![]() ![]() The Church class are “bone” of Jesus’ bones, in the sense that bones represent one’s hopes for the future.We share the same hopes for glory in the service of God, as our Lord Jesus had. From this came bloodand water, which represents redemption and the water of the Spirit, by which the Church class is developed. ![]() Jesus also was caused to pass into a deep sleep, the sleep of death, and then his side was opened up by the spear of the soldier at the cross ( John 19:34). ![]() She was formed from a rib of Adam, “bone of my bones” ( Genesis 2:23). “Who being the brightness of glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high” ( Hebrews 1:3, KJV).Įve was drawn from Adam when his side was opened up after he passed into a deep sleep. The “last Adam,” or life‑giving being, is Jesus, who from his resurrection forward is a glorious spirit being of highest magnitude. In this way Christ will be a “second Adam” or life giver to the world, and the Church will be a second “Eve” to nurture and assist them.Īdam was made a living soul since he was given a natural body, which is earthly. Then Christ and the Church will together restore and uplift the world, and bring them back to perfection during the Millennium. These, if faithful to their calling, will become, symbolically, a spiritual “bride” for Christ ( Revelation 21:2). The saints have been regenerated by our Lord from heaven, but rather than grow to human perfection, they sacrifice their justified bodies in the service of Christ for a higher calling, the “ High calling of God in Christ Jesus” ( Philippians 3:14). Jesus, as a “last Adam,” presently lifts us from condemnation and restores us to the fellowship of God through redemption. However, Adam and Eve in some respects foreshadowed Christ and the Church in the sense that Christ will be the Great Life‑giver, or Father of mankind, while the Church ( Hebrews 12:23, 2 Timothy 2:10) will be the mother or caretaker of the regenerated hosts ( R5141:5, 777:1). The Apostle Paul in this statement from 1 Corinthians 15:45 does not contrast Adam and Jesus, but speaks of the “first Adam” and the “last Adam.” Christ is very unlike Adam. The first Adam is the sample of what an earthly body will attain to in the resurrection. Adam generated no children until first Eve had been taken from his side ( R4556:2). Russell wrote in R1259:5: “As surely as there are natural, human or earthly bodies, so surely also there is such a thing as a heavenly or spirit body.”Īdam was the first human man and all the peoples of the earth are descended from Adam, no matter how different in color, stature, intelligence, etc. Of the two natures, human nature and spirit nature, Br. “Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’ the last Adam became a life‑giving spirit” ( 1 Corinthians 15:45). ![]()
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