The Eternal Purpose of Creation !

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Adam's sin and consequences purposed by God !

That the World was Created for a Redemptive Purpose from sin in Christ is quite obvious in the fact that Christ was set up, foreordained to redeem God's Elect before the foundation 1 Pet 1:18-20

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Now, was Adam Created from the dust of the ground before the world was Created ? So why is it that people think that it was not God predetermined will for Adam to sin and bring in the need for Redemption by the blood of Christ Rom 5:12

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 9

 

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By the Purpose of Mercy from Everlasting !

We know that this world / Earth was made for a Redemptive from sin Purpose in Christ when we consider the Nature of the Vessels of Mercy Rom 9:23

23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

The Vessels of Mercy were designated / selected for such before the foundation of the world, or before the world began ! They had been predestinated to be recipients of God Regeneration Mercy that would save them Titus 3:5

5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

This blessing bestowed from after becoming experimentally sinful in Adam and the fall ! Now all this was prearranged before Adam ever had a being, hence the Psalmest writes of this Mystery Ps 103:17

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

What does it mean " from everlasting " ? It means that it was according to God's Eternal Purpose in Christ, before the world began 2 Tim 1:9

9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace,/and Mercy which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Note: Grace and Mercy are closely akin !

Notice also back in Ps 103:17, it is from Everlasting to Everlasting, not to all mankind, but specifically to THEM that frear Him !

Now how do they come to Fear Him ? None by nature fear God Rom 3:18

18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. Its pride to deny that we are exceptions to this !

How does one receive the Fear of God ? Its given by God when He gives us a New Heart by New Birth Jer 32:39

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

This is the result of Regenerating Mercy which gives us a New Heart that Fears and Loves God.

Rom 9:23 again stated :

23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

Which He had afore prepared unto Glory. This is the language of predestination. The word afore prepared proetoimazó and means:

I prepare or appoint beforehand, predestine. This was something already prepared and made ready in advance, In the Immutable Purpose of God :

i. e. for whom he appointed glory beforehand (i. e., from eternity), and, accordingly, rendered them fit to receive it, Romans 9:23; to prepare beforehand in mind and purpose, i. e. to decree, Ephesians 2:10,

In fact, it was the purpose of sin that would render them fit to become the experimental partakers of Mercy !

Strong's Greek: 4282. προετοιμάζω (proetoimazó) -- To prepare beforehand, to make ready in advance.

 

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To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever !

Romans 16:27

To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.

This world was Created for an Redemptive Purpose founded in the Person and Work of Jesus saving sinners ! Thats why the earth was brought into being, that Jesus Christ would one day utter these words Jn 19:30

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

And also these words Jn 17:4

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Now the World, the Earth was Created for that particular Work The Father gave the Son to do !

Now, since the world was Created for that work of Christ to be finished by Him, then also was Adam created by God in harmony with this Work given to Christ to do and finish !

Now in order for Adam and man in him to harmonize with God's Eternal Purpose in Christ Jesus Eph 3:11

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

In order for that to concur, Adam by the predetrminate counsel of God must sin and bring mankind in him to be made sinners,

Rom 5:12,19

12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Now this them being made sinners, was no deviation from God's Eternal Purpose in Christ, but was in fact in harmony with it, because God had all the time Purposed that He should be Worshiped by man in Spirit and Truth as a Saved by Grace Sinner, Saved by the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ. See it was by the Grace of God that Christ tasted Death for the saved by Grace ones ! See Heb 2:9, which was how God purposed to bring man His Creation to Glory Heb 2:10 !

See, If man in Adam had not sinned, he could not come to God in Spirit and Truth having been Saved by the Grace of God through the Person and Work His Son ! For it was always true of Christ from the beginning of the Creation this Jn 14:6

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Adam and man in him was not able to come to the Father in this matter until after the Fall.

Before the fall, man could approach God soely as his Creator, but not on the basis of the Redemptive Purpose in Christ Jesus, which Purpose was only revealed to Adam after the Fall here Gen 3:15

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

When this Saving Purpose was made known, it was then and only then was man able to begin to Worship God in Spirit and Truth and to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God How ?

