Notes on the Physical and the Spiritual Man 

Let me begin with the teaching that 

"the first shall be last". 

Scripture says that the "physical" man Adam came first. Then came the 2nd Adam 

(Yeshua) who is spirit. Now, if we stay with the precept that the first shall be last, we see

that man was first a spirit, then a physical body. Therefore, we are like Yeshua:

we were 1st a spiritual being that was placed into a physical body.

It follows that "the last shall be first". The 2nd Adam [Yeshua] is spiritual.

Now we know that the spiritual must come first. When God created everything

(including man) in the beginning, each Day ends with "and God saw that it was

good" [Genesis 1:31]. God created everything in 6 days. This includes all the

spirits of every man that has ever lived or ever will live. This must mean

spiritual bodies because mankind originally came from only one physical body [the

1st Adam]. The scriptures say that God knew us BEFORE we were born into this

world.

Therefore, it is the reconciliation and restoration of man [1st Adam] to where

he was [the Garden of Eden--paradise] BEFORE he sinned that is the purpose of

Yeshua's (who is now BOTH the first and the last) LIFE--DEATH--RESURRECTION in

this physical world.

Through Yeshua we will have "perfect physical [glorified]

bodies" for eternity; and, it is because of the spirit of Yeshua the Messaiah

(ONLY through him) that we can be resurrected in a glorified body.

Paul said, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." It is the flesh that

causes temptation, NOT THE SPIRIT. It was Adam and Eve's physical desire for the

fruit of the tree of the knowledge that tempted them. It "looked" tasty! How

could they be tempted by desire for knowledge when they did not understand what

knowledge was? Therefore, in this world we must be overcomers of fleshly

[physical] temptations. We do this by accepting the holy spirit of God and Yeshua

into our hearts. The scriptures say that the soul of man is enmity with God, not

the heart of man.

FOOTNOTE 2: The Revelation speaks to everyone, not only God's elect. "No

scripture is for private interpretation" can also mean that every word of the

Bible is meant for "whosoever will" read it and desire to know it. Yes, there are

deeper understandings in the scriptures. Yeshua said so! He often (not always)

spoke in parables. When Yeshua commanded demons to depart from someone's physical

body, he did not speak in a parable.

Read John 21:21-24 This is the same John of whom Yeshua said, "If I will that he

wait until I come, what is that to you?" John did wait and Yeshua did come to him

in the Revelation.

*Notice the actual words spoken by Yeshua (through the messenger angel) cease at

the end of chapter 3 until the very last chapter, 22. John wrote the actual words

of Yeshua to the 7 churches and at the closing of the book (Yeshua, the Word, is

1st and last). Everything in between was written by John as he explained what he

had seen. It was necessary for John to be transported from this world to Heaven

in order for him to see the future, not just prophesy the future. (1) John saw a

door opened in Heaven. John saw it with "physical eyes". (2) John heard the 1st

voice that sounded like a trumpet with "physical ears". The voice said, "Come up 

here, and I will show you things in the future." (3) NOW, John is immediately in 

the Spirit.

Read Revelation 20:4-6 "...and I saw the souls (not just spirits, but individual

souls) of them that were beheaded for the witness of Yeshua, and for the word of

God, and had not worshipped the Beast, neither his image, neither had received his

mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they lived and REIGNED with

Christ a thousand years.....This is the first resurrection.....they shall be

priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with HIM (God/Christ) a thousand

years."

These scriptures prove that we do not have to worship the beast, his image, etc.,

at ANY time. They are external -- they are part of the temptations in the

fleshly, physical world (as was the serpent in the Garden of Eden). We are made

in the "image of God", not in the "image of the beast".

Look for comparison of the great flood of Genesis (1st book and physical) to the

"lake of fire" in Revelation (last book spiritual). Since the flood destroyed the

physical man of the Old Testament (covenant), will the fire destroy the spiritual

man of the New Testament (covenant)?