Bible Quiz- Who Am I?

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This puzzle was given to me many years ago. It took me several hours to figure it out at the time.

WHO AM I?

Adam, God made out of dust
But thought it best to make me first.
So I was made before man,
To answer God’s most Holy plan.
A living being I became,
And Adam gave to me my name.
From his presence I then withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my maker’s law obey,
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear,
But seldom on earth appear.
For purpose wise which God did see,
He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me God did claim,
And took from me the soul again.
So when from me the soul had fled,
I was the same as when first made.
And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel on from pole to pole.
I labor hard by day, by night,
To fallen I give great light.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scripture I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.
No feat of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness I’ll never see.
To Heaven I shall never go,
Or to Hell below.
Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.
For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare.
WHO AM I?

This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1000 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the money. The answer is one word, and it appears only four times in the Bible (KJV).

...No time to read this now.........

Jesus.

Sorry no not Jesus, in the part below the poem it says "and it appears only four times in the Bible (KJV)"

One clue, I think this originally was written in the late 1800's and one reference is easy to miss because of our more modern understanding.

You can PM me if you want the answer sooner.

A lot of viewers, but not many guessing, so here is the Answer.

Adam, God made out of dust
But thought it best to make me first.
So I was made before man,
To answer God’s most Holy plan.
A living being I became,
#1 And Adam gave to me my name.
From his presence I then withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my maker’s law obey,
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear,
But seldom on earth appear.
For purpose wise which God did see,
#2 He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me God did claim,
And took from me the soul again
So when from me the soul had fled,
I was the same as when first made.
And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel on from pole to pole.
I labor hard by day, by night,
#3 To fallen I give great light.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scripture I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.
No feat of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness I’ll never see.
To Heaven I shall never go,
Or to Hell below.
Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.
For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare.
WHO AM I?

This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1000 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the money. The answer is one word, and it appears only four times in the Bible (KJV).

Many people guess the Spirit or Wisdom but that is not correct. Clue 1 above Adam gave to me my name- it is an animal.

Clue 2 the main puzzler, the answer is Whale, remember Jonah and the whale.

Clue 3, thousands great light behold, they used whale oil for lamps way back when.