MESSAGE 33 - BOOK 5
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Message 33 - Book 5: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF
Early-on in the Bible it is written that “There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding” (Job 32:8). It is understood that this spirit is composed of two specific parts: one part is a portion of spirit energy from GOD, which in its original condition is a portion of a human being’s spirit energy that commences its development when it incarnates in a flesh body, and commences a series of earth experiences, each of which lasts as long as that flesh body is able to support and maintain life.
When for whatever reason(s) that flesh body is no longer able maintain life, the soul cannot maintain life itself within that flesh body that is no longer alive: it is compelled to depart from that body, from whence it is translated into another one: the body of an newborn infant, in which it grows into childhood and then into maturity. The soul in that way continues its development life after life, gradually accumulating its experiences through a succession of bodies — often in the same family lineage — until it reaches a point in its development that it is able to overcome the temptations of earth, and is prepared to be raised up into much higher eternal heavenly dimensions of life.
Apostle John, in Jn. 16:33, quotes Jesus Christ as having declared: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that we “should not be overcome of evil, but instead overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:21).
A supremely important spiritual principle is written in John’s Revelation:
“That which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations” (Rev. 12:26).
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. Behold, I come swiftly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my GOD, and he shall no more go out: and I will write upon him the name of My GOD, and the name of the city of my GOD, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my GOD: and I will write upon him my new name.” (Rev. 3:10-12).
In sum, each soul commences its earth life when it is incarnated into the flesh body of an infant, learns about life as it grows to maturity while experiencing life in the earth dimension, and when the flesh body that has contained it is no longer able to support life, the soul moves to a place which some have defined as The Interbetween, where it remains until its next destination is determined in heavenly dimensions. Then, born into another human body, that of an infant, it resumes its skein of earth experiences, meeting life as it develops through its many experiences, to continue in the cycles presented to it.
By analogy, this process in its basic stages is remindful of the development of a butterfly in its chrysalis stage — the pupa of a butterfly encased in a cocoon; representing a stage in that creature’s process of development between larva and adult, when many important changes occur. In the case of the human soul, encased in a series of flesh bodies life after life, it experiences the environment of the earth into which it is repeatedly projected in order that it may experience a form of life — albeit not the kind of life to which it may attain if it overcomes the earth conditions and is able to rise above the planet to which it is consigned until it finds its way out by graduating into eternal dimensions of GOD’s and Christ’s Light. The butterfly affords us a great lesson as it develops from pupa to its GOD-intended beautiful creature, doing so generation after generation, for all to behold, and from which we may learn important lessons of life!
To Be Continued….