The Origin of Adam, The Heavens and the Earth.

This page is primarily an extra, or a ‘Notes’ page, to be read with the page titled “Think Covenant” in Part Two although it doesn’t appear there because that page is long enough already and I also felt it would disrupt the flow and pattern of thought. Also, with this content here being the frontier of my studies, and also ongoing, I didn’t want any subsequent tweaks or even changes I may need to make here to taint an article that I’m already confident my understanding of is at least on the right track. It would be best if the page ‘Think Covenant’ was read first otherwise I can see how many people reading this page here might start to think I’ve departed from the straight and narrow!

So, basics first. Adam was the first man on the Earth, and the Earth is only 6000 years old. Did you grow up being taught that? Well I certainly did and I believed that for decades simply because I was taught “the Bible is true no matter what your mates and all your school teachers tell you”. It is my hope that this here provokes you into deep thought though because it really doesn’t suffice just to answer all our critics with “because the Bible says so” when we can’t find a sensible answer when we are asked all those very valid questions like where did Cain get his wife and who was he afraid of when he left the land? And what about the rocks and fossil records clearly showing a different story and also indicating death was around well before Adam etc?

To be able to accurately interpret scripture we must learn to think as the Bible authors did, and they were highly poetic and figurative in so much of the biblical text. Since I began thinking in terms of covenant, I have realised the Bible is neither a science book nor a history book and must not be read in that way. Genesis 1 is getting clearer to me but still not enough for me to confidently write about here quite yet, although things do become much clearer from Gen 2. Here we read that God made Adam from the dust of the ground, or the land as some translations say, and you may already know that land refers to the nation, just as I might say something like ‘right throughout the land‘ meaning throughout my country. The diligent Bible student will see that dust is sometimes used figuratively for people, for example Num 23:10 “Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number one-fourth of Israel”?; also Job 10:9, where dust refers to the non covenant person and clay is seen as figurative for people moulded by God, as also with the Potter and the clay in Jer 18 in which the clay clearly refers to covenant Israel. (It is very interesting that where in English we read the same word dust in these passages, the LXX translates the Hebrew word in Numbers as ‘sperma’, seed, but this same Hebrew word in Job as ‘ge’, earth, land, or soil. Now I’m not a scholar but to me it seems as though the LXX is paraphrasing here and the translator clearly understands the intention of the author in Num 23).

Now let’s look at the word ‘make’. This next scenario is not likely, but out of all the people in this country someone could ‘make’ me Prime Minister. They obviously wouldn’t be biologically making me though, in this case the ‘making’ would be positional, not biological. And what I am proposing here is that God took Adam from among the many already existent peoples, the dust, and covenantally ‘made’ him ‘from the dust’, that phrase figuratively meaning ‘chosen for kingship’. See 1 Kings 16:2 for another example and Isaiah 47:1 for it’s use in dethroning a person/nation and returning them to ‘dust’ (*more real interesting notes about Adam at the end).

God then made Adam into a living being, with ‘living’ in this sense being an elevated spiritual covenantal status (but importantly remembering ‘dead’ too as still being a covenantal status, but ‘in the flesh’ ie under Law). In Matthew 8:22 we see Jesus referring to people (in this case covenant people) as been ‘dead’ as we do right throughout the New Testament, and probably the most clear example of this terminology for me being when Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:5 that ‘we were ‘dead’ in trespass and sin’ and are made ‘alive’ in Christ ie ”resurrected” when they came into the New Covenant, ‘in Him’. Returning to the last paragraph about creation, Paul also says that in Christ we are a ‘new creation’. Quite clearly this must be covenantal because, as a believer, I’ve still got my same physical body as before I knew Jesus.

Regarding death, it’s important to see the difference between “death” and “the death”, ie whereabouts and why we do or don’t see the definite article in our English translations, but that’s a very big study and belongs to another page and another subject altogether that I plan to do about our understanding the term ‘the resurrection’. Getting a grip on that really does help cement together the whole biblical picture and help see why those guys who say Jesus returned in AD70 might not be as crazy as they originally sounded to us.

Moving on. So Adam was a spiritual man until he ‘ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’. To “eat” is figurative of learning from, or learning something – the idea behind that being that by eating something it becomes part of us, eg when a nation ‘eats’ the nation it has conquered, and another example being when John is told to ‘eat the scroll’ in Rev 10:9. And ”The knowledge of good and evil“ seems to be a figurative term for the ability to determine or decide for one’s self what is good and evil, what is helpful and harmful ie to judge, or to do what is right in one’s own eyes.

