The conversation that we find in Genesis 1:26-" Then God said, " Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground."
It's a conversation because the pronoun used when God said, Let us create mankind in our image.... " refers to God as an entity and other entities other than himself that are of the same kind.
The suggestion, "Let us create mankind in our image and in our own likeliness" is idealistic and fundamentally limited to a thought.
This is so because it was not actual nor concrete but rather a classic abstract.
The image of God or the likeliness of God is not physical, and it's not concrete but it's an abstract.
If we going to understand the image of God then we got to appreciate that God has got a nature which is love.
1 John 4:16-"God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him".
So in talking about the image or the likeliness of God we are investigating the nature of God and that nature of God is love.
Mankind was created ( idealistically and thoughtfully) in the image / likeliness of God which is love.
Mankind was created in the image of God and that image is love.
So that mankind may have dominion over the earth
Love is what activates the dominion of mankind over the earth.
This is underlined by the fact that the image of God is love.
In Greek philosophy, love is understood as an abstract, and an idea with the force to affect and touch "us" -the self and others even though it has no real and sensible attachment.
Love is ineffable in and unto itself to the degree that it cannot be explained but it has the ability to play a role that is undeniable and unavoidable in all cultures of the world. Whether it be music, religion and politics.
Part of being and having dominion over the earth is to operate and function in a manner that your impact can't be denied and won't be avoided.
The image of God which means the love of God gives you the power to affect and touch the world even when you don't have any real and sensible attachment to the world around you.
This is imperative because the only way you can influence the world on a level so divine is by love.
Love is what gives mankind permission to touch divinity.
The highest form of divine glory is the demonstration of Love.
Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the Law? "
Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it:"Love your neighbor as yourself. " All the Law and the prophets hang on these two commandments".
Essentially if the law is not preaching and teaching love then it's not from God.
If a prophet is not practicing love then the prophet can't be from God.
John 13:34-" A new command I give you : love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
As the aforementioned statement, Jesus came to fulfill the law but in doing so Jesus gave a new command and it was a command of love and loving one another.
2022 is a period designated by God so that your life will be affected and touched in various ways that can't be avoided nor denied.
As you will be affected and touched by the love of God so shall you impact so many other people in many different ways that truly are unavoidable and undeniable.
The mystery and the divinity of how is it that you going to be affected and touched as much as touching and impacting others is that there won't be any real and sensible attachment or connection with the many you that you will encounter .
This is true because once you realize that you created in the image of God which is the likeliness of God, which is best understood as love then you will be affected in ways that are ineffable.
It's what it is because love functions in ways that are ineffable.
It's only love that has the propensity as much as the capacity to impact and affect it's subjects even with no real and sensible attachment.
In the period of 2022 you will need no experience to reach certain heights and achieve certain ranks in your life.
It's so because once you moving and operating in the image of God which is love ,then your power is not drawn from experience but rather from divinity.
In period of 2022 you won't need to follow worldly protocols and systems in order to go some places and break into certain societal barriers.
Because the image of God which is the likeliness and the love of God as much as the will of God has got the power to permit you into achievements and into ranks that others can't do on their own.
If love is the license to touch divinity then that license can well be effective in allowing you access to everything that God wills for your life and purpose.
In another respect to Greek philosophy, the definition of love can't be realized until there is an understanding of the nature of love.
Without understanding the nature of love it becomes an impossibility to define love nor describe it.
The nature of love is categorized primarily in three branches.
The first branch is called Eros.
Eros is a love that is deeply grounded in sensuality and it's where we get the idea of erotic romanticism.
The second branch of love is Philo and it endeavors to explain the love between brothers or friends.
It's got to do with a deep concern that brothers, friends and sisters express and show for one over the other.
The third branch is called Agape and this branch is the true description of the love between God and man: as much as between man and God.
Psalms 8:4-8-" what is man that you are mindful of him, And the son of man that you visit him?
For you have made him a little lower than the angels, And you have Crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands : you have put all things under his feet, All the sheep and oxen - Even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air ,And the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas".
The Hebrew name for man is Adama and it refers to mean the dust of the earth.
God got the dust of the earth from the ground of the earth and created man from God 's image which is love.
Thus the establishment of man upon the earth was the inception or the inauguration of love upon the face of the earth
Little wonder in the beginning prior the creation of man, the earth was in chaos cause of the absence of love.
Without love chaos reigns.
Love is boundless and because it's boundless it transcends culture, demographics and religion.
And since 2022 is a period to manifest love, you will move and operate in the anointing that affects and impacts geography and all people of a different kind beyond your physical reach.
God did not create man to be religious.
God created man in his image to manifest love.
Both in operation and in function man should express love.
2022 is not a period to play religion but a period of manifesting love.
And you can only manifest love by giving love in its abstract essence.
You supposed to love whether the object before you is familiar or strange, and love should be the rule of your life and in charge of the affairs of your life.
Once you manifest love in both function and in operation then you will touch and trigger the manifestation of divinity in your life and in other people's affairs.
2022 is a period of manifestating the highest level of divine glory.
However this glory can only be triggered once you realize that you made in the image of God.
And it's only the image of God -love-that can access the glory of God.
In 2022 you will touch and impact everyone you encounter including those that may not have any real and sensible attachment to you.
The mystery of such an impact can only be divine.
And divinely accessed by those made in the image of God, which image is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8-" Love is patient and is kind: love does not envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seem it's own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil: doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth : bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never fails".
It's impossible to approach life in love and you succeed not.
Love is so powerful that in all the commandments issued by God love is most outstanding.
Love is something so deep that it can't be explained."
See, love can't be explained but once you attempt to explain love you can only do so by probing it's nature.
Romans 8:38-39-" For Iam persuaded, that neither death, nor life, not angels, nor principalities, nor powers, not things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In 2022 you will experience an inseparable love from God that can't be explained.
And if you try to probe this inseparable love you will only do so by probing the impact of your existence upon the earth among men.
Everything you going to affect will be by divine power.
By you, cultures spanning from education, entertain, government and economies plus religion will be impacted and affected by the love and power that emanates from the love and the relationship that you have with God.
The fundamental principle that reflects the glory of God is love.
For without love the glory of God cannot be manifested.
Love is the manifestation of the glory of God.
Thus if the love of God is the manifestation of the glory of God.
Then the image of God should be a reflection of the glory of God.
When God said, " Let us create mankind in our image ...."
God was speaking in treatment to that fact that of all creation, man is the reflection of the highest degree of divine Glory.
Yet mankind can only reflect the glory of God only by manifesting love.
