This is an introduction to the last segment of the Triune Man in Two Dominions Bible Study Series. We have covered a lot of ground and discussed the God created tri-une man. We started the series with the introduction of the series, which was a preparation study to the bible studies of the series: Man, the Spirit; Man, the Soul; Man, the body. We have since learned that the God of Creation made Mankind in his image and likeness, that is he created mankind to think like and act like him. That the God of creation has a soul, is Spirit and has expressed himself through the body of Jesus, the Christ. We discussed the responsibility of the tri-une man to follow the example of Jesus, who did not only come to earth to redeem mankind, but also leave us a blueprint on how a God filled man is supposed to operate upon the earth. We discovered that each of ours souls is the deciding part, choosing between following the appetites of the flesh and the desires of the spirit and that there is a constant battle between them. This makes the soul of each person very valuable because whichever the soul chooses to satisfy that is the lifestyle that person lives under. The tri-une man is a restored spiritual being, that is learning and using his spiritual faculties in We now come to the part of the series that discusses the two dominions that the God designed tri-une man operates in.
We begin with the concept that the Christian world view is the tri-une man world view: Mankind is the God of this world, not Satan. The idea that Satan is the God of this world has been the popular deception in the twentieth century. The truth is that God is Creator of Mankind and has delegated to him the stewardship of this world under the power and authority of God himself. Satan stole that power and authority given to Mankind through deception. Later Jesus through his passion has restored and is restoring that power and authority that was first given to Mankind in the beginning of Creation, thereby restoring Mankind's status as the God of this world. Now in the twenty-first century the Church, the body of born again believers (the restored tri-une persons), is awakening to a new consciousness and awareness. Believers today, are learning what they are and not just who they are and whose they are. They are learning that they are Spirits that possess souls that live on the natural dominion in physical bodies. However, they are not the only human physical bodies that are dwelling upon the earth. For unredeemed unbelieving mankind is also walking around in the natural dominion in physical bodies. Here is the issue: Jesus died and redeemed all of mankind: believing Mankind and unbelieving Mankind, but each member of unbelieving mankind has to receive and accept the redemption payment for all of their sins respectively. This they must do by faith in the promise of God through Jesus, the Christ who said that God sent him into the world where unredeemed and unbelieving mankind lived, not to bring judgement and condemnation to mankind, but to provide an opportunity for each member of mankind to choose to be redeemed, (John 3:18) that is to be saved. It has to be a personal decision, as the act of disobedience to the law of God by Adam was a personal decision, so also the act of redemption must be a personal decision of God therefore, also again the act of receiving redemption by unbelieving mankind is a personal decision. (Romans 10:9)
So the war for the hearts and minds of all mankind are waged between Satan influenced mankind and God influenced mankind, to see how many souls each can persuade to believe one side and not believe the other. Seeing that this is the case, it is the Church's responsibility collectively and individually to understand and use the laws of the Natural dominion and Spiritual dominion to build up the witness of God on the earth. So it is without further explanation we now commence the study of the Natural dominion and then following the study of the Spiritual dominion.
II. The Natural Dominion
A. What constitutes the Natural Dominion? (Genesis 1+2) What constitutes the natural dominion is Mankind, the trees, vegetation, the animals, Sun, Moon and all the minerals and precious commodities within it, everything that was made by mankind, the kingdoms, nations and governments of mankind with their respective economic systems and militaries, the
atmosphere, stars, clouds, fire, water, daylight and darkness or night. The triune man, that is believing mankind is steward over the natural dominion (Genesis 1:26-28; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23) that God through Christ has entrusted believing mankind to manage to the glorification of God. The triune man's purpose is to glorify God with the resources he or she has available. (Proverbs 3:9) The triune man must know how function according to or even exceed certain natural laws of the natural dominion. What are those natural laws? They are as follows:
1. The Law of Time
a) The natural dominion was kick-started by the Chrono's of God. God's life rhythm governs the life force of the planet. God interjection of light into a dark murky liquid state that began the cycle of light and darkness on the face of the deep. ( 2 Peter 3:5; Genesis 1:2-5)
2. The Law of Tides
a) The Natural dominion’s liquid state was kept in check by the God created Moon, while the earth was kept in check by the God created Sun. The gravitational pulls of the moon and of the Sun causes the tidewaters to rise and fall as well as agitate back and forth.(Genesis 1:14-18)
3. The Law of Seasons
a) This Natural Law is also dictated by the gravitational pulls of the Moon and the Sun as the Moon orbits the liquid state of the earth and the Liquid state of the earth orbits the God created Sun. (Genesis 1:14-18) As recent scientific observation has discovered that the orbital path of the earth is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse in which the Sun is off center to one side of the ellipse causing the Sun to appear larger during the warmer points of the year and farther in the colder parts of the year. The relational distance of the two is what effects the seasonal changes on a rhythmic basis. Jesus stated that understanding how things cycle in nature is the key to understanding the parables of the Kingdom of God . I will deal with that when we get to the laws of cycles.
