MAN, THE CROWN OF CREATION Scriptures declare that when man was created he had a mind intellectually of such a character that he was able to name the entire animal creation. And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them to the Man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And the man gave names to all cattle, and all birds of the heavens, and to all beasts of the field, and the name that was given described the characteristics and nature of the animal. When we realize that there are more than 500,000 bugs, birds, worms, animals, fish and reptiles, and that man named them, we realize that he could not have been any half developed missing link of the Simian family. No! he came full-orbed from the womb of Creation, fit to be ruler over creation. He was not on!y created with an intellect of such marvelous powers but also with spiritual capacities that made him the fit companion of Deity. MANS DOMINION Again, God gave him dominion over all the works of His hands, as described in Gen, 1:28 and Psalm 8:3, 4. When I consider thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; what is man that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visited him? Thou has made him but little lower than the angels. (The Hebrew word translated angels in this verse is the same word translated God in Genesis 1:1, and should have been translated as follows: Thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor, and made him to have dominion over all the works of Thy hands, and put all things under his feet.) Notice here that man is made but little lower than God. As one eminent Hebraist translates: Thou hast made him but a shade lower than God. In other words, when man was created he was made as near like Deity as it was possible for Deity to create him. He was made to be Gods companion. Next you notice that God gave him dominion over all the works of His hands. He ruled not only the animal creation but he also ruled the laws of Creation. He ruled the very stars in their courses. He was Gods under-ruler. He was the subject of no being or law save God and the Law of Love. This in itself is a most remarkable fact, but it perfectly coincides with mans dreams of dominion, Man was never made to be a subject or slave. We see glimpses of mans dominion down through the ages of humanitys history. Moses had the dominion over the Laws of Nature when he spoke to the Red Sea. It opened before him, a huge gap cut by an unseen hand, with its walls towering hundreds of feet on either side; there it stood at the voice of a man, till four million people with their stock and herds, their families and slaves, went pouring through dry-shod to liberty on the other side; and then by the same voice of that same man the waters came thundering together with a crash that shook the heathen nations for generations. We see Joshua speaking to the Jordan, and that turbulent river responded to the voice of its master and opened a path for triumphant Israel to reach its promised land. We hear the same man speaking to the sun and moon, and they stood still hour after hour while he wrought a victory over his enemies. We see the intrepid Elijah calling fire out of heaven. We see Daniels three companions thrown into the fiery furnace and come out without a burn or smell of fire on their garments. Then we quietly drop down through the ages to the Nazarene and see Him exercising the same authority given to man at the beginning. Jesus, Having been born free from the taint of Mortality, held the same Authority and Dominion as the first man. We see Jesus exercising this Authority over the Sea of Galilee, over the maimed legs and arms of suffering humanity, over death, and over the fish of the sea, over the trees of the field, and over Satan. Jesus ruled as absolute Master and Monarch of Creation. The Father and His Family Kindly share this post
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