Exodus chapter 20
Today we are walking in The Original Concept: Colonization Of The Earth Part 2!!!!
Today we look to the word- KINGDOM- H4467- mamlakah- dominion, i.e. (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal.
The Torah testifies...............
Deuteronomy 17:20
IThat his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, H4467 he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
The prophets proclaim..................
Micah 4:8
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom H4467 shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
The writings bear witness...........................
2 Chronicles 20:6
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms H4467 of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
THE MOST HIGH YAH’S COLONIAL INTENT
The Most High Yah never does anything for no purpose. From the very beginning, The Most High Yah’s intent for the earth was that it be colonized. Isaiah, an ancient scribe and spokesman for the King, wrote:
...He who created the heavens, He is The Most High Yah; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited... (Isaiah 45:18).
Our presence on earth was a colonial decision by our King. He created this planet as new territory, fashioned us out of the same material, planted us here, and issued the colonial charter giving us dominion. We own nothing but have access to everything, as long as we operate within the parameters of the governing principles the King has established for His Kingdom. This is what it means to be a colony of Heaven.
The concept of colonization is the most important component of a kingdom that we must understand or else it will be impossible to fully grasp the essence of the message of the Bible, the prophets, and the focus and priority of Yahashua Hamachiach. It is the misunderstanding or ignorance of this kingdom concept of colonization that has produced all human religions and sects. Christianity as a religion is itself a product of this misunderstanding. The primary purpose, motive, plan, and program of The Most High Yah the Creator was to colonize earth with Heaven.
Understanding the concept of colonization is key because once we understand what The Most High Yah intended, we will understand what The Most High Yah is doing. He put people on this planet for the purpose of expanding His influence and authority from the supernatural realm to the natural realm. A colony, by definition, is populated by people who originally came from another place. It is an outpost inhabited by citizens of a faraway country whose allegiance remains with their home government. Stated another way, a colony is “a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant land but remain subject to the parent country.”
Colonization involves citizens of one country inhabiting foreign territory for the purpose of influencing that domain with the culture and values of their native country and governing it with the laws of their home government. For example, the message of Yahashua as stated in His mission statement recorded in Matthew 4:17, “...the kingdom of heaven has arrived” (author’s paraphrase), would indicate that the first colony of Heaven had returned to earth through Him. As citizens of heaven, we inhabit the earth for the purpose of influencing it with the culture and values of Heaven and bringing it under the government of the King of Heaven.
Paul of Tarsus, a first-century ambassador and colonizer for the King of heaven, described the King’s colonial intent this way:
...to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in The Most High Yah, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of The Most High Yah should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in Hamachiach Yahashua our Lord (Ephesians 3:9-11).
The Most High Yah’s intent was to plant a colony of His citizens on the earth to make His “manifold wisdom” His heart, mind, will, and desires known to “the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms.” In other words, to the spirit world. His purpose in colonizing earth was to show the spiritual powers of darkness how beings created in His own image could be planted on the earth and bring in the government and culture of Heaven so that in the end, the earth would look just like Heaven.
In summary:
A colony is a group of citizens established in a foreign territory to influence that domain for their home government.
A colony is a foreign territory inhabited by citizens charged to influence that domain with the culture and values of their government.
A colony is the presence of a distinct cultural citizenry in a foreign territory governed by the laws and culture of their home government.
Such is the concept of kingdom colonization.
UNDERSTANDING KINGDOM CONCEPTS
Studying the concept of kingdoms is important for a couple of reasons. First, because most of us today, particularly in the west, have never lived in a kingdom, the concept is completely foreign to us. We simply do not know what it is like to live under a king. This might not be a problem were it not for the second reason for studying the Kingdom: The Most High Yah’s government, the government of Heaven, is a kingdom, and The Most High Yah is the King. And because His Kingdom extends through all creation, encompassing both the supernatural and the natural realms, it covers us also, which is why we need to understand it. A third and critical reason to study and restore this concept of kingdom is because the Bible is not about a religion or an organization but a King and His Kingdom. Therefore, in order to correctly understand, interpret, and apply the Scriptures, knowledge of kingdoms is necessary.
The kingdom is the oldest of all forms of government and the only one that is of divine origin. The Most High Yah “invented” the kingdom concept and established it first in Heaven. Simply stated, a kingdom is simply a domain over which a king has rulership. Heaven was the first domain that The Most High Yah created. Although invisible, it is a very real place, even more real than what we call reality. The natural came from the supernatural; therefore, the supernatural is always more real than the natural. Heaven is more real than earth, even though we cannot see it with our physical eyes. In the beginning, The Most High Yah established a kingdom as the governmental system for ruling the supernatural realm of Heaven.