Summing up and presenting the all important practical bigger picture view I would broadly say that Adam was a pre existing guy of an, as yet to me, unknown origin, was made ‘alive’ when he was put in spiritual covenant with God but it appears that somehow he challenged God’s laws and made judgements himself ie he went his own independent way, what we have been taught as ‘The Fall’, and we also know about that covenant which God then established with Adam using terms such as being ‘in the flesh’.
Paul makes it clear though that this Old Covenant system, ‘The Law’, still leads to death and this is “the death” that Adam died immediately he ‘ate’ and broke God’s commandment. He was still in covenant with God but he’d gone from being a spiritual man to becoming a man subject to ‘the flesh’, the law. We still need a covenant that brings us back into life.

And hopefully from that we can see how Jesus in His role as the last Adam led people from being in covenant with God under Law that leads to ‘the death’ to, now in His role as the Son of God being the Second Man not from the ground but from heaven, being in covenant with God in Christ, to life in the Spirit. Paul says it like this “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death”.

Both Adam and Jesus were federal heads, covenant heads, this basically means for the layman like myself, that these two men were representatives of the many. We approach God not through our own works/efforts but through our representative, our covenant head, Jesus Christ who is our righteousness.

((There is a NOTE ABOUT THE SEED OF WOMAN at the end, it is so important but as yet I don’t know where to fit this in to keep the flow going)).

Do I have all the answers or can I always explain a specific Bible verse? No. But, please look at this visual. It’s a partially completed jigsaw.

Do we know where all those unused pieces fit yet? Of course not. But is the partially built jigsaw incorrect just because the other pieces haven’t found their place yet? Of course not! Can you see what I’m trying to say?

People sometimes tell me ‘but we all think we’re on the right track and the other guy has got it wrong, how do you know you’re right William’? Well, I don’t. But, please now look at this visual.

We can be pretty confident what the jigsaw theme is now can’t we. You see, at the start we might connect up a couple of easy tree leaf pieces and guess this is a forest scene, we may even boast to others we have the scene worked out already, but in reality it’s only when the puzzle becomes more complete that the more reassured we can become that we are accurately working out the picture on the box lid and the tree is not a key detail at all.

Now please imagine this, and this is equally important. Imagine not long after starting the puzzle above we find 10 pieces that we can easily piece together that clearly make an ocean going cruise ship and we straightaway think we’ve got a seaside scene or something like that. As time goes by we continue to build the puzzle, all the while wondering when and where we get to fit in this ship section. But, the more of the puzzle we build, the more baffled we become until in the end we realise that these pieces just don’t belong and perhaps our older brother might just be hiding somewhere laughing at us, after having mixed up our jigsaws again (yes, I’ve played that trick before on my brothers)!!

And this is my point. In the first picture, we still believe we might just fit a cruise liner in there somewhere but by the time of the second picture we know we’ve got a cruise liner that doesn’t belong in that puzzle and using that analogy my point is that we must never be dogmatic. And my question to both myself and to others now is – how well do we know our Bibles? We must be real with ourselves. How much and for how long have we really studied? ie how much of the completed puzzle have we actually built, rather than having multiple isolated blocks of 10 pieces that we have accumulated that we can’t quite fit in anywhere ie all the doctrines we dearly hold on to even though when put under a biblical microscope it can be shown not to hold water? You see, I was wrong in the past, I’m ashamed now of some of the things I said and wrote as an early Christian, I just blindly took these ‘cruise liner’ blocks and assaulted the eardrums of anyone within range, it was only later that I discovered they didn’t fit. I then went silent for a decade when I began to think for myself and let every Bible verse challenge my dogmatic beliefs, but there comes a genuine point on our journey when we realise that we can say with ever more confidence that we at least think we’re on the right track now. Yes, I’m sure I still do have some minor points wrong, but think about it, as more of the puzzle is pieced together the remaining ‘isolated blocks’ get smaller, and smaller in importance too, and they’re discarded one by one as the jigsaw becomes ever more completed. As time goes by I am ever more confident that there were huge blocks that were taught to me as a child, and are still taught in churches today, that don’t belong, and that someone has deliberately been confusing our puzzle – umm, I wonder who, the older brother maybe? These are the pieces that I’m trying to get you to realise need discarding, they just don’t fit and they bring total confusion in the church.

Ending then in one sentence, I’m proposing that there was plenty going on before Adam arrived on the scene (more on that in part two below), that Adam was the first covenant man, king, and priest who ultimately fell short of the mark and with that understanding comes a totally clear view of the next part here, a subject even many Reformers shied away from, The Book of Revelation…. (simply because they were looking through the wrong lens and they knew what they saw through their futurist lenses was crazy and were wise enough to keep quiet and avoid any embarrassment).

Part Two – Understanding The Book of Revelation.

