THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Message Twenty-Eight - Book Five: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Holy Bible spells out in detail what is to take place when the earth testing of souls is finished, and the Lord calls all of His to Him in the eternal heaven. Apostle John writes of this wonderful occurrence, as biblically set forth in Jn. 14:1-4:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD, believe ye also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a  place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am there you may be also. And whither I do ye know, and The Way you know.”

The Lord the Son of GOD’s promise that He would “come again” and receive those who were His unto Himself, resolves a great mystery concerning His return. Because He has declared that He will receive souls who are His, it becomes clear that He will return as the Bible reveals — in a Cloud (”And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory” (citing Rev. 7:14-14). And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near (Lk. 27-28).

This above disclosure reveals that the Son of GOD is to return in a Cloud — as He has appeared many times to the people of Israel during past times — and that He will “receive unto Himself” the souls of those who have incarnated in flesh bodies and passed testing in the earth dimension. The remarkable aspect of this comment by the Son of GOD; quoted by Beloved John who undoubtedly heard Jesus declare it; is that it discloses to all mankind that when they have passed earth testing, they may expect to be “raised up into heaven” to the place where the Son of GOD has previously “gone up:” to where Christ the Son now is; at GOD’s right hand.

This answered the great question of what happens to a human being when it has fulfilled its earth mission. The flesh body is not raised up into heaven: as inscribed in 1 Cor. 15:50; “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD” (1 Cor. 15:50). In short, human beings should not expect to be raised up embodied in flesh into heaven: GOD is a Spirit (Jn. 4:24); for which reason HIS Son is also a Spirit, and those who stand to ascend into heaven where Christ the Son has gone on our behalf — and where GOD the Father of all is “Above all, through all, and in us all” (Eph. 4:6) – should be aware that spirit-souls are unable to take  their body with them if and when they are Saved into eternity by the quickening Holy Spirit of Christ the Son of GOD. It is the saved soul that is raised up to be with Christ the Son of GOD, and with GOD the Father forever in eternal life in heaven, because they are Spirits of the highest order. Human souls are the wondrous parts on mankind that are able to be changed instantly (1 Cor. 15:51-52) “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3: 18).

There is a natural (flesh) body, and there is a spiritual body (1 Cor. 15:44).

“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) and we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body; according to what he has done, whether it be bad or good (2 Cor. 5:6-10).

Therefore, as Apostle Paul admonishes us, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?” (2 Cor. 6:14).

Our earth experiences in flesh are all a test of us, that GOD may ascertain who will place his utter faith and belief in HIM and in HIS Son, whom HE sent into the earth dimension to make the Way passable into the eternal heavens for those who demonstrate while incarnated in flesh their desire to attain to eternal life in the Light with GOD the Father and HIS Son, and those who are found acceptable to reside forever there.

To Be Continued…

Message Twenty-Seven - Book Five:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When Apostle Paul underwent his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapter 9, etc.) he received the Christ Spirit as well as that of the Holy Ghost, and he then understood spiritual mysteries that transcended what had been known by men on the earth until that time. Among other things, Paul wrote of what happens to the souls incarnated in men at the time when the flesh body dies. He wrote of this phenomenal process to the Corinthians, asserting, among other things:

“If Christ be not raised, our faith [in Him] is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die [For the Son of GOD as Adam had not yet spiritually perfected Himself sufficiently that He was empowered by GOD His Father to bring about the resurrection of the dead], even so in Christ shall all be made alive. BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER: Christ the firstfruits; afterward those that are Christ’s AT HIS COMING. The end comes when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to GOD, even the Father: when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all enemies under his feet.” (1 Cor. 15:17-25).

“And when all things shall be subdued under Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto HIM that put all things under Him, in order that GOD may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15: 26-28).

Yet, Paul says,

“Some man will say, “How are the dead raised up and with what body are they raised up? Thou fool, that which thou sows, thou sowest not that body that shall be [after death], but GOD gives it a body as it has pleased HIM, and to every see his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial [earthly] is another. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption [in flesh]; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown a “natural” {flesh] body; IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (Cf. 1 Cor. 2:9-15).

“And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul: the last Adam [Jesus Christ] was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man [Adam] is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.. As is the earth earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; NEITHER DOES CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION.” (1 COR. 15:45-50).

By these words, Paul advises us that no man while in the flesh can inherit a place in heaven because all flesh is corrupt. Only when he becomes quickened by the Christ Spirit, can a man ascend forever into a heavenly place.

To Be Continued….

Message Twenty-six - Book Five -  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Holy Scriptures disclose that GOD is a Spirit — actually the highest form of Energy known to man, existent at the level of Creation – and that HE must be worshiped in Spirit and in truth (Jn. 4:24). These holy writings also reveal that GOD’s Son, who manifested in the earth dimension as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, receives GOD’s Holy Spirit without any limitation (Jn. 4:34), and further that GOD loves HIS Son and has given all things into His hand (Jn. 4:35). This disclosure equates with Jesus’ declaration: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Mt. 28:18). It is accordingly presumable that Jesus Christ the Son of GOD is also a Spirit, composed of  the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father of all things that ever were, are now, or that ever will be.

The Bible records that Jesus Christ promised that if He was ”taken up” He would return for those who were His. Apostle John reports that Jesus said:

“Let not your hear be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I do to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO. And whither I go you know, and the Way you know.” (Mt. 14:1-4).

