The Release of the Material Creation
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The Lord God of Heaven created the material realm, including the bodies of human beings. The material creation was "very good" when it was made (Genesis 1:31) and it still is very good. The weakness of Eden did not come from the material creation itself. The problem had to do with the fact there was not found in man a spirit capable of governing the paradise which the Lord God had placed upon the earth.
One of the main purposes of God in Christ is to develop ruling spirits who will be able to bring order and eternal life into the material creation. The Kingdom of God is the governing of the material creation by righteous and holy spirits who are perfectly obedient to the Father in Heaven.
Table of Contents
The Development of Ruling Spirits
Clothing God with a Material Form
The Nonovercomer
What It Means "To Overcome"
Some Definitions
'Adam and Eve
The Inner Spiritual Nature and the Material Form
The Perfected Spiritual Nature Will Govern the Material Realm
Spiritual Development and Material Expression
'The Resurrection of the Dead
Eating of the Tree of Life
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Romans 8:21)
The Lord God of Heaven created the material realm, including the bodies of human beings. The material creation was "very good" when it was made (Genesis 1:31) and it still is very good.
The problem of Eden did not come from the material creation itself. The problem had to do with the fact there was not found in man a spirit capable of governing the paradise that the Lord God had placed on the earth.
Adam and Eve merely were people of flesh and blood. Their spiritual nature was weak and inexperienced. Therefore, as always will happen, stronger and more experienced spirits took control. In this instance the stronger spirits were rebellious and wicked.
The Christian churches for a long time, maybe from their beginning, have not understood that God intends to remove sin from the earth. Paradise was on earth in the beginning. Paradise will once again be on earth when God has finished redeeming the earth, only this time Paradise will be protected by a great wall.
Paradise is in the spirit realm at the present time. And so traditionally the goal of salvation has been presented as eternal life in Heaven. This goal has served to the present hour. Now that the Kingdom of God is ready to come to the earth the Spirit of God is opening the Scriptures to us so we can see that the goal of redemption is not eternal residence in the spirit realm but the release of the material creation into the liberty of the children of God.
That the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. (Romans 8:21-NIV)
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. (Isaiah 55:12-NIV)
The release of the creation will not come about as God pours out glory from the clouds. Rather the release will come at the hands of the sons of God. Man permitted sin to enter the earth and produce corruption and death. Through Jesus Christ, man will be able to drive sin, corruption, and death from the earth and fill all nature with the Holy Spirit.
This is the meaning of the following:
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:3,4-NIV)
The dwelling of God is the Church, the Body and Bride of Christ. When the Church comes down from Heaven to rest on a high mountain of the new earth the Presence of God will be here. Then through the Church God will wipe every tear from the eyes of the people of the saved nations, bringing death, mourning, crying, and pain to an end.
It is as simple as this.
The problem is that of removing sin from the Church and bringing Christ to maturity in the Church. For until sin has been removed from the Church, and Christ has been brought to maturity in the Church and is dwelling in the Church, it is not possible for God in the Church to release the nations and the physical creation into the liberty of the children of God.
In the days of the Apostles the Spirit of revelation and power was present on the earth, not in the atmosphere but in the Apostles. We know from the Epistles that the members of the churches were as carnal as we are today. Nevertheless the truth of the Kingdom of God was preached. The groundwork was laid well.
When the Apostles died the Spirit of revelation and power was withdrawn. Then began the long struggle by God's people to regain for themselves that which had been present in the Apostles.
Today much of the original revelation has been restored. Now it is time for the conflict of the ages to begin-God against Satan; the Holy Spirit against the False Prophet; Christ against Antichrist.
The main problem of the last days will not be worldliness or physical lust, although these will be very present. The main problem will be self-will. Man will be exalted. Man will be in control. Man will look for "the god within him." This is Antichrist.
Opposed to this will be the godly remnant who will suffer the crucifixion of their deepest self that Christ may be formed in them. Although they will be despised by the world and most of that which terms itself "Christian," those in whom Christ is formed will prevail in the end.
There will be mighty revival in the closing days of the Church Age. Out of this revival will come a handful of people who are willing to lay down their earthly life and pursue their new born-again life in Heaven at the right hand of God. These are the ones who will rule with Christ, appearing with Him in the Day of the Lord and bringing release to the material creation.
The end-time, latter-rain revival of the closing days of the Church Age is symbolized by the two witnesses of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation.
The forming of Christ in the saints and their pursuit of life at the right hand of God is symbolized by the birth of the male Son of the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation.
It is the Ruler of the age to come that is being formed in us. This is why we must be willing to let the Spirit remove worldliness, lust, and self-will from us.
Remember, the wonderful glory of the Day of the Lord will not drop down from the clouds. It will come to the earth through Christ and His saints and be managed by them.