DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PART 2!!!!!

Genesis Chapter 3













Today we are walking in: Declaration of Independence Part 2!!!!!







Today we look to the word- REBEL-H4775 marad spelled mem, resh, dalet--to rebel, revolt, be rebellious









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





Numbers 14:9




Only rebel H4775 not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.








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




Nehemiah 2:19




But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel H4775 against the king?







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




Joshua 22:16




Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel H4775 this day against the LORD?





Joshua 22:19




Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel H4775 not against the LORD, nor rebel H4775 against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.







Ramifications of Self-Government




The Governor had been humanity’s connection with the home country, enabling human beings to fulfill their authority and dominion on earth. When he left, the earth basically became an independent nation. A colony without a governor results in self-government. Again, to our contemporary minds, independence and self-determination are positive words. We celebrate freedom and self-government. But again, this was not the triumph of freedom over tyranny. This was not removing the shackles of foreign occupation. It was like rejecting your beloved family, your home country, and your billion-dollar inheritance all at once. To paraphrase the wise King Solomon, “Some paths in life seem right, but they lead to death.”




There’s nothing more dangerous and threatening to a kingdom than a spirit of independence. For human kingdoms, this translates into a loss of power and wealth and probably some pride. For the heavenly kingdom, however, it meant the spiritual death of beloved children who were meant to carry on the family name and legacy. For the children, it meant the introduction of fear, a survival mind-set, and the knowledge of the inevitability of death.




When you are an independent person, you have to survive by your own wits. Likewise, when a country becomes an independent nation, it has to totally pay its own way. When the royal governor left the Bahamas on the morning of July 10, they were totally on their own—in their political and economic life, in caring for their infrastructure, and all aspects of governance. Likewise, humanity was left to fend for itself. Yet human beings weren’t designed to function using only their senses. They weren’t supposed to live like orphans left to survive in a hostile world on what they can scrape by on, or convicts left to scratch out an existence on a remote, punitive island. Human beings were designed to thrive and prosper and use the heights of their creativity through the guidance and power of the Ruach HaQadesh. The recall of the Governor was a devastating loss to the inhabitants of earth.




A Rebellious State




Humanity’s declaration of independence and subsequent loss of the Governor left human beings in a state of rebellion. The government of earth, as exercised in the life of every human being, became essentially one of rebellion that did not have the purposes of the kingdom at heart. Every person has been born into this state since the initial rebellion. Theologian Paul of Tarsus put it this way: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Yah.” We all fall short of the essential nature of Yah and everything that makes him praiseworthy. He is the perfect King; his kingdom is the perfect government. Yet we have distorted the image of that perfection within us. And all our efforts to execute government on earth in personal and corporate ways have fallen deeply short as well.




A Culture of Darkness and Death




When a country becomes independent after being a colony, it usually elects or appoints its own governor. This governor does not teach the people about the culture of the former home country, but only its own. Similarly, when the heavenly government recalled the Governor, human beings stopped learning the culture of heaven and created their own culture, which they passed along to their children. We stopped living heaven’s values and began to have our own independent ideas about life.




We must ask ourselves: How well are we doing? What has the nature of our culture become? One of the first things that took place after earth lost the Governor was that a man was murdered by his older brother. What a way to start a new culture! Instead of the kingdom of heaven defining and transforming earth, a kingdom and culture of darkness came upon it and began to spread. Adultery, incest, abuse, and domestic violence are all parts of this culture of darkness; it destroys young and old, strong and weak. We are still experiencing crime upon crime, brother killing brother. Wherever the Governor of the King does not rule, you will find murder and other instances of man’s inhumanity to man. The abuse and destruction afflict families, communities, businesses, and government—the whole realm of human existence.




All this transpired because human beings listened to the treacherous lies of a rebellious former aide to our King-Father, who wanted to usurp the colony for himself. Yahusha of Nazareth described HaSatan as the “father of lies” and a “murderer.” He also said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.”




When this disgraced former general took authority over the territory of earth, the natural result was devastation and death. His intent as the illegal governor on earth was not to bring freedom. It was to steal people’s lives so he could ultimately destroy them. He is a foreign ruler who has taken over the colony of earth and desires to destroy the original culture of the inhabitants. He rules over a destructive kingdom of darkness in which human beings have become either his willing or unwilling accomplices.




What have we done to this planet? From the time of humanity’s rejection of the King and the loss of the Governor, human beings have been attempting to dominate the King’s colony without the mind and heart of the King. Trying to run the planet without the King’s nature has led to a breakdown in human authority and power to address vital issues. It is the source of the world’s poverty, genocide, terrorism, political corruption, drug addiction, broken homes, and every kind of evil that can be named. We have created a state of rebellion and confusion. This world is a disaster without the Governor.




The Promise of the King




The colony of earth crumbled under the absence of the Governor. Without his presence, the human race lost its dignity and sense of responsibility; it became confused and chaotic. The people experienced a living death. Even though many people still struggle to do good, this is the essence of the culture of earth today. As the descendants of Adam and Eve, we are unable to rule on behalf of the heavenly kingdom because we abdicated our rule to HaSatan’s culture of darkness.




Yet, remarkably, immediately following humanity’s rebellion and the loss of the Governor, the King promised the return of the Governor and the restoration of earth as a territory loyal to the kingdom of heaven. The most important promise the government of heaven ever made to humanity was the return of the Governor because he is what every human being needs for true life. He is what the entire world needs, or the territory would forever remain in a state of chaos and death.




