Sunday, July 02, 2006
The Kingdom of Yaua's Education System, Reflections
The Kingdom of God Education System.
(1) The first stage for an adult in this system is to “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand”. Examples of repentance can be seen in Zaccheus whose attitudes and relationship to material things changed. Another maybe seen in the disciples who started to be disciples of Yeshua. Zaccheus became in some sense obedient to the Torah, the disciples to Yeshua
(2) To see how the Kingdom’s education system developed we need to look the beginning of the gospel among the people of Israel with Peter and the Apostles on Shavuot 30 AD. And also with the introduction of the Gentiles to the system again under Peter in Acts 10.
(3) To see the various authoritative positions in the Kingdom of God society we will need to look the New Testament in the light of the Tanakh and specicifically at the teaching of Yeshua because he laid the foundation of the Kingdom of God system but he also left much to be done by the Holy Spirit, indicating there was but yet to be taught to the disciples yet at the time of Yeshua’s physical presence they were not able to bear.
(4) A danger in developing the Kingdom of God system is the temptation to analyse the sytems which already are present on earth and to seek imitate them and then to see how the Kingdom of God (Malchut Elohim) excels and superscedes these systems. However, this methodology and approach will produce a mixture and offspring, rather than a new and original creation.
(5) The Kingdom of God administration, is specifically not a child of the Babylon to Rome, or Gold to Clay Iron system. The Kingdom of system as its origin above with God, where as the other education systems and governmental administrations sprung from each other and are from below, either from the world, the flesh or the devil.
(6) Up until the coming of Mashiach Yeshua the kingdoms of this world and their glory were under the control of the evil one. There were elements of righteousness within them but not the righteousness of God as revealed in the New Covenant in Mashiach Yeshua.
(7) We will to take special care to notice the contrasts Mashiach Yeshua and the Apostles and Prophets make between the prevailing systems of their times and the systems of the Kingdom of God which was being introduced at the time of Yeshua. The pre Mashiach prophets and righteous must be seen as forerunners to fully revealed Kingdom of God which began to be opened up at the time of the Yeshua.
(8) We must seek revelation as to how to deal with the universities of the present age. The universities of the present need to be seen in kingdom context. Paul had a high level in his culture and customs, however when the Kingdom of the Son of God’s love was revealed in him his relationship to the education system he was brought up under changed. We know that many the great men of God , as we perceive them, were trained in the universities of their day. The academic systems of their were absorbed and excelled. We need to ask the question, in that necessary in our day? Need our children be educated in the way of the education of the world? Is this necessary or is their an alternative new creation complete education. How valuable is what young people are taught in this education systems of the present world?
(9) We need to take into account that the Kingdom of God as revealed until the time of the Apostles and prophets included in a clause which covered the necessity of the Kingdom of God coexisting with the world’s systems. The main ones at the times of the apostles were that of the Medes and the Persians in the East, the Greeks and Romans in the West and the Jewish systems spread out among the Jews. The kingdom of God was continually confronting alternative systems of governments, which were from below and had to deal with them.
(10) The teaching of the Kingdom of God regarding these systems of government and education included a number of principles : EG (a) “Render to Caeser what belongs to Caeser and render to God what belongs to God. This was said by Mashiach specifically in relation to taxes. (b) Submit to the authorities (c) Pray for all Kings and those in places of authorities for God desires that all men come to a knowledge of the truth. (d) However even when a person came to the knowledge of the truth it was still possible for that person at times to retain his position of authority in the society he was in, unless of call he received a call to the ministry which would take up his whole time. Now this aspect of entering the Kingdom of God and yet retaining your calling in society, tells us something about the present place of the Kingdom of God on earth.
(11) If it is possible to enter the Kingdom of God and yet retain your position in the culture and society, government and authority structure you are in, this shows that the reign of the Kingdom of God is not yet complete. For the very structures and systems of the society lived in are not structures of the righteousness of God but are structures of this world. ( The entrance is by baptism for the forgiveness of sins in the name of Mashiach Yeshua, this baptism being a crucifixion of the old man and a beginning of a new creation in Mashiach)
(12) This gives rise to the Hope aspect of the Kingdom of God. Those who enter it are awaiting the appearance of the Son of God from heaven. He will appear and will judge those who do not know God and those who refuse to obey the gospel. Included in the hope of the gospel is the redemption of the body and the deliverance of the entire creation from its bondage to decay. So we can join with Paul and the apostles and begin to see the limitations of the present education systems which are born from this world and not from above, nay not only this but were born of this present creation, whereas its essential constitution is bound to decay. We can say of the present education systems even if they are helpful in training our young people in taking their place in society:
(13) (a) They are all in bondage to decay, they do not have the eternity of God in them. (b) If they are based on this present heaven and earth they are bound to pass away. As Paul says “Knowledge will pass away”. And as the Mashiach Yeshua said “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass way” (c) If they do not emphasis the weightier matters of the torah, Justice, righteousness and mercy, they are unbalanced and will not in any sense help a man through.
