DISCOVERING THE ORIGIN AND PURPOSE OF MAN PART 4

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Discovering the Origin and Purpose of Man PART 4!!!!




Today we look to the word-SPIRIT- H7307- ruwach--wind; by resemblance breath, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions) blast, breath, cool, courage, mind, quarter, side, spiritual, tempest, vain, whirlwind













The Torah testifies.........……



Genesis 6:3



And the LORD said, My spirit H7307 shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.











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

Ezekiel 37:14



And shall put my spirit H7307 in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.






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



Psalms 31:5



Into thine hand I commit my spirit: H7307 thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.



RULING THE VISIBLE WORLD FROM THE INVISIBLE REALM

The Most High Yah’s simple strategy for extending and establishing His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit. The plan meant that man would be His visible representative created specifically to live in the visible realm to represent Him. Let me put it another way. The Most High Yah’s original purpose and intent was to rule that which is seen (the visible world) through that which is unseen (the invisible world). He would do this through the unseen (the Spirit of The Most High Yah in man), living in the unseen (spirit of man) and living in the seen (the physical body) on the scene (the earth).


For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse (Rom. 1:20 NAS).


For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him (Col. 1:16 NAS).


By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of The Most High Yah, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible (Heb. 11:3 NAS).


How would He accomplish this? The Most High Yah, who is unseen, would put His Spirit into the unseen spirit of man—a spirit inhabiting a visible physical body living on the visible earth. Through man’s spirit a window of the soul is created so that man can communicate with the invisible world of The Most High Yah and also through another window man is able to communicate through his body to the visible world of man. Man is created in such a powerful and unique way that he is exalted above all of The Most High Yah’s creation.


By this means The Most High Yah could communicate from the unseen realm through the unseen spirit man to the seen realm, so that the visible world of man could understand His will. Whatever The Most High Yah desired would be relayed to the unseen, then manifested in the seen on the scene so that the earth would show what heaven was thinking.


KING OF THE INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE WORLDS


The Most High Yah, then, is the King of both the invisible and the visible realms—the spiritual world and the physical universe. He is El Shaddai, The Most High Yah Almighty, the Ruler who sets all the standards in heaven and earth. He lives in and rules the unseen realm and is the Creator and owner of the seen realm, where He also created human beings to rule under His authority as vice-regents of the earth. As King of everything, The Most High Yah is the standard setter, the rule establisher, and the Judge of all things. That’s what it means to be King.


A king cannot be a king unless he has something to rule over. It is impossible to be a king over nothing. Before anything else was, The Most High Yah was. Yet, in the strictest sense of the word, The Most High Yah was not a king until He created a realm over which to rule. Until that time, He was just The Most High Yah— omniscient and omnipotent, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three-in-one, complete, whole, and self-contained— standing on nothing but by the corner of nowhere. Then, in accordance with His nature, He created first a spiritual realm and then a physical realm.


If The Most High Yah was fully complete within Himself, why did He create the universe and everything in it, both seen and unseen? He did it for His own pleasure and because He is by nature a Creator. Creating is His natural expression. Upon completing His creation, the Creator became King of creation because He now had a realm to rule over.


Worthy are You, our Lord and our The Most High Yah, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created (Rev. 4:11 NAS).


THE KING AND HIS DOMAIN


Whatever a king rules over is called his domain. Without a domain, the title “king” has little meaning and carries little weight. There can be no president without a country, no prime minister without a nation; every ruler must have a realm to rule. Unlike human rulers who obtain their domains by election, subterfuge, or conquest, The Most High Yah created His own domain, and He will never be unseated. There will never be a coup d’etat in the Kingdom of heaven.


The word kingdom is derived from the words “king” and “domain.” A kingdom is the “king domain,” the realm over which the king rules with complete sovereignty. The Most High Yah’s “king domain” includes both the seen and unseen. The Bible says that The Most High Yah created all things and without Him “nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3). Whatever The Most High Yah created is His property by right of creation.


Since He created everything, everything belongs to Him. Therefore, His domain extends infinitely in every direction because there is nowhere on earth or in the heavens that He does not encompass or where His presence does not dwell.


MAN WAS CREATED FOR DOMINION


The Most High Yah is King over everything that is, whether visible or invisible. From His throne in heaven He reigns in glory and majesty over the invisible spirit realm. His reign over the physical domain takes a different form. Rather than rule directly, The Most High Yah chose from the very beginning to exercise His kingly authority on earth through human envoys created in His image to rule the earth in His name as His representatives.

The Most High Yah’s purpose and plan for mankind are clearly revealed in the first chapter of Genesis:


Then The Most High Yah said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So The Most High Yah created man in His own image, in the image of The Most High Yah He created him; male and female He created them. The Most High Yah blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground” (Gen. 1:26-28).


The Most High Yah created man because He desired someone to rule over the physical realm He had created. The King James Version of the Bible uses the word dominion, which is related to the word domain. Human beings were created to exercise dominion over the earth and all its creatures. Earth is the domain of humanity’s rulership.

