THE SPIRIT LETTERS

MESSAGE 36 - BOOK 5: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

An old saying: “Tis a wise boy who knows his own father!” — and similarly, it is a wise people who know the spirituality of their own ancestors! The remarkably spiritualized people of Israel are well aware of the identity of who their forbears have been as they walked the earth in their time — their names have been permanently inscribed in what they call their “Spiritual Book of Truth –the Holy Bible.” These ancestors are mainly known to them in the letter sense [2 Cor. 3:3-6] as opposed to their spiritual sense. This means that they know their ancestors in the sense of who they were during their flesh earth experiences: by the names by which were known.during their individual earth experiences. But there is more to a man than the name he bears: As Job long ago noted, “But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding” (Job 32:8). It is this spirit that marks the difference between men of spiritual understanding, and those with little or none of it. The latter were understood by the great Apostle Paul to be “natural men,” as he defined them:

“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of GOD: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:13-14). :

What many Israelites — long known as Jews — have not learned from their spiritualized prophets is that some of their greatest ancestors were the incarnations of a single heavenly Being: the Son of GOD! In the beginning He was Adam (as biblically confirmed in Lk. 3:23), and afterward walked the earh in a flesh body as such great mean as Enoch, Joseph in Egypt, Joshua the son of Nun, Joshua the son of Josedech and others, during periods before He made his earth appearance as Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

His earth experiences were on the same basis as all men: in each one of his incarnations He made spiritual gains which resulted in an additional spirit-quickening by GOD His Father — who through time gradually life after life attained to successively higher heavenly positions, until after His astounding life as Jesus Christ He was given power over heaven and the earth (Jn. 38:18) by GOD His Father; who is God our Father as well.

The Son of GOD by his earth experiences :

“learned obedience by the things which He suffered, and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. Called of GOD an high priest after the order of Melchizedec, of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first oracles of GOD; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (Heb. 5:8-14),

And what are some of these important lessons learned by the Son of GOD as He incarnated and reincarnated through a number of earth experiences? Note 1 Cor. 10:1-9l, and consider Phil. 2:8:

“Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient [to His Father's Will] and He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.”

Because of the exalted position in heaven He earned at the right side of GOD His Father in heaven, He was Made the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (supra.)” As the Son of GOD obeyed GOD His Father, we now obey GOD’s Son — which is also to obey GOD who placed HIS Son in power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18).

All who seek to be translated from their earthly flesh bodies, their souls converted into a permanent form and raised up into individual positions in the heavenly hierarchy when the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of GOD returns in the Cloud and receives those who are His (Jn. 14:1-4), are those who obey Him during their earth experiences, and follow as His spiritual sheep wherever His New Covenant Gospel leads them. It is the soul that is taken up by Christ the Son; not the flesh body, as many misunderstand. Saved souls that have resided in their series of flesh bodies during the period of earth testing, will be graced with a new body that is permanent and does not die life after life, but rather will reside in heaven with GOD and Christ HIS Son.

Series to be Continued….

Message Thirty-Five: Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When The People Of Israel Understand Reincarnation To The Extent They Know Who The Son of GOD REALLY IS,  Surely They Will Hasten To Worship And Obey Him!

When the Bible is read according to its Spirit — not its letter meanings (2 Cor. 3:3-6) — it lays down a pattern of ancient reincarnational events leading to the conclusion that the Son of GOD incarnated in flesh on the earth a number of times as He underwent the same kind of testing GOD the Father puts all souls through who incarnate in the earth plane.

 The Bible discloses that the Son of GOD’s first incarnation was as Adam, who simply appeared on the earth without father or mother: His birth was miraculous: as biblically noted, the generations of Adam were created when mankind was created as male and female “in the likeness of GOD,” having been made of GOD the Father’s Spirit Energy (Gen. 5:1-2). These commenced a period of earth testing, designed to ascertain those who would obey GOD and would be “quickened” by GOD’s Spirit Energy according to the spiritual level of perfection to which each would be able to attain. The one man named Adam lived 130 years, and fathered a son in his own likeness whom he named Seth (Gen. 5:3). This was the beginning of the Divine Lineage, destined to lead much later to the rebirth of  the Spirit of Adam in a series of earth incarnations, during which He gradually but inevitably was quickened by GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy because He always obeyed GOD, ever striving to do HIS Will.

