Inheriting Sonship: Part 5 – Conclusion – The Eternal Purpose of God – Inheriting Sonship

…the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, son of Abraham…

Matthew 1:1

Contents

Words of Promise and Breath

From Abraham’s perspective, when someone promises something to someone, having achieved their purpose the natural words once spoken die in the ears of the listener. Hopefully one day they will remember and breathe life back into those words to dwell within that promise to actually keep it. The power and strength by which they keep the promise is their life’s breath. The same breath that spoke the promise keeps the promise, words and actions in Hebrew culture are the same thing, both either spoken or done by life’s breath.

God’s word is the same. He speaks his word of promise by the breath of his mouth, and just like natural words, his words in effect die within the ears of the listener. However, God is watching over his word to make sure that it is fulfilled, his word does not go back to him without achieving the purpose to which it was spoken. One day he will remember, resurrect or breathe life back into those words to personally dwell within those words to keep that promise. The power and strength by which God keeps his promise is by his breath, the same power that speaks the word, fulfils the word, God’s words and actions in Hebrew culture are the same thing, both either spoken or done by God’s life’s breath, the breath of the Holy One. The serpent’s word is different but works in the same way. As the father of lies he speaks his lying words by the breath of his mouth and his words of lying breath dwell in the hearts of those who by sinning or being sinned against establish his false promise of benefit or blessing as true which become a curse within the deceived breathings of the personality or name of those who receive them.

Words and the Breath of Life

The first thing the Abraham did when he was born was to breathe in, and his natural life ended when he gasped out his life’s breath and died. Everything that Abraham did or said during his lifetime were his words, the words were done by his life’s breath, the way he lived was his walk on the pathway of life, and his way or walk or the collection of his words or achievements or expression of his breath and everything else about him constituted his name. In Hebrew the word often translated spirit in scripture was actually the word “ruach” which meant breath or wind. For Abraham there was no such thing as spirit. In Genesis, God created by speaking his word by the power and strength of the breath or Holy Spirit (the breath of the Holy One) that dwelt within Him. God’s word is what God does, and the power and strength by which God does what God does is his breath. The two work together as one because they are one, they cannot be divorced. What God has joined together, let not man separate. It says in 2 Samuel 22:16 “….And seen are the streams of the sea, Revealed are foundations of the world, By the rebuke of Yehovah, From the breath [“neshemah“, puff or blowing] of the Spirit [ruach, breath, wind] of his anger.“

God created man (Adam) from the dust of the earth (“adamah“) and breathed (“naphach“) into him the breath (“neshemah ruach“) of life so that Adam became a living soul (“nephesh“) or breathing-being. Unlike all of the other animals that God created, man was unique because he lived and breathed God’s breath as well as natural breath and was able to understand and experience the supernatural realms of God as well as the natural realms of planet earth. As such man became a visible image or reflection within nature of the invisible God that dwelt within him. He in effect became the living word “son of God” by the power of the breath that God’s life that he breathed and God as his father dwelt within him, the word “son“. When Adam sinned in the garden of Eden he in effect gasped out the breath or image of God’s fatherhood and became orphaned or divorced from God’s Holy Spirit. So it says in 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 “And we the spirit [breath] of the world did not receive, but the Spirit [pneuma, breath] that is of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us, which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit [holy or different breath of God], with spiritual things spiritual [pneumatikos] things comparing, and the natural [psuchikos, air-breathing] man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness [“moria“, moron], and he is not able to know them, because spiritually [pneumatikos, God’s breath breathing] they are discerned“

God’s breathings or Holy Spirit (the breath of the Holy One) became “moronic” to Adam who became a “psuchikos” or natural-breathing man, unwittingly enslaved to the rebellious prince of the power of the air that Adam naturally breathed, and when his natural breath could sustain him no longer he died. In order to redeem or save his fallen sons, God prepared a body within the womb of Mary and spoke Himself completely into the word “son of God” within Mary’s womb by the power or overshadowing of his mighty Holy Spirit (in Hebrew literally the breath of the Holy One). God’s very own breath of life or fullness crammed completely into the body of the man Jesus of Nazareth as the word of God “son“. Jesus as the son of God was the visible image of the invisible God and was animated or completely inspired by the life’s breath of God’s fatherhood. So it says in John 3:8 “the spirit [wind, breath] where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is everyone who hath been born of the Spirit.“

