The Family
Adam and Eve, our first parents, provide the model for the entire world. We are created in the express image of God.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Men and women are superior to all the animals.
“and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Even before we came to earth, we were male or female. It is an eternal identity for the spirit is eternal and cannot die.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The family unit receive a special blessing and a commandment to bear children and to have dominion over the earth
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1: 26-28)
We are a family of God, and the earthly family is patterned after the eternal family of God. We are the children of God, made in his image. Image refers to our spirit body. God is the Father of our spirit.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? (Hebrews 12:9)
We were all spirit children of God before we even came to earth. That means that we are all brothers and sisters equal in the eyes of God.
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: (Acts 10:34)
In the War in Heaven, Satan rejected God. He rejected the family. He caused division among us,
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven.
All of the spirit children of God divided into two camps.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Satan and his angels lost the battle.
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
They were cast out of heaven and were never able to have a physical body. They will remain spirits forever.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The battle was not one of swords and fists and guns and drums and cries of war. It was the same as with the battle against Satan on earth. It was by testimony and the word of God.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Satan and his angels have carried on that battle against man on earth ever since.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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