 The Spirit  that was the soul in Adam next reappeared in the flesh as Enoch (Gen. 5:4,6,9,12,15,18). Enoch “walked with GOD” — that is, He obeyed GOD all of his days — Gen. 5:22-24) thereby fully demonstrating his obedience to GOD the Father, who took him off from the earth after he had fathered Methuhselah (Gen. 5:21), so that “he was not” on the earth any more, having been “saved and taken up” during that spiritually-fruitful earth experience (Gen. 5:24). Spirit incarnated in flesh is subject to the powerful temptations of the earth plane, for which reason the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he is also flesh: yet [each of his] years shall be an hundred and twenty days” (Gen. 6:3) — which meant that man’s flesh body would generally sustain his spirit for about a hundred and twenty years, during which time he was to do his best to walk with GOD. This was the average length of a flesh lifetime, during which GOD would take him off the earth, as HE had HIS Son when He appeared in flesh as Enoch.

These early generations of mankind on the earth formed the basis for the Divine Lineage, which to this day still streams forward into the future day after day. The Son of GOD is understood to have subsequently appeared in flesh in Egypt as Joseph son of Jacob, by which lifetime he had become so spiritual that he was able to interpret the dreams of others. On one occasion the Pharaoh in power at that time dreamed a dream the meaning of which he could not fathom, nor could any of his servants. The Pharaoh called in Joseph, who was hastily brought in from the dungeon, where he was languishing as a prisoner, as the result of having been falsely accused of being the perpetrator of an incident in which he actually had no guilt. The Pharaoh explained the dream to Joseph (Gen. 41:.15), who responded that he was unable to interpret it:

“It is not in me: [But] GOD shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” The Son of GOD knew and practiced humbleness by the time He lived as Joseph, and He knew that the resolution of such enigmatic problems lay in much higher dimensions, with GOD. So Joseph called upon GOD for an accurate interpretation of the Pharaoh’s dream: which took place as Joseph knew it would (Gen. 41:25-39). Pharaoh was more than impressed with Joseph’s spiritual insight, and he said, “Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of GOD is?” At this point it became clear that the spirit-soul in Joseph had already developed to the point that he was able to be in contact with GOD to the extent that GOD knew Him and would provide Him with the power of divination. Details of the Pharaoh’s dream are found in Gen. 41:17-24, and Joseph’s understanding of it in Gen. 41:26-37. The spiritual thrust of these biblical verses is that Joseph was an embodiment of the Son of GOD, and was on His way to passing GOD’s testing of HIS Spirit Children in the earth dimension. Joseph was well on his way.

The Son of GOD was destined to take His GOD-ordained place in the heavenly dimension. As Apostle Paul noted at a time after his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road: “But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in HIM: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him” (1 Cor. 8:6). During His earth experience as Joseph, He passed the tests GOD put Him through. In a subsequent earth life, the Son of GOD was quickened by GOD His Father’s Holy Spirit Energy to be born as the miraculous product of a virginal birth, the Son of Mary, as had been biblically prophesied: “The Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14).

The Son of GOD’s rise to become Jesus Christ, man’s Savior, Intercessor and high priest in heaven, was inscribed in the Book of Hebrews as a particular message to all Israel: “Though He were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which He suffered. And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him: Called of GOD an high priest AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEC, of whom we have any things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principle of the oracles of GOD: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (Heb. 5:8:14).

When the people of Israel become aware of the high spiritual stature of their forbears — from Adam to Jesus Christ of Nazareth — will they not follow Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, knowing Him to be their Savior and Intercessor to GOD the Father of All?

To Be Continued….