Words of Death and Life

Just as the body without breath (or spirit) is dead, faith without works or a lamp without oil is dead, so are words or actions. Separating or divorcing words from breath empties them of the breath of life and they die, just like Jesus on the cross when he died and gasped out his last breath into the hands of his Father. Hebraically, when the breath of God entered back into the body of Yehoshua, the word “son of God” was reunited with the breath or Holy Spirit of Yehovah (the breath of the Holy One) and he rose from the dead. The words of God are resurrected and are revived (from the Latin “revivo” to live again) when they are united and become one with the breath of God’s life (or Spirit) that originally spoke those words. They become inbreathed or living words.

The power of this revival and resurrection life was poured out by Jesus at Pentecost. Jesus said that man does not live upon bread alone but upon every word that proceeds from the mouth of God and just as man naturally continuously breathes to live, so being repeatedly filled with the words of God spoken by Holy Spirit of Yehovah God brings divine life. It says in Deuteronomy 8:3 “‘And he doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Yehovah man doth live.“

Resurrection life is Jesus’ very own natural life, and those who are established within their identity as the sons of God have exactly the same relationship with God as He has. They are the living word “sons of God” and being led by God’s breath or spirit they bear his name and naturally breathe the breath of God’s fatherhood. They are able to continually experience the overcoming life of resurrection power that saves, delivers and even in times of hardship or persecution naturally gives them supernatural victory in all things.

However, the words of the serpent’s lying breath first need to be dis- established and dis-inherited from the hearts and breathings of those who unwittingly agreed with, benefitted from or partnered with the father of lies and by disagreeing with such lies to enable the love and blessing of God’s fatherhood and forgiveness to cancel their curse, heal the heartfelt brokenness caused by sin and sinning in all its forms, and establish their identity or name “the son of God” within the breathings of their personality.

Blessing of Abraham

Within ancient Hebrew culture time was not like a long piece of string that stretched out and disappeared into the distance. Time was seen as cyclical or circular and a generation was like a circle that renewed itself each time it went round – each day, week, month, season, harvest or birth and even things like the sound of the beating of a drum. For the Hebrews eternity (literally hidden) was not something after the end of time but cyclical time never ending. Families were seen as cyclical and for them it was crucial that each cycle would continue within the next generation of the family. As such their hope was not so much in life after death but rather life within the next generation of sons who were considered to be the house or inheritance of their fathers and through whom the character, behaviour or name of the fathers lived on. As such it was vital that a son’s father found his son a bride in order that through marriage his son who had lived within the physical body or dwelling of his father before he was born could father a new generation of sons that would continue to be their father’s house. For the fathers, a son was much more than simply a male child. The son was someone that the fathers taught and loved and fathered everything that they were and knew and had into their son. It was the father’s purpose that at least one (hopefully the firstborn) of their sons would fully and completely embrace their purpose, god and destiny through love, honour and obedience so that they could fully receive their father’s full blessing and a portion of their wealth as an inheritance. This would ensure that the name of the father would truly live on within the next generation of sons, and that the son would be a witness of his father and truly be qualified to bear his character, behaviour and so be called by his name. For the ancient Hebrews this was eternal life, fathering a new generation of sons within each cycle or generation of life.

