God's Next of Kin: Spiritual Genetics Defined

By Edwin Majone

Did God create Adam and Eve to be His “next of kin”—His first son and daughter and, thus, His closest relatives? If so, what happened to that intended relationship when they sinned and were separated from God?
Author Edwin Majone believes God was left with no next of kin—since the entire human race inherited their sinfulness. Who then is God’s next of kin? It cannot be Jesus, the author states, because He is God: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1, NKJV).

God’s Next of Kin investigates this mystery and the importance it has to seven redemptive Hebrew names of God. As you solve the mystery with God’s Next of Kin, it will help you to grow spiritually and will broaden your biblical worldview.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Creation House
• Release date: Feb 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781629984360

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GOD’S NEXT OF KIN: SPIRITUAL GENETICS DEFINED

by Edwin Majone

Published by Creation House

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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked CEV are from the Contemporary English Version, copyright © 1995 by the American Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked GNT are from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version, Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publisher. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked GW are from God’s Word® Translation, ©1995 by God’s Word to the Nations. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Scripture quotations marked NLT are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked TLB are from The Living Bible. Copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved.

English definitions are derived from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary.

Greek and Hebrew definitions are derived from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, ed. James Strong, Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997; and Finis Dake, Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, Lawrenceville, GA: Dake Bible Sales, 1996.

Design Director: Justin Evans

Cover design by Lisa McClure

Copyright © 2016 by Edwin Majone

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Visit the author’s website: http://www.edwinmajone.co.za.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015934809

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62998-435-3

E-book International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62998-436-0

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to God’s next of kin.

CONTENTS

Prologue

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Sublime Realm

Chapter 2 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

Chapter 3 From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

Chapter 4 Jehovah Jireh

Chapter 5 Jehovah Rapha

Chapter 6 Jehovah Shalom

Chapter 7 Jehovah Tsidkenu

Chapter 8 Jehovah Shammah

Chapter 9 Jehovah Raah

Chapter 10 Jehovah Nissi

Chapter 11 God’s Next of Kin

Chapter 12 He Divorced Sin

Chapter 13 Our Father Redeemer

Chapter 14 Be Saved on the Spot

Notes and Resources

About the Author

Contact the Author

Prologue

YOUR DECISION IS AN INVESTMENT!

IN THIS BOOK you shall understand why and how your decision is an investment.

• You shall also understand about Spiritual genetics.

• You shall also learn about the mystery of God’s next of kin.

• This book will give you a broad and matchless insight into the seven redemptive names of God.

• You shall also learn about one thing you cannot do on Judgment Day.

• You shall also learn about one thing God will not do on Judgment Day.

• You shall also learn about what it means to be saved on the spot.

• You shall also learn about one thing you cannot boycott.

• You shall also learn about what a noble investment is all about and how to tap into it.

• You shall also learn that true identity is genes determined and DNA coded.

• You shall also learn why the angels and the sinner are disqualified on God’s next of kinship.

• You shall also learn what it means to have the mind of God.

Has it ever crossed your mind that you are not a mile or two from being God’s next of kin, or a stone’s throw, or an arm’s length, or a step away from being God’s generic and blood next of kin? You are only a decision away!

Read through and be thrilled!

INTRODUCTION

WHEN ADAM SINNED the entire human race sinned and God was left with no next of kin. Since then man has always been sinful, fallible, and failing. Had God crooked His hand of salvation by choosing not to stretch it out to our rescue, then we would still be groping for dominion, peace, eternal life, wellness, etc. We would still be living within the abyss of curses and shame and within the realm of the ridiculous.

When Adam sinned we all sinned, When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race . . . for everyone sinned (Rom. 5:12, NLT). And we all thus fell harder and sunk deeper into the realm of the ridiculous when we stripped ourselves of all the privileges and blessings God had given us in Adam upon creation.

When we danced to the deceptively melodious tune of Lucifer, we transferred to Satan all the blessings that had been conferred upon us by Almighty God. Because of sin we lost the likeness of God and assumed the likeness of our new dictator and ruler—Satan. We passed on to Satan our scepter of dominion over every creation on earth, similarly as athletes pass on the relay stick to the fellow runner in front of them.

On the day we sinned, we became bankrupt and bereft of the blessings of heaven. The scriptures reveal that when the Godhead created us, they created us in their image and after their likeness (Gen. 1:26–27). And they gave us a large measure of dominion, sovereignty, and rulership that was only an inch lower to theirs (v. 28).

In creating us the Deity had designed and purposed us to be Their under-ruler that could rule the entire universe in the Godhead’s stead. That was the Godhead’s wonderful plan and purpose in creating us. You should also note that, before the Fall we were immune to spiritual death, physical death, and the second death. Why? Because we had been created in the image and after the similitude of God.

We had been created an immortal being, a perfect being, a righteous being, an eternal being that was blessed with an endless God kind of life—a perfect being that had never been designed, purposed, or predestined to be death doomed or Satan ruled. We had been created a perfect and holy being that contained and lived zoe; that is, eternal life or the very life of God. If we had not sinned, God had guaranteed that we would live an eternal human life, fellowshipping and co-ruling with the Divine Trinity on Their level.

Moreover, nothing can dim the fact that prior to the Fall we would live in the realm of the sublime, the realm of the miraculous, the realm of all faith, the realm of the presence of God, the realm of the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, the realm of the God kind of health, the realm of the God kind of dominion, the realm of having whatsoever we would say, etc.

Having been created in the absolute image and after the absolute likeness of God, we plausibly were created blessed with a great command of God’s abilities. We were endowed with the God kind of faith and had been predestined to live by faith and to sustain our dominion by faith: The just shall live by faith (Heb. 10:38, KJV).

