Genesis 1
Witness workmanship throughout the Bible: H4399 mĕla'kah--service, use, workmanship
Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, H4399
The Torah ...............
Exodus 31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. H4399
The prophets ..................
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship H4399 of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created.
The writings ...........................
1 Chronicles 28:21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship H4399 every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
Exodus 31:5 And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. H4399
The prophets ..................
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship H4399 of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee
in the day that thou wast created.
The writings ...........................
1 Chronicles 28:21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship H4399 every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.”
A KINGDOM OF SERVANT KINGS
The Kingdom of God is the only Kingdom in which every citizen is designated a king. Their rulership is not over people, but in a specific area of gifting. This is why Yeshua is referred to as the King of kings and Lord of lords. We are kings who serve the world with our God-given gift.
If we are to be faithful children of the King and ready to rule the dominion He has given us, we must know His heart and how to rule in His name.
A KINGDOM THAT CANNOT BE OVERTHROWN
No matter how much unrest and turmoil swirls around us in the physical world, the Kingdom of God is stable. It cannot be moved. The governments of this world are shaky and untrustworthy and the global economy is unpredictable.
God’s government, on the other hand, is firmly established from eternity past and will be in place through eternity future, safe, secure, and unshakable.
This is why God did not send us a religion. Instead, He sent us His Kingdom, eternal and unshakable.
Yeshua’s mission consisted of five specific goals:
• He came to reintroduce the Kingdom of God on earth to man.
• He came to restore the righteousness and holiness of mankind.
• He came to restore the Holy Spirit in man.
• Yeshua came to retrain mankind for Kingdom leadership.
• He came to restore the Kingdom rulership of God on earth through mankind—to return administration of God’s Kingdom on earth to God’s earthly kings.
THE ORIGINAL ORDER OF THE KINGDOM
The prefix “re-” means to “do again” or to “go back to the original state.” Whenever we “re-” something, we are moving backward. This little two-letter prefix is one of the most important prefixes in the Scriptures, so important, in fact, that I call it the “paradoxical prefix of God.” Virtually every word used in the Bible to describe God’s program for mankind begins with it.
Here are a few of them: redeem, revive, restore, repent, reconcile, resurrection, return, recompense, renew, reward. All of these words relate in one way or another to God’s plan for the salvation of man.
HaMoshiach did not bring a new Kingdom to earth, but an old, original Kingdom that had been lost. At one time, Adam and Eve were the Kingdom of God on earth, ruling from the Garden of Eden. When they rebelled against God and fell into sin, the Kingdom departed.
God’s plan had been to rule the earth through a family, called mankind. Adam and Eve’s connection to God was the Holy Spirit, who dwelled in them. Their sin corrupted them and made them unholy vessels that were no longer fit to carry the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit departed, taking with Him man’s only direct connection to God and, therefore, the earth’s only direct connection to the Kingdom of God.
THE ORIGINS OF MAN
Man the creature is on the earth. Created in God’s own image and formed from the dust of the ground, man was placed in administrative authority over the earth and all its other creatures. The Book of Genesis uses several different words for “man” both to designate the human race as a whole and to distinguish between male and female.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.”
In this case the Hebrew word for “man” is adam, and refers generically to the entire human race both male and female. It is also used as a proper name for the first man, Adam. The word adam literally means “ruddy” or “dark earth,” in reference to mankind’s original skin color and to the matter from which he was formed.
When the narrative in Genesis turns to the creation of woman, it employs more specific words. The feminine form of ish is ishshah, which is used in verses 22 and 23 for “woman,” to designate the female “man” as distinct from the male “man.”
“This is the written account of Adam’s line. When God created man [adam], He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, He called them ‘man’ [adam].” Therefore, “man” (adam) is the general name for the entire human species, both male and female.
Genesis 2:22-24 22 The rib which Adonai, God, had taken from the person, he made a woman-person; and he brought her to the man-person. 23 The man-person said, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She is to be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.
THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL
God created man in His own image. Since God is spirit this means that man was created first as a spirit with the ability to communicate with the spiritual realm.
As the breath of God was breathed into man he became a living soul, endowed with self-awareness, personality, and free will. In order to fulfill His design and intention of ruling the earth through a physical representative.
God then placed the spirit man He had created into a physical shell, a body fashioned from the dust (“dark earth,” or adam) of the ground.
So here we have two realms: a spiritual realm capable of touching the realm of God, and a physical realm able to
communicate in the earth regions.
HOLY SPIRIT—GOD’S LINK WITH MAN
The Spirit of God was the vital link between man’s dominion on earth and God’s dominion in heaven. He revealed the will of God to man and provided wisdom and guidance so that man could carry out God’s will on earth.
In this original order of things, perfect harmony existed between God and man. There was unity between heaven and earth. Everything operated as it was supposed to.
It did not stay that way.
YESHUA CAME TO REINTRODUCE THE KINGDOM
Just as God made woman to be a helper and equal partner to the man, so He gave the Holy Spirit to help man (both male and female) administer his earthly domain in accordance with God’s will. The Gospel of John refers to the Holy Spirit as a “counselor.” Yeshua said:
John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.
