Inheriting Sonship: Overview

This is the first book in the series Inheriting Sonship. This book does not look back through the pages and spectacle of biblical history with the lenses of our modern culture and orthodox theological tradition. Instead it stands with Abraham and looks forward in clear sight to understand God’s eternal purpose of Sonship as he understood it. Part 1 of this book explains in detail the religious culture that Abraham was called out of. It includes chapters on the Rise of Religion, Cities and Idols of the Gods, the Gods of the Sacred Year, the Gods of Sacred Numbers, the Heavenly Bull, the Gods of Terah and Nahor, Jericho and Judgement. Part 2 explains in detail ancient Hebrew culture. It includes chapters on the ancient Hebrew understanding of Thinking, Family, Community and God. It covers things like word and spirit, form and function, soul and personality, name and behaviour, father and son, daughter, house, gifts, covenant, altars, oil, victory, anointing, the names of God and salvation. The ancient Hebrews had a very different understanding of these things, and especially salvation, compared to what people understand within modern religious culture today. Part 3 discusses the Fall and Redemption from Abraham’s perspective. It discusses in detail the Fall of Adam and Eve from the Paradise of God, and what salvation and the redeeming blood of Jesus really meant to Abraham and his true sons. Part 4 provides ancient Hebraic cultural commentaries on the book of Hebrews, John’s First Letter, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians and extracts from Acts and John’s Gospel. In conclusion it explains the eternal purpose of God for His true Sons as seen through the eyes of Abraham the Hebrew who was the original recipient of the Blessing of Pentecost.

When Abraham the Hebrew told Terah his father that a god that Terah did not know told Abraham to leave his father’s house, to go to a far off land to be blessed and be a blessing, his father would have taken this as an unspeakable insult. It would have resulted in a cataclysmic eruption with a magnitude rivalling that of Krakatoa. It would have left his father in a state of bewildered frenzy and Abraham with ringing in his ears. This is because for the Hebrews, fatherhood and sonship were of primary importance and within their culture, a true son was the house of his father. This is because he was the image or reflection of his father, and he bore witness or testimony to the blessing of his father’s name in the next generation of sons. This was that their hope of eternal life. They knew nothing of the relatively modern gospel of escaping hell and going to heaven when they were dead. The word sonship comes from the word “son” combined with the word forming element “-ship”. Sonship means the power, condition, action, quality, position, or mandate of a son that enables him to act as a representative and under the authority of his father. Someone bears the name the “Son of God” and occupies the office of “Sonship” when they become the visible image or reflection of the invisible God. This happens when they have a change of fathers, a change of heart, a change of life’s breath or spirit, and therefore a change of destiny. The personality of their life’s breathings or name is completely filled by a perfect knowledge of the indwelling presence and love of the eternal life’s breath, blessing or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. This is the blessing of God as a Father upon Abraham, His adopted son. It was this blessing that was poured out upon the true Sons of God on the Day of Pentecost.

You can read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 5 of Inheriting Sonship here.

The published version of this book is available in print and on Kindle from Amazon here. This includes the ancient Hebraic cultural commentaries on the book of Hebrews, John’s First Letter, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians and extracts from Acts and John’s Gospel which can be found in Part 4.