Brian Young with a new look at the Fall of Man. 'Re-thinking Adam'

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So I am Terry cameras.

Oh, and I'm here on behalf of creation fellowship Santee and we are continuing

our zoom fellowships through.

So I think this is our third week into the new year and we're happy to be here

tonight with our Speaker Brian young.

So Brian young is an internationally known speaker and author.

He was a teacher and principal for 10 years before becoming the director of creation

Instruction Association.

And the semi source mobile creation museum.

He has now been speaking on the topic of creation and biblical authority for 25 years.

Doing debates at universities going into prisons and sharing at churches,

schools and camps around the world.

He uses the Bible as the foundation for science and education

and you can find his ministry online at creation instruction .org.

So with that, Brian, go ahead.

All right.

Well, thank you guys for allowing me to be part of this.

I am going to be basically talking about Adam tonight and I think that for

a long time we have thrown him under the bus.

And I think it's time we pull them out from under the bus.

Some of you might not agree with what I'm going to share with you tonight.

And I think that's okay.

I'm just going to kind of share with you just some of the things that I think I and all the years of studying

Genesis and and the scriptures have kind of come to this conclusion.

And.

I think there's some value in it.

You'll kind of see as we go.

I talked not only on the science of, you know, creation and those type of things, but I love to also

just talk about the Bible.

And putting these things together.

And that's kind of what we're going to do tonight is really focus on the scriptural aspect.

Evangelism is at the depth of my heart.

And really, that's what I think creation is all about is it is a means of showing people that

there is a God who created us Who we will be held accountable to and that we do need to

repent of our sins and call on the name of Jesus to be saved, because there is no way

to be saved outside of the name of that creator And Savior Jesus Christ.

And so that's kind of the foundation that I am coming from.

And just want everybody to know that before we begin.

And what we're going to do.

I'm going to share my screen here for you so that you can see Some slides

here.

At least I think I.

I think Brian I'm disconnected.

Will probably have to wait for him to come back in.

Did he he dropped out, huh.

Yeah, he maybe he might have hit the wrong button.

Okay, so.

I was like participants 12 there was 13.

Well, should we talk about some of our upcoming speakers.

Well, yeah, let's do that.

Okay, so next week we have.

I'm can't hold my head.

Hope and.

Acclaimed.

Kent Hovind.

Okay.

Well, I'm excited for Ken.

So.

Yeah, that'll be exciting.

He's kind of a Legacy in creation apologetics, isn't he.

He's the one who You know, changed my world.

I never believed in evolution.

I thought it was kind of, you know, crazy, but I watched his seven part seminar and I

was, I was like sold or convinced.

Brian, have you rejoined us.

I have and I don't know why I I don't know if I accidentally closed

you out or what happened there, but Going to try and get that back up here.

That's okay.

Last week we had all kinds of Technological challenges and and

my title is IT infrastructure engineers, so.

Yeah.

When I went to share the screen my keynote wasn't there and when I clicked so I think

it's going to Be okay here now.

Okay, and I just I didn't because you were so last minute I.

You'll be talking to us.

But we won't be answering.

We're just going to be courteous and listen to you until you're finished and we'll collect Questions in the chat box and

ask them at the end.

And that's that's true for anybody who's here on zoom or anybody watching along on Facebook.

If you have questions.

Be sure to put them in the chat so that we can do our Q &A at the end.

Very good.

All right.

Well, everybody can hear me.

Okay.

Now then we can.

Were you able to turn your video back on also?

Yes, so you can't see it yet.

I wonder if the share needs to be added here again.

You want to maybe see if I can.

It says I'm sharing my screen.

Yeah.

There we go, okay, now we're good.

Okay.

Let's get you back up here if I can get this without.

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Everybody see that now.

Okay.

Well, we're going to Just kind of continue on here then and I'm gonna just show

you that Genesis is so much more than creation.

It is I think even a prophetic book in a lot of ways.

I love the the Jewish understanding of scriptures.

How they read the scriptures.

We remember that God gave the word to the Jewish people and it says, you know Romans.

What advantage is there in being a Jew?

He says much in every way for they have been entrusted with the very words of God and they have preserved it they've

studied it and I Think there's a lot of value in that and what they see is that when we

look at scripture They see Events that

foreshadow other events in history.

We often see prophecy as you know, a one -and -done kind of thing and they see it as more

cyclical.

And when we look at Genesis, I can see that very Prophetic picture that's there in

Genesis 2 verse 22.

It says and he meaning God brought her Eve to the man Adam.

And what's interesting about that is this whole picture that we're going to see is Adam is a type of Christ and

there's going to be all these pictures of the church then as a result of that and So what we see is

that what the Bible tells us very clearly is that Jesus says no one can come

To the the son unless the father draws him and it says nobody can come to the father unless the son Draws him there

as well.

And so we see both first of all seeing that the father and the son are one but nonetheless

the fact is is that we see that.

Adam.

Isn't the one that Brings Eve

to God.

God brought Eve to Adam and that's important because that is a

picture of How the church works is that God brings us the bride

to the bridegroom to Jesus and This is just one example.

What I'm doing here is actually giving you just a portion of I think of eight or ten part

series that I did and So I just want to show you some of these pictures that are in there as well.

