Adam as a Past Life of Jesus
Christ
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Judaism, Christianity
and Islam all accept the account of Adam
and Eve as part of their religion. The Bible
gave the distinct title of "Son of
God" to only three personalities in
the entire Bible: Adam, Melchizedek, and
Jesus. So, it should not be surprising that
these three personalities have a connection
that goes well beyond coincidence. This
connection is proof that these personalities
were indeed the same soul appearing in different
incarnations. This shows that the Bible
is the story of the sojourn of the "Son
of God" beginning with Paradise lost
and ending with Paradise restored. The following
information describes just the Adam-Jesus
connection.
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The Hebrew word for "Adam"
is "man". The title "Son of Man" is a reference
to Adam. The phrases "Son of Man" and "Son of
Adam" are inter-changeable.
Jesus referred to himself
using the phrase "Adam Kadmon" [Son of Man] to refer
to the heavenly apocalyptic figure who is to come. Paul used
the phrase "Adam Kadmon" as the archetypal man created
in God's image who was the first and perfect representative
of humanity who would return at the end of time and restore
all things.
God's judgment upon
Adam resulted in his reincarnation:
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"For dust you are and to dust you
will return." (Genesis 3:19) |
Talmudists interpret
this verse this way: Because Adam sinned it was necessary for
him to reincarnate to make good the evil committed in his first
existence; so he comes as David, and later is to come as Messiah.
The Bible mentions David reincarnating
for the people:
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DAVID: "Instead,
they will serve the Lord their God and David their king,
whom I will raise up for them." (Jeremiah 30:9)
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In the traditions of
the Talmudists, the soul of Adam reincarnated in David, and
that on account of the sin of David against Uriah it will have
to come again in the expected Messiah.
Out of the three letters ADM (the name
of the first man) the Talmudists always made the names Adam,
David and Messiah.
Both Adam and Jesus are given the title
of "Son of God":
ADAM: "..the son of Seth,
the son of Adam, the son
of God." (Luke 3:38)
JESUS: "I
believe that you are the Christ, the
son of God."
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As previously mentioned,
the Bible gives the distinct title of "Son of God"
to only three personalities in the entire Bible: Adam, Melchizedek,
and Jesus.
God declares the "sons
of God" to be divine:
| SONS of GOD: "I
said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of
the Most High.'" (Psalm 82:6) |
Jesus declares himself the "Son
of God":
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SONS
of GOD: "Jesus answered them, 'Is
it not written in your Law, 'I have said
you are gods?' If
he called them 'gods,' ... what about the one whom the
Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world?
Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said,
'I am God's Son?'"
(John 10:30-36)
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Both Adam and Jesus are referred to
as "the first born" of every creature:
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ADAM: "The
Lord God formed the man
from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and the
man became a living being."
(Genesis 2:7)
JESUS: "Who
is the image of the invisible God,
the first-born of
every creature" (Colossians 1:14-15)
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Adam ("ben elohim") is translated
as "Son of God" meaning Adam was the first born of
God.
Both Adam and Jesus are referred to
as rulers of God's creation:
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ADAM:
"Be fruitful and increase in number;
fill the Earth and subdue
it. Rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over
every living creature that moves on the ground."
(Genesis 1:28)
JESUS: "These
are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the ruler of God's creation."
(Revelation 3:14)
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Adam is referred to as the "father"
of the human race:
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ADAM:
"God blessed them and said to them, "Be
fruitful and increase in number; fill the Earth
and subdue it." (Gen. 1:28)
ADAM:
"Your first father
sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me." (Isaiah
43:27)
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Jesus and the Messiah are called "father":
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JESUS: "I and
the Father are
one." (John 10:30-33)
JESUS: "He will be called Wonderful
Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)
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The Bible states that divinity dwelt
in both Adam and Jesus:
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ADAM: "Then
God said, "Let us
make man in our image,
in our likeness." (Genesis 1:26)
JESUS: "All
the fullness of deity
in bodily form." (Colossians 2:9)
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In the Bible verse below, Paul refers
to Adam as "the first man" and Jesus as "the
second man":
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FIRST
and SECOND MAN: "The
first man was of the dust of the Earth,
the second man from
heaven. As was the earthly
man, so are those who are of the Earth; and as
is the man from heaven,
so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we
have borne the likeness of
the earthly man, so
shall we bear the likeness of
the man from heaven."
