Secrets from the Garden Of Eden, God’s Blueprint for Life
I have been blogging about this book for about 6 months. My basic premise is, you can trace every theme in the Bible to the first three chapters of Genesis. One of those themes is the conferment of dominion. Every human being has been infused with dominion since they are created in the image and likeness of God.
In Genesis 1:26, God shares his vision to impart dominion over the earth to Adam and Eve.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image and likeness: and let them have DOMINION OVER the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and OVER EVERY creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:26 (KJV)
In Genesis 1:27-28, God implements his vision.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. And BLESSED them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28 (KJV)
God gave man dominion over all the works of his hands. Adam was created to steward creation, to subdue it, to fashion it into a replica of the Garden of Eden on earth. See Deuteronomy 11:10-12 & 21 (days of heaven on earth), Matthew 6:10. God never gets away from his initial plans, although we fail in so many ways.
Third Party
Have you ever had to deal with a third party when trying to accomplish a task? My water heater went down. So we I decided to go to Home Depot to buy a water heater and have them install it. Home Depot and Lowes said they don’t install water heaters anymore that they contracted that service out to a third party. When I got in contact with the designated third party, they tried to get me to buy their water heater and installed it for a very expensive price. The third party contractors said, I might have to pay a higher price if my home wasn’t t up to code.
I contacted an independent plumber and avoid all that stuff, “the politics”. When Adam broke covenant with God, he got a third party, the Serpent, involved in his responsibility to exercise dominion over creation. Matter of fact, in the temptation of Christ in the wilderness; Satan said, the earth had been given to him, and he could give it whomsoever he wills, See Luke 4:6 (KJV)
So you have a third party helping you to make bad decisions, to give away your God given inheritance of dominion.
What is Dominion?
According to “The Bible with Strong’s” Dominion, # H7287 “radaw”, it means to tread down, to crumble, prevail against, reign, bear, make to; rule, ruler.
Dominion means basically the right to influence the outcome. Man was never created to rule other people. God created man to manage the resources of the earth.
It was only after sin, that humans became subject to one another, Genesis 3:16 (KJV),
“Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall RULE over thee.”
We get to see the consequences of human beings dominating one another in Genesis 6:1-8, where the sons of God began to multiply wives unto themselves. They took as many wives as they wanted; the earth was filled with violence.
The ground is cursed for his sake
God cursed the ground. The ground wouldn’t produce. People had to struggle with the ground to get it to produce, Genesis 3:17-19 & Genesis 5:29 (KJV)
The Curse is removed in Genesis 8:20-22
“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
The Restoration of Dominion
Although God never took away dominion from Adam and his seed, they lost the true meaning of exercising dominion over creation because they had Satan as an overlord.
God came earth to redeem us to our original purpose. Dominion has been restored in some of the following ways:
–Power through relationship, John 1:12,
“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believed on his name.”
–Power over the enemy, Luke 10:19-20,
“Behold, I give unto you POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions, and OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Colossians 1:12, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Who hath DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son.”
–Power conferred, Acts 1:8
“But ye shall RECEIVE POWER, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
What we see in Jesus’ ministry:
“How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” Acts 10:38 (KJV)
-We see that the original relationship has been restored, God is working with man again
-We have obtained an inheritance, the original conferment of dominion has been restored. Although Adam possess dominion over creation, yet after the fall, he had no vision or power to fulfill his original mission or power to resist Satan.
-We have received power to be witnesses to this new lifestyle
-We have received power to become children of God
We were created to be winners! 1 John 5:4,(KJV) “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith”
Grace and peace!
Secrets from the Garden of Eden 