Adam Was A Black Man – In Honor Of God The Creator

1.  God FORMED Adam

A few years ago, I made the startling discovery in scripture that Adam was a black man. The truth lies under our noses in the imagery of the Book.  First of all, we need to review the truth that God formed Adam:

And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Genesis 2: 7).

Yatsar  is the Hebrew word used for FORMED in the text. Here is the CLUE. Yatsar is used in the following ways:

• earthen vessels (2 Samuel 17: 28)
• potters (1 Chronicles 4: 23; Psalm 2: 9; Isaiah 29: 16; Jeremiah 18: 2 – 4 & 6; Jeremiah 19: 1 & 11; Zechariah 11: 13)
• formed the eye (Psalm 94: 9)
• formed the dry land (Psalm 95: 5)
• God forming body parts (Psalm 139: 16)
• potter’s clay (Isa 29: 16)
• potter’s vessel (Isa 30: 14)
• potter treading clay (Isa 41: 25)

Yatsar is also used in relation to silversmiths who “make a graven image” and fashion a piece of metal into a finished product (Isa 44: 9 & 12). Can you picture the Father shaping and fashioning man’s body parts?  Even more interestingly, yatsar comes from a Hebrew verb which carries the picture of something being spread  into shape (Strong’s in blueletterbible.com).

 

2.  Clay is the “dust”  from which God made Adam

Clay is “dust”  combined of clay minerals such as iron, the component responsible for the color.  It becomes plastic when mixed with water. Maybe this is the reason why water comprises 70 %  of  the human body  composition (Wikipedia.com).  In order to determine the Hebrew meaning and usage of  dust in scripture, I explored the texts in which the Hebrew word was used. However, its usage mainly turned up the word “dust”.   However, God (with His usual sense of humor), revealed in the imagery of the scriptures that he used  clay to make Adam and Eve.

The scriptures further paint a picture in which  God is a Potter who shaped man like clay and from clay. Prophet Isaiah must have been shown a video of the creation of man, because he repeatedly drew the imagery of  Potter God molding and shaping clay into a man. Other writers in scripture also point to this truth:

Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? (Job 10: 9)

But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter (yatsar) ; and we all [are] the work of thy hand (Isaiah 64: 8).

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth (yatsar)  it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? (Isaiah 45: 9)

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter (yatsar) !(Lamentations 4: 2)

Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay. (Job 33: 6)

3. Adam was God’s “potsherd” or earthen vessel

As Prophet Isaiah compared God to the Potter who made Adam from clay,  he warned humans not to strive against God because we are just  “potsherds” or earthen vessels:

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth (yatsar)  it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? (ISaiah 45: 9)

Cheres,  the Hebrew word used in the text for “potsherd” is rendered 9 out of 17 times in the following ways in scriptures:

• earthen vessel
• vessel of earth
• earthen bottle
• earthen pitchers

Since Prophet Isaiah also used the word potsherd as a synonym with clay in Isaiah 45 : 9;  he reinforces the revelation that Adam and Eve were formed from clay.

 

4. What was the color of the clay from which Adam was formed?

Chamar  is the root word for clay used in Isaiah 64: 8) and Job 33: 6).  Scriptures reveal through this word that clay:

• could be daubed (Exodus 2: 3)
• was red (Psalm 75: 8)

When the members of the God Family said, “let us make man/‘adam in our image, after our likeness…” (Genesis 1: 26),  they were speaking about making a reddish man who would derive color from the clay from which he was made.  Amusingly, Adam means reddish or “dyed red”.

Further astonishing revelation in scripture revealed through the meaning of his name confirms that he was indeed a black man.  ‘Adam is the Hebrew word used in Genesis for  Adam or man.  However, ‘Adam   comes from the root word ‘adam   (H 119)  which means “red”, “dyed red”  and “ruddy”.   The similarities between the color  of clay and the description of Adam’s color  strongly confirm the revelation that Adam was a black man.