Some of what follows below on this page, especially the ‘Where Now?’ paragraph, would for me, not too long ago, have been stepping well outside what I accepted or considered as being rational for a ‘Christian’ man’s paradigm. However, the more I search for truth, the more jigsaw pieces come together, the more logic seems to lead me to look here and I really encourage you too to carefully consider all you will read below. One day I may recant and rethink some of the things that appear here, but please remember, the only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

It is well known amongst students of the occult and mystery schools that ‘Christianity is a synthesis of religions that precedes it’. The more I learn though the more I would understand it like this – that it only appears that way because the Bible authors are deliberately writing in a manner that is relevant and familiar to their audience and the surrounding other/older religions, for example Pagans baptised by immersion, and they had priests who not only made sacrifices but also ate the sacrifice and drank it’s blood, to name but just two examples of practices contemporaries of Jesus’s teachings would be fully aware of when they saw John baptising and Jesus talking about drinking His blood at the Last Supper.

With regard to searching out this all important context of certain Bible passages and themes, I’ve spent a lot of time learning, within the limits of what an outsider can, about the occult, witchcraft, Freemasonry, seances, spiritism, and all their links to ancient sorcery, etc etc, and I now believe this is maybe something every leader/pastor should do (like Moses ‘was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds’, Acts 7:22, most likely too even courtly magic), just so we can recognise their practices which, once we know what to look for, can clearly be seen all around us in everyday life as well as in modern church too, each denomination having its own form of occult practice which many churchgoers participate in, pastors included, genuinely thinking they are worshipping God. Some tricksters know what they’re doing though, this was just one comment I picked up from an occultist forum. A certain newcomer to magic had just bought a Bible to which another replied, ”So you bought a Bible? You can do a crazy number of occult things with Psalms, and that’s just one book. Prosperity magic, protection, blessings, curses, etc. Christianity has way more loopholes than you think, and they are inherent to the overarching system”. Please dear reader, don’t just blindly trust your church leaders, do think for yourself, we are warned about wolves in sheep’s clothing, and if your church has any influence at all, it will have a wolf lurking amongst you too.

This occult stuff has always been around, it’s clear to me it was going on when Adam arrived, is right in the open throughout the Old Testament and yes folk, it is still around today although it generally goes unnoticed in the western world nowadays – until we know what we are looking for, then we realise it’s everywhere, simply hidden in plain sight all along.

This is a photo taken of the alter in Durham Cathedral which I noticed last year. The official narrative may say one thing but regarding whether it’s The Son of God or the Sun God Helios who’s being worshipped in this building, it’s pretty clear to those who have eyes to see. 

Now, occult simply means ‘hidden’. And that’s the interesting part. Keeping in mind all of the above mentioned on this page, there is clearly something going on already when Adam arrives on the scene yet we live in a world where these secrets that I’m trying to discover to help me make more sense out of my Bible are deliberately kept hidden from the masses, and I do believe that generally only the initiated get to really know about what is known as the pre history era and what this world is really all about. 

I’ve been told the books that we want to read have all been burned in the libraries like Alexandria for example or that the book burning during the Second World War finished off any original survivors. And from what one old soldier personally told me was the first destination the Americans went to when they got into Baghdad I would guess that is pretty much spot on, although some do speculate that the vaults of the Vatican hold a lot of interesting information. 

You may ask is, or why is this important? Well, this became important to me when I was trying to unravel the Book of Revelation, and then especially important afterwards, and you’ll see why later.

We all know this is a book about the end, but it was a very illumined lady who helped me realise something so simple – that to understand Revelation, the end, we must ask ourselves, the end of what? Well, it’s obviously the end of whatever the beginning was. So, we must therefore start by trying to understand Genesis, meaning ‘the beginning’ (see** for some interesting info but not essential for here). 

The Understanding of Revelation Unfolds Before our Eyes!

So, since I’d already come to understand the covenantal nature of Genesis (already described in section 2 on this site), I then applied what the lady said about first understanding the beginning to then understand the end, and this helped me understand what Revelation, the end, is all about and looking through the Preterist lens it became so absolutely plain obvious – Revelation is John warning, in Old Covenant language his audience would fully understand, about the impending end of the covenant God made ‘in the beginning’ with Adam. As one ANE (Ancient Near East) historian puts it, ”Revelation can be understood as a covenant lawsuit because it uses the structure of an ancient legal case to indict Israel for breaking its covenant with God and to pronounce judgment, culminating in the ultimate vindication of the faithful. It functions as a heavenly court with God as the judge, Jesus as the witness and advocate, and John as the prosecutor delivering the charges in the form of visions, which are interpreted as legal charges and sentences”. This was indeed fulfilled in AD70 when this covenant finally came to an end with the destruction of the Temple and with it everything that went with the Old Covenant. This fulfilled the feasts of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement (consider Jesus here in the role of the perfect High Priest coming, ie the Parousia, out of the Heavenly Temple after presenting His own blood), and the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles where it is confirmed that now the Old Covenant has passed away, God now tabernacles with man in the fully established New Covenant in Christ who is the True Temple in the New Heavens and Earth.

