Understanding God’s Spiritual Family Structure!

(Ver 1.3)  Do you know what a family is?  How do we define a family in the modern world?  Satan is diligently attempting to pervert the family and corrupt God’s design but these lies still do not take away from God’s truth.  Reading the Bible we can very clearly see that God created a specific family system and a family structure here on the earth.  Wwas this family design something new or was it patterned after something in heaven that already existed?  God created the first family of our current world system and this is described to us in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.  Take a moment and read these verses again.  You shold be able to observe that this family unit consisted of one man called the husband and one woman called his wife.  This family grew and expanded into numerous children and eventually became very large.  In the terms of of the estimated human population on earth today, the family of Adam has now exceeded to nearly 7 billion people.  However, we must conclude from this solid scriptural information that a natural family by God’s definition and design is comprised of a single man, a soliatary woman and at least some children.  Does God have a spiritual family like this?  If you did not know it yet, God had a family exactly like this in heaven.  However this family existed in the spiritual realm and not here in the physical realm. 

God is an eternal Spirit being and the natural universe had a created starting origination point also called a beginning (Genesis 1:1, John 1:1).  Therefore, whatever God did in the natural realm must have come first from the spiritual realm and then it can be displayed in the natural realm.  We understand this concept again by reading Genesis 1.  God is defined to us in the Bible as light where no darkness exists (1 Jn 1:5).  Using this information we can go and look at Genesis 1:2 and see that God (light) did not exist on the earth until God said “Light Be” and light then came into existence in the natural realm.  What I am trying to do in this introductio to my subject is to establish some patterns for us to learn from.  Light had to eternally exist in heaven prior to the creation of natural light since God is light, but this natural light only came into existence on the earth after the spiritual God of Ligth spoke it into existence in Genesis 1:3.  This means what was previously in the spirit realm has now manifested or come into existence in the natural realm.  Do you understand what I am getting at?  We are begining to see some new patterns revelaed in the Bible that specific things existed in heaven before they ever existed on the earth and I could give you many other verses to help establish that truth, but I am going to skip most of these verses and give you a couple that are related to what I am trying to teach.  Just try to understand that God created the natural things found in this world to give us insight into unseen pre-existing spiritual things.  Another way to say this is that God created natural things as a view or a window into the unseen spiritual dimension.

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

This is an amazing verse of truth being presented to us from God.  It speaks clearly and directly about the things that God created in the beginning.  God said that the hidden qualities of God can be clearly observed within our natural creation.  This would include the design, the components, the systems, the laws, and the structure of our planet, the world and the universe around us.   That is some highly informative information, God says that you can look around you and find the hidden characteristics of God in the things that surround us.  This of course does not mean that we worship creation and ignore the Creator and that is what many in the government, Hollywood and TV do.   What God is telling us in this verse is that the most isolated men in the darkest, deepest parts of Africa or South America who have never heard the Gospel preached are without excuse.  Meaning they could easily find God, if they only looked around them and saw Him.  In the book of Hebrews chapter 11, it speaks to us about Enoch who walked with God and was taken because of His extreme close relationship with God.   Let’s read this verse and then consider what it teaches us:

Heb 11:5  By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Did you ever think that there were no preachers, no churches, no Bibles, no witnesses to the truth and nobody to talk with to confirm that there was a God when Enoch was alive?  If you do the calculations from the dates and times of birth you will find that even Adam had died when Enoch was taken up.  Thereofre Adam who talked with God in the garden was no longer avaliable to consult on the existence of God.  How then did Enoch find God and know Him so well?  I think that is a really good question to consider.  Is this type of relationship with God still possible today for men to know God in this level of intimacy that God still takes us up?  If you did not know it, it will happen very soon again and you could be possibly left behind like those in Enoch’s day.  I believe it is possible for you to know God exactly like Enoch knew God and even greater!  So let’s get back on the subject of God’s Spiritual Family Structure and prove this concept using the Bible that God had one of these in heaven.

Mat 10:25  It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

Here in this verse in Matthew, Jesus is speaking to the disciples.  This verse has great information within it, as long as you do not overlook what it says.  Jesus is calling himself the Master and the Lord.  He then tells the disciples that if the Jews said that the Master of the House is “Satan”, how much more will the servants and the members of the household be also called “Satan”.  There are two very important key words found in this verse of scripture.  First, is the word “master of the house” and this Greek word means the “Head of the Family”.  Jesus is the Head of a New Family of God.  The next key word is “household”.  This Greek word means “relatives” and those that live in the same “house”.  It implies a close relationship between the “Head of the House” and those who are part of His family.

So apparently God does have a spiritual family, with family members, relatives if you please.  These relatives are us, the church now and here is another verse that confirms this statement:

Eph 2:19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

We can clearly see two contrasting groups of people being spoken of in this verse.  One group of people are called “strangers” and “foreigners”.  Have you ever been to a family reunion and not known some of the people there?  Usually you know everyone, if you come from a really big family you might sometimes not know every new child that is born since the last time you have gotten together.  Then others marry and the family grows and it can be challenging to keep track of everyone all the time.  Nevertheless, what would you call someone who just shows up at your family party that no one knows?  They would be called a stranger to everyone.  This is the way of God’s spiritual family when we are not saved, we are strangers to God’s spiritual family.  We are not members of that spiritual family, so something must occur for us to be known by God.  This verse in Ephesians ends with a statement that we (the church) are now in the “household” of God.  Again this Greek word, means a member of the family, a close relative of the same family or household.  Something happened to put you into the family of God.  If you have not been saved, you are not a member of this family.  These verses imply that not everyone will be saved, so those that teach Universal Salvation have a problem they must just ignore.

Now I am going to introduce you to a verse in the Bible that I have already alluded to.   Maybe you did not realize it, but Jesus has establish a New family of God.  Why do I say that?  Because the Bible seems to imply that the Old family of God had some problems.

Heb 3:6  But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Here we have a verse that has great revelation if we choose to see it.  Jesus Christ the Son of God is said to be the head or master of a new house.  Did you know the Hebrew word for Son is “ben” and means a builder of the family name?  So Jesus being a Hebrew walked the face of the planet and called himself both the Son of God and the Son of Man.  What we discover from this information is that Jesus is the manifestation of two dimensions, one is spiritual and the other is physical and Jesus embodies both of these dimensions simultaneously as a qualified Son.   Therefore, only Jesus is capable of rebuilding the natural family of Adam and the spiritual family of God and create a new family that consists of members of each of these dimensions, while leaving out those that God does not want in.  That is very tricky if you ask me.

Does God have a spiritual family?   Does this family have a wife?  Is God the husband?  Who are the children in the Family of God?  There are so many questions to consider.  The Bible reveals a lot of information on this subject and I will continue this subject in another future blog.  God Bless!

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