Adam was meant to be the original son of God and through the blessing of God’s fatherhood and indwelling presence Adam was to be enabled to eternally inherit all things. Through this God would gain an inheritance, house or dwelling place within the breath of life of his God-breathing (“pneumatikos” or spiritual in Greek) son who would reflect his image and glory and become his house, temple, dwelling place or city. Because Adam was deceived into accepting as trustworthy and true the lying breaths of the words of the serpent he sinned and rejected God’s fatherhood in the garden of Eden, he became divorced from the breath (or Holy Spirit) of God that had dwelt within his heart. He was only left with natural breath (“psuchikos” or natural breathing in Greek) that could not sustain his life forever. Through his fall, Adam fathered his own name, image and mortality into his breathless, crown-less and fallen sons which were in his body or house when he sinned and as such founded or threw down the world or figuratively the corporate Adam or “adamah” or city of Babylon, the dwelling place of demons or lying breaths that establish within the breathings of the personality of fallen and self-worshipping humanity the shadow or reflection of the serpent.

Abraham was a son or generation of Terah his father and ultimately a son of Adam the original sinner and author of death. Abraham and his brothers were his father’s house, home or inheritance. Through his sons Terah was to live on and have an inheritance within them and the generations of their sons or descendants. In order to begin the process of redemption and to bring back his blessing and inheritance within reach of the sons of Adam, God by his word of promise called Abraham out of (in effect to disown) his own father’s blessing, house, dwelling place or inheritance and religious culture and tradition and gods. This was to reunite Abraham with the power of God’s breath and blessing lost by Adam and for God to father him and establish the blessing, gift, inheritance, dwelling place, house or city of God within Abraham and his son or seed or descendants.

The blessing or gifting of Abraham was a return of the breath of supernatural life that dwelt within the word son, the breath of the Holy One. The blessing of Abraham was the blessing of a Father upon his son which turned him from his previously evil ways and dethroned the serpent from his heart. Practically speaking, the blessing of Abraham filled Abraham’s humanity with divinity and God’s inspiring breath enabled Abraham to know instinctively how to succeed and win in every circumstance of life. God became Abraham’s first-love and Abraham lived within the wide open space of abundance and contentment, being blessed in the field, blessed in his flocks, blessed in his harvest, blessed coming in and going out.

Within the ancient world, family members were normally already within covenant with each other because they shared the same blood but others were not. God welcomed Abraham into his own household by giving him the covenant of the seal or mark or signature of circumcision which was symbolic of the much more significant circumcision of the heart and ears. This gifted Abraham with God’s breath and a father’s blessing and made upstanding or resurrected his heart and enabled him to love God with all of his heart and soul so that he could truly live.

God fathered Abraham in his long journey out of his father’s house into the land of God’s promise and blessing. By walking day by day with the blessing of God’s fatherhood, Abraham’s character, behaviour and name changed. In ancient Hebrew culture, the soul meant a breathing-being, and life’s breath were the thoughts, feelings, desires, hopes, dreams and actions that made up the personality. Like fragrant anointing oil or perfume, the blessing of Abraham mingled God’s life’s breathings into Abraham’s life’s breathings and Abraham was changed into a different person through this blessing. Abraham was changed from a being a son of the sin-slave Adam, into a loving and obedient son of God who passed the blessing of God’s fatherhood on to his true son, Isaac who was a foreshadowing of Jesus. The blessing of Abraham was the gift of righteousness and in effect a precursor of the new creation and true righteousness mentioned by Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:17, 21 “so that if anyone is in Christ [Mashiyach in Hebrew] – he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things…..for him who did not know sin, in our behalf he did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.“