(14) Many of the weaknesses of this world education systems are apparent to those who partake in the systems themselves. Man was created in the images of God, therefore to be fully educated, to fulfill his role as man he will need to be educated as the image of God. If he is being educated with man made systems and man made philosophies he will get a lot of knowledge and even get a lot of wisdom, but he will not reach what he was intended to be, the image of Elohim. The Greek systems of Education train them to look for wisdom. However the Kingdom says we preach Mashiach and him Crucified. At the time of Paul the Jewish system of education taught them to look for signs. However again the Kingdoms answer was Mashiach and him Crucified. Now we see that education can lead to wisdom, especially in the academic disciplines. It can lead to power in the practical disciplines. Or to look at it another the wisdom covers the theory side of a subject and the power the application side. However Paul suggest for both Jew and Greek systems an alternative. Mashiach and him Crucified. He sees that to the Jewish search for power, power to rule the world under a humanly conceived idea of Mashiach, Mashiach fine, but him crucified, this is a stumbling. The Jewish system missed the sufferings of the Mashiach. The Greek look at this education systems and says foolishness. “All this stuff about resurrection from the dead” what are you talking about? But to those being save Mashiach the wisdom of God and Mashiach the power of God.
(15) So what can we conclude from this? That the Kingdom of God education system is based on Mashiach and him Crucified. All the essential academic subjects are comprehended in the Mashiach as wisdom and all the application of these are comprehended in Mashiach the power of God. This is in no way comprehensive for Mashiach is revealed in a lot more glory than the what the Greek and the Jews looked for in Pauls day. He is revealed a one way to the Barbarian and in another to the Romans, another to those without Law and another to the under Torah. Mashiach comprehends all aspects of education and the education of the Kingdom of God needs to take place with in Mashiach, not in the space of atheism or secularism, as it is done in the western world. Mashiach, when he ascended on high filled out the entire universe. When Mashiach ascended on high a change took place in the constitution of the universe and an education which doesn’t take this into account, will be like studying how the garden of Eden looked like after Adam and Eve tended but pretending they were never in there, it leaves more secrets and mysteries uncovered that it does explain the Garden.
(16) The Kingdom of God came to earth in an at hand way in 27 AD. When Yeshua started casting out demons, the Kingdom of God came with power. When Yeshua rose from the dead a change took place in the order of the universe. Death no longer had so much inevitability about it for it was now superceded by a greater inevitability, resurrection. A fundamental part of the education in the Kingdom of God is Hope. The Hope of the glory of God in the resurrection and the redemption of the body. Even as the trees and plants bear a new crop every year so it will be that in the time to come the earth will give birth to the dead. The Mashiach Yeshua, through his resurrection came into liberty which no one had experienced before. However the whole creation hopes for this liberty. This liberty has already begun in the spirits of the Sons of God who have the Spirit of God. In their inner man they have liberty as temples of the Holy Spirit. In the present that liberty is spreading to their minds and to their lives, in many different areas. They are free in many ways that the people of the old creation are not free. And finally they will be free also in their bodies. The whole creation longs for this liberty and it will be set free at the revelation of the sons of God in the future and the return of the already free son their head and Lord Yeshua their Mashiach. The Kingdom of God’s education includes the redemption of the children of God as a fundamental part of the curriculum.
(17) The Kingdom of God education is for every body who by God’s grace enters God Kingdom. Actually it is the education systems which education the children of God to take their place in God’s eternal Kingdom, when fully revealed. The education systems of this world educates children of this world to take their place in this material world and creation. As can be seen the goals of the two educational systems are fundamentally different. To be fully equipped in the education system of this world in no way qualifies you to take a place in the Kingdom of God and in the Body of Mashiach. The overseer who decided who takes which place in the Body of Mashiach is the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit who said set apart Paul and Barnabus for the work which I have assigned them.
(18) Now it is very possible that the Holy Spirit in deciding to place a child of God into a particular roles in the Body of Mashiach may send him to a university of this world to get an education in a certain subject, for the children of God have this liberty, to go in all places in this creation and to take their place in the new creation. A university of this world may teach a child of God, how accurately, to mine gold. Gold is part of God’s creation and belongs to God and since he has endowed all mankind will ability to gain knowledge of this creation, and how to apply that knowledge, but the child of God would only go that path because the Spirit of God lead him. However it is not the opposite case in general. A man who has no knowledge of God and is not born again can never see the Kingdom of God and mostly not enter it. It is spiritual and from above he is unspiritual and from below. He might climb over the fence and get in to the sheep fold but the Sheep of Mashiach will not follow the voice of a stranger and such a man is called a robber.
