Knowing These Later

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:15-17

We catch sight of God here as our very first Rephiam leader, or that of the Naphtalim tribe. You’ll wonder why he’s here now at a time such as this when really, it was left up to the angels much later. If you remember though the root cause of the issue was their rebellion that mattered. So often some of us get in the habit of thinking that we’re just fooling the Lord. Really though, this rebellion affected their leadership, the people, and even themselves. Don’t think it’s hard following someone that’s not really listening? You ought to try Phillistine leadership as over the Ephraim tribe. Well, it really wasn’t a tribe but a territory as we’ll see much later. Regardless though, there’s still the root cause of the issue which is the spirit of rebellion mainly. Time and again the histories how they came and harried all of God’s people as these too were chased from pillar to post, there and back again, until at last they’d a-turned back to the Lord. In order though to be a tribal leader, you’ll not have to be perfect but all the phillistines knew was death and destruction. I mean, they really were very much terrible leaders. In terms of victories, they were unmatched with the weapons, the battles, and the glory. The glory though has been stolen being found of the Lord. That’s why Jehovah is a mighty man of war but also who is like our God. Here, God’s place is being seen over Zebulon with letters nd names. He’d just made the man from the dust of the ground and gave him the bounds set for his domain under which if he trespassed, this man too would’ve fell from the first. When speaking of that of the first, I mean that thing that came before and also in order by priority later. The Lord himself was a type of the angels himself being by rights and by the place the foremost in order of these. In Hebrews, the more appropriate term would’ve been the firstborne of God. It’s not that Zebulon needs limits on what it can do, it’s just that some things are too much for a man to attempt even in their glorified state that would’ve been say before the fall that came as result. Then again were responsibilities given. Man not fallen had a supernatural duty to care for the garden that is to say all things created as well. Though the issue here isn’t on Zebulon’s but rather the Lord’s leading as seen in the delegation. He knew what each one should’ve done as the lesser that cared for the greater instead. It’s this keeping then of supernatural knowledge though things aren’t being explained but rather retained. In the leading then it’s much more of an attitude of ‘I’ll not tell you why at the moment but you’ll just have to trust me much later.’ You know, not all things are gonna have to be this kind of explained. There are things the Lord requires and authorities too without asking you for your press briefings and your own general secretary opinions. These things you’ll just have to trust as come from the source and so also to do of as well as supposed. Though the why really was given of back in the garden, that had the treat thereof been eaten death would’ve followed or a termination of his own supernatural position. Therefore the Lord as a Naphtalim demonstrates care for his people without a good deal of things having explained. It sure is nice though to get a much clearer sort of a picture about what some of these others are and their roles as seen in the light of his glory which follows.