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08/30/2026

Floodgate: The Tommy Hellfiger Hiss-Story

YOUR PRIDE AND YOUR MUSIC have ended here in the world of the dead. Worms are your blanket, maggots are your bed. You, the bright morning star, have fallen from the sky! You brought down other nations; now you are brought down.
––Isaiah 14:11-12 CEV

What do you do when the devil has signed your death certificate, and everybody has walked away from the grave of Lazarus?

The devil who showed up in the Garden of Eden had a hiss-story of a bad fall that left open and unhealable wounds. There was a smoldering fire kindled on his insides that was like a growing cancer. Also, a hideous Green Lie had laid her eggs into this wound, and the proud mother watched with pride as her babies grew:

“Y’all make Mama proud. How stinking you are! How putrid! If one fly can destroy the anointing, how much more can trillions!”

Lucifer was created in perfection. “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation” (Ezekiel 28:13).

1. Lucifer saw the Lord's beauty, then somewhere started looking at his own beauty
2. Lucifer was the Blood of Jesus Hammond Organ

I believe it was when he took his eyes off the Lord and began to look at himself that he started having prideful thoughts: “You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north” (Isaiah 14:13).

One translation says, “I’ll climb to heaven and place my throne above the highest stars.” To ascend means Lucifer was in Eden: “You were in Eden, the garden of God.”

Ezk 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

Where does the biggest mass murder take place? In the Garden of Eden: In Adam, all die.

1. If this is indeed true, it means that the Lord REPLANTED the garden that iniquity had destroyed.
2. It means the serial killer had returned to the scene of the crime––murderers have returned to the scene of their crime many times as a concerned bystander

There is no doubt in my mind that the tree of life in the Garden of Eden represents and points to Christ, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the antichrist. The fruit in both these Trees had SEED. One righteous Seed had a His-Story of goodness, and the corrupt seed had a hiss-story of wickedness.

What’s a devil to do when he STILL wants to be God, and the only way to obtain this is to enter through the back door by usurping the authority God gave the first Adam to take dominion over the world? You must SCAM the new owners into signing over their title deed to the world.

The devil came to the Garden of Eden with a problem: How could he show up with hellfire smoking in his ears and maggots crawling over his body? He had to disguise himself: HE HAD TO PRESENT AN IMAGE TO EVE THAT WAS ONLY SNAKE-SKIN DEEP.

Think about it. For the devil to look to himself and think he could defeat God means that the first deception that led to the first iniquity was when the devil believed the façade of his own image. He may have looked powerful, but all his power came from the Lord. When the Lord withdrew the anointing, all he had left was THE IMAGE OF SOMETHING GREAT AND POWERFUL.

He became an image that was only skin deep. EVERYTHING HE WOULD ACCOMPLISH WOULD BE DECEPTION––WORKS DONE IN DARKNESS.

How did he tempt Eve? As a friendly snake who pointed out the outward beauty of the Figs on the fig tree. His War Strategy: Give a man a fig, and you’ve fed him one meal. Teach a man to become a self-sufficient, self-confident, and self-consumed fig farmer, and you’ve fed him for life.

Men look at the outward appearance and make all their judgments based on skin-deep evidence. Whether the fruit was a pear, apple, or fig, the skin was thin and covered up the seed on the inside.

Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
Mat 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Mat 23:28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

How does the devil deceive the world?

Rev 13:15 The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship it to be killed.

The irony of the fall of man is that although Adam and Eve were still made in the image of God and they outwardly looked the same after sin entered, inwardly they bore the image of a snake. They now possessed a spirit of disobedience.

God looks at the heart, and after the fall He looked into the heart of man and saw the desperately wicked eyes of a serpent staring back at him.

The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for only a night both say the words, “I love you.” Jesus has told us to discern between the language of seduction and the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep.
––Richard Wurmbrand

Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

To know means experiencing the world through your eyes. Through the eye gate, the spirit of disobedience will enter your heart as a multiplying seed. Disobey, and your eyes will open up like a highway for the devil to enter your heart and then exit your heart with curse words, damning your destiny with wicked, world-altering words set on fire by hell itself.