We're gonna kind of focus more in chapter three, but just wanted to give you some of these

Things that are talked about prior to this to give you an understanding that it's not just in this verse that we're going to be Talking

about tonight, but it's throughout the whole creation story that we're seeing pictures of Christ

and the bride.

When I read the Old Testament I'm always looking for Christ because I believe he is in all parts of it.

So we even read here as well and in Genesis 2 23 Adam says she shall be called woman or

Isha in Hebrew now.

Basically, it says that the first recorded words that we ever see Adam saying now I'm

not saying he didn't say anything before we don't know but the first recorded words is this that she shall be

called woman you are woman and that's very Significant because what we're seeing

is that Adam is pronouncing the name of his bride before God

and This is exactly what we see is going to happen With Christ.

We read in Zechariah 14 9 speaking about end times.

It says the Lord shall be king over all the earth in that day.

It shall be the Lord is one and his name one.

There is a unity here between God the Father God the Son

and there's also a unity that takes place between Jesus and his bride.

John 14 verse 20 says that at that day you will know that I am in my father and you

and me and I in you so Adam and Eve were one.

This is what it says that they were bone of my bone flesh of my flesh and This is really a

picture of what happens to the to the church Christ becomes one with

His bride.

And so as far as confessing her name we go to Revelation and this is what we see in chapter

3 verse 5 When Christ comes for his bride He who overcomes should be clothed in

white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the book of life but I will confess his name

before my father and Before his angels and so the very same thing we see in the

Garden of Eden.

He says you are woman.

He is confessing the name of His bride before the father and this is what

Jesus will do as well.

And so those are just some pictures that I think are kind of neat to to look at one other

thing before we move forward is Genesis 3 6 and This is going to be some of the key verses that we're

going to be talking about here tonight verses 6 7.

And it says when the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye.

And also desirable for gaining wisdom.

She took some and ate it.

She also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate it.

And we're gonna touch on verse 7 as we get there a little bit later.

But for now, I'm just gonna kind of focus on verse 6 here.

What's interesting is that in the previous verses to this we see the devil has come to Eve as a

liberator.

And.

Not not a friend but a liberator.

Not.

Not coming as an enemy either.

I.

Think that When we picture the devil In this story

oftentimes it is more of an villain type thing.

But it's a liberator that he's coming as it's somebody very unassuming.

Now maybe not a close friend, but certainly Maybe you might say an acquaintance or

somebody that is not fearful and so what he does is he uses that trust

you might say to instill in Eve some discontentment and

Basically saying that it's not good enough for you to be the person that God has

created you to be.

There's so much more.

And this is again in the previous verses to this this is what the devil is doing.

There's so much more for you.

You could you could you know be so much more and I see the devil doing that very same

thing today with women.

I think that women have one of the most valuable roles that Have ever been

created and you're gonna see that as we go through this The power that a woman

has and so Satan comes as this angel of light and Tells

her that you know, you shouldn't be content with what God has done.

There is more for you to grab.

There's more for you to get and so the following is how the woman responds

When the woman saw and that's the key right there that word saw

Satan basically got her to turn her head off of God off of Jesus

to the fruit to the world and When you turn

your head away from Christ, that is when we are going to get into all kinds of trouble.

You know in Hebrews It says fix your eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith who for the joy

set before him Endured the cross scorning at shame and sat down at the right hand of the

throne of God and I Love that verse because it doesn't say just glance, you know world

God the world God.

He says fix your eyes on Jesus because as soon as we take our eyes off of him I don't care what it

is, whether it be a creation ministry a church or Anything else as soon as our eyes are

taken off of Christ You're in trouble.

That's the bottom line.

And this is what really I think right here is the rise of the the woman's

liberation movement that that message that there's so much more for you that you

too can be like God and.

I.

Could do a whole thing on the women's liberation movement.

This is not to put women down but it is to say that This is what Satan does

to liberate you from blessings.

I think Satan has done a great disservice for women today because In the roles that God has

given man and woman Both of them are leaving those roles and what's

happening is he's robbing us of the blessing God has.

Saying oh, no, you know that blessing isn't enough and there or maybe there isn't even a blessing in it.

There's so much more for you.

And so he comes with these persuasive words like I said as an angel of light but what he

intends is to gutter to take her and steal the blessings that God has for

her and I'll just leave it at that for now, but Henry Morris

Years ago would talk about this and and I just think it is just so true scripturally.

What we see is that when Eve saw she saw three different things here one that that fruit of the tree

was good for food.

Okay, two that it was pleasant to the eyes and three that it was desirable to make her wise.

And.

In first John, it tells us this that all That is in the world

Not some all that is in the world and that's going to be very important for you to understand that

because I think every sin In the world is going to fall under one of these three categories it says

for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is Not of the

father but is of the world and the world is passing away and the lust of it.

But he who does the will of God abides forever and so what I want

you to see is that Eve has Every temptation you might say

thrown at her here when she saw that the tree was good for food.

Well, we have right there.

She saw the lust of the eyes.

Oh, man, this fruit looks beautiful.

It looks wonderful.

When she saw that it was also.

Or I should say good for food pleasant to the eyes that it looked good the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh.

She may have been hungry.

It looks good.

I bet that's gonna just taste wonderful.

And then finally the desirable desirable for gaining wisdom is the pride of life.

Okay, you want to know good and evil.

