Transcending World Systems

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Genesis 1:26 (NKJV)

The Spirit of God has been teaching me about the dominion of the original man.

To have dominion means to be in charge of the laws and systems of creation. It is also the ability to create and forge new systems and laws to advance and expand the Kingdom of Heaven.

The present system of the world is diabolical, with nature under Satan, but Christians have access to higher systems and laws that govern life. "Your Father knows that you need these things," the things the Gentiles seek after. The system of Satan tells man to seek after things in order to have them; the system of God says that man must seek the Kingdom in order to have the things. It is a higher system of life. God is implying that a man who seeks the Kingdom does not have to work long hours to buy a car or a house. There are secrets to the dominion of the original man. Adam did not work, in the modern sense of the word, and yet he had all the abundance in the world, because he operated in God's system.

The fundamental problem in Christianity is that we do not see mankind as God's creation; we see men as agents of Satan. So in our minds, everyone who is succeeding without being a Christian is the devil's work, and we fail to realise that it is only through operating God's laws that any man succeeds. God created man before there was any Christian. Christianity exists because of the fall of man; had man not fallen, there would be no race called Christians or Jews. When God put the laws of nature and of creation into effect, all He had in mind was the progress of mankind.

It is striking that when Jesus said "seek the Kingdom," He used a very particular Greek word for "seek," one that means to demand the Kingdom of God. It makes sense, because He also spoke of the Kingdom being taken by violence.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Matthew 11:12 (NKJV)