KINGDOM RESTORATION PROCESS

The Bible opens with “In the beginning God created heaven and the earth” (Gen. 1:1 KJV). The Bible is silent about the details on how God created the heaven but gives details about how He created the earth planet.

In the narrative, man was created last and he was created in the image and likeness of God. (Gen. 1:26). He was created to rule over all God’s creations because the power of dominion was given to him when he was created.

Originally the earth planet was meant to be God’s kingdom because God created everything to be very good and not just being good (Gen 1:31) and for the fact that He made man in His image and likeness to rule over His creations points to the fact that the earth planet was specially created for man.

Man lost this kingdom to kingdom to Satan when he listened to Satan and disobeyed to follow the instruction given to him by God. (Gen 3) Satan seized the opportunity to restructure the creation of God and put man under his control. (Rm. 6:16). He also reconfigured man to have Adamic nature after his (Satan) likeness and raised an altar of sin for man so that man will look abominable to God.

Man is a tripartite being as God is Godhead. Man consist of Body, Soul and Spirit as Godhead is the father, the word (son) and the Holy Spirit but one God. The body of man is where man relates with the environment and the physical world using the 5 senses – feeling, smelling, tasting, seeing and hearing.

The soul of man is the engine room comprising of Mind, Will and Emotion. The Mind is where idea of what is to be done is conceived and processed. The Will is where the proposed idea is decided on i.e. a place of decision taking. The Emotion is where whatever is decided is sent to the body for action.

The Spirit of man is where intuition, spiritual communion, and conscience take place.

When man is looked at as the Temple of God.

The Body serves as the outer court where general public stay and general activities takes place.

The Soul serves as the Holy place where priests carryout their activities and functions.

The Spirit serves as the Holy of Holies which contains the Ark of God and is only accessible by the Chief Priest.

It should be noted that the soul and the spirit of man are invisible to the physical eye. But the body houses the soul and spirit of man. And they cannot be separated.

• The Devil reconfigured man by allowing bond to take place between man’s Soul and his Body to produce FLESH i.e. Self. Thereby making man to have Adamic nature and the likeness of the Devil.
• Man shifted his focus from God to the environment and nature. He began to have a new look at things around him. For instance the tree which he had been seeing on daily basis began to look different to him. (Gen. 3:5-7)
• The Devil raised an Altar of Sin for the man and he started to be in opposition to God and the things of God. Man made himself an enemy of God and His institutions. This is the genesis of sin, his disobedience to God.
• Since man took up the likeness of the Devil, he imbibed all the character traits of the Devil. He became reprobate in his mind and find it difficult to do godly things.
• Man became independent and always want to exercise self will and please self and his body instead of wanting to know God and to do His will. Whenever it dawns on him to do God’s will, he will do it based on his own terms and conditions.
• The Devil took over the vacant space of God’s spirit that left man at his fall and exercise his own (Devil) control on the mind of man.
• Man became obsessed and insatiable with the environment, material things, nature and quest for power and rulership.
• Man became slave to Satan and he is in position of servitude under oppression and afflictions.
• The whole creation of God became subjected to futility, groans and labour in pain under the control of Satan.