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 complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and over all the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. 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."
God furnished everything Adam and Eve would ever need. Everything was complete and given to Adam and Eve. They would live in God's Presence, as His family, and they would never lack anything in their lives. The only thing God required from them, was that they remain in His Presence and have Him in their presence. The honor, praise and worship God wanted from Adam and Eve, was their fellowship and their allowing His Love to surround them. They didn't have a need, in all the time they spent with God, before the fall.
There was no Curse, before Adam's disobedience. The Curse was the result of Adam's transferring the authority God had given him, into the hands of satan. Adam transferred the dominion of man, into the hands of the enemy, according to Genesis 3:17,21 (Amplified) which says, "God said to Adam, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the Tree which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is cursed because of you, in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
Verse 21 tells us that God killed, shed the blood and took the skins of animals, in order to cover Adam and Eve. Their sacrifice was the first blood to be shed, so that God could cover man's sins for a time. God's family now had sin and death, which caused them to be separated from God and to be strangers to Him. The covering of blood would continue thoughout the entire old covenant. Jesus shed His Blood, in order to fulfill this covenant. His Blood didn't just cover sin, but eradicated it for all who would receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Jesus' Blood redeemed us from the Curs and restored us to God's Blessing again.
The new covenant is an unbreakable covenant and is no longer dependent upon man's ability to keep it. It cannot be broken, because it's made with God's Own Blood. The wages of sin is death, so God took animal blood, to cover and hold back death from Adam and Eve. The blood of animals couldn't remove sin, but only cover it. Death was still the result of sin. Animals had to be continually killed and their blood needed to be continually poured out, in order to cover God's people from the Curse of Sin and of Death. The priest stood daily and offered up the blood of goats and bulls, in order to cover God's people and hold off the Curse from God's people. Jesus' Blood didn't cover sin, but removed it completely. The Law of Sin and Death no longer rules the new creation people of God, because the Very Life of God, His Holy Spirit, now lives in us.
Adam's disobedience and his transferring the Blessing God gave him into the hands of the spirit of death himself, satan, caused us to become strangers to God, instead of sons and daughters. Jesus said in John 10:10 (Amplified), "The theif comes only in order to steal, and kill and to destroy, but I come that you may have Life." The only source of death, is separation from God Himself, Who is Life. God had given Adam the Blessing, dominion and authority, but those things became perverted into a Curse that covered mankind and the earth. Life became death, in satan's hands.
We're witnessing the Curse working upon the earth and it's inhabitants today. We see the grief and heartache of others, who are losing their loved ones to death. If sickness, death, poverty and heartache were God's will, then He would have included them when He created everything. Genesis 1:31 (Amplified) says, "And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very Good (suitable and pleasant), and He approved it completely. And there was morning, a sixth day."
Many believers are double-minded and struggle about what God's will, Intent, and purpose is for mankind. We've grown up in a world that is out of order, so we think, "That just how things are" and "It is what it is." This isn't Truth and it's now God's Intention for His people. The earth and the inheritance weren't created this way, but they've become this way as a result of Adam's transgression.
Sickness, death, poverty, separation, murder and things that plague the earth today, were never God's Intention, He is Love. Love would never purposely subject his/her children to these horrible things. We dismiss these things as being, "God's way of teaching us something," by listening to the world's ideas about Who God is. The Holy Spirit, the Five-Fold ministry, God's Word and our new creation person, were and still are God's way of teaching and correcting His children.
Many born-again Christians believe that thes things happening, must be "God's will." Nothing can be farther from the Truth. I see many things happening to both saved and unsaved persons, that I know are not God's will. When we don't know God's will, then we're deceived by the enemy and are no different from the unsaved persons. We have faith and know that we'll spend Eternity with Him, but we put off the other Promises of God, for when we die and leave this earth, because we don't put faith in them.
We don't need authority over satan, when we go to Heaven, because he won't be there. We won't need the Promise of healing when we're in Heaven, because there is no sickness there. The Curse doesn't exist in God's Presence and in His Kingdom, so we won't need the Blessing. These are Promises for here and now, through Jesus Christ. We're already sons and daughters of God and we're joint heirs with Christ. We've been restored back to God's Original Intent for His family. If we don't see God's Word through the Revelation of the Holy Spirit, then we'll only understand by our senses and our natural intellet, not our spirit.
Jesus showed us this Truth in Mark 4, when He gave "The Parable of the Sower." Jesus told us that, "The same Seed that brought forth a hundredfold return, was the same seed that didn't produce anything, when it was on the hard soil or when the weeds of humanity choked it out." There has never been anything wrong with the Seed or the Word, but is the soil or spirit or heart of those who heard it. We've allowed the teachings and ideas of carnal men, to bring the Power of God's Word to naught. We've dismissed most of it as being, "for when we die and leave this earth."
We're struggling to believe and we're doing all we know how, to walk upright before God. But, we've failed to Trust God, in the face of adversity and hard times. Jesus said in Mark 4 that, "Satan comes at once, by force, to take away the Word that wa sown in our hearts." Satan tries to make us quit or give up on God's Word, by using circumstances and others. Jesus stripped satan of all his power and ability, according to Luke 10. The only things satan has now, is deception. If we don't yield to the deception and quit our walk with the Father, then satan cannot keep the Truth of God's Word from producing what God says. We inherit the Promises of God, through faith and patience.
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