KINGDOM CONCEPT #3: UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM CONCEPT OF TERRITORY

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Kingdom Concept #3: Understanding the Kingdom Concept of Territory!!




Today we look to the word- RULER- H4910- mashal- rule, ruler, reign, dominion, governor, ruled over, power, indeed






The Torah testifies...............





Numbers 13:2

Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler H4910 among them.






The prophets proclaim..................




Daniel 2:38

And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler H4910 over them all. Thou art this head of gold.







The writings bear witness...........................




Ecclesiastes 10:4



If the spirit of the ruler H4910 rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.






KINGDOM CONCEPT #3: UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM CONCEPT OF TERRITORY


The essence of a kingdom is property. Land or property is the validation of a king. Land or property defines a king or queen and gives him or her right to claim kingship. Remember that the first thing The Most High Yah created in the creation narrative was property...the earth. Earth was created before mankind was formed because it was necessary in order for man to be a legitimate ruler. Man was created to dominate, and it is impossible to dominate nothing.

Thus the mandate of The Most High Yah to Adam was to be king over a property. Every kingdom must have territory. The word kingdom derives from the phrase “king domain.” Domain refers to the property, the territory over which a king exercises his dominion. A “kingdom,” then, is a “king’s territory.” Without territory, a king is not a king because he has nothing to rule over. You cannot be “king” over nothing.

Let me give you an example from history. The “discovery” of the new world by Christopher Columbus in 1492 set off a wave of westward expansion over the next several centuries. The great maritime empires of Europe such as England, France, Holland, Spain, and Portugal all competed for new territory in the Western Hemisphere. It was, in fact, the Portuguese monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella who sponsored and financed Columbus’ epic voyage.

Portugal focused most of its attention on South America and eventually claimed the area that now comprises the nation of Brazil. For many years Brazil was a colony and a possession of Portugal. That is why to this day Brazilians speak Portuguese. It is a legacy of their years under Portuguese influence and control.

The story goes that the son of the king of Portugal said to his father, “I want to be king.”

“Well,” the king replied, “you can’t be.”

“Why not?”

“I am the king of Portugal, and we are in Portugal. You can’t be king because I am still alive. When I am dead, then you will be king.”

“But I want to be king now,” the prince said. “I don’t want to wait that long.”

So the king of Portugal shipped his son off to South America and made him king over the territory of Brazil. The son was sovereign in Brazil but ruled as a regent under his father, the king of the Portuguese empire, which included Brazil. Whenever the father visited his son in Brazil, the son became the prince again until his father left. Then the prince was again king. Whenever the son visited his father in Portugal, he again became the prince until he returned to his own domain. If the son wanted to rule as king, it was better for him to stay away from his father.

That’s how kingdoms work. All kingdoms have territory, but there can be only one sovereign to rule over it. More than one does not mean divided rule; it means revolt.

This picture also illustrates the relationship between The Most High Yah, the King of Heaven, and man, His regent on earth. Because The Most High Yah is a King, and because a kingdom is a country ruled by a king and must therefore have territory, we can draw the conclusion that Heaven is a place. It is not some nebulous, mystical idea from the mind of man. Heaven is a real Kingdom with a real government. The fact that its primary realm encompasses the spiritual dimension of creation does not make it any less real.

But the realm of the Kingdom of Heaven also takes in the natural world. The Most High Yah designed it this way when He created the earth and then fashioned man in His own image to rule it for Him. The sequence of events here is very important. The Most High Yah envisioned man to be a king in his own right, but a king is not a king unless he has territory over which to rule. So The Most High Yah prepared the territory first—the earth—and then brought forth man. The Most High Yah placed man on the earth and told him, “I am giving you dominion over this physical domain. You have authority over every acre of land and sea and over every creature that inhabits the earth. Rule it freely as My legal representative.”

The Most High Yah does not want to come here where we are personally, so that we can retain our authority as earthly kings. This is also why Yahashua is not anxious for us to go to the invisible country of Heaven because when we do, we are reduced to princes and princesses. He prayed that we would not be taken out of the world but be kept in it but away from evil. The earth is man’s key to dominion power and his only legal territory for rulership.

A careful review of the model prayer of our Lord Yahashua reveals that it specifically identifies the location of the Father and King of Heaven: “Our father who is in Heaven....” His location is the key to our power and authority on earth. If He comes to earth, we lose our privileged position. Mankind was designed to serve as a corporate rulership of kings representing their Father, the King of Heaven, in the colony called earth.

Like the Portuguese prince in the story above, man was sovereign within the sphere of his own domain, but he acknowledged The Most High Yah’s ultimate sovereignty over all by right of creation and ownership. That ideal arrangement was shattered, however, when man rebelled against The Most High Yah, abdicated his regency, and passed control of his realm to a demonic usurper, a fallen angel who had no right or authority to take it.

The Most High Yah’s purpose is unchanging. He created man for rulership, and so immediately set into motion His plan to restore to man the Kingdom he had lost. The Bible lays out a detailed record of the historical outworking of The Most High Yah’s plan. In the fullness of time, when everything was in place, Yahashua Hamachiach, the Son of The Most High Yah, was born into human flesh and appeared to men, saying, “Repent [change your mind], for the kingdom of heaven is near [or has arrived]” (Matt. 4:17b). The Son of The Most High Yah came to get the Kingdom back for man. He came as a human because earth is man’s The Most High Yah-given domain, and only a human has the legal authority to rule it directly.

