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Restoration

Seated with Him in Heavenly Places: Living From Victory, Not For It

When you were united with Yeshua (Jesus), something supernatural happened — something far beyond what your eyes can see. You were not only forgiven and restored; you were enthroned. The Word declares that God “raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6). This is not a future promise — it is a present reality. Heaven sees you not as struggling to reach victory, but as already seated in victory, reigning with Christ in the eternal now.

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The Cross: The Great Exchange!

At the heart of redemption stands the cross — not merely a symbol of suffering, but the place of divine exchange where heaven met humanity. On that hill, everything that separated mankind from God came face-to-face with His holiness and love. Our sin, our shame, our striving, and every false identity we ever carried were nailed there. In that sacred moment, the broken reflection of humanity was exchanged for the radiant image of the Son. As Paul writes, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

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The Word Became Flesh: The Perfect Image Revealed

When humanity lost its reflection of the divine, the world grew dim. The image of God — once radiant in mankind — became blurred by sin and separation. Yet God’s purpose never changed. From the beginning, His desire was to dwell among His creation and reveal Himself fully. And in the fullness of time, that eternal plan was fulfilled: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

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The Redeemer’s Seed: God’s Plan to Restore His Image in Us

Even in humanity’s darkest moment, when sin fractured the image of God and separation entered the human story, hope was not lost. The same God who pronounced judgment also spoke redemption. The instant Adam and Eve fell, the voice of grace broke through the curse, declaring a promise that would echo through all generations: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). In that single verse, God revealed His plan of restoration — the coming of a Redeemer who would crush the power of the deceiver and restore the identity and fellowship humanity had lost.

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The Fall: When Identity Was Lost

In the beginning, humanity walked in perfect harmony with God — clothed in His glory, at peace with His creation, and secure in His image. Adam and Eve knew who they were because they knew the One who formed them. There was no striving, no insecurity, no question of worth. Their identity flowed from unbroken fellowship with their Creator.

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Created in His Image: The Original Identity

As a believer and pastor in Israel for over twenty years, I’ve watched many lose their way in their walk with God—not because they didn’t love Him, but because they never truly understood where their identity lies. Many try to define themselves by their Jewishness, their work, their calling, or even their ministry position. But if we truly desire to understand who we are, that search must begin and end in the Messiah — the One through whom all things were made and for whom all things exist.

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The Eighth Day: The Millennial Shabbat and Eternal Rest

In the divine rhythm of creation, God’s week of work and rest was more than a record of time — it was a prophetic calendar of redemption. The apostle Peter wrote, “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8). The early Church Fathers discerned in this pattern a mystery: the six “days” of creation represented six thousand years of human labor and struggle, to be followed by a thousand-year Sabbath — the seventh “day” of rest — the Messianic reign of Christ on earth, when righteousness and peace would fill the world. This seventh millennium, they taught, would be the great Sabbath of history — the fulfillment of the rest first sanctified in Genesis.

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