The recreation of humankind.
The last blog stated that humankind became absolutely helpless because of the decision in the Garden of Eden. The sinful humankind could not change its miserable predicament no matter how much it wanted. God and only he could replace the fallen human spirit – nature. He had achieved the re-creation of humankind as promised when the angel sounded the seventh trumpet. Because of his selfless love, God determined to send a Savior to the world and rescue the helpless humankind from slavery in the kingdom of sin and darkness. While the helpless humanity’s progenitor was still in the garden of Eden, God promised to send a Savior. Genesis 3:15. God addressed Lucifer; however, the message was for Adam and Eve. God ensured the fallen and helpless humanity that he would do what humankind could not do. He promised to perform a radical transplant to restore humankind to himself.
God promised, unconditionally, that he would remove from humankind the sinful spirit, the sinful life, and replace it with the perfect human spirit, or life, of the promised Savior. “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26. How did God accomplish the radical transplant? “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of the woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.” Galatians 4:4 – 5.
God, at the incarnation, gave humankind the promised new human spirit in Jesus Christ. The spirit God put in Jesus is the same order of spirit he gave to the representative of the old humankind, Adam, at creation. Thus, Jesus is the legitimate representative of the new humankind. But Jesus shared the body that humankind had at the time of incarnation. The sinful humankind could not be rehabilitated or made good. It had to die an eternal death. Because Jesus conquered temptation and his spirit became perfect, the Holy Spirit sanctified his body. God, at the incarnation, began accomplishing his mystery announced in the sixth trumpet. Revelation 10:7.
Continued in the next blog.
