Sunday, May 2 I am fleshly, sold under sin. —Rom. 7:14. We see proof of Jehovah’s love for us in the way he responded to the problems that first arose within his earthly family. When Adam disobeyed his heavenly Father, he lost his place in Jehovah’s happy family, both for himself and for his descendants. (Rom. 5:12) Jehovah, however, stepped in to help. Jehovah punished Adam, but he did not leave Adam’s unborn offspring without hope. He immediately promised that obedient humans would be brought back into his family. (Gen. 3:15; Rom. 8:20, 21) Jehovah arranged for this on the basis of the ransom sacrifice of his beloved Son, Jesus. By giving his Son in our behalf, Jehovah proved how dearly he loves us. (John 3:16) He is the ideal Father. He hears our prayers and provides what we need, both materially and spiritually. He trains and supports us. He also has wonderful blessings in store for us. It warms our heart to know that our Father loves and cares for us! w20.02 6 ¶16-17; 7 ¶20
References scriptures from this daily text, Rom. 5:12 That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned In this chapter of Romans Paul deals with the authority Christ has over death Paul suggests death has ruled as king until Christ. As Christ displaces death as king essentially death becomes paused for humans, however humans will still have sin, Adamic sin. This is possibly the only period in history when humans have sin yet will not die of it. Medicine today such as experimental Covid vaccines include something described as 'gene therapy'. By the end of the millenial kingdom humans will have undergone a kind of gene therapy equivilence although not experimental. Note the etemology of Genesis / Gene / Genetic. Gen. 3:15 And I will put enmity* between you and the woman and between your offspring* and her offspring. *He will crush* your head, and you will strike* him in the heel.” Commentators sometimes note that a head wound is often fatal wheras a wound to the foot is not. Not so often noted is the fact that Jesus earthly existance was the lowest plane of his being, as he has existed (and does exist) on a higher plane than the physical realm. Thus being struck in 'the heal' relates to the lowest plane, the physical plane were he was injured. A temporarily suffered fate. Rom. 8:20, 21 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but through the one who subjected it, on the basis of hope * the creation itself will also be set free from enslavement to corruption and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. Existing in a state of curruption is written about here as a state of severe limitation. John 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. The words of John 3:16 are written for the eyes of the living. The dead cannot excersize faith in anything yet those among the dead who never knew of Christ can recieve resurrections and gain the oppurtunity. Some of these people will have been born, lived and died after Christ's earthly walk. Some before. A few such as Noah will have thier works performed prior to Christ counted as Christian works of faith. Without Noah's carpentry there might be no human line by which to produce a messiah. The Ark can qualify as a Christian work. Christ has the authority to issue license retropectively. The fullest extent of how Christ conducts judgement will itself be within the auspice of the miraculous and yet outside of the ease of prediction.