 

5. What was Adam’s color or race?

What color red was Adam?  Was he bright red?  Well,  I doubt there are races of people whose color is red.  If you Google  “images of red clay” , an astonishing range of  hues turn up.  The red clay color wheel reveals a wide range of colors from red to reddish brown to to pink to brownish. Obviously Adam was not a frank red, but carried one of the colors in the  color wheel as well as the genes for  a variety of  human skin colors.

I would safely say that brown is the dominant hue of  red clay. 

In fact, dictionary.com (2012) defines “red clay” as “brown to red”  in color.

We can safely conclude that Adam our forefather was a black man.

 

6.  Who is a potter and how does he or she form  clay into a vessel?

A potter is someone who makes pottery or “earthen vessels”, the material referred to in scripture. We know from 2 Samuel 17: 28 that  potters of the day made “earthen vessels”  which were derived from clay.  There is no doubt that God made man from clay since the scriptures made this direct comparison.

The  Scriptures of Truth  reveal the following truths about the formation of pottery from clay and therefore the formation of man:

• the potter treaded the clay with his feet (Isaiah 41: 25)
• the potter used his hands to carefully mold the clay into shape (Isaiah 45: 9; Psalm 95: 5)
• the finished product could be dashed into pieces (Psalm 2: 9). The human body can indeed be broken

Can you imagine how God carefully took time to fashion and mold Adam? I encourage you to celebrate the God who created you and to thank Him for His manifold wisdom in creating you in His own image and likeness.

Blessings! Celebrate your creation.

 

King Adam was also commanded to SUBDUE the earth and establish the KINGDOM OF GOD

1. God commanded Adam to SUBDUE the earth

I wrote in the previous post that God made Adam in His image and likeness, thereby establishing proprietary rights to His creation.  Furthermore, God then made Adam King over the earth by first delegated the rights of  direct rule or DOMINION of the earth and its living creatures, including satan and his demons:

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Gen 1: 28).

 

2.  What  did God mean by this command to SUBDUE the earth? 

Kabash (H3533) is the Hebrew word for subdue. I again explored how the word was used in the scriptures in order to paint a picture of what God meant when He told Adam to subdue the earth.  I was relieved to discover that kabash occurs 15 times in 13 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV

• the second reference to the word subdue occurred when Moses spoke to three tribes telling them that they had to go over Jordan with the others and war against the Canaanites until the Lord had driven out His enemies and subdued the land (Num 32: 21-22).
• Joshua 18: 1 showed that the Israelites warred against    the Caananites, taking possession of their cities and property and as a result the land was subdued before them. 
• 2 Samuel 8 is a brief description of  how King David subdued enemy nations in war. He took possession of their territories, placed Israeli forces there, made the people  his servants, made them bring gifts/dues to him.  King David was a terror and his enemies feared him
• King David commanded the people to help Solomon his son, since the Lord had helped him to conquer the nations and subdue them (1 Chronicles 22: 18)
• To subdue means to bring someone else into bondage or make them a servant or slave (2 Chro 28: 10; Neh 5: 5; Jeremiah 34: 11, 16)
• Weapons are used to subdue enemies (Zech 9: 15)

3.  Adam was therefore given the right to exercise military strength over God’s enemy satan

It is  important to twin the words subdue and have dominion because God twinned them in Genesis 1: 28.  In discovering their meanings, we find some important revelations:

• God commanded Adam to treat satan as an enemy and not as a friend
• Most of the references to the action of subduing  relate to the conquest of the Land of  Canaan in which ungodly, demon worshipping nations were replaced with people who God called “a Kingdom of  priests and a holy nation” (Ex 19: 6)
• We can therefore infer that God’s intent when  He created Adam was the deposing of satan
• God also intended that HIS  KINGDOM  OF RIGHTEOUSNESS would be transfered into the earth through an earthly ruler 
• Adam’s job was to fill up the earth with God- like people who would worship and serve Him  AND keep the devil in his place so he would have no territory to occupy.
• Adam and Eve were commanded to rule over the devil with strength;  prevail against him; run him out of their earth; and teach their descendants to rule as Kings and Princes in the earth. 
• If  you scan through the Old Testament, you will discover that the nations of the earth understood the concept of ruling as Kings and Princes in the natural sense.  However, they gave up control  of the invisible realm to the devil, allowing him to subdue them and bring them into bondage of  many heinous sins.
• Time does not permit, but you will see that God called Abraham a Father of  many nations.  Jacob was called a Prince because he had prevailed with God.  Ishmael was also a ruler who produced 12 princes, but ungodly men.

