We Were Created to Inhabit This Earth Part 2
Now in the Constitution, in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah makes this statement:
Constitutional Scripture: Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
For those of us who claim to know the Lord; that statement should be enough.
Focus Point: Keep in mind, in God's plan, the Earth has always had a purpose. God never intended to create the Earth and then leave it empty. From the very beginning, even before he formed the Earth, God envisioned it filled with plants and animal life of every variety, all of it overseen and ruled by human beings created in His image and exercising His delegated authority.
Please note: In God's Constitution (Psalm 115:16) it says: The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Focus Point: The Earth has been given to mankind. Therefore, any religion that teaches or emphasizes leaving the Earth to live forever in some other place in the "life to come" completely misses the point.
Please note: I realize that God's constitution says that heaven and Earth will pass away:
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Corinthians 7:31 and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
I John 2:17 and the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Please note: But keep in mind, it also promises a new heaven and a new Earth.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Isaiah 65:17 For behold I created new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me," says the Lord, So shall your descendants and your name remain."
II Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
Questions: If God's original intent--for the Earth to be inhabited--was going to change with the passing of this present world, why would He create a new one? The human being's future in the Kingdom of Heaven will always involve the Earth; a created Earth.
Focus Point: Remember, God's original intent, and His continuing purpose, was and is to extend His invisible heavenly Kingdom to this Earth; to influence Earth from Heaven through the rulership of His earthly children created in His image. The expansion of the government, by planting an outpost in that new place is called colonization and the outpost so planted is called a colony.
Question: Do you remember the original Thirteen Colonies? They were a product of the government of Great Britain.
Please note: Well, God's original intent was to make Earth a colony of Heaven.
Focus Point: Now I realize that throughout history most human colonization has been characterized by coercion, brutality, greed, exploitation, victimization and oppression. These traits, in fact, reflect the nature and tactics of Satan, the original enemy of humanity, who illegally seized control of God's original garden "colony" and deposited its rightful rulers: Adam and Eve.
Please note: Colonization was God's original idea not man's. But unlike God's idea for colonization, he was disobedient; like most of us.
Focus Point: Just as a garden gradually, beautifully, and completely transforms the fallow ground where it is planted; the influence of God's Kingdom of Earth grows gradually and often invisibly until eventually it will fill the Earth, infusing it with the culture of Heaven.
Please note: I didn't say influenced by a religion called "Christianity", but by the kingdom. Here is what our Lord says it's like:
Constitutional Scriptures:
Matthew 13:33 Another parable He spoke to them: The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal til it was all leavened"
Luke 13:18-19 Then He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? And to what do I compare it? 19) It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches."
Focus Point: God's ultimate goal in planting His garden "colony" was to fill the Earth with His glory.
Constitutional Scriptures: Numbers 14:21 God told Moses: but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Psalm 72:19 and blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
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Constitutional Scripture: Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who has established it, who did not create it in vain, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
For those of us who claim to know the Lord; that statement should be enough.
Focus Point: Keep in mind, in God's plan, the Earth has always had a purpose. God never intended to create the Earth and then leave it empty. From the very beginning, even before he formed the Earth, God envisioned it filled with plants and animal life of every variety, all of it overseen and ruled by human beings created in His image and exercising His delegated authority.
Please note: In God's Constitution (Psalm 115:16) it says: The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Focus Point: The Earth has been given to mankind. Therefore, any religion that teaches or emphasizes leaving the Earth to live forever in some other place in the "life to come" completely misses the point.
Please note: I realize that God's constitution says that heaven and Earth will pass away:
Constitutional Scriptures:
I Corinthians 7:31 and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
I John 2:17 and the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Please note: But keep in mind, it also promises a new heaven and a new Earth.
Constitutional Scriptures:
Isaiah 65:17 For behold I created new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me," says the Lord, So shall your descendants and your name remain."
II Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
Questions: If God's original intent--for the Earth to be inhabited--was going to change with the passing of this present world, why would He create a new one? The human being's future in the Kingdom of Heaven will always involve the Earth; a created Earth.
Focus Point: Remember, God's original intent, and His continuing purpose, was and is to extend His invisible heavenly Kingdom to this Earth; to influence Earth from Heaven through the rulership of His earthly children created in His image. The expansion of the government, by planting an outpost in that new place is called colonization and the outpost so planted is called a colony.
Question: Do you remember the original Thirteen Colonies? They were a product of the government of Great Britain.
Please note: Well, God's original intent was to make Earth a colony of Heaven.
Focus Point: Now I realize that throughout history most human colonization has been characterized by coercion, brutality, greed, exploitation, victimization and oppression. These traits, in fact, reflect the nature and tactics of Satan, the original enemy of humanity, who illegally seized control of God's original garden "colony" and deposited its rightful rulers: Adam and Eve.
Please note: Colonization was God's original idea not man's. But unlike God's idea for colonization, he was disobedient; like most of us.
Focus Point: Just as a garden gradually, beautifully, and completely transforms the fallow ground where it is planted; the influence of God's Kingdom of Earth grows gradually and often invisibly until eventually it will fill the Earth, infusing it with the culture of Heaven.
Please note: I didn't say influenced by a religion called "Christianity", but by the kingdom. Here is what our Lord says it's like:
Constitutional Scriptures:
Matthew 13:33 Another parable He spoke to them: The Kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal til it was all leavened"
Luke 13:18-19 Then He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? And to what do I compare it? 19) It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches."
Focus Point: God's ultimate goal in planting His garden "colony" was to fill the Earth with His glory.
Constitutional Scriptures: Numbers 14:21 God told Moses: but truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Psalm 72:19 and blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.
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