THREE ADAMS AND TWO SPOTLESS CHRISTS
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
Our study in this letter is concerning THREE ADAMS and TWO SPOTLESS CHRISTS. Of course, for many years they have been in the Bible, but perhaps they have escaped our attention. Read all of the Scriptures listed above. Then note in Romans 5:14, that Adam was a figure of Christ. In Genesis 2:19 and 20 we read of Adam, without a wife. Adam was created in the image and likeness of God. (Genesis 1:26 and 27), Adam was a figure of Christ before Eve was created. In I Corinthians 15:45 Adam, the first man, is called “THE FIRST ADAM,” and Christ is called “THE LAST ADAM.” So here we have two of our “ADAMS.” Well, who is the in-between Adam? In I Corinthians 11:8 we learn that the woman was of the man.
After God created Eve, as a part of Adam, God called Adam and Eve, “ADAM.” (Genesis 5:2). So we have THREE ADAMS. Note how God made Eve: God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and out of Adam’s rib God made woman, (Genesis 2:21 and 22). Then Adam called Eve “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” (Genesis 2:23). Out of the wounded side of the first man came the first woman. Then Adam in (Genesis 2:24) said, what Paul said concerning Christ and His Church, the great mystery of Ephesians 5:31 and 32: “A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife as one flesh.” Concerning Christ and the Church, this is still a great mystery to many.
Adam had no mother. Christ did. God was Adam’s Creator. God was Christ’s Father. Christ left His Father and His mother and went to Calvary where a deep sleep fell upon Him. The Roman spear pierced perhaps right about the same spot where God took out Adam’s rib to create Eve. There on Calvary the Lord Jesus Christ was the SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD foreordained before the foundation of the world, (I Peter 1:18 to 20). We will never forget His cry, “My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46).
There on the cross of Calvary Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for the Church that He might present the Church unto Himself without blemish and WITHOUT SPOT: (Ephesians 5:26 and 27). This SPOTLESS CHURCH too was foreordained before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 5:26 to 28 - Ephesians 1:4 and 5).
Yes, THE SPOTLESS CHRIST and THE SPOTLESS CHURCH were foreordained before the world was.
In Genesis 5:2, we read, “Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name ‘ADAM’, in the day they were created.”
Thus far we see the THREE ADAMS, for Adam was “ADAM” without Eve; and together they were “ADAM.” Every Christian knows that Christ was SPOTLESS. In spite of all ITS imperfections, the Church is yet to be SPOTLESS. Read I Corinthians 12:12 “For as the Body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one Body, being many, are one Body: SO ALSO IS CHRIST.” We emphasize this important explanatory verse of this lesson. Christ and His Body-members are “CHRIST.” God called Adam and Eve “ADAM.” God calls Christ and His Church “CHRIST.” The Church, in Ephesians 1:22 and 23, is called “THE FILLING-UP OF CHRIST.” Read also Ephesians 4:13, and learn what the finished work of God’s grace will be. Yes “ADAM”, with Eve, one flesh. Christ is called “THE LAST ADAM.” Christ and His Church will be one flesh, “CHRIST.” (Ephesians 5:31 and 32).
Christ and the Church are called “the One New Man.” (Ephesians 2:15). Christ was, and is, THE PERFECT MAN, Jesus Christ the Righteous, the sinless Man (I John 2:1 - Hebrews 7:26). But in Ephesians 4:13 we learn that when the Body of Christ is completed, it will be THE PERFECT MAN, the Measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ.
Christ was truly the foreordained “SPOTLESS CHRIST,” the SPOTLESS Lamb of God. (I Peter 1:8 to 20). The Church has been called “THE MYSTICAL CHRIST.”
What is the Gospel?
Believing
Christ died, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto
you the gospel which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first
of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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