The Holy Spirit’s purpose, then as well as now, was to come alongside mankind and help us know and do the Father’s will. He does not control us against our will.
He convicts us when we do something wrong, guides us along the right path, nudges us to get started doing God’s will, and directs our course, but He controls only as much of us as we surrender to Him.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 10 It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God. 11 For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us. 13 These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit.
A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE
The key to man’s being able to manifest the Kingdom of God here on earth is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Man cannot know God’s will except through the Holy Spirit living within him, and the Holy Spirit can live only in a holy vessel.
Sin corrupted them. They became unholy vessels, and the Holy Spirit departed, cutting off their connection with the heavenly realm.
Everything was reversed from the original order. Against his will, man found himself enslaved to his unbridled passions, uncontrollable desires, and baser instincts.
Man became subject to the very things he was supposed to rule over. Since the Holy Spirit departed, man came under the control of another spirit, an ungodly spirit, lucifer, that unemployed cherub.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BACK
In Yeshua HaMoshiach (Jesus Christ), the Holy Spirit returned to earth to dwell in full force in a human being for the first time since leaving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Christ, the Anointed One, the eternal Son of God, came to earth, born as a human being named Yeshua.
The man Yeshua was flesh, but the Christ within was full of the Spirit. He was Christ, the God-man, God in the flesh. In Him the fullness of God dwelled in bodily form.
That fullness was the Holy Spirit, who was now abiding and dwelling in human flesh for the first time since Eden. Yeshua modeled for all mankind the spiritual potential that could belong to them if they were empowered by the Spirit of God.
Colossians 2:8-10 8 Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah. 9 For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is. 10 And it is in union with him that you have been made full — he is the head of every rule and authority.
When Yeshua, full of the Holy Spirit, began His public ministry, His message was the simple announcement, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near”.
Mathew 4:17 From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, “Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”
His words were addressed to all of us, the entire race of man (adam). The word repent, as we’ve already seen, means “to change our mind.” Yeshua was saying, “Repent, change your mind because your thoughts are corrupt.” Why are they corrupt? Because of sin. Why should we change our minds? Because the Kingdom of heaven is near.
We need to change our minds because the Kingdom of heaven, absent on earth for centuries, has now returned. Yeshua came to reintroduce the Kingdom of heaven on earth. It is here now, and we need to adjust our thinking to that new reality.
A KINGDOM OF SERVANT KINGS
The Kingdom of God is the only Kingdom in which every citizen is designated a king. Their rulership is not over people, but in a specific area of gifting. This is why Yeshua is referred to as the King of kings and Lord of lords. We are kings who serve the world with our God-given gift.
If we are to be faithful children of the King and ready to rule the dominion He has given us, we must know His heart and how to rule in His name.
A KINGDOM THAT CANNOT BE OVERTHROWN
No matter how much unrest and turmoil swirls around us in the physical world, the Kingdom of God is stable. It cannot be moved. The governments of this world are shaky and untrustworthy and the global economy is unpredictable.
God’s government, on the other hand, is firmly established from eternity past and will be in place through eternity future, safe, secure, and unshakable.
This is why God did not send us a religion. Instead, He sent us His Kingdom, eternal and unshakable.
Yeshua’s mission consisted of five specific goals:
• He came to reintroduce the Kingdom of God on earth to man.
• He came to restore the righteousness and holiness of mankind.
• He came to restore the Holy Spirit in man.
• Yeshua came to retrain mankind for Kingdom leadership.
• He came to restore the Kingdom rulership of God on earth through mankind—to return administration of God’s Kingdom on earth to God’s earthly kings.
THE ORIGINAL ORDER OF THE KINGDOM
The prefix “re-” means to “do again” or to “go back to the original state.” Whenever we “re-” something, we are moving backward. This little two-letter prefix is one of the most important prefixes in the Scriptures, so important, in fact, that I call it the “paradoxical prefix of God.” Virtually every word used in the Bible to describe God’s program for mankind begins with it.
Here are a few of them: redeem, revive, restore, repent, reconcile, resurrection, return, recompense, renew, reward. All of these words relate in one way or another to God’s plan for the salvation of man.
HaMoshiach did not bring a new Kingdom to earth, but an old, original Kingdom that had been lost. At one time, Adam and Eve were the Kingdom of God on earth, ruling from the Garden of Eden. When they rebelled against God and fell into sin, the Kingdom departed.
God’s plan had been to rule the earth through a family, called mankind. Adam and Eve’s connection to God was the Holy Spirit, who dwelled in them. Their sin corrupted them and made them unholy vessels that were no longer fit to carry the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit departed, taking with Him man’s only direct connection to God and, therefore, the earth’s only direct connection to the Kingdom of God.
THE ORIGINS OF MAN
Man the creature is on the earth. Created in God’s own image and formed from the dust of the ground, man was placed in administrative authority over the earth and all its other creatures. The Book of Genesis uses several different words for “man” both to designate the human race as a whole and to distinguish between male and female.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.”