1. To know means: To have an intimate relationship with another person, an idea, or an experience.
2. It means you will have AN OPINION in direct opposition to the truth. It means you will learn how to sin and be creative about it.
3. It means you will declare and teach others how to sin
4. It means you will be known as a sinner

Notice the temptation of Eve is all about presenting a lying image that contradicts the concrete evidence of THE REALITY OF ETERNAL TRUTH.

It would be like trusting Po Dump Diddly Squat in a raggedy 1976 Dodge truck to co-sign a loan to buy a trillion-acre Paradise Ranch in Texas, and not trusting your father, Sam Walton Rockefeller, who owns GMC, Ford, and Chevrolet companies, to co-sign for a hundred trillion dollars.

Gen 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Here is what you must see: The temptation was to get the eyes of Eve to begin looking in the light of her own understanding.

There was no sun in the first three days of the creation story. “And God said, “Let there be Light, and the Light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” The sun was created on the fourth day: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day.

What happens when you turn on a flashlight at high noon on a cloudless day on the fourth of July in Alabama? It shines, but it shines in obscurity and adds nothing to the Light. When Adam and Eve sinned, their eyes were opened, and they became blind as bats.

1. A fig laced with fentanyl has the image of life-giving food
2. A serial killer driving a Jaguar and a dozen roses in hand along with a wedding ring has the image of a loving bridegroom
3. A pyramid scheme has an image of financial wisdom

I believe the devil instructed Tommy Hellfiger to create the Fig leaf apron known as the Fig Newton. THIS ALSO WAS AN IMAGE-ONLY SOLUTION: FIG JUICE CANNOT COVER SINS, MUCH LESS TAKE AWAY SINS.

These aprons came with night vision goggles (NVGs) and magnified the darkest of lies over the Light of Truth. A complimentary blind man’s walking cane was included with a cap that read: Blind Man Tour Guide.

Call today, and Infernal Press will include a free Fakebook Filter turning your shriveled granny into Raquel Welch.

Fig leaves are nothing but the grass of the field: Here today, gone tomorrow. And after the fall, the ground was cursed: Everything started dying.

1. I believe the Lord killed an innocent lamb and it was a cherished pet
2. I also believe the lamb licked the hand of the Lord before its throat was slit.
3. Satan enjoyed it
4. Satan noticed the Lord hated the fig leaf apron: Jot this down in your Death Planner: Teach man to offer anything but innocent blood.”

This doesn't mean that the devil didn't do anything with the slain lamb. No sir, He took the wool and pulled it over the eyes of Cain, the firstborn of Eve.

How does the devil tempt Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, to sin? He taught him to go against what Adam and Eve taught about offering an innocent lamb, and taught him to offer carrots THAT CAME FROM GROUND THAT WAS CURSED.

1. This same compromised spirit taught Abraham and Sarah to offer the seed conceived in Hagar as a substitute for the Seed of Isaac, who is a type of the Seed of Christ
2. This same compromised spirit taught Israel to choose Saul based on an image that contradicted the truth: The Scepter shall not depart from Judah until the LION OF JUDAH comes
3. This same compromised spirit will teach Israel to reject the image of a Lamb dying on a cross and to choose an antichrist instead

After Saul sinned, he still desired the image of being blessed by Samael in front of the people.

1Sa 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

The ultimate absurdity is that the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted to make sure that, while committing high treason by rejecting Jesus and choosing a murderer, they made sure they didn't go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled

Jhn 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover.

They also made sure that Jesus, the Passover Lamb, was dead so that they could offer the image of obedience by keeping the Sabbath in a temple now void of God's Presence.

Jhn 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

When I killed the two rattlesnakes that raced into my yard on four prosthetic legs, I DID NOT think to make pets out of them, because I knew the hiss-story of rattlesnakes.

1. I hated these snakes because I love my pack of Siberian Huskies.
2. If I picked them up, I would have been bitten

What kind of special nut would I be if, after being bitten, I invited these two snakes into my home and tried to make them pets? That would make me a certified nut indeed. But I’d have gotten it honest. Someone once said the real problem in the Garden of Eden wasn’t the forbidden fruit.

The problem was the two nuts on the ground. How many times have people tried to make pets out of their sin?

It is time to shoot this lying snake in the head: CUT OFF THE HEAD AND THE REST WON’T RATTLE LONG!

It was Satan who designed a custom-tailored Tommy Hellfiger suit for Jacob––The Esau Line: Look the part rugged hunter!