4. The Law of Procreation
a) This Natural Law is a law that exists specifically in all mammals, All mammals on the planet procreates in one form or another, but one thing is consistent between all of them. The seed of their future existence is within each mammal species. (Genesis 1) This is the choice of the creator of the Universe to permit the multiplicity of every species on the the planet that some form of procreation would preserve the existence of the respective species.
5. The Law of Replenishment
a) Just as the Natural Law of procreation was implemented by the Creator, so was the Law of replenishment. Why replenish? The word hints to the pre-existence of something else that vacated the planet before the creation of mammals. That is another study. The point is the Law of Replenishment is the natural law that allows the management of the number of respective species on the planet. The chief species is the human species and it was given to this species the power to govern the planet and replenish the human species all over the earth. (Genesis 1:26)
6. The Law of Cycles
a) This Natural law is observable all over the place. Let us just start at replenishing and procreation. They both are in the various cycles of the lives of the various species of the planet, (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11, John 4:35) This natural law is also characterizes the cycles of seasons and times. Time is a cycle that we take a linear look in order to understand where we were and to project to where we might end up. Seed time and Harvest time are periodic cycles that allow farmers to produce food for consumption. The triune man has to to know the beginning of good cycles and the beginning of bad cycles. For example the story of Joseph son of Israel in the bible is a good example: Joseph was so in-tuned to his spiritual purpose in God that God revealed to him the interpretation of the Pharaoh's nightmare. A nightmare that disclosed two cycles, one of plenty another of famine both for period of 7 years. Because Joseph interpreted a nightmare of the Pharaoh via revelation, for the Pharaoh did not disclose the nightmare to him, he was put in charge of the management of all the goods and produce of Egypt, so that when the period of famine hit the nation of Egypt, Egypt's economy would not suffer.
7. The Law of Agreement
a) This natural law speaks more directly to how Humans deal with each other. Now there are various different types of Agreements that dictate behavior of those agreed. Those agreements took the form and still in some cases the form of pacts, contracts and covenants. These 3 written type of documents if managed properly can elevate a triune man to the place where he can serve God in Christ unhindered. On the other hand if the triune being mismanages these documents he will find himself bound to live a life slaving for his freedom from them. Now I am no lawyer, but you don’t have to be one to know that if I made a pact with someone, I am obligated to whatsoever I promised. Why? Because God lives up to his promises, and since I am a representative of God, any pact I make with anyone is a reflection on God and his goodness. A pact can take the form of a simple promise to doing a certain vowed thing for someone. Once we put our word on a pact we are committed to live up to that agreement. Now suppose the other party does not live up to their side of the agreement? If the other party is a believer, you must seek to forgive him, because unlike you, that person may be ignorant of what he is and how his words are important in representing God to the world. If the other party is not a believer, release him from his indebtedness to you and count it as a seed planted in his life. Why? Because whatsoever you plant in the life of another will return to you (Luke 6:34+35).
i. I remembered learning this principle when a classmate borrowed a calculator from me promising to give it back to me the very next day. Well that classmate did not return the calculator, but I saw him the very next day. What did I do? I counted it as a seed planted in his life. Did I lend to him again? No I did not, but I in returned received 5 new calculators from different sources. This didn’t only happened with the calculator, it happened later in my life when I gave away clothes or food or anything else and counted it as a seed planted in those people’s lives, did not God find a way for me to be blessed through different resources. So too a triune man must learn to be forgiving and compassionate if he is to operate in this natural dimension the way He wants him to operate.
