What pained God so much in the sin of Adam was not just that he ate from the tree that he was commanded not to eat. (See Genesis 1:17; 3:9-12.)

The major sin of Adam was that he stepped down from Dominion, "he refused to exercise Dominion over the devil instead he took a bow".

If the sun or the moon wants to rebel against God today, it is just simple, none of them has to go and steal from someone's shop or farm, what the sun will just do for God to count it a rebellion is for it to refuse to shine it's light, to rule over the day as it was commanded by the Lord: “Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.”

The rebellion of man is not just that he steals, smokes, womanizes, or that he is drinking alcohol, or that he refused to attend a fellowship meeting yesterday, no, that's not all that God sees and calls rebellion.

The major rebellion of man (the chief rebellion of man against God) is man's refusal to exercise Dominion over the earth, and to gain control over the reign of the devil on the earth, the reign of wickedness and evil, sicknesses, poverty, corruptions, and the likes wherever he or she is born, or placed by God.

See what the Bible says concerning you in His Will that formed you and place you on the earth: Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" (Gen.1.26).

God didn't create the earth to be lawless and ungoverned. The earth was not created for demons and agents of darkness because God has no place to deposit them. The devil is causing wars, battles, unrest, intolerance among nations and within nations across the globe, it isn't because God permitted it to be so, but the man that's to speak restoration and peace is busy with selfish ambition and craving to build a secured empire or territory for himself and family.

According to James chapter 4 verse 7, see what the Bible says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

That is to say, if the devil is reigning in my life (or your life), or when afflictions, pains, distress, and shame becomes the order of the day in my life and in my generation, it is not because God is weak while Satan is powerful, but a product of what I have permitted on the earth in my days. God has given to us the right, authority to crush and trample upon serpents and scorpions, and we have the assurance that no harm shall come to us. But we have rebelled against the purpose that necessitated our creation, yet we sit down to complain how that the yam we planted didn’t yield well last year, the rain this year is not early and that of last year was not enough; it was poor. That particular fish is not sweet, the mango tree is not productive, and so on. We know how to complain about things that are not working around us, but we would not blame ourselves for our own rebellion against what we have been commanded but have left unattended to — “And let them have Dominion.”

After man lost his purpose and Dominion (essence) in the first Adam in Genesis chapter 3, the earth and its inhabitants including all mankind that lived on before Christ could have justifiable reasons to endure slavery under the rule of Satan and powers of this world, but after Christ came and restored man to his original plan and Divine purpose, every life both those who are in Christ and those who have not believed are inexcusable for failing to exercise Dominion over the Earth.

Jesus came to show us how it is done. Jesus came to live the same life we have in Him for us to see. He lived a unique life on the earth such that the people testified, "we have not seen it in this wise before" (Mark 2:12).

Jesus lived every minute of His life pleasing the Father and revealing the counsel of God's Will upon the earth everywhere He went. His Dominion right wasn't apologetic. He won the fight against us and handed over the stage for us to live on the life that He lived. Praise God!

What difference are you going to make on the earth before your departure? Jesus is a man that Satan can't deny He actually came to the earth and lived the life (the life of the Spirit), what is the dread of the devil for us in our days?

While Jesus Christ was on the earth He shook the earth by the power of God, He messed up every craftiness of the mighty, and the manifestation of His glory shook the pillars of the heaven that the vibration of the earth resulted in a terrible air quick that Satan and its members were falling to the earth in the speed of light. (See Luke 10:18.)

While He was done and gone, the disciples of the lamb never went to build religious gatherings (platforms) for themselves to bombard themselves with loads of activities and series of meetings, dancing, celebrating all manners of societal social parties, and so forth. They took after the footsteps of Jesus and it was recorded concerning them that by the same authority and the Dominion of the sons of God, they turned their world (the system of the world and worship of all that are called gods) upside-down to the glory of the God of gods, the HOLY ONE, who lives and He is alive forevermore. They changed the passion, thinking, appetites, and taste buds of the people. They abhorred their ways of old and cling to the new to the Glory of God the Father.

What exactly are you doing for God in your space, where you are? What's your relationship with Christ, how intimate is it? How are you contributing to the general agenda of God in your lifetime, or are you just seeking what to eat, cloth, drink, and pay your bills?

The rebellion of man is not in just doing evil, no, it is the refusal of man to play or act his or her role in the execution of God's Will upon the earth. If the Will of God begins to prosper on the earth in your days, it will cause the restoration of peace, general prosperity, rest from wars or battles. The earth will yield her increase and everyone will dwell in abundance.

Jesus in one of his teaching sessions with his disciples made a very critical analysis (revelation) with the relevance of salt according to Matthew chapter 5 verse 13. The matter He was addressing was so deep that it was not taught to the general crowd but the few of them that were following closely. And if we will be careful to note that Jesus was not pointing to anything else apart from the Dominion (essence) of man on the earth just as salt is so essential in our daily food, we would raise an agonizing cry to our God that we will never want to be useless or rebellious in our lifetimes.

See what the Bible says, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”

Friend, in your level of knowledge and understanding, do you think there is anything that could be done in such a situation to regain any form of use from salt that no longer tastes salt when it is consumed by man? what can ever be done to it for it to become or taste salt again? Don’t forget, Salt is not produced by a combination of different chemicals by man. it is a natural resource that is refined or processed for us to use through a series of crushing activities.

In a similar manner, if a man loses his Dominion: fails to live or exercise dominion on the face of the earth as commanded by the Lord, of what use or relevance would he ever be to God all his days on the earth?

As far as God is concerned such a man is useless to Him, unfit to advance the purpose of God for him, in him, and for the Kingdom of God. He is not productive; he is barren. Dominion is to man as taste is to salt. The essence of man is in the exercise of dominion, not in the amount of pleasure is getting per day; his greatness is not in the amount of his wealth, cash at hand and cash at bank, numbers of cars, houses, titles; no, it is measured on his territorial dominion; the exercise of dominion over his place or location, allocation, or sphere.

Man is at the centre of God’s heart as regards the exercise of dominion on the face of the earth to tame the earth and cure the earth of the series of demonic havoc and activities. You can’t afford to fail God in this nor underperform. You cannot stand aloof, come near now, take your place in Christ, and function maximally for God in your time and place.

You are God's ordained king and priest in Christ Jesus. We share the same DNA with our Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever Jesus can do, we can also do and even much more. (See John 14:12.)  You don't have to wait to become the president of a nation before you begin to take charge and reign as king; dominion is your privilege in God, it is a command that you must obey.  You are God's representative on the earth that is an automatic ticket to speak and enforce obedience on the earth on behalf of God on the earth. Everything will obey you if you begin to obey Christ Jesus in your life.

Thanks for the gift of your time, John Ojoagbene!
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