(1 Corinthians 15:47-49)
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Paul refers to Adam as a "pattern"
of Jesus:
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ADAM as a PATTERN of
JESUS: "Nevertheless, death reigned
from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over
those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did
Adam, who is a pattern of
the one to come [Christ]." (Romans 5:14)
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The Greek translation
of the word "pattern" is "tupos" which is
defined as: An impression made by a stamp, an exact image, an
exact model, a copy, a type, an example. In context, the phrase "who
is a pattern of the coming one" ("ejstin tuvpo tou'
mevllonto hos estin tupos tou mellontos") refers to Adam
as a copy of Christ.
In the Bible verse below, Paul refers
to Jesus as the "last Adam":
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The FIRST and LAST
ADAM: "The
first Adam
became a living being; the
last Adam
[Jesus], a life-giving spirit."
(1 Corinthians 15:45)
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Jesus reveals himself
as "the First of God's creation" (human-divine being)
and "the Last of God's creation" (human-divine being).
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JESUS: "I
am the First and the Last."
(Revelation 1:17)
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The Son of God's "first
incarnation" was as Adam and the "last incarnation"
of God's Son was Jesus.
In the Book of Isaiah,
God also expresses himself as the "First" and "Last":
| GOD: "I
am the First and I am the
Last." (Isaiah 48:12) |
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| 9. Identical Immortality: Immortal from the Beginning |
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God created Adam as immortal, but the
partaking of the knowledge of good and evil made him mortal:
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ADAM: "You
must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, for
when you eat of it you
will surely die."
(Genesis 2:15-17)
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John reveals that Jesus
is immortal and was with God in the beginning:
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JESUS: "He
was with God in the beginning."
(John 1:1-2) |
The prophet Isaiah also
referred to the Messiah as both immortal and
God:
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MESSIAH:
"And he
will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty
God,
Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace." (Isaiah
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Both Adam and Jesus were at the beginning
of creation:
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ADAM: "But
at the beginning
of creation God
'made them male and female.'" (Mark 10:6)
JESUS: "I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the
Beginning and
the End." (Revelation
21:6)
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Adam is the "Logos":
Jesus is the "Logos":
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JESUS: "In
the beginning was the Word
(Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. He was with God
in the beginning."
(John 1:1-2)
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Adam was the "image" of
God:
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ADAM: "Then
God said, "Let us make
man in our image, in our likeness." (Genesis
1:26)
JESUS: "The
god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers,
so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that
displays the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God." (2 Corinthians
4:4)
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| 13. Identical Sacrificial Result: First and Last
Sacrifice |
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The first sacrifice made was for physical
needs:
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ADAM: "The
Lord God made garments of
skin for Adam and his wife
and clothed them."
(Genesis 3:21)
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The last sacrifice was for spiritual
needs:
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JESUS: "He
sacrificed for their sins once for all
when he offered himself."
(Hebrews 7:27-28)
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In the beginning, Adam had the Tree
of Life:
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ADAM: "In
the middle of the garden were
the tree of life and
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." (Genesis
2:9)
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Adam's transgression banished humanity
from the Tree of Life:
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ADAM: "So
the Lord God banished him from the Garden of
Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side
of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing
back and forth to guard the way to
the tree of life." (Genesis 3:22-24)
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Jesus' sacrifice for transgression restored
humanity to the Tree of Life:
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JESUS: "To
him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat
from the tree of life,
which is in the paradise of God." (Revelation 2:7)
JESUS: "Then
the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God
and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street
of the city. On each side of the river stood
the tree of life,
bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every
month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing
of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The
throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and
his servants will serve him." (Revelation 22:1-3)
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| 15. Identical in Near-Death Experiences: "Being
of Light" |
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In the Jewish
Kabbalah, Adam appears to people after immediately after
death:
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ADAM: "So
it is that when a man is
about to depart from life, Adam, the first man,
appears to him and
asks him why and in what state he leaves the world.