Within ancient Hebrew culture Abraham’s son Isaac was Abraham’s hope or inheritance or life within the next generation of sons. God called Abraham to offer the son of Abraham’s love – Isaac as a burnt offering on Mount Moriah. Because God had blessed and fathered himself into Abraham, God had become Abraham’s first-love and his character, behaviour and name really had changed. Abraham became the righteousness of God in the power of the anointing and proved it in the way that he was inspired to behave. He bound his son, and reached out his hand with his knife to slay him. But God called from heaven as his own angel or messenger and prevented Abraham from sacrificing his son. Instead God provided a ram which was a foreshadowing of Jesus the Lamb of God for the sacrifice and swore his eternal blessing upon Abraham and his true sons of righteousness with an uplifted hand. God promised that his descendants would be like the stars in the sky and the dust or sand of the earth and that his seed or son would possess the gates of his enemies. The ultimate enemy was the death, the separation of man from the breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. Through his inspired obedience Abraham showed that he really had changed fathers, and that the blessing or gift of God really had changed him into a righteous man. Abraham saw or experienced God’s fatherhood and overcoming power and breath and was justified by establishing God’s breath within the breathings of his life. He became like a star in the sky rather than the dust of the earth. Hebraically, he had exactly the same relationship with God as Jesus of Nazareth, Yehovah’s Mashiyach, his seed or son or heir. Jesus said in John 8:56-58 “Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.’ the Jews, therefore, said unto him, ‘Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham’s coming – I AM [Yah in Hebrew]“

Jesus is described as the son of Abraham and within ancient Hebrew culture for Jesus to be called the son of Abraham, Abraham had to have been fathered by God. Abraham was a reflection, an image, witness or foreshadowing of Jesus the son of God who was both Yehovah his God and Yehoshua Abraham’s son, the heir of Abraham’s promise and the gift of God’s indwelling presence and breath (or Holy Spirit) and blessing and the kingdom of God’s fatherhood experienced by father Abraham.

Anointing of Kings

Within ancient Israel the community was broken down into tribes, clans and families. In Hebrew the word king meant “reigning one” and meant literally to walk amongst the people and administer blessing, mercy and justice. Over each family there was what could be described as an “abimelech” or reigning father. The fathers were meant to be kings over their own family, house or inheritance and deliver them from harm. In Psalm 105, the Patriarchs were described as God’s anointed (in Hebrew “Mashiyach“) and they were in effect “Yehoshua Mashiyach” over their own families, anointed by God as a foreshadowing of new creations to deliver, bless and bring mercy and justice within their own house or inheritance.

During the time of the Judges in Israel a generation of sons arose amongst the families that had not been properly fathered. They were not taught to embrace the blessing of their father Abraham and his God and as such were not the true star-sons or witnesses of Abraham. Instead they bore the image of Adam. They remained the dust of the earth like Ishmael, Esau or Midian and were not the stars of the sky like Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. They did not love, honour or obey their father and as such could not bear his name. Instead of being the true Israel or princes with God who turned the hearts of the idol worshipping Canaanites to the God of heaven, they turned away from their fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their God. They remained sons of Belial or wickedness and they trusted in themselves and the works of their own hands. They decided that they no longer wanted God to be their “Abimelech” or reigning father who administered deliverance and blessing from the heavens. They wanted a man that they could see and trust in and who would fight their battles for them. So Abraham’s dust-descendants went to Samuel the Prophet and asked him for a king to take the place of God. In turn God gave them Saul as a king and Samuel anointed Saul as King over God’s inheritance. His heart was changed from a donkey-chasing farmer to an victorious king and he became in effect the “abimelech” or reigning father who wore the crown or “mashach” of the anointing on behalf of the people and to overcome (“yasha“) and deliver them from all of their enemies. Unlike words that are spoken with a breath that dies in the ears of the listener, the anointing was like a continuous breath or spoken word of overcoming power that dwelt within the fragrance of the anointing upon the word “king” and brought both the king and the people victory.

The anointing was the corporate administration of God’s delegated blessing and fatherhood upon the head of the king that should have been upon the head of the fathers and of course God the ultimate Father. Because the fathers had failed to receive the blessing of God and his fatherhood, God in his great mercy anointed the head of the king to become a father over the people. Instead of ruling and administering blessing from the heavens, God was now willing to descend or come upon the head of the anointed king and reign from there. Unfortunately, Saul neglected the blessing of Abraham and his heart turned away from God. In his disobedience, the kingdom was torn from him and given to a young shepherd boy called David. In Hebrew the word David means “beloved“, and is related to the word for an uncle, love, passion, a woman’s breasts and a boiling pot. In the KJV it says in Proverbs 5:19 “Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts [“dad“, the root of the word David] satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.“

