Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have compete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all of 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 is an awesome mandate and ability, placed into the lives of God's first man. We don't really know how long Adam lived upon the earth, before we see the results of his high treason. We don't have any idea of the power and authority Adam walked in, at the beginning. The closest thing we have to see this authority, is the Last Adam Jesus. Jesus was conceived without sin, so the Law of Sin and of Death didn't affect His earthly walk. The Law was based on obedience to God's Word and commandments. If someone would walk in these commandments, without transgressing, then all the Blessing would come upon him/her.
Jesus said in Mathew 5:17 (Amplified), "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law of prophets; I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill them." By stating this, Jesus put Himself in a place of the Original mandate God gave to the First Adam, before his fall in the Garden. We can see this authority and dominion mandate working in and through Jesus, but we still can't see the fullness of what the First Adam walked.
In the First Adam's walk with the Father, he wouldn't have used or needed much of the authority Jesus walked in. Jesus spent much of His earthly walk with the Father, healing and freeing mankind from sickness and disease. Adam didn't have any need to utilize this sort of authority, because there was no sickness, disease or death. The Curse brought these things into the earth, upon Adam's transgression and the Curse brought these things.
Adam's mandate of authority and dominion, was to "Keep the Garden and subdue the earth." If anything got out of place or order, then Adam was to subdue it, fix it and put it back into place. Nothing was to occur in this earth, without Adam's permission, his will and his authority. This earth ran like God and man intended, for eons maybe. When the serpent tempted Eve, she was deceived, but Adam wasn't, according to 1Timothy 2:13-14 (Amplified) which says, "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived; but the woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression." Adam was given complete authority over everything that crept upon the earth, so he could and should have, dismissed the serpent, prior to Eve's eating the forbidden fruit. The worst part of Adam's transgression was, that even though Eve was deceived, Adam wasn't. It was an act of his will that, Adam intentionally surrendered to the enemy.
I personally believe that Adam loved Eve so greatly, that he gave over everything God had given him, in order to save his wife. Adam tried becoming his own Redeemer and Eve's Redeemer. He tried trading the authority and dominion God had given him, for Eve. God gave Adam authority and dominion over all the earth and it was by a legal transaction that God had to honor His Word. Satan legally became the god of this world and he ruled by the Curse and his ability to deceive mankind. Adam's sin caused the spirit of man to be cut-off from God, Who is Spirit and Life. Satan began to develop man's soul or his senses, causing man's spirit to be dominated by the senses. The senses and souls controlled the entire man, because they dominated the spirit.
Satan's lie began to increase as mankind developed and multiplied on the earth, until man became nothing more than a puppet whose strings were in the hands of this outlaw spirit, who hated God. Satan had obtained the authority God gave to mankind, by legal means and he used this authority to build his own idea of the Garden of Eden. God had initially given mankind this authority and the only way to bring it back to it's rightful place, was to find a Man Who wasn't born of corruptible seed, but Who was born without sin. Jesus was to become the Sacrifice for sin and restore mankind back into authority over satan his his usurped place of power.
The legalities of this transaction must be done so precisely, that it could legally fulfill the demands of Justice in the Heavenly Court of God. God couldn't revoke the mandate He gave to Adam. It needed to be restored by legal authority. Since "All had sinned and through sin died," God needed to bring a Man Who was without sin, into this earth. The Law of Genesis tells us that, "Everything produces after kind and it's seed is in it," so every person born after Adam's fall was produced from a polluted seed of sin. Jesus was born of a woman, which gave Him authority of the man, but His Seed wasn't of man, but of God. Now God had a Man, to Whom He could transfer authority to again. Jesus was a Man born without sin. He was the Perfect Man, uncontaminated by sin as the Last Adam.
We see the legal outcome of God's Plan and how God didn't violate His Word, in Colossians 2:14-15 (Amplified) which says, "Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond), with it's legal decrees and demands which was in force against us (hostile to us). This note with it's regulations, decrees and demands, He set aside and cleared completely out of our way by nailing it to His cross. God disarmed the principalities and powers that were arranged against us and made a bold display and a public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it (the cross)."
We have't understood the fact of the legal decrees that needed to be met, in God's Justice. God is Just and Righteous, so He couldn't simply ignore the legal authority He had given the First Adam. God restored this dominion and authority to the Last Adam Jesus and to mankind as heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus. Jesus restored God's family back to His Original Intent, without sin.
Colossians 3:9-10 (Amplified) says, "Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old regenerate self with its evil practices And have clothed yourselves with the new Spiritual self, which is ever in the process of being renewed and remolded into fuller and more perfect knowledge upon knowledge after the Image, the Likeness of Him Who created it (Gen.1:26)."
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