What is the reason for Christ Jesus' (the last Adam) agony in the garden?

[cv5]

Precisely the same as was the agony of the first Adam in the garden:

Willful separation from God aka death. A self-sacrificial decision made of his own free will to save his bride.

This decision was made by the first perfect man, Adam who took full responsibility for the sin of his wife Eve.
And the same decision was made by the perfect God-man Jesus Christ Who took full responsibility for the sins of His wife the Church and His divorced wife Israel.

Adam, however did not have the power to save all of his seed by his sacrifice.
But the infinite God Jesus Christ, by the power of His infinitely potent sacrifice......does.

 

[p_rehbein]

Do you mean "in the garden," or "on the cross?"

 

[cv5]

Do you mean "in the garden," or "on the cross?"

Garden of course....mount of olives.
Olives, which shed their oil by CRUSHING.

Luk 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Adam not deceived, Christ Jesus also not deceived (Matt 4).
1Ti 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

The crucial difference between the two Adams:
Adam sinned willfully (bringing death aka SEPARATION FROM GOD and necessitating redemption),
whereas Christ became sin for us but was without sin, therefore death could not hold Him.
2Co 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Act 2:24
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

Eternal LIFE = reconciliation with God thru accepting the marriage betrothal cup (an act of free will) of the New Covenant.
Eternal DEATH = eternal separation from God by rejecting His cup of betrothal (an act of free will) and being consigned to the lake of fire

 

[p_rehbein]

I always distinguish between the two Adams as the first brought death into the world and one brought eternal life. Pretty much what you are saying.

Anyway, thanks for the Post.

 

[cv5]

I always distinguish between the two Adams as the first brought death into the world and one brought eternal life. Pretty much what you are saying.

Anyway, thanks for the Post.

Gen 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife

Adam heard the cry of his bride Eve, willingly ate the fruit of death, and died to be with her, knowing God would save them both from eternal death. In fact, Adam PREVENTED Eve (and himself refused) to eat from the tree of life, which would have doomed them both to an eternal state of sin and eternal separation from God aka eternal death.

Jesus Christ hears the cry of His bride the Church (and Israel) and willingly died to be with her, and being the sinless God, He thereby saved her from eternal separation aka eternal death.