What is the 'first natural, then spiritual' pattern that runs through the whole Bible?
The Bible consistently follows a first natural, then spiritual format from Genesis to Revelation. Adam was natural and earthy; Christ, the second Adam, is spiritual. Cain was natural without faith, while Abel was spiritual. Esau was natural without faith; Jacob was spiritual. King Saul was natural and ungodly; David followed as spiritual.
Les teaches that all through Scripture there is a format that is never abridged: first the natural, then the spiritual, and it carries from Genesis to Revelation. He explains this means the first man, Adam, was natural, of the earth and earthy; the second Adam, Christ, is spiritual. The first two boys on record show it too: Cain was the natural man with no faith, while Abel was spiritual. Later Esau was natural without faith, and Jacob was spiritual. In Israel’s history, after they rejected God and asked for a king, Saul became their first king—the natural, not a godly man—and David followed as the spiritual.