THE 5 DIVINE MANDATES
Written by David L.
Anderson Iregbu
An extract of my
Audio message the five divine mandates
Chapter 1
MANDATE
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth”
Genesis 1:28
When God made man, he commissioned
him to accomplish five specific tasks on earth.
These tasks are the actions that
define his ministry.
Whatever our personal ministries are,
they sure center on these five commands from God.
Mandates are not optional they are
commands from God, and commands are orders from higher authority mandatorily to
be obeyed.
When we talk of mandates, we are talking
of divine tasks conferred and mandated on man to accomplish.
They are his reasons or purpose for
coming to earth.
They are as well God’s purpose and
plan for creating and placing him on earth.
They are God given mandate, and a
must to accomplish, if you must live a victorious life on earth.
Reading the scriptures above you will
find all the mandates outlined, which we will discuss.
These commissions were not only for Adam;
everyone born on earth is born and commissioned into it.
Some could argue, base on new
creation reality teachings, that they are not related to these mandates.
It has become phenomenon that folks
use the knowledge of the new creation to except themselves from certain
commands from God.
I would clear like to make it clear
that this command is in fact particularly, most relevant to the new creation.
In Genesis 1:26 there the bible says,
“And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth”
Here God said, “let us make man-
singular” and he goes on to say “and let them (men- plural)”
If he was referring to man being one
singular person, how come at the same time he talked of him as plural being
more than one person?
The man singular man came from the
Hebrew word ish’ which talks of the spiritual being made in the image and
likeness of God.
He was made in God’s class to be God
and function as God would here on earth.
In fact, he was God personified and the
effulgence of God’s glory.
And when God wanted to reveal one of
the aspects of the mandate which is the dominion mandate, he said, “and let
then have (receive and possess) dominion”
By this statement, God made known
another aspect of this mandate that is the multiplication or procreation
mandate.
By this, God commissioned him to
procreate his kind, fill the earth with the God kind, the perfect, and sin free
persons, made in the image and likeness of God, the effulgence of his glory and
the sons of God.
They were in him (the man) so when
God was talking about the man he saw the countless multitudes of the God seeds
in his loins.
Therefore, when he spoke he referred
to them as well.
“And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed
tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec
met him”
Hebrews 7:9-10
Hence, they were the “them”
I would have you understand something
further, when God said, “And let them have dominion….” That does not imply they
received it, because at this point, God has not created the man in whom are all
the deposits of the seeds of his kind to whom the words were as well directed
to.
It is in verse 27 we learn that God
backed up those words with action, “So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them”
Note the adverb “So” the sentence
started with, the adverb there is a determiner that describes an action of God.
This simply tells that GOD created
the man, the ish’ in verse 27.
He created him them, male and female
(men and women” by his word.
The man is a product of his word,
because he was made by the word.
Get man book THE MAN for further
details.
They do not get it until he gives it,
and he only said let us make man.
He was only talking to the rest of
the Godhead, speaking to them of what they three already agreed upon, at the
same time making their purpose and foreordained plan known to us.
That God would create us, “ish’ ”
How does it answer the new creation
argument?
The man is the image of God’s glory,
the perfect manifestation of God and of the effulgence of his glory, which was
lost.
Christ came as the last of the kind
of this man, which is why he is called “the last Adam” meaning the last of the
man created in the image of God, the effulgence of God’s glory and the perfect
manifestation of his person, to restore the mandate that was lost, and to give
birth to the very seeds talked of that were deposited in the first man.
Christ came in place of the first
man, not in the fallen, but in the perfect nature, and by his death and resurrection
he gave birth to the seeds, he procreated himself-the church-the new creation.
“Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to
grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand”
Isaiah 53:10
He restored the mandates and handed
it to the new creation and told us, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature”
Mark 16:15-20
Get my message on this topic and you
will get more details on the reformation of this mandates.
The new creation is the restoration
of the effulgence of God’s glory, the perfect image of God his maker.
He is now the ish’ commissioned to
execute the very mandates in his mark 16:15-20 which when you listen to the
tape you will see it centers on the same mandate of Genesis chapter 1:28.
CHAPTER 2
There were certain things God had to
put in place before commissioning the man.
