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Adam – The Origin of “The World”

Ok, on to the next thing we, as Christians, need to understand: Adam and the origin of “the world.” (I’m trying to put this thing into some semblence of order, at least in the beginning, because each of these concepts is very important to understand on your path to finding your freedom in Jesus!) With the creation of Adam, we also saw something else come into existance…the world. Now when I say that, it’s important for you to understand that I’m not speaking of the earth because the earth was created long before Adam (feel free to check out my post on Adam and dinosaurs!). But I’m referring to the world…or the world system.

The Bible is very clear that there is an earth ON which we live…and the world IN which we live. One, the earth (and everything in it), is God’s. The other, the world (or the world system), also ultimately belongs to God…but, He gave control of it to Adam who, in turn, gave it over to satan. When Adam drew his first breath, so did the world system…the system that dictates how people live together on this earth. Adam, being the first member of the world was the “mentor” of this system, so to speak. In fact, at the time, Adam WAS the world system in its entirity! In the beginning, before Adam ate the forbidden fruit, it was a world that followed God and His principles. It was a Godly world.

Then, as we know, Adam ate the fruit and fell from grace. In doing so, he took the entire world system with him! Adam chose to follow the system of the serpent, rather than the system God had in place…so that the entire world system, as it grew, was raised under the watchful eye of the fallen Lucifer. And we wonder why we have the problems we have! Between Adam and satan, the infant world system really had no hope of being anything other than what it is today…a fallen system, filled with fallen people with the whole thing going to hell in a handbasket! If you can imagine a fallen Adam and a fallen angel raising a child together, then you can imagine what kind of messed up kid you’d have. The sad thing is, you don’t have to imagine it, you’re living in it!

From the time of the fall, until the time of Jesus, mankind had about 4000 to corrupt this fallen system even further. By the time Jesus showed up to save the day, the world was solidly entrenched in it’s misguided, satan-inspired, man-taught way of doing things. These are powerful words, and they had 4000 to cement their power in the world system: tradition, ceremony, religion, education, medicine (just to name a few). Now, some of these things aren’t necessarily bad things. But when you incorporate them into a fallen world system, a creature arises that’s really very difficult to kill…and it’s a very dangerous creature because it’s one we’re all so familiar with…it’s the world we live in.

Now, when Jesus was born into the world…like Adam, he brought with him a new world system…the kingdom of God! The thing is, for 4000 years people have been living (and learning to live) according to the world system. Now along comes this young man that starts spouting off stuff that’s the exact, complete, direct OPPOSITE of what mankind has been so deeply ingrained by. Quick example using money: the world teaches you to gather all you can as quickly as you can…Jesus tells you to give it all away. Money is power. Jesus is power. Directly opposing viewpoints, two separate kingdoms.

The problem is this: they both exist at the same time and in the same place. Right here. Right now. On earth. You can’t see them, because they aren’t objects or places. They are SYSTEMS. And they SEEM like they’re both mixed up together. It’s no wonder we get confused! And here we are trying to live in both places…in both systems…at once…and it’s not working. It’ll never work. Because the two kingdoms are so directly opposite, they will never mix. Matthew 6:24. You can’t serve both God and mammon (the world system). But that’s exactly what we try to do because we don’t even realize there are two kingdoms, much less being able to distinguish one from the other!

To help clarify what I’m trying to say, if you took a shovel full of dirt from your yard, and mixed it with a shovel full of dirt from my yard, it would be impossible for us to ever distinguish or separate your dirt from mine. Thankfully, while it’s difficult sometimes, it’s not impossible to distinguish the two kingdoms in which we live today. Sometimes it’s quite easy…sometimes it seems nearly impossible. But it’s not. Keep in mind that with God, all things are possible! (Matt. 19:26)

We’ll go into this a little deeper as time goes on, but for now, please try to renew your mind a little. Understand that we are living in two directly opposing kingdoms at the same time…two that often appear as one, on the surface. This is a very important step to finding your freedom in Jesus and understanding some of the trials you may be going through today, and even more important when it comes to taking some of the necessary steps to finding your freedom.

In the next post, I’ll be offering you some Bible verses that will hopefully help demonstrate this powerful truth to some degree. For now, though, please keep in mind two things so far: we have to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Without that, we’ll never understand that there are two kingdoms existing on our planet today. The world, or the world system (the kingdom of darkness) and the kingdom of God. Two very important truths.

Until next time…many blessings!