Our battle is not with people but spiritual entities! The Bible calls them demonic principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12
Partnership
God always, always alway work out of partnership. Creation was build upon the foundational principle of partnership. God created the heavens and the earth to follow a set of laws and processes. For example, the human body is a prime example of the systems of the earth. Our bodies were created to maintain itself. The heart beats and our lungs breathed by themselves, automatic response. Your body has a voice of its own and if it recognize a problem, it will react on its own to protect itself. The human body at conception starts out as small as a dot above “i” and multiplies millions and millions of times become a fully functioning adult.
The seed time harvest process is build into creation. Partnership is build into the system of creation. You can only have one spiritual head. It’s either God or Satan. There is nothing in the middle.
“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:16-20 (KJV)
In the final harvest, there is no middle ground, it’s either/or! In the parable of the ten virgins, there was no middle ground, five were foolish and five were wise! The five foolish virgins were denied entry into the wedding feast although they were numbered among the five wise virgins.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other, Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life…” Matthew 6:24-25a (KJV)
Satan needs your resources
If Satan cannot use your resources, he prefers your neutrality. He loves your silence and especially your ignorance of reality.
Satan needs human beings to advance his agenda. People in political offices passing laws that enable prostitution and petty crimes to flourish. Cartels strategically moving their merchandise into communities to create new markets.
I want to share videos over the next few days that highlight this strategy of wickedness!
These videos are powerful stories of people who were solicited to become pimps and others use their authority as law enforcement officers to become agents of drug cartels.
There are many prophetic images of judgment in scripture
People reap what they sow. Prosperity and increase comes because it is build into the system. If you sow you will reap!
the Bible describes judgment this way, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” Revelation 13:10 (KJV)
God is saying to believers, ‘be patient and faithful until the hole is dug for the enemy.’ God wants us to know, that those who allow themselves to be used by the enemy to create bondage for others shall themselves go into bondage. The person that is killing people shall themselves be killed.
You might not be able to see the reward of the wicked, but the Bible says:
“Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones.” Zechariah 5:1-4 (KJV)
Jesus was manifested to destroy the works of darkness.
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8 (KJ)
Sevenfold Return
“Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul BUT IF HE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD; HE SHALL GIVE ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS HOUSE.” Proverbs 6:30-31
God’s has innumerable ways of getting back to you what the devil stole. Satan has many hands in your pocket. BUT God’s word is working on your behalf. God swore that in blessing he would bless. Creation is working to restore you, to make you whole.
“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.” Genesis 2:4-5
Wonderful thought, the heavens and the earth were not created in a series of six single 24 hour days. Yet, scriptures describes these things as created in the day, meaning it was, “a time for the foundations of the earth to be laid.”
Genesis 2:4, “These are the generations of the heaven and the earth in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.”
There was not a man
“And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”
So God created a man from the dust of the field and breathed the breath of life into nostrils and man became a living soul.
God said to the first man, Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it have dominion over everything that has life in it. He said, I have given you every seed upon all the face of the earth and every trees bearing fruit!
If you think seed doesn’t matter, wrong! God uses seed on many different levels. For example, He told the Serpent, the seed of the woman shall bruise your head. He gave Abraham a seed that becomes a nation that birth the Messiah. Then He uses the seed to given the gift of eternal life to whosoever believes
“If ye be Christ, then are you Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promises.”
God uses fruit trees! The first sacrifice was the fruit of a fruit tree. The first gift of eternal life came from a fruit tree. Jesus was crucified on a tree. The Tree of Life is in the midst of the paradise of God.
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
Partnership
Partnership as it relates to God, is probably the most elusive principle of creation. The system of the earth is based on partnership. This concept flows from Genesis through to Revelation. We understand partnership in bits and pieces.
God has been the greatest victim of theft. Man has never fully render to God his due fruits of the partnership. However, God stills holds people responsible for their share of the harvest of the earth.
God asked the question will a man rob God? You have robbed me even this whole nation. You are cursed with are curse!
Parable of the Wine Press (Matthew 21:33-46 KJV)
The parable pf the wine press illustrates the principles of failed partnership. Jesus told the story of a householder who planted a vineyard. He placed a fence around it and rigged a wine press in it. He build a tower in it. He put the responsibility of managing the vineyard into his employees. Last of all he took a long trip to a far country.
