Fathership vs Dictatorship
God made His political views known from the beginning…in Eden. He demonstrated the desires of His heart towards Adam and Eve , and ultimately all man when, by the works of His own hands, He provided them with every physical and spiritual joy as they dwelt with Him in the perfect Father/Child fellowship in Eden…..the dwelling place of God……the Kingdom of God. In the perfect home with their Father, Adam and Eve knew only ‘good’ (Matt 19: 17 ……there is none good but one, that is, God:). He purposed for His children to be the offspring of the Holy Trinity (‘let us make man in our image’). To bring His purpose to
fulfillment, Adam and Eve would need to Love the Father as He loves them. But how can they ‘know’ or recognize the fullness of Love when they do not ‘know’ hate? How can they ‘know’ or recognize the fullness of Good when they do not ‘know’ the fullness of evil? How can they ‘love’ the Father as He loves them…when they do not ‘know’ or perceive the nature of Love? So.. for their ‘knowing’ or learning of all these things, they would be separated from Him, for a time, to encounter or to also ‘know’ evil ( Heb 9:27… it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:) But, wait, it doesn’t end there !!!!! (1 Thes 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. )
He allowed Eve, who ‘knew’ only Good, to be approached by ‘the most subtle deceiver’ who would ‘beguile’ the unsuspecting daughter of God. Since Adam knew to ‘leave father and mother and cleave to his wife’…..he would willingly and knowingly partake of the same ‘separation’ from the Father and go to the side of ‘spiritual death’ with his ‘bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh’….Eve ( 1 Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression). Now is the will of the Father fulfilled and man is become in the Father’s image concerning knowing both Good and Evil (Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever 23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.) Now man is ready to fulfill the political phase for which he was created…..by the appointment of God…that of ’tilling the soil’ (Gen 2:5 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). Man has now fulfilled his ‘appointed’ temporary separation from God and now dwells in the ‘valley’ described by David. Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Man must, for a season, by way of obedience to God’s ordinances and Levitical laws, dwell with the Father at some distance…and not face to face….until such time that the veil is ‘rent’ by the redemptive act of Christ. Then, to ‘know’ Christ is again to ‘know’ the Father by way of being ‘born’ out of the blackness of the womb of death into the glorious family of God.
(Gal 4:6..And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father).
Therefore, the politics of God is fully democratic. Man is allowed by the Creator to choose whom he will serve. Man will choose to belong to the Good (God) party or the Evil (Man) party. But he CANNOT belong to both. Man will choose to belong to the righteous Kingdom of God …in the here and now…or he will choose to remain subjected to the kingdom of man and partake of its lusts, pride, bondage, greed, temporal wealth, rebellion, ignorance, false truths, self-righteousness, and eternal death and destruction. (Matt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matt 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ 10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ).
God, in His infinite wisdom, gave us all the answers in the Word…..even before we had asked the questions. As we encounter and experience the worldly government of our nation and others, remember that man is subject to a much higher authority than that of ‘ceasar’. The politics of God are aimed at redeeming man back to Eden and to full fellowship with the father. The Word which became ‘flesh and dwelt among us’… addresses all the issues we encounter today…such as the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Civil Rights Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Labor Laws, Gay Rights, Woman’s Right to Choose, Civil Laws, Supreme Court, Justice, Executive/Legislative/Judicial Branches of Government, Elections, Taxation, Manifest Destiny, Soveriegnties/Ruler-ships, Terrorism, The Middle East, Arab/Israeli Conflict, Peace and Safety . And God’s ‘politics’ can be trusted to be pure, without partiality, and trustworthy.
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