The first one is:
“And God blessed them…”
GOD BLESSED THEM
When it says, “and God blessed them”
what that means is, that God empowered them with supernatural enablement like
skill and potential, favor, wealth and certain extraordinary embedded abilities
to make or effect changes and to succeed
in actualizing the mandates.
Exodus 35:29-35 and 1 Corinthians
12:4-11
In order words, he gave us every
needed potentials and resource abilities and materials both spiritual and
physical to fulfill the mandates, so that none will ever give an excuse for
failure.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ”
Ephesians 1:3
This is why it is said, that no man
is empty vessel.
Everyone is embedded and blessed with
certain abilities and skills.
These abilities are for fulfilling
the divine mandates.
The second one is:
“and God said unto them”
GOD SAID
Remember I said earlier, that what
God said in verse 26 of the Genesis chapter 1 does not imply he gave them
dominion mandate at that point.
It was only when “God said unto them”
that they received it.
The term “ and God said” is AN ACT OF
DIVINE CONFERMENT IN WORD OF THE DIVINE RIGHT TO EXECUTE THE SAID MISSION HERE
ON EARTH, BY DELEGATION OF GOD’S SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY OVER THE EARTH HE MADE BY
HIS WORD.
Man does not have the right to earth
to execute his mandate unless God gives it to him.
Hence, there was need for it and God
gave the first man and his seeds his own creator authority and right to the
earth to fulfill the mandates.
To fulfill this very mandates entails
that man would by God’s authority have authority over the earth and everything
in it, because that right and authority is the creator’s sovereign right and
authority over all the works of his hand.
Psalms 8:6 testifies to it saying, “Thou
makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all
things under his feet :”( ASV)
“Thou
madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all
things under his feet: (KJV)
The term madest or makest as applied
in the both translations denotes, that God confer on him and positioned him in
the God’s place on earth with the divine right and authority to have mastery
over the earth and to rule over it and everything in it.
Before God put man on earth for the assignments,
he first empowered or enabled him for it, with supernatural abilities; secondly,
he gave him the right to do that which he is commissioned to fulfill.
If you want to establish a business
in any country, firstly you need to equip yourself with information about the
very land concerning their laws and regulations.
To fulfill your mission on earth you
need to know what God’s word says concerning your destiny and purpose on earth,
and how to go about them.
You also need to be skilful in that
business.
The business skill itself is ability.
Moreover, you need to acquire the
right to do the business in that country from the government that owns the
land.
Everyone on earth has inborn
abilities, potentials or talents.
Everyone is blessed with single or
multiple potentials.
The essence of the potentials is
simple, not just to be famous, to enrich yourself or to be a star.
The essence is to be able to fulfill
the mandates with ease and with tremendous results.
However, we are so blessed with the
supernatural enablement, but we still have need of the right to fulfill our
assignments on earth so that we can possess wherever the sole of our feet shall
touch, on earth.
You just cannot walk up to any church;
take up microphone and start preaching, unless the pastor or the church authority
gives you the right and authority.
Everyone needs the God supreme
creator’s right and authority to accomplish the divine missions here on earth.
Therefore, God confer on them that
right and authority via his word.
The right and authority was placed on
them, by the spoken word.
What is this God right and authority
you need?
John 1:3 says, “All things were made
by him; and without him was not anything made that was made”
Understand this, the pronoun him is a
reference to the person of the word.
By now, Jesus was not yet flesh, so
he was the word an invisible and immaterial personality in God that functions
mightily when God speaks.
“And the Spirit entered
into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that
spake unto me”
Ezekiel 2:3 (ASV)
“He sent his word, and
healed them, and delivered them from their destructions”
Psalms 107:20 (KJV)
When John 1:3 said, “All things were
made by him” simply implies all things were created by and through as the
channel and resource material to create all things.
The term “By him” implies he is the direct
creator who had direct contacts with the created before and after creation
because creation was already in him before the foundation of the world, while the
term “through him” implies he is the medium though which everything was
created, and without him nothing made would have been made.
This simply means that he is God’s
right, and authority, access and channel to the earth.
“For by him were all
things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:
all things were created by him, and for him”
Colossians 1:16 (KJV)
“for in him were all
things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things
have been created through him, and unto him”
Colossians 1:16 (ASV)
The word of God is the God authority
over the earth and his right to it, because his word created all things, and
becomes his right of ownership and authority over this very earth.