May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man (Ps. 115:15-17).


A KINGDOM OF KINGS


Notice also that these verses say nothing of human beings ruling over other human beings. It was not The Most High Yah’s original design that any man would rule other human beings. He created all of us to rule, not to be ruled. In accordance with His own plan, The Most High Yah needed someone to dominate a piece of real estate called earth, so He created man. The Most High Yah made us to be in charge of this unique territory, to rule over the earth domain. Many of us have either lost sight of this truth or never learned it in the first place. Understanding that we were created for dominion carries truly life-changing ramifications.


The Most High Yah’s purposes never change. He remains committed to His plan for man to dominate this planet on His behalf. Trapped inside every one of us is a dominion spirit crying for release and a dominion mandate waiting to be exercised. It is this natural spirit of dominion that causes us to naturally rebel against any attempt to dominate or control our lives or destiny. Whether the oppression comes from religion or the world systems, humans were not meant to live a life of subjugation and will always resist oppression.


You may note that in every situation where there has been an extended reign of an oppressive regime in any nation, such as apartheid in South Africa, or the oppression of communist ideology, or the repressive government of Iran or Iraq, that when deliverance came, the people rejoiced like steam being released from a pressure cooker. The fall of Saddam Hussein’s oppressive regime in Iraq, for example, was followed by thousands of Iraqis celebrating in the streets and exercising freedoms they had not enjoyed in decades.


Why were they so quick to cast off the restraints of the old government? It was because they hated their oppression. We are all the same —we were not created to be dominated but to dominate in every area of our life.


At the same time, it is truly amazing how many kinds of things we allow to dominate us. We are supposed to have dominion over plants and yet look how we allow plants to run (and ruin) our lives: coca leaves from Colombia, tobacco leaves from Cuba, grape juice and grains used to make wine and liquor. Coffee, cigarettes, liquors—we are subject to all kind of vices that rule over our appetites.


We are supposed to rule our passions and desires—sex, greed, drugs, power, money, and possessions—but instead, they often rule us.


Many people live and work for money, thinking it will bring them freedom, when all along they slowly and seductively become the slaves of the things for which they work. People who properly understand finances understand that they do not work for money. The money works for them. Those who are slaves of money will never truly get ahead.


If you find that you are one of those who are working for money and are poor, you will remain poor and will never be able to get out of the economic hole in which you are living. If you are middle class, that is where you will stay. As long as you go after the money, it will elude you. As soon as you learn to make money work for you, it will come back to you multiplied many times over.


One of the first things that happened to the early Church in the Book of Acts was directly related to the entire issue of dominion.


All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Yahashua, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need (Acts 4:32-35).


The main point I would like to note here is that they brought their monies and laid it at the feet of the apostles. This established the principle that the master of money that once dominated them now had to bow and become a slave to the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. By the very act of sharing their possessions with one another and by selling houses and land and giving the money from the sale to be distributed to others as needed, these early believers were exercising dominion over that which had previously dominated them.


In Hamachiach they found the freedom to rule as they had been created to do, rather than to be ruled by their own uncontrolled desires. Money did not have a hold on them. They had a hold on the money. In his first letter to the believers in Corinth, Paul expressed perfectly what our attitude should be in this regard: “‘Everything is permissible for me—but I will not be mastered by anything” (1 Cor. 6:12b).


THE MOST HIGH YAH’S “MANAGEMENT CONTRACT” WITH MAN


At creation, The Most High Yah gave man dominion over the entire physical realm, making him the de facto king of the earth. To dominate means “to govern, rule, control, manage, lead, or have authority over something.” There is a very important distinction here. The Most High Yah gave us rulership of the earth, not ownership. Someone who gives up ownership to another person also surrenders all responsibility for it. The person who assigns the position of rulership of a place but retains ownership, will retain the ultimate responsibility.


That is why The Most High Yah set up a qualification from the start. He told Adam, “As long as you obey Me and do not eat the fruit of the tree at the center of the garden, you can manage this planet all you want, for as long as you want; it’s yours” (see Gen. 2:16-17).


In the beginning, The Most High Yah gave us a “management contract” or a “lease agreement,” of sorts. The Bible is very clear that the earth belongs to The Most High Yah. Psalm 24:1 says, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.” The Most High Yah owns the earth, but He gave it to us to manage under a lease agreement that we could call a dominion mandate. Under this mandate we must give to The Most High Yah, the owner, an accounting of what we do with that which He has entrusted to us. He will judge us according to how well we manage His assets.


Yahashua taught this principle in His parable about a master who entrusted a sum of money to each of three servants and then went on a long journey. While he was gone, two of the servants invested the money wisely and received a double return. The third servant did nothing except hide his allotment. Upon the master’s return, He commended the two servants who had exercised wise management. He rewarded them with increased privilege and responsibility. However, He cast out the servant who shirked the responsibility of stewardship (see Matt. 25:14- 30).