Genesis 1:27-28 (Amplified) says, "So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. 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."
This was and still is, God's Original Plan and intention for mankind. The Blessing was perverted, after Adam transgressed and gave it to satan. Satan took the dominion that was meant for God's man and turned it into what we see as the Curse, which plagues the entire planet. Romans 8:19 (Amplified) says, "For even the whole creation (all of nature), waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known (waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship)."
We know that satan had total dominion over what God had given to Adam and Eve, in the beginning. Satan tried tempting Jesus in Luke 4:6 (Amplified), which says, "And he, satan, said to Jesus, To You I will give all this power and authority and their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, pre-eminence, dignity and grace), for it has been turned over to me and I give it to whomever I will." Satan wasn't making an idle declaration, because Adam had given it to him. Now we see the effects of those to "whomever he wills." We see satan delegating to governments and certain persons, this power of his dominion to rule by demonic forces in the earth.
Jesus was without sin, so He could still walk in God's Blessing and authority in His earthly ministry. Jesus preached the Blessing instead of the Curse, in Luke 4:18-19,21 (Amplified), where He says, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me (the Anointed One, the Messiah), to preach the Good News (the Gospel), to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed, who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed and broken down by calamity. To proclaim the accepted and accepted year of the Lord (the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound."
Jesus was preaching the Original Intent God had for mankind, from the beginning. Jesus came to redeem and restore man back to God, in His fullness. Through faith in Jesus, man could once again have Life in his/her spirit. We could come back to God without sin or even the memory of sin in God's sight, just like we were "made in His Image and Likeness" in the beginning. God tells His people in Isaiah 61:11 (Amplified), "For as surely as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so surely the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations, through the self-fulfilling power of His Word."
Jesus continued His Message about the "Acceptable Year of the Lord," in Luke 4:21, saying, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled while you are present and hearing." It was fulfilled on that day and it continues being fulfilled today. The Blessing has been restored and God's Original Intent has come to pass, in Jesus. Sadly, God's children haven't been taught this and can't believe it's "Truth" today.
The Holy Spirit tells Daniel in Daniel 12:4 (Amplified), "But you O Daniel, shut up the Words and seal the Book until the time of the end. Then many shall run to and fro and search anxiously through the Book, and knowledge of God's Purposes as revealed by His prophets shall be increased and become Great."
The Lord says in Malachi 2:6 (Amplified), "The Law of Truth was in Levi's mouth and unrighteousness was not fond in his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness and turned many away from iniquity."
Isaiah 62:6-7 (Amplified) says, "I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who will never hold their peace day or night; you who are His servants and by your prayers put the Lord in remembrance of His Promises, keep not silent And give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her a praise in the earth."
God doesn't instruct us to, "Put the Lord in remembrance of His Promises," so that He won't forget them. He does this, so we don't forget His Promises to us. Our calling to remembrance His Promises about redemption, activates our faith in His integrity and Promise to and for us. In Isaiah 65:16 (Amplified) God says, "So it shall be that he who invokes a Blessing on himself in the land shall do so by saying, May the God of Truth and fidelity (the Amen), Bless me and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of Truth and Faithfulness to His Promises (the Amen), because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hidden from My eyes."
Isaiah 58:20-21 (Amplified) says, "He shall come as a Redeemer to Zion and to those in Jacob (Israel), who turn from transgression, says the Lord. As for Me, this is My covenant or league with them, says the Lord. My Spirit, Who is upon you and Who writes the Law of God inwardly on your heart, and My Words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children says the Lord, from henceforth and forever."
The "Words" God puts in our mouths and the mouths of our children, are His Promises to us through Jesus and our new creation being. Psalm 107:2 (Amplified) says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary." Galatians 3:13 (Amplified) says, "Christ purchased our freedom, redeeming us from the Curse, doom of the Law and its condemnation by Himself becoming a Curse for us, for it is written in the scriptures, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified)."
God has put His Words in our mouths and instructs us to "remember His Promises and to bring Him to remembrance of them." We need to declare that, "I am delivered from the hand of the adversary" and "I am the redeemed of the Lord." This is a Promise that is fulfilled in Jesus, just as truly as, "All who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved." What is our confession of God's Promises? Do we receive the Blessing or do we still confess the Curse on ourselves? We must keep God's Words in our mouths and remember the self-fulfilling Word He speaks.
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