.  Please observe the pictures of our allegory of the brain and its out lying branches. 

Indeed, the neuronal anatomist, in his observation, speaks about the 'arborization' of the brain.  The definition for 'arborization' is: "The formation of a tree like arrangement or figure". The term "dendrite" comes from the Greek word "dendron", meaning "tree", while  the word "cortex" has its root in Latin, meaning "bark".  Under the microscope, the complex adult human brain, with its tens of billions of neurons and having as many as 100 trillion (10¹⁴) synapses between neurons, also has the appearance of roots or rootlets of plants.

Each neuron is composed of a cell body (soma), with any number of dendrites surrounding the soma.  The soma also has a single myelinated axon with its multitude of un-myelinated end synaptic junctions that connect and transmits electro-chemical signals to the dendrites of other cell bodies within the processing brain.  The brain, being the conductor of the whole body, has several structural pathways to facilitate control in the body.  One pathway is through the autonomic nerves that continually sends electrical stimulation, to the receptor cites within the various organs in the body.  The other is through the motor nerves that send the intentions of the individual to control movement in the skeletal muscles throughout the body.  Through the various brain chemistries and hormones, these root-like neurons form the electro-chemical pathways and neural networks that are designed to allow us to function in our humanity.

Now, the solitary child, birthed into this world, undoubtedly is initially innocent in the mind of self, neither knowing good nor evil. But, unfortunately with the defiling nature and consequences of idolatrous sin, this destructive seed within the idolatrous flesh of Adam’s offspring, will begin to continually breed the infestation of sin's self idolatry.  Without God's Life remedy for self serving idolatry, then autonomous sin will work its ends, bringing about the corruption of innocent thought and alienating a possible relational understanding with God.  Man's rebellious sin will find them out, with eventual consequences, even the possible death of the offspring of sinners.  David, the psalmist, perceives his nature thusly in Psalm 51. ^{verse 5.} Surely, I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. ^(NIV.) And in another rendering:  ^{verse 5.} Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ^(KJV.) Sin is a formless spiritual entity that is  indigenous to the flesh of all of humankind at birth, and the insidious infection of sin is passed on to each generation.

The continually expanding brain of a newborn child coming into this life, has a capacity for reason, but reason itself has yet to be developed in the cerebral hemispheres.  Outside of recognizing physical and emotional discomfort within its body, the infants cerebral cortex is virtually blank of rational understanding, for the simple reason that the infant has no processed experience with the world and its surroundings to begin to formulate thought.  The new mommy and daddy are touching and making smiley faces while talking and cooing sweetly to the infant, while waiting expectantly for responses from their prodigy.  Obviously, in healthy infants, hearing exists and continues to naturally develop its roots, but language has no formed neuronal root in the brain of the child, and cognitive understanding is not yet present.  Initially, the babe's eyesight is blurry, mainly detecting only  motion, and in the beginning fail to recognize the facial details of the parents.  The eye's optic nerves, are an out-branching of the brain, that sends these beginning visual messages to the brain’s receptor neurons in the visual cortex within the occipital lobes of the brain,  The visual messages in turn, start making new reinforced synaptic connections via the visual hierarchy, that precipitates eventual clearer interpretations within the cerebral grey matter of the brain of the infant child.

With each passing day, the normal baby’s innate (God created) senses of taste, touch, hearing and eyesight are enhanced, and further stimulates the brains neuronal out-branching, which progresses through varying growth stages, related to age and gender of the infant.  The experiential process of self-reasoning awareness, probably begins to focalize in the awakening psyche of the infant between the second and third year of the child's life.

The brain's early expansion of the neural network, with the cell bodies elongation of axons and synaptic junctions branching out to the dendrites from the other cell bodies, looks very much like the roots of a healthy growing tree that are branching out, seeking water and nourishment for the functional structure of the tree.  In our simile, with all things being equal, in a nutritionally healthy young person, information searching with processing stimulates the rooting arborization of the cerebral cortex of the brain, giving rise to our learned thinking process in the cortex of the cerebrum.  Neural pathways are further established with use, and information is acquired by naturally inquisitive minds that are thirsting for knowledge,  This new found knowledge is then electro-chemically transmitted and stored in the tree like root structure of the human brain's cerebral cortex. This information that we begin processing early in life, becomes chemically imbedded in the neuron bodies from their dendrite connections with other neuron's axon roots coursing through our minds and body, thereby putting further demands for expansion of the neural network.  With what starts out in a newborn's brain at an estimate of 10 billion neurons, ends with the onset of adolescence with as many as 100 billion neurons with exponentially countless interconnections. 