He says: "Woe
to you that through you I have to die."
To which Adam
replies: "My son, I transgressed one commandment
and was punished for so doing; see how many commandments
of your Master, negative and positive, you have transgressed."
(Jewish
Kabbalistic book Zohar I, 57b)
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During one particular Jewish woman's
NDE,
Rene Turner, the Messiah appeared to her immediately after
her death:
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MESSIAH: "I
became aware that I must be dead ... I arrived in an
explosion of glorious light into a room with insubstantial
walls, standing before a man about in his thirties,
about six feet tall, reddish brown shoulder length hair
and an incredibly neat, short beard and mustache. He
wore a simple white robe. Light seemed to emanate from
him and I felt he had great age and wisdom. He welcomed
me with great love, tranquility, and peace (indescribable)
- no words. I felt, 'I can sit at your feet forever
and be content,' which struck me as a strange thing
to think/say/feel. I became fascinated by the fabric
of his robe, trying to figure out how light could be
woven!" -
Rene Turner, a Jewish woman, who she met the
Messiah during her death experience.
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Jesus also appears to people during
NDEs:
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JESUS: "I
felt a wonderful feeling wash over me - a sense of peace
and power. I felt love and a sense of wonder as I realized
that any question I could come up with would be answered.
There was Jesus. I was stunned and said, 'I don't believe
in you.'
"He
smiled and said the etheric equivalent of 'Tough shit,
here I am.'
"Looking
at his eyes, I asked, 'You mean, you've been with me
the whole time and I didn't know?' And his reply was,
'Lo, I am with thee, always, even beyond the end of
the world.'" -
Jeanie Dicus, a Jewish woman, met Jesus during
her near-death experience and Jesus asked her if she
wanted to reincarnate.
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| 16. Identical Karma: Required to Pay for Original
Sin |
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The connection between Jesus and Adam
is fundamental to Christian doctrine. Their connection is the
foundation holding together the entire Christian system of election,
redemption, atonement, justification, regeneration and sanctification.
The idea of Jesus "paying the penalty" (or "karma")
for the transgressions of humanity makes no sense without this "hidden"
connection to Adam and his "hidden" mission of bringing
knowledge of good and evil to humanity. Without Adam being a
previous incarnation as Jesus, the gospel message of Jesus paying
for the sins of humanity appears to be an incredible injustice.
According to the Bible,
Adam brought divine knowledge of good and evil into the world
which resulted in both positive and negative consequences. Knowledge
(i.e., gnosis) of both good and evil is a divine characteristic
and a fundamental principle of
early Christian Gnosticism. Jesus came to reverse the negative
consequences of Adam's transgression by paying his karmic debt.
This becomes apparent when the Bible often draws parallels between
Adam and Christ:
The obedience of Jesus
reversed the disobedience of Adam:
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ADAM
and JESUS: "For just as
through the disobedience
of the one man (Adam) the many were made sinners,
so also through the obedience
of the one man (Jesus) the many will be made
righteous." (Romans
5:19)
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These Bible verses describe
the work of Adam being undone by the work of Jesus. This is
an excellent example of how divine justice is meted out in the
Bible and in Eastern religions. The only person who can satisfy
divine justice by reversing the work of Adam would have to be
Adam himself or an incarnation of Adam. And because Paul states
in the Bible verse above that Jesus was the only man who could
satisfy divine justice by paying the "karmic debt"
of Adam, this implies that Adam was indeed a previous incarnation
of Jesus.
