It seems that mankind is an unusual species. We are the only species that doesn’t know what we are doing here! Lions, dogs, goldfish and zebra – they all seem to know just what to do without much reflection, confusion or self-questioning. Meanwhile, mankind is still looking for answers, looking to find his meaning, purpose and significance.

Why is there such discontent in the heart of mankind? May I suggest to you that what we ARE isn’t even close what we were DESIGNED to be? And this mis-representation is the whole reason we are so screwed up and the world is in such a mess. We are a mis-placed species, designed for greatness but selling our souls for ignorance and littleness.

So, let’s retell an old story, but in a new light.

From the very beginning, God designed us in a unique way. An extraordinary way. You see, other than Adam, God created all the creatures of the world “after their kind”. That means that just by being what they are, as their own “kind”, they are perfectly content. For an elephant, just to be an elephant, after its kind, meant the fulfillment of its purpose. In fact, all creatures were created “after their kind”, to be their own kind; and in being themselves, they are fulfilled.

However, with man, this is NOT the case. When God created man, he was created in the “image of God”; man was not “after his kind”, but after God’s kind. Adam had an “image”, but not yet the “likeness” of God. Man’s image was for a likeness, just as a container is for the content it is made to hold. Man was made to be a God-kind, not a man-kind. “Mankind” is actually a misplaced species: an empty container lost from its exquisite purpose to contain God in all His fullness and glory. We are the only species walking around on the planet as mere phantoms and shadows of our original design.

You see, at the beginning of creation, there were dogkinds, catkinds and birdkinds, etc., but when it came to man, we were created a “Godkind”. Yes, believe it or not, but God made man after His kind. Nothing else on earth was like this. Not even angels have this capacity. All throughout human history, mankind has held up his own self-image as a kind of trophy to his own ingenious designs. We have built elaborate civilizations, climbed the highest mountains, bent the planet to our will and are near bringing to extinction most of the other creatures who share the world with us. We hold up this mantra of “humankind” as a kind of proud trophy, when in fact, it is the most misplaced “kind” in the universe.

I like to think of the “fall” as the greatest misnaming that has ever happened. “Godkind” named themselves as “mankind” – and our thoughts have descended into this great vanity ever since. This means that, before the fall of man from this place of glorious potential, there was no “mankind”; there was only God’s kind. Contrary to the definition given in Webster’s dictionary, from God’s point of view, the word “mankind” is a sad and negative term -- for there should be no “mankind” as we presently know it. We are an unfinished product. There should only be a Godkind.

From the beginning, the plan was to create Adam’s race as God’s kind. However, after the fall, man separated himself from God in his mind and sought to establish his “own kind” and became a “mankind”. Through this misnaming, all kinds of negative and unworthy elements have come in to fill man’s empty image with things that cause us endless heartache and sorrow. Because of a Godkind that chose to just be a humankind, the whole world has been thrown into ontological confusion and chaos.

Now, you may think this is very pessimistic about mankind. NOT AT ALL!! It is the very opposite: our mistaken identity should be the strongest call to wake up and to re-take our position in the heart of God. Man isn’t heading for some Armageddon extinction; rather, we are heading for a stunning wake up call like those awakening from a long night’s nightmare. Believe it or not, but what we see and have believed about our species is all coming to a glorious transformation. The verdict of that decree has already been determined and demonstrated and stands at the right hand of God -- FOR us and AS us. The Son is the exemplified species of the Godkind. He is our mirrored refection in the pool of Siloam. You see, the gospel was never about a plan for mankind’s moral improvement. It was about an ENDING of the mankind species and a re-establishment within the eternal planes of glory, as the original Godkind species.

This is why religion is boring, but truth is liberating.

Yes, I know. This all sounds very fantastical and irreligious. GOOD! I don’t want to waste your time with more boring religious ideology; I want to wake you up to your actual birthright! I am not on the bandwagon of improving mankind. I am on a throne, in the Son, in heavenly places, telling you that you are a misplaced species and to come home to the Father’s house. You are Godkind. Your “next of kin” is the Father, Son and Spirit, not a chimpanzee!

Your forgotten image is in need of being filled with a likeness that only God can fulfill. You are to be a Godkind, not a humankind. There is no happy future for a species that was never to exist in the first place. But there is eternal bliss for the image within you that calls for its fulfilling likeness to be received, to germinate, grow and consummate in the Eternal Son.

Trust me… the future of mankind will be nothing more than the unsatisfactory story we hear day after day on the nightly news. But the future of the image tucked away beneath your delusion and ignorance is most excellent, bright and beautiful. THAT species future will be as it was originally designed to be: RESPLENDANCE!!

“Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.” ~Matthew 13:43