When it came time for the harvest to come in, he sent his servants to the managers of the vineyard to collect its fruits. The Managers beat up one servant, stoned one and killed another. The Householder continued to sent messages to collect the fruits of vineyard. The managers continued to treat each messages the same way.
Finally the Householder decided to send his Son, thinking the managers would respect his son more than his messengers. The managers decided to kill the son and take ownership of the vineyard.
Jesus asked the question of his audience, “When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?” His audience responded,
“They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.” Matthew 21:41
Partnership has always been about man rendering God the fruits of partnership. Yet, man took the fruits that were due God and consumed them upon his own desires. Genesis 6:2, “…They took them wives of all which they chose.”
“But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” Jeremiah 5:23-24
Jesus quoted scripture,
“Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”
Jesus said,
“Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof.”
The parable is about rendering to God his due fruits. People think this parable just applies to the Pharisees. No, it applies to followers of Jesus Christ as well.
The Parable of the talents! (Matthew 25:14-30)
Jesus tells a parable about three servants of a householder. For clarity let change the titles of subjects of this parable. Let make the man traveling to a far country, the president of a company. Lets make the servants employees. The president of this company is about to tell a long business trip. He called his chief employees together and committed the companies resources into their hands.
The first employee was given five pieces of gold. The second employee was give two pieces of gold. The third employee was given one piece of gold. After a long period of time, the president of the company calls his employees to give an account of their stewardship.
The first employee came to the president and said, ‘You committed to me five pieces of gold, I have gained five more.’ The president of the company said, well done good and faithful have you been, I will make you ruler over many things, come let’s celebrate together.
The second employee came to the president and said, You committed to me two pieces of gold, I have gained two more. The president said, well done good and faithful have you been, I will make you ruler over many things, come let’s celebrate together.
The third employee came to the president and said, You gave me one piece of gold and I was afraid of losing it. I knew you as a hard man reaping where you have not sown. So I took the companies resources and buried them in a hole in the backyard, here is your one piece of goal. The president said, You wicked and slothful employee, you should have put my money in the bank at lease I could have gained the interest. Take the talent from him and give it to the employee which gained the most of the resources entrusted to him.
The principle of accountability
“For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Many people are in a dark place simply because they didn’t take advance of seed time and harvest. They ate their seed. They neglected their fruit trees. They slept during harvest times. They were not conscious of the process.
God reserves the harvest! In other word, there is a harvest of increase in your future, simply because that is ow the system was designed to function. Sow seed, plant water and be patient unto God gives rain and increase.
God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” Seed is for provision. Seed is pro (for) the vision. God’s vision!
You can’t limit seed to physical food. Seed will/can benefit you in every area of your life.
The power of sowing seed
In Second Corinthians 9:6-15, the apostle Paul encourages the Corinthian Church concerning making provision for the ministry to the saints. He said,
“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (KJV)
If you sown little, you will reap on the same scale. If you sow abundantly, you will reap abundantly. I learned this early in ministry. I learned this valuable principle. I deliberately found as many serving opportunities and started pouring into these field.
I served as a chaplain in the Wayne County Jail, Dickerson Detention Facility, the Detroit Rescue Mission and the Detroit Police Department of which I receive no salary. I also prayed with a group churches called the Detroit Regional House of Prayer as well as pastoring a church.
In my serving I recognized seasons of blessings. I was able to share these lessons with people I ministered to in prison and the homeless shelter. I enjoyed the grace of God in so many ways. The season that I am walking in today, as debt free, came out of those seasons of sowing into others.
Another amazing benefit is the level of your authority and dominion increases as well. What I mean by that, I master money instead of money mastering me. I experience the blessings of God in my body, marriage, home and finances. Why? Not because I am a good person. I have learned the principles of the Garden of Eden and I applied them to my daily life.
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruit of your righteousness;).”
God gives seed to everybody, to the poor
He is righteous always and all the time. He is good to all. He opens his hands and desires the desires of every living thing
-He ministers seed to you
-He multiplies the seed you sow
-He increase the fruits of your righteousness. When God increase the fruit of your works, simply means what you harvest becomes so much that your barnes will break out with abundant increase. He increases it to the point that there is an overflow of abundance. Remember, Satan didn’t create prosperity. God created prosperity as a way of manifesting his glory. All things were made by him and they were created for his pleasure (Revelation 4:11).