It was the Lord who designed the transformational clothes for Israel: The Sackcloth and Ashes Brand––Dress for Success. It’s not about you! Be clothed with humility.

Jacob went from the Can-Do-Man worried about his image before Isaac to the Can-Do-Nothing Man who was transformed into the image of Christ and therefore, his name became Israel.

Israel with a limp.

The devil presented the image of impossibility at Lazarus' grave.

The Lord revealed the express Image of His Heavenly Father. The Can-Do-Nothing-Man, without His Father, revealed His Name to all who will confess that their name is Jacob. He revealed His Name: I AM the Resurrection and the Life.

I wonder who painted the picture of the music celebrity being greeted in heaven by other rock stars who never publicly repented of their abominations?

Our Everlasting Father Carried Us FirstWHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so dea...
06/30/2026

Our Everlasting Father Carried Us First

WHEREFORE, AS BY ONE MAN sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.
— Romans 5:12 (margin)

Something more than the wind caught Henry Washburn’s attention, and it had his dander up full blast. There was talk of his daughter Barbara marrying Curwood Jennings, and he was having none of it.

He lit another Chesterfield as he fiddled at the supper table. “Marry! Not if I have anything to do with it! My God, she’s only fifteen. We ain’t even letting her date, much less marry. Why couldn’t Cowboy have stayed in Lawn, Texas, running after cows instead of chasing after our daughter?”

Ruby answered, “I think she….”

“Why? Why on earth did I let her ride up to Wadley with him? I'll never understand it. I should have known Beth wouldn’t watch them. Pffft! Big sister was probably in on it, too.”

He slammed the screen door behind him and smushed the cigarette into the porch, giving it an extra twist. “Tell you what, Cowboy. Just let me catch you all duded up, acting like you’re coming to see me. Yeah, you’re coming to see me all right.”

On the night of August 27, 1950, my grandmother, Ruby, heard my mom trying to ease the window open to elope with my dad. Mama would later say, “All hell broke loose.” And I'm thinking maybe some hellfire boiled over onto Henry.

Daddy parked his 1949 Ford truck at the end of Brewer Road and sashayed up to the house. When he saw a double-barreled shotgun on top of the hill, he found his thrill. Henry didn't give him three steps, but Mister Curwood took them anyway. The disillusioned groom drove back home thinking the original plan to marry at Christmas wasn’t such a terrible idea after all.

One thing's for sure about that night. He didn't see her. He didn't even kiss her.

Mama slept with my grandmother that night. Some honeymoon!
The next morning, Mama ran to Edith and Lewis Washburn’s house, just down the road. Around the same time, Daddy came up the road. He slammed on the brakes and threw the truck in reverse. After she hopped in, he popped the clutch, and they hightailed it to Daviston, leaving a trail of red dust behind. They crossed the Tallapoosa River at Bibb’s Ferry, pulled across by cables.

I am certain that on this madcap trip, Daddy kept a vigilant eye on the rearview mirror. He watched for any sign of a Henry with a rifle aiming to stop the marriage.

But they safely arrived in Meridian, Mississippi, and were married on August 29, 1950. The marriage certificate lists Mama’s age at eighteen. Wow! How long does it take to get from Frog Eye to Meridian?

Daddy’s niece, June Brasell, was eleven at the time and remembers this romance as one of the most exciting times of her youth. “The whole community was up in the air about this.”

This Curwood and Barbara thing worked for thirty-eight years. I never heard my dad raise his voice to my mom. I never heard them fuss about anything major, and divorce was not mentioned in our home. Only death would separate them.

And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories.
— Acts 17:26 AMP+

We Were in the Loins of Our Father

I wish this conversation were possible with my grandfather, Henry.

“Granddaddy, why did you want to shoot me that Sunday night?”
“Why, I never tried to shoot you, son. When did you say this happened?”
“The night you were lying low for Daddy. I was there along with my sister Ginger, brother Ricky, niece and nephew Ambra, and Connor.”
“Goodness! I didn't see y'all there. Where did you say you were again?”
“We were in the loins of Cowboy Jennings, our father.”

Robert Schueller said, “Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” God can look at any boy and determine the number of sons and daughters in his seed–– in his loins. If the boy is murdered at the age of seven, then the potential children resident in his loins are also murdered.