God doesn't want you to know this.

He you know, if you eat this you too can become like God.

There's so much more.

I'm here to liberate you.

What you have is not enough.

The pride of life and so we can see that all three things mentioned there in Genesis is.

Are there they're also mentioned here in first John and as a result she falls

completely.

Now what I love about that is that this is the message of Christianity right here that where we

fail Christ succeeds and we see that in Matthew chapter 4 when the

devil takes Jesus up onto a Into the wilderness to tempt him after he's

baptized.

He goes up into the wilderness and the devil comes to him.

He says if you really are God Turn these stones into bread, you know, and he has

just come off of a fast for 40 days.

I'm sure he was very hungry.

And so he basically takes the lust of the flesh man.

I'm hungry to try and get you know, Jesus to fall for that, but he doesn't why because

He didn't turn his head off of the father.

What his answer is is it is written?

He she takes the devil to the Word of God.

Which is what we need to do as well with creation and everything else that goes to the Word first.

And he says it is written man does not live by bread alone.

But by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Then the devil says all right.

I've failed on that one.

He takes him up and he says look at all these kingdoms.

I'll give them to you if you'll just bow down and worship me.

Look at all the beautiful Creation that's out there.

It's yours.

Now when I was growing up, I thought what kind of lame?

Temptation is that I thought it's all gods.

Well, that's not entirely true.

God did create it and you see Adam has Dominion over it when he was in the garden He

had dominion over all creation, but when he sinned he lost that dominion and

so.

This is why we read in you know, it says the kingdom of this world in Revelation chapter 11.

It says the kingdom of this world.

Has now become the kingdom of our God.

That doesn't happen until Revelation.

That is also why it says the prince of this world Satan.

Now stands condemned.

You see Satan does have kingdoms and there is an authority there is a battle in the spiritual realm that is going

on here.

And.

This is what we're kind of seeing a picture of there, but nonetheless again, Jesus takes him back to the word and

Passes this test of the lust of the eyes as well as the lust of the flesh and then finally another

temptation.

He says if you are the Son of God prove it jump off for it's written.

Satan then goes to the word but this is what happens with evolution and all of that all the time.

Some of them will use the word.

I see this in so many churches today that are compromising using the Word of God to discredit the Word of

God.

And that's what Satan did simply by taking it out of context and leaving out a couple of words.

It says it is written that you know, the angels will guard you.

But he didn't say in all your ways and so.

Again as you know, Jesus passes this test, but nonetheless.

In.

What John was telling us here is all things fall under these three categories.

Eve fell to everyone and Jesus passes everyone.

He fulfills what we could not do and I love that

and that's why it is by grace that we have to be saved not by works.

Lest anyone should boast because bottom line is we we fail always

and we need somebody who can Basically step in and do what needs to be done for us

and that's who Jesus is.

Well, anyway, we're gonna kind of get more on track of what I really want to talk about here tonight.

And that's 2nd Timothy here 2 verse 25.

It says this in humility correction.

Or correcting those who are in opposition if God Perhaps will grant them

repentance so that they may know the truth and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of.

The devil.

Having been taken captive by him to do his will I'm telling you guys we are in

a war.

And what that war is is Satan wants us to do his will.

God wants us to do his will.

How do we know what that will is the Word of God and there is a battle of wills going on

and A lot of people don't realize that when we worship God worship isn't just singing.

Worship is obeying God not for salvation.

We've already covered that will fail miserably on that on that mark.

But the bottom line is as part of our worship is obeying God when we obey God.

We're doing God's will.

And there is a battle and what we need to do is in humility.

Correcting those who are in opposition and I think that's what you know, a

lot of these creation ministries are about we are trying to in humility correct those who are in opposition because

Evolution has caused I think so much disobedience in the church so much

confusion and it is a disease that has done a lot of

damage to Christianity and Especially to the gospel and I'm sure you guys are very

familiar with how it has done that by basically saying death was around before Adam

and Eve.

Dinosaurs died before Adam and Eve.

Well, if that's the case as I'm sure most of you know, then that just destroys the cross and the

message of scripture everywhere because

What we're seeing is sin.

When sin came into the world that's when death came into the world you can't have death

without Adam and Eve.

You know, I'm not gonna get into that tonight.

Like I said, that's kind of creationism 101 but nonetheless Important

to mention here tonight, I think What I want you to see

as well is that Eve fell before she consulted her husband.

I'm gonna suggest to you tonight and again, you may not agree with me and that's okay.

But I want you to at least consider what we're gonna talk about.

But I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that Eve was not the target that Adam was

always the target of the devil there.

Because when you look at the construct of a of a marriage.

The Bible tells us that the man is to be the spiritual head of the house.

If you want a house to fall.

The best way to do it is to go after the leader.

The head of the house the man and I think the devil knew that.

We see it today.

You know if you want a church to fall what's the best way to do it?

Have the pastor fall into some sin or something like that, right?

We know that in in businesses today as well that If if you have a

leader that is not strong more than likely the business will fail.

You have an army and what do they do?

They go after the king.

They go after the commander.

They go after the person in charge because if you can get them to fall.

Everything follows suit after that.

I don't believe that When Adam ate of the fruit that Satan was going.

I didn't see that coming.

Wow.

I got a two -for -one.

