The same One who said, “I am the light of the world,”
Created the light of the world through a saying;
All lights have their home in the heavens,
So men should look heavenward for illumination.
No light comes from below, but from above;
Christ’s home was not among us, but in the heavens.
He was in the beginning, creating and dividing all that is seen by what is unseen;
And by the Word He creates in us anew and divides us from this present darkness.
God created man in His own image;
He came to occupy the form in which He created.
Just as man was taken from dust, Christ was from heaven;
Man was created from below, Christ from above.
If you know a tree by its fruit, then what tree is Christ, except the tree of life?
His fruit from the cross is eternal life to everyone who believes.
Although the cross is a dead piece of wood that brings forth death,
But like Aaron’s staff which budded, so the cross brings forth fruit of life.
If there be a tree of life, then a tree of death;
All who think they can get right through the Law, eat from the tree of death.
As God created woman suitable for man,
He created man suitable for God and planted eternity in his heart.
As He made woman from man’s body,
Christ’s bride is from His body, which was broken for her.
Christ executed judgement upon the serpent’s foremost;
The serpent bruised His least-most member.
He now persecutes the woman and her children.
God covered His children with garments of skin;
And we who are in Him put Him on like new clothes.
Let us walk unashamedly before Him all our days!
As Shem and Japheth covered their father’s nakedness,
The love of Christ covers a multitude of sins.
Where there is vengeance in the law, even seventy-sevenfold,
There is grace in Jesus Christ, seventy-sevenfold, even in a single day.
How mysteriously a large ship floats on the water!
But no surprise that Jesus Christ is a Rock and Safeguard from danger;
Even the rock-badgers are considered wise for making their home in the rocks.
The angels fell when they saw the beauty of women and made giants;
And God’s Son came into the world through a woman.
God blessed the whole world on account of one man, Noah;
He provided a soothing sacrifice to the LORD.
And God blessed the world again on account of One, Jesus Christ;
He provided a sacrifice for the whole world.
As Noah alone was righteous in a crooked world,
Christ was the only One to stand for the truth in a crooked and evil generation.
God scattered the tongue of wickedness so they would be confused;
He made one language through His Spirit so they would be one.
Truth is a tongue, and lies are a language;
Those who abide in the Teaching are truly His disciples;
As Seth was a son in Adam’s own likeness,
So the Truth is preserved in God’s children.
Melchizedek had no origin, no genealogy, no history;
And so He resembles the Son of God who is Forever.
As Rebekah said, “Your curse be on me, my son,”
Jesus took upon Himself our curse that the blessing of Abraham may come.
Rachel stole an idol and an oath of death was made;
Although she was guilty, she did not die;
But Benjamin did no such thing with a similar oath,
Yet he was given the death sentence.
And so Jesus was innocent, and we are guilty;
Yet He was punished and we were set free.
Judah had two sons, both died when they went unto the same woman;
He held back his third for he supposed the woman to be accursed.
He went in unto her unknowingly, but he did not die.
So Jesus went to Sheol, and arose from her.
Just as Jacob’s life was bound up in Benjamin,
So Christ’s life is bound up in the Father.
If we desire to live, our life must be in Jesus.