 

4.  There are two realms of  rulership – the natural and the invisible.

Here are some important questions that I would like you to answer:

• Are you ruling  in the natural realm but a victim  to satan? 
•  Are you like God or like satan?
• Are you a member of  the Kingdom of  God or the Kingdom of  satan?
• You will know whose Kingdom you belong to based on the beliefs and lifestyle practices that you pursue
• God’s  Kingdom can be entered only by  a rebirth of that tainted, sinful spirit.  To read more about the transformation of  your spirit, please visit

https://pppministries.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/jesus-said-tha…-be-born-again/

Blessings!

 

Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of God

1.  God made man  with an external likeness similar to His.

Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of God and were intended to rule  in the earth realm and that included ruling the devil.  Tselem (Strong’s H6754) is the Hebrew word used for image. This means that man was made to look externally like God. In other words, God made a form of flesh and blood with physical characteristics such as head, hands, feet etc. To further illustrate, tselem is also the word used for the image of idols/demons such as mice. In other words, people would make images that resembled the demons they worshipped.

God appeared to Job in a vision. Job said:

“…a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image (tselem/Strong’s H6754) was before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying]…”  (Job 4: 15-16)

I will later write that God is not a man, even though He has a form with hands, feet etc. He strongly objects when people make images and call them god as we learn from Romans 1: 23 which said that fools:

… changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image (eikon) made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=image&t=KJV&page=1

The New Testament Greek word Eikon (G1504) is the corresponding for tselem. Since it carries the meaning of external likeness and glory, brilliant light of God, character of  God, we learn that Adam and Eve were created with shining light glowing on them, a reflection of the light of God in whom there is no darkness. The usage of eikon alsoshows that Adam and Eve were also created with the character or Spirit  of God which He put in them when He breathed into them:

For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image  (eikon) and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man (1 Cor 11: 7).

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image (eikon) of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Rom 8: 29)

God… hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=image&t=KJV&page=3

2. God put His brightness or light in Adam and Eve

Dĕmuwth (Strong’s H1823) is the Hebrew word for likeness. Used 22 times in the Old Testament, it also referred to something like carvings that were made in the physical resemblance the thing it was designed to represent (2 Chron 4: 1-3). Likeness or Dĕmuwth was also used in reference to the indescribable brightness  of the glory of God.  Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel saw this brightness or glory  and tried to describe it:

All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining through the clouds. This was the way the glory of the LORD appeared to me. When I saw it, I fell face down in the dust, and I heard someone’s voice speaking to me (Eze 1: 28).

 

the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me…Then I beheld, and lo a likeness (Dĕmuwt) as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber (Eze 6: 1-2)

And, behold, [one] like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength (Dan 10: 16).

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image (eikon) from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor 3: 18).

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image (eikon) of God, should shine unto them (2 Cor 4: 4)

And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image (eikon) of him that created him (Col 3: 10).

Satan wanted to put out the glorious light of God in Adam and Eve who shone like lights in the earth realm. Light is a symbol of life and Apostle John said that “in Him was life and the life was the light of men” (Jn 1: 4).  Maybe Satan suspected that God had given Adam and Eve authority to rule him, so he decided to kill them before they crushed him. Furthermore, he hated light and preferred blackness, so he decided to thwart God’s plan.  Jesus said that believers are the lights of the world.  However, that beast the  devil is a  thief, murderer and destroyer who will freely extinguish the light if you let him (Jn 10: 10).

In spite of the devil’s attempts, some people in scriptures shone with God’s glory or light. After spending eighty days in the Lord’s presence, Moses’ face shone so much that he had cover his face so that the Jews would not be blinded (Exodus 32).  Jesus’ face shone like the sun when He was transfigured on the Mountain (Mt 17: 1-3).  Apostle Paul said that believers can shine with the glory of God and are progressively transformed into more glorious brightness as we spend time with the Lord (2 Cor 3: 18).

