The name of God the Son that we looked at our first day in co-op chapel was Huios. We saw how Jesus was the Son, not because He was formed in Mary’s womb, but because He always was the Son. He was the Son of God who was sent to earth by the Father.
The next name we looked at next was Eschatos Adam.
We find this name of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 15…
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.”
The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural;
then the spiritual.
The first man is from the earth, earthy;
the second man is from heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:45-47
Jesus is the Last Adam.
The word last in this verse is Eschatos and it means extreme last, last in time or in place, last in a series of places, last in temporal succession, last referring to time, of space, the uttermost part, the end, the end of the earth, of rank, of worth,… the extreme last
In other words Jesus is IT.
I am going to pull from a study I wrote titled “Between the Trees” to help illustrate…
Now we are all, every one of us on this earth, born in the family tree of the first Adam. This family tree is dysfunctional to say the least. This family tree is full of adulterers, liars, murderers, fornicators, hypocrites, idolaters, pagans, homosexuals, prostitutes, thieves, rebels without causes of any worth. This family tree is infected with a deep rooted sin disease that manifests itself in horrible ways with grave consequences and this tree is dead and is dying and eventually will be completely destroyed…
Now there is another tree… God’s family tree. The only way to have access to this family tree is through holiness, righteousness, justice, love, and obedience.
God offered those in the family tree of the first Adam a way to get to His tree. He laid down stepping stones. He laid down The Law. Walking in the Law leads us to the tree… but there’s a catch… if we ever miss a stone or break a stone… we plummet to our death… because there is a huge chasm between the trees.
You see no one in the family tree of the first Adam could ever make it all the across the chasm… eventually they would miss a stone and missing one stone is as bad as missing all the stones, because just one leads to our death. So those in this family tree of the first Adam called out on the name of the Lord… and the Lord heard their cry.
God took His own Huios from His family tree and sent Him to the family tree of the first Adam… and He became the Eschatos Adam.
For the first time in history someone in the tree of the first Adam could make it across the chasm… He could walk every stone and He laid the bridge, He made the way for all who follow His path, to the Father’s family tree. He alone can give us the right to this family tree… He is the One who set up the adoption agency and paid all the fees to give us the right to become children of God.
He is the Eschatos, the last, there is no other Adam to come, and no other from the first Adam’s family tree who can deliver us. He is IT.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 5:12-21
