by Dora Van Assen
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 - paraphrased
The spoken Word-Christ is the exact image and likeness of God. He existed before anything was created as he is the FIRSTBORN of every creature, and is also the FIRSTBORN of the dead, therefore He is the Head of both the Old and the New Creation. He is the original creative power through which God created all things; all authorities, rulers and kingdoms, visible and invisible. All came into existence through the Spoken Word-Christ, all was created in Him and through and for Him, and He is holding all things together. He is the Head or First Representative One of His people, called The Body of Christ. He has first place or preeminence in all things. All the fulness of God dwells in Him. ("God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself" 2 Cor. 5:20) "Making peace through the blood of His cross, in Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, in Him, I say, whether things in earth or in heaven."Col. 1:20)
This is a tremendous foundational scripture. All things natural and spiritual are created in and through and for Christ. This includes the dust out of which all things are made or formed. It is His invisible power and life force in all things which is holding all things together, in Himself. He is the center and circumference of all things. There is NO-thing outside of Christ. He is the first original representative man made visible through DUST. God's original creative or Firstborn of every creature, or living thing - giving life to all things. Christ is first in all things. A "thing" is spirit made visible through dust. Even His visible body is called "That Holy Thing" when formed in the womb of Mary.
The First Adam is called, "The Son of God." Matt. 1 and Luke both recond his genealogy. Luke 3:38. In Rev. 1:8 we read, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty." Again we read, "I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star." Rev. 22:16
Meditating on these scriptures I began to hear a word in my spirit, that the First and Last Adam are One. God only has One Son - the Son of His Love, the Christ/Word/Seed spoken out of His own bosom. The First and Last Son of a family have the same parents, or come from the same seed. These questions arose in my heart, how can anyone be the last of something without being part of the first? The first and the last piece of cake must come from the same cake - not two different cakes. How can anyone be the end of something without also having a part in the beginning of it. One piece of string has both a beginning and end. First and last speak of a series of things in the same category. Like a series of apple trees or a series of human beings.
The questions continued. How could Jesus the Christ be our example without being in the fall of Adam? Or how could Adam be a figure of the One who was to come? Rom. 8:14...unless they were of the same seed? And how could He be tempted in all points as we are without belonging to Adam's race?
Praise God! He is the Son of Man! He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again, identifying Himself with the fallen Adamic race, not only as The Word-Christ made flesh in the body of Jesus, but reaching back to Eden when he was formed from the dust of the earth to become The Head of the old creation, "the firstborn of every creature". Col 1:15
To be our example, or representative man, Christ Jesus who is the The Last Adam, had to also be the First Adam. He actually needed to feel the pain and sorrow of humanity, living in a lowered, dying dust body returning to dust, seeing His own children born of His seed dying before His eyes. He needed to experience the frustration of being lowered into vanity (uselessness and futility) and realizing that during His 930 years He had produced nothing but death. Death was in His seed. Rom 8:20
Thank God! We read that God lowered all creation into death, in HOPE! God gave every man a hope or an expectation. When I was pregnant I did not hope to have a baby! I expected a baby! A seed had been planted within me! So I began to prepart myself for its arrival. Like a pregnant woman, the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. They are waiting in expectation for the unveiling of the sons of God. Rom 8:19-23
Yes! We also who have the firsfruit of the Spirit as an earnest or guarantee our downpayment are groaning together with creation. God Himself is groaning, in groanings that cannot be uttered. The Spirit of intercession groaning in and through us! Rom. 8:26
GOD HIMSELF HAS A HOPE! An expectation in His creation - to be magnified in all the earth, "For to expectation were we saved". Rom. 8:24 God has faith in His Creation!! Creation is an extension of Himself. Jesus call Himself the "Finger" of God! He never pointed to Himself, but always enlarged and magnified His Father. So also creation is a manifestation of God's love and mercy; His wisdom and power in all the earth.