3. Adam and Eve lost the glory of God when they sinned and their spirits, once designed to be sinless, were now black and warped by sin

When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost the light of the glory of God and their spirits became black. This blackness may manifest in the face and spirit as heaviness, sorrow, depression and all kinds of  evil. The load of sin became a weight in the once free, sinless spirits.  They allowed the devil to take their spirits captive by giving access to the kingdom of darkness and now needed deliverance from its power to imprison  them in bondage to sin.

Since they partook of the devil’s doctrine, Adam and Eve imprinted into their spirits the wisdom, knowledge, counsel, understanding, evil ways of the devil. By choosing the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they now had free access to it. Adam and  Eve went astray like sheep and all of the human race followed in the same pattern. Their son Cain and their future descendents turned to their own ways, bringing multiplied sorrow and grief to God.

I wish that I had the words to write all that could be said, but pray that this post will serve to enlighten  our understanding of the reasons why we need to be born again. Being born again is to experience transformation and renewal of the spirit back to the image and likeness of our God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Read more at   https://pppministries.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/god-is-the-father-of-spirits/

Blessings at Christmas and remember to worship the Christ who came to crush the head of the devil. Hallelujah.

 

Adam was given an apostolic ministry

This may be strange to most of us, but the Lord gave this to me.  I previously established that the  main function of the apostle is to build the house of God. This implies ruler-ship in the body of Christ. However, there are more elements to the role.  We learnt from Genesis 1: 28 and other scriptures that Adam was created with a five fold purpose to be:

” fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominionover the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

All of Adam’s offspring should have inherited these blessings.  This mandate was reinforced in scriptures for emphasis. For example, Noah was instructed after the flood  to:

” Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of youshall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered (Gen 9: 1,2).

David exclaimed about the wonder of the dominion given to the members of the human race when he said that God had given us ‘dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet” (Ps 8: 6). Paul also reminded us about this in Hebrews 2: 8 when he told the believers that Jesus was given the same dominion when He came to earth as a human.

True dominion and authority in the earth must be taken in a particular context:

1. Adam was created to have dominion as an result of the fact that he was created in the image of God and also as result of his relationship with the creator.  
2. God made Adam and Eve the managers of the earth. God is the owner/landlord.
3. Adam’s perfect relationship with God was reflected in the fact that God walked in the garden in the cool of the day and called to him. This is really the ideal walk-living in the presence of the Lord and living by spiritual revelation. Few people attain to this dimension of relationship with the Lord.
4. Divine visitation is an element of the dominion of man. He must understand his relationship with the Creator and how he inherits all things as a result of this relationship. This is why David exclaimed that man was nothing for God to even consider visiting him. However, God relishes his relationship with His created beings and will visit us in the same way that  He visited Adam, Enoch, Abraham, David and others.
5. David said that God crowned man with glory and honor. The word glory is translated as honor, riches, abundance, dignity, reputation. We were created as  Kings and  Queens. The word honor is translated as “ornament, splendour”. We were created to decorate Him or to bring credit to Him.

 Apostles need to teach these truths to the body of Christ. I am beginning to understand how much God values us and the kind of relationship that He wants to have with His created beings. He wants to walk and talk with us, tell us His secrets and to visit us in our daily lives. He will reveal Himself to those who diligently seek Him. 

Let’s remember that God did not take away the power of dominion from Adam when he sinned. Christ the second Adam restored to us all that had been lost to the dominion of the power of darkness.

Blessings and more when I return.

 

The law of undying love – Adam and Eve

Greetings to the Father, Angels and saints in Christ. I am pressed to finish this post on Adam and Eve. It is rather amusing in a sad sort of way that Adam in his regret called Eve woman when explaining to God about the temptation. Well at least he did not beat her up to the best of my knowledge. Gone were the loving exclamations that she was ‘wife”. Well, we could forgive Adam, because although he was mad with his spouse and himself, he continued in the relationship, going on to bear  three children. There was no lovey dovey stuff here. She was ironically the mother of human rebellion by her submission to the devil.

