Adam’s Origin
“my delights were with the sons of Adam” Proverbs 8:31
By: Walter Giddings
(Job 20:4). One of Job’s friends, Zophar the Naamathite, is making the point “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.” And he is saying this has always been true, all the way back, to way back!
4 Knowest thou not this of old,
since man was placed upon earth,
Job chapter twenty.
“Since Adam was placed upon earth” … To what point of time is Zophar referring? Can we get a witness? (Genesis 2:8). When did God do this?
8 And the LORD God planted a gar-
den eastward in Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed.
“There he put the Adam whom he had formed.” Does the Scripture picture of the Potter and the clay source from Genesis 2:7-8? How do we know of a Surety we have that point in time to which Zophar referred? [Is Surety one of the names ofJesus?] Does Verse 8 say, “There he put the Adam whom he had formed”? The Hebrew verb H7760 sum/siym, soom/siym, translated “put” in Genesis is the same translated “placed” in Job!
Scroll down to Verse 15.The Holy Spirit repeats part of Verse 8 here in Verse 15 to keep us from losing track through Verses 9-14.
15 And the LORD God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis chapter two.
The Concept that God took Adam from another place to place him “upon earth”, and “put him” in the Garden is expressed equally in both Hebrew and English.
(Hebrews 11:10). From where did God take Adam to “place” him upon earth, and “put him into the garden”? In The Faith Hall of Fame chapter, Hebrews 11, it is written of Abraham:
10 For he looked for a city which
hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God.
(Hebrews 11:13-16).
In Verses 13-16, the pronouns “all” and “they” and “these” refer to Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sara, and us, who, by virtue of being born from above, are their called and chosen descendants:
p 13 These all died in faith, not having
received the promises, but having
seen them afar off, and were persua-
ded of them, and embraced them, and
confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth.
c 14 For they that say such things declare
plainly that they seek a country.
p 15 And truly, if they had been mindful
of that country from whence they came
out, they might have had opportunity to
have returned.
c 16 But now they desire a better country,
that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is
not ashamed to be called their God: for
He hath prepared for them a city.
Hebrews chapter eleven.
Verse 13. We are “strangers and pilgrims on the earth”! Verse 14. We “seek a country.”; G3968 patris, pat-rece’; fatherland! Verse 15. We “might have had opportunity to have returned.” Can we return to somewhere we have never been?! Verse 16. We “desire a better country”! And where is that “better country”? “That is an heavenly”! “God ... hath prepared for them a city.”
(Revelation 21:2). And from where will that city come?
2 And I John saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
Revelation chapter twenty-one.
Does “the holy city” come down “from God out of heaven”? Did Adam come from the heavenlies?
The first time I heard that Question was from a Sermon preached by Pastor Jerry in my home church Christian Reform Fellowship. I was startled! In his younger days Pastor Jerry was famous for a photographic memory of The Scriptures. He could expound for two hours, completely maxing out a 90-minute cassette tape! All that from a half page of notes jotted down on the eve of assembly!! (John 10:30). I was used to the fact he always had The Scriptures for every theme, issue or subject matter in The Bible!
30 I and my Father are one.
John chapter ten.
One of the marks of a Christian is his Belief in the Invisible! A Christian understands from The Scriptures that, when Adam fell, he fell from Immortality down unto Mortality, resulting in a loss of Sight so great there is an entire Realm that is now, barring Divine Intervention, invisible to him! We call it the Invisible Realm.
Jacob’s Ladder is a very well-known case in point. Jacob laid his head down to rest on a pillar of Stone for a pillow. God opened the Invisible Realm to him. He saw, as it were, a ladder extending out of the visible heaven down to the earth with angels ascending into heaven out of sight, and angels descending out of heaven unto the earth. [Put marks in John 10 and Genesis 28] God spoke to Jacob from above the top of the ladder. God confirmed the Promises made unto Abraham and Isaac unto Jacob our Father. (Genesis 28:17). What Jacob said is very telling.
17 And he was afraid, and said, How
dreadful is this place! This is none
other but the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.