“And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light”
Genesis 1”3 (KJV)
“By the word of Jehovah
were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth”
“For he spake, and it
was done; He commanded, and it stood fast”
Psalms 33:6, 9 (ASV)
Therefore, when God spoke to them in
that Genesis 1:28 he gave them his word, his right of ownership, authority over
the earth and right to walk and function in it.
By his word, he gave them the earth
to possess and walk upon it.
That was how Adam got it.
He got it spoken, but that will not
be the same with you.
For you, you would have to know the
word, identify and accept the word in your life.
For that to happen, firstly, the word
had to become flesh.
“And the Word was made flesh…”
John 1:14 (KJV)
Do you know what that means?
The God’s right of ownership over the
earth and his right to it became flesh, visible, human form and tangible for
you.
Adam lost it, but here it came to us
in flesh and tangible.
When he came, he had contact with us
and we had contact with him, so that by accepting him into our lives we would
have received the full right of ownership over the earth and the right to
fulfill our God given mission on earth.
“That which was from
the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes,
that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life”
John 1:1 (ASV)
“But as many as
received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, [even] to
them that believe on his name:”
John 1:12 (ASV)
CHAPTER 3
THE MANDATES
Mandate 1
The BE FRUITFUL MANDATE
“Be fruitful” the term “be” is a verb expressing or denoting an action.
In other words, god saying be
actively fruitful in every area of your life.
The verb also denotes you were
created into such motion.
You are in everyday of your life on
such motion, then be fruitful.
Fruitfulness is an act of being
productive, prolific, industrious and dynamic in your marriage, career,
business, ministry etc.
When God created and you he made you
in his image.
Now, God by nature is productive,
industrious and prolific.
He is a productive God, and he made
you in that same nature.
He embedded in you everything it
takes to be productive in life.
God tells you to be fruitful base on
what he embedded in you and base on his productive nature in you.
Hence, he expects it to be natural
for you to be productive.
This is why he first use the verb
“be” because such action is natural in you and you are already on such motion
everyday of your life.
A successful man is a productive man,
because he is on the motion of fulfilling his tasks on earth.
God defines a man’s success based on
his achievement of his mandates.
You are only fruitful when you are
fulfilling your mandates and purpose of coming to earth.
MANDATE 2
MULTIPLICATION MANDATE
Here God commands us to increase.
I know that folks interprets this term
to mean increase in number.
That is not exactly what he meant.
Here he meant procreating or
producing one’s kind and filling the earth with them,
This is exactly what Jesus meant when
he said to his disciples, “go into all the world and preach the gospel…” and “Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations; ….”
You procreate by preaching the gospel,
the souls converted are procreated spiritually to be of the same species, the
God’s specie with you.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old
things are passed away; behold all things are become new” 2 Corinthians 5:17
The new creature there is a reference
to a new different kind of specie.
He is born of God through the
preaching of the word.
This is what is called being born
again meaning he is born of the word.
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” 1 peter
1:23
Now that makes him God’s specie and a
child of the word of God.
Because “Whatever has been born of the
flesh is flesh, and whatever has been born of the Spirit is spirit” John 3:6
(Weymouth’s New Testament)
The spirit in quote is a reference
that he is in God’s class of specie.
God has his own unique class, in it,
he alone is his kind, and none is like him.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth”
John 4:24
In fact, he is the class, the class
identifiable by the functioning of eternal life, where freedom is enjoyed and
men can love and reverence him in spirit (in the nature of God and as the God’s
specie) and in truth (in the knowledge of his word).
“Now by "the Lord" is meant the
Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, freedom is enjoyed. 2 Corinthians
3:17 (WNT)
The new specie is the image of God
and of his word, the effulgence of God’s glory and the perfect manifestation of
his person, just as Christ is.
“Herein is our love
made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he
is, so are we in this world” 1 john
4:17
Note the john 4:24 said, “God is a
Spirit” and not “God is a spirit” the later implies he is of the same specie
and class with any of kind of spirit.
Nevertheless, the formal means he is
of a unique kind, far higher than all others and immune to them.
He is self-existing kind, immortal,
and all glorious in his omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresent, in his
holiness and righteousness.
Moreover, in his class he begets into
reality the same seeds that were in the man’s loins, born not of the
corruptible but of the incorruptible through the preaching of the word.
You are God’s specie, the image of
God and the effulgence of his glory and person.