The central nervous system of the brain continually receives stimulation from neuronal receptors, augmented by hormonal interactions from all over the body, causing the expansion of the brain's networking construction.  From childhood to adulthood, the essential nature of our individual human persona, is a multichotomy of the genetics, parental nurturing, nutritional and body chemistry with electrical responses, all rooted in the brain, along with our learned experiential process of internalized thinking and judgment of the good and the evil, and will be expressed outwardly by the flowering of our speech and actions.  For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The root of all conduct is the mind; four branches it shoots forth: Good and evil, life and death, and their absolute mistress is the tongue.  A word is the source of every deed: a thought (being the source or beginning root), of every act.

In the beginning of life, the children of human kind are naturally nurtured and taught by their genetic parents, or perhaps surrogate adoptive parents.  No matter the intentions of the parents, whether Christians or not, the children will all derive their original way of thinking, through their own unique experiences with their individual decisions of what they think is good or evil, and apply their decisions to their own life.  Some corrections to thinking are possible with a little gained knowledge from the law of sowing and reaping.  This human chronicle of existence is an ongoing and repeating process of independent choice making, generated from the Tree's one root of good and evil that serves self with confusion.  From childhood  to adulthood, all of humanity is part of the genetic tree that had its beginning source in the loins of Adam and Eve, our first parents.  And from our first parents, we all became little gods that will determine the best course for the individual self.

The beginning roots of our independent self determining minds began, in the Garden, with Eve's deception, and her willfully eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.  Adam, given charge of the garden by God, committed high treason against His Maker, with his partaking of the same forbidden tree.  With the conception of sin having taken place within the core of their being, our first natural parents formed their own independent judgment, against God's good Will, and when they both ate of the forbidden fruit, they set in motion their own death and alienation from the God of the living, and also that of their offspring.  The potential for the continued life of our first parents, in union with the Life of God, was changed to that of death, and the potential of all of humanity was changed with them.  All of  humanity came into the bondage of the self seeking will of sin that was birthed in our first parent's desire to be in complete control through their perception of good and evil, with an independence from God.  God allowed Adam and Eve's own desires and judgment to possess them, and unfortunately in their judgmental wisdom, they rejected the Love of God and Life Himself.   With their initial desired independence from God, the sustainer of Life, Adam and Eve chose the corrupting fruit of confusion, with its autonomous knowledge of good and evil, and with their own wisdom, judged that this knowledge could only be good.  Tragically, that which they thought would be good, became only a choice for evil, as they found themselves in willful  rebellion to their Creator of life, and through their own judgment, brought the evil choice of death to themselves and their prodigy. 

So then in the mind of man, our self derived individualistic thought processes are already rooted into an arborization image of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, that was birthed in us from our family tree.  The rooted image had its beginning with our branching lineage, going back to our first parent's corruption within that Tree of self idolatry.  We have all become little gods made of our own corrupt self determination of what is good or evil for our selves, and unwittingly, have made ourselves slaves to Satan, the author of the Law of Sin and Death.

The children of men, entering into adulthood, with their self serving minds being independent from God, will naturally choose the course of the roots of this Tree of Knowledge that they were birthed into, and then follow the already ingrained self serving roots that have become well established within their minds by their own choices in life, having its mixture of good and bad results.  Generally speaking, with our life long experiences from childhood to adulthood, we have each internalized knowledge, with our own perception of love, offenses with rejection, judgments and disciplines accompanied with bitter root rejections or good acceptance, interspersed with individual mixtures of good and bad health.  We will judge in response to the natural roots of our ingrained iniquity, being naturally impressed upon us through the idolatry and self-preservation of the single mindedness of the independent will of the flesh.  After all, in our spiritual deception, as little gods, we all naturally think that we are right in our own minds, and will judge all things and people accordingly.  Individually or collectively, the subjective good that we perceive in the natural man, on its own merit is not capable of overcoming the subjective evil in our minds' of self-idolatry.  Our perception of good or evil is from the one autonomous root that brings death and destruction to all self serving gods.  For that matter, the subjective good that we would do, only justifies ourselves within our own minds that we are good; but that self serving righteousness does not lessen the condemnation of sin birthing death within all of humanity.