Like Abraham his father, David’s name was changed by the anointing from son of Man (Adam) to become a son of God who succeeded in all that God called him to do. So it says in 1 Samuel 16:13 “And Samuel taketh the horn of oil, and anointeth him in the midst of his brethren, and prosper over David doth the Spirit of Yehovah from that day and onwards.” In ancient Hebrew culture, oil was one of the most important commodities of life and was representative of things like blessing, prosperity, joy, health and wholeness, food and light. Perfumed anointing oil represented the continual presence and power of the breath and inspiration of God. The anointing of King David mingled the blessing or gifting or heavenly aroma of God’s life’s breathings into David’s life’s breathings. As the King, David was continually changed into a different person through the word and breath of this abiding anointing. The Song of Songs 1:12-13 speaks of the fragrance of the anointing of the King “While the king is in his circle, My spikenard hath given its fragrance. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved (“dad“, breasts) to me, Between my breasts it lodgeth.“

Yehovah’s blessing and anointing gifted him and practically saved him from all of his enemies by teaching him how to overcome (“yasha“). This was a foreshadowing of Jesus (Yehoshua or Yehovah-yasha) his son and heir. That is why it says in Psalm 18:1-3 “By a servant of Yehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Yehovah the words of this song in the day Yehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: – I love Thee, O Yehovah, my strength. Yehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower. The ‘Praised One’ I call Yehovah, And from my enemies I am saved [“yasha“, free wide open space]….“. That is why it says in Psalm 18:49-50 “Therefore I confess Thee among nations, O Yehovah, And to Thy name I sing praise, Magnifying the salvation [“yeshu’ah“] of his king [“Melech“], And doing kindness to his anointed [“Mashiyach“], To David, and to his seed [son] – unto the age!“

God made an eternal covenant with David and his son and promised David and his son an eternal kingdom, crown, throne and dominion. God said to David in 2 Samuel 7:12-16 “‘When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy [loins], and have established his kingdom; he doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age. I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee, and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.’“

However, the kings that followed David did not fully experience a change of fathers like their fathers Abraham and David. Even King Solomon, because of the influence of his strange wives, turned away from God towards empty foolish idols towards the end of his natural life. In Psalm 62:9 David said that men were empty: “ Only – vanity [empty of character or name] are the low [sons of Adam], a lie the high [sons of men]. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.” It remained for Yehoshua, the son of Abraham and the son of David to come and show what could be accomplished by a man who as the son of God was full of the breath of the Holy One and therefore had a perfect anointing and experience of God’s indwelling fatherhood. That is why it says in Psalm 45:6-7 Thy throne, O God, is age-during, and forever, A sceptre of uprightness Is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.”

The man Yehoshua, as the son of David, took corporate responsibility for the sins of his fathers and brothers. He was lashed by the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of Adam, but God’s love and kindness was never taken away from him, he is building the temple or house or dwelling place or city or inheritance of God within his own body, filled with the fragrance of Yehovah’s indwelling presence. His and his father David’s kingdom never ends. Jesus is described as the son of David and within ancient Hebrew culture for Jesus to be called the son of David, David had to be fathered by God. It says in Psalm 89:20-29 “I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. He proclaimeth me: ‘Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation [“yeshu’ah“].’ I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him. And I have set his seed forever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.“

King David was a witness or a foreshadowing of Yehoshua the firstborn son of God who is both Yehovah his God and also his son who was his father David’s witness within the generation in which Jesus was born. Yehoshua is the heir of Yehovah’s promise to David of the indwelling presence and blessing and breath of the kingdom of God’s fatherhood that dwells within his corporate son, the throne of his dominion and the crown of his fragrant and abiding anointing poured out at Pentecost. That is why it says in 2 Corinthians 2:14 “…. to God are thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ [the Anointed One], and the fragrance of his knowledge he is manifesting through us in every place….“

