Who is Messiah? Part 1 - First and Last Adam

There’s a connection between the first Adam and the last Adam, as referred to in 1 Corinthians 15:45.

Both are called sons of God (the first specifically in Luke 3:38) both were sent ones who had no sin in them, both were the perfect image and representation of the Creator, both were tested, both were intended to rule over the earth as its King and Deliverer (to ‘subdue’) in the Name of the Father, and both were meant to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ in the sense of filling the earth with obedient ones (sons of God, children of God), to the glory of the Father. 

The first Adam was made in the image and likeness of the Creator and was sinless when placed in the perfection of the sanctuary of the Garden (a temple picture).  He was unique from those who came after him, as he was created ‘naked and not ashamed’.  (It’s an assumption that Adam and Eve were clothed with animal skins, the text just states they were clothed with ‘skin’.) He received the Word (the Law) from the Creator, but when tested, fell to temptation through his own will (flesh), was deceived and turned away; and brought bondage and curse to creation and its inhabitants.  He had become adulterated. He was the ‘born first’ but he rejected the inheritance of the firstborn.  Through the first Adam, great increase came to the earth, as all humanity came through him.

The last Adam was also sinless, and was ‘the image of the invisible God’, ‘the exact representation of His being’, was also ‘placed’ on earth, this time in the sanctuary of the womb, in the sanctuary of family, in the sanctuary of Israel.  When he was tested through his flesh/will (Matthew 4), unlike the first Adam, he trusted in and remained in the Word of his Father.  He resisted temptation, and through trust in the Will of the Father, he subdued and ruled over creation through his obedience.  He was given the rights of the firstborn son, and intended to be the ‘firstborn of many brothers’.  He was obedient unto death, and was resurrected in a form that didn’t have the physical limitations (‘skin’, in a sense) of the body of a ‘son of Adam’ (Luke 24:36, John 20:19). He was not only restored to the form of the first Adam, he was blessed with more.

All the sons of the first Adam faced physical death, but through rebirth and ‘abiding in’ the last Adam, a remnant of the sons of the first Adam would also be given the rights of children of God, along with him.  The first Adam was CREATED a living being…the last Adam BECAME a life-giving spirit!

It’s abundantly clear from Torah that no son of Adam could save mankind, yet it would have to be an ‘Adam’ who would save them…a man like them.  All Torah points to the necessity of a rebirth into an uncorrupted ‘seed’, and the Greek writings (‘New Testament’) validate this fully.   It would have to be another ‘son of God’ that would become the salvation of all creation. 

It’s ONLY in the last Adam that we are saved!  It appears that the plan of the Creator was to bring to Himself a people who would freely trust Him and obey Him, a people who would KNOW and be KNOWN by Him. A people who would be ‘one’ in will and purpose with Him and who would fill creation with the glory of knowledge of Him.