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Originally Posted by Apprehended
I see where you are coming from and I do not necessarily disagree except that I think there is something more to the creation of man than what you described above...your very good thought notwithstanding.
I've made mention in some of my preaching and teaching that the very highest ambition of God from the beginning which was thwarted by sin and rebellion is for fellowship with his men, with whom he can walk and talk. God's greatest delight before his great disappointment (though he knew the end from the beginning) was his coming down in the cool of the evening, calling to Adam for a walk and time of sharing and fellowship. I'm sure Adam looked forward to it also.
Sin broke that fellowship. From that day to this, God has been working to restore man back to a level of brilliant, light filled holiness that he can then realize his highest and most cherished ambition as seen in the back of the book, at near the conclusion of all that is said and done:
Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
Since the earth is given to men forever, Jesus will return to live with his beloved in sweet and divine fellowship upon an earth already restore back to its original pristine condition where all death, even in the animal and plant life, will be forever abolished by those to whom the earth is given...the true children of God. For the whole earth groan is travail waiting on the manifested work of the sons of God to come to that level of truth and holiness that such an effect might manifest. Heaven must retain him until the times of restitution of all things lost by Adam and his bride through disobedience yet to be restored by the last Adam and His bride through obedience. |
Amen, I agree. Man is God's greatest creation and God's counterpart, so to speak, as a wife is for a husband. Mankind will produce OFFSPRING, so to speak, of works for God by His Spirit
inseminating those works from the invisible realm through us into the visible realm, to impact the physical realm with His Kingdom. Hence, we are servants doing the work of the Master (
Rom 6), branches bearing forth His fruit (
Rom 6,
John 15), and wives producing offspring for the Husband (
Rom 7:4). But even in all of that, the key note is manifesting His spiritual will out of the heavens into the physical realm of earth.
I was coming from the practical purpose contrasted with the traditional idea of merely dying and going to heaven one day. I'll fly away, When we all Get to Heaven, and Some Glad Morning, have taken us off-course from the will of God in the world.
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