The New Heavens and New Earth.

Just a very brief paragraph here on a subject a whole book could be written about but just like Michael Schumacher didn’t need to know every mechanical detail of how his car worked to win races, neither do most of us need to know the scholarly stuff to go and share the Gospel. Race technicians and theologians do their necessary stuff, but the rest of us just need to make sure we’ve found the right team, then go do the application, in our case it’s sharing the Good News and demonstrating the Kingdom!

Back to the New Heavens and Earth. The people of the Ancient Near East*** perceived the gods as ruling from the heavens and the people being down on earth. The rulers of God’s people are likewise figuratively known as ‘heavens’ and the people are the ‘earth’. Moses referred to heavens and earth with the heavens being the priesthood and the earth being the people. When Jesus said heaven and earth, the covenant people, will pass away but my words will not, He was saying the Old Covenant system will pass away but His words will remain. Indeed, He is the New Covenant, Jesus Himself said He IS THE RESURRECTION, the resurrection of Ezekiel 37 and this introduced the New Heavens and Earth of Revelation, Hebrews 12:22 confirming we have ALREADY COME to the New Jerusalem. This site is titled let’s think for ourselves and instead of me doing all the thinking now of how to write all the references here to show all that, can I encourage you instead, every time you read those words in your Bible now, just see how they fit when you put them through that new lens of understanding. That’s what I did over time and guess what – it all makes sense at last! Jesus simply relived Israel’s history, becoming the “true Israel”, or the head of Israel, and perfectly obeying God where Israel failed, such as the wilderness trial of each. This “recapitulation” shows Jesus fulfilling Old Testament prophecies, redeeming Israel’s past and inaugurating the New Covenant and the New Heavens and Earth at His Parousia, the Day of Atonement, in AD70. 

The Millennium.

This part wouldn’t be complete without a mention of the so called Millennium.

Once I’d realised the Preterist lens was the one that really gave me clear vision, there was still one real tough nut to crack for me, the so called Millennium. Once the New Heaven and Earth became crystal clear though that was the key to this because we know the Millennium comes before the New Heaven and Earth so now we can clearly see this so called Millennium is the period after the Resurrection but before 70AD, so roughly 30-70AD when Jesus ruled through the early church with a rod of iron over the Old Covenant system which ran parallel with the New for 40 years – the one generation, ‘this generation’ of Matthew 24:34, the time God gave the Jews to repent because it wasn’t His wish any should perish. Another key to cracking this one is discovering that the word ‘thousand’ is a figure of speech for ‘completeness/fullness’ and Paul talked about the fullness of the times having arrived already, present tense to Paul – so the fullness of the times can clearly be shown to be the Millennium, the figurative ‘thousand’ years (just like the idea of the cattle on the figurative ‘thousand’ hills in Ps50 ie ‘all’ the hills; and ‘all’ the years (of the Old Covenant are completed now) – remember, the Bible never says ‘Millennium’, that is the clever futurist deception, the Bible simply uses the figurative word ‘thousand’ and ‘thousand’ is clearly used figuratively throughout scripture. Plus this whole Millennium doctrine itself only crops up in one book, Revelation, and that in itself qualifies it for potential ‘toxic doctrine’ subject matter and with such huge implications at stake, great consideration is prudent if you’ve been taught in church about a future Millennium reign).

Earlier in the site I mention the importance of looking at things through the lens of Jew and Gentile, and if we do that here then lions laying down with lambs (Jews and Gentiles resting in Christ, ie Paul’s ‘mystery’), no more death (the Law which bought death has gone and the Spirit brings life) and all these figures of speech eventually make sense, although some do take quite a bit more sussing out than others! As does 1 Thes 4 and….

The Rapture Doctrine.

Questioning this doctrine is very controversial today in the churches I grew up in but once we understand everything we’ve looked at so far we realise that the so called ‘rapture’ just cannot be. It just doesn’t make any sense at all, there’s nowhere for that jigsaw piece to fit. But, I hear you say, what about 1 Thes 4? This passage took some time to work out but eventually I did and again we need to look to Paul’s such wonderful use of Old Testament typology for the answer. 