It wasn't a surprise I believe that that was his intent and He

knew and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take you to the book of Enoch now before you freak out on that

I'm not saying Enoch is scripture.

What I'm saying is it is quoted in Scripture as we see in the book of Jude.

I can tell you that the Jews considered it to be a very important spiritual book.

It was actually found with the Dead Sea Scrolls as a matter of fact with the rest of Scripture.

Now with that said even the Jews never put it in what they would call their canonized

Scripture.

So that's not what I'm doing here, but I'm doing it to give you some good historical background.

You know.

A lot of people can go and talk about what Martin Luther said or what Charles Wesley said or maybe even what

Spurgeon said because when they have something good to say that applies to Scripture, it's

okay to quote it and that's the the Context of which I'm going to show you this

and when it gets to the Garden of Eden.

The book of Enoch has a lot to say and it's just a fascinating read.

I don't have time to get into all of it.

But second Enoch here it says this and This is

the Ethiopian or not the Ethiopian but this Flavonic one.

It says in chapter 31 verse 5 the devil understood his condemnation in the sin, which he

had sinned before.

Therefore he conceived thought against Adam in such form.

He had entered and seduced Eve, but did not touch Adam.

In other words, what he's saying is the devil realized that when he had been cast out when he had sinned.

That he was going to go after somebody else.

We see that today when one person's in trouble.

They want everybody to get in trouble that kind of thing.

Well It says here at least what they see is that in order to

go after Adam.

He went to seduce Eve.

Not he didn't have to touch Adam.

He had to go to Eve to get to Adam.

I Believe that had Eve or had the devil gone after Adam

directly.

I Don't think if the plan would have

worked.

I Hear we're gonna get to that in a minute.

But bottom line is this may indicate that and I think there's scripture that would also support this as well.

Paul says this in 1st Timothy chapter 2 verse 12.

And I really want you to take note of this because you can't ignore this verse.

It says and I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man.

But to be in silence for Adam was formed first then Eve and

Adam Was not deceived but the woman being

deceived fell into transgression.

Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith love and holiness with all self -control.

Now there's a lot in here that we could talk about but what I want to focus on is this Adam was

not deceived.

Period this is New Testament telling us Point blank.

Adam was not deceived now you tell me how you can say Adam wasn't deceived.

But yet we're constantly being saying man if Adam hadn't eaten that apple Adam

is being thrown under the bus and yet the Bible says he was not deceived.

Now don't get me wrong.

He ate of the apple.

But he was not deceived.

Now if you think about it if he ate the apple and he was not deceived.

That means It seems anyway, he was willing to eat the apple.

It wasn't deceived like oh, I can't believe I did that.

Oh, I might know he did it on purpose.

Now that's the part you may disagree with.

But let me make this case scripturally as we continue but before we do I want to show

you what even the Jewish understanding of the Historical account of Adam and

Eve.

The way they see it.

There's rabbi.

Eliezer.

He was called Eliezer the great from the first century now, by the way.

He was a teacher of rabbi Akiva who claimed that.

If you know any of the Jewish history at all, he claimed Barqoba was the Messiah, which obviously he was not and

so rabbi Eliezer here is not a Christian he

He was a Jew practiced you to Judaism, but he did not accept Jesus as

Messiah and so I want you to understand that this is where this is coming from, but

Nonetheless to give you an idea of his.

Clout.

Rabbi Eliezer had a falling out with the other rabbis of his day and

He was married to the daughter of Gamliel.

Now Gamliel is mentioned in Acts chapter 5 as the one That

you know, Paul was studied under Gamliel.

And so this is the kind of Like I said the the clout this guy

has he is not a small influence by any means.

Well, this is what he said in regards to what went on in the Garden of Eden.

The serpent argued with itself saying if I go and speak to Adam I know he will not listen to

me for a man is always hard to persuade.

But behold, I will speak to Eve for I know that she will listen to me.

For women listen to all creatures.

Now.

Already, I know some of you women are ready to turn this off.

Hang on.

Okay I'm not saying that women are Weak here,

and I don't think that's what the devil was saying.

I or rabbi Eliezer Women, let's be honest men are not good

listeners, right?

I know I'm a terrible listener sometime and I think that the enemy the devil

understood that and So what's happening is the devil is making a distinction between men and women here

realizing that God has created us differently and It'd be great if a

society could realize that too.

But bottom line is I'll tell you my wife is so much more sensitive to I think

hearing what God is leading and Doing sometimes and then I could ever be

and it's taken me, you know over 25 years of marriage already.

To begin.

Realizing that I need to listen to my wife more because she's right most often

I'm more stubborn.

I I'm just kind of looking, you know focused on something out there, but she's seeing the

big picture.

Okay, I'm just looking at a little puzzle piece and I think that that's

kind of what the devil is saying to some extent.

That.

Well, let me just continue and you'll understand more.

Adam was untouchable as I said before when Adam was put in the Garden of Eden.

He had absolute 100 full

dominion and the devil knew that and He was going to keep that dominion as

long as he was walking in God's will and was not disobedient.

So.

Literally, he's untouchable by the devil.

And so the devil knows I've got to get him to sin I've got to get him to disobey

The the you know, the food law of do not eat of this tree.

Or else I will fail so

as I was saying before I don't believe that the devil went after the woman because he saw her as

weaker.

