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Have you ever thought about the fact that out of every single thing that was created in this universe that Yahweh only explains about that creation in one little chapter? He could have written a whole book just on Creation, but He didn’t. So that would tell us that every single word is important in the Creation account, and must be looked at and scrutinized to know the true meaning of man’s purpose on this earth. Let’s take a look at the Creation account and see what Yahweh’s intention was with the man that He created.

Gen 1:26 And Elohim said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.

Gen 1:27 And Elohim created the man in His own image; in the image of Elohim He created him. He created them male and female.

Did you notice that Yahweh said to Yahshua, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness? However, when He created them, it only says that He created them in His image, not His likeness. Why is this?

Because being created in His image simply means being created and looking as the Yahweh family looks. In Revelation 1 we see that Yahshua has a head with hair, He has eyes and feet and hands just as we do who were made in His image.

However, to be made according to His likeness, this is speaking of His character, and this is not something that can be given by instantaneous fiat. Character is something that has to be learned and taught through experience. Only Adam was to be made in Yahweh’s image and likeness, and this is where Adam was to come in to teach that likeness to the rest of humanity.

Adam was created and told in Genesis 1:28 “to be fruitful and multiply and fill the land”. If you look up these words, you will find out that they literally mean, “to bear fruit and multiply and accomplish to fill the land.” This is another extremely important pattern of Yahweh. The physical land of Israel is somehow connected to just about every covenant in Scripture.

At Creation, Yahweh set aside the land of Eden as the training ground for His first servant and priest, Adam. However, He also intended that after Adam would learn His character through His Torah, which was in principle through the Ten Commandments at Creation, and the very part of Yahweh’s character, that Adam would go back outside of Eden and bring the good news message of His Torah and salvation to the rest of His creation. When Yahweh told him to bear fruit and multiply, He was not merely speaking of Adam and Eve’s own pro-creation, as Eve was not even formed yet, but was primarily speaking of Adam bringing those others of His creation who were outside of Eden into covenant relationship with Him. Then, ultimately, Eden would expand and cover all the earth, as the other humans would enter Yahweh’s covenant.

Isa 11:9 They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all My holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Remember, Yahweh works in patterns and does not change. We also see this very pattern that started with Adam to be also with us as believers today. We are created in the world outside of Eden as Adam was, and then Yahweh calls us to His truth (back to Eden). Then we are to go back to the world and bear fruit by sharing our salvation with others.

The same pattern was with Moses. He was born in Egypt (world), and then was called out to the wilderness at 40 years (sanctified), and then called back to Egypt to rescue the rest of Israel.

Let us look at Genesis 2:15 and see what Yahweh had Adam doing in the Garden of Eden.

Gen 2:15 And Yahweh Elohim took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.

The word to “work” literally means to serve or be a servant of and one of its meanings is actually to even worship. The word “to keep” in Hebrew is “Shamar” and literally means to guard and protect, and is the word that is used in Exodus 31:16 for how we are to guard and protect the Sabbath day. It is also the word used in Genesis 26:5 when Yahweh is telling us why Abraham was blessed to enter covenant with Him, because Abraham guarded and protected His Torah.

Therefore, what we see is that from the Garden of Eden there was a priesthood that was established, not to do sacrifice but to worship and bear fruit for Eden to expand. The word in Hebrew for sacrifice literally means to “draw closer to through relationship”, not killing an animal. Only after Adam and Eve chose the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (which I believe was to have free will) and sinned against Yahweh did Yahshua as the eternal Melchizedek High Priest have to kill an animal to clothe them, and set a temporary precedent for the killing of animals to cover sin. This was set only until the time of reformation when He would come and pay for all sin through His blood and remove the penalty for mankind.

However, the pattern has stayed the same since the Garden of Eden. Yahweh sanctified Adam to be called into Eden, away from society, just as we as believers are to be sanctified away from the world today. Adam was then to learn the Torah from Yahshua Himself, to bring Yahweh’s commandments to the rest of society and to bear fruit to Yahweh and multiply and expand Eden to cover all the earth.

1st John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 

1st John 2:16 because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Gen 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise.

How striking the parallel is between Eve’s sin in Eden by not keeping herself sanctified and John’s warning to believers today. Let’s look at another striking parallel from Yahshua’s instruction to Adam to bear fruit in Genesis 1, 2, and 3 and Yahshua’s command to His true disciples today.