Even in the immediate aftermath of the rebellion, the King gave an indication of how he would restore the Governor. He told HaSatan, “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.” The King’s plan was to send an Offspring, to be born in the colony, who would restore kingdom influence to the colony. He would crush the power of the realm of darkness, take back the kingdom authority that was stolen, and restore power and authority to those to whom it was first given—humanity. We would be reinstated as local rulers on behalf of the heavenly kingdom once again. This would happen because the King would reappoint the Governor to the colony of earth.




Seeking the Governor




I believe that the bottom line in every person’s search for power and meaning in life is this: they are actually seeking the return of the Governor, though they may not realize it. Many people feel they are missing something in their lives yet aren’t sure what it is. They try to fill the emptiness with a variety of things: money, relationships, parties, drugs, sex, alcohol, work, sports, or vacations. In fact, I believe that every person, whether he is Christian, atheist, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Shintoist, Scientologist, animist, or even Satanist ultimately desires the same thing. He wants to fill what is missing in his life, and only the presence of the Governor in his life can accomplish this. A human being without the Governor is dysfunctional because he’s never complete; his very purpose requires the presence of the Ruach HaQadesh.




Therefore, if a message were sent from the kingdom of heaven to earth regarding the fulfillment of the King’s promise—the restoration of the Governor—that message would not be a religion. Neither would it be a self-help method by which human beings could use their own abilities to solve their problems. It would be a message about the kingdom and the return of the King’s Ruach.




The Promise of the Governor’s Return




When the end becomes the means, and the minor becomes the major, then injustice is inevitable.




Before looking more closely at the King’s plan to restore the Governor, let’s review some major points regarding the kingdom of heaven and its plan for the colonization of earth:




√ The King of the eternal and invisible kingdom desired to extend his own nature and influence to the physical realm of earth, which he had created. The kingdom of heaven is his governing influence over the world, impacting and influencing it with his will, his purpose, and his intent. Heaven is Yah’s kingdom or home country, and earth is his colony.




√ Human beings were created in the image of the King and were given the Spirit of the King to live within them. The King’s Spirit gave life to their spirits, souls, and bodies.




√ Human beings were designed to function like their Creator-King. The presence of the Spirit of the King within human beings guaranteed that they would have his character and nature. It also assured that they would be able to rule on earth as he would rule in the heavenly kingdom, having his very nature of love, mercy, kindness, and forgiveness.




√ The King did not desire to rule the earth directly, but to cultivate his colony through his children, who also functioned as his local governors. They were to exercise dominion over the earth under the direction of the chief Governor, the Spirit of the King.




√ Adam and Eve’s declaration of independence cut humanity off from the King and caused the Governor to be recalled by the kingdom of heaven.




√ The departure of the Governor meant the departure of the heavenly government and its direct influence over the colony of earth.




√ After humanity rebelled against the authority of the heavenly government, the King immediately promised to restore the Governor to his children.




√ The most important promise the Creator-King ever made to human beings was the promise that the Governor would return to live within them, because he is the key to life.




√ The restoration of the King’s Spirit to humanity is central to the restoration of his kingdom on earth.




All the above leads us to this conclusion: The principal purpose of the redemptive program of the Creator-King, in his dealings with humanity throughout human history, was the restoration of the Governor to the colony of earth.




In light of this, let’s consider the theme of the sacred literature of the Old or First Testament, also known as the Hebrew canon of Scripture. Some say its theme is the creation of a monotheistic religion. Others say it’s the story of the rise and fall of the ancient Hebrew nation. Still others see it as the record of various traditions and rituals. If we look at it in any of these terms, however, we miss its crucial essence.




The Theme and Significance of the Scriptures




What is the significance of the Scriptures? Why do we have the accounts of Noah, the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the story of the nation of Israel? What was the purpose of all the blood sacrifices? Why is there a record of priests, prophets, and the lineage of kings?




While its events revolve around the people and nation of Israel, the theme of the Old Testament is universal: it is the restoration of the key to humanity’s existence, the reestablishment of true life for every human being on the planet. The record of the people and events depict the unfolding of the King’s plan to restore his Spirit within human beings so they can be and do what they were originally intended to; so they can fulfill their remarkable purpose and potential once again.




The first two chapters of Genesis explain the heavenly government’s plan for expanding the kingdom to earth. The third chapter describes the interruption of this plan, and the immediate promise of restoration. From the third chapter all the way through the last book of the Old Testament, the King’s plan for the return of his Governor to earth is revealed. All the situations, people, and programs we read about serve these ends:




1. They are a continual reminder of the promise of the Governor’s restoration.




2.They depict the King’s intervention in the lives of specific families on earth to preserve a lineage for the Offspring who would restore the Governor.




3.They depict a prototype of the restoration of the kingdom of heaven on earth.




4.They expose the fact that only the Governor himself can reconnect the earthly colony to its heavenly government.




5.They foretell the coming of the Offspring who will personally reconcile the children-citizens to the King and authorize the return of the Governor.




In other words, after humanity’s rebellion, the King’s intent was essentially this: “My purpose in creating the world was disrupted, and I’m going to correct it. My Spirit can no longer live in the earthly residence I created. I will therefore restore my Spirit to humanity so my kingdom can function on earth again.”




Everything depicted in the Old Testament about the intervention of Yah in the lives of human beings was ultimately a means to this end. Yah was revealing to humanity, in effect, “Here’s the program: Your rebellion has put you in a hopeless situation. I am therefore going to come to the earth personally, and I will provide a way of restoring purity of heart and wholeness to you, so that the Governor can come to live in you again. Second, I will reappoint the Governor to the colony of earth to live within you once more and carry out my desire to transform the earth into a reflection of my kingdom.”