[a]
Joseph, son of Jacob, is the perfect foreshadowing of this truth: He explained
to his brethren who during the 7 years of famine came to him in Egypt that
“G-d send me before you to preserve for YOU a remnant on earth, and to
keep alive for YOU – i.e. ISRAEL - many survivors. So it was not you who
sent me here but G-d…” – Gen. 45:7-8. Israel at the time were but 70 souls
– Gen. 46:27. Yet alongside those mere 70 souls all the Egyptians were
saved – Gen. 47:25, and “all the earth” came to Joseph as well to escape
the death of famine – Gen. 41:57
[b]
The separation of Abraham from Ur of Chaldea and from Lot did not suffice.
Another, invisible separation occurred at the time of Abram and Lot’s parting
-- that of separating Abram and his future seed from the rest of mankind.
The race of
man up until the flood was a race of “Adam” descended from the “first”
Adam.
This race was totally wiped out by the flood except for Noah and his sons
[Gen. 7:21-23]. They were the only Adam men who crossed from
the era before the flood into the post-deluvian age. Abram, through the
lineage of Shem, became the last seed of the former Adam race when
G-d singled him out as such at the time of Lot’s disjoining. Henceforth
the human race in general is called Enosh - 
- (human) Flesh, in accordance with G-d’s words in Genesis
6:3, “My spirit shall not abide in Man – Adam for ever, for he is
flesh,
but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”
In order to
fully understand the significance of the difference between Adam
and Enosh, we need to look at their first occurrence in the
Scriptures. Adam (male and female), we know, was made in the Image
and after the Likeness of G-d. After the trespass, which resulted in the
gradual corruption of this race, they had children. The mentioning of the
third child, Seth, follows the sentence: “This is the book of the GENERATIONS
of Adam.” This is for a reason, for now we shall be given a genealogy
of this race, as well as its ensuing history.
Immediately
after this sentence, which states one more time that G-d originally created
Adam
in His own Image and after His Likenes, we are informed that
Adam’s
third child, Seth, is now in the image and after the likeness of his fallen
parents (Gen. 5:1-3). I.e., he genetically inherited their henceforth corrupt
nature (Romans 5:12, 14-19, 21) and, in order that there be absolutely
no doubt about it, we are given the name of Seth’s firstborn:
Enosh.
This name symbolizes the fallen nature of the once
sinless Adamic race, having become a “sinful” race, which eventually
would degenerate to mere “human flesh”, void of the Spirit of G-d.
However, Abram
was still of the Adamic race, although the degeneration of the race
is shown in the rapid decline in age. Whereas Noah and his sons still reached
an age of several hundred years (Gen. 9:29; 11:10-11), Abram died at the
age of 175 (Gen. 25:7).
Enosh[01]
indicates a feeble, sickly and woeful race of mortal
men void of the Spirit of G-d, which hardly bears any resemblance with
the former race of Adam. The words ish
[male human], and ishah [female human] merely refer to gender
and are also used in the plural [anashim and nashim], whereas
Adam
and
Enosh
are used only in the singular, indicative of the type [race]
of humanity.
G-d chose this
last one of the former Adamic race to become the father of the new Adamic
race, recreated through G-d's grace by faith in Messiah. Yeshua’s two genealogies
of Matthew and Luke also attest to Yeshua being a BEN ADAM [and
Ben
Abraham, Ben David], who, in Luke 3:38, is referred to as “Son
of G-d.” Alluding to this fact Yeshua never referred to Himself - when
speaking in the third person - as “ben enosh” but only as Ben Adam,
the Son of Man [Matt. 11:19; 12:8, etc.] of the more dignified humanity
of Adam.
Paul established
this factor even further by referring to Yeshua as the Last Adam
[1 Cor. 15:45], and by speaking in Romans 11 of branches cut off from their
wild
olive tree and engrafted into the cultivated olive tree, through
faith in Yeshua. Being joined into the cultivated olive tree causes
these branches to be filled with and converted to the kind and nature of
the cultivated tree. The wild tree is the Enosh-mankind,
the
cultivated
one the Adam-mankind.
G-d separated
Abraham from general humanity – Enosh – by means of a covenant.
Hence, the “Root – Sion” of the cultivated olive tree is the Abrahamic
covenant. All who are branches of that tree – whether natural branches
or engrafted ones – partake of that root and tree.
G-d placed
yet a further “chasm” between the wild olive tree of general humanity –
Enosh
- and the cultivated one – Adam - raised up through Abraham, by
means of Torah and His specific prohibition of intermarriage. The creative
law that undergirds these progressive steps of separation is found in Genesis
1:11-12, 24-25: “Let the earth put forth vegetation… each according to
its kind… So G-d created …each according to their kinds…” Just as a thornbush
does not bring forth figs, so does the race of Enosh not produce
a race of Adam.
Satan has tried
with all his might to thwart G-d’s purpose by having the Jews, all of whom
are “B’nei Adam,” engrafted into the wild olive tree in order to
change their nature into that of Enosh. Nevertheless many millions
of Jews rather preferred death than being joined to the race of Enosh.
The Spanish Inquisition even created the infamous “certificado di sangue”
– “Blood Certificate,” which was to attest to a former Jew’s “pure Christian
blood” by him being the 7th generation of intermarriage with Gentile “Catholic
Christians.” Since the Church of Rome rejected the Jews as G-d’s chosen
people and instead labeled Israel as the “seed of the serpent” while calling
itself the “New Israel of G-d,” Jews who converted were forced into abandoning
their own, cultivated olive tree. Indeed, many Jews were lost to the House
of Israel, while others, through their genuine faith in and baptism into
Yeshua remained yet part of the cultivated tree, albeit hidden.
An engrafted
branch takes on the nature of the tree into which it is engrafted and of
its root. Hence, we can clearly perceive Satan’s scheme of turning things
upside down, “converting” the Adamic humanity of the Jews into that
of Enosh. Were it not for the Jewish resistance to forced conversion
and G-d’s separation of His people from general humanity, the Abrahamic
covenant people of Adamic descent would long have ceased to exist.
The period of “Enlightenment” --- “to the man – enosh all rights,
to the Jew – ben adam none,” almost succeeded in swallowing up the
Jewish people had it not been for something as horrible as the Nazi Holocaust.
G-d apparently preferred His people to become a living sacrifice whom He
would raise up in the Resurrection rather than having them cut off from
Israel forever. (At least that is the only explanation for the Holocaust
I ever could find to make any sense at all.)
And now, in
these last days, we see a people descended from the lineage of Ham (see
Gen. 10:6, 13-14 – Egypt, father of the Caphtorim from whom the Philistines
originate, who came from Caphtor, that is Crete), who call themselves “Palestinians,”
contending for the promised Land, challenging G-d’s covenant, oath and
promise, intent on utterly destroying Israel as is written in Ps 83: 3-4:
“They lay crafty plans against G-d’s people; they consult together against
His protected ones. They say, ‘Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”[02]
Therefore,
let every engrafted saint understand, know and realize the importance of
the tree into which he was engrafted and thank G-d for having been made
a fellow citizen and co-heir of its covenants, heritage and inheritance.
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– a MAN as an individual or MALE person; i.e., it mainly identifies gender,
like manly, (mighty) man; husband = my man; [perhaps derived from an unused
root mean. to be extant]; or derived from
]
– to be frail, feeble, desperately wicked, incurable, sick, woeful; and
];
HUMAN; HUMANE = ENOSHI; HUMANITY; HUMANESS = ENOSHIUT; 