Sonship Second try

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This blog may stretch your theology a bit, however I felt it was revelation from the Father for me and I hope others.  Feel free to comment on it and offer your opinions both positive and negative as I am learning everyday that we all need each other in order to come into a full knowledge of who we are created to be here on the earth and we all receive revelation that needs to be shared.

Sonship

When I started going through the process of opening and cleaning out my gateways in my spirit, soul, and body in order to get them functioning and flowing with the love of the Father, I realized I needed to understand why I needed to do it, why it was so important.  It looked a lot like sozo to me and so I needed a purpose behind it that was more than just getting rid of my junk.  I have done a lot of that over the years and have seen a lot of freedom.  In essence I guess I just wanted to know why this was any different from what I had been doing.  So I started asking God questions and the following is some of what I got out of that conversation with the Father.

Why do I need to clean out my gates? 

Your gates need to be clean and flowing with the love of the Father so that you can fulfill your purpose in the earth. 

What is my purpose in the earth?

Your purpose in the earth is to walk and live in Sonship becoming the expression of Christ revealed once again in the earth. 

What does living in Sonship actually mean and what does that have to do with my purpose?

In order to understand what the Lord revealed to me after asking this question I needed to look back at the beginning, where it all started. So I went back to Adam to discover the meaning of Sonship and what that had to do with my purpose, because Adam was the first original human son of God.  I started by looking at Genesis 2:7-8, 15, 18-20 (AMP)

"Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed….And the Lord God took the man and put Him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard and keep it…Now the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name. And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet for him." 

From these verses it is clear that God created Adam and it was his job to tend, guard, and keep the garden. When God saw he needed a help meet God created the animals and birds out of the ground and had Adam name all of them. 

Once Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden the earth was cursed and Adam and all human kind to come after him would feel the effects of that curse.

Today I can clearly still see the manifestation of that curse over the earth in the form of natural disasters, murders, abortion, homosexuality, greed, lust, sex slave industry, government abuse….and the list goes on…

So I know there is a curse and humanity still lives under it.

Now I could leave it there and say as a human on the earth my job is to toil the earth and get out of it what I can to sustain my life.  However, as a Christian I know that Jesus came to the earth, died and rose again so that the curse over the earth would be broken.  

Looking at the earth today, it doesn’t look like the curse was broken. The earth doesn’t look like the Garden of Eden once again. 

So my question is, if I’m going to believe that the curse over the earth is already broken shouldn’t I see some proof of that in the earth? So what happened?  Why don’t I see it?  What should it look like?

The Lord led me to Romans 8:19-21; which clearly states that creation is waiting for us to come into sonship and transform the earth back to its original state.

"For creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].  For the creation was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it – [yet] with the hope that creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God’s children."

So Paul is saying in these verses that creation is waiting on me to come into sonship so it will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption and enjoy the same freedom I have as a son of God. This is my purpose to live in Sonship and therefore set the earth free from the curse that is over it.

So where did Paul come up with this mandate or purpose?  I don’t remember reading that in Genesis 2.

So I go back to Genesis and take another look. Genesis is one of those books that I keep going back to because I have so many questions every time I read it.

I started reading a little further back in Genesis 1:26-2:7.

"God said let Us 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 [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.  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. And God said, See I have given you every living plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the ground – to everything in which there is the breath of life – I have given every plant for food. And it was so. And God saw everything that He had made and behold it was very good and He approved it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day, set it apart as His own, and hollowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had created and done. This is the history of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. In the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens – when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground, but there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground – Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being."

In verses 26-28 it clearly says that God made mankind in His image and gave him complete authority and dominion over the earth and everything in it.

However, I found after reading through this I had more questions.  Let’s start with why the creation story seems to repeat starting in the middle of Genesis 2:4?

Genesis chapter one goes through this long detailed explanation of creation and then in chapter 2 verses 1-4 we read “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them”; God rested and blessed the last day of creation; and “this is the history of the heavens and the earth”.  This sounds like the end.

But right in the middle of verse 4 it seems like a whole new chapter should be starting.  It says “In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens” and the following verses appear to be describing a whole different but similar scene of creation. 

Why would Moses repeat the creation story again but in different way?

And why does verse 5 does state “the plants were not in the ground yet, and had not sprung up and there was no man to till the ground”?  I thought man was already created.  Didn't I just read that in Genesis 1:26-27?

Then again it states in verse 7 God created Adam.  What gives?  Clearly I was missing something.

After much research I discovered that there are a lot of scholars who say that there were two creations and the middle of verse 4 is where the distinction lies.  The first part of verse 4 clearly says, “This is the history of the heavens and the earth” and the second part says, “In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens”.  Why would it be written opposite in the same verse?

The Bible was not originally written with chapter and verses.  So clearly verse 4 should have been divided up into two verses, maybe even another chapter should have started with the second half of the verse.

There is also the theory that the verses in Isaiah 14:12-17 which talk about the “light-bringer and daystar, son of the morning” being “cut down to the ground” and falling from heaven, are actually talking about Satan being thrown out of heaven to the earth because of his pride and arrogance.  