Gen 3:17 And He said to the man, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat from it, the ground shall be cursed because of you; you shall eat of it in sorrow all the days of your life.

Gen 3:18 And it shall bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you shall eat the plant of the field.

Gen 3:19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until your return to the For you have been taken out of it; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

After Adam sinned, he was told that now he will not have good fertile soil any longer for his job of producing fruit for Yahweh’s Kingdom, but the fruit would have to be born through thorns and thistles. Look at the parallel that Yahshua told us for today.

Mark 4:3 Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Mark 4:7 And another fell into the thorn- bushes, and the thorn-bushes grew up and choked it; and it did not yield fruit.

Mark 4:9 And He said to them, The one having ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:11 And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of Yahweh. But to these, those outside, all things are being given in parables,

Mark 4:12 that seeing they may see and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest they should be converted, and the sins be forgiven to them.

Mark 4:13 And He said to them, Do you not know this parable? And how will you know all parables?

Mark 4:14 The sower sows the Word.

Mark 4:15 And these are those by the wayside where the Word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the Word having been sown in their hearts.

Mark 4:16 And likewise, these are the ones having been sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the Word, they immediately receive it with joy,

Mark 4:17 And they have no roots in themselves, rather are of a short time and when affliction happens, or persecutions because of the word, they are quickly offended.

Mark 4:18 And those which were sown into a thorny place are they who hear the word,

Mark 4:19 And the cares of the world and the deception of riches and the rest of the other lusts enter in and choke the word and it becomes without fruit.

Mark 4:20 And these are those being sown on the good ground, who hear and welcome the Word and bring forth fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundredfold.

This is an extremely telling parable that Yahshua is equating directly back to Eden. First let us look at the parallel scripture in Luke 8:11 and see what this parable is really speaking of.

Luk 8:11 And this is the parable: The seed is the Word of Yahweh.

Back in Eden, Yahweh said that the plants had not risen yet because there was no man to till the ground (Gen 2:5). We clearly see that the seed is the Word of Yahweh. Then, in verse 7, Yahshua is equating the curse of Adam and the thorns and thistles to the fact that he did not bear any fruit. In verse 11, He is equating to those being chosen by Him today to return to Eden, that we know the mystery of Yahweh’s Kingdom as Adam was told by Him but to those “OUTSIDE” they are taught in parables, because they don’t have eyes to see. Exactly the pattern we saw in Eden that until someone could come and teach them, the people outside of Eden, although having less accountability were still without knowledge.

Rom 10:13 For everyone, “whoever may call on the name of Yahweh will be saved.”

Rom 10:14 How then may they call on One into whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without a preacher?

Rom 10:15 And how may they preach if they are not sent? Even as it has been written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news of peace, of those preaching good things”.

Let us at look at verse 15, which I believe is a direct correlation going back to Adam and Eve. For although they heard the word directly from Yahweh, Satan immediately came and stole the word that was on their heart. Then, here is the clincher. In both verses 18 and 19, we can clearly show that thorns and thistles are those that are choked by deception and lusts and then produce no fruit. This is exactly how Satan deceived Eve.

This was all part of Yahweh’s plan as Yahweh knew when He created Adam, that being flesh, he would not be faithful and be able to overcome without total faith and submission in Yahweh. Nevertheless, Yahweh also knew that someone had to go outside of Eden to bring His commandments and knowledge to the rest of creation. Therefore, in a way, Adam’s fall gave precedent for the need for a second Adam (Yahshua) to have to come to save all of mankind.

Rom 11:11 I say, then, did not they stumble that they should fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations,

Yahweh used the falling away of Adam and Eve and their being cast out of Eden as an opportunity to bring His Word and name to the rest of creation; the same way as He did with the casting away of the nation of Israel in Romans 11:11. We just read in Romans 10:13 that one must call on the name of Yahweh to be saved. Now look at what Gen 4:26 states after Adam was cast out of Eden.

Gen 4:26b Then it was begun to call on the name of Yahweh.

If you look up the word “begun” in Hebrew it is “Khalal”, it most likely means to profane, or to break one’s word, and when we look at the flood shortly after this, it is clear that Yahweh’s name and word were not accepted after Adam and Eve’s sin and the curse that followed. Let us also look at the books of Matthew and John and Yahshua’s command to His true followers today, to once again produce fruit for Yahweh’s Kingdom.