Once His Kingdom was established in Heaven, The Most High Yah desired to extend it to another realm. With this end in mind (the big picture) He created a visible, physical universe with billions of stars, including the one we call Sol, the sun around which revolves this planet we call Earth. The King chose this planet specifically as the location of His Kingdom colony in the natural realm. He created it for that purpose. Then He placed on it human beings created in His image to run the colony for Him. In this way, The Most High Yah also established the first earthly kingdom, which was merely an extension of His Kingdom in Heaven.
Through rebellion against the King, however, man lost his rulership. We have been trying to get it back ever since. Even though we lost our earthly kingdom, we still retain the original kingdom idea that the King implanted in our spirit. We are searching for the Kingdom all the time, but without The Most High Yah we can never find it because it is from Him.
In our Kingdom's search through the ages, man has developed and experimented with many different systems of government, as we saw earlier in this teaching. Every one of them, including those we call kingdoms, are defective because mankind is defective. But they all are driven by our desire to regain and restore the original Kingdom. This is not a “utopian” fantasy. In the beginning, The Most High Yah established utopia in heaven and then extended it to earth. Our utopian dreams are simply expressions of our yearning to regain the Kingdom we once had but lost.
According to the “colonial charter” stated in Genesis 1:26 that we looked at earlier, man originally was given an earthly kingdom to rule over, which was perfect. Adam and Eve were overlords of the physical domain, co rulers who themselves were ruled only by The Most High Yah, their Creator-King. They were His people, and He was their The Most High Yah; there was no intermediary rulership.
Human kingdoms, which at best were but dim and flawed reflections of The Most High Yah’s Kingdom, had citizens who were also subjects of the king, meaning that they were “subject” to the king’s personal ambitions, goals, whims, and desires. The Most High Yah’s Kingdom is different. In the Kingdom of The Most High Yah there are no subjects, only citizens—but every citizen is a king (or queen) in his or her own right. This is why the Bible refers to The Most High Yah as the “King of kings.” He is the High King of Heaven who rules over the human kings He created in turn to rule over the earthly domain.
THE KINGDOM IS HERE
Adam and Eve’s rebellion cost them their kingdom. Chapter 3 of Genesis relates the sad story of how the human pair fell victim to the lies and deceptions of the serpent, which embodied the prince of darkness, that fallen angel known as satan or lucifer. With Adam and Eve’s abdication, HaSatan seized control of their earthly domain as a brazen, arrogant, and illegal pretender to the throne.
Immediately the King of Heaven put in motion His plan to restore what man had lost. And what did man lose? A kingdom. Adam and Eve did not lose a religion because they had never had a religion; they had a kingdom. So when The Most High Yah set out to restore what they had lost, He set out to restore a kingdom, not a religion. Religion is an invention of man, born of his efforts to find The Most High Yah and restore the kingdom on his own. But only The Most High Yah can restore the kingdom man lost.
After the disaster in Eden, the King confronted His rebellious co rulers and their deceiver and addressed each one in turn. Of greatest interest to us in this context is what the King said to the serpent, because it has kingdom implications:
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel (Genesis 3:15).
Referring to the woman’s “offspring” by the singular pronoun “He,” indicates that the King was speaking of one specific offspring— one who would strike a fatal blow against lucifer and his schemes by “crushing” his head. As the rest of Scripture makes abundantly clear, this one specific offspring appeared thousands of years later as the man Yahashua Hamachiach of Nazareth, who was the Son of The Most High Yah embodied in human flesh.
When Yahashua appeared on the scene in real, space-time history, He brought a message not of a religion, new or old, but of the Kingdom:
From that time on Yahashua began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near” (Matthew 4:17).
These are the first recorded words of Yahashua. The phrase “that time” refers to the arrest of John the Baptist, a prophet whose mission was to announce the arrival of the King. Now the King Himself was on the scene, and He was announcing the arrival of the Kingdom. This was the only message Yahashua preached. Search all four of the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and you will find that Yahashua always talked about the Kingdom. Everything He said and did related to the Kingdom and its arrival on earth.
Yahashua said, “Repent” (which means to change your mind or adopt a new way of thinking), “for the kingdom of heaven is near” (which means, in effect, that it has arrived). In other words, Yahashua was saying, “Change your way of thinking! The Kingdom of Heaven is here! I brought it with me!” When Yahashua brought the Kingdom of Heaven to earth, He also brought the promise of restoring to mankind the dominion over the earth that Adam and Eve had lost in Eden. He brought back our rulership.
Before we could be fully restored to our Kingdom, however, the matter of our rebellion against The Most High Yah had to be dealt with. This rebellion is what the Bible calls sin, and it is universal in human nature, a legacy of Adam and Eve’s treason in Eden so long ago. Yahashua’ death on the cross paid the price for our rebellion so that we could be restored to a right standing with The Most High Yah, our King, and be reinstalled in our original and rightful place as rulers of the earthly domain. The “gospel” message—the “good news”—is more than the Cross. The Crucifixion stake is the doorway that gets us back into the Kingdom. The Crucifixtion stake of Hamachiach, therefore, is all about Kingdom restoration. It is about restoration of power and authority. It is about regaining rulership, not religion.