Pentecost: Blessing and Anointing for All

God had spoken incredible promises to both Abraham regarding his heir and David regarding his son. God was then born as a man, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of both Abraham and David and the heir of their promises. He came as the Lamb of God to take the place of Isaac whom Abraham was willing to offer up to God as a burnt sacrifice on Mount Moriah in Genesis 22. Jesus came to prove Gods faithfulness to the promises that God had made to his fathers and to redeem the whole of mankind from the curse of sin caused by the Fall. He was willing to be rejected and crucified, the Lamb or Isaac of God dying for the sins of the whole world.

God remembered his promises to both Abraham and David and kept the word of his promise by raising Jesus of Nazareth their son from the dead. Following his resurrection, Jesus said in Acts 1:4-7 “….and being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ‘Ye did hear of me; because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized [immersed] with the Holy Spirit – after not many days.’ they, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, ‘Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?’ and he said unto them, ‘It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in his own authority; but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.’“

Like an acorn has its mighty father oak tree dwelling within it, the blessing or gifting of Abraham and the anointing of David is the dynamic indwelling presence of God within and upon God’s son redeeming the throne, dominion and crown lost by Adam and won back by Jesus. The gift and promise of God’s indwelling presence and breath empowers and saves in life those that receive his gift to become the word “son of God” just like the man Jesus foreshadowed by his fathers. As God’s sons the Father dwells within them by his very own breath or Holy Spirit inspiring them to overcome or be saved (“yasha” in Hebrew), healed and delivered from the oppressive grip of their enemies, even in the midst of tribulation and persecution. They can become witnesses, reflections or images of the invisible God by being inspired to walk in their first-love, being saved in every circumstance of life. Jesus had prayed in John 17 that he as the son of Adam (Man) having completed the work that the Father had chosen him to do would be glorified back into the Paradise of the Eden of God’s fatherhood: John 17:5 “‘And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee’“

He had prayed that those that God had given to him would see his glory by experiencing the same blessing and anointing of God’s fatherhood experienced by Adam and Eve before the Fall: John 17:24 “‘Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation [throwing down] of the world’” The breath of God’s fatherhood (the breath or Spirit of truth) glorifies Jesus by taking of what is his and makes it known to his brothers or bride, the corporate son sharing the same Father, and experiencing the same salvation of healing, deliverance and freedom of Jesus’ very own eternal or age- enduring eternal life: John 16:12-15 “‘I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now;and when He may come – the Spirit of truth – He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you; He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you. ‘All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you’

The breath of God’s fatherhood, the breath or Spirit of sonship was poured out at Pentecost. This was described in Acts 2:1-4 “Acts 2:1 and in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues [languages], according as the Spirit [breath of God] was giving them to declare.“

When asked what this all meant, Peter replied in Acts 2:32-36 “‘This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; at the right hand then of God having been exalted – also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father – he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear; for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thy foes thy footstool; assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him – this Jesus whom ye did crucify.’

In Acts 3:25-26 Peter further explained: “‘Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth; to you first, God, having raised up his child [“pais“, whipping boy] Jesus [“Yehoshua“], did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.’” God had remembered his promises to both Abraham and David and kept the word of his promise by raising Jesus of Nazareth their son from the dead and he was now exalted on to the throne of his father David, making him both the Anointed King and Lord by his almighty breath. He who is at the Father’s side and who has made God know, is Jesus the son of David glorified upon the throne of his father, and his bride is the “ecclesia” of the called out ones (religiously translated church), his corporate body, temple, house or son of God filled with the breath of God’s fatherhood just as he is, poured out on the day of Pentecost. The sons of God were immersed into and ever-increasing experience of the heart-boggling paradise and wonderment of God’s fatherhood, lifting them by the power and crown of the anointing to sit with him in heavenly places with all of their enemies a footstool under their feet just like he has because they are him.

