Businesses that are named "The
Family Image" are often hairstylists or photographers. The family
image is sometimes apparent at first glance, but outward appearance
is just the start.
Young adults sometimes re-model
themselves after their peers because every generation thinks they
can and should develop a better image than the family they were
born into. By the time High School is over most americans have
spent thirteen years growing up with other family people their own
age. If that generation wants to develop their own family
distinctions they sometimes find a unique style to advertize their
new family at-large identity. The significance of the
outward image is in the character or the behavior of the family we
associate it with.
When God created humanity he
created them male and female. The male was brought into the family
garden first. Adam could not find another person complementary to
himself out among all the animal families so God formed the female
human to carry the family image with the male human. Male and
female He created them. Like newborns they wore no clothing and
they were unashamed.
Genesis 1:27
CLV 27 And
creating is the Elohim humanity in His image. In the image of the
Elohim He creates it. Male and female He creates them.
Genesis
1:27
ECB 27 And Elohim
creates Adam in his image; he creates him in the image of Elohim;
he creates them male and female.
Genesis 1:27
YLT 27 And God
prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared
him, a male and a female He prepared them.
Genesis 1:27
KJV 27 So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
The words we translate into
English as 'covenant' and 'create' are very similar to each other
in the Hebrew language.
In fact the new creation seems
to be a covenant/creation; AKA a family.
Romans 8:19
ALT 19 For the
earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation
of the sons [and daughters] of God.
It wasn't until Adam and Eve
disobeyed and listened to another god that they fell from their
naive state of innocence, like adolecents who are suddenly self
aware and overly concerned with their outward appearance. God
graciously covered them in animal sacrifice. Humanity never goes
back to the naked garden scene or the animal sacrifice. Humanity
enters the new covenant clothed with the robe of righteousness that
represents the image of God in Christ. Those without the proper
wedding clothes were thrown out. The old covenant Jew (or any other
nation) was not allowed at the wedding unless he put on the new
covenant clothes. It certainly wasn't a pre-fall naked wedding. The
image of God in man was not complete until God's only begotten son
took on humanity. He was born into the human family and stood up as
the image of God in the Jewish temple.
The new covenant did not change
the family image of God, it only made it possible for everyone
else. As the image of God in man, eschaton Adam took on the law of
knowledge of good and evil and then put naked Adam to death on the cross. A new
bride came from Adam's side while He was in a 'deep sleep' on the
cross. Pentecost was the Jewish betrothal covenant to dress the Jew
first, in order to attend the wedding feast; clothed in the
righteousness of their Messiah.
Revelation 19:6-8
LITV 6 And I
heard as a sound of a numerous crowd, and as a sound of many
waters, and as a sound of strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah!
Because the Lord God Almighty reigned. 7 Let us
rejoice and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because
the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife prepared
herself. 8 And it
was given to her that she be clothed in fine linen, pure and
bright; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the
saints.
The last days of the old
covenant transitioned into the neverending new covenant. There are
no last days of the new covenant. The old covenant with the nation
Israel lasted about 1600 years. Some people believe we have been in
the last days for 2000 years now. The nation Israel was only part
of the bride released from the side of Christ on the cross. Jesus
did not start over with a single individual for a bride. He did not
take a Jewish wife in the flesh in order to produce His family
image. He rescued all the believers from the old covenant and then
invited even more people to the wedding feast. Adam is a believer
in the new covenant now or he has perished. Either way, Yashua is
the new head who carries the image of humanity for His Father, not
Adam.
Ephesians 4:20-24
ECB 20
THE HOLY
LIFE
And you learned not the Messiah
thus; 21 if indeed
you hear him and being doctrinated in him exactly as the truth is
in Yah Shua: 22 that
concerning your previous behavior you put off the old humanity,
which according to the pantings of delusion is
corrupt; 23 and renew
the spirit of your mind; 24 and endue
the new humanity as to Elohim - created in justness and true
mercy.
Matthew 16:28
ALT 28 "Positively,
I say to you(p), [there] are some having stood here who
will by no means taste of death until they see the Son of Humanity
coming in His kingdom."
Mark 13:30
LITV 30 Truly I say
to you, Not at all will this generation pass away until all these
things occur.
Matthew 22:1-14 (Answering Jews during Passion week in
Jerusalem)
ALT 1 And
answering, Jesus again spoke to them in allegories,
saying, 2 "The kingdom
of the heavens was compared to a man, a king, who made
marriage-feasts for his son. 3 "And he sent
out his slaves to call the ones having been invited to the
marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come. 4 "Again he
sent out other slaves, saying, 'Say to the ones having been
invited, "Listen! I prepared my dinner; my oxen and the fattened
calves have been killed, and all things [are] ready; come
to the marriage-feasts.'" 5 "But they,
having disregarded [it], went away, one indeed to his own
field, but one to his business. 6 "But
the rest, having taken hold of his slaves, mistreated and
killed [them]. 7"And that king
having heard, was enraged, and having sent out his soldiers, he
destroyed those murderers and set their city on
fire. 8"Then he says to
his slaves, 'The marriage-feast indeed is ready, but the ones
having been invited were not worthy. 9 "'So be
going on the outlets of the roads [i.e. the roads heading from
the city to the countryside], and as many as youp shall find
invite [them] to the marriage-feasts. 10 "And those
slaves having gone out into the roads, gathered together all, as
many as they found, both evil and good [people]. And the
marriage-feast [hall] was filled
with [ones] reclining [to eat]. 11 "But the
king having entered to observe the ones reclining [to eat],
saw there a person not having been clothed
with [the] clothing of the marriage-feast. 12 "And
he says to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here, not
having [the] clothing of the marriage-feast?'
