THE EFFECT OF ADAM'S SIN, AND WHEN AND HOW IT WAS REMEDIED

I want to share some parallels from the first Adam and the last Adam that I think will give us insight into just what it is that happened to Adam when he sinned, what that penalty was the Jesus came to take for us.

First we will start in the garden in Eden, where Adam is spoken of as simply eating of the fruit given to him by his woman, Eve. Paul adds the detail that, unlike Eve, Adam was not deceived when he ate. This tells me then, that he knew full well what he was doing when he decided to eat.

People have speculated as to why he did this, yet that is for another discussion. I want to just focus on the fact that, for whatever reason, he chose to follow whatever fleshly desire he had at that given moment, just as Eve did when she ate, doing so because of how good it looked and was for eating, not to mention that it would make her wise like God. Both allowed their own desires to rule them.

The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
(Gen 3:7 WEB (R))

As a result of this, we see the penalty occur, the death their Creator warned them about. They suddenly had an awareness they did not have before. They saw nakedness. This does not mean they did not see themselves without clothing before, because nothing outwardly had changed. It was their perception about their own state that changed, and that perception also affected their view of their relationship to God as well, for when God came looking for them, they hid:

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
(Gen 3:8 WEB (R))

They now saw themselves as needing to be separate from God, because it was too shameful to be in his presence. God therefore, in putting them out of Eden, allowed them, and all that would come from him, for a time, to experience this perception of separateness. This separation occurred because of sin, but it was a perception of such, not a reality, for God could never be separted from his creation and it still exist.

This is not a simple subject, and I know this will probably not be understood without further explanation, but perhaps in another article I will go into the truth that God is both everywhere at all times and yet comes and goes, and how both of those statements are in fact true. It has to do with perception and manifestation.

Fast forward to the first century, where we find the last Adam in another garden, faced with the temptation to once again appeal to fleshly desire, in this case, to avoid drinking the cup he is destined to drink.

This time however, he submits his will to his Father's will, denying what he wanted and trusting in his Father.

saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
(Luk 22:42 WEB (R))

A little later, while on the tree, notice carefully the sequence of events. First, we find a supernatural darkness covering the land from the brightest part of the day until the time Jesus would experience what Adam and Eve did when they sinned.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
(Mat 27:45 WEB (R))

That darkness, I believe, was a sign of God's judgment for the world being poured out on his son, the judgment he said he would draw to himself when he was lifted up:

Now is the judging of this world. Now shall the Chief of this world be cast out. And I, if I should be exalted out of the earth, shall be drawing all to Myself."
(Joh 12:31-32 CLV)

The word 'men' or 'people', that you will probably find in your Bible is not in the text. It was added because it is commonly believed that he is referring to drawing persons to himself. However, a good rule to remember when looking at any writings is to look back to find the closest object, for it is most often that object that is being referenced. In this case, that object is the judging of the world, meaning every individual. He drew all of that judgment on himself, bearing it in his body.

At the ninth hour, the time between the evenings when the Pesach lambs were slain, Jesus, for the first time in his earthly life, experienced the death brought into the world by Adam and Eve. For it was at this time that he said something he never uttered before:

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
(Mat 27:46 WEB (R))

He experienced the mind of Adam as one separated from God. The obvious thing we see relating to this is the fact that he believes he has been forsaken by God. This was no mere quoting of a Psalm, even though it is a fulfillment of a psalm written by David. He truly felt this, and his cry was real to him. Another thing to take note of is that, for the first time ever (at least recorded), he addressed his Father in prayer, not as Father, but as God. This too, indicates a mind of separation.

Just as with the first Adam though, God was with his Son all the way down until his physical death. Having experienced the wages of sin, which is the death of a mind separated from God, there was one prophecy yet to be fulfilled:

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
(Joh 19:28-30 WEB (R))

Upon drinking the vinegar, he would yell out those 3 all important words, IT IS FINISHED! What was finished? Remember what he came to do? He came to take the sin of the world away by bearing its judgment. At that moment during the 9th hour he experienced that judgment, which, again, is why he cried out as one forsaken by God.

That was the judgment meted out by God to Jesus, and Jesus knew that, having experienced it, all things were now finished. There was nothing further in the way for judgment or wrath for Jesus to experience. As brief a time as it was, it was the most horrible outpouring ever experienced. Imagine, the judgment of millions of persons meted out on one person.

We see that he defeated that Adamic mindset because the very next time he speaks to his Father, he returns to speaking of to him as 'Father.'

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
(Luk 23:46 WEB (R))

When he experienced that effect of sin in his mind, sin, for the first time ever, affected the wrong man! Jesus was an innocent man. Sin did not have a right to affect him, but it was allowed to happen so that it could be judged:

For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
(Rom 8:3 WEB (R))

Because sin wrongfully worked in Jesus, it was condemned. The verdict was 'guilty!' So, when Jesus breathed his last, he knew all that he came to do was accomplished. Sin was rendered powerless.

So, from all that I have seen and shared here, I see no reason to believe that there was anything else Jesus had to do with regard to paying the penalty for us, or Adam. Upon his physical death, everything from then on issued out of his being a life giving spirit.

Ron