I Think he went after the woman because the devil saw That the

woman was the only person.

Who.

Had Adam's heart.

I mean he had God did too, but you know what I mean.

Today, I'll tell you what in a marriage.

There's nobody in the world that has my heart like my wife has my heart.

Wives can Push their husbands closer to God Closer to

Christ or They can push or lead them away from

Christ not to encourage them to walk in righteousness not to encourage them to to

teach and lead like they're supposed to do and What I'm saying then

is I think a woman has more power than she will ever realize

That it's not a weakness.

That the devil was going after the woman it's because of her strength and ability

to Either lead or pull away her husband from Christ.

Give you you know an example of men being different.

I Saw this meme and and I just I laugh because this is so much me.

It says, you know the ketchup here I can't tell you how many times I've gone into the

refrigerator and I know because I've done this so many times I will look on every single

shelf to make sure that you know I've got the ketchup that that I'm.

I'm seeing it you know and Sure enough.

It's not there and I call my wife after making sure that I've looked thoroughly.

Have you?

Are we out of ketchup and she will say no it's in there.

I said no, it's not she comes she opens the door and it is right there in front of me and how I can miss That

is still beyond me but then We can be outside and like I said, I can

see a deer, you know a mile away.

It there's something different about men and women.

Like I said, it would be good for us to recognize those differences in society and the devil

understood that This is not a matter of being better Than one another, you know a

man being better than a woman or a woman being better than a man.

This is just a difference of how God has created us and God has created a woman

to have that kind of Authority and

Maybe authority is not the best word but ability to I'll just leave it

at either lead the husband In a direction or to pull the husband away

from walking with Christ.

Now, this is not something that is new to scripture either.

We see this I think is a perfect scriptural example.

When they were entering into the promised land Moses was warned by God do not allow

you or any of the the Israelites to marry foreign woman a foreign woman why it

says for they will turn Your sons away from following me to serve other gods.

So the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly see women have

an amazing amount of influence.

Okay.

This is why we have to be careful not to be unequally yoked or you can be led astray By the one

who has full access to your heart.

Think about Solomon the wisest man that ever lived and yet Solomon was led astray

by what his wives.

So we we could give you so many Examples in scripture.

How about first Kings chapter 21 verse 25 speaking of Ahab a have a wicked king

it says but there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord

because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.

How about Samson?

Okay, Samson was led astray by a woman.

Delilah, right?

Balaam and Balak remember them Balaam's donkey.

We always hear about Balaam's donkey.

But that's not the end of the story.

We see that Balaam could not curse Israel so he goes home, but you read a couple of chapters

later and what we see is that He went home and then he said I want that

money.

So he went and he told Balak.

He said listen, I can't curse them.

But they could curse themselves.

What you need to do is get all your pretty women to go down and Go into the Israelite camp and then

they will sin and then they'll curse themselves.

And that's exactly what we see two chapters later.

It says that Balaam is actually killed in a battle and we have the sin of Peor and all of that going

on.

My point being is this Israel at that time was untouchable.

Right.

Balaam couldn't curse them.

They were Untouchable until they sinned just like in the Garden of Eden.

That's what ended up happening.

We have the example of Jehoram here in 2nd Kings 8 verse 18 it says and he walked in the ways of

the kings of Israel just as the house of Ahab had done for the daughter of Ahab was his wife and he did evil in the

sight of the Lord.

So again, what I want you to understand is that women listening.

The devil is going to want to go after you against your husband.

The influence that you have over him cannot be put into words, but I hope that these scriptural

examples are You know something to make you think about.

Well, I I need to either be a help meet.

Or maybe ask yourself am I being a help meet for my husband because let me tell you as a guy we need help

and It's very important and I don't say that tongue -in -cheek.

I say that with all seriousness.

I need the help of my wife in so many ways and she can be such an

encouragement to me at times and such a Blessing to have to

when maybe when I'm down and maybe my eyes are taken off of Christ for her to Bring my eyes back to

him.

And so these are the kind of things that I want you to realize out of this not that Satan was going after Eve because

she was weak but Satan was going after her because of her influence and Satan's going to want to do the same thing for you

and you need to examine yourself and ask yourself.

Am I leading or influencing my husband Away from Christ

or Am I influencing him to walk in righteousness?

And if you're not married, these are the things you need to think about before you get married.

Anyway, because we see plenty of very godly women in Scripture.

It's not like Scripture is against women.

We've got Sarah we've got Ruth Esther Rahab and others that are very

godly women who are examples of Women who influence their husbands to do to

do good.

So anyway continuing on here in Genesis 3 6 We

talked about when the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom.

She took some and also gave some to her husband who was with her.

This is one of the verses here the highlighted area.

That is used to say that Adam and Eve and we see it in every picture of The

Garden of Eden.

Adam is standing right next to Eve right in front of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I'm gonna suggest a possibility here Adam wasn't there.

I don't know maybe I'm wrong on this but I'm gonna suggest that he wasn't there and that when it says and

she gave some to her Husband who was with her.

It simply means who was with her in the garden.

Not with her by her side.

Because there's no dialogue recorded here.

We just don't know it's just recording the facts.

That's all that's going on.

We don't know what was going on in the gap in between this, you know, like Eve is coming home and say hey, honey I'm

home, you know.

Well, how are you today?

Good.

