Authority

Genesis 1:22
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

When God created man it was a perfect and wonderful thing. He gave us a perfect earth with all that we ever needed. Everything that He intended to make, created, and then set into existence was already in place before He formed man. God’s original intention, from the start of creation was to give us the universe. He formed it all from nothing and then, from His incredible creation, He pulled us, mankind, out.

God gave us an even greater gift than the universe though; He gave us free will. He gave us the ability to choose if we would love Him, obey Him, and trust Him. Some say that He put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden to tempt us, but I say He put it there because He loved us. God didn’t want a “yes-man”, He wanted a true friend, one who chose to be with Him.

We all know the story; how Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit because the Devil tricked them and we were cursed. Everything that God had given us dominion over, including the very Earth itself, was taken away. We no longer had the power to cause the lion and lamb to lie down together; we lost the ability to grow vegetables without toil. We even lost the control that was given to us to subdue the Earth. Yes, we had the ability to say to the raging storms and violent volcanoes, “Stop!” and they would! The first Adam messed it all up, and we continue to do the same even today.

Jesus, however, the second Adam, became the perfect Man according to God’s will and design. He subjected Himself to the temptations and whims of mortal man by becoming human and dwelling with us on earth. Without sin, without spot, and without blemish, Jesus fulfilled all of God’s laws and plans for mankind. It was God’s plan for man to rule over nature, including sickness and disease, and Jesus did. It was God’s plan for man to worship Him out of choice and love, which Jesus did. It was God’s design that man would have control over the very earth itself, which Jesus did. (Mark 4:39)

Jesus Christ was the perfection of God’s creation. He was the Man that God intended from the start and because He was the only perfect Man to walk in, and fulfill all of God’s will, He became the perfect sacrifice as well. It is through His perfection that we are justified, sanctified, and redeemed to the Father. Salvation (Yeshua- Isaiah 43:3) has come, Redemption (Ga’al-Job 19:25) is ours!