After Satan caused Adam
and Eve to sin, God passed judgment upon them. In doing so,
God revealed a remarkable prophecy which is that humanity's
redemption will come through Eve - through the birth of a son:
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SATAN and EVE:
"Then the Lord God said to the woman,
'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent
deceived me, and I ate.' So the Lord God said to the
serpent, 'Because you have done this, 'Cursed are you
above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You
will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the
days of your life. And I will put hostility between
you (Satan) and the
woman (Eve), and between
your (Satan's) offspring
and hers (Eve's offspring);
he (Eve's offspring)
will crush your (Satan's)
head, and you (Satan)
will strike his (Eve's offspring's)
heel." (Genesis
3:13-15)
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Notice how this Genesis
verse refers to "Eve's offspring" as "he"
(singular, not plural) meaning Eve's offspring will be a single
man which suggests Eve's offspring will be her son. This Genesis
3:15 verse, where God pronounces judgment on Satan and Eve,
is so remarkable I want to break it up into four parts to analyze
it fully. It not only supports the idea of Adam as a previous
incarnation as Jesus; but also Eve as a previous incarnation
of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Let's separate God's judgment
upon Satan and Eve from Genesis 3:13-15 giving only Genesis
3:15:
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SATAN and EVE
(paraphrased): "And I will
put hostility between Satan and Eve, and between Satan's
offspring and Eve's son; Eve's son will crush Satan's
head, and Satan will strike Eve's son's heel."
(Genesis
3:13-15)
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We can now break down
Genesis 3:15 into these four parts:
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(a)
God will put hostility between
Satan and
Eve.
(b)
God will put hostility between
Satan's offspring
and Eve's son.
(c)
Eve's son will crush
Satan's head.
(d) Satan
will strike Eve's son's
heel.
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Let's examine each part separately:
(a)
God will put hostility between Satan
and Eve:
Here is part (a) of
the Genesis 3:15 prophecy:
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SATAN
versus EVE: "And I will put enmity
between you (the serpent,
Satan) and the woman
(Eve)." (Genesis 3:15)
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Part (a) of
the Genesis 3:15 prophecy is fulfilled in the Book of
Revelation below:
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SATAN versus MARY: "When the
dragon (Satan)
saw that he had been hurled to the Earth, he pursued
the woman (Jesus'
mother Mary) who had given birth to the
male child (Jesus)."
(Revelation 12:17)
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These verses make sense only if Eve
was a previous incarnation of Mary. The mother of Jesus
was certainly persecuted by Satan when her son Jesus was
killed. These verses imply that Mary was paying the "karmic
debt" for Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden
in the same way that Jesus paid the "karmic debt"
for Adam.
(b)
God will put hostility between Satan's
offspring and Eve's son:
Here is part (b) of
the Genesis 3:15 prophecy:
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SATAN'S
OFFSPRING versus EVE'S SON: "...and between
your (Satan)
offspring and
her's (Eve's son,
the Messiah)." (Genesis 3:15)
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Part (b) of the
Genesis 3:15 prophecy is fulfilled when Jesus, Mary's son,
referred to those who wanted to kill him as Satan's "offspring":
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SATAN'S OFFSPRING versus MARY'S SON: "You
belong to your father the devil, and you
want to carry out your father's desire. He was a
murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies,
he speaks his native language, for he is a liar
and the father of lies." (John 8:44-45)
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So part (b) of
the Genesis 3:15 prophecy reveals the hostility between
the enemies of Jesus (Satan's
offspring) and Jesus (Mary's
son) which is even more suggestive of Eve being a previous
incarnation of Mary.
As a side note, the Bible also teaches
us how to recognize Satan's "offspring" from God's "offspring": "This
is how we know who the children
of God are and who the
children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do
what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does
not love his brother." (1
John 3:10)
(c)
Eve's son will crush
Satan's head
Here is part (c)
of the Genesis 3:15 prophecy:
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EVE'S SON verses SATAN: "...he
(Eve's son) will crush your (Satan's) head..."