But he was speechless. 13 "Then the
king said to the servants, 'Tie up his feet and hands; take him
away and throw [him] into the outer darkness! In that
place [there] will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth!' 14 "For many
are called, but few chosen."
The Family Image
The image of God is being
proliferated by His new covenant family
today.
John
14:8-9
LITV 8 And Philip
said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for
us. 9 Jesus said to
him, Am I so long a time with you, and you have not known Me,
Philip? The one seeing Me has seen the Father! And how do you say,
Show us the Father?
Jesus was fully God and fully
man. The other nations had images of their father gods standing in
their temples. They were usually part animal and part man. We don't
know what Yeshua looked like as He stood up in the Jewish temple of
the one true God. The image of His father is recorded for us in His
words and actions not the length of hair or the style of clothing
he wore.
The Jewish system as a
whole did not see the image of their god in Jesus. Because their
father image was the ruler of the world; who was the devil,
according to Jesus.
John 14:17-22
LITV 17 the Spirit
of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him
nor know Him. But you know Him, for He abides with you and shall be
in you. 18 I will not
leave you orphans; I am coming to you. 19 Yet a little
while and the world no longer sees Me, but you see Me. Because I
live, you also shall live. 20 In that day
you shall know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am
in you. 21 He that has
My commandments and keeps them, it is that one who loves Me; and
the one that loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love
him and will reveal Myself to him. 22 Judas
said to Him, not the Iscariot, Lord, what has happened that You are
about to reveal Yourself to us and not at all to the
world?
What seemed to misrepresent God
the most was the Jewish money changers in the His Father's house.
Jesus drove them out with a whip.
John
16:2-3
LITV 2 They will put
you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming that everyone
killing you will think to bear a service before God. 3 And they will
do these things to you because they do not know the Father nor
Me.
The image of God was sent to
live in His people and it really convicted the first century
world. Unbelieving Jews
cast out the believing Jews because they could not tolerate the
true image bearers.
Matthew 22:15-22
LITV 15 Then
going, the Pharisees took counsel so as they might trap Him in
words. 16 And they
sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we
know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, and it
does not concern you about anyone, for you do not look to the face
of men. 17 Then tell
us, what do you think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or
not? 18 But
knowing their wickedness, Jesus said, Why do you test Me,
hypocrites? 19 Show Me
the tribute coin. And they brought a denarius to
Him. 20 And He
said to them, Whose image and inscription is this? 21 They said
to Him, Caesar's. Then He said to them, Then give to Caesar the
things of Caesar, and to God the things of God. 22 And
hearing, they marveled. And leaving Him, they went
away.
John
16:7-11
LITV 7 But I tell you
the truth, it is advantageous for you that I should go; for if I do
not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go, I
will send Him to you. 8 And when that
One comes, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning
righteousness, and concerning judgment. 9 Concerning
sin, because they do not believe into Me; 10 and
concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you
no longer see Me; 11 and
concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been
judged.
The image of God in Yeshua
first overcame the Jewish cosmos. Jesus did not go to Rome to
conquer the world. He conquered the Jewish world first and then He
sent His conquered Jews to overturn the other nations. Jesus sent
Paul the Benjamite to Rome.
Acts 23:11 (Paul was discouraged by his bretheren in the
flesh)
ALT 11 But on the
following night, the Lord having stood by him said, "Take courage
Paul, for as you solemnly
testified [about] the [things]concerning Me at
Jerusalem, in the same way it is necessary [for] you also
to testify at Rome."
Acts 23:12-13
ALT 12 Then day
having come, some of the Jews having formed a conspiracy, bound
themselves by a curse saying [they would] neither eat nor
drink until they kill Paul. 13 Now they were
more than forty, the ones having formed this
conspiracy,
Acts 27:23-24 (Shipwrecked)
LITV 23 For tonight
stood by me an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I
serve, 24 saying, Do
not fear, Paul, You must stand before Caesar.
John 16:27-33
LITV 27 for the
Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have
believed that I came out from God. 28 I came
out from the Father and have come into the world; I leave the world
again and go to the Father. 29 His
disciples said to Him, Behold, now You speak plainly and You say no
allegory. 30 Now we know
that You know all things and have no need that anyone question You.
By this we believe that You came out from
God. 31 Jesus
answered them, Do you believe now? 32 Behold,
an hour is coming, and now has come, that you are scattered, each
one to his own things, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with Me. 33 I have
spoken these things to you that you may have peace in Me. You have
distress in the world; but be encouraged, I have overcome the
world.
