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Douglas Hamp
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May 12 - May 20, 2021
Moreover, though his arrival in the form of a man was foretold by numerous Scriptures, the broad masses will not immediately recognize him for what he actually is—paganism’s ultimate incarnation; the “beast” of Revelation 13:1.
These demigods were likewise accompanied in texts and idol representation by half-animal and half-human creatures like centaurs (the part-human, part-horse offspring of Apollo’s son, Centaurus), chimeras, furies, satyrs, gorgons, nymphs, Minotaurs, and other genetic aberrations, all of which indicates that the Watchers not only modified human DNA during the construction of Nephilim, but animals as well, a point the Book of Enoch supports, saying in the seventh chapter that the fallen angels “sinned” against animals as well as humans.
However, “thy son” is a reference to Satan’s son who, according to hermeneutical consistency, must also be a genetic descendant.
If “her seed” equals Christ, then “your seed” must be its antithesis, thus: antichrist
what he lost both spiritually and genetically, and how corruption through disobedience has caused us to be separated from God.
Satan has been attempting to destroy the image of God throughout history (as described in the Bible and confirmed by extra-biblical evidence) and how he plans on imitating and counterfeiting God’s redemptive work in the ultimate hybrid of all time whom the Bible calls “the Beast” (Antichrist).
We were created in the image and likeness of God but at the fall, when sin and death entered into the world, the image of God in man was corrupted.
of God dwelling in us. The word, sperm [sperma ] is the same as is used to describe human and even animal seed which is used to propagate the race. Peter says that we have been redeemed with incorruptible seed. What does it mean that we have God’s seed (incorruptible)? How does that differ from the corruptible seed that we currently have? Could it be that this is why Jesus so emphatically said that we had to be born again? Paul says that we are a new creation, the old has passed away. Does the imparting of the Holy Spirit have anything to do with the fact that God breathed into man in the
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Furthermore, God’s seed, while not composed of proteins and amino acids in DNA strands, is what we receive in our new bodies. This was also the essence of what Adam was pre-fall. Adam was also clothed in light (as God is) before the fall—something that will be restored to us once in the heavenly/spiritual realm.
However, for our study, we will not focus on those aspects but specifically how both image and likeness are used in the Bible in relation to His form.
Therefore, an image conveys only some information about a person and not all of the details.
Just as our children act like us (likeness) they also look like us. When I see my children I see in their faces and bodies a combination of my wife and me. They very much look like us—they are in our image.
When God made man He fashioned Adam to both act like God and to look like God.
lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image [pesel ] in the form [t’munah ] of any figure:
Thus, Ezekiel tells us that God has the appearance like Adam which is really to say that man (Adam) has the appearance or image of God.
We need to turn to 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul makes it clear that in the world to come we will not be bodiless but we will have a new kind of body.
He starts by saying that there are first of all different kinds of flesh; animal, fish, human, and then he divides between heavenly and earthly.
On the contrary, our future body will be tangible, touchable, and permanent.
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
Jesus is the paradigm, then that means we will have a similar if not exactly parallel body.
Certainly, God is far greater than we can understand, but His basic form or silhouette does not seem to be truly in question. He exists as a spiritual body.
We were created perfectly in God’s image and likeness (what He looks like and how He acts) but the fall of sin corrupted that image.
Speaking of the called out ones (believers in Jesus) John notes in Revelation: “And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright [lampron ], for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints” (Revelation 19:8).
Thus, when we occupy our heavenly or celestial bodies we will also be enveloped in or clothed in garments of light.
“Then the righteous will shine forth [eklampo ] as the sun in the kingdom of their Father” (Matthew 13:43).
“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But let those who love Him be like the sun when it comes out in full strength” (Judges 5:31).
Given that Jesus came as the second Adam and that we are in the corrupted image of the first Adam, we can infer that when God made the first Adam (in an uncorrupted state), Adam’s earth-based body must have radiated light in a manner similar to our resurrection bodies.
Paul states that Jesus is the image of God: “He is the image [eicon (icon)] of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Colossians 1:15 NET).
Just what is a biophoton? A biophoton is the emission of light from DNA. Dr. Popp and the Marburg group discovered that the “essential source of non-equilibrium biophoton emission is the DNA.”
All organic life absorbs, emits and processes light. Biophoton emission or spontaneous ultraweak light emission has been observed from almost all living organisms, with intensities ranging from 10-19 to 10-16 W/cm2.
It would seem that our DNA is like an electric capacitor which can store tiny amounts of electricity and then discharge it (capacitors do not produce their own energy like a battery). In a similar way, we can speculate that the light that was coming from Adam was not being produced from his own self, but was first absorbed from God and then reemitted, very much like how things glow in the dark.
I would like to suggest that when a non-believer dies the little bit of internal light that he had (due to the sun) is lost and being completely disconnected from God, his light is extinguished. However, the believer, just like Adam, will have light emitting from his spiritual
Nevertheless, the incarnation (becoming flesh) was at the point of conception which was when the Holy Spirit mingled seed (DNA i.e. information) with humanity.
there is a coded message that is not a base two but a base four code known as DNA.
There was no loss of data or corruption of the data in any way. Once he and Eve sinned, death (errors in the genetic code) entered our first parents and those errors have not only been passed to all of their descendants, but the loss of data has been increasing over time as would be consistent with data loss in the world of computers.
Thus information is separate from the device holding it.
Of course, not all of the data in our DNA has been lost but a significant part of the message has been compromised and now the errors are being compounded with every successive generation. Humanity is suffering from an information loss in our own source code.
If the information that we originally received from God is being compromised such that one day the entire human race will suffer the ultimate data corruption known as extinction, then we clearly need the Master Programmer to fix the source code. Fortunately, our Maker has provided a way for our code to be corrected.
Yet, the incarnation was the point at which the Godhead mingled seed (DNA i.e. information) with humanity.
However, looking at the incarnation from a genetics perspective does demonstrate how Jesus could become one of us and yet remain free from sin.
son will inherit an identical copy of his father’s Y chromosome, and this copy is also essentially identical to the Y chromosomes carried by all his paternal forefathers, across the generations.
Nevertheless, Peter Underhill has stated that there is essentially no change of the Y chromosome from father to son from generation to generation.
“The lack of recombination means that the entire non-recombining portion of the Y is passed intact from father to son. A male shares the same Y chromosome with his father, paternal grandfather, paternal great-grandfather, and so on” (emphasis mine).
This means that whatever information was encoded in Adam’s Y chromosome was passed on unchanged (virtually) to all of his descendants including all of us men alive today! However, if the information in the Y chromosome were faulty, then it would mean that all of his descendants (including us) would also have a faulty code. Discovering the exact make-up of the Y chromosome when Adam was first created is impossible for us to do, however, its current state may tell us something about the fall.
Bradman and Thomas suggest that the Y chromosome contains “a record of an event” in the life the man who passed on the current Y chromosome.
it possible that the recorded event is not something that had “little or no effect,” but is in some way the record of the genetic fall of our first father?
Death, it appears, entered into Adam’s Y chromosome (in some way unique and different than the X) that very moment, causing him to go from being genetically perfect to having serious errors in his code that would eventually cause a “crash.”
Yet, the Y chromosome seems to contain something so deleterious that our Savior could not have shared it.
In order to save mankind on a genetic level, a new Y chromosome would need to be provided. Furthermore, through the disobedience of Adam all of creation was made subject to corruption as Paul states in Romans 8.
Christ is the first man in the new creation, and, like Him, all of His sons will live physically (cf. Rom. 5:12-19).