Genesis chapter twenty-eight.
“This is the gate of heaven.” A lesser-known witness to the Invisible Realm is the Tower of Babel. (Genesis 11:4). Is this a lesser-known witness to the Invisible Realm because of our ignorance in failing to apply this well-known statute of Bible Study to The Scriptures? “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” [Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4]
4 And they said, Go to, let us build
us a city and a tower, whose top may
reach unto heaven; and let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis chapter eleven.
“A tower whose top may reach unto heaven.” If God had not intervened on the plains of Shinar, would the One World, One Language Adamkind have succeeded in engineering an unauthorized “heaven’s gate” for the wicked Angels between the Invisible and Visible Realms?! Even our musical Heritage testifies to the Creation wrenching effect of Adam’s Fall that separated Heaven and Earth. The Christian Hymn, This Is My Father’s World, containing the beautiful poetry of composer Maltie D. Babcock, has this memorable last line in the last Verse:
“Jesus who died shall be satisfied, and earth and heaven be one.”
(Back to John 10:31-36).
p 31 Then the Jews took up stones a-
gain to stone him.
c 32 Jesus answered them, Many
good works have I shewed you from
my father; for which of those works
do ye stone me?
p 33 The Jews answered him, saying,
For a good work we stone thee not;
but for blasphemy; and because that
thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
c 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not writ-
ten in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
p 35 If he called them gods, unto whom
the word of God came, and the Scrip-
ture cannot be broken;
c 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father
hath sanctified, and sent into the
world, Thou blasphemest; because
I said, I am the son of God?
John chapter ten.
“I said, Ye are gods.” Look back to Verse 34.“Is it not written in your law?” Where do we find that? Where do we find, “I said, Ye are gods.”
(The 82nd Psalm). Pastor Jerry taught many times that “The words of the LORD” [the 12th Psalm]were written for the purpose of hanging accurate pictures in the picture galleries of our minds. Does the 82nd Psalm picture the Invisible Realm? Look at Verse 1.
A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth
in the congregation of the mighty;
he judgeth among the gods.
Who is “the congregation of the mighty”? Are they “the gods”? And where is God standing when “he judgeth among the gods”? The verbs to stand and to judge are in the present Tense! Does the Omnipresence of God dictate those verbs are still in the present Tense today? Is this Picture still just as True today as it was when Asaph, under Divine Inspiration composed the Psalm? (Look down to Verse 6). And who are “the gods”?
6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all
of you are children of the most High.
Psalm 82 chapter one.
Is this where “written in your law”? Where is it found? Was Jesus in John 10 quoting from the 82nd Psalm? Are you the small “g” gods? Are you“ children of the most High”?
7 But ye shall die like men, and fall
like one of the princes.
Is “ye” you? Can small “g” “gods” “die like men”? “Men” is the translation of H120 adam, aw-dawm’; to show blood in the face. Do all Adamkind die like beasts? Do all Adamkind “fall like one of the princes”? What is the domain, over which “princes” rule, called? What is the King James English word for the domain, over which “princes” rule? Have we all heard of “principalities”? Who now rules most of the principalities on earth? Do the wicked Archangels rule most of those Principalities? Do the wicked Angels want the worship? Do they want the Power? Do they hate Adamkind with a nasty, ornery, venal, vicious, and wicked hatred that most people with a conscience find hard to understand? Was Adam given Dominion? Did Adam abdicate the Throne of Dominion when he fell? (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). Are Power Vacuums the quickest Vacuums to refill?
p 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid
to them that are lost:
c 4 In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of
the glorious gospel of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine unto
them.
Second Corinthians chapter four.
Why do The Scriptures call “the Accuser of the brethren”, the Adversary, and Satan the small “g” “god of this world”? Is it because Adam was the small “g” “god of this world” until the Devil took the Throne of Dominion? (Colossians 2:15). Is the Battle a pitched Battle? This Verse heralds Christ’s Triumph at Mount Calvary!