b. Now it is important that a triune being be careful with whom he is agreeing with and for what he is agreeing to. The terms of the agreement must be clear and fully understood. (This is where reading the fine print of an agreement is very important) All the clauses and the rights afforded to the triune being must be clear. Any degree of ambiguity in a written agreement can leave and avenue for dishonest behavior and for a triune being to be defrauded of his rights. Case in point: The laborers in the Vineyard (Mathew 20:1-15), the men in the first hour did not think to renegotiate their wages with the vineyard owner, they assumed that since they worked longer than all the rest of the laborers that were hired later than they were that they were to receive more. What they got was what they agreed to. The same is true for the triune being, he must be careful what agreements he or she makes for whatever benefit the triune being thinks he or she ought to receive. Make no assumptions, implied or assumed agreements makes for confusion and discontention between the parties involved. It is not a moral issue, it is practical one. If it was practical for the vineyard owner to put all those idle men to work for a penny a day so that his harvest would get done, why should those men get upset after agreeing to work the whole day for just a penny? Now if increases were promised by the vineyard owner and they did not receive what was agreed to then they would have a legitimate complaint.
Now in the US, we have regulations and laws, written laws and those laws allow us to live in this nation in peace with everyone else. The triune being must obey these laws as long they do not interfere with his worship and obedience to God. If any law interferes with the triune beings freedom to worship God, that triune being, in the US, can protest that his rights to worship granted by the constitution and the bill of rights of this country have been violated and can pursue litigation against that which is preventing his freedom to worship.
c. The Listing of Agreements
i There are agreements listed all over the Bible. They are initially symbolized as by one party or person giving something of considered value to another in the sight of witnesses for another item. This is known as the Barter system and it was the way things were done because written words were not fully developed yet. A good biblical example of this system being in effect in Geneses is when Abraham purchased the burial plot for himself and his family from the people he sojourned among in Canaan. (Genesis 23:19 + 25:10) Later as words became visible on stone and parchment, agreements were written down and witnessed for validation. Since then mankind has developed different written forms of agreements. The following list are the different forms of agreements since biblical times.
1. Promissory: This type of agreement takes the form of a small debt contract agreed to by all parties involved and validated by witnesses. An IOU is a promissory note for example where one party promises to pay to another party at a later date for the debt he or she incurred.
2. Verbal: This is one of the oldest forms of agreement. We sort of discussed this in the general discussion concerning agreements. This agreement can be issued by one side also. For example: A vow is a verbal agreement (Eccls 5:5, Duet 23:21). One dynamic of verbal agreements is that they are convertible to any other form of written agreements. For example: Once a vow is written down it can become a promissory note.
3. Legal agreements: This type of agreement takes many forms and is used for various reasons. Some of the different types of legal are:
A. Non-circumvent agreement- This is a type of legal agreement that prohibits any changes to any signed contractual agreement and may appear as a clause within an agreement.
B. Statutory agreement- This is an agreement that is based upon and framed by governmental laws and may appear as a clause within an agreement.
C. Testament agreement-This is an agreement of the author, also known as the testator, who bestows powers, rights and property to another usually a heir of the author. Testament agreement does not go into effect until the testator dies.
D. Land Covenant agreement- This is an agreement that certain conditions of the land will remain in place until the last descendant of a people or of a family passes away.
E. Purchase agreement- This is a sales agreement between a seller and a buyer of a product property, the latter usually is preceded by and written offer to purchase accompanied with a financial consideration issued by the buyer.
F. Governmental Law agreements- Theses are a set of laws or rules ratified by a corporate body of people who agrees to be govern by.
1) Monarchies- This is a form of government that is constituted by a King and a court of nobles or Lords. Kings and Lords are not elected. They are appointed: Kings by divine appointment and birthright and Nobles by Kingly appointment.
2) Democracies- This is a form of government that people agreed to be ruled by. The leaders of a Democracies are elected and serve designated length of times in office.
