The importance of knowing who we are according to and
living in God reveals itself increasingly as we, the
people of God, begin to take our place in Him. This,
man’s destiny, is determined by God’s will and purpose
for each yielded vessel. In knowing that God created the
first man Adam to have dominion over God’s creation.
God’s continuing purpose as from the beginning, is that
man might subdue, have dominion over and replenish the
earth. God’s purpose was that, beginning with Adam He
might fill the earth with His presence in every
dimension of life and throughout each manifesting order
as released from God. Adam, while in total dependency
upon God lived in that dominion, which was recognized
and realized as Adam and Eve related to God in the cool,
the spirit of the day in their beginning. Thus, Adam and
Eve had a relationship with God that was one of constant
communication, even as according to God’s purpose, for
the day of beginnings.
Gen. 3:8a, “And they heard the voice of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool [spirit]
of the day…” However, their
removal from this place of fellowship and dominion
within the realm of the garden, was the results of
disobedience. However, God in mercy, left them with a
continuing promise. This promise declares that the way
to the tree of life was to be protected by God.
Protected until man could, through the purposed coming
Christ, re-enter and again abide in the realm that was
then called the Garden of Eden. This garden represents
the place, the realm wherein man might be restored and
partake of the available tree of life, therein to know
and receive eternal life as God’s family.
What a glorious promise of purpose. In this promise,
God is helping man to reclaim His purpose. It being
important for man to know the place from which he fell.
To also understand the why or reason for that fall. In
the garden, when approached by the serpent, the
exchanged communications between God’s enemy and Eve
produced a mind-set that removed Eve and then Adam from
their lofty realm of dominion. In accepting and
receiving the serpent’s lies, that which the serpent is
and what he represents became the mind-set of Eve, to
then be passed on to Adam and then unto all generations
following. Isa. 14:12-14 reveals the fallen angel’s
mind-set to be passed on to mankind, “How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which
didst weaken [subdued]
the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I
will ascend into heaven [the
heavens – including the throne-room],
I will exalt my throne above the stars of GOD: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: I will ascend above the
heights of the clouds; I will be like the MOST
HIGH”.
God’s created man, coming out of Him was what He
purposed before the foundation of the world. Man was
created from the dust of the earth to then receive the
breath of life coming from God, His spirit, to become a
living soul. Adam was now a living soul, purposed to
manifest the nature of God. But now, because of
disobedience, fallen creation lives in a fallen
condition. They could now, in their fallen condition,
begin to recognize the lofty place from which they had
fallen. This fall was from a lofty realm of dwelling in
light (dwelling in the knowledge and presence of God)
into a realm of living in darkness (separated from the
God’s Life and purpose). However, in His love, God’s
promise of restoration enables man to find his way back
to that realm of light from which he fell. The promise
from God concerning a Son to be birthed and become a
sacrifice came, and now makes available to fallen man
the ministry of progressive salvation, complete
redemption and restoration.
This sacrifice, in becoming man’s salvation, is
available to bring any repentant man back to that
spiritual place God intended for man to possess and
dwell. Back from darkness, line upon line, precept upon
precept, here a little and there a little, to that realm
of light which abides in Christ. The completion of our
salvation through Jesus Christ results in the true
meaning of the “word” and “work” of resurrection. This
“work” of resurrection begins for repentant man at the
cross of Jesus to continue until knowing that the
completed work (restoration of spirit, soul, and body)
is accomplished. Note that the word “resurrection” is a
word that means “a reversal”. In this, along with Paul,
we can express our desire, “that I may know
Him and the power of His resurrection”.
God’s intention has never changed. From before the
foundation of the world He purposed to make man in the
likeness of His image. As written in Gen. 1:26, “And
God said, Let Us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over …”
This word “man” as used here is the Hebrew word “AW-DAM’
with the meaning of “one showing blood (life) in the
face”. This is speaking of man, whose countenance
reflects the quality of his inner nature, a nature that
is the results of the breath, the life of God breathed
into the formed dust of the earth man. God’s breath, His
Spirit caused the man of dust to become a living soul, a
living soul reflecting the nature of God. “Made in God’s
image” speaks of the man being in the same “shade”
as God. “Shade” denotes that man vibrated or existed in
the same realm as God. These vibrations speak of the
different realms or expressions that extend from God in
fulfilling all His purposes.