15 And having spoiled principalities,
he made a shew of them openly, trium-
phing over them in it.
Colossians chapter two.
Does this mean Satan and all his Unholy Horde were used as the Instruments of their own Doom on The Hill of the Skull?
Is this where our musical heritage serves us well again?! Known unto many of us is the James Owens Collins composition The Battle Belongs to the Lord.
Is this Triumph the Triumph of the One Who Created to Make Us? (Colossians 1:16). Do we know him as well as He knows us?
16 For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in ear-
th, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principal-
ities, or powers: all things were crea-
ted by him and for him.
Colossians chapter one.
Does the thought occur to us that The Devil and all his unholy horde were messing with the wrong guy?!!
Is the Bible our 1st Hymnal? (1 John 3:1-2). Do we have Witnesses in the Scriptures to [Psalm 82:6] “Ye are ... children of the Most High”?
p Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God:
therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it kneweth him not.
c 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is.
First John chapter three.
(Hosea 1:10). Was this prophesied before that this would happen? After Calvary, would The Comforter come, bestowing “Christ in us, the hope of Glory”, giving us born from above, making us new creations/creatures?
\ 10 Yet the number of the children of
Israel shall be as the sand of the sea
which cannot be measured or num-
bered; and it shall come to pass, that
in the place where it was said unto
them, Ye are not my people, there it
shall be said unto them, Ye are the
sons of the living God.
Hosea chapter one.
(Romans 8:14). Can we get another Witness?
14 For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
Romans chapter eight.
(John 1:12). How can we be led by “the Spirit of God”?
12 But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that be-
lieve on his name.
First John chapter one.
“To them gave he power”!(Romans 9:4). By what name is the Doctrine of the Sonship of God’s People known?
4 Who are Israelites; to whom per-
taineth the adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the giving of
the law, and the service of God, and
the promises;
Romans chapter nine.
What is “the adoption”? And why is it mentioned first (!) before the glory or resurrection, and before the covenants, and the giving of the law, the service or ministry of God, or even the promises?! (Galatians 4:5). Would another Witness from The Scriptures help reference us on this matter? Or, to ask this another way, “Does Scripture interpret Scripture? Why should we be stuck with man’s interpretation?
5 To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.
Galatians chapter four.
“The adoption of sons”. Was Adam the son of God? Did Adam and the woman have God as their Father? (Luke 1:23,38).
23 And Jesus himself began to be a-
bout thirty years of age, being (as was
supposed) the son of Joseph, which
was the son of Heli,
We read Verse 23 first because this Verse sets the repeating pattern that concludes in Verse 38.
38 Which was the son of Enos, which
was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam, which was the son of God.
Luke chapter three.
“Which was the son of God.” “Was”?!! Was Adam being the son of God a “was” and not an “is”? Did Adam sin and lose sonship in the Fall?
What did Jesus tell Nicodemus, a ruler in Israel? (John 3:9-10). Do we recall the bewilderment of Nicodemus when Jesustold him, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” [John 3:3] And Jesus repeated “a man ... cannot enter into the kingdom of God” [John 3:5] and repeated “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” [John 3:7].(Verses 9-10). Jesus says something to Nicodemus that is not commonly well studied!
p 9 Nicodemus answered and said un-
to him, How can these things be?
c 10 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Art thou a master of Israel, and know-
est not these things?
John chapter three.
For those of you sitting in uncushioned pews, right about now the wood is rising hard to meet your seat bones. And I want to finish before you do! I only have time for two quick hints on how Nicodemus, “a master of Israel”, could and should know “these things”.
First, Israel’s Festival Cycle, from Passover/Feast unto Tabernacles, is a nine-month cycle, indicating The Plan of Salvation brings the children to “born again”.
Second, The Holy Spirit, post Calvary and the Hill of the Skull, now, having Power not possessed under the Old Covenant, now possessed under the New Covenant, conferring sonship! Paul, who calls himself the least of the Apostles, ratifies “this mystery among the Gentiles” when he writes, [Colossians 1:27] “Christ in you, the hope of glory”. To what does “glory” most usually refer?