He commands you thus, to procreate or
give birth to your kind through the preaching and teaching of the gospel and
through discipleship.
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations; baptize
them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”
Matthew 28:19 (WNT)
Hence, you are commanded and mandated
to procreate your kind through preaching and discipleship with the word, and
fill the world with your fruits or kind.
The gentiles today enjoy the
Christianity because of the ministry of Apostle Paul.
The Gentile and Jewish churches are
the procreation of Paul and the Apostles.
“That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same
body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the
grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power” Ephesians
3:6-7
MANDATE 3
REPLENISH MANDATE
The word replenish is translated from
the Hebrew word, mâlê. This means to
both fill and refill the earth.
But is God really commissioning us to
fill or refill the earth, because the term simply implies to inhabit or fill up
what was once full but is now empty?
I know that God is not repeating the
mandate of multiplication, there must be something he is referring to.
Some would attribute this to the
theory of the gap, but if it is why would God still initially give the mandate
of multiplication?
Each mandate is specific, solely
different and independent and unique.
If you listen to my message the
significance of creation, in the teaching reading from Genesis 1:2 I was
able to define the spiritual significance of the waters and that the waters was
referred to as the earth as well.
Hence, it was proven that the earth
and the waters were significance of peoples.
You need to get that my message THE 5
DIVINE MANDATE a part of it is attached to this book. This book is just
an extract of it.
With this I make bold to say, that
the earth to be replenished refers to people’s areas of lives, where once was
filled with joy, peace, sound health, success, prosperity, fruitfulness and
love, but is now empty and replaced with sadness and gloom, troubles and
unrest, lack and poverty, sickness and diseases, bareness and hate.
Now, God commissions you to refill or
fill them with was lost.
How would you do that?
Jesus tells us how which confirms
with the sub theme “and God blessed them”
“…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover”
Mark 16:18
And Paul demonstrated this in Acts 28:8-9,
“And
it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody
flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and
healed him.
So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the
island, came, and were healed”
Remember I said under the Sub heading
“God blessed them” that that God empowered them with supernatural enablement
like skill and potential, favor, wealth and certain extraordinary embedded
abilities to make or effect changes and
to succeed in actualizing the mandates.
The extraordinary powers or abilities
to effect changes is the virtue of the Spirit in you and you can only effect
change in people’s lives and conditions by laying hands on them to transmit and
impart them with healing in their health, success in their career and
businesses.
The virtue or abilities come into
effect when you by faith and in prayer lay hands on them on to transfer to
them, the healing, success, and fruitfulness and breakthroughs virtues.
Jesus said, when you do this, “…and
they shall recover” the word recover implies they shall be refilled with what
was lost; another word to it is they
shall be restored.
For the term refill is synonym with
restoration.
To be refilled suggest there is lack
in one area or the other, in the society, in people’s lives and in the church
of Jesus Christ, and there is need for it to be refilled with what is lacking.
You are commissioned to fill up the hole
of lack in their lives, by the application of the abilities he has blessed you
with.
This he commanded you in Genesis 1:28,
the same Jesus restored and commissioned you in Mark 16:18 and the very same
the Holy Spirit is willing to help you accomplish as he did with the Apostles,
if only you will yield to him.
“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord
working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen” Mark
16:20
MANDATE 4
THE SUBDUE MANDATE
The word subdue means to have control
and exercise mastery over.
Mastery is a state of having power
and the act of exercising the power and authority over something or others.
The original Hebrew word for the term
subdue is kabash which means to
overpower the earth and bring into submission and bondage for man’s need.
God by this mandate commands man to
exercise mastery over the earth by overpowering and bring it into submission
and bondage, for his own needs.
In other words, enslave and have
control over it to serve your own needs.
The earth and everything in it is
meant to serve your needs and not the other way round.
Howbeit, a question comes to mind, is
it the earth that is in the focus of this command?
Because after creating the earth the
scripture said, “And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day”
Genesis 1:31
Note it says, “It was very good” it
was not just good, rather it was very good.
The good in the context suggests it
was of extreme high rate of superior excellent.
It was magnificently beautiful and
without flaws.
It was the exact picture of the earth
in God’s mental vision.
Why then the need to subdue what was
said to be good, because by virtue of what Genesis 1:31 said, there was no need
to subdue it, because it was already perfect, incorrupt, and submissive-obeying
every command of God during creation.