The Sower Sows the Word
Matthew 13:2-11 & 14, Mark 4:1-20; Luke 8:4-15
The parable of “the sower sows the word” is based on the same principles of all the other revelations regarding rendering to God his due fruits. Jesus came to reveal mysteries of creation that had been hidden or lost from the beginning of time.
“All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
Jesus spoke the mysteries in parables. His disciples asked him, why speak in parables? Jesus spoke in parables because the people continually rejected God. There was a pattern in the nation of people continuously rejecting God’s counsel so the prophesy of Isaiah 6:9 was fulfilled in that generation. The prophesy was
“By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.”
People receive the blessings of God as they are able to hear, receive and keep the Word God ministered to them. Jesus said,
“He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”
Of the four groups of people who hears the Word of the Kingdom of God:
The group who hears the word by the wayside
The group who receives the word into stony places
The group who receives the word among thorns
The group who receives the Word in good ground
There is loss of growth in the first 3 groups. The last group who hears, receives, and keeps the word of God in their hearts, reaps a harvest of 30, 60, and a 100 fold more than what was sown. What is the Word of the kingdom? It is the Word of Life, the message of life which was manifested in the life and ministry of Jesus according to 1 John 1:1-5. Jesus healed all who came to him in faith! Jesus said to Martha and Mary concerning their brother Lazarus who had died, “I am the resurrection and the life.”
“One sow and another waters but God gives the increase!”
“And he gave gifts unto men”
The Message of the Ten virgins
Five were foolish and five were wise. Both groups fell asleep while waiting on the marriage feast to start. When the cry came forth, “The bridegroom cometh.” All ten woke up, the five foolish didn’t have oil to light their lamps and asked oil of the five wise virgins. The five wise virgins counseled them to go to the market place and purchase oil. While the five foolish virgin were gone to the market place to buy oil; the bridegroom show up and takes the five wise virgins into the marriage feast. When the five foolish virgins show up, knock on the door and say, “Lord, Lord open up.”
“But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.”
Again the principle is, understand the purpose for seed! Work it, Apply it. Reap harvests intentionally! Become a master of seed time and harvest!
“And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gather themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”
Aaron told the people to break off their golden ear rings, the ear rings in their wives, sons and daughters’ ears. Aaron fashioned the gold into a golden calf. Aaron build an altar to the golden calf upon which they offered burned sacrifices and they worshipped it. Aaron declared a feast and caused the people to strip naked and they danced before at the foot of the golden calf.
Aaron declared:
“These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.”
This same scenario plays to the same tune down from the generations. People seek an alternative system to meet their needs. They made the same decision in 1 Samuel chapter 8. They asked Samuel to appoint them a king to go before them, to fight their battles, and to judge them.
Israel got tired of waiting on Moses and they decided to make a substitute for God. They gave credit for their deliverance to the work of their hands. They build an altar, offered burnt offerings and offerings of peace to the golden calf. Aaron declared a in feast celebration to their new found gods. The Bible said, they sat down to eat and rose up to play. They stripped off their clothes and dance into celebration of progress (Exodus 32:25).
The golden calf fashioned by the hands of Aaron has followed them around for generations, See 1 Kings 12:28. And if you can accept this, the same golden calf sits near Wall Street in the symbol of a Brass Bull. The Brass Bull, “It symbolizes Wall Street and the Financial District.” It also represent “optimism and prosperity.” People rub his testicles for good Luck.
God said,
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13
What are the two evils:
Forsaken God, the fountain of living waters
Investing in a broken system that can not contain value
Adam and Eve chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil over the tree of life. They looked at the first lie spoken to a human being, which the serpent weaved for them and to them was granted death in all of its glory!
Mammon
People have made money their god. They celebrate it, worship it, sacrifice family for it, swear by it. The love of money is the root to all evil…You can not serve God and mammon…How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
The promises of Social Security, Med-care and Medicaid, loans, schemes to get wealth, daily barrage our ears with promise of prosperity. Jesus clearly says don’t store treasures on earth where moth and rust corrode and thieves breakthrough and steal. He said, store your treasures in heaven.
Man can’t fight your battles,
Your battles are spiritual in nature. We are in a warfare against spiritual forces. Jesus said, ‘Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.‘ People are stuck in the details of this love-hate relationship with God and money and they are unable to access life.
Man can’t lead you in this battle. God has put the source on the inside of you!
