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The True Adam

 

The beginning chapters of Genesis cannot be related to in chronological order. The first five chapters are not in chronological order but rather each one represents certain spiritual realities. 
 
In the creation of God, everything is first separated, and then made one. 
 
Gen. 2:
18 ¶  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19  And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
20  And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 ¶  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
 
Gen. 5:
1 ¶  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
 
In Gen. 5 we have the mystical fulfillment of chapter 2. In chapter 2 woman is taken out of man. That is the separation. In Gen. 5 we see God creating man in His own image. This is also the mystical fulfillment of Gen. 1:26:  “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.” In chapter 5 man in created. Male and female he is created, and God blesses them and calls their name Adam. Male and female are one and have one name, Adam. 
 
This is the mystical fulfillment of Christ in His body. God and man made one. Christ, the male, made one with the woman, His body. 
 
1st. Cor. 15:
1st40  There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
41  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
43  it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44  it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45  So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46  However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
47  The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
48  As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.
49  And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
 
In these verses Christ is called the second or the last Adam. In Gen. 5 the male and female are called Adam. The second Adam then is not just one Man, Christ, but Christ made one with His people.

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