You can only subdue a rebellion and a
revolt.
At then, the earth was not in
rebellion.
Satan and his hosts were the rebels
hovering and going fro and thro the earth.
Hence the focus is the Satan and his
demons.
Understand this, man is commanded to
have control over the earth and to overpower and bring to stop the activities
and motions of the devils and bring into bondage under your authority.
Do you ever read Revelation 13:8? “And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”
Jesus was slain or crucified before
the world existed, and his blood lays the foundation of the world.
The world stands on his blood, as the
foundation upon which the world was established.
His blood holds the world, which is why he
alone has the solution to the problem of the world.
That is also why; he created the
world, for him and through him
This is why, if you are connected to
this blood, no man that sets his feet on the earth can harm you in any way,
because the blood on your side, speaks and fight for you.
This is why God could boldly command
man to have control over the earth and its wealth and to bring the devil and
his hosts into bondage.
Because the blood the price that
settles and gives man the right to posses the earth and its glory was shed and
was used to lay the foundation upon which the world will be established.
Yes, man lost it all to sin, but when
Jesus came to earth and died, he shed the blood, accomplishing physically what
was done in the spirit realm before time began.
“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
which slept arose”
Matthew 27:50-52
When the blood touched the ground the
blood foundation was restored to effect, and its power was experienced, on the
earth.
In Mark 16:17-18 Jesus restored the
subdue mandate “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they
cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover”
Why saying “in my name”?
Because his blood is the foundation
of all creation.
That is why when you call the name
the blood speaks rebuking the devils, and they will flee.
You are mandated to subdue the earth-
have total control over it and to have mastery over the devils in your areas,
in people’s lives and situations.
If you identify with the blood, then
you are in charge and not the devils.
By the blood, you are covered and
mandated to subdue.
MANDATE 5
DOMINION MANDATE
The word dominion spells the man’s
royal power as king of the world to rule over every creation.
The term speaks of man as a monarch
and every other his subjects.
The word dominion from the Hebrew radah to rule over.
Dominion speaks of the king’s ruling
power and his vast domain.
God gave man the scepter to rule over
all the works of his hands, that includes the fishes, the wild and domestic
animals, the galaxies, the sun, the moon, the angels, devils, demons etc.
Get my audio THE LOST DOMINION for
more information on dominion.
“Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy
hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:” Psalms 8:6 (ASV)
You are the king of this world with
the absolute power to rule and determine its affairs both spiritual and
physical.
YOU ARE THE LAW AND THE AUTHORITY God
placed on the earth, and it is only what you said that heaven would execute
here on earth.
Because you are the ruler of the
earth.
“And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” Matthew 18:19
“Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and
whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained” John 20:23
You are as well the king over the
devil and his demons, to rule over them and determine their place.
You have dominion over all things,
mandated to rule over all as king with the world as your vast domain.
Remember this; Jesus restored the
mandates to us by his redemption through the shedding of his blood.
You have to identified with the blood
for you to be positioned in the five divine mandates.
To be identified with the blood, you
have to give your life to Jesus.
Identify with the person who owns the
blood and you are connected to the blood.
Since the world is established upon
Christ and his blood, you cannot fulfill this mandates unless you accept him
into your life.
The blood is the right and the
qualification to fulfill the tasks.
It becomes your sufficiency.
The five mandates though lost were
restored by redemption, meaning they were bought back with us by the shedding
and purchase of the blood.
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with
corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot”
1 peter 1:18-19
And we see the same mandates
reactivated and confer on the church by Jesus
tag “THE GREAT COMMISSION”
In mark 16:15-20 and Matthew 28:18-20
You wonder why the Satanists require
blood to accomplish all their tasks.
Because their master learnt it from
heaven, that it was the blood of Jesus that gives life to the world, which
holds the pillars of the world, that makes the world revolve and keeps it
standing.
He knows this; this is why he always requires
blood.
Would you like to surrender your life
to Jesus?
Just say after me:
Lord Jesus, I am a sinner.
I believed you died for me.
I am sorry for my sins.
I surrender to you.
I believe in my heart and I confess
JESUS AS MY Lord and savior.
Thank God, I am now born again.
AMEN
Now you are qualified to fulfill the
mandates.
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