Hey, I stopped by the grocery store and guess what I got.

Look here have a bite.

We don't know.

What I want you to understand though, is that there's the possibility that he was not there

because It says in Timothy he was not

deceived.

If he wasn't deceived How could he be there and not

be deceived?

So just kind of keep that in the back of your mind as we continue here because When

Adam was placed in the garden?

He was placed there for a reason to protect it.

That very thing when it as a matter of fact the Hebrew word when it says Adam was placed in the garden.

The Hebrew word is Shamar and I'm going to show you that later and that word is to protect He was put in the garden to protect

it to protect his family to protect the garden against what well I think God knew what was going to

happen.

But by the way guys that means that you men listening you have a role as well.

You are to be the protector and you are to protect things from coming into your home.

You're not to allow Ungodly things into your home.

What are you allowing coming into your home when you turn that TV on?

Are you protecting your family your spouse?

Are you?

Setting no vile thing before your eyes as We see in Proverbs.

So.

We could go down a whole list of things.

But the point is is that we have to examine ourselves in that as well.

Now.

First Corinthians 15 verse 21 is also an interesting verse here.

It says this for since by man Adam came death.

By man also came the resurrection of the dead for as in Adam all die even so in

Christ all shall be made alive.

Now, how come it doesn't say in Eve all die?

Because Timothy said Adam wasn't deceived.

So you would think that Eve would be blamed but that's not how it is.

Is it?

No instead Adam gets the blame.

Why?

Because he's the head of the house.

That's how it works.

You know, I'll often do a lot of counseling as well and I'll tell you when I see a marriage that

has problems.

The first person I go to is the husband and it's the husband's fault.

What's going on?

No, I'm not saying there are strange circumstances out there.

But what I'm saying is this Why is your wife not loving you?

Is it because you're not loving her?

She's not respecting you because you're not loving her.

You're going to take the responsibility.

It's just kind of like in a business when as I said before if the business fails who gets to blame.

Who's the blame?

Go to the owner.

That's how it works.

Adam bears the responsibility.

Because he is the head.

It's that simple.

And.

That's why he is blamed here because he bears the responsibility.

He was placed in the garden with a job.

He said you are to protect and if you don't protect If your wife goes and

does something it's coming back on you because that's your job.

We even see here in numbers and I'm not gonna read all of this.

I just want you to see where it is.

If you want to look back at it bottom line is this is if a woman would take a vow that vow meant nothing

if her father said no.

And Then later when she gets married that vow means nothing if her husband says no.

If her husband or father said yes to that Vow and agreed with it.

Then the vow stood.

Why.

Because they are held responsible.

Now.

I'm going back to rabbi Eliezer again here your favorite guy.

I want you to see that again.

He records that Eve Basically influenced Adam to eat and

I'll show you why.

Here, this is what he says.

The serpent went and said to the woman behold I touched it the tree, but I

did not die.

You also may eat or may touch it and you will not die.

The woman went and touched the tree and she saw the angel of death Coming towards her and said

woe is me.

I shall now die and the Holy One blessed be.

He will make another woman and give her to Adam.

But behold, I will cause him to eat with me if we shall die.

We shall both die and if we shall live we shall both live.

In other words.

What she's saying is when she realized that she had screwed up.

That she was now saying I don't want another Another woman.

She thought that God would create another man or I'm sorry another woman to give to Adam.

She says that's not gonna happen.

And so she goes to her husband because she wants you know him to

protect her you might say as I said that is why God has

placed man in the garden and that is what a man is supposed to be for.

His.

His wife.

Malachi 2 verses 14 through 16.

The Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth.

Because you have broken faith with her though.

She is your partner the wife of your marriage covenant.

Has not the Lord made them one in flesh and spirit?

They are his and why one because he was seeking godly offspring.

So guard yourself in your spirit and do not break faith.

With the wife of your youth the man who hates and divorces his wife says the Lord the God of Israel

does violence to the one he should protect.

Shamar.

Again that same word when God Adam was placed in the garden that Shamar that's

the the whole point of Adam being placed there in first Timothy 2

14.

It says this in Adam was not deceived going back to this verse.

But the woman being deceived fell into grant into transgression.

Going back to what I said and starting to wrap things up here I want you to see it is a fact

Adam was not deceived because that's what scripture says.

Which then means that I think he was willing so I have to ask this question.

Could it be then that Adam was willing to do this

to eat of that Fruit of the tree to save his bride.

Just as Christ did to save his bride.

That Jesus was willing to go to the cross.

No one took his life, but he was willing to do it.

Let me show you at first Corinthians 15 22 again for as an Adam all die.

So in Christ all will be made alive.

That's interesting.

You see Adam is a Christ figure.

What I find interesting about that is if you'd tell me to name Christ figures in Scripture

I could come up Joseph and I can give you a hundred things how Joseph is a type of Christ.

Even Samson I can give you pictures of him as a type of Christ.

I mean I can go through all of them but Adam.

What's Adam known for?

Messing up eating of the tree.

How is Adam a type of Christ then?

First Corinthians 15 45 the first man Adam became a living being the last Adam Jesus a

life -giving spirit.

Jesus is called a last Adam for a reason.

Now if all we know Adam for is being created and then being a doofus by eating of the tree.

I Just don't see a Christ figure there.