3) Dictatorships- This is the form of government that a person of persuasion and military prowess impose his or her rulership over people. Dictators are not elected or appointed. Dictators take leadership over the people most of the time against the will of the people.
G. Marriage agreements- This is a type of agreement that two people mutually enter into, either for economic benefit, popularity, politically security and lastly for romance. These types of agreements that founded and develop societies. Biblical marriages are constituted of a man and a woman who have decided to join themselves together to form a foundation to a family unit and have commence the union through vows of loyalty and devotion and a commitment to their union until death takes either one of them away, thus dissolving the union.
ii. One thing to keep in mind about written agreements, they are binding. That is, once they are agreed to and a commitment is made, the parties involved are obligated to the terms of the agreement and to the performance of the terms that agreement requires. Any party involved in a written agreement does not perform according to the terms of an agreement, that party, is in breach of the contract and are therefore subject to the penalties identified in the agreement.
There are problably more Natural Laws than what I have disclosed in this article. I leave that for you, dear reader to discover. For if I could list every natural law. It would be a book to itself. Besides we only have traveled so far in this series to fall short of the end. That is the revelation of the Spiritual Dominion
III The Spiritual Dominion
A. What constitutes the Spiritual Dominion: The Spiritual Dominion has two sides, one side is Darkness the other side is Light. God Created both.(Genesis 1:1-4, Isaiah 45:7) The darkness of the Spiritual Dominion came into existence when Lucifer and his Angels rebelled against God. Understand that God is light and anything that alienates or separates from the light of God enters darkness. God had to place those who rebelled against him somewhere in the Spiritual Dominion, so God placed those fallen Angels and Lucifer, aka Satan in the darkness in the Spiritual Dominion until the day of their final judgment.(Jude 1:6; Luke 10:18) Now this darkness is a corresponding darkness we experience on the earth everyday. God design the movement of the earth so, so that we can understand what the spiritual dominion is like. Earth is a reflection of the Spiritual dominion and as such is subject to many of the same Laws the Natural Dominion is subjected to. There is a very few exceptions. One is the Law of Gravity, in the Spiritual Dominion there is no law of gravity, what goes up does not necessarily come back down. In the Spiritual Dominion Angels fly, Demons fly and travel faster than light. Remember Demons were once Angels so traveling by flying is not a problem with them they are restricted to remain in the Dominion of Darkness, the darkness of the Spiritual Dominion. The Spiritual Dominion has the Holy City in the Midst of it and the lamb of God is the light of that City. That city is the kingdom of Christ. The kingdom of God covers the expanse of the whole of creation both spiritual and natural. The Spiritual Dominion has spirits of just men made perfect communing with the Lamb of God and it has tortured souls in the bowels of Hell, held there until the final judgment where all souls in hell will be tossed along with hell in to the place of eternal torment: The lake of fire. God had to create the Lake of fire for Satan and his Angels, Hell is just the holding cell. Neither the Lake of fire or Hell was not designed for Human souls to inhabit, unfortunately some human souls will suffer in there as their souls are tossed in along with Satan and the fallen Angels at the final judgment. Now remember the spiritual dominion is just a state that overlaps the earthly existence. One day God will make the holy City appear and place it on the physical Earth. For now it exists spiritually in the hearts of believers of God on the earth. Now to address some obvious questions:
If the fallen Angels are restricted in the dominion of darkness how come they can posses a soul on earth?
The answer to that question is simple. The Spiritual Dominion co-exists along with the Natural Dominion, that is reflected in the fact that God allowed night to exist on the natural dominion. Demons can only possess a soul by permission of that soul. A soul can give a demon possession of his or her soul knowingly or in ignorance. Angels assist souls in the effort to do good and give glory to God.
Why does Demons need to possess souls?
