{"id":2129,"date":"2019-06-10T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2019-06-10T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:22:21","slug":"christ-in-the-old-testament-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/christ-in-the-old-testament-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ in the Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Genesis 1:27<\/strong>: \u201cSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.\u201d<\/em> The fact that God made the first man \u201cin his own image\u201d is very instructive and points us directly to Christ. Adam, representing the entire human race and loses the image of God in Genesis chapter 3. Consequently, when a son is born unto him, the Holy Spirit records that this son is born in Adam\u2019s image, not in God\u2019s image (Gen. 5:3<\/strong>). No man is born in God\u2019s image until the Lord Jesus Christ is born, and it is expressly stated that He is the \u201cimage\u201d of God (Colossians 3:10; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Hebrews 1:3<\/strong>). So Christ is the \u201clast Adam\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:45<\/strong>) is typified by the first Adam who was the first to have God\u2019s image. The only way for men to have God\u2019s image today is to be \u201cborn again\u201d of His Spirit.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genesis 1:27: \u201cSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.\u201d The fact that God made the first man \u201cin his own image\u201d is very instructive and points us directly to Christ. Adam, representing the entire human race and loses the image … Continue reading Christ in the Old Testament<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa5oei-yl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}