1 Pet 2:5

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Thats Just another way of saying what Jesus stated here Jn 4:22-24

22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The Only way that can happen is to worship God out of apprehension/ understanding of His Salvation Purpose through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then can we be in harmony with the stated Text Rom 16:27

27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. 9

 

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Creation awaits to see the Redeemed Children of God !


Rom 8:17-23

17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

This World was made for a Redemptive Purpose centered in the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Before what is written in Gen 1:1-3

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The Eternal Decree was Established, that God would be Glorified upon the Earth by the Work of His Son, remember Jesus said Jn 17:4

4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

This Work was given Him to do from Everlasting as stated here as Christ is Wisdom Personified Prov 8:22-31

22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

When God made this Earth in the beginning, it was for this Purpose here Rom 8:19

19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

In these Bodies Rom 8:23

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

All of this was predestinated from everlasting. God did not make Adam and then adam sinned and God needed to intervene , No, Adam's sin was purposed by God in order to set the world stage for he outworking of the Redemption that was already predestinated, foreknown before the world began 1 Pet 1:20

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Foreordained for what before the foundation ? 1 Pet 1:18-19

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

That was the Work God gave Him to do Jn 17:4 before the World Began !

 

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The Primary Purpose for the Creation of the World, and everything therein, was for the Event of the Cross of Christ, all other things were subordinate to that, for Paul writing to the Colossians about Christ's fulness writes Col 1:14-17

14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

All things were Created for Him, Adam and Eve, and everything else, for the Purpose of Redemption through His Blood Vs 14 !

When God Created the Earth it was for the Purpose of Christ redeeming it through His Blood, and thats why Adam must surely die Gen 2:17

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

See, before God uttered those words to Adam, this event had alreay been purposed Acts 2:23

23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Even before the foundation Rev 13:8

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

1 Pet 1:20

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Adam bringing sin and death into the world was no accident, neither was it God's second choice of things as to say that He would rather Adam not sin and bring in the devastating results of sin and death, but it was His First and Primary Purpose that he do so , to set the stage for mans redemption through the blood of Christ, according to His Eternal Purpose Eph 3:11

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 9

 

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Adam was Created in and According to God's Eternal Purpose !

Eph 3:9-11

9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Adam was Created for the Mystery that was in Christ, which was hid in God, who all things were Created because of !

Those words in Vs 9 "who created all things by Jesus Christ"

That word by preposition dia :


I.through

A.of place

i.with


ii.in



B.of time

i.throughout


ii.during



C.of means

i.by


ii.by the means of




II.through

A.the ground or reason by which something is or is not done

i.by reason of


ii.on account of


iii.because of for this reason


iv.therefore


v.on this account

It serves a multitude of meanings here, The World was Created In Christ, meaning Adam and the World in his Loins, the World was Created on account of Christ, and by means of Christ as Mediator !

The same thing is indicated in Col 1:16

16 For by[in] him[Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him[Christ], and for him[Christ]:

This means that Adam was Created in Christ !

Now by Adam being Created in Christ, it was also for an Redemptive Purpose, and this is why also he was made or Created in the Image and Likeness of God in the beginning Gen 1:26-27

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


Again, this is in accordance to the Mystery hid in God Eph 3:9

9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10

 

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Adam was Created in and According to God's Eternal Purpose 2

Adam was Created in and According to God's Eternal Purpose 2

Now that its an Established fact from scripture that Adam was Created in Christ, Col 1:16

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

For "For by him were all things created" can just as well read :

"For in him were all things created"

16 for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and ASV


16 For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him.AMP

Therefore His Redemptive Death reconcile all things to Himself Col 1:20

And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

The same all things that were Created in Him pointed out back up in Vs 16 !

So Adam's being Created in the Image and Likeness of God is due to His Union with Christ, for he is in Christ before the foundation Eph 1:4

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

We know this applies to Adam simply because Adam, included in the all things of Col 1:16, was Created in Christ, so thats the connection to having been Created in the Image and Likeness of God, for Christ is that Image and Likeness 2 Cor 4:3-4

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Christ is the Image of God !

Again Heb 1:3

Who being the brightness of his 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:

So actually, Christ's does purge the sins of those who were Created in the Image and Likeness of God in Adam, because Adam was Created in Him , who is the Very Image of God !