Therefore, as we continue to delve into the logic of the Tree of Knowledge, perhaps we will discover that the good and the evil that we are prone to judge within ourselves and others, are from the same idolatrous root derived from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Both, the good acquired knowledge and the evil acquired knowledge, are synonymously in sync; for they are inextricably linked with each other, having come from the same primary or source root, originating from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, whose judgmental fruit, in the end, is death.  The rooting process from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil within those 100 trillion synaptic connections within the ten's of billion neurons in the brain of the adult person, leaves the sons and daughters of Adam in a helpless quandary of dark and deadly confusion.  Although that person may have come to Christ Jesus seeking God's mercy, he or she does not have the ability to sever the multitude of synaptic connections that are already linked to the deception of self that is deeply rooted in sin's autonomy, with sin's derivatives being sustained naturally from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  The serpent, even Satan was intertwined in that Tree of knowledge, and his thoughts of self first, are continually being perpetuated in the idolatrous minds of men.  Jesus rebuking the self righteous Pharisees, says to them:  You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. ^{(See John 8 verse 31 thru 44.)} Now certainly, we refuse to see ourselves in this light, but that is exactly where we are in our own self justification, as we remain in the dark shadows of our own understanding of good and evil.  Scripture says that what ever a man sows that is what he will reap. ^{(See Galatians 6: verse 6 thru 8.)}

With Satan sowing the spiritual seed of lust, in the minds of Adam and Eve, and with its conception within their collective hearts, Satan brought them into the captivity of the will of sin and that of its author.  Because Satan's implied wisdom within the forbidden fruit seemed good to our first parents, they, when succumbing to the enticing deception of the talking serpent, reached for the forbidden fruit, and then in partaking of what they perceived that they did not have, they allowed the flowering of the seed of rebellion and autonomy within their own spirit and souls, and thus reaped for themselves and their prodigy the consequences of their own self fulfilling actions. 

The fruit, of the Tree of Knowledge, is self determination apart from the God of the living, and without repentance by turning to Christ Jesus the Author of Life, only death is the reward.  For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life everlasting.  Whatever a man cultivates in the soil of his mind that is what he will become.  If that man follows the will of the flesh, then he will continue to cultivate death.  If that man is following the leading of the Lord's Spirit, then he will cultivate God's Love within his mind, and reap the Life of the Spirit of God.  Whatever is practiced, is strengthened, and whatever is not reinforced, atrophies or dies, even so for the roots of our minds.  The multitude of those neuronal roots and branches are subject to use.

If we are followers of Jesus Christ, then we definitely need to practice, even daily, the Chief Physician's prescription for the maintenance of a healthy spirit, thereby offsetting sin's pandemic and lethal infection in the flesh that is generic to all of humankind.  With the denial of self and the taking up of their cross daily, the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are beginning to cut off the autonomous rule of their flesh, and are not allowing gross sin to continue to flourish and manifest its independent self serving ways of gratification.  Sin's deception will always try to justify itself in the corrupted roots of our minds.  But, everyone who names the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, must depart from their wickedness.  ^{(2nd Timothy 2 verse 19.)}  While it is exceedingly prudent to exercise the denial of the will of sin, it is also incumbent upon us to follow the Master's full instructions that leads to eternal Life with in Him. 

