The last Adam.

We talked a little bit about Adam and Eve last week. The reason why we are talking about what happened in the garden is because firstly, it matters and secondly, we all carry what happened in the garden in us until we are born again, and God changes our spiritual DNA. However, we sometimes carry the shame from the garden into our present walk with God and God wants to strip us of that and remind us that we have been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb.

So to continue from last week, did Adam and Eve both sin? Yes. So what was the difference between what Adam did and what Eve did and why does the Bible talk about the first Adam and Jesus being the last Adam? How come it does not mention Jesus fixing what Eve did? Was Adam redeemed but Eve not?  

We get the answer from 1 Timothy 2:14 NLT which says, “And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.” Doesn’t sound like much but if we go back to the garden, what happened?

After they ate from the tree, God came looking for Adam and Eve and the following conversation ensued, Genesis 3: 11-13 says, ““Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.””

Eve admitted to having been deceived by the snake, she believed the lies of the serpent that’s why she did what she did, Genesis 3:13, 2 Corinthians 11:3. Adam, however, was not deceived. If anything, he throws Eve under the bus! Haha and blames God while he was at it, he panicked hard, lol. Regardless, the Bible does not record Adam as being deceived, meaning he willfully disobeyed God. That is, he knew what he was doing was wrong and he did it anyway. In the New Testament it is recorded that one person caused the fall of man, and four times, that person is referred to as Adam, Romans 5:12, Romans 5:15, Romans 5:17 and 1 Corinthians 15:47.

Now before you all gasp, and say, “How dare he!” We’ve all been there, where we know better but we don’t do better. So back to Romans 5, which we looked at last week, the Bible talks about Jesus being obedient and redeeming mankind because Adam had been disobedient. Adam willfully disobeyed or rebelled against God and so he was held accountable, by God, for what happened in the garden. That is why Jesus is called the last Adam. He came to put an end to rebellion so we could, by submission to the finished work of the cross, live out our lives as God’s children. He restored the relationship that had been broken in the garden.

Jesus paid the price not just for Adam’s disobedience, but all our disobedience in perpetuity, that is in all time, past, present and future. However, that is not a licence to sin either because 1 John 3:9 says, “Everyone who is truly God’s child will refuse to keep sinning because God’s seed remains within him, and he is unable to continue sinning because he has been fathered by God himself.”

So back to our story, when we read Genesis 3:15, God then says to the snake, “… I will place great hostility between you and the woman, and between her seed and yours. He will crush your head as you crush his heel.” 

This was a reference to Jesus who would be born of a woman and who would crash the head of the enemy once and for all! This is why the devil hates women! From the beginning of time, Satan knew his end was coming and would be born of a woman, so what was his response? Hate and oppression, abuse, violence and control towards women.

But God loves His daughters. If God thought a woman was good enough to be part and parcel of the redemption plan, why do we believe the lies of the enemy when he tries to limit us or tell us we do not belong in certain places? If God calls us daughters and co-heirs with Christ, why do we settle for less? Do not accept a position or title or treatment or whatever it may be that diminishes the value God places on you. God calls you a beloved daughter and He loves you more than I can frame into words.  

(P.s. This post is by no way meant to cast shade on our brothers in Christ, we love you! We are trying to dismantle the lies of the enemy that have kept women captive.)

Love and blessings,

Melissa Tsingano.