We have been meditating in a sketchy form on some points in the book of Genesis, the last being 3’15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel
The high drama of Eden garden involved, in the first scene, the two teacher-teees, the serpent and first two human couple, and in the second scene, all the first characters and, now, God, pronouncing judgements. It’s the real drama of mistrust and lack of faith in the Creator. It’s also a case of high treason, a conspiracy of an insider of a kingdom with an outsider to overthrow the internal government. Death immediately supervene in the aftermath of this. God promised a seed (singular) of the woman that would come and bruise the head of the seed of the serpent (Satan). It’s prophetic; it speaks of the coming of the the Secret Mystic of God
The fall of man in the garden was immediately followed by the suzereignity of death and sin: natural disasters, the nature of another Kingdom, weak humanity, loss of relationship with God and the loss of immortality path. The lack of faith in God which is to believe what is contrary to His nature and instructions created a monster. The monster man is everything against Divine nature and order ; it’s crooked, not upright as God. The man should be annihilated or destroyed; he shouldn’t be allowed to live. I think it’d be good for God to destroy all and begin again the divine creative process, peaking in a new man. But the Lord God chose what later was to be termed as the path of redemption – the process that will make man upright, make him uncrooked, a new man with another DNA, so righteous as to be to dwellable by God. This is all the entire books of the bible is all about, the very lietmotif of life itself.
The bible history of man, the wisdom and the prophetic books; the songs of the psalmists, the parable-stories of the bible, the penteutoch all through to the 27 books of the New Testament are all about this, obtaining the original plan of God for man. God, Who was prepared in all eternity for this calamity had His mystery plan kept from the foundation of the world; God had His Secret Mystic that neither the serpent nor the tree of knowledge of good and evil could decide; this would bring the New Man, the promised seed that will bruise the head of the serpent
The NIV bible reads: “My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
The more interpretative amplified bible renders the same passage as “(For my concern is) that their hearts may be braced (comforted, cleared, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love that they may come to have all abounding wealth and blessing, assured conviction of understanding, and that they may be more progressively more intemately acquainted with and may completely and more accurately and thoroughly know that secret mystic of God (which is) Christ…. God had His Secret Mystic before the foundation of the world; He had Him ready for the process of redemption.
But long before His physical manifestation, man also went through the law to come to that determined course in God’s heart, “but what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh” (the sin-force in man). The final verdict of the New Testament after so many millennials of trying the path of law is…..all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Then the Secret Mystic of God finally happened on the scene, suffered and learnt obedience through what He learnt and was obedient to His Father and God, even the ignininous death of Cross of Calvary. But we see Jesus (the Secret Mystic of God) who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death…. that by the grace of God he should taste death for every man (Hebrew 2:9). ... that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil (vs 14).
The Secret Mystic is Jesus Christ; the mystery kept secret is Jesus Christ. The one is the other and the other is the one. It’s all about obtaining another race, a man born from heaven, with the DNA of Christ. It’s not about obtaining a reformed man that was trounced in the garden of Eden but a complete removal of one and establishing of a completely New Man. .…. according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death,, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10). The Secret Mystic of God removed the old man, brought in the new man and abolished the suzereignity of death, bringing Life and immortality to light by the gospel. This is what the gospel about: a Christ-DNAed new man, who is imnortal, full of LIFE (Zoe Aeon), ruling over death (cannot anymore be cowed by death) and of a new race called the race of Christ
Father thank You for before-time and thank you for the present. Thank You for the Lord Jesus Christ, Your Secret Mystic, prepared from the foundation of the world. Oh, the depth of the riches of your wisdom and knowledge! Your judgements are unsearchable and Your ways are past finding out. What shall we say to all these? Oh, who shall lay any charge against God’s elect? Father thank You who thought of us before the world began and we are free from any charge; we are a new creature, a new man. Thanks so much again for the secret mystic of God that brought us back to the heart of God – and we are on course.
Thank You, Lord
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