On the issue of undying love, however, God is saying through Adam and Eve that not even your spouse, with whom you are madly in love, should separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. Your spouse should enhance your purpose and not deter you from it. Even greater still, there is the issue of forgiveness. God is the one who brought up the issue of Adam and Eve’s rebellion in later books of the Bible. How can we forget? How can God forget? Do the angels forget? Are Adam and Eve remembering to today. We might as well forgive our spouses and move on to other issues as married people unless the issues are so serious that they are intractable.

By the time Adam and Eve had gotten over their shame (remember God covered them and kept them alive in mercy instead of killing them), they had made up. By Gen 4: 1, Adam “knew his wife”. See the process of undying love? Forgiven! Adam and Eve were relatively young when they had Cain, Abel and Seth. He was 130 years old when they had Seth. That time span tells us that they did not spend their lives in anger and unforgiveness towards each other.

Actually Adam and Eve had sons and daughters, not just 3 children as I previously mentioned. That’s in Gen 5: 4. Adam and Eve remained sexually active up to the point of his death. How do I know that? First, he had Seth at 130 years of age, then he begat sons and daughters for 800 years after Seth’s birth. That is a total of 930 years at which point he died. I am making the inference that Adam and Eve must have lived for the same period of time by the usage of the family name in  Gen 5:2. Genesis 5 is really the beginning of the family tree of Adam and Eve, therefore where Adam is there shall Eve be also. I hope that I am being clear in my explanation.

Just to capture your attention again, look at the progression in Genesis 5, which is introduced as the book of the generations of Adam. Gen 5: 1 says that God created man. Genesis 5: 2 says that ‘man” is a composite of ‘male and female”. Genesis 5: 2 also reminds us that the married male and female carry one family name – unity of purpose. This is not just for identification purposes, for when a woman marries a man, she is marrying into his destiny and purpose (just as Eve was marrying into Adam’s destiny and purpose).

Women, if he is a rock musician and you cannot stand rock music, there may be a missing link in the marriage unless you can take on as your own some element of what he considers to be his dream. This is just an extreme example, but the possibilities of examples are endless.

You will meet your spouse at some point in his or her destiny. In the law of undying love, you have to fit into each other. Gen 5: 2 says that God called Adam and Eve “Adam, in the day when they were created”. When was Eve created? Is that important? When did you meet your mate? You become one at whatever point of time in the life line that the marriage was created .The issue is how do we work out our oneness with fear and trembling, because I am sure that union of a man and wife, while positional, has to be experienced in reality. This is another mystery concerning Christ and His church.

Blessings (don’t go mad trying to figure it out). God will give us greater understanding of this mystery of the faith.

 

The law of undying love – Adam’s love for Eve

Greetings to the Father, Angels and saints in Christ. Before I post, the Lord drew to my attention Jude 6 which says, “and the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation…” Thanks to the angels who did not follow satan in rebellion, but kept serving the Lord. Blessings on you. How can I bless an angel? Well, we bless them for being faithful. I met Andrew and Patrick recently and meet many more regularly. Angels are real fun and help you with the chores of life. You must get to know them.

Today I would like to briefly talk about the Law of undying love. I was drawn to Adam and Eve. Adam experienced an instant “aha” when he saw Eve, knowing that she was part of him – bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. He had an emotional reaction and a spiritual revelation. This tells us that a man can know who his wife is by some deep inner revelation or conviction. I have met people who said that they dreamt about the individual before even meeting them for te first time.

How does this mysterious “aha” take place? Do you have to be a man to have this experience? I don’t know. The point is that Adam was the astounded one. She was everything he had longed for, although in the depths of his spirit he had previously been fully unable to define all that he needed. According to Gen 5: 2, God confirmed this by calling their name Adam. This meant that they were one and is the basis for the wife taking the husband’s name, notwithstanding the practice of the present age in which we live.

God gave them a common purpose when he said that Adam needed a helpmeet. They were to be fruitful, multiply replenish the earth, subdue it and to have dominion over all the created things. This seems to be another key element in undying love – man and woman working in unity. Adam is the one who called her Eve or life because she was the mother of all living. Did he misname her? Remember that God had the capacity to create humans out of clay. Did Adam become overly fascinated with Eve? Was this the reason she was able to tempt him to disobey God. Got to be more careful with the issue of undying love!

