Genesis 1:26-27,29 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the aid, the (tame) beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him: male and female He created them."
Verse 29 continues, "And God Blessed them." God's Blessing was His Original Intent for His for mankind, His family. We have very little insight into how God's family lived on the earth, before Adam's fall in the Garden. We aren't told how long Adam and Eve were on this earth, before the fall. Only two chapters in Genesis deal with how things were between the Father and His family.
The next time we see man in close relationship with the Father, is Jesus. After Jesus' Ascension, we only are given insight into how the Church functioned and is to function. We're given instructions about how to live, now that we've been restored to God's Original Intent.
The Last Adam, Jesus, was responsible to bring about the new creation or new birth, and restore mankind back to God's Original Intent. Satan set out to reduce mankind back to what he had held humans in, by usurping the authority God gave mankind, from the beginning of the Church (God's family, the Body of Christ). We have been taught by man's ideas of what the new creation was supposed to be and have been given man-made laws, in order to function accordingly. Religion points out the obvious sins of the flesh and instructs us to avoid them. Little has been taught or revealed by religion, on how to walk in the Spirit.
Trying to tame the flesh by the flesh, has mostly been a futile attempt of external willpower, instead of internal and God's Power. When looking at Jesus' earthly walk, we see how the first Adam was to walk and bring forth God's offspring. Jesus healed the sick and performed many miracles, but the first Adam wouldn't have needed healing or miracles, to keep things in order.
Jesus brought things back to what God's Original Intent from the beginning. Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:9-10 (Amplified) saying, "Our Father, Who is in Heaven, Hallowed (kept holy) be Your Name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." Jesus was bringing mankind back to God's Original Intent, when He healed people, cleansed the lepers, opened blind eyes and raised people from the dead. God never intended His family to be sick, blind, diseased or have need for healing or deliverance. Jesus only restored mankind, to what he lost in the Garden. If Adam hadn't of transgressed in the Garden, then there would never have been sickness or disease on the earth.
Many of us have come to accept and believe that, "This is just how life is." It might be how life is, but it's not how life is supposed to be, according to God's Original Intent. God's family was supposed to be in dominion, authority, fully supplied and Blessed, in everything God made and provided for them. God was to be able to walk with His family, provide for His family, teach and train up His family, in peace and perfect fellowship.
Jesus' entire ministry was bringing mankind back to God's Original Intent, when making mankind. God made man in His Image and Likeness, according to the above scripture. In John 4:24 (Amplified), Jesus said, "God is a Spirit (a Spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth (reality)." The part of you that was born-again and became a new creation, is your spirit. Now that our spirit has been restored to God's Original Intent, our newly created spirit man is to rule over the flesh and the senses, just like it did in Jesus and the first Adam. I'm certain that the first Adam walked with the Father for eons of years, before satan deceived Even and Adam succumbed to sin. We have no recorded history of how God and His family walked, but we can be sure they walked in harmony and perfect fellowship.
I don't believe that Adam ever lacked or had a need, before his fall in the Garden. We see some of the struggles that Jesus, Paul and Peter endured for the sake of the Gospel they were speaking forth. The reason for these struggles, was to keep mankind under satan's bondage. We don't read about any struggle that Adam and Even h ad, before they believed satan's lie in the Garden.
Satan usurped the authority God gave Adam over the earth and put mankind into captivity and bondage. Satan was determined to keep mankind in his bondage, by the same deception. Paul taught the Revelation that he had been given, so satan placed trials and struggles on Paul, trying to quiet Paul. As far as we know, Paul was the only man on earth, who had been given this Revelation from God.
Paul's preaching this Revelation to mankind, would restore the dominion and authority satan stole from Adam and place it back into the hands of God's new creation family. Satan had to stop the Good News of salvation and redemption from being shared, in order to maintain all he'd gained by deceiving Adam and Eve. Satan needed to stop those who preached the Gospel, before too many were born-again and the Gospel was too big to stop.
The enemy tries to stop the Gospel now, by blinding the eyes and minds of the Church to the fullness of what the new creation really is. Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) reads, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, All authority (all power of rule) in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me." The Last Adam, Jesus has restored back to God, what the first Adam was to have done, which is "bring sons into glory." In order to know what this power of rule is, you must first understand what Jesus has truly done. He has brought us back to God's Original Intent, as His Own family.
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