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This study may be freely posted on other bbs' and distributed to others provided this leader remains with the study text at all times. THERE ONCE WAS A MAN WE CALL ADAM, WHO LIVED LONGER THAN ME OR YOU. HIS MILLIONS OF KINFOLKS (HE HAD 'EM), WERE OUTLIVED BY HIM (NUMBER TWO). NOW JUST IN CASE THAT STATEMENT THROWS YOU; AND YOU START TO THROW THIS AWAY; THE ADAM WHICH WE ARE DISCUSSING, STILL LIVES AND IS WITH US TODAY. THOUGH MOST MEN AND WOMEN DON'T SEE IT, GOD'S WORK IN CREATION HAS SHOWN; IT'S SYMBOLS HAVE MUCH DEEPER MEANING, THAN MEN OF PAST AGES HAVE KNOWN. FOR YOU AND I LIVE IN THE LAST DAYS, WHEN GOD IS UNFOLDING GREAT LIGHT. HE'S BRINGING HIS PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND GIVING THEM SPIRITUAL SIGHT. HE'S ANSWERING MILLIONS OF QUESTIONS, THAT MEN IN PAST DARKNESS HAVE ASKED; REVEALING THE DEEP, HIDDEN MEANINGS, THAT SATAN'S GREAT PREACHERS HAVE MASKED. THIS LEAFLET'S TOO SMALL TO GIVE ANSWERS, TO THE VAST TRUTH GOD HAS REVEALED; SO WE WILL JUST ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS, ABOUT THINGS WHICH ONCE WERE CONCEALED. WE HOPE THAT WE'LL GET YOU TO STUDY, WE'LL SEND YOU SOME HELPS FREE OF COST. THEN MAYBE YOU TOO WILL BE ADAM, AND NOT PART OF THOSE WHO ARE LOST. NOW SOMEONE MAY THINK WE ARE SAYING, THAT ADAM AND EVE NEVER DIED. BUT LOOK AT THE BACK OF THIS LEAFLET, BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO DECIDE. Certain Biblical texts PROVE GOD CREATED ANIMAL LIFE ON THE FIRST DAY. In Genesis one, God states that the results of days one,... three, four, and five are "GOOD" and the results of day six are "VERY GOOD." Do you know WHY He did not say the same about day number TWO? The Bible contains texts which reveal secret details concerning the "RIB" from which God created EVE. Those details contain some very important TRUTHS for God's people today. Do you know them? The Bible contains HIDDEN DETAILS concerning the SERPENT (the LITERAL CREATURE) which tempted EVE in the garden. These details would SHOCK the scientific world and strike a FINAL blow to the theory that man evolved from apes. Do you know those details of TRUTH? What are the differences between the "IMAGE" of God and the "LIKENESS" of God in Genesis 1:26? Is it spiritually significant that ADAM did not become a creature with "FREE WILL" until AFTER HE RECEIVED BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE? What is the meaning of "GENERATIONS" of the heavens and earth in Genesis 2:4? It is translated from the same Hebrew word (and therefore means the same) as Genesis 5:1 and 6:9, etc. Is there some form of descent in the heavens and in the earth? Based on a study of both Genesis 1 and 2, can you be certain Eve was formed on the same day of creation as Adam? If not, when was she formed and what does it symbolize spiritually? The reason we ask if you know the SPIRITUAL meaning of these things and those which we will mention next, is because ALL of the historical and scientific details of the scriptures can be PROVEN to contain HIDDEN SPIRITUAL PARABLES (symbols or allegories). Even though those meanings do not detract from the LITERAL, they are MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. They do NOT depend on MAN'S INTERPRETATION, but are interpreted by OTHER TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE DETAILING THE SAME SUBJECTS. We hope you will look up and study the contexts of the following verses from John 6:51-54 and 63, Acts 20:28, Jeremiah 3:15 (a prophecy that symbolizes the NEW TESTAMENT AGE (TODAY), I Corinthians 5:7-8, 2:6-10 and 14, II Corinthians 3:6; 14-16 and 4:4-5, Romans 2:28-29, Proverbs 2:3-4, Matthew 13:10-13, and the Apostle Paul's letter to Timothy, a true PASTOR (I Timothy 4:13 and 15:) These scriptures and hundreds like them SHOULD help us to realize that not only the first chapters of Genesis, but ALL of the BIBLE STORIES contain HIDDEN SPIRITUAL SECRETS. That is how we may KNOW who are TRUE GOD SENT MINISTERS. They will spiritually FEED our SPIRITS with understanding of the DEEP HIDDEN TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD. If you are a CHILD OF GOD and are being SPIRITUALLY STARVED by the shallow, man-made traditions of TODAY'S SO-CALLED CHRISTIANITY, and if you hunger for GREATER THINGS FROM GOD, we invite you to come and FEED with us (contact us for FREE BOOKLETS or AUDIO and VIDEO BIBLE STUDIES...ABSOLUTELY NO ONE WILL PESTER YOU OR ASK YOU FOR MONEY!). Many people argue about the length of the six days of creation. Genesis 2:4 makes clear that the SIX DAYS are known as "THE DAY". The Bible has hidden principles that identify the length of the days. Where are those texts? In Genesis 1:29-30 God commanded that ALL CREATURES upon the earth be VEGETARIANS. Then in Genesis 9:2-3, God allowed man to eat all types of MEAT. Later in Leviticus 11, God forbade the eating of a number of "UNCLEAN" creatures. Why all the changes and what do they represent spiritually? Genesis one is the subject of other scriptures in the Bible which use the HISTORY OF CREATION (as described in Genesis one) to symbolize and to spiritually portray a LOST PERSON being SAVED (given spiritual life), and the growing through TWELVE stages of SPIRITUAL GROWTH to become God's "right hand man." Can you find these scriptural texts and explain these TRUTHS? The chart on the back of this leaflet pictures details mentioned in the fifth and sixth chapters of Genesis. There are several VERY IMPORTANT PROPHESIES that are concealed within the Biblical details shown on the chart. Those prophesies pertain to TODAY. Can you find and explain them? (The chart mentioned is on our booklet titled "MYSTERY 5" and is not available on this computer text file- SORRY !). Genesis one tells how that on the second day of creation, God placed the FIRMAMENT (the place where the sun, moon, and stars are located - Genesis 1:14 - commonly called "outer space") between the waters which were on this earth and a vast amount of waters which were put ABOVE the firmament (outside our universe). This portrays or symbolizes a very important SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE. Do you know what it is?