1. Shoot Curwood, and you shoot us all
2. Since he lived, we have lived
3. Since he crossed the river at Frog Eye, we crossed the river

This line of thinking stands on biblical principles. Abraham fathered Isaac when he was a hundred years old. Isaac was sixty when his sons Esau and Jacob were born. Jacob was approximately eighty-seven when Levi, one of twelve sons, was born.

Before Isaac was born, Abraham rescued his nephew Lot from four kings who had taken him captive. When he returned from this battle, he met a mysterious high priest named Melchizedek.

The Bible says Abraham paid tithes to this man: “Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything” (Genesis 14:20b CEV).
This event took place at least fifteen years before Isaac was born and seventy-five years before Jacob's birth. Levi was born 161 years later.

In your mind’s eye, look at Abraham paying tithes to Melchizedek and tell me if you see Levi paying his tithe with Abraham. This scenario would be the same as watching President Trump sign a bill and seeing a grandson sign it with him who would be born in the year 2186.

Of course, you don't see Levi paying tithes with Abraham, because Levi’s granddaddy Jacob hasn’t been born yet, much less Levi. And yet, God saw Levi putting his tithe in the hands of Melchizedek at the same time as Abraham.

One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham, because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in the body of his ancestor.
— Hebrews 7:9–10 NIV emphasis added

The King James says, “He was yet in the loins of his father.” The New Living Translation says, “For although Levi wasn’t born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham’s body when Melchizedek collected the tithe from him.” The Good News Bible says, “For Levi had not yet been born, but was, so to speak, in the body of his ancestor Abraham when Melchizedek met him.”

Levi was in Abraham's loins, seminally speaking. This means he was in his seed, and through the actions of his grandfather Abraham, Levi paid tithes.

Here is the principle as it applies to us.

1. We were all in the loins of the first Adam, who sinned in Eden.
2. In the same way God saw Levi paying tithes in Abraham, He saw us sinning in Adam before we were born.
3. We were constituted sinners.

How were we constituted sinners? As the one representative man for all of mankind, the first Adam voted yes to sin through disobedience. This established the law of sin and death in our lives. You were in the loins of the first Adam, and when he sinned, God saw you sinning in him: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.”

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death. — Romans 8:2

A Principled Crow Named Pick Six

To illustrate, let me introduce you to a crow named Pick Six. He pulls up billions of truckers’ favorite field corn with one bite. You could say he swallows countless generations of Corn Pops down his scrawny throat. With that kind of appetite, it’s no wonder Pick has a scratchy caw.

Did I say Pick pulled up billions of corn seeds with one bite? Yes, let me explain so you can hear with your two good ears.

One corn seed produces one stalk that produces two ears of corn, and each ear has an average of fifteen hundred other corn seeds. Plant all these seeds in the second year, and you will get over two million additional seeds. Repeat this process for three years, and you will have four billion. The four billion corn seeds were in one original seed. And the one original seed was in the billions of other corn seeds.

Every single one of the billions of corn seeds can trace its roots to the original corn seed. You could say the future of the billions was contained within the history of the one, and that the history of the one contained the future of the billions.

You must understand that a six-day-old corn seedling cannot reproduce because of its immaturity. So, what happens if you dig up the one original corn seedling when it is only six days old? Even though it could have produced billions, it will produce nothing. Therefore, if you dig up one corn seedling, you dig up the billions of other seedlings that are in the one. Kill the one, and death passes to all. This corn becomes the trucker’s failure.

Watchman Nee taught along these lines. Put a twenty-dollar bill into a book and send it to New York City. Where does the dollar go? It goes to New York with the book. You have joined the destiny of the dollar with the destiny of the book.

Suppose I send one seed of corn in a package to Nacogdoches, Texas. Potentially, I have sent billions of corn seeds to the Lone Star state, because the one seed that contains billions of other seeds has been placed in a package.

How does this apply to you? In the Garden of Eden, you were wrapped in the first Adam's seed package. Romans 5:12 teaches us that we were in the loins of Adam, so when he sinned, we all sinned. We all belong to this family tree.

This means that when sin sent Adam into a tailspin, you were sent into a tailspin. Since we were in him, our lives gravitated to a sinful nature. The scripture puts it this way: “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalms 51:5). Our future is contained within his history.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
— 1 Corinthians 15:21–22

The first Adam was God's seedling created on the sixth day and planted in God's garden. As it were, a crow named Pick 666 plucked this seedling up and separated him from God–– this is spiritual death. We all died with him because we were in his loins.

