We've been taught that we were excluded from God because of sin. God, however, never excluded us, but He was already preparing a way back into His presence. From the very moment Adam fell, the Lord spoke about our deliverance being put back in place. Genesis 3:15 (Amplified) says, "God said unto the serpent, I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He will bruise and tread your head under foot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel."
God foretold the coming of Jesus for our restoration back into His presence, the moment Adam fell. We've believed that had become ugly in God's sight somehow, but nothing could be further from the truth. Adam and His Heavenly Father were in fellowship for perhaps thousands of years before the fall. Remember, time was still in the endless age of God until the fall of Adam. Adam's fall brought and end because of death.
Because of Jesus, we've been restored back into the age of innocence like Adam in the beginning. "Old things have passed away, and all things have been made new," according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified) which says, "Therefore if any person is (ingrafted) in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether) the old (previous moral and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
Did you notice that we've become a new creation? God has now spoken a "new creation" back into being, just like He spoke creation in the beginning. We're not only forgiven sinners, but we're new creations altogether. Both our moral and spiritual condition has passed away. We are morally clean and we're spiritually brand new.
By the indwelling of God's Spirit, we're back where we were intended to be from the beginning. The authority given to Adam was enhanced by the Authority Jesus retook. We're not only restored, but we've been placed in a better condition than Adam was. Genesis 1:28 (Amplified) says, "And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it (using all its vast resources in the service of God and man); and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
The authority of Adam was limited to the things of the earth. Through Jesus, we've been given a new authority that extends beyond Adam's authority. In John 16:15 (Amplified) Jesus said, "Everything that the Father has is Mine.
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