Let us make Man
The concept of most Christians today is, we were put on the earth today, under a curse of eternal death. The only way the to escape this judgement is by repenting, receiving Christ as our Saviour. If we don’t repent we will go to an eternal hell of endless punishment. Because of these teachings, people will respond to this “Gospel” to avoid this hell. They don’t have a clue that God has a plan for humanity before the foundation of the world. God’s plan for the ages “That God may be all in all.”
Theologians tell us the human race is dead in their trespasses & sins. Adam’s sin, which brought sin & death upon all men. This concept makes God someone to be feared. We must first understand what God had in mind when he created man. It is vital for us to understand who we are & why we are here. All this is confusion!!!
As we study the book of Genesis the book of beginnings, we will have a clear vision of who we are & where we came from. The first words of the Bible “in the beginning,” is not the reference to the beginning of God for He is eternal.
Gen. 1:26-28 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
This is man as he came out of the Creator’s hand, in the “ likeness & image of God.” Hebrew word for man here is (aw-Dawm) a generic term for mankind.
Gen. 2:23 the Hebrew word for “Adam” changes to “lysh” (eesh) as being the one out of whom the woman was taken. This is important because the created man is identified by John as the word or logos.
John 1: 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. & the woman was not taken out of him, but, out of “man”
formed from the dust of the earth. Gen.2: 7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God’s original man was created as pure Spirit with no mention of any “body” in Gen. 1:26-28. However he was later, in the fullness of time also to be clothed upon with a flesh & blood body through the virgin Mary. John 1: 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Now, all of mankind is represented in either of these two men. You are either in the first Adam or you are in the second Adam.
Dominion was given to the man created in the likeness & image of God, no mention of this authority is given to the man of dust. It was also given to the created man ( the Spirit man) that was told to be fruitful & replenish the earth. What man has created & replenished is himself. This is not what the Creator (Elohim or Father God) had in mind. The man created in the likeness & image of God was to fill the earth with the offspring out of HIMSELF. God has given us dominion over everything on the earth & the earth itself. This earth that is spoken of refers to man who is “the heavens & the earth” There is a spiritual part of man that is invisible (the heavens) & the earthly part of man which we call the body, (from the dust) So the dominion we have been given over the earth & everything in it, is subject to our spirit. Think on this spirit that lives in you. This spirit that keeps you alive. When you sleep at night & your heart keeps beating. Your lungs are working, your kidneys, your liver etc. It’s a driving force within you that acts apart from your consciousness & mine. Eph 2:10 . For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
James 1: 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Psalmist David said it this way. Psalms 8: 5. For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
All of creation is designed to manifest the Glory of God, for God is in all of His creation. The highest form of God’s creation is man. He is in the likeness & image of God & has the ability to manifest His glory. God Himself to the world.
This is what our elder brother did & showed us the way. We are to be clothed upon. That is his Glory. That is our redemption in the fullness Spirit, Soul & body.
1Cor.15: 45. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
- The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
- As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
- And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. (we have borne this image of the earthly long enough, lets go on & become the heavenly our Father intended for us to be.)
- Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (we are not that body any more of flesh & blood, we have come into the knowledge we are spirit beings. In the image of our heavenly Father.) We are being birthed into the Spirit of our living God. This is the new creation of man.
- Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (We are not in the Adamic sleep anymore, We are waking up to know who we are in HIM.)
- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (This word moment, does not mean a moment of time. The word means in the Atoms, this change will change every cell of your body with new life. At the last trump, the trumpet is sounding, you are hearing a new sound. This sound is the truth on who you are. a sound that is bringing life to you. The last trump is the word of truth coming forth freeing you from all the dead beliefs, all the deceits, we are having a mind change. Glory to God!) We are coming into His Kingdom, which is in you. A New creation in Christ Jesus.
- For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (This corruptible that we were, we are now putting on the truth ofwho we are. The incorruptible seed of our Father, the body will take on immortality.)
- So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (Overcoming the last enemy Death. You will never defeat death by dying, you overcome death by living as the Christ & being about our Father’s business.)
- O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
- The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. (We are no more under this curse. I Live for God. His Law is forgiveness, Love your neighbor as yourself & Love your God with all your heart, soul & strength.)