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and done all to stand.” Ephesians 6:10-13
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Think of the Garden of Eden as a model of a future reality. What is important is that the garden as it was constructed worked perfectly. There was nothing wrong with the design or the structure itself. Hebrews 8:2-6 says the tabernacle of Moses was a type and shadow of the pattern of the tabernacle in heaven which the Lord pitched and not man. I was little confused about this tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man until I understood, when God planted the gardenin Genesis 2:8-9, it was the sanctuary that was being talked about. So the Garden of Eden is a prototype!
The definition of prototype is, “a first, typical, or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied.” Source: Google Definitions
“A prototype is a test or original, model of a product or technology from which improvements, upgrades or fundamental changes can be made.” Source: Google Definitions
The garden of Eden, as revealed in Genesis chapter 2:8-14, is a prototype of the paradise of God as revealed in Revelation 22:1-6. if you compare the garden of Eden and the paradise of God, you have a similar setup in relationship to the trees and the river. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the tree where the fruit was offered as a sacrifice. In the paradise of God, you have the tree of life and the Lamb of God. The Lamb of God is a perfect sacrifice. The Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world, Ephesians 4:1-4, Revelation 13:8,
According to 1 Peter 1:19-20, we were redeemed, “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in these times for you.”
The City of Eden was a prototype
The City of Eden as revealed in Genesis 2:10 is a prototype of the NewJerusalem as revealed in Revelation 21:1-27.
In Revelation 3:12, Jesus made reference to the City of God that is going to be reveal in its in its future glory,
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.” Revelation 3:12
Partnership
God always work out of partnership. If you look the setup of the New Jerusalem God, Revelation 21, there twelve gates to the city which are named after the tribes of Israel. The city has twelve foundations which are named after the apostles of the Lamb. This heavenly construction project was always meant to be a shared project between God and man. God supplied the material and man supplied the labor.
The materials for the project
You will see streets of gold and walls encrusted with precious stones. You can see the true purpose of gold and precious gems. Gold was never created to be worshipped. It was meant to be construction materials! For example, in Genesis 2, one of the rivers that flowed out of the garden of Eden into earth was called Pison, and it was a source of gold and precious gems. Genesis 2:11-12
“The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and onyx stone.”
If Adam had finished his assignment, the city of Eden would have moved to the earth. Adam’s assignment was always meant to be a partnership between God and man. God was the architect and Adam was the general contractor. All of the trees in the garden were the source codes, a massive computer system from which Adam was able to gain access to knowledge and wisdom he needed to carry out his assignment. Adam was set up to be the richest man ever because the wealth of the nations would have been at his disposal.
Adam failed in his assignment God had to work around his failure. Israel becomes a prototype of the garden of Eden.
Israel becomes a prototype of the Garden of Eden
Israel is a prototype of the Garden of Eden. Moses was given a vision and in this vision he was given a pattern of things that already existed. This scriptures below, is speaking in reference to Jesus present day ministry as a priest in the temple of God. Jesus is operating in the place of Adam:
“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priest that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.” Hebrews 8:1-5
(When did God pitch the true tabernacle and not man? In Genesis 2:8-14, when he planted a garden eastward in Eden where the whole system was set up. In Revelation 22:1 the system is fully revealed! The river comes out of the throne of God and of the Lamb). The river is the source of unlimited unmatched power and it comes out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
And it was always designed to be your source of power, yesterday, today and forever! If you really think about it, the whole journey from the moment Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil until the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was about getting the river restored. The Bible seems to the revelation two trees and It probably will be the story of two trees for eternity. You will look into the eyes of God and see the awesome love of his sacrifice. We will forever see the price he paid for our redemption.
Solomon’s Temple, prototype
Solomon’s temple is a prototype of the garden of Eden
-Solomon was a type of Adam.
-King David had prepared all the material for the construction of the temple of God, 1 Chronicles 29:2
-King David gave God all the credit for providing the material for the construction of the temple, 1 Chronicles 29:16.
-Provision is the original intent of creation, .
-A large labor force was employed to build the temple
-Tons of gold was used in the construction of the temple.
-Solomon was granted extraordinary wisdom to lead the people into fulfilling God’s will.