(Genesis 3:15)
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Part (c) of the Genesis
3:15 prophecy is fulfilled when Jesus conquered Satan at the
cross when he paid for Adam's transgression.
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MARY'S
SON versus SATAN: "When he had received
the drink, Jesus said, “It
is finished.” With that, he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit." (John 19:30)
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These verses suggest even more that
Eve was a previous incarnation of Mary. Paul uses the same language
when he writes how the "God of peace" will "crush
Satan under the feet" of those who believe (Romans
16:20). This "God of peace" in Romans is a reference
to the Messiah as written in
Isaiah 9:6.
(d)
Satan
will strike Eve's son's heel
Here is part (d) of
the Genesis 3:15 prophecy:
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SATAN versus EVE'S SON: "...
and you (Satan) will strike his (Eve's son's) heel."
(Genesis 3:15)
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Part (d) of the Genesis
3:15 prophecy is fulfiilled in the following verses:
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SATAN
versus MARY'S SON: "Then
Satan entered Judas,
called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to
the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard
and discussed with them how he might
betray Jesus."
(Luke 22:3-4)
SATAN
versus MARY'S SON: "Carrying his
own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which
in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There
they crucified him,
and with him two others - one on each side and Jesus
in the middle ... Near the
cross of Jesus stood his mother ... When he had
received the drink, Jesus said, "It
is finished." With that, he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit." (John 19:17-18; John 19:25;
John 19:30)
SATAN
versus MESSIAH: "They
have pierced my hands and
my feet." (Psalm
22:16)
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So making the appropriate substitutions
when taking all the interpretations of parts (a)
through (d), we can understand the Genesis
3:15 prophecy of God pronouncing judgment upon Satan and
Eve this way:
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SUMMARY:
God has put hostility between (a)
Satan and Eve, and between (b)
Satan's offspring and Eve's son; (c)
Eve's son will crush Satan's head, and
(d) Satan will strike Eve's son's
heel.
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So now we can understand the "hidden"
meaning behind Genesis 3:15 when God pronounces judgment
upon Satan and Eve:
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SUMMARY:
God put hostility between Satan and Eve,
and between the Satan's children and Eve's future
son (the Messiah); the Messiah will crush Satan's
head, but in doing so, Satan will strike the Messiah's
heel.
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In summation,
Genesis 3:13-15
is the first Messianic prophecy mentioned in the Bible and
is a reference to an offspring of Eve who will be the Messiah
and who will pay for the transgressions of Adam and Eve.
What is interesting is how this verse refers to the Messiah
as the "offspring of Eve." While it is true every
human being can be considered to be an "offspring of
Eve," this verse makes better sense when interpreted
to mean an offspring born directly from Eve's own womb.
This means Eve would need to reincarnate to give birth to
the Messiah. The woman who gave birth to Jesus was, of course,
the
Virgin Mary.
Traditionally, the Catholic Church has believed that
Mary was not only a virgin
when she bore Jesus, but that
she herself was born without
sin. Thus, a mystical
tradition has existed concerning Mary which lasts even to
this day.
But what makes this
Eve-Virgin Mary connection important is how it best explains
- in a logical manner - the cosmic reasons for Jesus' sacrifice
and death and how it satisfied divine justice. The ancient
concept of divine justice can be summed up beautifully in
the Bible as "an eye for an eye." This concept
of divine justice was not limited to just the early Hebrews
because it is a concept that is practically universal. The
more ancient religions of the East referred to the concept
of an eye for an eye as "karma." It demands transgressors
pay for their own transgressions. No one else can pay for
your own transgressions but you. Thus, because it was Adam
and Eve who transgressed, it would have to be Adam and Eve
themselves who paid. God's judgment upon them was that Eve
would have to bear a son who would suffer as a consequence
for their transgression. The only real and logical way this
could be done would be through reincarnation. Eve would
have to reincarnate to bear a son - the reincarnation of
Adam. His tremendous suffering at the cross - and the suffering
it would cause herself - would satisfy divine justice and
pay for the transgression committed in Eden.
