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The Seed War

Every enemy move met by the Father's counter-move. The resurrection is the pivot. The Father is never reacting. The enemy is always reacting to the Father.

Jesus lived the life the Father designed. He taught the Kingdom. He healed the broken. He confronted the powers. He submitted to the cross. And at the cross, the Father disarmed the principalities and powers, making a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them through the cross of His Son. The enemy meant the crucifixion as the destruction of the Seed. The Father turned the enemy's weapon into the means of the enemy's defeat.

Then the Father raised His Son from the dead. Not the Son raising himself. Not mutual action between equal deities. The Father raised Jesus. This is the most repeated claim in the apostolic testimony. Over two dozen times the apostles say it. They never say it any other way.

God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.Acts 2:24

The Father exalted His Son to His right hand. He gave him the name above every name. He made this Jesus both Lord and Messiah. And at Pentecost, the Father poured out His Spirit through the Son, reversing the scattering of Babel, reunifying the languages, launching the rescue mission into every nation.

That is the story so far. And if you have been in church for thirty years and no one ever told you this version, that itself should tell you something about what has been lost.

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.Colossians 2:13-15