"How you have fallen from heaven, O light bringer and daystar, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations. And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol (Hades), to the innermost recesses of the pit (the region of the dead). Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying, is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms? – Who made the earth like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who would not permit his prisoners to return home?"

In verses 16-17 it states that he made the earth tremble and shook the kingdoms, made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities.

Could this event where Satan was thrown down to the earth from heaven, have destroyed the earth to a point that God started over?

If this theory was actually what happened then what was God’s original intent with man and his purpose on the earth in the first creation?

I felt as if God was showing me something in this that I could not ignore. Could it be that Genesis 2:4b through 15 was God’s second creation? God knew all along that Adam would give back control to Satan in the garden and then Jesus would have to come to set things right. 

He also knew that as a son of God I would one day come to the realization of what God was really saying in the Scriptures in John 14:12 about my identity in Christ and doing the things that Jesus did and even greater. 

Then as I walked in that lifestyle like Jesus did, I would one day take back my authority and dominion over creation that Jesus gave to me at the cross and His resurrection and terraform the earth back to its original state in the first creation.

This was a little over the top for me so I decided to go back and look at Genesis 1:26-30 again.

Verse 26 shows this mandate of having complete authority over the earth and everything in it as well as the fact that mankind was made in the image of God.  

Verse 27 has always made me pause and think as well.  What does it mean when it reads, “He created him; male and female He created them”?  

At first glance at this verse it looks as if he is talking about Adam and Eve one male and one female even though he actually hasn’t specifically created them yet.  But that’s not really what it says. 

In light of a first and second creation after meditating on this one Scripture what I see is, in the first creation mankind was created like God with both male and female attributes, with all authority over the earth and everything in it.

Mankind was told in verse 28 to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth; to subdue it, using its resources for the good of both God and man; to have dominion over the fish, birds and all living creatures.  

Verse 29 says mankind and the animals can eat any plants and fruit from any trees.  Apparently both man and animals were all vegetarian.

And there was no tree of knowledge or any other tree they couldn’t eat from.  God said it was good and rested from His work.

If you really look closely at these two chapters in Genesis you will see the differences in the creation story.  The early church knew about this and I believe that is why Paul wrote in Romans 8:19-21 that creation is longing for us to know who we are as sons of God so the earth can once again manifest freedom from the curse.  

I then felt the Lord leading me to Romans 8:17 where Paul writes, “And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.”    

This verse clearly speaks of something I have not tapped into yet.  The inheritance of Christ is the Kingdom of God here on earth.

I felt like the Lord was telling me that once I come to the realization that I am a joint heir with Christ in His inheritance which is the Kingdom of God here on earth I can then begin to walk in that Kingdom and see it manifested all around me as I do the things Jesus did and even greater.

I have a purpose here on earth and Jesus showed me that purpose in His lifestyle while He was here on the earth.  It is the Kingdom lifestyle living as a son of God here on earth.

I don’t believe earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters are judgments from God.  I believe they are a result of the curse over the earth and the fact that I have not come into sonship and taken up my authority over the earth again freeing creation from that curse. 

 As long as I stay in my defeated, sinful state the earth and everything in it will also be in a defeated, sinful state.  As I walk in freedom and liberty the earth and everything in it will walk in freedom and liberty.

The Lord also took me to Isaiah 11:1-10 and Isaiah 65:17-25. These verses show me the result of Jesus coming and the curse being broken over creation and the sons of God manifesting the Kingdom here on earth.  Was this what the first creation looked like and what God wants creation to go back to?

11:1-10 "And there shall come forth a Shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a Branch out of his roots shall grow and bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord – And shall make Him of quick understanding, and His delight shall be in the reverential and obedient fear of the Lord. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, neither decide by the hearing of His ears; but with righteousness and justice shall He judge the poor and decide with fairness for the meek, the poor, and the downtrodden of the earth; and He shall smite the earth and the oppressor with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of His waist and faithfulness the girdle of His loins. And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted domestic animal together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed side by side, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. And it shall be in that day that the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal for the peoples; of Him shall the nations inquire and seek knowledge, and His dwelling shall be glory [His rest glorious]!"

65:17-25 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a rejoicing and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; and the sound of weeping will no more be heard in it, nor the cry of distress. There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies prematurely; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when only a hundred years old shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat [the fruit]. For as the days of a tree;l, so shall be the days of My people, and My chosen and elect shall long make use of and enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vein or bring forth [children] for sudden terror or calamity; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall be that before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food they shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy Mount [Zion] says the Lord."

This is what I believe all Christians are called to, sonship!  Walking in miracles or see amazing things in the spirit is just the beginning.  The Lord gives us the pleasure of His presence so we can grow in intimacy with Him and be taught from Him how to walk in this earth as a son seeing the Kingdom of God manifest all around us as we rule and reign over creation bringing an end to the curse.  Walking in purpose here on the earth means so much more than we have ever thought before and now is the time for the sons of God to be revealed and for creation to see the manifestation of the curse broken.  We have a purpose and a destiny and we must walk in that purpose so we can see the manifestation of freedom come to the earth that Jesus paid for on the cross.