Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Matt. 5:5.

In the Beginning, all things were created together in Christ Jesus (Col. 1:15-16) . There were no divisions, no schisms, no partitions. Everything was in perfect union. Harmony reverberated, no doubt, as a majestic symphony with everyone and everything rejoicing in Him and exulting their God. That is the way it is when everything is together in the One where all things began.

Man was first created male and female. They were one. However, shortly afterwards, we see the first division. When they were united they were commissioned to have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth; but it was not until the woman was taken from the man that they embarked upon a grave struggle of fulfilling their commission. This perilous journey began, not while they were together as one spirit, soul, and body, but after the separation. It was during this early dawn, or should we say, setting of the sun, that the man and woman became carnal and not spiritual; for Adam said as much, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:23-24....

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