-Solomon offers the blood sacrifice, 1 Kings 8:5
-God moves into the temple
Christ is a prototype
-He is the Second Adam, 1 Corinthians 15:22 & 44-58,
-He is the Lamb of God, John 1:29 & 36
-His body is the temple, John 2:19
-He makes a new covenant, Matthew 26:26-29
-He gives them their assignment, Matthew 28:18-20
-The river is restored- power, John 7:37-39 & Acts 1:8 fulfilled in Acts 2:1-4
–The Marriage Supper of the Lamb
-Twelve apostles of the Lamb, Revelation 21:14
-The Wars of the Lamb, Revelation 19:11
-The Millennial Reign of the Lamb, Revelation chapter 20
-The New Jerusalem move to a new earth, Revelation chapter 21
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.” Revelation 21:22
Summary
You are a type of Christ,
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of Christ, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he justified, them he also glorified.” Romans 8:29-30
The system is designed by God to work for you. Christ has redeemed us to our original purpose. Prosperity is designed into the system. Provision is designed into the system. God gave Adam trees and seed on earth for meat; the trees of the garden were created for beauty and utility. In other words the trees were created to reproduce beauty, knowledge and wisdom. They were the source of his power!
“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. AND OUT THE GROUND MADE HE TO GROW EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, AND GOOD FOR FOOD; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”
In Genesis 1:26, God said, “let us make man in our image and after our likeness.”
Replacement Theology on a whole different level
God never said, let us make man a god like us. Some people have erroneously taught that we were created in the same class with God to be like God.
Adam, the first man, was created to till the ground (Genesis 2:5) and manage the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:15). God never intended for them to know good or evil. God intended for Adam to refashion the earth into the image of the garden of Eden and to enjoy the bounty of his blessing.
The Seventh Day
God created the Seventh Day as a Sabbath. The Seventh Day was designed to be the crowning glory of the works of God’s hands, the completion of creation. In other words, Adam was given ONE creation day, the seventh day, 1000 years, to finish the work of creation on earth.
If Adam had finished the work, Eden, the city of God, would moved to the earth and God would be with man for all eternality. The fruit of the tree of life would have been Adam’s reward. This is going to happen during the millennial reign of Christ. According the Revelation 20, Satan will be bound with a chain and cast into the bottomless pit. According to Revelation 21, after the 1000 year reign of Christ is completed, the city of the New Jerusalem will move to earth and there will be a new temple in the midst of the city. We are told, that God and the Lamb are the temple of it. In Revelation 22, the curse is finally removed and the tree of life is restore.
The knotty problems of Details
God never gave up on his plans. This is the reason he made the Sabbath rest a part of the 10 commandments to the nation of Israel. God is very serious about the Sabbath. The reason why the Sabbath is important, is because through the Sabbath rest people came to depend upon and trust God for his blessings which are vital to growth. The nation of Israel had to give the land a rest period every seventh year. Every 50th year, they had to release their debts. They had to tithe the first fruits of the land. Israel never fully gave the rest. They continued to work on the sabbath. This caused them to be cast out of the land until the land was about to enjoy its full set of sabbath rest.
Sunday is a legal holiday, (holy-day), as far as the government is concern. If a holiday falls on Sunday, it is observed on Monday. Israel’s Sabbath is observed from sun down on Friday to sun down on Saturday, the seventh day. Christian’s Sabbath is observed on the first day of the week, Sunday, the day Jesus was resurrected from the dead. As a matter of employment, workers are given two days rest period. Saturday was seen as a day of rest and Sunday was a day of worship.
This concept of the Sabbath is encoded in our laws and they are called blue laws. The blue laws are dangerous in the sense that God never made a covenant with no other nation beside Israel. The New Testament, is a covenant that is based on an individual personal choice; whosoever wills. It is a covenant based on grace and not the 10 commandments. Christians have been in God’s Sabbath Rest for 2000 years.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meet and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”Matthew 11:28-30
You shall be as gods knowing god and evil
The serpent tempted Eve with this reasoning, ‘if she ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, she will become as gods knowing good and evil.’ Eve saw the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that it was a source, good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise. She took and eat the fruit the fruit and gave some to her husband. This is the exact reason why they were driven out of the Garden of Eden,
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.” Genesis 3:22
You would think it was a good thing that man has become as God. Adam wasn’t created to be a god. He was created to serve, to be a servant and in this role he enjoyed the benefits of partnership with God. This concept is seen in Jesus coming to earth to serve and not to be served (Mark 10:29). You also see it in Revelation 22:3, in regards to man being God’s servants.
“And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.”
As far as earth is concern, partnership between God and man is first mentioned in Genesis 1:26-27 and is revealed in Genesis 2:19. The partnership was broken when Adam eat the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
“Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.”