Romans 5 14 also says this nevertheless death reigned from the time of Adam.

To the time of Moses even over those who did not sin.

By breaking a command as did Adam.

Who is a pattern of the one to come?

You can't get around it scripture is telling me that Jesus or I should say Adam is a Christ

figure and It says that Adam did not break a command what he

ate of the tree.

Well, maybe it's just like Jesus.

Jesus had no sin.

But wait a minute.

He took the sins of the world upon us.

That's because he was sinless.

But he took our sin.

They weren't his he took our sins.

Likewise Adam was not deceived.

He didn't he took Eve's sin.

Upon himself you know one of

the things that people will say that is a criticism of this possibility is

When Genesis 3 12 says the man said the woman you put here with me She gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it

that We even see God coming to Adam and even they're always we always hear that.

It's they're pointing fingers at somebody else blaming them.

She did it.

No get it.

She did it.

That the serpent made me do it blaming someone else well, that may be true, but there's also another

possibility here and that could be that Adam was just Plain stating the facts you could

read that God coming and say what did you do?

And he says the woman you put here with me She gave me some of this and I

ate it.

Just stating what happened telling the truth not blaming.

But just stating the facts.

So.

Regardless of whether you agree with this interpretation or not.

This is what Christ did for us.

And I also want you to understand that you have a role to protect your your

wife your future wife and that women have a Responsibility to

influence and to be the help me that they were created to be.

But I.

Personally think that this is how Christ or I should say Adam is a Christ figure is that he

willingly ate of that Tree to save his bride as Jesus willingly

gave his life to save us.

When we could not obey He stepped in

and became sin for us.

You know, this is what we read in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 9 and I think a Jew reading this would have picked up on it.

It says.

But we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death Crowned with the glory and honor

that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone.

See, I think that that word taste would have taken the Jewish reader right back to Genesis

and eating of the apple.

And I think that they understood that this is an Adam picture the last Adam.

And that's why 2nd Corinthians 5 21 says.

For he made him who knew no sin To be sin for us

that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

So.

I'll let you kind of ponder on that a little bit if you want to hear, you know, the other ones that we have

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I'm trying to put it in the chat.

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Yeah, there we go.

Thank you bet.

So with that I'm all can wrap that up and I don't know if

Terry or somebody wants to pray or normally I open and close with prayer, but if I've got other people doing it Then that's okay,

too.

This is the time that we would normally have our Q &A so.

Anybody.

Watching on Facebook or if anybody here in zoom has questions for Brian This would be a good time to

post them into the chat and he can read them or I can read them to him.

This is the time share here and and we are still live we're still live on Facebook.

We're still recording for YouTube.

So if anybody Wants to turn on their their microphone and ask a question

themselves They can but just know that it is it is still live.

So.

But that was a really great presentation definitely gave us some things to think about and some

practical applications.

One person is asking.

What version of the Bible do you use?

You know, I use a lot of them.

I if there's a question that I have I always use the King James.

I.

Grew up with NIV.

Not my favorite, but nonetheless, I have literally books

of the Bible memorized in NIV and So not to lose that and confuse

that I do try to read through that from time to time.

Sometimes I will switch versions.

I.

Try to read the Bible all the way through every year and so I'll do different ones.

But when it comes to study and if there's any questions I like to go to the King James.

Okay, that's great.

I.

Had a question Terry and I was gonna put it in a chat because I don't ask my question right away

I forget and I have forgotten it but it had to do with something about I.

Have to think about it for a minute.

Well.

While you're thinking we have a comment some feedback.

From the Harris's they just said that this was very fascinating because they hadn't seen Adam portrayed this way before

and it was refreshing.

So.

Yes, Brian's talk is entitled rethinking Adam and I.

I was I really enjoyed this.

It was it was definitely I've not seen and presented in this way.

I think it speaks to our marriages today.

I am a woman who works in predominantly a male field and I don't feel

Intimidated or like I have to be in power and I I think I do have sway

on my male colleagues.

I hope nobody's listening.

Well, I'm using an assumed name.

So I see this.

Yeah, I think that It's very easy

for women to look at scripture sometimes and feel like they don't have worth.

To me personally and I hope that women as they listen to this see that if anything I think it puts

an incredible amount of power in your hands that I don't know that if people realize that and I

like I said, I think it's Extremely

noble You might say.

Anyway, I am very grateful to see women in that sense that they

do have an influence and how Important that is and how the devil wants to rob you of

that blessing.

Being that help me that you've been created to be.

There was a couple people asking about the book of Enoch now.

I I do know Enoch.

I actually like I enjoy reading Enoch, but you have to be careful what version you get.

But do you want to explain what the book of Enoch is for those who were asking?

Yeah, the book of Enoch.

Like I said, I do not put it in a canonized scripture.

It is a book that is quoted in scripture.

And so what we have today that we would call the book of Enoch the the fragments and that we have

Would be called Pseudepigraphical meaning we do not believe that it is the book of Enoch.

We don't believe that it was there.

It was a copy of something that may have been original down the road, but not the

actual thing we do know throughout history even in King James period

that it was considered to be very a very important spiritual book and

But just not canon and Honestly, I think people would say the same thing as I said

kind of in the message about Spurgeon you could read Devotional by Spurgeon

or whatever and find it to be a very important spiritual book that reflects Scriptural truth and

so that's the context of which I quote it.

