Israel ben Betzalel

You have probably heard the Romans road, but did you know that it’s really a summary of the Genesis Road?

The Genesis Road

• God commanded us eternal life, and blessed us with it. Gen 1:28
• He then told us to be fruitful - to have fruits of obedience to his commandment. Gen 1:28
• He then told us to multiply - to make disciples of his commandment. Gen 1:28
• He then told us to fill the earth - to immerse the earth in the fullness of the Messiah. Gen 1:28
• He then told us to subdue it - to teach all mankind the Torah. Gen 1:28

• God made the “old” covenant of eternal life with us: we will continue to live forever as long as we keep the law, or else we will die on the day we break it. Gen 2:15-17

• We didn’t keep the law, so we died - we lost what we were blessed with, that is, eternal life (we were still breathing in and out). Gen 3:7

• Realizing our condition, we attempt to cover up our fault with our own works again, but no matter how hard we try, we can not gain back through our own merit and works that which we lost - the eternal life that God blessed us with. Gen 3:7

• We miss our meeting with God, and God calls out to us, asking where we are spiritually, so that we may repent and come to him. Gen 3:9
• Instead in our depravity, we attempt the futile impossibility: we try to hide from the God who made us in his image. Gen 3:10.
• When approached by God, we respond, but instead of repenting we attempt to justify our sin. Gen 3:11
• We ultimately blame Eve. Gen 3:12
• Eve blames the serpent who deceived her (the Adversary, the Satan). Gen 3:13
• God curses the serpent with eternal damnation. Gen 3:14

• God promises a renewal of the covenant of eternal life with us, through the promised Seed who remains keeping the Torah perfectly for us. Gen 3:15
• God promises that the serpent’s head (strength) (death through sin) will be crushed (destroyed) by the Seed of the woman (the Messiah). Gen 3:15
• God promises that the Seed of the woman (the Messiah) will be born of a woman, and not from the union of a man and woman. Gen 3:15
• God decrees that this crushing of the serpents head will be accomplished at the cost of the promised Seed’s own death. Gen 3:15.
• God decrees that the serpent, and sin and death will be totally defeated by the promised Seed. Gen 3:15
• God decrees that the heel of the promised Seed will only be bruised (wounded with death), but not crushed (death forever). Gen 3:15
• God therefore decrees that the promised Seed will rise to life again, showing us that we too will rise to life again on his merit as his righteous death atones for those who identify with him. Gen 3:15
• God therefore makes a “new” or renewal of the covenant of eternal life with us: rather than us keeping Torah in order to keep eternal life - a covenant which we broke and lost eternal life as a result - we now are promised that one of our offspring, the promised Seed (the Messiah), will remain faithful to the covenant forever, and by his faithful keeping of the Torah perfectly, his reward, which is eternal life, becomes his (and thus our) inheritance, an inheritance which he shares with all those who identify in him and by implication, who identify in his merit alone for the hope of eternal life. Gen 3:15

• To the woman, the mother of all the living, God decrees that she will have increased pain in making and raising disciples. Gen 3:16
• To the woman, the mother of all the living, God decrees that she will desire her husband (the Messiah). Gen 3:16 (Isaiah 54:5)
• To the woman, the mother of all the living, God decrees that that he (the Messiah) will indeed rule over her. Gen 3:16
• To the woman, the mother of all the living, God decrees that she will inherit the promise of eternal life in his kingdom. Gen 3:16
• God decrees the rule of the husband (the Messiah). Gen 3:16

• To the man, the dust of the earth, God decrees that his obedience to the Torah will be flawed. Gen 3:17
• To the man, the dust of the earth, God decrees that the fruit of his obedience to the Torah will only come through hard work and toil. Gen 3:17
• To the man, the dust of the earth, God promises that even then his fruit of obedience will be flawed with sin. Gen 3:18
• To the man, the dust of the earth, God decrees that he will receive satisfaction only when he studies about the Messiah. Gen 3:18
• To the man, the dust of the earth, God promises eternal life if he relies on the Messiah for his redemption from sin and merit to eternal life. Gen 3:19

• God ratified the new covenant with the shedding of blood, when he made skins for Adam and Eve. Gen 3:21

• God has prevented man from obtaining eternal life on his own merit, in order that man not live forever in sin. Gen 3:22
• God banished sinful man from himself, to instead serve the ground from whence he came (the Torah, the Messiah who made him). Gen 3:23
• The Way back to eternal life is guarded until Messiah comes. Gen 3:24

• Eve knew (had sex with) her husband Adam, and gave birth to Cain, and believed he was the promised Seed. Gen 4:1
• Cain cannot be the Messiah because he is a sinner like Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve know it Gen 4:25
• Eve knew her husband Adam, and gave birth to Abel, and believed Abel was the promised Seed. Gen 4:25
• Abel cannot be the Messiah because he is dead and does not rise from the dead  Gen 4:25
• Eve knew her husband Adam, and gave birth to Seth, and thought Seth was the promised Seed. Gen 4:25
• Seth himself had a son, and it was then that men realized that the promised Seed does not come with man being involved. Gen 4:26
• At that time men began to call upon the name of the promised Seed, which is HaShem, the beginning of the “church”, by relying on the Messiah for eternal life. Gen 4:26
• At that time men began to profane the name of the promised Seed, which is HaShem, by not keeping his commandments. Gen 4:26
• The Messiah is HaShem. Gen 4:26

• All who call upon the name of HaShem (the promised Seed) (and so rely on his merit alone for eternal life), shall be saved. Joel 2:32.

We truly have no other King, Savior, or Redeemer than HaShem. Psalm 45:6, Psalm 18:46, Psalm 78:35

Thoughts? Questions?

from: http://jerusalemcouncil.org/midrash/viewtopic.php?f=29&p=2563#p2563

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