e that buys back—is the concept of the second Adam. Romans 5:14:
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
The Bible says, “who is the figure of him that was to come.” The similarities of the first man Adam and the second Adam, Christ Jesus, are enlightening. Adam was a son of God and the father of mankind. Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God as well as being born of a woman. In the beginning, the first Adam opened his sinless eyes in Paradise and was to live forever. The second and last Adam, Jesus Christ, came from forever where He dwelt with the Father before the world was and died on Calvary for the redemption of men. Adam was created fully mature and fully functioning. The average age of a fully matured male is estimated at 30 to 33 years, and because Adam was originally created to enjoy eternal life, he would therefore be ageless and would maintain his 30- to 33-year-old age forever. At the age of 30, the Lord Jesus begins His ministry. At the age of 33, the sinless Christ is crucified, breaking the back of Satan, and is resurrected the third day, reigning forever, sitting on the right hand of God His Father, fully mature and fully functioning. Note Adam’s sin and the end of life compared to Christ’s sinlessness and Redemption’s beginning.
By one man’s disobedience came Satan’s dominion and death to all mankind. By one man’s obedience came life and life everlasting to all who choose this last Adam, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
Let’s review B.C.’s question and the answer to it:
1. Why was Jesus the ultimate blood sacrifice?
A. Because of Satan’s argument;
B. Life is in the blood; and
C. Christ’s shed blood was the total offering of obedience that spoiled the Devil.
2. Secondly, why a human, or better said, why a son of man as well as the only begotten Son of God?
A. Remember, the rules of truth cannot be broken;
B. Adam, a son of God, surrendered dominion of the earth and of all his progeny to the Devil;
C. Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and son of man destroys Satan’s argument with His blood—the total offering of obedience and makes a way of escape for repentant man; and
D. The second and last Adam redeems—buys back. He makes a way of escape via the Born-Again experience—born a second time and this time right: not as sons of the spirit of carnality but sons of God Almighty.
GOD SAID, Romans 5:1, 2, 8, 10, & 11:
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
GOD SAID, I John 1:7:
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
GOD SAID, John 1:29:
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
MAN SAID: Jesus Christ was just another man with a philosophical axe to grind. He was a great prophet to some and there is not one stitch of evidence that a man named Jesus Christ ever lived to others.
Now you have THE RECORD.