God saw that it was important to create a body for His son Adam to inhabit this world, so God made him from the dust of the earth and gave him dominion over it. Like his Heavenly Father, Adam needed someone to share his kingdom with, so God made a helpmate for Adam to fellowship with, enjoy and love.
When Eve fell to satan's temptation, sin entered into her spirit and then into Adam's, after he accepted satan's lies. God had told both of them, "If you eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then you will die." Death entered their spirits at the moment they disobeyed God and they were separated from Him instantly. Adam died in the natural body, 930 years after he sinned.
Rom.5:17(Amp) says, "For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive (God's) overflowing Grace (unmerited favor) and the free Gift of Righteousness (putting them in right standing with Himself) reign as kings in life through the One Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)." Adam's sin caused his separation from God and could only be restored by a Spiritual Life.
Many Christians don't believe that Jesus Christ was separated from the Father, while paying for our spiritual penalty. Jesus suffered the cost of Spiritual death, which separated Him from the Father, Who is Life. Jesus' Spirit was made sin with our sin, which caused the same separation from God, just like Adam's did. Jesus said to the Father on the Cross, "It is finished." His physical body died and His Spirit was actually take into the belly of the earth, because the wages of our sin was death.
By the shedding of innocent (Blood), Jesus' Own Sinless Blood, He cleansed us from the results of that that sin, bringing healing and life again to our natural man/woman. Jesus' Blood represents healing and deliverance from sickness and the Curse of the Law, while we're still in these flesh and blood bodies, if we will accept it. We are healed by the stripes of Jesus. His Blood didn't just cover us, but cleansed us and gave healing to our bodies. Gen.6:3(Amp) says that, "Man's life will be yet 120 years."
Those who lived before Jesus' Sacrifice shed the innocent blood of bulls, goats and doves, but could never fulfill the Curse of the Law, according to Deut.28. Jesus paid for the life in our flesh and the Life that is in His Own Blood. His Spirit paid for our eternal life and His Body also paid for our natural lives.
We are now alive unto God and can do the work He has called us to do. When Jesus calls us to Heaven, we will receive new bodies which will never die. 1John3:2(Amp) says, "Beloved, even here and now God's children, it is not yet disclosed and made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."
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