God created man so different from all the other creatures. He gave him free will, the ability to choose, and the intellectual capacity, which made it possible for him to gain even still higher education. God intended that as our first parents remained obedient to His commandment, their whole being would always be suffused with a radiant colour that emanated from Himself to the conscious-ness of their minds, down in the bowels of their soul, from where they would wield a power of influence for good upon their offspring, every thought before it becomes a word; every word before it becomes an action; every action before it becomes a habit.
However, the couple God created to be like Him in character chose otherwise; they did not take a cerebral approach to life, and calculate the far-reaching effect their disobedient action would leave behind. Thus, when they failed to comply with the Divine prescribed law that forbids them to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they began to experience feelings they never knew existed; the sensory receptors in their body changed, and suddenly they felt the coldness of the wind, and the heat from the sun. Even the oxygen they needed to live started to harm their body; because the process of oxidation reactions began to produce in their body high-energy particles whenever oxygen or any other molecule loses an electron during transfer to an oxidizing agent and ends up with at least one unpaired electron.
The loss of the electron from the molecule structure in their body made it into a free radical, a very unstable atom, that stabilises itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule, which in turn starts a chain reaction of electron stealing, which caused damage or death to the cells in their body; for every molecule that loses an electron becomes a free radical itself. It was from that very moment that they also became acquainted with the organic phenomenon of decay, doubt, fear, sadness, and anger. Things they had never thought of before, let alone experienced.
Adam and Eve made a pathetic attempt to cover their inadequacies with fig leaves the moment they sinned against God. However, in the Garden of Eden when they became ashamed of their nakedness, it was Jesus Christ that met our first parent’s inadequacies. Christ clothed them with something more fitting. “Unto Adam also to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Genesis 3: 21. Dear reader, in like manner, you and I need God's own covering to meet our inadequacies, so we might not be a shame of anything.
From the time of Adam, until now there has been only one way to cover human inadequacies, and this is illustrated in God's choice of clothing for our first parents, Lamb skin, which pointed forward to the Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
The gospel of Christ is not fraught with uncertain-ty or doubtful conclusions about Him. Instead, both the Old Testament and the New Testament expound that He is the Son of God, our strength and salvation. The entire economy of Israel was built on the promise of a Messiah, who would reign on the throne of David forever and ever. Even before Moses and all the prophets, the patriarchs too were also looking for this Messiah; hence they used to offer a lamb without blemish as a burnt offering.
Abraham when he was about to kill Isaac, his promised son, he was stopped by God at the last minute, and a lamb was given him to offer for a sacrifice instead of his son. In this, he saw and understood that the Messiah would not just come to reign like a king; but He would first die to save humanity from the law that now judged them.
It is contained in Scripture that a “virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel,” “which being interpreted is, God with us.” Isaiah 7: 14; Matthew 1: 23. And “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” Galatians 4: 4, 5.
And attesting to Jesus' pre-existence and divinity, Isaiah the son of Amos, like the Jews, believe that there is only one God: that is, as a whole, there are three regarded as one functional constituent. This said Isaiah, “unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9: 6, 7.
4 ALTARBOY HERALD/January, 2013