A Brief Thought on Thorns & Thistles

A beautiful thought this week coming into Passover: When Adam was cast out of the Garden of Eden, he was judged with thorns and thistles: it is the first mention of such things in the Bible.

[Gen 3:18 KJV] 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

First Adam because of a fall from Grace, brings in the Fall of Man: sin and death enter the world. Adam as well as his offspring will die.

When Jesus is crowned in mockery with thorns, he is bearing, as King and Deliverer of Israel, the sin of Adam: the thorns are painful things, and thistles are useless and vain, hardly good even for kindling a fire.

[Mat 27:29 KJV] 29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

The sin of Adam was in disobeying God, the victory of Yshua is in obedience to the death, bearing the sin of the first Adam to the Cross and putting it to death. It is the crown of thorns that is the mark of Kingship, with the 'wrath of man praising God' as he is in mocking coronation, made King for certain, declared by the civil authorities as such with signs above his head on the Cross, and putting to death in the flesh, but marked by the Crown, the Fall of Man.

It parallels Moses' holding up of the brasen serpent in the wilderness: the serpent of Eden, causing sin and death to enter the world, causing the Fall of man, is crucified in victory on the cross: this of course does not point to Jesus as the serpent, but as the King bearing the vile thing to be put to death, that the covenant of God in everlasting life might be fulfilled: Adam was the door to the Fall, Messiah the door to everlasting life.

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