It is an inescapable fact: The nature of sin and death remains rooted within the flesh of all of the children of men, saved by God's grace or otherwise.  Each one of us grownup children is carrying a life long laundry list of of dirty underwear within the tattered bulging baggage of our individualistic minds.  Therefore, Paul rightly calls out: O wretched man that I am!  Who will save me from this body of death.  I thank God for Jesus Christ our Lord!  Paul's continuing thoughts on this matter are amplified for contextual understanding.  So then with my mind [conscience], I serve the [good] commandments of God [the Decalogue], ^{(See Ephesians 4 verse 23.)} but with the flesh, the [other] law of sin and death [that is still present in the flesh of our thinking]. ^{(See Romans 7 verse 21 thru 25.)} And Jesus called the multitude, and said unto them; Hear, and understand: It is not that which goes into the mouth that defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this [is what] defiles a man.  Then came His disciples, and said unto Him:  Do you not know that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?  But Jesus answered and said: Every plant, which My heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.  Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.  For out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defiles a man: ^{(See Matthew 3 verse 10 thru 20.)}  The defilement of man is already present, and is revealed by what proceeds out of the mouth.

By the inspiration of  Faith, Paul recognizes for himself, the substitutionary crucifixion death and burial of Jesus Christ for the sins of mankind, and that for his own damnable self serving sin.  Upon initiating God's Gift of justifying Faith, Paul sees himself as having died with Christ Jesus, and yet he is made alive within the Lord's resurrection into the eternal Life of Christ's righteousness.  The condemnation of sin unto death, is no longer being cultivated in the renewed spirit of Paul's mind, and is being denied control, but nevertheless, sin's selfish desires remain rooted in the dark recesses of His brain, awaiting its own desired release to do its own will.  When our failure to deny the will of sin does happen, and sin comes to the surface revealing its deep rooting within the substance of our being, then we are to acknowledge our failures and appeal to God and His mercy.  That mercy for confessed sin is always found in the Lord Jesus Christ, the very WORD of GOD, for God has provided His very own eternal Antidote within His Holy Provisions in Communion for the Lord's Body of believers, through the sanctifying Blood of the New Covenant.  This is My Blood of the New Covenant poured out for many for the remission of sin.  Do this in remembrance of Me [that is Who I AM].  Every plant, which My heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.  Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Again we say, it is vitally important to follow all of the Lord's instructions to the fullest, so as to enjoy the fullness of our Communion with God's Spirit and with each other in His sinless Body.  In a healthy body, even as the whole blood, with its defensive white cells and antibodies, tries to ward off and destroy antigens or foreign viral or bacterial invaders that would compromise the integrity of our physical bodies, so then likewise in the spiritual Body of Jesus Christ, the Holy New Covenant Blood of our Lord not only defends, but in our acknowledged repentance, reveals and abates the control of sin within the souls of the members of His Body, through a Love that surpasses our natural understanding.

However, be very careful of that sanctifying Blood, for it is Holy, coming from the Holy Spirit of Life in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the last Son of Man/Adam, Who was wholly dedicated in His Love for the Father to do the Will of His Holy Father God.  If a person continually follows after the will of wicked sin that is in their corrupted flesh, they will surely perish, and the Holy Covenant Life Blood of Jesus Christ, will judge them in the end.  ^{(See Hebrews 10 verse 26 thru 31.)}  But, if a person follows the Will of the Spirit of Life within Christ Jesus, then they shall surely partake of that sanctifying New Covenant Life Blood of Jesus Christ and the Power of God's Perfect Love, now in the present, and in the Life to come.  It is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.  So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that leads in His Love and mercy.  ^{(See Zachariah 4 verse 6 and Romans 9 verse 16.)} But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds, which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so then, being justified by His grace, we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. ^{(Titus 3 verse 4 thru 7.)} For there are Three that bear Witness [of God's Love and Mercy], the Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and these Three are ONE.