Demons need to possess souls because a spirit can not do any physical harm to anyone, Demons are spiritual beings, Satan is a spiritual being and can not do to any person any physical harm unless he is permitted to inhabit a physical body. Remember when Jesus cast out 1000 demons out of a man and sent them into a herd of swine which ran into the water and drowned? (Mark 5:1-13) Demons can not actuate physical harm unless they possess a physical body. They know if they can posses the soul of a Tri-une man, they can make that man do anything they want him to do. They have to be invited in by the one to be possessed. Jesus is the only hope for persons possessed by a Demon. All that possessed person has to to is show that he believes that Jesus can deliver him and Jesus will deliver him. Remember that story in the Gospels of the demon possessed boy whose father solicited the services of Jesus to exercise the demon out of the boy? The father said, I believe, help thou my unbelief. That little statement of faith in Jesus's ability to deliver his son from the demon that possessed him was enough to allow Jesus to deliver the man's son. (Mark 9:17-25) Demons also need to possess souls because God gave mankind authority over everything. So if a Demon can possess one tri-une man's soul he can control the authority that tri-une soul possessed. Demons do not have to cause physical harm to the one it possesses, the demon can influence the thoughts and words of the one possessed to frustrate the will of God on the earth, which is to win and save as many souls as he can before the day of the final judgment. God has chosen that the best way to win souls is to have other tri-une persons who believe in Him to persuade unbelieving tri-une persons to be saved by Him. Demons attempt to possess as many souls or deceive as many souls as possible so that those souls will not choose to be saved by God.
Why don't Angels try to possess a tri-une man's soul?
Angels do not need to possess a tri-une man's soul because Angels act under the authority of God and of tri-une man. They do not need to steal the authority away from a believing soul to do the will of God. All angels can do is obey the commands of a tri-une man in the will of God. (Hebrews 1:13+14) This however limits what an Angel can do. If a tri-une man does not possess enough faith in his own God given authority to command them according to the will of God, they can not do anything. The tri-une believer in God commands angels through his prayer requests and petitions. Once a tri-une believer prays a request that is in line with the will of God, the Angels are activated to move on that prayer request. Angels can influence men, cause situations be turned around in favor of the tri-une man that prayed the request. Angels send words of inspiration and encouragement to tri-une believers of God to keep them encouraged. Many times these encouraging words are delivered through a message of a preacher. Ever hear a preacher say, I do not know who this message is for or why I am going this way in this message and then preach a message that ministers to the heart of a soul that needed to hear it. I have experience such a thing as a lay person and as a preacher. I was prepared to preach a particular message one Sunday. As soon as I began to preach my message went entirely a different direction than what I had planned to share. At the end many people came to me and stated that the message was what they needed to hear at that time. Because I, as a tri-une believer in the office of a preacher, yielded to the promptings of the Spirit of God through his holy Angels was able to deliver the word that was needed to be heard at that time. This is important for tri-une believers to know, yield to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, yield to what angels are telling you to do in the will of God. I just watched the testimony of a young man that said that God told him in the 1st grade to pay off his grand parents mortgage. He yielded to that command, it took some sacrifice, it took some time, but he completed what God told him to do. That man received a financial blessing for his obedience. It testified to me to that if I do what God told me to do, God will bless me.
Now in this series we have moved from Man the Soul to Man the Spirit to Man the body to the Two Dominions, but all this is a waste if you are not saved. None of this means anything to you if you haven’t taken advantage of the life God has prepared for you in Christ. Do you want to know how to become his child and learn all the secrets of his kingdom? Just say the following prayer with all your heart.
Dear heavenly Father,
In Jesus’ name, I come to
you now as a repentant sinner. I confess
all of my sinfulness to you and ask you to forgive all of my sins for Jesus’
sake. Wash away all of my sins by the blood of your Son Jesus. For I now believe that Jesus died for my sins
according to your Holy Word, the Bible and that he was raised from the death
according to the Bible. I now invite
your Holy Spirit to come and live inside of me and make me your child. I
promise to strive to live holy everyday with the Help of your Holy Spirit and
by studying the Bible every day. I thank you Lord for saving me.
If you have recited the
above prayer with all sincerity, I welcome you the Family of God! Right now the
Angels of heaven are rejoicing because you have repented and believed in the
hope of all men’s salvation. Jesus, the
Christ, the Son of God.
The next thing you need
to do is find a bible believing church, so that you can grow up in Christ and
in God. To become what God designed you to be.
Isn’t that exciting!?!
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