Pentecost was the day that God himself came home. It was the day when God breathed himself into the hearts of his son. They are the son who bear the name the son of God, within whom he delights, they are the ones whose own hearts are established and glorified together within Him. The gates and strongholds of darkness that had set themselves up against them in their lives fell – they became naturally supernatural and were possessed by the power of almightiness that abides eternally within them. They inhabit the realms of glory in life and dwell eternally within the character, behaviour and the name that they share with Jesus. There is no other name given amongst men by which they must be saved.

Everyone can now be a reflection or witness of Jesus the son of God by being filled with the Holy Spirit or his Father’s life’s breath as he is. This blessing and anointing experienced in part by both Abraham and David and promised to their son and heir was now received from Yehovah and poured out by Jesus (Yehoshua) upon his corporate body or Zion, the City or dwelling place of God. This is also the fulfilment of Aaronic blessing described in Numbers 6:24-27 “‘Yehovah bless thee and keep [guard] thee; ‘Yehovah cause his face to shine upon thee, and favour thee; ‘Yehovah lift up his countenance [face to shine, personal relationship] upon thee, and appoint for thee – peace [shalom, success, contentment, happiness]. ‘And they have put My name [character, behaviour, sonship] upon the sons of Israel, and I – I do bless [gift of the Holy Spirit, God’s indwelling breath] them.’“

This turns people from their evil ways and continually saves the sons of God (from different cultures and families of the “adamah” who speak different languages or tongues) from their enemies by the power of the resurrection, the reuniting of God’s breath or Holy Spirit within their bodies originally created by God’s word. This was promised many times in scripture, such as by Joel 2:28-29 “And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions. And also on the men-servants, and on the maid-servants, In those days I do pour out My Spirit. And Isaiah 44:3 “For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit [ruach, breath] on thy seed [sons], And My blessing on thine offspring.”

The Father dwells within the corporate body his sons seen as a totality of one by his life’s breath or Holy Spirit to share or partner dominion upon the earth from the throne of their hearts. This is expressed in the way that they are corporately inspired to behave, the name “son of God” that they corporately bear: Acts 2:44-45 “….and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common, and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as anyone had need. This corporate expression of love is the life’s breath of the glorified Yehoshua, the house or temple or dwelling place of Yehovah God’s Holy Spirit, breath or character or name that dwells within the word of God “son“: 1 Kings 8:19 “….but thy son who is coming out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.”

Inheriting Sonship: Kingdom of the Son

Jesus says in Revelation 1:8: “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming [in Hebrew Yehovah] – the Almighty.’“
Jesus says in Revelation 21:6-7 “and he said to me, ‘It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely; he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him – a God, and he shall be to me – the Son“. Hebraically, the son of God is a corporate body of all of the fathered sons of God seen as a totality of one originally created by the word of God and through the power of the resurrection are reunited with the breath, power or Holy Spirit of God headed by the man Jesus of Nazareth, who in his divinity is called Immanuel, the Mighty God, Wonderful Counsellor, Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last and He Who Is, Who Was and Who Is To Come (Yehovah), God Almighty. As the firstborn from the dead he is the visible image of the invisible God, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who is glorified back into the Paradise of Eden and who sits at the right hand or strength of God in heavenly glory as a man on the throne of his father David. He is surrounded by his brothers or bride or Kings or Lords or reigning- ones who at one time or another were all corporately responsible for his murder but who are now forgiven and are also reflections or images of the invisible God and have been saved to overcome by the power and inspired indwelling presence of God’s fatherhood and are also seated on thrones and share the crown of his anointing over the land of the kingdom or reign of his blessing and power of the resurrection promised by God to the son and heir of both Abraham and David, Jesus of Nazareth, and poured out at Pentecost.

