Last Adam - New Adam

This painting came in before I went to bathe and while bathing I drifted off into dream state. While painting it felt like different flavors of ice creams and fruit.

In the dream Adam had returned and he came to see me.  He had it all worked out and planned and he came to discuss it. He looked really smart in his blue suit with an open necked white shirt, and I just listened to what he had to say. 

A friend was also in the dream and she advised me not to give up my home in case things didn't work out. To take it slowly, one step at a time. However, in the dream I did not make a decision. It was very serious and I seemed stunned that we were even having this conversation. While he was talking to me, memories of the past came rushing back, and I pondered upon whether he was strong enough this time. Especially bearing in mind who I am today. However, I also knew in my heart that he was now a man, and this is a different era of his life and mine. 

This tells me that Adam is not happy with his life; and he would like to return to heavenly happiness and the true love that he once experienced. 

However, people change. 

'So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.' 1 Corinthians 15:45 

'Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones'. Jude 1:14 

You may like to ponder upon that in view of world events; and how men are feeling about it. 


John Henry Newman used the phrase "Second Adam" in his hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the height", first appearing in The Dream of Gerontius:

O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
A second Adam to the fight
And to the rescue came.

The title "New Adam" is emphasised in the 'Recapitulation theory of atonement'. 

This painting is called 'Glory to the new born Christ in presence of God the Father and the Holy Spirit. It is a ceiling painting by Daniel Gran in St Anne's Church, Vienna. 

This painting is of Adam and Eve at the resurrection. The painting is called 'Parecclesion'. It can be found in the Church of the Holy Savior, in Chora, Istanbul. 

I particularly like this painting of Charity, the mother that fed many from her bosom of wisdom. 

In the recapitulation view of the atonement, 'Christ is seen has the new adam who succeeds where Adam failed. Christ undoes the wrong that Adam did, and because of his union with humanity, leads humankind onto eternal life including morality.'  [2]

Irenaeus also wrote about the 'Palm of Victory', and the 'Palm against Death'. He knew full well that the palm of victory was against the official Church and what it had done, he also knew that when the time came, the true followers of Jesus would be rescued by the palm. For the palm of the hand, is symbolic of the hand of God. [2] As I said to an American Christian last night, stay in your heart, for gracious words are pure to the LORD. 

Paul viewed the last Adam as the life giving spirit and that remains to be seen. Was that based upon   Enoch being the seventh from Adam? And that in the book of Genesis it is written that God rested on the seventh day? 

Is it a coincidence that Adam and I did not divorce for seven years; and Jesus spoke of the number seven in terms of forgiveness? When the Apostles asked him how many times they were to forgive he said 'Seventy seven times'. Is it a coincidence that seven is also the meaning of Shiva in Hebrew and that the Zayin Hebrew letter has the Hebrew gematria value of seven? Is it a coincidence that Joseph mourned for seven days for his Father? Or that England is the land of Joseph where the flame of Joseph resides? 

The unfettered flame of God's love, forgiveness, mercy and grace. 

The Jewish sages state that the Zayin is the 'woman of valor'. Is it a coincidence that Jesus spoke of the landowner that would return, he also mentioned the house owner that would return. In numerology, seven is also the life number of Jesus and the spiritual teacher. Is it also a coincidence that in the book of Revelation it predicts that Jesus has a new name; and that new name was given to the one that was victorious and put upon his throne. 

Watch this space and the events that unfold. 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Adam

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory_of_atonement