THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODKIND TRINITY- Part 4

THE SEVEN COSMIC FUNCTIONS OF THE LORD JESUS:

4. PRESERVATION

At the time when the LORD JESUS rendered His righteous judgment for the people on earth because of their extreme wickedness in the days of Noah, He destroyed them all except the family of Noah (Gen. 6:18-22; 7:1-2)

The LORD preserved Noah, his wife, his three sons and the wives of his sons. “Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD, and according to Him, Noah was a man, blameless in his time, and that he walked with God”(Gen. 6:8, 9).

The LORD commanded Noah to make an ark of gopher wood (Gen. 6:14) wherein the family of Noah will stay with all the pres erved living creatures such as animals birds and creeping things (Gen. 7:15).

The LORD JESUS had destroyed all living things with breath of life on the face of the earth by flood because of extreme wickedness of man, but Noah and his family were preserved because the LORD had loving compassion for them for their irrevocable commitment of adherence to Him (Gen. 6:18).

The LORD’S purpose of preservation is quite significant, because He doesn’t want to wipe out all living things on earth though His wrath was kindled against them, because of the obstinate sinfulness of people during those days.

He did preserved Noah’s family including animals, two of every kind into the ark to keep them alive. His purpose of preservation was eventually fulfilled by the LORD JESUS in the days of Noah and his family (Gen. 7:1-3).

It is an amazing and marvelous work that the LORD JESUS had magnificently done, the preservation of human kind and animals, He retained seasons while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night (Gen. 10:22).

In that circumstances the LORD blessed Noah and his sons and told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 9:1, 2).

He gave to them all that had been preserved, live stocks, such as every beast of the earth, birds, creeping things on the ground and all the fish of the sea (Gen. 9:2). So humankind multiplied once again after the LORD preserved Noah’s family.

Whenever the LORD JESUS renders His judgment to many people, to those who stubbornly transgress His commandments, eventually, difficult times impaired their living conditions.

It happened in Israel, and in Egypt, and in the surrounding places of Egypt, during the time of Joseph, the second youngest son of Jacob who had been sold as slave to the Egyptians by his brothers (Gen. 37:27). By the wisdom given by the LORD JESUS to Joseph, the two remarkable dreams of Pharaoh had been accurately interpreted by Joseph; the seven years of abundance, followed by seven years of famine (Gen.41:17-31). So Joseph gave  anticipatory suggestion to Pharaoh, by the wisdom given to him by the LORD JESUS, that they should prepare much grain by cultivation of available land for crops. Pharaoh gladly conformed to Joseph; consequently, the agricultural preparation which was well accomplished by the directive instruction of Joseph reap great abundance of grain, that certainly was sufficient for seven years severe famine.

 After the seven years of abundance, severe famine came over the face of the earth, even in Israel. In that circumstances Joseph was the LORD'S  diligent servant in preserving all the people of Israel, the children of Jacob. Joseph efficiently sold grain for all who need survival; especially for his kindred who went to Egypt to buy grain.His brothers did not identified that Joseph was their brother they sold to the Ismaelites in Egypt, but later on, Joseph disclosed himself to them after he tested their reputation. Therefore, when they knew Joseph it was the fulfilled dream of Joseph, and Joseph told them,"Now do not be grieved or angry with your selves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life"(Gen.45:5).

Joseph the beloved son of Jacob had been the LORD JESUS’ faithful servant in his lifetime; endowed of the LORD’S given wisdom to interpret dreams (Gen. 41:12, 14-36).

Even before Joseph had been sold as a slave to the Ishmaelites in Egypt, the LORD JESUS had already shown to Jacob and his sons what will be His prepared plan for Joseph in the future by the two dreams of Joseph; the LORD foretold to Jacob and his sons that Joseph will be a great ruler (Gen. 37:5-11) and that Jacob and his sons will be under the sovereign authority of Joseph at the appointed time of the LORD (Gen. 43:26, 28; 44:18).

The preservation of the LORD JESUS had been fulfilled in the life of Jacob; there was a time when the twin brothers Jacob and Esau have had discord about their inheritance (Gen. 27:41).

Esau had threatened to kill him (Gen. 27:41) because the inheritance of Esau was given to Jacob, by way of the deception that Jacob and his mother perpetrated; Jacob pretended as Esau (Gen. 27:8-13).

Isaac gave all of Esau’s inheritance to Jacob. Consequently, the agreement of the twin brothers was fulfilled when Esau in his hungry situation (Gen. 25:29-34) gave his birth right to Jacob for a bowl of food when Esau was so hungry from hunting game, but later on he realized that he need his inheritance that goes to Jacob.

The wrath of Esau waxed hot against Jacob. Consequently, to avoid the wrath of Esau, Jacob departed away from his father and mother and went to Padan-Aram to stay in the house of Bethuel, his mother’s father and to take a wife from the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother (Gen. 28:13).

When Jacob came to a certain place to have night time rest, he laid down in that place; there and then he had a dream, he saw a ladder set on the earth and the top of it reaching to heaven, he saw the angels of God were ascending and descending from heaven (Gen. 28:12).

The LORD stood above and said, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham, and the God of your father Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and your descendants” (Gen. 28:13).

“Your descendants shall also be like dusts of the earth and you and your descendants shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed” (Gen. 28:14).

And behold I am with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you” (Gen. 28:15).

Although Jacob was a fallible human kind and had committed many transgressions against the LORD, his finite lifetime was preserved by the LORD JESUS because he became true adherent of the LORD.

Jacob begot twelve sons and one daughter through his wives, and when he and his family returned to the promise land given to him and his descendants by the LORD (Gen. 28:15).

PRESERVATION IS FOR ALL THE ADHERENTS OF THE LORD (1Cor. 15:52-54).

All the godly people will never be forsaken because the LORD will preserve them forever (Ps. 37:28). To be preserved by the LORD JESUS, we must faithfully love Him (Ex. 20:5, 6; Ps. 37:28; 97:10; 116:6; 145:20; Ps. 2:8; Jn.14:21, 23; 1Cor. 16:22).

For ETERNAL PRESERVATION, The LORD JESUS GIVE ETERNAL LIFE TO HIS FAITHFUL ADHERENTS (Jn. 10:27-28). All the unrepentant obstinate sinners will also be preserved to eternal torment in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone (Rev. 21:8).