THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Whenever man has contemplated the origins of his existence, a vast array of ideas and theories have occurred to him. For example, when the so-called Scientific Age dawned, the brilliant Charles Darwin emerged from his studies to present to the world a novel idea: that man had not been the product of a Divine Creator, he had simply evolved on the earth from organisms that had long before appeared as the product of a natural developmental process of some kind at that time unknown and not at all understood.

Our species, he asserted, had grown up from some now uncertain transient primitive creatures with roots that extend far back in time and mainly out of sight in the dim past. It was not just an idle compilation of factors. Mr. Darwin presented compelling substantiating evidence to back his conclusion that mankind had evolved from some remote animal ancestry not in our time able to be accurately traced. His hypothesis was presented in such a reasonable way, and supported by fossil remains and other forms of material evidence, that it immediately attracted many of the foremost scientific minds of his time from among many who sought some definitive reasonable explanation for man’s having been brought into existence on the earth..

The theory considered the development of man’s physical flesh body, which carried only remote implications of his mental development without delving deeply into that aspect of man. The presumption was that as the body developed, the mind must have also concurrently developed proportionately along with it. Mr. Darwin did not include in his Evolutionary Theory anything about the invisible spirit in man, about which biblical writers had addressed as early as the time of Job (32:8,14-18). Long before Darwin’s time, Apostle Paul had taught that the worlds were framed by the Word of GOD, so that things which are seen were not were not made of things which do appear (Heb: 11:3). We understand from the teachings of Apostle John that, “GOD is a Spirit” (Jn. 4:24), and that HE is the Creator of all things. This suggests that GOD and HIS Spirit is an all-powerful form of Divine Energy, of which the spiritually illuminated Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “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). And beloved Paul wrote to the Ephesians that there is: “One Lord [Jesus Christ], one baptism [of Spirit]; one GOD and Father of All, who is above all, and in all, and through you all, and every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ” (Eph. 4:5-7).

Obviously, Darwin’s Theory militated against those who held unyielding fundamental religious beliefs — including the understanding that men are the Spirit-children of GOD the Father, which children had been made of GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy by GOD’S Son, who manifested as  Jesus Christ on earth. By that understanding, GOD the Father and HIS Son, Jesus the Christ on earth, were, respectively, man’s Creator and Maker.

The Holy Bible is a historical compendium of man’s experiences and learning as he developed spiritually

on the earth, not physically! Charles Darwin’s theories relating to man’s physical development were strangers: they did not encroach upon one another. Darwin’s Origins of Man did not remotely touch upon man’s spiritual development.

After Apostle Paul underwent his powerful spirit-altering rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, he began to write of revelationary matters he had learned, doing so in a series of biblically-recorded illuminating Letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians and others; most likely including the Book of Hebrews. These writings detailed man’s developing spiritual knowledge and understanding, and the effects of it on those who moved beyond man’s flesh development to an understanding of the illuminating effects upon mankind of Jesus Christ the Son of GOD’s impact upon all who would understand Him to be the Son of GOD incarnate — man’s Savior, Intercessor to GOD, and High Priest in heaven. Paul did not write about man’s skeletal or flesh aspects or his physical development from ancient times, as did Mr. Darwin. Their respective works were directed to two vastly different dimensions of realty: Mr. Darwin’s to temporal earth physicality, and Apostle Paul’s to man’s eternal heavenly spiritual reality.

Charles Darwin’s works describe man’s flesh development as it evolved in the earth dimension. Apostle Paul’s revelations are spiritual: they describe what he learned through the Spirit from the Holy Ghost, sent by GOD; and by Christ after power over heaven and the earth was given to Him by GOD (Mt. 28:18). For this reason, Paul inscribed the all-important principle: 

“Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living GOD; not in tablets of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to GOD-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of GOD; Who also has made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.” (2 Cor. 3:3-6).

To Be Continued…

Message 38 - Book Five

Some powerful spiritual truths are overlooked by many who strive to teach the true meanings of the Holy Bible’s sacred writings, thinking them to be of little importance, or too radical to be considered. Apostle Paul, after his enlightenment on the Damascus Road, defined a sharp delineation between the ”letter” meaning of the Holy Scriptures and their spiritual meaning (2 Cor. 3:3-6).