The coming down from heaven with the blast of the trumpet is the antitype of Moses and Sinai ie Jesus, the New Moses coming down THE SECOND TIME (the parousia, like Moses came down the second time) from the real Mountain where God dwells, not 40 days after the first ascension but in 70AD, 40 years after the first ascension, bringing not the Old Covenant Law but the New Covenant with Him, fulfilling the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement, and wait for it, from rabbinic tradition itself, Moses is said to have descended on the tenth day of the seventh month – the day of the feast of Atonement – talk about shooting oneself in the foot, that’s like Rabbis dropping a nuclear bomb on their feet….!!
‘Caught up in the clouds’ has Daniel 7 in mind and the vindication of the suffering saints. With regard to ‘meeting the Lord in the air’, first please look at Matthew 25 and discover the context and exact meaning of the word ‘meet’. Here, the bridegroom is met AND ESCORTED BACK TO THE BRIDE for the bride to be with the groom forever. By writing ‘meeting the Lord in the air’, Paul is spiritualising Sinai once again, it’s not the covenant people meeting with Moses and escorting him back from Sinai with the Law but the New Covenant people meeting Jesus, not up the mountain but in the air, in the spirit, and bringing Him down to us forever, remember He IS the New Covenant ,Emmanuel, God with us, and we are the temple where God dwells.

The passage is talking about the fulfilment of the type mentioned in Joshua 5:9, the ‘rolling away the reproach of Egypt’ 40 years after leaving Egypt, the antitype being the rolling away of the slavery of the Old Covenant and the full establishment of the New Covenant, 40 years after Jesus ministry began, in AD70 and God tabernacling with man, not some crazy doctrine about floating up to the sky 2000 plus years later…

I haven’t mentioned much about polar opposites on this site, but this is just another one of those huge number of examples I’ve made a list of that we must learn to think polar opposite to what we are taught in church. This example here being that life is not about how we are taught to work our way up to heaven one day to meet God, it’s all about Emmanuel, God with us, God coming down from heaven to dwell with us.

If you’ve made it this far, you probably don’t need any more convincing anyway with regard to the importance of the events of 70 AD, the pivotal point for me in the whole of time as we know it, but this next part just absolutely nails this Old/New Covenant issue for me, as it should also for any other diligent and open hearted believer too. 

The Blood Avenger/Kinsman Redeemer. 

Think typology again. In Numbers 35 we read about how killers and murderers were to be treated. Again, if you’ve made it this far, I’m sure you will be both keen and competent to read the chapter and look at the details for yourself because once we start looking through the right lens we hardly need a teacher – our vision has become so clear that we see things clear when we read them ourselves. So here’s just a brief summary. 

We know that everything in the OT foreshadows or points to Jesus Christ and here is the application of that regarding that chapter. If an innocent man is murdered, the Kinsman Redeemer could become his Blood Avenger (it’s the same Hebrew word). The innocent men in the case we are looking at with this point are all the early martyrs, including Jesus Himself, murdered by the Jewish priesthood. Jesus then takes the role of Blood Avenger but according to The Law, which was still operative until 70AD don’t forget, this avenging must happen within one generation, not 2000 plus years later. No problem. Jesus Himself, quoted Moses, when He called the leaders a wicked and perverse generation, hinting at the covenant curses of Deut 32. The Blood Avenger then brings ‘these days of vengeance’, Luke 21:22, upon that generation that ‘will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world’, Luke 11:50, upon Jerusalem when it becomes ‘surrounded by armies’ in 66AD, Luke 21:20, and also fulfilling Rev 6:9, ‘When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God’, and specifically verse 10 “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood”? Jesus’ death on the Cross atoned for the people’s sins but there was still tis issue of the blood spilled on the land. Ever merciful Jesus gave the stiff necked people another 40 years to repent because ‘it’s not God’s wish any of them should perish’, and many did repent, before ‘The Day of the Lord’, and that’s not a Sunday like I was taught growing up but ‘The End of the Age’ in 70 AD, the ‘sign of the Son of Man’ – the destruction of the temple, because Jesus is the true Temple. And that’s my interpretation of events which led to the ‘full redemption of the body’, the corporate body of believers in the Jewish Messiah, the ecclesia, the remnant, in A.D. 70. That is also the context for the correct interpretation of the very often misused quote “vengeance is mine saith the Lord”. So, with regard to the Blood Avenger, Revelation is about the just trial of the murderers and their judgement once proven guilty. It’s all so crystal clear when we look through the correct lens.

Where Now?

Well, if you’re still here, a big bravo because you will almost certainly be a teachable person undergoing a paradigm shift – and for me it truly was a rather scary experience at first especially as there’s no safety in numbers in the UK in 2024…!

