DOMINIONISM

This matter of ‘dominion’ is a gift from God perverted by original sin (the fall of man).

We must appreciate what was given ‘man’ before we can become horrified about its’ perversion. We must understand there can be no ‘dominion’ absent a clearly definable ‘domain’. Having researched thousands of chains of title in courthouses in dozens of counties in at least thirteen states there is one common thread: THE BEGINNING – that first PATENT or LAND GRANT from which the title must flow. Where there is a clear break in the chain of title the next rule of clear ownership is established by years (usually a minimum of 25 years) of OPEN and NOTORIOUS possession. Those are the usual methods of establishing ‘clear title’.
Here is the original ‘grant’ establishing the boundaries of the domain given the original human, Adam. (He and Eve are like Cher – no last name needed). We have to look in Holy History (book of beginnings – Genesis) to find it.
Genesis 1:26-30
“26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth.
29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the land and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the ground—to everything in which there is the breath of life—I have given every green plant for food. And it was so.”
Dominion was God’s idea. Man was God’s idea. The EARTH was God’s idea. But satan had ideas of his own. Being jealous of man satan wanted that position of being ‘like God’ and is on record as having said as much. It was in the heart of satan to lure man into giving him this dominion and he successfully achieved that goal – partly. Through deceit and manipulation they (Adam and Eve) disregarded God’s warning and thought they could eat of that fateful fruit and not die. Yet, they died. Because of their choice everything in their domain experienced death as well. It is at this point I wish to state a truth you may or may not have seen before.
The domain is still here – although deterioration, death and destruction takes its’ toll. This domain is also subject to man but man is under the domination of a system of deceit and manipulation – still. The Biblical term for this system is ‘the world’ and to give it the clearest definition I term it to be ‘the world system under the influence of satan’.
Dominion is a fact! The issue is the source of the primary influencer:
God or His (and our) enemy, satan.
To charge the ‘Church’ as having a ‘Dominionistic’ agenda is ludicrous. If the Church has the Son of God – Jesus – as the HEAD of the Church and the Holy Spirit indwelling her both individually and collectively, we have no choice but to plead guilty of such a charge. So the Church, for some reason, prefers to be silent in this regard because it is not politically correct to be dominionistic in our approach. I want to be clear about this: IF an issue is God’s issue and because of that God is rejected we must stand with God in that rejection – even persecution. WHY, then, are we the Church intimidated by these charges? Again, we have been and we are deceived and do not trust the truth of God. We need to be ashamed.
‘Wolves in sheep’s clothing’ have taken advantage of our politeness and we have allowed lies and deceit to silence us in too many areas of His Word. What is worse than that is we have ‘sheep dressing in wolves’ clothing’ in order to fit in and not offend anyone. I have arrived at the place of proclaiming truth without regard of offense to anyone. I am barred by God’s Holy Spirit to abuse the truth by using it to purposefully offend individuals or groups but my desire to gain their confidence must never yield to hiding what amounts to ‘inconvenient’ truth.
There is an UNWRITTEN rule (meaning it is not in our constitution) that religion shall not interfere with the political. That rule may have served a good purpose when it was understood we shall not have a government sponsored ‘religion’ but it fails miserably at the point of condemning God and barring Him and His influence from having any role in government. I have just one point to make here. Dominion was GIVEN to Adam. God did not give Adam OWNERSHIP! God remains as owner (LORD) and Adam is still accountable to GOD for his stewardship of his domain. We WORSHIP God – not the domain. We WORSHIP God – not ‘dominionism’.
Man IS exercising dominion. Why do we think dominion is legally exercised exclusively by the ungodly? I’ll just leave that right there!