In that way, Jesus made it clear that after He was ”taken up” to GOD His Father’s right side, He would at some later time return in the cloud; the same or a similar one in which He had appeared in Egypt long before (Isa. 19:1): and similar to the way He had led His chosen people of Israel in a cloud all the night with a cloud of fire (Ps. 78:14). It was a voice from “the cloud” that apprised Peter, James and John on the Mount that: “This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you Him” (Mt. 17:5). Much later, Jesus said to  people present gathered aound Him on one occasion:

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.Then let them that who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and them which are in the midst of it depart from there; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance [GOD's vengeance upon mankind for his wickedness] that all things that which are written may be fulfilled. There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive in all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity; and the sea and the waves roaring: Men’s hearts failing them, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption dwaws near (Lk. 21:20-28).

This is the time when Christ is to return to retrive those who are His, in fulfillment of Jn. 14:1-4, as above noted. In those verses, Jesus is to “receive all of His “into Himself.”  That will be the way man’s salvation will come to pass, and it will take place for each soul when Christ the Son of GOD returns and “receives each of His INTO HIMSELF. It is thus understood that it is the spirit soul in each human being that will be drawn into the Christ Spirit — which is in fact THE REAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Each soul that is quickened by the Christ Spirit Energy will be literally received into Christ and saved into eternal life, as He has promised: they will never die, but have life everlasting (Gal. 6:8).

To Be Continued….

Message Twenty-Five - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

A mystery that has baffled mankind through the ages is: what is to become of souls incarnated in flesh bodies that inevitably die after each earth experience? What becomes of those souls that are freed from their earthly flesh containers? Where do they go? What is to be their fate?

We learn from the Holy Bible that what becomes of incarnated souls when the flesh body in which they have spent a lifetime on the earth depends upon the spiritual character, faith, and belief each has maintained during its earth experiences. The Bible defines a heavenly dimension of existence to which those souls may attain if they persevere in belief and faith in GOD their Creator, who at the time of their Creation set them on a pathway directed toward eventual eternal life with HIM in higher dimensions than the earth. But men in that primeval condition did evil to the extent that they were unsusceptible to attain to life in heavenly dimensions, where evil is impermissible. GOD then sent HIS Son into the earth dimension in flesh form, susceptible to death in the flesh, His mission: to overcome earth’s temptations on behalf of all mankind, and convert all who would believe in Him and follow Him so He could convert them into a condition in which they could be raised up in a perfected state into heaven to enjoy eternal life in GOD’s Light. These received their Holy Spirit Energy from the Son of GOD, who the Scripture of Truth tells us receives GOD’s Holy Spirit without any limitation (Jn. 3:34).

The Bible discloses that the Son of GOD first incarnated in the earth dimension as Adam the Son of GOD. In the New Testament, when Luke enumerates the generations of the Divine Lineage, he recapitulated them thus: “Canan , which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, WHICH  WAS THE SON OF GOD” (Lk. 3:37-38). Adam, then, was the first incarnation in the earth dimension of the spirit of the Son of GOD that was destined to live later as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, when He would become man’s Savior, Intercessor to GOD the Father, and eternal High Priest in heaven, in whose name men would ask all things of GOD the Father of all (Jn. 14:13).

It is understood by some that during the Son of GOD’s earth experience as Adam He fell from GOD’s Grace because of his failure to obey GOD His Father’s Will, for which reason when He died in the flesh He was taken to the “Interbetween” to await his next opportunity to reappear in the flesh in the earth dimension: which He did five generations later as Enoch the son of Jared (Gen. 5:18-24).  As Enoch, the Son of GOD “walked with GOD, and was not; for GOD took Him.” (Gen. 5:24). After that, He manifested successively in several flesh bodies on the earth in what became known as the Divine Lineage; at length appearing as the son of Mary by way of His prophesied virginal birth as Jesus of Nazareth (Isa. 7:14).

And speaking through Prophet Isaiah, the Lord foretold what was to become of the earth and its inhabitants when it was time:

“Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of HIS fierce anger (Isa. 13:9-14).

GOD sent His Son into the earth plane, and gave Him power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18) — even the power of judgment over all souls: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad” (1 Cor. 5:10). Because of the above-recorded writings in our biblical book of truth, we are able to understand much of what will take place when the period of the testing of souls expires and Christ at GOD’s right hand makes disposition of their respective futures.

To Be Continued…. 

Message Twenty-Four - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

At a time before His Ultimate Sacrifice on the Cross, Jesus declared to His followers: “I am the Light of  the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life” (Jn. 8:12). Jesus said unto them: “Verily, verily, I say unto you that whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin (Jn. 8:34) If GOD were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from GOD; neither came I of myself, but HE sent me. If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.” (Jn. 8:52). The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily I say unto you that except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also shall my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor (Jn. 12:23-26)

The thrust of this declaration by Jesus, is that those who would believe in Him and follow Him and His New Covenant Gospel would not walk in darkness, but would have the Son of GOD’s Light of Life; and when it was time they would be with Him in heaven at GOD’s right hand. It has now been nearly two thousand years since Jesus spoke those words, and many signs indicate that the time nears for His return in the cloud to take dominion that all things which are written may be fulfilled (Cf. Dan. 9:26-27),

“For  then will be the days of vengeance that are to fulfill all things that are written, for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be lead away into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun and the moon, and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity: the sea and the waves roaring: men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draws nigh” (Lk. 21:22-28).

There are signs that these thing are beginning to draw near, and with that in mind, here is a prayer for this current time of expectation:

Beloved Lord Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, in whose name we ask all things, we pray for your return in the cloud to take dominion as soon as it is time. And when you return, we pray that you will receive us unto yourself, and take us up with you where you are, that we may be with you there ever to serve you, when as and where you will have us, in accordance with your Will” (Jn. 14:1-4)  Amen.”

To Be Continued…