God’s Purpose in the history of fallen man.
God's purpose in the history of this old fallen Earth is to restore His image in created man (Gen.1:26-27) and in so doing to magnify His Glory as the Guiding Light of all life. His Divine means to that end, is to destroy that death which has been a terrible desecration of His Will and Purpose for this Earth and everything in it.(Isa.1:26-27) From the very beginning, created man has pursued the knowledge of good and evil, to taste of Satan’s “promise”,” “you shall not die, you shall be as gods.”(Gen.3:4-5) And this “you shall be as gods became the Satanic marker in the DNA of fallen man. Therefore the Word of the God, WHO CANNOT LIE. (Titus1:2) came to pass, the promised curse came upon all men, for “all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.”(Rom.3:23) The Image of God in which he was created, the life breathed of God into man,(Gen1:27-28, Gen2:7) the Glory of God in all of His creation was all but extinguished.(Rom,1:18-25) The image of God in man was well nigh replaced by man’s pursuit of his own godhood, and that through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the very “life” that remained was defined by, and manifested in death. The glory of man, this so called “knowledge and godhood”, became expressed as threescore years and ten!!(Psa.90:1-12) Therefore, death must be destroyed and with it, the father of death, Satan and his minions. His absurd claim upon God’s Glorious handiwork must manifestly be destroyed before all of the principalities and powers in heavenly places, that the manifold Wisdom of God may be magnified.(Eph.3:10, a hint of God’s mysterious “tool”)
What better way than to make it plain that death has no victory, to remove the sting of it(1 Cor.15:53-57 Another hint as to God’s means), and leave its vestige to exist as merely the last gasp of the doomed foe. But it can’t be done with just any death. It had to be in a way that made death a mysterious stepping stone into the Victory and Glory of God. It had to be a death that restored the Glorious Image of God in man,(2 Cor.4:3-6) to restore the man who was created to be the steward of God’s creation(Gen. 1:27-28; Psa.8:4-9; Eph.3:19-22; Heb.2:6-9 We are getting closer to God’s Glorious solution). It had to be through a man, a man whom death could not hold, a man whom death could not disfigure through the rot of the grave, it had to be a death that could display the futility of Satan in his supposed victory in bringing death upon man. It had to be a death that destroyed death once for all. It had to be a death that destroyed any remaining memory of death and hell.(1Cor.15:25-26) It had to be a death that ushered in a wholly new creation (Col.1:12-18) that exhibits the fulness of the Glory of God, even beyond the original creation. But where was God to find such a man??
Next: The “historical “ search.
God's purpose in the history of this old fallen Earth is to restore His image in created man (Gen.1:26-27) and in so doing to magnify His Glory as the Guiding Light of all life. His Divine means to that end, is to destroy that death which has been a terrible desecration of His Will and Purpose for this Earth and everything in it.(Isa.1:26-27) From the very beginning, created man has pursued the knowledge of good and evil, to taste of Satan’s “promise”,” “you shall not die, you shall be as gods.”(Gen.3:4-5) And this “you shall be as gods became the Satanic marker in the DNA of fallen man. Therefore the Word of the God, WHO CANNOT LIE. (Titus1:2) came to pass, the promised curse came upon all men, for “all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.”(Rom.3:23) The Image of God in which he was created, the life breathed of God into man,(Gen1:27-28, Gen2:7) the Glory of God in all of His creation was all but extinguished.(Rom,1:18-25) The image of God in man was well nigh replaced by man’s pursuit of his own godhood, and that through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the very “life” that remained was defined by, and manifested in death. The glory of man, this so called “knowledge and godhood”, became expressed as threescore years and ten!!(Psa.90:1-12) Therefore, death must be destroyed and with it, the father of death, Satan and his minions. His absurd claim upon God’s Glorious handiwork must manifestly be destroyed before all of the principalities and powers in heavenly places, that the manifold Wisdom of God may be magnified.(Eph.3:10, a hint of God’s mysterious “tool”)
What better way than to make it plain that death has no victory, to remove the sting of it(1 Cor.15:53-57 Another hint as to God’s means), and leave its vestige to exist as merely the last gasp of the doomed foe. But it can’t be done with just any death. It had to be in a way that made death a mysterious stepping stone into the Victory and Glory of God. It had to be a death that restored the Glorious Image of God in man,(2 Cor.4:3-6) to restore the man who was created to be the steward of God’s creation(Gen. 1:27-28; Psa.8:4-9; Eph.3:19-22; Heb.2:6-9 We are getting closer to God’s Glorious solution). It had to be through a man, a man whom death could not hold, a man whom death could not disfigure through the rot of the grave, it had to be a death that could display the futility of Satan in his supposed victory in bringing death upon man. It had to be a death that destroyed death once for all. It had to be a death that destroyed any remaining memory of death and hell.(1Cor.15:25-26) It had to be a death that ushered in a wholly new creation (Col.1:12-18) that exhibits the fulness of the Glory of God, even beyond the original creation. But where was God to find such a man??
Next: The “historical “ search.
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