"Adam fell from life to death, into the deep of this wretched world, and after that into hell: God's Son fell with Adam, into the deep of the Maiden's womb, who was the fairest daughter of Adam; and for this end: to excuse Adam from blame in heaven and in earth; and mightily He fetched him out of hell."
Julian of Norwich (ch. 51)
We see the Incarnation as happening at a certain point in time. But from God's eternal perspective, it happened outside of time, for Christ was slain from the foundation of the world. That means that even before Adam had a problem, Christ already was the solution. Even before Adam was lost here on earth, he was found in Christ in heaven. Because of the oneing of Christ and humanity from creation, when Adam fell, Christ fell. Adam fell into sin, corruption and death. Christ fell with Adam and was born from the virgin's womb to be the Savior and rescue Adam. Christ went to the extreme of becoming a human, with flesh and blood, to rescue humanity from sin, evil, loss, death and corruption. Christ who is God became Man in order to excuse Adam from blame and lift him up from death into eternal life! He rescued Adam (who stands for all humanity)! He vindicated Adam/humanity as worthy of God's help, as righteous in God's sight, as the recipient of honor and eternal life. Sin and death are defeated. Adam/humanity is shown to be blameless, innocent and pure. God is shown to be loving and kind, and stronger than death and all evil. Christ is shown to be the perfect God-Man uniting man to God forevermore. Adam/humanity is saved! Hallelujah, what a Savior and what a salvation!
"He embraced the company of the lowest. He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many, he took up the cause of all the black sheep."
Isaiah 53:12 9MSG)
"I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness."
Isaiah 61:10 (NIV)
A Prayer: Thank You for excusing me from all blame! I am blameless before You! I am free from sin! I am saved!