God called Eve “woman” in 2: 22, meaning the one who is married to a man and the one who is opposite to the man. This was done deliberately to convict (in the judgement) the people who say the members of the same-sex can be married. Adam also called her “wife” which is the same hebrew word for woman. People, only a woman can become a wife. Furthermore, she can only become a wife when married to a man.

However, the usage of the word “wife” in the context of Gen 2: 25 tells us that only a woman who is a wife should become naked with a man. It’s not enough just to love the man. You must be married to him. These truths are coming to me as I examine the scriptures at this point in time. It is to the wife that the man must cling and it is for her sake that he must forsake father and mother. Living in what people today call a trial marriage is not acceptable to God. He does not sanction this kind of relationship, because he did not create a trial of marriage. When he joined Adam and Eve, they were immediately married and married for life in a beautiful union.

The skeptics are saying that God does not know what He is doing in relation to marriage. Is marriage on trial? No, we humans are unable to fit what God created because of sin and unbelief.

Blessings and more to come.

Prophetess Mercedes Moss
http://www.pppministries.blogspot.com
http://www.thelordsangels.blogspot.com

 

Follow The Leader, Leader, Leader! Jesus The Lover.

Welcome back! Greetings to the Father, holy angels and saints in Christ. I had my laugh at poor Isaac, but seriously speaking, Abraham and Sarah were great parents. They left Isaac with a godly legacy. Read Gen 24: 63 to see what he was doing when his wife was brought to him.

I would now share an understanding that I received on 3/31/07 about Jesus and the church and this relationship to marriage. Jesus was pierced in His side even as Adam had to be pierced in the side to make way for Eve to come forth. This piercing was the initiating and the deciding moment when Eve became bone of Adam’s bone and flesh of his flesh. Blood and water came out of the Lord’s side when He was pierced, but He was already dead, even as Adam was in a type of death, having no control over the process of the formation of Eve (Jn 19: 33,34). Which organ was pierced? I am not sure, but I am sure that maybe it was His heart.

A search of the internet confirmed what I felt in my spirit (reformed on line.com). Christian Apologetics and Research Theory (carm.org) say that Jesus experienced certain physiological changes due to the blood loss that He experienced. That change is that:

“the heart beats so hard trying to compensate for the loss of oxygen (due to the lack of blood) in the body, that it eventually ruptures. At this point the chest cavity fills with fluid. The soldier pierced Jesus’ side and out came blood and water, signifying that the heart had stopped beating and the blood was settling in the chest cavity. Jesus was dead.”

The point that I am trying to make is that there is a parallel between Jesus’ and Adam’s suffering. Adam would have felt a lot of pain from the surgical procedure and that is the reason God performed the procedure under general anesthesia. Out of the issues of his heart, Adam’s wife was joined to Him. Out of the issues of His heart, Jesus’ church was joined to Him. Jesus is very passionate for His church to be one with Him. In the same way, Adam experienced a deep emotional reaction when he saw Eve for the first time (I am sure that it was this way until he died). This was revealed in his surprised and delighted exclamation in Gen 2:23 & 24:

” This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Pay attention to the note of possession in the words “she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Even the noun to describe this beauty had the word “man” in it. Maybe the syllable “wo” means “wow”! As the originator and founder of the church, Jesus is also her Head. He is everything His church needs, in the same way that the husband is all the man the wife needs. They need no other to fulfill that particular need apart from each other.

Now men, follow the leader!

Jesus gives all authority to His church, put all things under her feet (other passions), instructs, reproves, corrects, guides, supplies the needs, provides resources, keeps the church linked to Himself, keeps the lines of communication open in prayer, praise and worship. Jesus also intercedes for the church, is her advocate before the Father, gives the gifts of the Holy Spirit to empower her to function.