And this is the forefront of where my journey has taken me. It took me a while to realise this, but we eventually ask ‘so if the Bible is, on the face of it, fulfilled then what comes next’? Well, if we take that same aforementioned principle, namely, to understand the end we must understand the beginning, then applying that to work out and understand what comes AFTER Revelation, ‘the end’, we must therefore understand what came BEFORE Genesis, ‘the beginning’. And logic tells me whatever Adam was called to do when he was called out of the world he lived in, that will be what the Church’s mission is now in the New Covenant, when we are called out of the world we lived in. Chiastic exegesis, a sequence of words, phrases, or themes that is repeated in reverse order around a central pivot point, is virtually unheard of in modern church but it does bring in an extra dimension here. The Bible begins by telling us that Adam was called and subsequently failed, pivots around Jesus’ death and resurrection, and ends in AD70 with man redeemed in Christ and put back as Kings and priests in Eden and to know what our mission has been since then, remembering the mirror reversal we therefore need to know what Adam’s world was like before he was chosen/created. With both Adam and ourselves being priests we both had or have a role of leading people to God. Returning now to the point at the beginning of this part two section, and that’s why all this occult stuff is so so important. The better we know our enemy the better equipped we are equipped for battle. I do believe it’s more than just leading people to God, the same serpent that was there in Genesis is still around today (serpent being figurative of course) only now, in Christ we have the victory over this serpent. However, there victory involves battle and just as Joshua had to fight to take his Promised Land, we have to fight to take ours.

To me that has become so logical yet no Preterist teacher even that I’ve heard wants to explore this ‘final frontier’ as I call it. Probably because not only is that a concept that so few consider but maybe also due to the fact that obtaining information is, as we have seen, virtually impossible. And for those who don’t know that we’ve all been taught fake history and fake science and that virtually all that we see around us is almost total deception, please know that for just one tiny but relevant example, most modern era cosmologists were Jesuits (Jesuits were set up to lead the Counter Reformation and today, under their nice outer casing lies a very very sinister organisation (indeed, a quality and pattern not exclusive to Jesuits!)), including the guy who invented the Big Bang theory! Then there’s fossil records along with what we find in the rocks, death amongst these supposed pre Adamic creatures, especially violent death amongst early homo sapiens, when death is only supposed to come in with Adam and I’ve concluded that virtually everything we are taught as little kids is total nonsense to brainwash us from birth with the evil world agenda. Seriously, if you really start to think about it, does any of it really make sense? I mean look at just one subject that interests me, the skies, and look at the dark side of the moon – this means that with standard cosmology the orbit of the moon around Earth, plus the rotation of the moon on its own axis AND the rotation of the earth on it’s axis are so absolutely perfectly synchronized over millennia, PLUS, all that while both earth and moon each orbit the sun – on an elliptical curve! All of which seems not only most absurdly unlikely by chance but mathematically statistically impossible and applying Occam’s Razor to this would tell me to ignore the supposed Tidal Locking explanation too. Plus, the moon just so happens to be exactly the right size and distance from the sun to perfectly cover it during a solar eclipse, and it’s similar with the earth in the case of a lunar eclipse. Come on guys, and I know I believed that tripe once, but once we started to think for ourselves isn’t it just obvious we’ve been total dummies listening to these Jesuit teachings?(If you’re wondering what I do believe, I actually hold no firm views as I concluded it’s impossible for me to prove who’s telling the truth. I taught my kids that I just don’t know what truth is in this world of pure deception but, what I do know is that it’s NOT what they tell us it is!! In fact, a 180 degree inversion is a good place to start, always remembering that with these guys in the Occult, ‘white is black and black is white’, and ‘evil is good and good is evil’ – nothing is new under the sun, look at Isaiah 5:20).

Moving forward and to briefly overview this as a recap, God called Adam and gave him a mission and a mandate. He failed, and this is what we are all taught is The Fall. But, the Bible is not a history book nor a science book, it is simply an account of how Adam failed and how Jesus finally arrived to become the perfect Adam, to introduce the New Covenant – and continue Adam’s mission/mandate. So, logically, whatever Adam was called to do, then surely for all those ‘in Christ’ that must be our mission right now shouldn’t it?

That is logical to me whether we are adhering to standard modern dispensational teaching of Adam being the first man or whether we look through this lens of covenant creation which suggests Adam being the first man recorded who God created a covenant with, living in an already existent world with an unknown, to me, origin. 

Now for the practical application, and why I bother spending so much time doing this stuff, I’m not just pointlessly arguing over differences in our doctrine, I’m trying to sound the trumpet warning to my fellow believers.

