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Here we see a divine pattern. There are differences between the first Adam, and the last Adam
(Christ),” but there are also great similarities. For example, Yahweh caused a deep sleep to fall upon
the first Adam and then removed a remnant portion from his body to fashion a bride for Adam. As
a parallel to this, we observe that the church is called “the body of Christ.” In a spiritual sense, a deep
sleep has fallen over the body of the last Adam, and during this time of slumber the Father is
removing a choice portion from the body of Christ to form a bride for His Son. The bride of Christ
is not formed from His entire body. It will be formed of a remnant portion who will then be presented
to Christ as His bride, “for many are called, but few are chosen.”

We can look for other parallels between the first Adam and the last Adam. One profound parallel is
that both Adams were tempted by Satan. The temptation for both involved eating something that God
had either expressly forbid them to eat, or had not given permission to eat. God told the first Adam,
“From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.” This was the precise thing
that Satan tempted Adam to do. Similarly, at the beginning of Christ’s ministry He was led of the
Spirit into a wilderness where He fasted for forty days and nights. At the end of forty days the Son
of God hungered. At this time Satan came to Yahshua, the last Adam, tempting Him to eat.

Matthew 4:3-5
And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones
become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on
every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Where the first Adam failed, the last Adam triumphed. The first Adam chose to put his soulish and
fleshly desires above the word of God. The last Adam chose the word of God above His desires. It
is significant that the first recorded encounter of both men with Satan saw them facing a similar test.
Those who embrace the interpretation set forth by the serpent seed doctrine do violence to this divine
pattern.

We find a pattern again between the bride of the first Adam and that of the second. Of Eve we read:

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

IF we agree with the common understanding that the serpent “deceived” Eve, rather than having had
sexual intercourse with her, we find a clear parallel in the New Testament among those who are
espoused to Christ.

II Corinthians 11:2-4
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, that to Christ I
might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness,
your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one
comes and preaches another Yahshua whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit
which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this
beautifully.