In the same way, the husband is the Jesus to his own wife. In order to benefit, the church must respond and submit to the Lord and so must the wife submit to her husband according to the scriptures. The husband is to:

• put the wife in authority over her enemies (?ex girlfriends) by giving her his name and by allowing her to function in the authority of his name.  They should have no opportunity to rejoice over embarrassing her (e.g they have your cell number and call you still or vice versa. Cut that out!).
•  Jesus has ONE church. He is to have no other church (woman) beside her.
• The husband must put all things (other women including his mother and sisters in subjection to his wife).

Men must understand that they should break these connections in order to be happily married. These connections are the demons of the marriage even as satan and its demons (the gates of hell) are the enemies of the church.

If you read Songs of Solomon, you will find that the wife is not just a passionate lover but also a warrior. She is like an army. If a true wife has reason to believe that there is another “church” (false religion), she is going to rise up in arms. Now, since the evidence of the life of Christ in the believer is the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5: 22,23), a husband like Jesus will produce in the wife and children the fruit or evidence of:

“love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

A married man obtains favor from the Lord since Pro 18:22 teaches the wisdom that “whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.”

Why? Married men have been given a job offer to become like Jesus and to become the best CEO ever of “My Family Inc”. The family on earth therefore becomes your church.

Hello, Pastor Husband, Prophet Husband etc!

Women, don’t think you can get away with murder! God requires a lot from the husband, but if you do not play your part,  Jesus will have to cast out every unfruitful branch that does not bear fruit.

Get the picture? Blessings!

Prophetess Mercedes Moss
http://www.pppministries.blogspot.com
http://www.thelordsangels.blogspot.com

 

Restoration – Adam the kingdom man

I diverted to share the exciting message that Adam was created to rule as a King and Priest and that although he lost his position by coming into darkness by agreeing with the devil to fight against God, Christ came as the second Adam to restore us back to the kingdom. This should be good news for people of all nations since rulership and the priesthood was God’s original intent when He created Adam. Let’s try to quickly track the events of creation. First of all, God, whose origin we are yet to find out (don’t bother to try!) saw that the earth was covered with water, formless (tohuw) and void (bohuw).

While I am not a scholar, Strong’s Hebrew translation says that both words respectively mean formless (a wilderness) and empty, void and waste. This repitition emphasizes the state in which the earth existed and explains why God was in a hurry to bring beauty out of this wasteland.

The earth was also covered by darkness. How did it become like that? I don’t know. This was day one – He made a general inspection. Based on His assessment, the Spirit of God hovered (moved – rachaph) upon the face of the waters and the creative processes began with the speaking of the words, “let there be light”. Light was created first because 1 Jo 1:5 says “…that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all”. James 1: 17 says that God is the “…Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

This light is the glory of God into which we gaze and into which we are transformed according to 2 Cor 3: 18. This transformation is a beautification project that really requires no exorbitabt external make up, because God is looking for the ornament of “the hidden man of the heart” which is the inner light of a meek and quiet spirit (1 Pet 3: 4). While this scripture speaks about women, its principles can be applied to all believers since it speaks to God’s criteria for those who will ascend into His holy hill (Ps 24: 3-6).

The Psalmist spoke of this transformation project in Ps 42:11, 43:5 when he described God as the “health of my countenance”. This is why Moses’ face shone so brightly that the people of Israel could not bear to look on it. This is the face of the worshipper since the principle is that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh (Lk 6: 45). The Psalmist also spoke in Ps 149: 4 of the beautification of the meek (those who fear God and will not do their own thing as we say in the Caribbean).

If we abide in the word of God, light will shine through and upon us according to Psalm 119:105 which says that “thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”. When we dwell in the presence of God, we dwell in light because God is His word (Jn 1:1). When we “see” the word we are seeing and becoming the essence and nature of God. When we see Christ (in spiritual revelation), we are seeing and becoming the essence and nature of the word, who was the light that shineth in darkness (Jn 1: 5,-9).

We were created in this image of light (He lighteth every man that cometh into the world – Jn 1: 9 meaning He was the Father of Lights. We are called be the image and likeness of that light, according to Jesus in Mat 5:16 when He said that we are to let our “light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”. This verse implies something about light – it is comes through the features, it is manifested as good works and its revelation brings glory to God.