Having the God kind of faith meant that we had been endowed with God’s ability of calling into existence light out of darkness, of calling into existence things that do not exist as though they did: Even God, who . . . calleth those things which be not as though they were (Rom. 4:17, KJV). We would thus believe beyond the realm of impossibilities!

Our abode within the sublime realm meant that we would fellowship with the Godhead on Their level, being bound compatibly by the God kind of love—agape. Thus we had the God kind of love and ability to love infinitely, unsparingly, and unconditionally. We had the God kind of love—the love that suffers long, the love that is kind, the love that does not envy, the love that does not parade itself, the love that is not puffed up, the love that does not behave rudely, the love that does not seek its own, the love that is not provoked, the love that thinks no evil, the love that does not rejoice in iniquity but rather rejoices in the truth, the love that never fails and the love that bears all things, hopes all things, and endures all things (1 Cor. 13:4–8). How blessed that we were!

We had every spiritual and material blessing, not to mention our hyper-abounding rule—all dominion.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them . . . have dominion.

—GENESIS 1:28, KJV, EMPHASIS ADDED

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? . . . Thou maddest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.

—PSALM 8:4, 6, KJV, EMPHASIS ADDED

However, the sad story is that on a particular day we lost our dominion, our rulership, our God kind of faith, our God kind of love, and our God kind of righteousness and holiness as we lost the image and similitude of God. We on that particular day died and lost, utterly lost, everything that God had given us at creation. All that we lost was gained by Satan, including our dominion—authority and power. Satan confirmed that before Jesus in the wilderness when he said: "All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish" (Luke 4:6, emphasis added).

Because of such a great loss due to Adam’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden, we all became separated from God and enslaved of the devil. We fell from the sublime realm and the presence of God to find ourselves lying supine in the gloomy realm of the ridiculous. As we lay there contemplating our sudden and untimely fall from the sublime to the ridiculous and from riches to rags, we each one of us held in our right hand sin and its wages and in our left hand the sum total of the wages of sin—eternal death; for the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23).

We found ourselves drowning in the disgrace of sin and facing our new and ruthless ruler, Satan, whose rule over us is only to condemn us for hell.

However, the Godhead could not abandon us to the conquest of Satan, and so They resolved to implement the Redemption and Adoption Plan, which unknown to Satan had been prepared and deliberated over before the foundation of the world.

The height from which we fell and the depth into which we sunk as we fell from the sublime realm into the ridiculous realm can only be measured by the Cross of Calvary and fathomed in terms of what Jesus restored us in His death and resurrection. The height to which we were elevated by Jesus is the very level and position from which we had fallen.

The seven redemptive names of God are an absolute divine summary of what man had lost and of what God restored us through the sacrificial death of Jesus at Calvary.

Could the fact that Jesus died for all humanity and resurrected to man’s eternal exaltation in newness of life make Him God’s next of kin? Jesus is disqualified on God’s next of kinship on the strength of the fact that even though He bears the heredity of God as His Son, He on the other hand exists as God’s co-equal. Is He not the Word that was with God from the beginning and the Word that later became flesh? Regarding Jesus as God’s next of kin would be an attempt to diminish the nobility of God the Father’s divine plan—that of having Jesus for first Sonship position and that of having a next of kin apart from Jesus. Could God’s next of kin be the fallen man? Certainly not! Humanity in its sinful estate is not fit to be considered God’s next of kin. This hinges on the fact that we all sinned and are now short of the righteousness of God (Rom. 3:23).

The angels? Certainly not! For to which angel did God ever say, Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God (Matt. 5:8); or, You are the salt of the earth (v. 13); or, You are the light of the world (v. 14).

This book unfolds the mystery of God’s next of kin—are you the one?

Chapter 1

THE SUBLIME REALM

That where I am there you may be also.

—JOHN 14:3, EMPHASIS ADDED

YOU ARE THE center of God’s attention. From eternity past to today’s time-measured era and to tomorrow’s eternity future, you have been, and you still are, and you shall ever be God’s most endeared creation. The scriptures say you are: And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness (Gen. 1:26, KJV).

In creating you and me, God made us in His own image and after His likeness, implying that we all were created to live immediately next to God and within the realm of the fullness of God’s loving presence. In creating us in Their image, the Godhead sought to have an eternal companion to fellowship with throughout all eternity. God at creation had made us a fitting companion; and because of the very nature of God living in us, we thus had built in Godlike abilities—Godlike sovereignty and Godlike dominion. Hence we were designed on the scale of the Godlike image and likeness so we could converse with God, comprehend His mind, and fellowship with Him perfectly.

Having been made in the Godhead’s image and after Their likeness, we had the privilege to live in the realm nigh the Godhead realm. Nigh because we were made a little lower than the Godhead. Psalm 8:5 reads: For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels (KJV). The Hebrew word translated angels is Elohim. Elohim refers to God. A paraphrased meaning of the above scripture would read: For thou hast made man a little lower than God. The GW Translation says, You have made him a little lower than yourself.

Note that in creating us God had made us only a little lower; that is, as near to Him as possible and as close to Him as He desired. Being in the image and after the likeness of God meant that we had zoe—the very life of God Himself living in us.

Zoe—the life of God—is the kind of life that lives itself. In the light of that tremendous fact, God had designed us not susceptible to physical death, or spiritual death, or the second death. Rather, God had blessed us to live eternally in our human bodies. By virtue of that, we were created sublime—sublime to all created things.

Fellowshipping and interacting with the Deity on their level meant we all once lived in the sublime realm—the realm thickly saturated and yet so brightly covered with the anointing