A closer look at our bloodline history
In order to fully understand the quote that you just read, we need to go back to the beginning of Adam’s first sin and what that did to the human race.
Gen 3 (v. 17) Then to Adam He [God] said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree....cursed is the ground for your sake....
Although Eve was deceived and she sinned because of her deception, Adam sinned willfully without being deceived. Adam sinned with full knowledge of what he was doing.[1]
I Tim 2 (v. 13) For Adam was formed first, then Eve. (v. 14) and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
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Adam was charged with bringing sin into the world. The following diagram shows how Adam’s blood line was tainted with sin.[1]
Rom 5 (v. 12) Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men....
So when God put life into Adam, He put the corporate life of the whole human race into one man. Even Eve was not a brand new person; she was out of Adam. But Adam was the total human race which....the book of Acts....brings out.[2]
Acts 17 (v. 26) And He has made from one blood, every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth....
It is crucial that we understand that the human race today is the multiplication of Adam’s one life which was the corporate life of the human race.[2]
I Cor 15 (v. 21) For since by man came death.... (v. 22) For as in Adam all die....
God, however, prophesied that the Redeemer, the Messiah, would come from the woman. It is vital that the seed of the woman alone would produce the Messiah because of the inherited sin nature that comes through the man.[1]
Isa 7 (v. 14) Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
This diagram shows that the Messiah is produced from a virgin woman.
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Each one of us has inherited a sin nature because each one of us has our blood line through Adam after his fall. This sin nature comes through to everyone who is born from a natural father. This includes the Virgin Mary because she too had a human father....[1]
Rom 5 (v. 14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam....
Adam as head of the human race was the source of our human sin nature. Jesus as the second Adam was the source of our salvation.[1]
I Cor 15 (v. 45) ....The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (v. 47) The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
But Jesus’ human nature had to be sin-free in two ways. He had to have committed no sin himself, plus he had to be born without the fallen human sin nature. By being born of a virgin, and by living a sinless life, he qualified to be the sin bearer for us all.[1]
II Cor 5 (v. 21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Many claim that it was impossible for Christ to be overcome by temptation. Then He could not have been placed in Adam’s position; He could not have gained the victory that Adam failed to gain. If we have in any sense a more trying conflict than had Christ, then He would not be able to succor us. But our Saviour took humanity, with all its liabilities. He took the nature of man, with the possibility of yielding to temptation. We have nothing to bear which He has not endured.[3]
Heb 2 (v. 18) For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted. [kjv]
Webster's Dictionary defines this word as: Succor—to goto the aid of, relieve, help; something that furnishes relief.
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Jesus as the second Adam also had to be a direct descendant of Adam. Jesus was the seed of the woman back to Eve. Since Eve was created from the side of Adam, Jesus’ line of humanity came through the woman back to Adam from before the time that Adam sinned.[1]
Gen 2 (v. 18) And the Lord God said, “It is not good that
man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (v. 21) And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. (v. 22) Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. (v. 23) And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Because Eve was taken from Adam before Adam sinned, the Messiah can now be traced back to the first Adam before sin entered the world. In this way Jesus was a descendant of Adam but without the stain of original sin.[1]
Gen 2 (v. 7) 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 being (soul).
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Adam was the head of the human race because all humans came through him. All humans born through Adam’s seed are from his sinful line and all are in need of salvation. Jesus is the last Adam and all born-again humans who have come to saving faith through Jesus have their eternal life source in Jesus.[1]
Rom 5 (v. 17) For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is the source of our salvation....Adam as our source of our humanity brings us separation from God because of inherited sin. Jesus as the second Adam is our source of eternal life and a restored fellowship with God.[1]
Rom 5 (v. 18) Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so.... (v. 19) ....so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
Since Jesus came to dwell with us, we know that God is acquainted with our trials, and sympathizes with our griefs. Every son and daughter of Adam may understand that our Creator is the friend of sinners. For in every doctrine of grace, every promise of joy, every deed of love, every divine attraction presented in the Saviour’s life on earth, we see “God with us.”[4]
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References:
1. Cheryl Schatz, (2006). http://mmoutreach.org/wim/2006/11/20/adam-as-head-of-the-family/
2. Vineyard Ministries. “The In Christ Motif” Tape 7B. The Gospel in a Nutshell, Audiocassette.
3. E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p.117, par.2
4. E.G. White, The Desire of Ages, p.24, par.1
Image #1: Woman in Ministry, (2006). Adam as head of the family. Retrieved from http://mmoutreach.org/wim/2006/11/20/adam-as-head-of-the-family/
Image #2: Woman in Ministry, (2006). Adam as head of the family. Retrieved from http://mmoutreach.org/wim/2006/11/20/adam-as-head-of-the-family/
Image #3: Woman in Ministry, (2006). Adam as head of the family. Retrieved from http://mmoutreach.org/wim/2006/11/20/adam-as-head-of-the-family/
Image #4: Woman in Ministry, (2006). Adam as head of the family. Retrieved from http://mmoutreach.org/wim/2006/11/20/adam-as-head-of-the-family/
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