(1 Peter 1:23). The Apostle Peter has a 2nd Witness to “born again”. The end of Verse 22 reads: “love one another with a pure heart fervently:”
23 Being born again, not of corrupt-
ible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever.
First Peter chapter one.
Does this remind us of Paul [1 Corinthians 15:50] who wrote, “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” And [Verse 53], “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” What must occur between “this corruptible” putting on “incorruption”? Must something happen?! Did we just hear, “neither doth corruption inherit incorruption”? When we are “born from above”, must “this corruptible” ... “put on incorruption”? And once we “put on incorruption” can “incorruption” ever become corruptible again? And now that we are “born from above”, is our legal standing in heaven “children of the most High”? Does this mean right now that God has returned “Sonship” to us? Is it any wonder “the adoption” appears 1st in the list of things pertaining only to Israel!
(Proverbs 8:22). How far does “Adam’s Origin” go back? Way back? Or, way, way back? Who is “me” in Proverbs 8:22?
Verses 22-31.
c 22 The LORD possessed me in the
beginning of his way, before his
works of old.
p 23 I was set up from everlasting, from
the beginning, or ever the earth was.
c 24 When there were no depths, I was
brought forth; when there were no
fountains abounding with water.
p 25 Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills was I brought forth.
c 26 While as yet he had not made the
earth, nor the fields, nor the highest
part of the dust of the world.
p 27 When he prepared the heavens I
was there: when he set a compass
upon the face of the depth:
c 28 When he established the clouds
above: when he strengthened the
fountains of the deep:
p 29 When he gave to the sea his de-
cree, that the waters should not pass
his commandment: when he appoin-
ted the foundations of the earth:
c 30 Then I was by him, as one brought
up with him: and I was daily his de-
light, rejoicing always before him;
p 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of
his earth; and my delights were with
the sons of Adam.
Proverbs chapter eight.
“My delights were with the sons of Adam.” In all my experiences after I returned to The Bible July 4th, 1982, the only preaching I have ever had on these Verses was from Pastor Jerry of Christian Reform Fellowship. I still find this Scripture wonderful, in the sense that this Scripture fills me full of Wonder!
Are you willing to share with me your impressions and Questions on this Responsive Reading? Who is “me” in Verse 22? Who is “I” in Verse 23?
Bibliography
Proverbs 8:31“My delights were with the sons of Adam.”
Job 20:4. “Man was placed upon earth”
Genesis 2:8. “There he put the Adam” Genesis 2:15 “put him into the garden”
Hebrews 11:10. “he looked for a city”
Hebrews 11:13-16. “if they had been mindful of that from which they came out.”
Revelation 21:2. “I John saw the holy city”
Genesis 28:17. “this is the gate of heaven”
[Deuteronomy 8:3 and Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4] “by every word”
Genesis 11:4. “a tower whose top may reach unto heaven”
John 10:30. “I and my father are one”
Maltie D. Babcock. This Is My Father’s World. “and earth and heaven be one”
John 10:31-36. “I said ye are gods”
Psalm the 82nd. “I have said, Ye are gods”
2 Corinthians 4:3-4. “the god of this world”
Colossians 2:15. “having spoiled principalities”
James Owens Collins. The Battle Belongs to the Lord
Colossians 1:16. “principalities or powers”
[1 John 3:1] 1st hymnal
1 John 3:1-2. “now are we the sons of God”
Hosea 1:10. “ye are the sons of the living God”
Romans 8:14. “they are the sons of God”
John 1:12. “to them gave he power to become the sons of God”
Romans 9:4. Israel, to whom pertaineth the adoption”
Galatians 4:5. “receive the adoption of sons”
Luke 1:23,38. “Adam who was the son of God”
John 3:9-10. “Art thou a master of Israel?”
1 Peter 1:23. “being born again”
[1 Corinthians 15:50, 53] “neither doth corruption inherit incorruption”
Proverbs 8:22-31. “My delights were with the sons of Adam”