The chill of his mortality seeped into our bones, a chill that spread to us through generations because of Adam's disobedience.

We Became the Walking Dead.

What does it mean to be dead spiritually? Consider a herd of sheep and look at this from God's perspective: “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” (Luke 15:4).

When one sheep strays from the ninety-nine, the one is said to be lost. This doesn't imply it no longer exists. It means God considers it dead because of separation.

Consider the story of the prodigal son. When the youngest son left his father, he ended up in a pig pen. When he came to his senses and returned home, his father said: “And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry” (Luke 15:23-24, emphasis added).

In God's eyes, the son was lost and dead because he was separated from his Heavenly Father.

Before I was born, I was in my father's loins. Likewise, before Curwood was born, he was in the loins of my grandfather Carl Jennings, who was in the loins of his Daddy Buck. This means I, too, was in Buck.

Had Buck died at age six, Carl would have died with him. This means there would have been no Curwood or his siblings, Irma, Beth, Mary Alice, and Ronny. And no Ginger, Ricky, Jeb, and many cousins. We would have perished when Buck perished.
We all were in his loins. Kill the one, and you knock off the whole clan.

I recently learned that my great-great-grandfather, Archibald Jennings, fought in the Civil War for three years. He was one of the few men in his original regiment who survived. When he avoided every bullet and shrapnel, by God's grace, I avoided every bullet and shrapnel. God protected me by protecting him. Had this not been the case––

What happens to you if your grandfather is murdered when he is six years old? You died with him. Since you are here, this didn't happen. But spiritually speaking, it did happen. Spiritually speaking, your father Adam was murdered by a deceiving snake in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, you were murdered in a garden.

Spiritual death is passed on from generation to generation through sin.

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
— Ephesians 2:1–2

We were all murdered in the Garden of Eden because we were in the loins of our father, the first Adam. When he died, we died with him. The billions were in the one, and the one was in the billions. Bring death to the one, and you bring death to the billions. Therefore, we all died spiritually in the first Adam.

We died in the first Adam because we sinned judicially in him. This means we are held responsible for Adam's sin because he represents us. In this spiritual connection, we were constituted sinners. When Adam fell, we all fell. This fall resulted in spiritual amnesia. We don't know who we are outside of God's intervention.

“God deals with the human race under a system known as federalism. Simply put, federalism has to do with representation, with one person acting on behalf of another. God has appointed two representatives in history: Adam and Christ. The first Adam was made in the image of God; the last Adam was the express image of God himself, made into the likeness of man.

The first Adam was created from the dust of the earth and in him everyone enters the world. The last Adam is the Lord from heaven and only through him can one enter the Kingdom of God. In Adam we all died; in Christ we all are made alive. Both men propagate through seed. The seed of the first Adam is natural and from the beginning was capable of corruption. The seed of the last Adam is incorruptible, eternal in the heavens.

The first Adam is the federal head of the human race; everyone enters the world by him through his seed. Thus, he is called the seminal head because everyone existed in seed form within Adam. Call something seminal when it's so original, so groundbreaking, and awesome that it influences everything that comes after it.” –– Author unknown

As our father, Adam, animated us with the spirit of disobedience. This means we don’t have to work at sinning. We were born in sin; therefore, we are sinners. No one needs to teach us how to become angry, selfish, lustful, or a liar. Greed comes easily to a son of Adam. So does adultery, idolatry, drunkenness, fear, doubt, and unbelief in God’s word. In Adam, our sinful nature never needs Miracle Grow.

The scriptures reveal that Adam sinned with his eyes wide open, whereas Eve was deceived: “And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” (1 Timothy 2:14). His deliberate sin opened the door for all his seed––all of us––to be easily deceived time and time again. This is because we became a soulish man ruled by outward circumstances, instead of a spiritual man ruled by the Word of God.

In the Garden of Eden, man suffered a paradigm shift. He went from being a Christ-centered man anchored to a Rock, to a self-centered man with no stability on a stormy sea. This means man became subject to changing his mind based on external circumstances. If it looked peaceful, he would have peace. If it looked hopeless, he would have hopelessness. If he faced a battle with giants bigger than himself, there would be no overcoming faith.