SEVEN KINGDOM PRINCIPLES OF TERRITORY

Territory is vital to a kingdom because without territory no kingdom can exist. This is why a king is always interested in expanding his territory. Why is territory so important? Why can there not be a kingdom without it? Here are seven reasons.


No king can rule nothing. A king is a ruler, which by definition requires a domain to rule over. No domain, no ruler; no ruler, no king. That is why The Most High Yah made the earth before He made man; man could not be a king until he had a domain. When The Most High Yah set out to establish His Kingdom, He began by creating territory: “In the beginning The Most High Yah created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). First He created Heaven, His territory, and then He created earth, man’s territory. That way man could be a king like his Creator.


There is no kingdom without a domain. Why is the territory of a king called his domain? Because he dominates it. A territory dominated by a king is called his “king dominion,” which is where we get the word “kingdom.”

3. The essence of a kingdom is the right, the power, and the authority of the king to exercise complete sovereignty over a domain. In other words, a true kingdom is one where the king has the right to rule. Rights are very important because they are the basis for authority. The Most High Yah has the right to rule the universe. Why? Because He created it. Within His Kingdom The Most High Yah can do whatever He wants because His rights as King give Him absolute power and authority—infinite power and authority because His Kingdom is infinite.

4. The heart of the kingdom concept is king domain. The domain of the king is the key to his kingdom because to be a king he has to have some domain to rule.

5. A king is not a king without a domain. I’ve already said this, but it bears repeating because many people who have no kingdom concept have trouble understanding the connection between a king and his domain. When the Shah of Iran was ousted by Islamic fundamentalist revolutionaries in 1979, he fled to another country. Although he was still called the shah (the Iranian word for king), it was mainly a courtesy. In reality, he was no longer a king because he no longer had a domain. He was a king in exile. You cannot be a king without territory. This is why Hamachiach had to come to earth to get our earthly kingdom back. We are supposed to be rulers, but without our territory we cannot fulfill our destiny.

6. The wealth of a king’s domain defines his value. We touched on this in the last teaching. Territory is important to a king because the more territory he has, the richer he is. A king is only as wealthy as his domain. And as we will see later, territory—real estate—is important because it is the only form of earthly wealth that never loses its value.

7. The loss of a domain is the loss of a kingdom. Again, the Shah of Iran is a good example. As soon as he lost his domain he was no longer a king except in name. Another prime example is Adam. When Adam, the king of the earth, rebelled against The Most High Yah, the High King of Heaven, he lost his kingdom and with it, his place as king.

The Bible says that Yahashua Hamachiach is the “second Adam” who came to restore what the first Adam lost. Because Yahashua restored the Kingdom, all who are citizens of the Kingdom of heaven can now be kings and queens of the earthly realm again. What does this mean in practical terms? It means we can control our circumstances and our domain rather than they controlling us. The “good news of the Kingdom” that Yahashua preached is not just that we can have our sins forgiven and become aligned rightly with The Most High Yah, although these are absolutely essential; the good news is also the fact that we can have our Kingdom back!

FIVE PRINCIPLES OF MAN’S EARTHLY AUTHORITY

Our destiny as human beings is wrapped up in land. The Most High Yah created us to be kings over the earthly realm, and He will not rest until we are fully restored to our rightful place. I want to share with you five principles that help explain the basis of our authority on earth as The Most High Yah intended it to be.

1. The first thing The Most High Yah gave man was territory. He did not give man a religion or rules to follow. He gave him land. Before man could be the king The Most High Yah created him to be, he had to have a king domain to rule over.

TIME: 6:25


The earth was created to give man kingship legitimacy. The Most High Yah gave us the earth so that our kingship would be legal. He made Adam a king and He made Eve a queen equal to Adam in every way. The rulership of the earth belongs to both men and women. My wife is my partner in rulership. She does not serve me. We dominate the earth together on behalf of our government of Heaven.


The domain of earth is mankind’s legal right, power, and authority of rulership. When The Most High Yah said, “Let them have dominion,” He transferred the legal rights to the earth to us. He did not say, “Let us have dominion,” including Himself, because He already had His dominion in heav- en. He said, “Let them have dominion over that territory called earth. I’m going to rule heaven; My kids are going to rule earth. I’m going to be King of heaven; they’re going to be king of the earth. I’m going to be Sovereign of heaven; they’re going to be sovereign of earth.” The dominion of earth is our legal right. We have a right to be here and The Most High Yah gave us that right. So many believers look forward to going to heaven, but I look forward to coming back to rule the “new earth” that The Most High Yah will fashion when this earth passes away! (see Rev. 21:1). Heaven is fine, and it will be a glorious place, but ultimately it is not where we belong. In heaven we have no legal authority to rule; it is The Most High Yah’s domain. We were made for the earth, and that is where our place of dominion will be in the life to come.


“Let them” are the key words in the transfer of authority from The Most High Yah to man. The Most High Yah delegated authority to us because He wants us to experience rulership. He wants us to know what it is like to be in charge.Man’s kingship is by privilege, not by creative right. The Most High Yah controls the domain because He created it. He rules it by creative rights. We rule it because of privilege. We are kings by delegation, not by creation. The Most High Yah gave us rulership but not ownership. But our rulership “charter” includes a sense of ownership because He gave us sovereignty within our earthly dominion.


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