I understand that most people today think of colonization in a very negative term, particularly those countries and islands that have lived under colonial rule. When I was a child back in Brooklyn, New York in the fourth and fifth grades, I used to read and study about the thirteen colonies, that landed here from England. At that time I really didn't understand the true essence, other than they wanted their own independence. Now I realize it was God's original idea for the planet earth. Remember I said most people look at colonization as a negative term? Well, for good reason. Throughout history almost all 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. Satan illegally seized control of God's original garden "colony" and deposed its rightful rulers, Adam and Eve.
Keep in mind, colonization was God's original idea, but unlike man's way of colonizing, His colony here on Earth took the form of a garden. As an analogy, a garden shares the same general traits as a colony, but without all the negative baggage. In sharp contrast to the violent and forceful way that human beings' empires expand; the Lord God's way was much more subtle. Just as a garden, gradually, beautifully and completely transforms the fallow ground where it is planted, the influence of the Lord God's Kingdom on Earth grows gradually and often invisible until eventually it will fill the Earth, infusing it with the culture of Heaven. Jesus put it this way: Another parable He put forth to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” He also compared the Kingdom to a mustard seed: Then He said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 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.
The Lord God's ultimate goal in planning His garden "colony" was to fill the Earth with His glory. It is the same when we are filled with His Word, the Lord God can use us for His glory, but we have to be a citizen of the kingdom in right standing in order for us to be His representative.
Matthew 13:33 Luke 13:18-19
~~W.R. Luchie
Keep in mind, colonization was God's original idea, but unlike man's way of colonizing, His colony here on Earth took the form of a garden. As an analogy, a garden shares the same general traits as a colony, but without all the negative baggage. In sharp contrast to the violent and forceful way that human beings' empires expand; the Lord God's way was much more subtle. Just as a garden, gradually, beautifully and completely transforms the fallow ground where it is planted, the influence of the Lord God's Kingdom on Earth grows gradually and often invisible until eventually it will fill the Earth, infusing it with the culture of Heaven. Jesus put it this way: Another parable He put forth to them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.” He also compared the Kingdom to a mustard seed: Then He said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 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.
The Lord God's ultimate goal in planning His garden "colony" was to fill the Earth with His glory. It is the same when we are filled with His Word, the Lord God can use us for His glory, but we have to be a citizen of the kingdom in right standing in order for us to be His representative.
Matthew 13:33 Luke 13:18-19
~~W.R. Luchie