When we consider the orthodox
view that Jesus and Mary were not the reincarnations of
Adam and Eve, it makes much less sense when we talk about
the so-called
substitutionary sacrificial nature
of Christ's death.
The big question is this: How can divine justice be satisfied
when an innocent person suffers and pays for the transgressions
of someone else? Without reincarnation, it makes complete
nonsense. It only makes sense if the innocent person was
a reincarnation of the guilty person paying for their transgressions.
According
to the
Catholic Encyclopedia,
there was a Jewish tradition that the skull of Adam was stored
at Golgotha where Jesus was crucified:
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"There
was a tradition current among the Jews that
the skull of Adam,
after having been confided by Noah to his son Shem,
and by the latter to Melchizedek,
was finally deposited at
the place called, for that reason,
Golgotha. The Talmudists
and the Fathers of the Church were aware of this tradition,
and it survives in the skulls and bones placed at the
foot of the crucifix. The Evangelists are not opposed
to it, inasmuch as they speak of one and not of many
skulls. (Luke, Mark, John, loc. cit.) Calvary is 140
feet south-east of the Holy Sepulcher and 13 feet above
it. The early traditions mentioned at the beginning
of this article still cling to it.
The chapel of Adam beneath
that of Calvary stands for the first. A picture
in it represents the raising
of Adam to life by the Precious Blood trickling down
upon his skull. An altar is there dedicated to
Melchizedek."
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The following Bible verse describes
Jesus' crucifixion at Golgotha:
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"Carrying his own cross,
he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic
is called Golgotha). There
they crucified him,
and with him two others - one on each side and Jesus
in the middle." (John 19:17-18)
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When Cayce was in one of his many psychic
trances, a question was put to him about Jesus as follows:
Question: "When
did the knowledge come to Jesus that he was to be the
Savior of the world?"
Answer: "When
he fell in Eden." [Cayce Reading 2067-7] |
 According
to Cayce, the incarnations of the Christ-soul were as follows.
Amilius
the ruler of the lost civilization of Atlantis;
Adam
the first "son of God" and "son of man";
Enoch
the patriarch who journeyed to heaven to receive mysteries;
Hermes
the sage and architect of the Great Pyramid;
Melchizedek
the mystical High Priest and and ancient King of Jerusalem;
Joseph
the son of Jacob who became the Prince of Egypt;
Joshua
the leader of the Israelites into the Promised Land;
Asaph
the music director and seer who served under David and Solomon;
Jeshua
the scribe of Moses who helped write the Torah;
Zend
the father of Zoroaster who founded the
Zoroastrianism
religion; and finally
Jesus
the Christ who overcame death and will return again to establish
the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth [See Cayce Reading 364-7]. According
to Cayce, the entire Christian Bible is the story of the Christ-soul's
long struggle to attain Christhood - the perfect unity of the
human with the divine.
The belief in many incarnations
of Jesus is not a new belief. The early Christian group known
as the
Ebionites taught that the Holy Spirit had first incarnated
as Adam and later reincarnated as Jesus. Other Jewish Christian
groups such as the
Elkasaites and
Nazarites also held this belief. The
Samaritans believed that Adam had reincarnated as Seth,
then Noah, Abraham, and even Moses. The
Clementine Homilies, an early Christian document, also taught
many incarnations of Jesus.
What is interesting
about Cayce identifying Adam as a previous incarnation of Jesus,
is how the Jewish
Kabbalistic book called the
Zohar describes Adam appearing to people after their death.
Assuming the concept held by many early Christians of Adam as
a previous incarnation of Jesus, the Zohar agrees with the multitude
of
near-death accounts where people are met by Jesus after
their death.