Yeshuah (Jesus) says: Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: For the tree is known by his fruit. ^{(In Context see  Matthew 12 verse 32 thru 34.)} For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ^{(Galatians 6 verse 3.)} It is not our goodness that commends ourselves to God, but it is God's goodness in Jesus Christ that reaches out to save us from our selves that we might be grafted into the Tree of Life in Christ Jesus.  That Tree is goodness Himself, and we need to be abiding partakers in the richness and fatness of Jesus Christ's eternal roots of righteousness, and forsake our natural roots in the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Abide in Me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; No more can you, except you abide in Me.  I AM the Vine, you are the branches: He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: For without Me you can do nothing.  ^{(John 15 verse 4 thru 5.)}  And you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season: His leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper. ^{(Psalm 1 verse 3.)(See also Jeremiah 17 verse 7 thru 8.)} If Jesus Christ is the Vine, then know for a certainty that He is the Root of the Vine Who sends forth His instructions for Life and the enablement of the branches to bear the Fruit of God's Spirit. ^{(See Galatians 5 verse 22 thru 26.)}

To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on The Potential in the Tree of Life.

Abiding within the Tree of Life:
And the pruning edge of God's Sword.

In the natural course of brain formation, much of the axons and synaptic roots of the neuronal cell bodies within the reasoning cortex, may be stunted pathways of confusion, lacking sufficient stimuli to be reliable links to other neurons.  They are like the branches of plants that may need culling or pruning stimuli to initiate proper growth, and are just waiting for a gateway of opportunity for functional use.  Please make note of this potential of opportunity for learning.  Spiritually, in the following text, we might make the connection in our minds that the New Covenant Word of God through the Blood of Jesus Christ can begin to cleanse and renew the mind, given the opportunity of desire in the individual.

To illustrate our pruning point, we are going to use an extreme example, such as when a cerebral vascular accident is occasioned in the speech center of the brain. The wholeness of the old stored speech processing information is disrupted or lost from the tens of thousands of neurons, which have perished in the brain catastrophe.  Although it is not absolutely clear whether the adult brain can recreate new neurons to replenish that which was lost, it does become incumbent upon the brain's innate arborization program, to begin to form new pathways of neuronal communication with that which remains and is alive with potential.  Before a form of reconstruction can happen, the debris field of dead cell bodies, with their axons and dendrites deprived of oxygenating blood, is cleaned up by the blood's macrophages (which are dominant white blood cells from the immune system).  Once debris is removed, then the brain, out of designed necessity, begins to establish neuronal reconnections between outreaching axons from existing functional neurons to the dendrites of other living neurons. Perhaps through neurogenesis,  new neurons can be created in damaged areas of the brain such as the speech center, but if they do become part of the restructuring of the neural network, they nevertheless are void of the previously gathered information of the past and need to be introduced into the area and completely reeducated.  With the desire of the afflicted one, restoration of functional speech is possible with reinforced stimulating speech discipline, practice and time. In the ongoing healing process, the dysfunctional synaptic connections of axons with dendrites, that are supplanting strength and adding confusion to the connecting neurons, are eventually pruned away by the immune system or are left as shriveled unconnected vestiges of their old usage. As far as possible, what is practiced and exercised will become the norm for the individual. 

Spiritually speaking, in the labyrinth of our natural adult minds, the innumerable neural root structures become overgrown with the carnal confusions of each solitary life, and are in need of special cultivation.  The infinite understanding and the wisdom of holy, holy holy God Almighty is not naturally cultivated in the earthly soils of our minds.  Our stubborn self independence is naturally perpetuated within our minds, which is a result of being born into the sin of Adam with his lustful desire to be as a god, and with his consumption of knowledge, he would be totally independent from his Creator.  Because of Adam's rebellion, which lead to his corruption and that of his offspring, the knowledge of God within our minds is corrupted and the natural mind continues ignorantly to cultivate sin's selfish motivation of autonomy from the God of the living.  Apart from God Almighty, death will be the result of the sin that is cultivated in the soil of our minds.  However, that special cultivation we spoke of earlier is through God's gift of His Holy Spirit, Who has come to us through faith in God's New Covenant in the shed Blood of Jesus Christ.

