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Spirit. This purpose was left unfulfilled due to the sin of Adam. It would not be until AFTER Christ
died on the cross and rose again that the Holy Spirit would be given to indwell humanity. Until Christ,
the Holy Spirit had been “with” many men and women, but it would only be after Pentecost when the
Holy Spirit descended that He would be “in” men and women.

John 14:16-17
“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that
is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him,
but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you.”

Due to Adam’s sin, mankind also became darkened in their understanding.

Ephesians 4:17-18
This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles
also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life
of God...

Thus, man’s condition was that he too was formless, void, and covered in darkness. There came a
time, however, when God began to move to re-create the earth under judgment. The first thing He had
to do was to send light upon the earth, for it had been sealed up in darkness.

Genesis 1:3
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Similarly, in order to redeem mankind Yahweh had to begin by sending him light.

John 12:44, 46
And Yahshua cried out and said, “I have come as light into the world, that everyone who believes in
Me may not remain in darkness.”

Each of the six days of the re-creation of the earth in Genesis chapter one finds its spiritual
correspondence in mankind and is set forth in the Gospels. I have set forth the parallel between the
days of the reformation of the earth and the re-birth of man in the book The Mark of the Beast as well
as in the teaching titled The Seven Days of Man. I will not repeat that information here, but would
point out that the second earth is intended by God to serve as a parable for regenerated man. Those
who are born again of the Spirit of Christ are said to be “new creations” even as we consider the earth
that was reformed beginning in Genesis 1:3 to be a new creation.

II Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new.
NKJV

In actuality, however, regenerated man is the Adamic man re-born. We still inhabit the same bodies
in which sin is present, but light has now come, and the presence of God is making all things new for