Cayce affirmed how the
Christ-soul, by possessing the body of Adam, ultimately became
the first human being who attained the unity of the human with
the divine in the person named Jesus. It should also be noted
that sin did not begin with Adam according to Cayce, but had
its origins in spiritual realms before even the creation of
the Earth. We can therefore assume this was Adam's redemptive
intent all along - to be savior of the world.
Christ is thus seen as the last Adam,
the "one man" who by his obedience undoes the results
of the disobedience of the first (Romans
5:12-21). Jesus recapitulated
the stages of Adam's fall, but in reverse order and quality.
It is understandable how shocking this statement of Cayce's
is to most fundamental Christians, how it makes Jesus appear
to be the author of sin at the human level. However, Cayce in
no way states that Jesus as the Christ was guilty of any sin
of any kind. At that stage of his personal and cosmic development
his obedience was flawless, his relationship with God perfect.
In Cayce's words:
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"... the
perfect relationship to the Creative Forces or God,
the Father - which the human Jesus attained when he
gave of himself to the world, that through him, by and
in him, each entity might come to know the true relationship
with the Father." (Edgar Cayce)
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Cayce also
affirmed
Jesus would reincarnate again
- the so-called "Second Coming."
Cayce unlocked the mystery of
Adam and Eve and why there are two separate and contradictory
creation accounts described in
Genesis 1:25-27 (the first creation account) and
Genesis 2:18-22 (the second creation account.) The first
creation account describes how the man and woman were created
at the same time in God's image and after the creation of the
animals. The second creation account describes how man was created
first, then the animals, and then the woman from "Adam's
rib."
Cayce associated the first creation account
of Genesis 1:25-27 with the creation of Amilius - the first
Christ-soul -and the first expression of Divine Mind (the
logos) BEFORE his first incarnation into a physical body
identified as Adam. Cayce revealed how the first creation account
involved a first wave of souls leaving heaven and inhabiting
Earth. This event is described in the Bible as the time when
the "Sons
of God" mated with the "daughters of men"
(Genesis
6:1-4) producing the "Nephilim."
This entanglement of the Sons of God with the flesh of ape-like
bodies occurred through the accidental misuse of their free
will. Cayce identified this entanglement of souls with flesh
as the Biblical account of the "fall
of the angels" as described symbolically in
Revelation 12 and in the
Book of Enoch - a book considered to be part of the Hebrew
canon and which
Jesus' brother, Jude, quoted from in the Book of Jude. Enoch,
according to Cayce, was also an incarnation of the Christ-soul
whose trip to heaven describes in detail the fall of the angels.
Cayce associated the second creation account with a
second wave of souls incarnating to Earth as "sons of God"
led by Amilius who voluntarily became entrapped in flesh as
Adam in order to assist the first wave of entrapped souls. Cayce
identified this second wave of souls with the creation account
of Adam and Eve where Amilius altered the process of physical
evolution in order to create more appropriate physical bodies
for them rather than the ape-like forms they possessed and became
entangled with. This process is described symbolically in
Genesis 2:21 where the woman was formed from "Adam's
rib." Adam was the first "son
of man" and "Son
of God" having the Christ-soul incarnated into physical
form. Cayce also uses the name "Adam" to refer to
the entire group of souls who Amilius aided into incarnating
as the five races on five separate continents [Cayce Reading
900-227].
Cayce identified Amilius to be the ruler of
the lost continent of Atlantis whose wife was named "Lilith"
- another non-physical soul-entity. Cayce identified Lilith
as being the first physical incarnation of Eve. Interestingly
enough, there exists a ancient legend associated with a spirit-entity
named Lilith apart from the Cayce readings.