When receiving the Gift of the Grace of God, Wisdom reasons with us that we are all undone and dead, awaiting sins corruption of the whole body and soul.  But the mind of man may be renewed to a spiritual mind through the patient cutting and pruning process by the surgical Sword of the Spirit of God, and then through the same Spirit, we receive the cleansing and nurturing process of the soul by the Fountain of True Living Water from God's Word in Christ Jesus.   That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that you put on the new man, which because of God is created in righteousness and true holiness. ^{(Ephesians 4 verse 22 thru 24.)}  And [you] have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him [God] that created him [the new man]: ^{(Colossians 3 verse 10.)} 

If we let the Light and Love of God's Spirit perforate the heart of our being with His Word, then the confusion begins to be cut off at its roots.  Now, with the practicing of God's word through the Spirit, there continues to be the cutting off of the old dead thoughts in the roots of our minds, being supplanted by the new roots of faith and the beginnings of Godly understanding, formed from the Tree of Life in Christ Jesus.  God's unmerited grace makes it possible for the man of faith in Jesus Christ, having become a newborn child of God, to be renewed in the spirit of his mind,  with God's seed and regenerating power of new life that flows through the Spirit of God's Covenant Word in Jesus Christ.

O man and woman of the Tree of Knowledge, you are lost and without excuse before the only Holy and Just God!  And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the tree: therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.  ^{(Matthew 3 verse 10 thru 12.)} If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.  ^{(John 15 verse 6.)}

However, our gracious God is the God of Life and Light and full of mercy towards the humble, repenting sinner who desires to return fully to his Creator.  For God is not willing that any man or woman should perish eternally from His sight, but has set forth His own provision for eternal Life.  Jesus answered Nicodemus; "Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to him; "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of Water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. ^{(John 3 verse 3 thru 6. (ESV.)} Through faith in God's Word, we would become a new planting of the Lord, becoming trees of righteousness, planted within Jesus Christ in His death on the cross, and then through His glorious resurrection, we would be flourishing through the Fountain of Living Water that flows in the power of the Holy Spirit bearing good fruit, for God's praise and glory.  Yes, God has provided a way, a bridge of Life called the cross that spans the gulf of the event horizon of that black hole leading to our eternal death.   And for an eternal certainty, the Holy One Who hung on that cross in God's Perfect Love and mercy, is greater than all the sin of mankind, for God's Perfect Love overcomes the world!

Therefore, do not marvel at the words of Jesus Christ (Yeshuah Messiah) that man must be born anew.  This is a new birth of a soul that is a washed in the Fountain of Living Water poured out from the WORD of GOD and nurtured in the womb of the Spirit of Life and holiness.  (See Fountain of Living Water.) Dying mankind needs a new life; a brand new beginning of the heart, soul and spirit, born of the genesis power of the Word of the Holy Father of Life, Love and Mercy.  It was in God’s love and mercy that the very heart of the Word of God was crucified on that cross in the Person of Jesus Christ.  The Christ of God having a Perfect Love of His Father God, consumed away within the humility of Himself, as the Son of Man,  the violent vortex of the sin and the finality of death for all of guilty mankind.  For all things are of God, Who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.  Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: We pray you on Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God. ^{(2nd Corinthians 5 verse 18 thru 20.)}

We understand through scripture with the gift of faith that God is Infinite Light and Power, dimensionally beyond all human comprehension.  At the appropriate time, our Father of Light,  through the Power of His Eternal Spirit, (Who is One and that same Light), sent His Eternal Seed, His Son, as that Light, passing through the elements of a Woman's flesh, to impregnate the ovum of that Jewish virgin, and His Word was born in the form of the flesh of Man/Adam, as God with us. ^{(See Isaiah 25 verse 7  and verse 14 thru 15.)} And the virgin called her son Yeshuah (Salvation of God, Jesus), for He shall save His people from sin and death.  In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in Him, and He saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in Him; let us rejoice and be glad in His Salvation. ^{(Isaiah 25 verse 9.)} She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the Name Yeshuah, Jesus, because He will save his people from their sins." ^{(Matthew 1 verse 21. NIV.)} Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua, which means Yahweh saves.

For God so loved mankind that He gave His Son, For it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.  He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. ^{(Isaiah 53 verse 10 thru 11.)} God has made Jesus to be a 'ransom' for yours and my sin, and the sin of all mankind, so that whosoever humbles themselves and believes on His redeeming righteous sacrifice, and then follows the Lord should not perish. For, whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: For just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."  ^{(in context Matthew 20 verse 25 thru 28. NKJV.)}

1000 years before Jesus Christ, David, the prophet psalmist sees the suffering Messiah.