What is the context in which Jesus spoke these words? The light is the revelation of the nature of God through the evidence of His presence in poverty of spirit (humility), intercession (mourning), spiritual hunger (spiritual revelation will be the outcome), mercy, purity of spirit (in the hidden man), peacemakers and those who foolish enough to be persecuted for the gospel. Blessings and more to come

 

The authority in Jesus’ name

I am all ready to talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but we need to wage warfare on the authority in the name of Jesus. What’s in a name? His name embodies all that He is – salvation, deliverer, healer, Son of God, Almighty One etc and all the truths revealed about Him in the word. In other words, when demons hear the name of Jesus, they have to comply because this is all He is (James 2:19). You will find this to be true because when he was on earth they used to beg him not to harass them (Mk 5:12).

Hmmm. Members of the police force and military understand more than anyone else the power of the name, because they have receive authority delegated to them by the state and the President to carry out actions to keep law and order and in battle, to fight war. When a policeman says, open up in the name of the law, you had better comply or he or she will take the necessary steps to subdue unlawful activity. If they see illegal activity in the streets or anywhere else, they will stop you and make an arrest because the state says they could do so.

When a child says, daddy says, you had better comply because daddy will chasten you for disobedience. God’s people are members of the Kingdom of Christ and we reign as kings in the earth. Hey! God is king and the earth belongs to Him (Ps 2, 24). You can read the Psalms for more on this. Therefore, as kings in His kingdom, we have the authority given to us by God to advance God’s manifesto or decrees, to arrest the works of the enemy and to capture our enemies and bring them in to captivity to the obedience of the name of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 10: 3-5). The demons already know the power in the name, so any believer who exerts that authority even when the demons resist will have great victory.

Heaven help the believer who is ignorant of the power in the name. You are walking around unarmed and at risk. Anything God says goes. He knows all things. No, He is not arrogant. He is God. He created the earth and the people and we belong to Him. Do we tell Chrysler how to design their vehicles and what to do with them after? No. Why does God need people to enlist in His armed forces on earth? Well, it really started with Satan who was an anointed angel, very powerful and “fine” as Americans would say. check him out in Ezekiel 28. He mutinied against God and inveigled some powerful angels to join him. He was crazy because God did not roll over. There was war in heaven (Rev 12:7). Jesus chuckled when he remembered the sight of him falling to the earth like lightening (Lk 10: 18). Now he had nowhere to live, so he had to find a home in the air (Eph 2:2) and in the lower parts of the earth (called hell) where no one wanted to go (Ps 16:10; 63:9; Eph 4:9; 1 Pet 3:19).

The lower parts of the earth was the place where he has his headquarters and used death and hell to harass humans before Christ came to deliver us from his kingdom and take those who believe in to the Kingdom of God (Col 1:13). He also set up a kingdom in the air and has spirits ruling over nations and people as Daniel found out in chapter 10. God, however, put some of his demons into maximum security prison in the earth since they were so evil (Jude 6). That is where we must cast them to (don’t let them wander about looking for places to dwell). If they know that you will do that to them, they will freak out and that is why they begged Jesus for a lesser evil of casting them into swine (Mt 8:31).

Now, the devil himself, being a former chief angel in heaven, was allowed by God to remain free in a sense. However, he was not satisfied just to fall out of heaven and become the prince of the power of the air. He wanted total domination and had to find a way to get it, so he deceived the people that God created into believing that they could become like gods by disobeying Good by eating the fruit in the middle of the garden of Eden (Eden was supposed to be a perfect place, but don’t be shocked – he tried to backstab God Almighty who sees and know all things!).

As a result,  Adam  lost the dominion that God had given him over the earth and Satan got the control to a degree. He became really nasty to humans, his intent being theft, murder and destruction by any means and in any forms (Jn 10:10). That is why he has demons assigned to all kinds of nasty and wicked acts including homosexuality, lesbianism and sexual perversions. some of you will get mad, but this is true. His names are not pleasant. A few are – the accuser as Job found out in Job 1 and 2; father of disobedience (Eph 2:2); deceiver (Rev 12: 9); the dragon (Rev 20:2). More to come!