The word “abdicate” means to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner.
We are all given the freedom to choose our path. Our Sovereign FATHER gave us this right. There has been much debate about whether we have free choice or GOD is sovereign. The answer to this question is “both”. HE is sovereign and has the right over all of creation. However, HE gave us the power and ability to choose. Yes, we have been given power and authority to choose and do so everyday.
Adam and Eve were given this power and authority to choose in the garden. There was a transfer of authority to Adam when he was brought forth. FATHER did not create a robot to simply follow HIS every instruction. Instead, HE created man with the ability to think and choose for himself. This would allow man to grow in wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, and to discern right from wrong. Up above all, man would understand Love, FATHER’S Divine Intent. Those of us with children look forward to the day when our kids begin to express Love toward us. When your child wants to climb up in your lap and dwell there, that event is priceless. When Love is expressed, it represents the highest form of free choice.
If man had no choice, the Bible would only need to be conveyed in 500 words of less. The Book of Beginnings stated the transfer of power and authority to mankind:
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
This word “dominion” means to rule, subjugate, tread down. FATHER created and assigned certain power and authority of HIS creation over to man to rule. A key factor in this authority is understanding the laws in place which are higher laws that supersede the assignment given to man. FATHER had already established the law of reaping and sowing, seedtime and harvest. This law prevailed no matter who was assigned dominion. Thus if you sow “death”, you reap “death”, the choice is yours. It is also true that if you sow life, your reap life. This law cuts both ways. There will be repercussions to breaking the Law but the choice is yours.
In the Book of Revelation, the Sons of Love have come to full maturity and now sing a new song of victory:
5: 9 And they sang a new song, saying:
“You are worthy to take the scroll,
And to open its seals;
For You were slain,
And have redeemed us to God by Your blood
Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
10 And have made us kings and priests to our God;
And we shall reign on the earth.”
Notice that they all acknowledge that Our Lord Jesus Christ MADE US kings and priests. Once again, we see assignment of power and authority. To what purpose? To minister to all mankind the Love of THE FATHER. Their new song proclaims “we shall reign on the earth”, the ministry of the priest. The second group beyond the Throne then sings out:
11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice:
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
The finally John reveals what the third group is singing beyond the Throne. This group covers the rest of mankind:
13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:
“Blessing and honor and glory and power
Be to Him who sits on the throne,
And to the Lamb, forever and ever!
After all three groups have sung the new song of their revelation of THE LAMB, the first group, the Sons of GOD conclude with an affirmation. These expressions or choruses toward the Lamb on the Throne began with the Sons and ended with the Sons:
14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.
The following question must be asked: How can the Lamb receive power if FATHER has already made the Lamb King of kings over all of creation? The Sons of GOD abdicate the power given unto them by FATHER and is expressed by the following verses:
Revelation 4:9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
11 “You are worthy, O Lord,
To receive glory and honor and power;
For You created all things,
And by Your will they exist and were created.”
The Sons abdicated their assigned power and authority by casting their crowns before HIS Throne and they referenced the original assignment of power and authority given in Genesis. Now we can have a greater appreciation of The LORD’s Prayer when we proclaim:
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
We abdicate our power and authority to you and we cast our crowns before you to affirm that we fully submit to your authority in our individual lives. Amen!
Once these visions given to John become fully manifested, the Sons will fulfill their calling to rule and reign under the leadership of THE LAMB on the Throne. They will be Divinely enabled to carry out their individual callings to rule and reign as kings and priests. This power will be observable by all and move all toward repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. No man, woman, or child will be able to resist the Love expressed by the Sons. All sin will be exposed and dealt with by Love. Paul wrote of this in Romans 8:
19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Thankfully, the Sons have chosen HIS WAY and have abdicated one lower level of authority and have been given a higher level of authority based on Love. The crescendo the climax and grand finale of the new song is at hand!