CHAPTER II - points of analogy

Let us now notice the points of analogy between the two Adams.TTA 7.3

1. Both were miraculously, or supernaturally “made.” 1 Corinthians 15:45; Romans 1:3.TTA 7.4

2. Both were to obey, or do the will of God.-Genesis 2:16, 17; Hebrews 5:8, and 10:9.TTA 7.5

3. The first Adam violated the law given him, and death was the result; the second Adam kept the law given him and life was the consequence.-1 Corinthians 15:21.TTA 7.6

4. Both were tempted by the devil in a personal conversation.-Genesis 3:1-6; Matthew 3:1-11.TTA 7.7

5. Both were tempted to eat that which was forbidden; one to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree; the other to turn stones into bread;-the first yielded, the other triumphed. Genesis 3:6; Matthew 4:3.TTA 7.8

6. Both were tempted to gratify the lust of the eye;-the one to take the fruit because it was “pleasant to the eye;” the other to fall down and worship the tempter, being promised “all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.” Genesis 3:6; Matthew 4:8.TTA 8.1

7. Both were tempted with the pride of life;-the one to take of the fruit because it was to be “desired to make one wise;” the other to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, with the promise, “He shall give his angels charge concerning thee.” Genesis 3:6; Matthew 4:6.TTA 8.2

8. The first fell by eating; the other reversed the sentence by fasting.TTA 8.3

9. The one was placed in paradise, and fell into the wilderness and death; the other was driven into the wilderness, and will restore that which was lost.TTA 8.4

10. The one was tempted, surrounded with all the tame and harmless animals of creation; the other was in the wilderness with the “wild beasts.”-Mark 1:13.TTA 8.5

11. When the first Adam fell, angels were set “to keep the way of the tree of life;” and when the second Adam triumphed, “angels ministered unto him.”-Mark 1:13.TTA 8.6

12. The fall of the first, was in the garden of Eden; the last temptation of the second, was in the garden of Gethsemane, when all the powers of darkness were let loose upon him.-Luke 22:43, 44, 53.TTA 8.7

13. The first Adam being a man, wished to be “as gods;” the second Adam being the “Son of God,” was “found in fashion as a man.”-Philippians 2:8.TTA 8.8

14. The first lost the “dominion under the whole heaven;” the second regained or purchased it.-Ephesians 1:14; Daniel 7:13, 14, 27.TTA 8.9

15. By the first Adam, “came death;” by the second, “came also the resurrection of the dead.”-1 Corinthians 15:21TTA 8.10

16. Both had to die,-and to be laid in the earth; the one to see corruption, the other to see “no corruption.”-Genesis 3:19; Acts 2:31.TTA 8.11

17. Death and the grave triumphed over the one; but could not hold the other.-Revelation 1:18.TTA 8.12

18. Before the first Adam had anything to do with the earth, everything was finished, nothing was added after possession, or dominion was given to him; so with the second Adam; the new heavens and the new earth will be completed, or finished, before he will come into possession of any part of it.-Genesis 1:26; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 1:14; Revelation 21:1-4.TTA 8.13

19. Before the first Adam had the conflict with Satan, in which he fell; the seventh day, or Sabbath, had passed so with the second Adam;-before the last and final conflict with Satan and his hosts, in which eternal victory will be gained for the Son of God and his people; the Sabbath, or seven thousand years will be passed.-Genesis 2:3; Genesis 3:1-6; Revelation 20:7-10; Hebrews 4:8, 9.TTA 9.1

20. The first Adam was made a living soul, or subject to death and therefore mortal; the second Adam immortal, and therefore “brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”-2 Timothy 1:10.TTA 9.2