Kingdom 102: Surrendering Our Heavenly Passport
Allow me to share this with you: Whenever a citizen of a country is convicted of a crime against the state and is about to be incarcerated, one of the first things that the government requires is that they surrender their passport. A passport is one of our most important and significant symbols of citizenship. Why? Because it is an official document that identifies our legal status as a citizen of a specific nation. It grants us the freedom of citizens to travel outside our country and still enjoy all the rights and privileges that we have at home.
Now, in requiring a citizen to surrender their passport, the government is saying "you are under judgment and during such time have forfeited your citizenship rights". Citizens have the right to move freely, earn a living, own property, buy food, drive on the streets, pay taxes, and receive the benefits and services provided by their government.
Please note: A citizen that is convicted of a crime is not a citizen in good standing. They have fallen out of favor and position with the government. During the term of the sentence, they must relinquish many of those rights and privileges, particularly freedom of movement. Incarcerated prisoners must endure great restrictions of their personal freedom. The correctional system owns them and controls every aspect of their lives from the time they rise in the morning, when they eat, what they do during the day, and when them turn out the lights and go to bed.
This was Adam's experience when he failed to keep the Lord God's command. Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground,f or out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
When Adam chose to become disobedient (sin), he lost his favored status. In essence, Adam fell out of position with the government and had all of his citizens rights cancelled. The animals failed to obey him. They were considered wild animals (uncontrolled or ungoverned). The birds failed to adhere to his call. The Lord God took away his "passport" and Adam became a prisoner of darkness, a slave to sin (disobedience) and was to be ruled by a "warden" named Lucifer (Satan).
Genesis 3:17-19
W.R. Luchie
Now, in requiring a citizen to surrender their passport, the government is saying "you are under judgment and during such time have forfeited your citizenship rights". Citizens have the right to move freely, earn a living, own property, buy food, drive on the streets, pay taxes, and receive the benefits and services provided by their government.
Please note: A citizen that is convicted of a crime is not a citizen in good standing. They have fallen out of favor and position with the government. During the term of the sentence, they must relinquish many of those rights and privileges, particularly freedom of movement. Incarcerated prisoners must endure great restrictions of their personal freedom. The correctional system owns them and controls every aspect of their lives from the time they rise in the morning, when they eat, what they do during the day, and when them turn out the lights and go to bed.
This was Adam's experience when he failed to keep the Lord God's command. Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground,f or out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
When Adam chose to become disobedient (sin), he lost his favored status. In essence, Adam fell out of position with the government and had all of his citizens rights cancelled. The animals failed to obey him. They were considered wild animals (uncontrolled or ungoverned). The birds failed to adhere to his call. The Lord God took away his "passport" and Adam became a prisoner of darkness, a slave to sin (disobedience) and was to be ruled by a "warden" named Lucifer (Satan).
Genesis 3:17-19
W.R. Luchie
