Sunday, October 4, 2015

Have Dominion - Genesis 1:28

Genesis 1:28 ESV
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Man, male and female, is given dominion over the earth. They are to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. This is a different mission from the one given to Adam and Eve. They are made in His image and are given life, but don't receive the breath of God. 

Man is created, male and female, as other living creatures. They are given dominion over the earth and charged to be fruitful and fill the earth, made in God's image, but without the breath of God. They breath the same air and have the same life force in them as every other creature on earth. Their life is in the blood, in the flesh, and not alive in Spirit. God would begin that creation in the man Adam, the first son of God. 

They were blessed by their Creator. He would send His Son in the fullness of time to do what Adam could not do. The way to God would be provided. The ground would be worked as intended. 



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