And now You, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world existed. (John 17:50)

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— (John 10:35)

“Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” (John 17:27-28)

God gave us the Bible so that we would know who He is and what His wills are. Although God used some people to write each book of the Bible, what is written is from God. We must understand that the goal of reading the Bible is to know and understand God.

The Bible teaches us that God is beyond human understandings, and we must rely on the Holy Spirit’s guidance. God does not change like people do. If God created the heavens and the earth and destroys them later, we conclude that God had a purpose when He created all things. And the answer is in the Book of Revelation.

I read that Luther and Calvin were puzzled regarding the Book of Revelation. Luther and Calvin focused on how one is saved. Calvin admitted that God let Adam fall into temptation but did not want to speculate on the reason. I believe that the task is given to us living in the third reformation. The answer is found in the Book of Revelation because God had already planned the glorious end before He created all things. Therefore, Genesis must be interpreted with Revelation in mind. Those in the Reformed think that Luther and Calvin were sent by God and their words are like God’s own words. They were given certain knowledge to carry out the tasks given to them. Not all words of Luther, Calvin, or any Reformed theologians are without error. God gave none the full knowledge of Him except His Son. And the Son is the words of God. I am not writing to criticize Luther or Calvin. But I think they had limited knowledge which was enough for the second reformation.

According to the Covenant Theology (CT), we would be in much better status if Adam had not sinned. From God’s point of view, Adam’s sin was a necessary step for us to learn about God. God had already planned the adoption of some people born of Adam through Christ. Without Christ, there is no adoption or eternal life. And Christ achieved this on the cross. Since God does not see His saints as sinners, we are free in His love and mercy. Yet, our freedom is not what the world thinks. Christ did not nullify the law but perfected it. And the law of Christ is the law of liberty, which is love. The Covenant theologians do not want us to have that freedom. As I’ve mentioned previously, some ministers think that the end status of the saints are lower than the angels because the angels never sinned and are not the descendants of Adam. Some think we are merely going back to the garden of Eden where, from their imagination, Adam walked with God and was a friend with Him.

The Book of Revelation tells us that the saints are clothed in white. But Adam was naked until he realized that he needed a covering. As Adam was made immature, he was naked. Remaining naked was not God’s intention. We must understand that Adam’s fall did not happen by chance. Adam trusted his own judgment and wisdom. God let him be tempted by the devil. God did not tempt Adam but did not save him from the temptation. Adam wanted to be like God by his own hands. The saints become one with God through Christ and the Holy Spirit without works. We, who will live with God in His kingdom, become holy as the top of the mountain is the most holy (Ezekiel 43:12). If not, we are not the children of God. The beautiful life of Adam that the Covenant theologians invented is actually the life in the kingdom, which is coming soon. All God wants from us is faith in Him. And all saints receive faith as a gift so that salvation is the result of 100% grace. God does not want us long for the life that Adam had in the garden of Eden, but eagerly wait for the new heaven and the new earth.

By Christ’s blood, we are bought and become the children of God. Christ became one with us and is the head of the new creation. Because we are children of God, we never fall again. In the kingdom we do everything God’s wants us to do in deeds and in heart because we are truly one with Him and know, understand, and love Him. Even if we stumble many times in this life, God will never forsake us.

Anyone who tries to bind us to the law and sin and worships Adam does not know why God created all things. The first things happened for the kingdom. When the kingdom comes, the first things pass away.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among the people, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” (Revelation 1:4)

It is not that God delights in watching people suffering. But suffering is for training just as Job had to suffer to know himself and God. The Son also had to go through much suffering as we must suffer for Him. His suffering is connected with the cross. Suffering of the Son have led us to obedience. The cross makes us obey God because we become the children of God. The Son had to suffer as the representative of us who were dead because of the original sin and our own sins. Although He was blameless, Christ went through suffering so that we would become perfect through Him. Through the cross, we died to the law. By Christ’s resurrection, we are made alive and become the new creation.

In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior. Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him, being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 5:7-10)

The words of the LORD are pure words; Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, filtered seven times. (Psalm 12:6)

The Covenant Theology cannot explain the adoption and the new creation. Adam was from dust. Christ is from heaven. Only Christ is the head of the new creation.

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. (Colossians 1:13-20)