GOD IS "WORD" CREATION
When creation was yet an idea in the mind of God, it was spoken forth as The Word/Christ/Seed, deep in the Inner parts of Man before he was conceived in his mother's womb. This is the true light that awakens man to what is already written in his cells. Every man is awakened in his own order. Like a seed it will spring up from within. No matter how darkened his mind may be or how ignorant to the things of God, all men still have a sense or premonition of what he once was in God. "With the scent of Water (Spirit) it will sprout and grow again like a tree in the desert." Job 14
THE SUMMARY
In closing let us summarize a few thoughts.
1. In the beginnings God created the heavens and the earths...denoting more than one beginning.
2. Both the heaven and the earth were created by The Spoken Christ/Word/Seed. "He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." Psa. 33:6,9
3. This was a dust creation - created in Christ Jesus. Even the invisible heavens contains fine dust. Col. 1:16-17, Prov. 8:26 which we cannot see with natural eyes.
4. This includes God's creaton of man in Gen. 1:27. "In the image of God created He him; male and female created he them." This first man was not really in the full image of God for Adam was only a "figure of He who was to come". The First spoken Christ/Word/Seed is the the one who in the image of God. Col. 1:15, 2 Cor. 4:4
5. The True and Faithful Witness or the Spoken/Christ/Word is the begining of the creation of God. Rev. 3:14, God's Orginal Creative Word. Rev. 3:4
6. God said: "Let there be light and there was light." Gen. 1:3 compare John 1:1-4 and 1 John 1:1-3. All things were made by the Spoken/Christ/Word/Seed. Without IT was not anything made that was made; is made, or will be made! In IT is life and that life is the light of men (undertanding). This is the true "light" that awakens every man who comes into the world to his true identity in God.
7. God was in Christ, the anointing in the Word/Jesus when He died on the cross. In this way God Himself became our sin, and we became His righteousness. God made The Man Jesus the Christ, to be sin for us that we should be made Jesus the Christ who is the righteousness of God. Rom. 1:16-17, 2 Cor 5:21.
8. In his resurrection Jesus was made Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36. When he arose, we arose with Him back into the Spiritual Glory of the Father; which we had before the world was. Eph. 1:4, John 17:45.
9. WE are made One in the Name and Nature of God ( I Am that I Am) God in Man. God is The Word clothed in flesh - "dust-form" - to manifest God or Emanuel - God with and in Man. He has only One Son!
10. We have the mind of Christ Jesus. Phil 2:5. "Let" means we already have it. Only we need to "let" it operate. God gave Christ to be head of all things to the church which is his body. Eph. 1:23 CHRIST is the creative Word for our Spirit Mind realm typified by our Head. The mind rules the body. But LORD is the creative Word for the body. He is Lord of the body. We are weak and sick and dying because we do not discern the Lord's Body, which is our body. We manifest Christ Jesus our Lord and glorify Him in our Body. 1 Cor. 6:20.
11. The Christ/Word is Spirit, the vital life principle in all created things - animate or inanimate. It is the electrical energy (power) in all things created; even the highest or finest dust floating in the highest heavens; holding all things together. The hardest stone is solidified matter. When placed under terrific pressure solid matter turns into light. Christ is Light! "The entrance of His Word giveth Light". We are formed out of this living Light substance of Spirit-Dust. The aura around our bodies already radiates the presence of God's spirit within us. It can never be destroyed or annihilated. Our body can only be changed from glory to glory into His very same image by the LORD, the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18. It shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body. Phil. 3:21.
12. The Man Christ Jesus is not left out of the Godhead, "I Am that I Am." When Stephen was being stoned for his witness before the council, we hear him say: "Behold, I see the heaven open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." He called upon God, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and kneeling down he creid with a loud voice, "Lord lay not this sin to their charge." Acts 7:55-60
Jesus died and rose again as Lord and Christ to live in you and me. In this way making sure that we become the beneficiaries of His Will and Testament. In other word, He became the executioner of His own will or the New Covenant. Heb. 9:16-17. Hear Paul: " The life I now live in the flesh (this dust body) I live by the faith of the Son of God who gave Himself (for and to) me." Gal. 2: 20
CLOUDS OF DUST
"The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet." Nahum 1:3
We are the clouds of dust caught up in Christ Jesus; prepared and ready to rain upon the dust creation of God, so fulfilling God's promise to Abraham. God promised Abraham that he would have a seed numberless as the stars in heaven, (which are are made of dust) and more than the sand on the seashore, even as vast as the dust of the earth, inumerable.