God had to keep Adam from access to the tree of life because its fruit could give Adam the ability to live forever as gods knowing good and evil. God places a flaming sword at the entrance of the garden of Eden, to protect the tree of life. He also place Cherubim’s in the garden of Eden. Cherubim are angels who are associated with worship. The Cherubim temporarily held his until Jesus arrived.
Adam is now in a fallen state. He is in a pace where he can make his own decisions independent of God. In Genesis chapter 4, we see the downward spiral of Adam’s descendants. Cain and Abel is an example of what it means to be a god.
God still demands a sacrifice
God still demands a sacrifice. The system he created demands a sacrifice. The system reward based on obedience.
Cain and Abel brings a sacrifice as did their father Adam when he was in the garden of Eden. God changed the sacrifice from a fruit based offering to the blood of an animal sacrifice.
Cain brings the fruit of his ground as a sacrifice. Abel offers the firstlings of flock as a sacrifice. God accepts Abel’s sacrifice. God rejects Cain’s sacrifice. What’s the difference between the two sacrifices?
Abel’s offering was called a more excellent sacrifice by which he obtained witness that he was righteous. Cain persisted to operate under the old order of sacrifice.
God holds Cain accountable
God asked Cain a question
“And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?’
In other words, God asked Cain, “why are you angry?Why are you depressed?”
God said, “If thou does well, shalt thou not be accepted? The word, “accepted”, means to, ” have excellence”. God is saying, if you do what is required of you, you will be blessed in the work of your hands.
Then God says to Cain,
“And if thou doest not well, sin liveth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
God said to Cain, ‘If you don’t do what is required of you, Sin is waiting at the door and it desires you but you must master sin.
Being a god demands that you master sin by doing what is required of you. In other words, give God what he requires of you!
What is sin? Sin is trespassing the bounds that has been set down by God. Who is God? He is the One who created the system.
Cain is languishing, Abel is prospering! Cain is talking with Abel of which the Bible doesn’t go into details. Cain rose up against Abel and killed him. God holds Cain accountable for his choices.
Cain chose to address his problem by murdering his brother.
“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” 1 John 3:11-12
Adam’s generations ended at the flood. God was grieved that he had made man. He strived with people to do right.
Genesis 6:5-8
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repented me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.”
The people of Adam’s generation lived 900+ years. Noah and his family were the only ones who escaped the judgment of that period. Men took what they wanted and wickedness was great upon the earth. Every thought and imagination of their heart was only to do evil continually. Man’s whole purpose and desire was to do evil.
One of the consequences of sin in Adam’s generations, man’s life span was cut to about a tenth of its original potential, to 120 years, according to Genesis 6:3. Man’s original life span was 1000 years and with the rewards of the tree of life, its potential was eternal life, everlasting life.
The very first thing Noah does he gets off the ark, 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 smelled a sweet savor; 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.”
Noah’s sacrifice of obedience, a blood sacrifice!
God was pleased with Noah’s sacrifice
God granted grace regarding men’s wicked imagination in that he promised to never destroy the earth by a flood.
God lifts the curse off the ground by promising consistent harvest seasons. This is major blessing of grace because Noah fore-fathers struggled with the ground to get it to reproduce. According to Genesis 5:28-29, “And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath curse.”
Noah gives God the required sacrifice! Noah’s name means grace
God blesses Noah and his family, Genesis 9:1
The Benefit of the sacrifice
You need it daily. Your family needs it. Your community needs it. Your city needs it. The country needs it. The earth needs it. The blessing of God is not just in words. It empowers you to carry out the will of God. God’s original vision has not changed. God gave Adam dominion over all the works of his hands. God blessed him and said, be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue have dominion over everything that flies, swim, crawl or creep upon the earth. The system was designed around Adam to work for him not against him.
One of the benefits of the cross of Jesus Christ
Jesus redeemed us from the curse being made a curse for us that the blessing…. Galatians 3:13. Jesus disarms principalities and powers, evil forces. He blotted out the ordinances that were contrary to us nailing them to his cross, Colossians 2:14-15. He opens the way to this into the very holy of holies, by this dispensation of grace, Hebrews 10:12-22
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is still in our midst but also is the message of the cross. Jesus is called the Lamb of God. The book of Revelation, chapter 5, the fullness of the revelation and power is flowing into the earth!
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