Mat 7:16 From their fruits you shall know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Mat 7:17 So every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruits.

Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot produce evil fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.

Mat 7:19 Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and is thrown into fire.

Mat 7:20 Then surely from their fruits you shall know them.

John 15:1 I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

John 15:2 Every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:3 You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

John 15:4 Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

John 15:5 I am the Vine and you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, this man will produce plentiful fruit because without me you are not able to do anything.

John 15:6 Unless one remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are burned.

John 15:7 If you remain in Me, and My Words remain in you, whatever you desire you will ask, and it shall happen to you.

John 15:8 In this My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit; and you will be disciples to Me.

John 15:9 As the Father loved Me, I also loved you; continue in My love.

John 15:10 If you keep My commandments you will continue in My love, as I have kept My Father’s commandments and continue in His love.

Clearly, we can see that nothing has changed in the order of Yahweh since the Garden of Eden. Just as Adam was to be sanctified in Eden, and then go and bear fruit to Yahweh, so we are to do the same today. The lack of bearing fruit is equated with actually being burned and losing our salvation.

Now if we look at verses 9 and 10 of John the 15th chapter, we start to see the parallel between Adam and Yahshua. Yahshua is the exact image (representation) of the Father, and has freely given up His free will to be 100% echad with Yahweh and in His will at all times.

Col 1:15 who is the image of the invisible Elohim, the right of the First-born of all creation.

2nd Cor 4:4 to those in this age, whose eyes have been blinded by Elohim, because they did not believe, lest the light of the glorious good news of the Messiah, who is the image of Yahweh, should shine on them.

Heb 1:2 in these last days He has spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all; and by whom He made the worlds;

Heb 1:3 for He is the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His being, and upholding all things by the power of His Word; having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

So now, we are starting to see from the New Testament why Yahshua had to come to earth as a physical human being because where Adam, who was created to look like Yahweh in form, he never achieved to be like Yahweh in character. Where the first Adam failed, Yahweh would have to send a seed from Him, so that the second Adam (Yahshua) would succeed.

Yahweh created mankind outside of Eden (Gen 2:7). He then took one of His creation, Adam from the earth to Eden to sanctify him and train him for his priesthood of bearing and producing fruit from the rest of His creation (Gen 3:23). Adam was told while in Eden not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (free choice), but from the Tree of Life (100% full faith in Yahweh).

Since Adam failed, Yahweh would not just throw away all of His newly formed creation, but He willed that a seed would be born from the chosen seed of Adam (who was created in Eden) and would redeem the seed of Adam back to Yahweh, and ultimately all of mankind, as was Yahweh’s intention with Adam to begin with.

We must also understand that Adam’s failure was no small feat since his failure meant that no fruit would be born into Eden and it became the downfall of all humans to follow. With no hope now of humans learning the Torah and coming into Eden (the presence of Yahweh), every human would therefore, use his/her own free choice and human conscience to decide right and wrong and consequently every human would also fail in the likeness of Adam.

Rom 5:12 Even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned.

Rom 5:13 For sin was in the world until the Torah, but sin is not charged where there is no law; (People outside of Eden did not have the same accountability as Adam who was trained by Yahweh in Eden)

Rom 5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression of the Torah by Adam, who was a type of Him who was to come.

This is a real interesting scripture. How could Adam’s sin pass on death to every human after him? The Catholics believe that this scripture is speaking of original sin, and that we are all born with sin since Adam sinned. This is nonsense and clearly Ezekiel 18 states that each is accountable for his/her own sin, and that the sins of the fathers or sons do not pass to one another. A generational curse may pass from one generation to another, but not the actual sin that caused it. Each human is liable for their own sin.

This scripture shows that Adam had been given the Torah by Yahweh and was told to bring it to others to make fruit and multiply Eden. But since he failed and no fruit was borne, and man was left to his own free will and human nature, each and every man in succession has also fallen after the similitude of Adam by our own free will and their rejection to 100% fully submit to Yahweh.

