Here, I repeat a passage of Scripture that the prior portion of this offering of understanding references. I do so because it is the prophets vision of a divine gear.
Archive for May, 2011
Kingdoms of Man: Part Seventeen (Gears)
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Let Us Make Man: Part Three (Power of Possibility)
Thursday, May 12th, 2011To make a world requires equipment for advancement; or, you might think of it as an extension of the statement, “Clothes make the man”. The extension that we propose is to make the following statement: “Spiritual clothes, in the form of natural challenges, make the man.” As the first world was coming into being, the LORD made the natural challenges that would cover us, as the clothes of the world for the man.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 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.
(Genesis 2:4-7)
Now, man, by the direct action of God, was able to put on the “Ritz” (show forth in excellence).
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
(Genesis 2:8-17)
With mankind in a position to take up the challenge of developing the world, it was time for the Son to take up the challenge of developing the man (it is no accident that the Son is called, the Son of man). We are the Son’s project; for perfection and transformation. In that respect, at the time of Creation, on the seventh day; the Father seems to be saying to the Son, “MY Work is done, here”….