Debrecen Messages #7 – The New Man: God’s Visible Image and Rule on the Earth

Now, if on Friday, a creation is utterly, totally destroyed and obliterated and disappears, not off the face of the earth, but off of the face of time and eternity and takes time with it, and if I don’t make my appearance until Sunday, three days later, I have no knowledge of the old creation.

I want you to know something. There’s a girl out there in the future somewhere. A beautiful, beautiful girl. Her name is Ecclesia. And that girl, when Jesus Christ takes her as his virgin bride, she will have no recollection of the old creation. She may remember when she was in him before the foundation of the world. She may know that she was in him throughout all of some dark period, but she was not part of that dark period. He’s going to take a virgin to himself. And she is his new creation. She was created in him. And she was hidden in him before the foundation of the world. As surely as Eve was hidden in Adam, and even Adam didn’t know he was in him. There was a girl inside man. Long before creation, there was a girl inside of Christ. And it was not good that he’d be alone. And there comes a time in the new creation when all things are revealed the way they really are.

That girl makes her appearance; she is a virgin. She has never sinned. She is holy and blameless and spotless and pure. Because she belongs to a creation that has nothing to do with the fallen one. Or even the fallen one before it was fallen. The physical one. She belongs to reality. She’s part of the real bird. She’s part of the real fish. She’s part of the real cattle. She’s part of the real trees. Tree. She’s part of the real man. And she’s in him.

And she will look at his side. And she will see a scar. And she will say, What is that? And he will say to her, That’s where I brought you out of me. And she will say, was it painful? Did it hurt? Then he will say, “I don’t remember.”

Now, all of that was just to make one little bitty point. And that is that the new creation is in front of the old creation. The new creation precedes the unfallen physical creation. You were in Christ before the foundation of the world. But God’s still going to do something. He is going to let this fallen creation see his image. And he is going to let this fallen creation see him exercise dominion and rule. And this old creation is going to have to sit here and watch it and have nothing it can do about it.

Now you ask me what keeps my engine running? What keeps me going? This is what keeps me going. I have seen a girl. And right now, she is in this creation that has fallen. And she is forcing this creation to see.

Now I am going to get way ahead of myself here to make myself clear. And then in the next meeting, we will come back to this passage, but, I just want you to hear the Lord say, “Man, Rule.” Man, show this beautiful unfallen creation. Show the cattle. Show the snakes. Show the birds. Show them – Me. They cannot see invisible things. So, I will make you visible. And you will look like me. And you will walk the earth. And the birds will say. And the creeping snakes will say. And the kingdoms will say. And the people will say. Everybody will say.

That’s what God looks like. And all the birds and the creeping things. And the fish in the sea. Everything will say, He is the one who rules me. And every tongue will confess. That one looks like God. And that one rules the earth. And that one multiplies. And when it multiplies. It keeps on looking like God. And keeps on ruling the earth. I have no idea if you know where I’m going. So let me get there. I’m going to jump way, way ahead.

There is evidence of this throughout the Old Testament. Jonathan, keep looking for rule, authority, and image of God throughout the Old Testament. And then come to the New. But I’m going to give you a hint. All of you. You should probably write this down.

In the Old Testament, there are two more pictures of reality. What does a priest represent? He is the one who bears the stone of jasper on him. And the jasper stone is the image of God. The priest presents the face of God. He bears the image of God. And he carries the ark.

And the king, what does he do? What does the king do? He bears the authority. He rules. One rules and one bears the image. So that’s part of, and I need to tell Peter and Henry. Peter and Henry, one of the reasons we’re looking in Genesis 1 and 2 is because his purpose is hidden there, but you will always find a line going all the way through the Old Testament and the New.