In this case the Hebrew word for “man” is adam, and refers generically to the entire human race both male and female. It is also used as a proper name for the first man, Adam. The word adam literally means “ruddy” or “dark earth,” in reference to mankind’s original skin color and to the matter from which he was formed.
When the narrative in Genesis turns to the creation of woman, it employs more specific words. The feminine form of ish is ishshah, which is used in verses 22 and 23 for “woman,” to designate the female “man” as distinct from the male “man.”
“This is the written account of Adam’s line. When God created man [adam], He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, He called them ‘man’ [adam].” Therefore, “man” (adam) is the general name for the entire human species, both male and female.
Genesis 2:22-24 22 The rib which Adonai, God, had taken from the person, he made a woman-person; and he brought her to the man-person. 23 The man-person said, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She is to be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.
THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL
God created man in His own image. Since God is spirit this means that man was created first as a spirit with the ability to communicate with the spiritual realm.
As the breath of God was breathed into man he became a living soul, endowed with self-awareness, personality, and free will. In order to fulfill His design and intention of ruling the earth through a physical representative.
God then placed the spirit man He had created into a physical shell, a body fashioned from the dust (“dark earth,” or adam) of the ground.
So here we have two realms: a spiritual realm capable of touching the realm of God, and a physical realm able to
communicate in the earth regions.
HOLY SPIRIT—GOD’S LINK WITH MAN
The Spirit of God was the vital link between man’s dominion on earth and God’s dominion in heaven. He revealed the will of God to man and provided wisdom and guidance so that man could carry out God’s will on earth.
In this original order of things, perfect harmony existed between God and man. There was unity between heaven and earth. Everything operated as it was supposed to.
It did not stay that way.
YESHUA CAME TO REINTRODUCE THE KINGDOM
Just as God made woman to be a helper and equal partner to the man, so He gave the Holy Spirit to help man (both male and female) administer his earthly domain in accordance with God’s will. The Gospel of John refers to the Holy Spirit as a “counselor.” Yeshua said:
John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives with you and will be in you.
The Holy Spirit’s purpose, then as well as now, was to come alongside mankind and help us know and do the Father’s will. He does not control us against our will.
He convicts us when we do something wrong, guides us along the right path, nudges us to get started doing God’s will, and directs our course, but He controls only as much of us as we surrender to Him.
1 Corinthians 2:10-13 10 It is to us, however, that God has revealed these things. How? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit probes all things, even the profoundest depths of God. 11 For who knows the inner workings of a person except the person’s own spirit inside him? So too no one knows the inner workings of God except God’s Spirit. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God, so that we might understand the things God has so freely given us. 13 These are the things we are talking about when we avoid the manner of speaking that human wisdom would dictate and instead use a manner of speaking taught by the Spirit, by which we explain things of the Spirit to people who have the Spirit.
A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE
The key to man’s being able to manifest the Kingdom of God here on earth is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Man cannot know God’s will except through the Holy Spirit living within him, and the Holy Spirit can live only in a holy vessel.
Sin corrupted them. They became unholy vessels, and the Holy Spirit departed, cutting off their connection with the heavenly realm.
Everything was reversed from the original order. Against his will, man found himself enslaved to his unbridled passions, uncontrollable desires, and baser instincts.
Man became subject to the very things he was supposed to rule over. Since the Holy Spirit departed, man came under the control of another spirit, an ungodly spirit, lucifer, that unemployed cherub.
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS BACK
In Yeshua HaMoshiach (Jesus Christ), the Holy Spirit returned to earth to dwell in full force in a human being for the first time since leaving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Christ, the Anointed One, the eternal Son of God, came to earth, born as a human being named Yeshua.
The man Yeshua was flesh, but the Christ within was full of the Spirit. He was Christ, the God-man, God in the flesh. In Him the fullness of God dwelled in bodily form.
That fullness was the Holy Spirit, who was now abiding and dwelling in human flesh for the first time since Eden. Yeshua modeled for all mankind the spiritual potential that could belong to them if they were empowered by the Spirit of God.
Colossians 2:8-10 8 Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah. 9 For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is. 10 And it is in union with him that you have been made full — he is the head of every rule and authority.
When Yeshua, full of the Holy Spirit, began His public ministry, His message was the simple announcement, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near”.
Mathew 4:17 From that time on, Yeshua began proclaiming, “Turn from your sins to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near!”
His words were addressed to all of us, the entire race of man (adam). The word repent, as we’ve already seen, means “to change our mind.” Yeshua was saying, “Repent, change your mind because your thoughts are corrupt.” Why are they corrupt? Because of sin. Why should we change our minds? Because the Kingdom of heaven is near.
We need to change our minds because the Kingdom of heaven, absent on earth for centuries, has now returned. Yeshua came to reintroduce the Kingdom of heaven on earth. It is here now, and we need to adjust our thinking to that new reality.
Shema Selah, let us REturn as He has REnewed and REstored us!! https://www.facebook.com/fiveam.prayer/videos/1516657098412401/?l=2915637118274011154
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