SONS, NOT SERVANTS
Why did The Most High Yah wait thousands of years from the promise in Eden of Kingdom restoration to its realization with the coming of Yahashua? He had to allow the course of human history to flow until the timing was right. In order for us to understand what we lost when we lost the Kingdom, much less understand kingdom principles, The Most High Yah needed the right prototype as an example. Across the millennia, many human civilizations and kingdoms rose and fell until finally a kingdom appeared that had everything The Most High Yah needed to show how His Kingdom was supposed to work. When the Roman Empire came to power, it had a concept of citizenship. It had a concept of lordship (ownership). It had a king and a domain. It practiced colonization. Rome had such an influence that wherever it advanced, that part of the world became like Rome. When The Most High Yah saw Rome, He said, “That’s exactly what I want.”
When the time was right, the King of Heaven sent His Son to restore His Kingdom on earth. Paul of Tarsus stated it this way:
But when the time had fully come, The Most High Yah sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons (Galatians 4:4-5).
The fullness of time has nothing to do with clocks but everything to do with seasons. When the season of history was right, when the Roman Empire had risen to serve as a living example, when everything was in place according to divine purpose, The Most High Yah sent His Son into the physical world with the message that the Kingdom of Heaven had arrived. What was His purpose in restoring the Kingdom? Not to give us a religion but to restore to us our “full rights” as sons and daughters of the King.
The King of Heaven wants sons and daughters, not servants. Religion produces servants. It revels in the spirit of servitude. Please don’t misunderstand me. A servant heart is, as Yahashua said, the key to greatness in the Kingdom of The Most High Yah (see Matt. 20:26-27). And He said that He Himself came to serve rather than to be served (see Matt. 20:28). But this kind of service should always proceed from the place of security in our knowledge that we are sons and daughters of the King and simply are following His example. Servanthood in the religious spirit, on the other hand, proceeds from a sense of false humility and self-deprecation where one sees oneself not as a son or daughter, but as a slave. Sons and daughters of the King see service as a privilege; religious people see it as an obligation. And therein lies the difference. Sons and daughters serve willingly because they are sons and daughters. Religious people serve grudgingly because they feel they have no choice if they hope to win the approval of the King. Never confuse serving with being a servant.
Yahashua came that we might “receive the full rights of sons.” This is a legal language. There is not a bit of religion in these words. They refer to legal rights and entitlements based on the relationship of birth. We are sons and daughters of The Most High Yah. Sonship is our right by creation. Hamachiach did not die to improve us; He died to regain and confirm us. The price He paid in His own blood was not to make us worthy but to prove our worth. He did not come to earth to enlist an army of servants. He came to restore the King’s sons and daughters to their rightful position—rulership as heirs of His Kingdom.
If we are heirs and are destined to rule in our Father’s Kingdom, then we had better learn to understand His Kingdom and how it operates. We had better learn its principles and concepts. We must learn how to think, talk, and live like Kingdom citizens. The Kingdom is the most important message of our age and the answer to the dilemma of ancient and modern man. According to Yahashua Hamachiach, everyone is trying all they can to find it and forcing their way through life to lay hold on it:
Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of The Most High Yah is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it (Luke 16:16b).
Everyone of the over six billion people on earth are searching for this Kingdom. This teaching is to help you and your fellow planet dwellers discover and understand it. With this end in mind, the remaining series of this teaching will examine in detail key concepts of the Kingdom of Heaven.
PRINCIPLES
Colonization is Heaven’s system for earthly influence.
The Most High Yah’s original intent was to extend His heavenly government over the earth, and His plan for accomplishing this was to establish a colony of Heaven on the earth.
By creative right, the earth is Heaven’s “crown land.”
The King gave man rulership of the earth, not ownership.
A colony is “a group of emigrants or their descendants who settle in a distant land but remain subject to the parent country.”
As citizens of Heaven, we inhabit the earth for the purpose of influencing it with the culture and values of heaven and bringing it under the government of the King of Heaven.
The Most High Yah’s government, the government of Heaven, is a Kingdom, and The Most High Yah is the King.
A kingdom is simply a domain over which a king has rulership.
In the Kingdom of The Most High Yah there are no subjects, only citizens—but every citizen is a king (or queen) in his or her own right.
When Yahashua brought the Kingdom of Heaven to earth, He brought also the promise of restoring to mankind the dominion over the earth that Adam and Eve had lost in Eden.
11. The King of Heaven wants sons and daughters, not servants.
12. Yahashua came that we might “receive the full rights of sons.”
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