And as I read read it I look at it that way that you know

if I read Herodotus or Josephus there are things that I can read in there that may

help get some insight and Describe some things that you know, certainly fit with

the scriptures are saying and when it fits the scriptures I I think it can be very valuable and If

it doesn't fit the scriptures, I don't use it.

And so that's kind of the context of how I use the book of Enoch.

But I do think there's some very valuable insights into it as I said the Jews saw it was

found in the Dead Sea Scrolls as well and Considered to be a highly spiritual book, but even they

did not consider it to be one of their Inspired books.

Now with that said we do know there is a book of Enoch.

We just don't have it, but there is you know, the scripture says that Enoch was a prophet

and So we do know that somewhere out there maybe long gone I don't

there was a.

Book.

That would have been I believe inspired, but I don't believe we have that.

Well, our friend Jeff points out one an interesting point.

Is that most people know why Adam was kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

But Eve was also kicked out even though she had an excuse.

In other words being Deceived is not an excuse.

Exactly.

Yeah being to see going against the Word of God.

There is no excuse which is why we need Jesus because all

of us I think we probably.

As an example, I remember when I was in high school, I would watch movies and things like that.

No, I believe I was a saved man because I loved Jesus.

I prayed to him every night and I knew that if I died I was gonna go and be with the Lord.

I trusted in in in the the the work that Christ did on the cross the forgiveness he brought

for me.

But with that said I grew up I got married I'd watch and we remembered a movie that we wanted to go watch it.

Oh remember that was such a great movie and we go and we watch it and my eyeballs would pop out of my head.

I couldn't believe that I watched that stuff because it was nasty and it's like how did

I not?

Know that well, I was being deceived by the culture by the world by the devil by my flesh whatever all

but bottom line.

The consequences of sin are still there.

I'm just glad that Jesus has paid those consequences and there is now no condemnation for those who are in

Christ Jesus and So it doesn't excuse the sin.

But with that said as well, I mean I could talk about this for hours.

But we also need to remember that sin does have consequences even as Christians when we

are not walking in The truth of God's Word there are consequences to that.

It doesn't mean you're not saved but it's gonna bring problems in your life.

I like to look at the Ten Commandments as kind of an umbrella and You know, it's a protection for us.

And if we step outside of those then we're gonna get wet.

Satan can attack more because we're Outside of the umbrella

of God's Word.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.

I'm Terry.

I have a comment here from a viewer.

How about the story in?

First Ezra's chapters.

I think that's a Catholic thing.

Chapter 3 to 4 in the Apocrypha.

Are you familiar with that?

I'm familiar with Ezra's.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with that verse.

I don't have any of those books memorized.

So.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry viewer.

If you can provide a little more information to me we could maybe go down there.

Oh.

He's.

He's getting it.

Okay.

Some people are shy I.

I.

I'm still trying to remember that question that I had about Adam.

Well, you were saying about oh, here we go.

The Emperor Darius gave a banquet.

Really there's a.

It won't let me get to the information.

There's a big ad blocking it.

Oh, there we go.

Emperor Darius gave a great banquet for all those under him all the members of his family.

Okay.

Yeah I don't I don't know where this this it's long and I don't know where it plays into

the.

Well, I'll say this maybe I mean we do see in the book of Esther that we

see.

You know what's going on with the the Persian Empire and the whole book of Esther.

I mean it will blow your mind the prophetic picture.

That is a very prophetic book.

I love the book of Esther and on our patreon site

There's a 10 part series that I will do on that when you walk through you can't read two verses without seeing.

The kind of thing that I was showing you at the beginning of this where you know Adam God brings the woman

to Adam just like we see God draws us to Christ.

Those pictures that type of thing.

You can't go two verses without seeing something in the book of Esther.

Whether or not that plays into the Ezra's thing or not.

I'm not sure I'd need more information.

But yeah.

So I'm sorry viewer.

Okay.

Well if we do we have any more questions anybody.

Go ahead Terry you take over.

Well, go ahead.

Um, Brian if you could just tell us again how people can find you your website

and what the best way is to get in touch with you or.

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We've got two one is creation Instruction org and there are newsletters

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So the best way to get in touch with me would be maybe email through creation instruction at

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So thank you again, Brian.

This has been really great.

And if you want if you could pray for us to close this out, that would be perfect.

Yeah, thank you Heavenly Father.

We are just so grateful for The people that you have brought together

around the world That you have drawn to yourself and we just ask that you would continue to give

us understanding give us wisdom and Give us love that we would love this

world.

And by world I mean people or not to love the world but to love the people of this world to

Love them enough to share the gospel with them father for we know that you've put us here for a purpose and it is

not to go and Make this our home, but it is to prepare for our home.

And so Lord just empower us to do that through your word and your spirit and we are just so grateful.

I ask a blessing upon The creation ministries that are out there father and

all of those pastors who are standing firm on your word Preaching the gospel of truth.

Preaching.

Without compromise and we just ask that you would protect them with this craziness that's going on in the

world.

Not just health but but just from the attacks from politics and from governments and

from all of those things that you would be our shelter and Just

keep us all safe here tonight.

And may we just be blessed by The word as we continue to seek it out

in the name of Jesus we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen, I'm going to shut off recording and the live stream.