Psalm 22. A psalm of David.  My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from saving Me, so far from the words of My groaning?  O My God, I cry out by day, but You do not answer, by night, and I'm not silent.  Yet You are enthroned as the Holy One; You are the praise of Israel.  In You our fathers put their trust; they trusted and You delivered them.  They cried to You and were saved; in You they trusted and were not disappointed.   But, I am a worm and not a man, scorned by Men and despised by the people.  All who see Me mock Me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:  He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue Him. Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him.  Yet You brought Me out of the womb; You made Me trust in You even at My mother's breast.  From birth I was cast upon You; from My mother's womb You have been My God.  Do not be far from Me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.  Many bulls surround Me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle Me.  Roaring lions tearing their prey open their mouths wide against Me.  I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within Me.  My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue sticks to the roof of My mouth; You lay Me in the dust of death.  Dogs have surrounded Me; a band of evil men has encircled Me, they have pierced My hands and My feet.  I can count all My bones; people stare and gloat over Me.  They divide My garments among them and cast lots for My clothing. But you, O LORD, be not far off; O My Strength, come quickly to help Me.  Deliver My life from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dogs.  Rescue Me from the mouth of the lions; save Me from the horns of the wild oxen.  I will declare Your Name to My brothers; in the congregation I will praise you.  You, who fear the LORD, praise Him!

All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him! Revere Him, all you descendants of Israel!  For He has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; He has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.  From You comes the theme of My praise in the great assembly; before those who fear You will I fulfill My vows.  The poor will eat and be satisfied; they who seek the LORD will praise Him, may your hearts live forever!  All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him,  for dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.  All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him,- those who cannot keep themselves alive.  Posterity will serve Him; future generations will be told about the Lord.  They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, -- for He has done it.

To see Life and Light, man must be born anew by God's Holy Spirit.  God, the Father, has provided the free gift of Life in the Person of His only begotten Son.  So, through true repentance and by faith in Jesus Christ ^{(See Romans 10 verse 8 thru 12.)}, the heart and soul of the natural man, like an ovum, is impregnated with the Seed, the Word, even the very Perfection of God's Love and Light to bring forth a new creation and in the promised resurrection, would be bearing the Likeness of God's risen Eternal Son.  The Infinite God Who transcends time, took the sin's of the unbelieving world, and then allowed His Son Yeshua (Jesus) to hang from a wooden tree (cross) to reap the full fury of the wrath of God's indignation towards mankind's sin.  Yes, Jesus Christ, the Perfect Lamb of God was slain before the foundation of the world, and with the Love of God was made to be our sin, with its resulting judgment of death. In the Lord’s sacrificial death, the believer's sin was consumed away in our Lord’s Body that was made dead by the cruel nature of sin. For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin, because anyone who has died has been freed from the enslavement of sin.  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him.  The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.  In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ^{(Romans 6 verse 6 thru 11. NIV.)}  When God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, God also raised the faithful believer up within Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah), so that even now the believer would live IN Him, by Him and through Him by the Power of God's Holy Spirit of LIFE.

Because Jesus Christ lives eternally, the believer would live IN Jesus and be, as it were, in incubation within the Holy Spirit of Life, so that God may bring forth many sons and daughters of His own Kind, into the Kingdom of His Son's rule.  

How great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.  Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.  And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.  Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.  You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. ^{(1st John 3 verse 1 thru 5. N.A.S.B).}

Make it your free choice.

Turn from your destructive ways.

Say to them, `As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, O house of [uncircumcised hearts]?' ^{(Ezekiel 33 verse 11. NIV.)}

Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Everyone who confesses the Name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."  ^{(2nd Timothy 2 verse 19. NIV.)}

and accept God's provision of Life in Jesus Christ.  

If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of Truth; Whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him: but you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world sees Me no more; but you see Me: Because I live, you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I AM in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He that hath My commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves Me: And he that loves Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. ^{(John 14 verse 15 thru 21.)}

To continue to the next section and chapter, please click Lamentations

Mystery Menu

mailto:excellent.valley@verizon.net

Robert Glenn Pratten