(1) The first stage for an adult in this system is to “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand”. Examples of repentance can be seen in Zaccheus whose attitudes and relationship to material things changed. Another maybe seen in the disciples who started to be disciples of Yeshua. Zaccheus became in some sense obedient to the Torah, the disciples to Yeshua
(2) To see how the Kingdom’s education system developed we need to look the beginning of the gospel among the people of Israel with Peter and the Apostles on Shavuot 30 AD. And also with the introduction of the Gentiles to the system again under Peter in Acts 10.
(3) To see the various authoritative positions in the Kingdom of God society we will need to look the New Testament in the light of the Tanakh and specicifically at the teaching of Yeshua because he laid the foundation of the Kingdom of God system but he also left much to be done by the Holy Spirit, indicating there was but yet to be taught to the disciples yet at the time of Yeshua’s physical presence they were not able to bear.
(4) A danger in developing the Kingdom of God system is the temptation to analyse the sytems which already are present on earth and to seek imitate them and then to see how the Kingdom of God (Malchut Elohim) excels and superscedes these systems. However, this methodology and approach will produce a mixture and offspring, rather than a new and original creation.
(5) The Kingdom of God administration, is specifically not a child of the Babylon to Rome, or Gold to Clay Iron system. The Kingdom of system as its origin above with God, where as the other education systems and governmental administrations sprung from each other and are from below, either from the world, the flesh or the devil.
(6) Up until the coming of Mashiach Yeshua the kingdoms of this world and their glory were under the control of the evil one. There were elements of righteousness within them but not the righteousness of God as revealed in the New Covenant in Mashiach Yeshua.
(7) We will to take special care to notice the contrasts Mashiach Yeshua and the Apostles and Prophets make between the prevailing systems of their times and the systems of the Kingdom of God which was being introduced at the time of Yeshua. The pre Mashiach prophets and righteous must be seen as forerunners to fully revealed Kingdom of God which began to be opened up at the time of the Yeshua.
(8) We must seek revelation as to how to deal with the universities of the present age. The universities of the present need to be seen in kingdom context. Paul had a high level in his culture and customs, however when the Kingdom of the Son of God’s love was revealed in him his relationship to the education system he was brought up under changed. We know that many the great men of God , as we perceive them, were trained in the universities of their day. The academic systems of their were absorbed and excelled. We need to ask the question, in that necessary in our day? Need our children be educated in the way of the education of the world? Is this necessary or is their an alternative new creation complete education. How valuable is what young people are taught in this education systems of the present world?
(9) We need to take into account that the Kingdom of God as revealed until the time of the Apostles and prophets included in a clause which covered the necessity of the Kingdom of God coexisting with the world’s systems. The main ones at the times of the apostles were that of the Medes and the Persians in the East, the Greeks and Romans in the West and the Jewish systems spread out among the Jews. The kingdom of God was continually confronting alternative systems of governments, which were from below and had to deal with them.
(10) The teaching of the Kingdom of God regarding these systems of government and education included a number of principles : EG (a) “Render to Caeser what belongs to Caeser and render to God what belongs to God. This was said by Mashiach specifically in relation to taxes. (b) Submit to the authorities (c) Pray for all Kings and those in places of authorities for God desires that all men come to a knowledge of the truth. (d) However even when a person came to the knowledge of the truth it was still possible for that person at times to retain his position of authority in the society he was in, unless of call he received a call to the ministry which would take up his whole time. Now this aspect of entering the Kingdom of God and yet retaining your calling in society, tells us something about the present place of the Kingdom of God on earth.
(11) If it is possible to enter the Kingdom of God and yet retain your position in the culture and society, government and authority structure you are in, this shows that the reign of the Kingdom of God is not yet complete. For the very structures and systems of the society lived in are not structures of the righteousness of God but are structures of this world. ( The entrance is by baptism for the forgiveness of sins in the name of Mashiach Yeshua, this baptism being a crucifixion of the old man and a beginning of a new creation in Mashiach)
(12) This gives rise to the Hope aspect of the Kingdom of God. Those who enter it are awaiting the appearance of the Son of God from heaven. He will appear and will judge those who do not know God and those who refuse to obey the gospel. Included in the hope of the gospel is the redemption of the body and the deliverance of the entire creation from its bondage to decay. So we can join with Paul and the apostles and begin to see the limitations of the present education systems which are born from this world and not from above, nay not only this but were born of this present creation, whereas its essential constitution is bound to decay. We can say of the present education systems even if they are helpful in training our young people in taking their place in society:
(13) (a) They are all in bondage to decay, they do not have the eternity of God in them. (b) If they are based on this present heaven and earth they are bound to pass away. As Paul says “Knowledge will pass away”. And as the Mashiach Yeshua said “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass way” (c) If they do not emphasis the weightier matters of the torah, Justice, righteousness and mercy, they are unbalanced and will not in any sense help a man through.