"Of His own will begat He us with The Word of Truth, that we should be a Special Kind of Firstfruit ofHimself Creatures." James 1:18 from the Diaglott.
Our dusty "feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace", to be declared to all men. This the the message of total reconciliation of all creation back into the knowledge of God's unfailing love for all men everywhere. God is already conciliated unto mankind in His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. And now God is pleading through us to the world, "Be ye conciliated to God!" 2 Cor. 5:20 This will bring Re-conciliation for it takes both sides to become friends to be re-conciled.
Praise God! We have a special calling of God to declare His gospel of peace, that is to awaken mankind to what God had already done for them, but lying dormant in their own heart or subconscious mind. That His covenant of peace and love is already written in their mind and heart. Ro. 2:14-16
God has never forsaken any man. It was Adam that hid from God out of fear, giving him a false image of God's true character of love, making Adam his own worst enemy. Our own carnal mind is an enemy of God. We all need to be awakened that we are now the Sons of God, growing into maturity, standing as His Ambassadors with the Word of Life and Truth unto all who have an ear to hear what God is saying today.
In His ministry Jesus said that He was the Finger of God. Luke 11:20. "If I by the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God is come upon you." Jesus likened the finger of God unto the power of the Kingdom or the Spoken Word. Again He demonstrated this authority when the scibes and lawyers of His day challenged Him with the woman taken in the act of adultery saying that she should be stoned according to their law.
Without saying a word, Jesus stooped and with His finger wrote in the sand. When these men read what He had written, they were condemned in their own heart. Silently they left, one by one, leaving the woman standing there alone. Jesus asked her, "Where are thy accusers?" and she answers, "There are none!" and Jesus said, "Go and sin no more!" He delivered her by these very words of correction spoken in love! Jesus was giving these men (and also us today) a visible sign that He was the very One who had written God's Law on two tablets of stone. Ex. 31:18 These tablets represented the stony heart of the natural man. Yet in Eze. 11:9 and 36:26 we read that God would give us a new heart and a new spirit within us taking away the stony heart out our fleshy mind and give us a heart of flesh. This was done in His death and resurrection, when He was made Us and We were made Him! 2 Cor. 5:21
The law of God was written on stone by the disposition of angels. Acts. 7:53. Christ Jesus is the Angel of God's Covenant. Mal. 3:1 Disposition means: arrange, institute, ordain, order, give, appoint orinstrumentality.
Christ/Word/Spirit is the mind and soul of God. Strong #1299 I now realize that The New Covenant is written on our heart and mind by Christ Jesus our Lord who is the Savior of the Body. Chirst Jesus the Living Spoken Word is the Finger of God manifested in flesh, the Kingdom of God manifested in the earth today, manifested through these fleshly bodies of DUST.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men."
"For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ minsitered by us written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart."
The lives we touch in the spirit are the visible proof of our ministry, won for Christ through the living spoken Word out of our own mouth. We are a "Word" creation manifested in dust. Our relationship and fellowship is through the spoken Word out of our mouth today. In this way we visibly glorify God and each other, through these dust bodies. Let us thank God for the skin covering our Inner Spiritual Man, as we grow and mature into responsibility. Through experience we are learning how to glorify God in these dust bodies! 1 Cor. 6:20
I am finding out that anything God created or will create is beautiful!
AWAKE AND SING YE THAT DWELL IN THE DUST; THE DEW IS AS THE DEW UPON THE HERBS. Isa. 19:26
Yet a little while and I will shake all nations - the heavens and the earth, oceans and dry land. The desire of all nations shall come unto thee. I will fill thee with my glory! Thou are my Temple, the place where I dwell. Thy spendor far exceeds the glory of the former, which faded away, but thou remaineth unto all ages! Haggai 2:6-9
Peace I leave with thee!
In His Great Love for All,
Dora Van Assen
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