My God was a
Jewish craftsman
Colossians 1:16
ECB
16
YAH SHUA,
CREATOR
For in him all was created - those in the
heavens and those on the earth; visible and invisible; whether
thrones whether lordships whether hierarchies whether authorities -
all were created through him and to him:
The image of God is standing up
in temples all over the globe today!
1 Corinthians 3:16 ('You' Plural)
16 Have
you not perceived that you are the temple of God, and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19
LITV 19 Or
do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in
you, which you have from God, and you are not of
yourselves?
Ezekiel 43:5
CLV 5 And take me
up does the Spirit, and brings me in unto the inner court, and lo,
the honor of Yahweh has filled the house.
Adam and Eve walked with the
Spirit of God in the garden location until they were driven out for
disobedience. In the new covenant we can walk in the Spirit of God
regardless of location. To be in the literal 'land' of Yahwey is to
be in covenant with Him typically. To be driven out is to suffer
for disobedience. The tribe of Judah was driven out for 70 years to
suffer for the 490 years they broke the sabbath. That is the
covenant curse Yahwey declared as a result of their old covenant
disobedience, just as he declared a curse for the old covenant
disobedience of Adam.
Genesis 3:19
YLT 19 by the
sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the
ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art,
and unto dust thou turnest back.'
A you return
B to the ground
C since out of it you were
taken
C for dust you are
B and unto dust
A you will turn back
Yahwey did not curse the dirt
in the garden. He drove Adam out of it and back into the hard
world. He made leather clothing for Adam and Eve and told them they
would not re-enter the garden in their lifetime. Their promised
seed would arrive to crush the adversary and make the covenant
spiritual again. I hate to tell you this, the new covenant image is
not leather animal skin. It is the white robe of Christ's
righteousness. Judah re-entered the land so Yeshua could be born to
replace Adam as head man of the covenant. He put the first born old
man to death and He is now the first born of the new covenant. The
image of God in Adam has been transitioned to the image of God in
Christ. The image of God is in incorruptible hands now. It took a
lot of hard work and suffering for Jesus to accomplish this for His
Jewish people. They took their Holy Spirit covenant to the nations
to put the image of God in all the world. That was God's great
commission to them. They were to take the covenant out of Jerusalem
and put it in all the nationalities.
All creation refers to every nationality not bugs and
lizards
Mark 16:15
KJV 15 And he said
unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature.
Mark 16:15
LITV 15 And He said
to them, Going into all the world, preach the gospel to all the
creation.
The
Jewish Messiah promised to help His Jewish disciples transition to
the new covenant. They are not here anymore so I assume they
completed the transition days and we are fully in
the new and better covenant now.
Matthew
28:19-20
LITV 19 Going,
then, disciple all nations, baptizing them into the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching
them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold,
I am with you all the days until the completion of the age.
Amen.
Hebrews 8:13
ALT 13 By the
saying "new," He has made the first obsolete. Now the one becoming
obsolete and growing old [is] on the verge of
disappearing.
Jacob 3:7-8 to the Jews in the diaspora
CLV 7 For every
nature, both of wild beasts and flying creatures, both of reptiles
and those of the salt sea, is tamed and has been tamed by human
nature." 8 Yet the tongue
can no man tame - a turbulent evil, distended with death-carrying
venom."
The Holy Spirit can even tame
the tongue. It was not tamable under the old covenant.
1 Corinthians 15:47-49 (we are God's
people)
LITV 47 The
first man was out of earth, earthy. The second Man was the Lord out
of Heaven. Gen. 2:7 48 Such
the earthy man, such also the earthy ones. And such the heavenly
Man, such also the heavenly ones. 49 And
as we bore the image of the earthy man,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly
Man.
Bow to no other family image. We will become
like the one we worship.
Leviticus 26:1
CLV 1 You shall
not make forbidden idols for yourselves, nor set up carvings and
monuments for yourselves, nor put a stone picture in your land to
bow yourself down before it, for I, Yahweh, am your
Elohim.
Romans 1:23,25
CLV 23 and they
change the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an
image of a corruptible human being and flying creatures and
quadrupeds and reptiles. 25 those
who alter the truth of God into the lie, and are venerated, and
offer divine service to the creature rather than the Creator, Who
is blessed for the eons! Amen!"
Romans 8:29
CLV 29 that, whom
He foreknew, He designates beforehand, also, to be conformed to the
image of His Son, for Him to be Firstborn among many
brethren.
Colossians 3:9-11
LITV 9 Do not
lie to one another, having put off the old man with his
practices, 10 and
having put on the new, having been renewed in full knowledge
according to the image of the One creating him, 11 where
there is no Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision,
foreigner, Scythian, slave or freeman, but Christ is all things and
in all.
We have transitioned from the old covenant glory
to new covenant glory
2 Corinthians 3:18
LITV 18 But
we all with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory
of the Lord in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from
glory to glory, as from the Lord Spirit.