Psalms 89:15 reveals, “Blessed is the
People that know the joyful sound: They
shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy
countenance [face, life]“.
Remember that the scripture does declare that when we
see Him as He is, we shall be like Him. In the above
scripture, take note of the words “sound” and “light”.
With each, sound or light becoming a manifestation,
these are the results that come from a certain
vibration. “Sound” has a certain vibration while “light”
is the result of a higher vibration. Before man’s fall
in Eden, he existed in pure spirit form and his body was
a covering purposed to expressed God’s light. However,
according to God’s wisdom, He allows man the freedom to
fall from that higher vibration to a lesser vibration
but with a purposed hope.
Note Rom. 8:20, “For the creature was
made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason
of Him who hath subjected the same in hope”.
Hope, having its fulfillment through salvation means for
man that deliverance from the bondage of fallen
corruption is available. Salvation is the process, made
available by the cross, by which we can return to God.
This reversal will once again give expression to the
life and light that we are as being in Him.
This also speaks that unto those who continue to
reject the work of salvation which God has made
available; there is a continuation of life locked into
that realm of darkness. Their countenance, their nature
expresses a realm of evil that maintains the
manifestation of that darkness. Matt. 6:23 states, “But
if thine eye be evil, the whole body shall be full
of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee
be darkness, how great is that darkness”.
With darkness, having many forms of expressions,
sometimes it even has the appearance of light; but its
source continues to be of the realm of darkness.
Can we understand that darkness is part of light? It
is simply light whose vibration has slowed way down.
Thus, man, in his fall, fell from a realm of pure light
to a realm of light slowed down to appear now as
darkness. Remember, God is “pure light” and in man’s
present fallen slowed down condition of darkness, he
cannot behold God and live. For this cause, God, the
Word, became flesh. Meaning that God emptied Himself to
become much less than what He really is. He lowered His
vibration of light to become a man. For what reason
did God Lower Himself? To deal with humanity on man’s
level of darkness, a far lower vibration than the
eternal God.
This means that God took on the form of slowed down
light to appear in the realm of fallen men and the
darken world. Jesus, as a flesh man, now depended upon
the Holy Spirit to maintain His total victory over the
flesh realm. Jesus gained victory over the realm of
darkness, first through total obedience to the Father
and then through His sacrifice on the cross. Man,
through receiving that available sacrifice can once
again approach the realm of light. That is, a quickening
of vibration by the Holy Spirit to relate again with God
in the realm of pure light. Therefore, we are encouraged
to let the revelation of God run its course in us, that
we might again become that pure light in spirit, soul
and body. Proverbs 4:18, “But the path of
the just is as the shining light, that shines more
and more unto the perfect day”.
With revelation from and of God coming
in a progressive manner, man has the tendency to build
temples around those certain revealed truths. When this
tendency transpires, it takes those certain truths of
light and boxes in the light, to slow it down again
until it finally becomes darkness again. Remember,
darkness is light which has slowed down. Man-made
temples become walls that stop the progressive flow of
Gods light, thus moving towards and again becoming
darkness. Therefore, revelation must remain free to move
us more and more into God’s perfect day. A day wherein
the light shines brighter than the noonday sun, a
perfect day of restoration. Knowing a reversal from
death into the power of His resurrection glorifies the
Father in all things.
John 8:12, “Then spoke Jesus again unto
them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that
follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall
have the light of life”.
Therefore, let us rise and shine for God’s glory is
available for all who are willing to see Him as He is.
In seeing Him as He is, man can become His image and
likeness to manifest Christ unto the entire world.
Thus, a called responding people becoming the light of
God, as they began to know who they really are in
Christ. Herein they manifest the Christ nature unto a
darken world, becoming God’s light bearers until
establishing completely the kingdom of God, that is by
removing all the darkness. Thus, who are we, but God’s
light bearers establishing the kingdom of God in the
earth. Arise and shine for God’s glory has come.