Under the standard teaching virtually all of us grew up with we are taught that Adam was just created to fellowship with God before The Fall yeh? Therefore by continuing Adam’s mission all we need to do now Jesus has reversed The Fall is just fellowship with God, through Jesus of course, we can put our feet up because Jesus has accomplished our victory, just do our good “service” on Sunday mornings at 10:30, maybe chat to a neighbour occasionally about God and life goes on eternally for us, happy days…We might get occasionally confused over all those crazy eschatological arguments that we hear clever preachers arguing about that originate from this mindset, but then we can ignore all that confusion can’t we because we only have to do our daily ten minute Bibles reading each day anyway don’t we, and then let those paid to read it longer than that sort out all the doctrine for us whilst we are free to continue watching the football!!  

But, looking through the lens of what some would term covenant creation then this leaves us with much more of an active mission because when we see there was an existent world before Adam was called into covenant and given a mandate, we therefore see that he was called to lead people out of whatever nastiness that world comprised of. Adam failed but in Christ we are fully equipped to carry out Adams task. And that’s my quest – to find out exactly and accurately what was going on back then and just exactly what Adams mission was, because that becomes my mission too, and yours if you’re in Christ. 

Some of us realise that this world is not the world our history or science teachers tell us it is, men just don’t make things like the Pyramid of Giza with pickaxes and chisels, do they? Have I missed something? And believe it or not Ferdinand Porsche made the first electric car back in 1898 – yes, that’s true, yet we’re still struggling to find cheap reliable transport a century after Nikola Tesla discovered free wireless electricity!

It appears to me that someone is good at deceiving us. I myself could write a whole book just listing other examples of monumental deception but I’ve deliberately (almost!) kept away from the secular conspiracy facts, sorry, theories on this site for many reasons, mainly though because I’m trying to show my point without needing to use all that evidence because although obvious to many, these so called ‘conspiracy theories’ (and so called ‘conspiracy theorists’!) remain controversial to most. On this site I’m trying to prove my points from within the Bible using sound methods of biblical interpretation, supporting or rejecting common arguments from the view that the Bible interprets the Bible ie in this respect we don’t need to look for outside evidence. After a decade of fascination with so called conspiracies I concluded that its virtually impossible to know what to believe and what not to believe even on the most basic things most of us would never even dream of questioning. Contrast that with the absolute affirmation that the Holy Spirit imparts to our spirits when we search out the mind of God and it becomes clear where we should spend the bulk of our time.

Whatever that world system was back in Adam’s time, in my judgement it hasn’t changed. Or at least the line of spiritual rulers leading it haven’t and currently my logic is that this is who we are to ‘rule and reign’ over right now ie the spiritual powers behind all this because in Christ we have the authority to do that. God sat us, with Jesus, at His right hand side in heavenly places. Moses, the type, led the first Exodus, from physical slavery, and Jesus the antitype led the Second Exodus from this spiritual slavery (see the page in this section with that title if that’s a new concept to you). If your identity is in Christ then Paul tells us in Ephesians 1 that we are sat with Him at the right hand of the Father, and that’s a figure of speech for having His authority. Wow! In Christ we are now perfectly equipped to fulfil Adams mission SO LET’S GET ON AND DO IT. For me, this is clear in the typology. Joshua couldn’t take Canaan without fighting giants and we can’t take our spiritual promised land without fighting our spiritual giants. So, is anyone up for the battle? If you want more detail about battle plans or more knowledge about the enemy we are fighting you’ll have to speak to me, that’s not for print, but basically we saw Jesus demonstrating the Kingdom when He cast out devils, healed the sick, raised the dead and cleansed the lepers. In the OT we read ‘Joshua only did what Moses commanded’ and the antitype of that is………that we only do what Jesus commanded. Oh the beauty and the depth of typology….

My ongoing quest to complete the jigsaw continues but wherever we all are on our journey the main thing to remember is that we who are ‘in Christ’ regarding our salvation all have the same identity ‘in Him’. What do I mean? I mean I want us all to remember that when we start to disagree, if you have put your trust in Jesus, specifically for His righteousness to become our righteousness, then please remember that so have I, we are both therefore in right standing with God and that, dear reader, makes you my brother/sister! We are all members of the one body.

Jesus is our Lord, and we are commanded to love one another. We can both rest remembering those such clever words of Jesus which I think we can actually all apply in one sense to what each one of us believes – that “anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether this (our) teaching is from God or is merely my own”. Amen. 

