DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Genesis chapter 3










Today we are walking in: Declaration of Independence










Today we look to the word- KING- H4427- Malak- to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel:—consult, indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reigning, rule, surely.










The Torah Testifies……………………




Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king H4427 of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.











The Prophets Proclaim……………………




Isaiah 44:6

Thus saith the LORD the King H4427 of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.










The Writings Bear Witness…………………..




Psalm 10:16

The LORD is King H4427 for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.







Declaration of Independence




The greatest threat to kingdom privileges and benefits is an independent spirit.




The territory of earth had been created and the colony established. The King’s children were provided with a rich home and given authority to rule and prosper on earth in behalf of the King. However, something happened to disrupt the home country’s plan of expanding the realm of its heavenly kingdom on earth. A rebellion that started in the home country spread to the colony.




A Breach of Trust The Plot: Overthrow




The rebellion had been instigated by one of the King’s top generals, named HaSatan. He had attempted a coup of the heavenly kingdom and been banished from the presence of the King, along with his followers. This disgraced former aide was bent on revenge and still craved the power to rule a kingdom. He thought that if he could gain control over the King’s own children, he could insult the King, thwart the purposes of the heavenly kingdom, and usurp the colony.




The Plan: Detachment




HaSatan’s plan was to sever the relationship between the King’s children and their Father and separate the citizens of the colony from their true government. So he went to the colony in disguise, where the King’s children had just begun to rule, and infiltrated their government using craftiness and deceit.




The Strategy: An Independent Spirit




His strategy to accomplish this broken relationship was to promote a spirit of rebellion and independence. Subtly questioning the integrity and goodwill of the King, he seduced the King’s children to disregard their Father’s authority over the colony and encouraged them in an act of insurrection. The following is an account of this incident from the first book of Moses:




Now the serpent...said to the woman, “Did Yah really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but Yah did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For Yah knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like Yah, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked.




The children of the King went against his explicit instructions, which he had instituted for their protection. The renegade general had planted doubts about the motivation of the King, and distrust grew in their hearts. They immediately turned their backs on all their Father had given them and instead believed the lie placed before them. The children’s response was contrary to the nature and desires of the King. It was also a corruption of their own nature, which had been made in his likeness. What seemed to be a harmless act to their benefit was actually a disaster; it represented a serious breach of faith and departure from the heart and will of the King. If they could not be trusted with even the simplest aspect of their assignment in the colony, how could they transform the earth into the culture of the kingdom of heaven? Especially now that their minds and hearts were shown to be aligned with the King’s bitter enemy?




The Result: Treason




The King’s own children had declared, “I don’t want to be under the kingdom’s jurisdiction anymore; I don’t want to be under the King of kings; I don’t want to be subjected to heaven’s government.” Yet the earth is heaven’s property. When Adam and Eve rebelled and declared independence, they violated the legal contract the government of heaven had established with human beings. Many people think of “sin” as things a person does. Yet it is both deeper and more specific than that. Sin is rebellion against the essential nature and authority of the heavenly government.




By their rebellion, the children not only took something that wasn’t theirs, but they also handed it over to someone who didn’t deserve it and would never be qualified for it. HaSatan, the unfaithful former general of heaven, would never transform the world into the heavenly kingdom. He would transform it into something completely opposite, a kingdom of darkness.




Renounced Allegiance and Expatriation




How did the King react to his children’s breach? Although he knew what they had done, he gave them a chance to admit their fault. Instead, they blamed each other, as well as the one who had enticed them to revolt. Like many rebellious children exposed for disobedience, they seemed sorry only to have been caught. The King had no choice but to remove them from the garden; they were banished from the special home that had been provided them because they no longer had the nature necessary to live there, and were no longer able to care for it properly.




The first book of Moses says, “After [the Creator-King] drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.” The word drove used here means “to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce.” It is significant that we find the concept of expatriate here, which means “to renounce allegiance to one’s native country.” Adam and Eve virtually cut themselves off from their own King-Father and home country. Having to drive them out of the garden was as painful to their Father as experiencing a wrenching divorce after the betrayal of a loved one.




Adam and Eve had committed high treason. The King had given them authority under delegated power, but they had instead abused that authority to cut the territory off from the government of heaven.




The Recall of the Governor




Although they were removed from the magnificent garden, their former rule, and their previous kingdom lifestyle, their rejection of the King and his nature led to something far worse. The King had previously alerted them, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” This was the only area on earth over which the King claimed jurisdiction because he knew its misuse would lead to death.




The death the King referred to was not an immediate, bodily death. Adam and Eve did not physically die right away, but they lost their essential source of life as human beings—the King’s Ruach. Remember that the Ruach of the King gave life to their spirits, souls, and bodies. When they rejected the King, they also rejected and lost his Ruach. The Governor alone was their dynamic connection between the seen and the unseen realms. Therefore, their spirits and souls were cut off from the home country, and their physical bodies began to die a slow death. They were still physically alive for a time, but spiritually and soulically, they were dead to the King and his kingdom.




We saw earlier that, whenever a colony becomes independent from the mother country, the governor is either forced out, or the kingdom withdraws him. Likewise, when Adam and Eve declared independence, the Governor had to be recalled to the heavenly kingdom. A striking illustration of this circumstance is the night governing power in the Bahamas was transferred from Great Britain to the new independent government. The Bahamian people had said, “We no longer want to be connected with Britain, as far as direct government control is concerned,” and we won our freedom.