This all points back to the principle of sowing and reaping. God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, stating they would die if they did. However, the devil contradicted God's command by suggesting they were being kept in the dark. I believe the devil was eating the forbidden fruit when he said, “God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Eve was deceived when she looked at the forbidden fruit. Instead of relying on God's eternal Word, she focused on the outward appearance and believed a lie. “When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it” (Genesis 3:6 BSB).

From this point forward in the hiss-story of man, every time he sins will be according to this principle of being deceived by outward evidence that contradicts the truth of what God has already said in the scriptures. Every. Time. “There is a way that seems right unto man, but its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 14:12 BSB). The devil sowed a lie into the heart of man and has reaped it a trillion times.

For redemption to come, Another Adam would have to come and effect a paradigm shift from a soulish man back to a spiritual man.

We Were All in the Last Adam

Look at your life from the perspective of a family tree. We all entered the world as a branch sprouting on the tree of the first Adam: “Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit” (Matthew 12:33). A tree is known by its fruit. And concerning the fruit of Adam’s family tree there was none good, no not one.

Thank God we were in the family tree of Christ, the last Adam, before we were in the first Adam. In essence, Jesus is the tree of life. He is our everlasting Father.

The good news of the gospel of Jesus far outshines the negative effects of the fall. You were in the loins of your everlasting Father, the Last Adam before you were in the loins of the first Adam: “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” (2 Timothy 1:9 emphasis added).

Our destinies hinge on two Representative men, the first and Last Adam.

1. The first Adam sinned and disobeyed in the Garden of Eden
2. The Last Adam obeyed his Heavenly Father in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Jesus’ accomplishments at the cross overshadow what Adam lost to sin: “For just as through one man’s disobedience [his failure to hear, his carelessness] the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of the one Man the many will be made righteous and acceptable to God and brought into right standing with Him” (Romans 5:19 AMPC+).

Bring resurrection life to the one righteous seed of Christ, and you bring resurrection life and power to all the sons and daughters in that holy seed.

To illustrate, let’s go back to our corn seedling.

Pick Six skippy-hops to the young seedling of trucker’s favorite. He starts to take a bite. BOOM! Smoke whiffs from a Browning twelve-gauge Belgium-made shotgun with vent rib and fixed full choke. Pick Six kicks the bucket.

What happens to the millions of other seeds inside the one seedling? They live because if you preserve the life of the one, you bring life to the millions in the one.

The kingdom of God stands on the principle of the Seed of Christ. This holy seed was planted through death on a Friday and rose from the grave on a Sunday. And since you were in this one righteous seed, his history contained your future. And your future is in the Lord's His-Story.

We were in Christ from the foundation of the world, before we were in Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 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.
— Ephesians 1:3–4 emphasis added

Since we were in Christ, what happens to us when the Last Adam is crucified for our sins? We were crucified with him. What happens to us when the Last Adam is buried in a grave? We were buried with him. What happens to us when the Last Adam is raised from the dead? We were raised from the dead with him.
Our Heavenly Father placed us inside the book of Christ. This means that when Jesus ascended into heaven after his resurrection and sat down at the Father's right hand, we sat down with him: “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6 BSB).

Praise the Lord! We live because Jesus has risen from the dead and we were raised to newness of life with him. Here’s the principle: Raise up the one on the third day and you’ve raised up the whole blessed bunch. This is amazing grace. Jesus paid it all. That’s a done deal: “Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4:25).

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
— Galatians 2:20

In Christ, we don’t work for righteousness. It is a free gift of God’s grace: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8–9). Just as we were constituted sinners in the first Adam, in the last Adam we were constituted righteous. We all were in the loins of the last Adam, and through his action of obeying, we too obeyed in him.

Ultimately, this means God chose you as the bride of Christ. And someone with a long hiss-story of stopping weddings wants to stop yours. But don't expect a man with a shotgun. Look for a player with a flattering tongue.

How can you know any of this is true? You can know by looking at your family history. You and I both know that your last name is etched on a thousand tombstones, one in sad succession of the other. This genealogy goes back to the first Adam, the federal head of mankind.

This history of death will repeat itself in your life. That's the bad news. The His-Story of Jesus, your everlasting Father, will overcome this death we all must face, and you can live forever. The choice of life and death is set before you this day. Who do you choose?

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