(14) Many of the weaknesses of this world education systems are apparent to those who partake in the systems themselves. Man was created in the images of God, therefore to be fully educated, to fulfill his role as man he will need to be educated as the image of God. If he is being educated with man made systems and man made philosophies he will get a lot of knowledge and even get a lot of wisdom, but he will not reach what he was intended to be, the image of Elohim. The Greek systems of Education train them to look for wisdom. However the Kingdom says we preach Mashiach and him Crucified. At the time of Paul the Jewish system of education taught them to look for signs. However again the Kingdoms answer was Mashiach and him Crucified. Now we see that education can lead to wisdom, especially in the academic disciplines. It can lead to power in the practical disciplines. Or to look at it another the wisdom covers the theory side of a subject and the power the application side. However Paul suggest for both Jew and Greek systems an alternative. Mashiach and him Crucified. He sees that to the Jewish search for power, power to rule the world under a humanly conceived idea of Mashiach, Mashiach fine, but him crucified, this is a stumbling. The Jewish system missed the sufferings of the Mashiach. The Greek look at this education systems and says foolishness. “All this stuff about resurrection from the dead” what are you talking about? But to those being save Mashiach the wisdom of God and Mashiach the power of God.
(15) So what can we conclude from this? That the Kingdom of God education system is based on Mashiach and him Crucified. All the essential academic subjects are comprehended in the Mashiach as wisdom and all the application of these are comprehended in Mashiach the power of God. This is in no way comprehensive for Mashiach is revealed in a lot more glory than the what the Greek and the Jews looked for in Pauls day. He is revealed a one way to the Barbarian and in another to the Romans, another to those without Law and another to the under Torah. Mashiach comprehends all aspects of education and the education of the Kingdom of God needs to take place with in Mashiach, not in the space of atheism or secularism, as it is done in the western world. Mashiach, when he ascended on high filled out the entire universe. When Mashiach ascended on high a change took place in the constitution of the universe and an education which doesn’t take this into account, will be like studying how the garden of Eden looked like after Adam and Eve tended but pretending they were never in there, it leaves more secrets and mysteries uncovered that it does explain the Garden.
(16) The Kingdom of God came to earth in an at hand way in 27 AD. When Yeshua started casting out demons, the Kingdom of God came with power. When Yeshua rose from the dead a change took place in the order of the universe. Death no longer had so much inevitability about it for it was now superceded by a greater inevitability, resurrection. A fundamental part of the education in the Kingdom of God is Hope. The Hope of the glory of God in the resurrection and the redemption of the body. Even as the trees and plants bear a new crop every year so it will be that in the time to come the earth will give birth to the dead. The Mashiach Yeshua, through his resurrection came into liberty which no one had experienced before. However the whole creation hopes for this liberty. This liberty has already begun in the spirits of the Sons of God who have the Spirit of God. In their inner man they have liberty as temples of the Holy Spirit. In the present that liberty is spreading to their minds and to their lives, in many different areas. They are free in many ways that the people of the old creation are not free. And finally they will be free also in their bodies. The whole creation longs for this liberty and it will be set free at the revelation of the sons of God in the future and the return of the already free son their head and Lord Yeshua their Mashiach. The Kingdom of God’s education includes the redemption of the children of God as a fundamental part of the curriculum.
(17) The Kingdom of God education is for every body who by God’s grace enters God Kingdom. Actually it is the education systems which education the children of God to take their place in God’s eternal Kingdom, when fully revealed. The education systems of this world educates children of this world to take their place in this material world and creation. As can be seen the goals of the two educational systems are fundamentally different. To be fully equipped in the education system of this world in no way qualifies you to take a place in the Kingdom of God and in the Body of Mashiach. The overseer who decided who takes which place in the Body of Mashiach is the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit who said set apart Paul and Barnabus for the work which I have assigned them.
(18) Now it is very possible that the Holy Spirit in deciding to place a child of God into a particular roles in the Body of Mashiach may send him to a university of this world to get an education in a certain subject, for the children of God have this liberty, to go in all places in this creation and to take their place in the new creation. A university of this world may teach a child of God, how accurately, to mine gold. Gold is part of God’s creation and belongs to God and since he has endowed all mankind will ability to gain knowledge of this creation, and how to apply that knowledge, but the child of God would only go that path because the Spirit of God lead him. However it is not the opposite case in general. A man who has no knowledge of God and is not born again can never see the Kingdom of God and mostly not enter it. It is spiritual and from above he is unspiritual and from below. He might climb over the fence and get in to the sheep fold but the Sheep of Mashiach will not follow the voice of a stranger and such a man is called a robber.
