January 17th, 2026

In the previous post I said God had a purpose for the creation.  I should have said He has a purpose because He hasn’t changed His mind.  He will achieve His original intent which was revealed in Genesis 1:26. 
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”  

Genesis 1:28 records God’s actual commission to Adam and Eve.  Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”  This is the first description of God’s intention to create a Kingdom in which He would delegate some authority to rule with Him to mankind.  Initially, it was limited to having dominion over this planet.  However, I assume that when the fill the earth part was completed the Lord would have expanded the scope of our management to include other worlds.  The massive size of the universe He created suggests He planned for us to move out into it someday.  

We’re actually taking the first baby steps in doing just that.  My guess is we would be a lot further along on space exploration if Adam had not chosen to listen to Satan’s lie and broke faith with God.  His disobedience changed something in his fundamental make up.  Adam was created with something of God’s likeness in him.  God never explained exactly what “in Our image” was, but something of what it was did die when Adam sinned. 

We have this in Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.  I believe it is significant that it says Seth was born in the likeness of Adam after his (Adam’s) image. The human race was no longer what God had originally created, something in us had changed.  The conflict between Cain and Abel points to a weakness in our sense of morality.  And it was accompanied by aging and physical death.  Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned. 

That verse implies God had intended Adam and Eve to live forever.  He had put the tree of life in the Garden to sustain them.  It also indicates the capacity for everlasting life was lost to the whole creation.  We humans would die, but death had permeated the entire creation.  That is why God speaks of one day creating a New Heaven and Earth, a new universe free of the death curse we live under.  He does not; however, intend to create a new human race.  God said this to Satan in Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.  Her Seed being a descendent of Eve and your seed being the entity behind the serpent – Satan.   
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That was the first Messianic prophecy.  God would send us a Redeemer who would open the way to recover what was lost when Adam sinned.  Everlasting life and a future fulfilling the Kingdom heritage given us through Adam in Genesis 1:28. It is open to all who will believe Jesus Christ for it.