 According
to Cayce, not only was Jesus and Adam the same soul in different
incarnations, but the Virgin Mary and Eve were also the same
soul in different incarnations. Cayce also revealed that Adam
and Eve (and therefore Jesus and Mary) were "twin
souls". When Cayce
used this term in the readings, he was not referring to "soul
mates" which is a
different concept. Basically, a soul mate is a soul - or a group
of souls - who have shared so many lifetimes that they resonate
to the same pitch or vibration, so to speak. Soul mates understand
each other like no one else can. This acquired understanding
gives soul mates the ability to help each other in ways that
would be difficult without the deep bonding that has occurred
through the multitude of incarnations together.
Twin souls, on the other
hand, are two souls who share a common purpose or higher ideal.
They do not necessarily have to be married or have had previous
marriage incarnations. While the "soul mate" relationship
is largely built in the physical realm, the "twin soul"
relationship evolves more from a commonality in the spirit realms
- at the idea or ideal level. It is in this sense that the Adam/Eve
and Jesus/Mary relationship is considered by Cayce to be a "twin
soul" relationship.
The Cayce readings state that Mary,
Joseph, and Jesus were affiliated with
an Essene community
based on Mount Carmel. It was a continuation of the "school
of the prophets"
begun by Elijah, Elisha, Samuel, and ultimately Melchizedek.
Although the Essenes are not mentioned in the Bible, what Cayce's
generation would have known about them came only from the writings
of Josephus, Philo, and Pliny the Elder. Because the
Dead Sea Scrolls
were not discovered until 1947, Cayce could not have been influenced
by them because he died in 1945. But much of what Cayce revealed
about the Essenes was later verified by the Dead Sea Scrolls.
According to the Cayce
material, the Essenes were a religious community consisting
of both Jews and Gentiles, men and women, whose purpose was
to prepare for the coming of the Messiah. The word "Essene,"
according to Cayce, means "expectancy." Josephus wrote
that the Essenes were known for fortune-telling. Cayce described
them spending their time recording experiences of "the
supernatural or out of the ordinary experiences; whether in
dreams, visions, voices, or what not" (1472-1). Cayce revealed
the Essenes as students of astrology, numerology, and reincarnation.
The Dead Sea Scrolls describe the
Essenes as an authoritarian, highly regimented community which
controlled every aspect of its members' lives. The
Manual of Discipline
specifies that members were to turn over all money and property
to the community after a year's probation. Qumran was located
at about a four-hour walk from Jericho, most likely from a desire
to be separated from the world. Their theology stressed a good
versus evil dualism. Their writings describe a conflict between
a "Teacher of Righteousness" and the "Wicked
Priest" which some scholars believe refers to
the struggle among early Christians
between James and Paul.
The Essenes anticipated a final war between the
"sons of light" and the "sons
of darkness." The
scholars agree that there are many interesting similarities
between Jesus and the Qumran community. Other similarities can
be found in the life and ministry of
John the Baptist.
Cayce revealed that, due to her great virtue, Mary was
chosen by the Essenes at around the age of thirteen for intensive
spiritual training in preparation for the conception of the
Messiah. Mary's election as mother of the Messiah occurred during
a special ceremony in the temple at Mount Carmel, in which an
angel lead her by the hand to the altar. Remarkably, this agrees
with early Christian writings discovered in Egypt after Cayce's
death:
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In
the
Infancy Gospel of James,
Mary is presented to the Lord at the age of three when
her father Joachim "set her on the third step of
the altar, and the Lord God gave grace to her ... and
she received food from the hand of an angel." Cayce
and the Infancy Gospel of James agree that Joseph was
chosen to be Mary's husband by lot. They also agree
that Joseph was much older than Mary. Cayce revealed
their ages at the time of their marriage as thirty-six
and sixteen, respectively. Meanwhile, the Infancy Gospel
of James states that Joseph was a widower, and although
different versions disagree as to Mary's age, the most
common figure is sixteen. Cayce and the Infancy Gospel
of James agree that Jesus was born in a cave. Cayce
also revealed that the Essenes admitted women which
agrees with the writings of Josephus.
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More about the Cayce revelations concerning the Essenes
can be found at the
Jesus Story website.
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