 

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In Light of Adam being Created in Christ and in the Image of God, he and mankind in him, God's Elect Chosen in Christ before the foundation, have been predestinated to be conformed to the image of Christ, as a confirmation of being Created in the Image of God in the beginning Rom 8:28-30

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

All those in Adam, in the Day God Created him Gen 1:27

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

That Image is only realized in the New Creation Eph 4:24

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Yes, The New Man is the fulfillment of having been initially Created in the Image of God in Gen 1:26-27 !

You see, being Created in the Image of God was never to be found in the natural man, that was only a subplot to the main Glory God had in store for Man, to be fulfilled through Redemption, and the Spirit's activity as well 2 Cor 3:18

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

This was not possible in the natural, in Adam ! 10

 

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To live through Him !

We know that Man in the beginning was Created for a Redemptive Purpose through Christ, which necessitated mans sin in the world, because, it was God's First and Primary design that man live through Christ unto His Glory 1 Jn 4:9

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Or other words so that we might live because of Him, or on account of Him, the word through being the prep dia meaning:

through, on account of, by reason of, for the sake of, because of.

The Life that God first designed according to His Eternal Redemptive Purpose in Christ, was much more abundant than that first given in Adam Jn 10:10

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

But yet ignorant and unlearned men believe that this Purpose of Abundant Life through Christ was God's backup plan to man first having life through Adam !

The fact is, the Living through Christ 1 Jn 4:9, the abundant life Jn 10:10 it was not possible through Adam even before the fall of man, no it was a Life given them in Christ before the world began.

Also it was God's Purpose that man live through Christ in response to Redemptive Love 1 Jn 4:9-10

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And again this Life was not at all possible in Adam before the Fall into sin, and all True Christian service to God should be in response to Redemptive Love in Christ, as Paul writes as being true of himself, its true of all true believers 2 Cor 5:14-15

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

It was God's Purpose even for man in Adam to Live not unto themselves, but unto Him that died for them and rose again, that was never secondary in God's Purpose, to believe so is blasphemy ! 11

 

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It was God's purpose in Christ that Adam sinned !

Its absolutely amazing how any True Born Again Believer with a knowledge of the Truth 2 Thess 2:13, will not believe that it was God's will of purpose that Adam should sin in the garden when and how he did, according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Such unbelief manifests an ignorance to the purpose for which this world/earth was Created, an Eternal Purpose in Jesus Christ Eph 3:9-11

9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: See Jn 1:3 in this connection !

10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

In fact, the very name of Jesus denotes Salvation its greek word Iésous:

Iēsoús – Jesus, the transliteration of the Hebrew term, 3091 /Lṓt ("Yehoshua"/Jehoshua, contracted to "Joshua") which means "Yahweh saves" (or "Yahweh is salvation").

Understand something, when the world / earth was Created, even before Adam existed upon it, God had already appointed Christ as the Redeemer by His Blood, this we know for sure by 1 Pet 1:18-20

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Yes, for God's foreknown and Elect People 1 Pet 1:1-2 to be redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb, it was established before the foundation of the world, so it would be idiotic of God to Create Adam and Desire that he would not sin !

Also Rev 13:8 testifies to Christ in the Eternal Purpose of God being slain for the Redemptive Purpose before the foundation !

Now with that in mind, why would so called believers reason that after God created Adam, it would have been God's first preference/choice that Adam would not Transgress, that God would have rather Adam not sin; Now would Adam not sinning brought God more Honor and Glory than Christ does because of mans sin ? 11

 

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It was God's purpose in Christ that Adam sinned !2

Now with that in mind, why would so called believers reason that after God created Adam, it would have been God's first preference/choice that Adam would not Transgress, that God would have rather Adam not sin; Now would Adam not sinning brought God more Honor and Glory than Christ does because of mans sin ?

If any man answers yes to this question its nothing but the manifestation of an heart of unbelief, there is honestly no other way of putting it, there is no Faith in Christ if we indeed believe that. The Truth is that even before Adam was Created, God had already purposed the Salvation and Redemption from sin, given His People Grace in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim 1:9

9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Now listen, why would God rather not Adam sin by and through temptation by the Serpent, the Devil ? Would not that only be according to His Counsel ?