There is also a great company of the current generation of God’s sons who are now experiencing physical life upon planet earth. Like a bride preparing for her wedding they wash their robes and make themselves ready with the bright and clean linen garments of acts of kindness and love that the new creation blessing and anointing of their Father inspires them to do. They are saved continually by their Father’s blessing in every aspect of life and even in times of persecution when they are counted worthy to suffer for “The Name“. They are empowered to become practically blameless and pure to bear his visible image to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil because Jesus the overcomer who was saved through the indwelling Father’s love and a perfect knowledge of God’s fatherhood has been revealed within their hearts to dis-establish the curse of the true lies of the serpent and father of lies that had been made real in their hearts through their sin. The corporate body of the son of God has a corporate soul (in Hebrew breathings) and as a breathing-being has exactly the same life’s breath as Yehoshua whose life’s breath is the Holy Spirit or breath of Yehovah Elohim himself, the Holy One.

They are blessed and greatly rejoice, being clothed with garments of salvation by being practically saved in every walk of life from the oppressive hand of depression, sin, misery, fear, loneliness, brokenness, unforgiveness, sickness and death just as Jesus was. Jesus’ salvation and victory is also theirs. That is why it says in Isaiah 61:9-11 “….All their beholders acknowledge them, For they are a seed [sons] Yehovah hath blessed. I greatly rejoice in Yehovah, Joy doth my soul [breathings] in my God, For he clothed me with garments of salvation [“yasha“], With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels. For, as the earth bringeth forth her shoots, And as a garden causeth its sown things to shoot up, So the Lord Yehovah causeth righteousness and praise To shoot up before all the nations!“

At the first resurrection or standing, the sons or bride upon the earth will rise to be robed with heavenly glory and meet in the air or almighty spoken breath or Holy Spirit of God the great company or clouds of the sons or witnesses or living testimonies or reflections of the resurrection from previous generations headed by Jesus the Chosen and Anointed One. They were chosen and anointed too and were counted worthy because of the evidence of the power of the resurrection and indwelling presence of God within their hearts expressed in the fruit of the way they were inspired to behave.

They return as Mount Zion, the Stronghold of David, the Heavenly Jerusalem or dwelling place or City of God that descends out of heaven to have dominion upon the earth mentioned in Genesis 1 and inherit the land or kingdom promised to Abraham and establish the throne and crown promised to David that is currently ruled by other gods or powers or bad breaths of lying words within the hearts of men that was founded at the Fall to make the world or “adamah” or corporate “Babylon“. The whole of creation waits for the sons of God to be revealed to put right the destruction and almost complete annihilation of planet earth that is to come and that will be a fulfilment and harvest or reaping of Adam and Eve’s sowing into their own hearts and house the deadly demonic seeds or the serpent’s lying words of bad breath of the fleshy fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

At the end of days, the son of God will consummate his marriage to his heavenly bride and become eternally one with her by eternally uniting God’s word “son” to God’s breath or inspiration or Holy Spirit of sonship. To them, no scroll is sealed, no door is locked, no promise left unfulfilled, nothing is beyond their reach or out of their control. They share in his name, destiny, crown, throne and inheritance. The second rising or death has no power over them – they are already glorified and eternally filled with God’s life.

The river of life flows from the throne of God’s fatherhood and of the Lamb into the hearts of the Bride or City of God or corporate son, all of whom are able to freely eat the fruit of the tree of life. They each become living flames, lamps or lights or images or reflections of God’s fatherhood and are in effect the leaves of this tree planted near streams of living water whose leaves are always green and that become healing for the saved of the nations who have been refined or purged by the fires of God’s judgement and who walk in the light of the City of God. The sons are living words of God’s breath, scrolls within the Lamb’s Scroll of Life and images and reflections of his glory. This is because their name or character or behaviour or acts or words or achievements are an expression of the very life and love that God as their own real and dear indwelling Father has for them. God himself will exercise dominion upon the earth from the throne of their hearts that he will partner and share with them so that in the ages to come he can truly and practically teach his sons what it really means to be called by the name “the son of God“.

Jesus, the Anointed and Chosen and Blessed One says to his anointed and chosen and blessed bride “Come you who are blessed of my Father……“.

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing – let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting – let him come; and he who is willing – let him take the water of life freely.

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