Thousands of emotionally charged Bahamians gathered at Clifford Park a few hours before midnight on the evening before independence. The official change in government was scheduled for 12 a.m. on July 10, 1973. Prince Charles, as the representative of the crown, was present, as well as the premier, whose title would soon change to prime minister. There were various ceremonies, and the musical groups invited to sing as representatives of the youth of the nation.




At 11:50 p.m., the Union Jack was still flying on the flagpole in the middle of the park. The symbol of the kingdom of Great Britain signified that we were still under England’s rule. At 11:59, one of the law enforcement officers stood at that pole and began to lower the flag. Another officer was next to him, pulling up the new flag of the independent Bahamas. They were witnessing a change of kingdoms firsthand. The lower the British flag got, the closer they came to no longer having a royal governor. The higher the new flag got, the closer their premier came to becoming prime minister. When the British flag reached the bottom and the Bahamian flag reached the top, it was over. Early the next morning, the royal governor left the governor’s house, got on a plane, and departed from the Bahamas. The queen had recalled him. He no longer had the authority or legal right to be there.




While I’ve described a joyful period in the national life of Bahamians, it was not a jubilant time for the citizens of earth when they rejected the heavenly government. Again, they had not thrown off foreign rule from their lives. They had rejected their own homeland and their beloved King-Father, who desired to give them the riches of his kingdom. As Adam raised the “human independence flag,” the flag of the heavenly kingdom was simultaneously being lowered until humanity was severed from the King and his kingdom.




I mentioned that the governor of the Bahamas had to vacate the governor’s house when he was recalled to the home country. On the colony of earth, the human beings them- selves were the house the heavenly Governor had lived in. So when humanity declared independence from their King-Father, this house became a hostile and unclean environment, and the Governor could no longer dwell there. He was recalled to the home country.




Existence without the Governor




What was life like for Adam and Eve after they turned their backs on the kingdom and lost the presence of the Governor? Their act of rebellion is often referred to as “the fall” because of the extreme change in the quality of human existence they experienced. It was like a prince falling from a luxurious royal coach into a muddy ditch and then havingto live there. Independence, in a human political sense, is a positive concept to us. The American Revolution, in which America declared independence from Great Britain in 1776, is celebrated with fireworks and family gatherings. Yet humanity’s independence from heaven’s kingdom is nothing to celebrate. It’s something to mourn because it’s the worst thing that ever happened to human beings, whereas the kingdom was the best thing we could have been given.




We can begin to comprehend the value of the Governor on earth by looking at what existence without him is like.




Loss of the Kingdom




The loss of the Governor meant the loss of the environment of the kingdom on earth. Since the Governor was the evidence of the presence of the kingdom, his absence inevitably meant the absence of the kingdom presence. Earth’s environment changed to the antithesis of the heavenly kingdom.




Cut off from True Life





Although human beings were designed to live from the inside out, this situation was now reversed. Since they had lost the Ruach HaQadesh, which was their connection with their Father, they now had to live from the outside in. They became totally dependant on their five physical senses. The physical world— which could give them only a limited perspective on life’s realities—imposed itself on their inner world. I believe this is why one of the first words we read about Adam and Eve after their rebellion is the word “realized” or “knew.” Suddenly, they realized they were naked. Does this imply they didn’t know this before? I don’t think so. I believe it implies this: nakedness is an external consciousness rather than something that is spiritually discerned. The body and its senses, rather than the Ruach, took over humanity’s focus in life. Human beings no longer had a spiritual perspective at their essence but a sensual one.




A perspective based only on the senses inevitably leads to confusion. Humanity began to depend on the soul—the mind, will, and emotions informed by the senses—to interpret life. From then on, what we saw, heard, touched, tasted, and smelled became the dominant components in our human experience. Consequently, we began to interpret our Creator-King mainly from our physical senses, as well. For example, the field of science attempts to understand the unseen world only from the seen world. This approach is dangerous because human beings were never intended to interpret the physical world from itself but from the spiritual reality of the kingdom.




I am not saying that science is “bad.” Neither am I saying that the intellect is evil, but only that it has been moved out of its proper position. The intellect is a wonderful gift created by Yah. It must be in its right position, however, for it to effectively execute its purpose and fulfill its potential. The things that are seen were made from things that are not seen, and the only way to truly understand something is to relate to how it was made and who made it. The Spirit of the Creator is the only avenue we have for fully understanding ourselves and the physical world since he is the Source, Author, and Manufacturer of creation.




We must grasp the deep significance of this truth: Having the Spirit of the King is not only vital for our relationship with the invisible King, but also for understanding our own humanity. Only through the Governor can we know why we are really here and how to interpret the world in which we live; in other words, how to truly see our environment. The Governor is the key to our being fully human. We can’t express the King’s nature unless we are in relationship with him, and the Governor provided that relationship.




Only the Governor knows the mind of the King. We can’t really be what we were born to be as human beings unless we have a vital connection to his original intent. The Governor is our reference to ourselves; he is the key to our self- understanding. To be true and complete human beings, we must somehow become reconnected to and re-indwelled by the Ruach HaQadesh.




Loss of Authority and Power




We not only lost communication with the home country through the loss of the Governor, but we also lost the power and authority he provided. Remember that power is the ability to control and influence circumstances. One of the first things the King said to Adam after his rebellion was, in effect, “From now on, you will have to fight the earth in order to get food.” Beforehand, he had said, “Rule over...all the earth.” Now the King had to sadly inform him,




Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.




The King wasn’t only speaking of literal thorns. He was saying, “It’s going to be hard for you to provide for yourself. You’re going to have to sweat for it.” Before that, Adam’s work was not exhausting. He had authority and dominion over the natural world. It worked for him, rather than the other way around.