Clearly, at Creation there were two roads to choose from; free choice and self-rule or 100% full faith and undying loyalty and obedience to Yahweh and His Word. One was the seed of Satan, and one was the seed of Yahweh. As soon as Adam and Eve failed their position in Eden, the prophecy was immediately given about the enmity of these two seeds and the coming of the Messiah from the seed of Eve and the ultimate saving of the seed of Adam and mankind.

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

This prophecy was given directly after the fall of Adam and Eve and shows that eternal life will only come through the Redeemer, the prophesied Messiah from Genesis 3:15. That is why Adam says next;

Gen 3:20 And the man called the name of his wife, Eve; because she became the mother of all living.

So after expulsion from the Garden of Eden, instead of immediate death, Adam and Eve knew from Yahweh’s Word that a Savior would be born from her seed and He would be Yahweh the Son and Savior of the world.

Moreover, even after her sin, she would be the beginning of life of the lineage of Yahshua Messiah and the mother of all living as the Messiah would be born through her who would be the Savior of all mankind.

Eve was so sure that the Messiah was to be born from her that she thought that Cain, who was her firstborn, was that prophesied Messiah.

Gen 4:1 And the man knew his wife Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man, Yahweh.

Almost every translation in the world incorrectly adds words that are not in Scripture to say Eve got a man “with the help of” Yahweh, but those words are not there. The problem is they do not understand that since Yahweh prophesied of a Messiah being born of Eve’s seed that she thought Cain was the prophesied Messiah, and said, “I have gotten a man, Yahweh”. She knew the promised Messiah would be a member of the Yahweh family and we know it was His very Son.

The idea of a Messiah coming to redeem the curse of the Promised Land of Yahweh, which was spoken to Adam, was also not foreign to the rest of creation after him. Each generation looked for and waited for this promised Messiah. In fact, Noah’s father Lamech named Noah by his name, meaning “comfort”, thinking that Noah was this promised Messiah, who would redeem them from the curse of the land.

Gen 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years; and he died.

Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands because of the ground which Adonai has cursed.

Another aspect of this study is the eternal aspect of the land covenant from Scripture. That it was not only mankind that was cursed by Adam’s failure, but also the very land of creation that was intended to bless them. It was the same with the Sinai covenant and it is the same today as when the Messiah, who is the very Kinsman Redeemer, will return. He will remove the curse from the land covenant and once again, as it was intended in Eden, the land will bless its people. This is why from Genesis to Revelation the blessing of the land and the fruitfulness of man’s labor allegorize everything, when he is in the will of Yahweh. Just as there was one Promised Land at Creation called Eden, there is one Promised Land called Israel for the millennial reign.

Joe 2:3 a fire devours before it, and a flame burns behind it. The land is the Garden of Eden before them and behind them is a desolate wilderness; yea, also there is no escape to them.

Joe 2:12 Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with wailing, declares Yahweh.

Joe 2:13 Yea, tear your heart, and not your robes; and turn to Yahweh your Elohim. For He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities concerning the evil.

Joe 2:14 Who knows if He will turn and have pity and leave a blessing behind Him, a food offering and a drink offering for Yahweh your Elohim?

Joe 2:15 Blow a shofar (ram’s horn) in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.

Joe 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, gather the elders, gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.

Joe 2:17 Let the priests, ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity on Your people, O Yahweh, and do not give Your inheritance to shame, for a proverb among those of the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their Elohim?

Joe 2:18 Then Yahweh will be jealous for His land and have pity on His people.

Joe 2:19 Yea, Yahweh will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a disgrace among the nations.

Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh is doing great things.

Joe 2:23 Then be glad, sons of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your Elohim. For He has given to you the early rain according to righteousness, and He will cause the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain in the first month.

Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full with grain, and the wine vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the locust larvae, and the stripping locust, and the cutting locust, My great army which I sent among you.

Joe 2:26 And you shall eat fully and be satisfied; and you shall praise the name of Yahweh your Elohim, who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.

Joe 2:27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh your Elohim, and there is no other. And My people shall not be ashamed forever.

There is a great reward waiting for those who are in faith bearing fruit for the Kingdom of Yahweh. Yahshua is the firstfruit born from the dead, and those who are called out as His disciples will also be firstfruits at His coming.

And all those who are accounted worthy to be in the first resurrection will be part of the priesthood of Yahshua (the second Adam) and part of the eternal priesthood of Melchizedek.

What a great future that Yahweh has for those who love Him and are called according to purpose (Rom 8:28).