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Note* When I was looking up the word “Adam” in my concordance, which is Strong’s H120, a very closely related word, H123, happens to be “Edom”, described there as Jacob’s older brother Esau. Just as Esau’s descendants were known as Edomites, it doesn’t take too much lateral thinking to work out that it could certainly be a possibility that God chose a man from the “Adamites” ie He chose Adam to be the first covenant man, just as in a similar way went on to pick out and choose Abraham from amongst the Chaldeans, rather than materially create a new man. In the article ‘Think Covenant’ the point is made that in the original language, the words ‘create’, ‘choose’, and covenant’ are all very closely related from the same root word, something totally unseen in English. Do you find that interesting like I did? And just for consideration, we see Abrahams descendants being termed dust of the land, sand on the seashore and stars in the heavens, which is all poetic language and although this might be a little fanciful but when I try and get into the mindset of a Hebrew writer, I do believe these could show the natural man (dust), the covenant man of the flesh (sand ie not in the sea but right on the edge), and the spiritual or heavenly man (stars). You’ll need to reach your own conclusion on that one though as even though it makes logical and consistent figuratively sense to me I’ve yet to be able to directly validate that from specific scripture (similar, maybe, to how people validate the Trinity doctrine when there is no direct scripture reference to refer to).

When time allows, I will ponder more over Joshua 3:16. There is more typological treasure waiting to be discovered here, where there is mention of a place called Adam, incredibly, it’s the place where the Israelite’s passed into their Promised Land. Why is that incredible? Well, I do believe that Eden was a real place, roughly where Israel is now, and that God leading Israel into the Promised Land was simply a return to the original Eden that God gave to Adam – hence the typology here with Israel returning to figurative ‘Eden’ through ‘Adam’. (That figurative understanding of Eden also puts a different spin on the well known ‘Satan being in Eden’ interpretation of Ez 28:13). I will expand on that when it gets further up my ‘to do’ list, but that will take a lot of time and I currently think just an outline here will suffice. Ultimately of course, Jesus is the true Promised Land and we have already seen the final antitype and returned to the land, ‘returned to Eden’, the real Eden, Jesus Christ and our covenant in Him.

Note** Genesis is actually titled from the LXX, a Greek word meaning ‘generations’. And just as John 1 mirrors Genesis 1 both beginning with ‘In the Beginning…’ I find it so revealing that the New Testament begins with Matthew 1:1, “The book of the genealogy (Greek word used there for genealogy is genesis) of Jesus Christ…”. Then look at Genesis 2:4 “This is the book of the origin (same word, genesis, generations, genealogy) of heaven and earth”. If we use/translate the word genesis consistently then Heavens and Earth must be parents! There’s so much to meditate on there.

Note *** One vital discovery I’ve made is the monumental importance of realising the Bible is written within the context of the wider culture of the Ancient Near East at that time. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea and your Pastor may not have encouraged you to study Mesopotamia, the Sumerian culture and to familiarise oneself with their gods but my gosh, it really does bring the Old Testament alive when we realise the Bible is interacting with the wider culture of the day. We see things like why Moses’ rod turning to a snake was so important when we know the part snakes played in Ancient Egypt, and why he went up Mt Sinai to receive The Law, because the gods were perceived as living on mountains that reached to the heavens. We then see why Jesus, the ‘new Moses’ leading the spiritual Exodus, gave his ‘Sermon from the Mount‘, and discover the Bible is just packed with layer after layer of understanding for those who diligently seek. May you be blessed as you do so too.

NOTE ABOUT THE SEED OF WOMAN, this is literally still a note and still needs more consideration but basically, the idea is that it was the priesthood, not man, that the corruption of Adam and Eve refers to. You’ll need to think about this very carefully, and try to deprogram first (try and pretend you’ve never read a Bible before!).

Eve is called the mother of all ‘living’, living here meaning in covenant with God. Thus Eve is not the mother of all humans.

The term “seed” refers to the human male seed (i.e., sperm, and its resulting offspring). Neither the serpent nor the woman produce this seed themselves. It is the offspring (from the seed) of men who are divided into these two lines: the serpent’s heritage of death or the woman’s heritage of life.

Eating from the tree of life kept Adam and Eve in covenant but when they listened to the serpent and ate the forbidden fruit, they died, covenantally. In short they thought they could be independent of God but without losing His favour.

But God promised to provide a new King through the offspring of Adam’s wife, who would one day conquer the serpent (Gen 3:15). It is that promise of life exclusively for the heritage belonging to Eve’s household that prompted her title “mother of all living.”

I know that’s difficult to swallow at first but, if you think that’s nonsense you have to provide an explanation to both me and yourself, that if the Bible follows the seed through the male line, how come the prophecy concerning Christ in Genesis 3 refers to the seed of Satan and the seed of Eve, not Adam? Maybe you can, do let me know! Do some women have sperm I wonder? Maybe this modern gender confusion stuff isn’t quite so new after all?!