One of these often overlooked areas of spiritual thought concerns the extremely important subject of reincarnation — the step by step process by which a soul passes through its stages of spiritual development by means of reincarnating time and again as necessary as it finds its way from a carnally inclined new soul into a quickened enlightened one that is acceptable to Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, and ultimately to GOD the Father of all. It is understood that the soul of a newborn infant commences a series of earth lives, during which it gradually becomes increasingly spiritualized by GOD’s Holy Spirit, received from HIS Son, as life after life it learns that its main purpose as a human being in the earth plane is to make spiritual gains by which it may be quickened into a condition enabling it to be become spiritually acceptable to GOD so that it no longer is consigned to developmental earth experiences, but graduates into much higher eternal planes. As written, such a fully developed soul no longer “goes out again” into the earth plane, but has a permanent heavenly home.

It is a fact that even the Son of GOD Himself was born in a flesh body on the earth as a man biblically known as Adam, who, in His first incarnation, fell from GOD’s grace. He afterward reincarnated; once seven generations later as Enoch, in which lifetime He “walked with GOD and was not, because, seeing that Enoch obeyed HIM, GOD “took him” off the earth (Gen. 5:24). What the churches tend to overlook even today is that successive past incarnations are rarely ever recalled by a soul as time moves along its inevitable way: (Eccles. 1:11). If such incarnations were recalled by a soul after they had occurred, confusion might make a soul’s ultimate development more difficult. However, after the Holy Ghost manifested, it was written that he would “bring all things to the remembrance” of those to whom he was sent (Jn. 14:26).

The word reincarnation does not appear in the Holy Bible: apparently being some of the “strong meat” written of in Heb. 5:12-14; but one Biblical writing confirms that even the first incarnation of the Son of GOD Himself in the earth plane was as Adam, long before His subsequent remarkable earth experience as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. When the Book of Luke retraces the Divine Lineage back from Lk. 3:23 to its inception, it unequivocally states that “Enoch was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Canaan, which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of GOD (Lk. 3:38).

The Holy Bible thus confirms that the first Adam was indeed the First Son of GOD, the Spirit of Whom was Himself tested in the earth dimension during His earth incarnations, until He was sufficiently spiritually perfected to please GOD. It was written of the Son in the Book of Hebrews, 

“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; and being made perfect, He became the author of salvation unto all them that obey Him; Called of GOD an high priest after the order or Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be 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).

This meant that those who have often been afflicted by the devil, and who have extensively experienced testing in the earth plane but have refused to be moved, guided and misdirected by negative thoughts and impulses, are impervious to the influences of  powerful negative spirit-forces, and are not overcome by evil, but have girded themselves with the Christ Spirit to enable them to overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:21).

SQUARE PEGS FOR ROUND HOLES

 THAT WHICH WE DON’T KNOW CAN HURT US WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE!!

GOD IS A SPIRIT (Jn. 4:24); of which we are able to obtain a supply, according to Apostle Paul :”For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and a supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:19). Spirit, then, is a hallowed form of energy — that of GOD our Beloved Father. As Job long ago disclosed, there is a spirit in man, and the Almighty gives them understanding  (Job 32:8). “GOD speaks once, yea twice, yet a man perceive it not.. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed; then HE opens the ears of men and seals their instructions. That HE may withdraw man from his own purpose, and hid pride from him. HE keeps   back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.” (Job 33:14-18)

Much later, Apostle Paul confidently wrote: “We are willing that our soul should be absent from the body to enable it to be present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8).  Jesus exclaimed, “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be; if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.” (Jn. 12:26; and, “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldnesss, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:20-21): Paul chose to live in order to abide in the flesh to assist others seeking the Way into heaven that Jesus Christ had made passable for those who would follow and obey Him, knowing Him to be their Savior, Intercessor to GOD, and High Priest in Heaven.

Thus our illustrious all-powerful Creator is actually composed of GOD’s sacred spirit energy, and when we are in the flesh, incarnated in the earth dimension, we are away from GOD, and in order to return to HIM, we must be converted from flesh into spirit form to do so; for as written, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD” (1 Cor. 15:50). As strange as it may seem, the soul must be freed from the body before it can be raised up into higher heavenly dimensions. As Beloved Paul noted ”A seed must die before it can be quickened into life (1 Cor. 15:36): likewise a soul must be freed from the flesh body before it can return to Christ its Maker, and to GOD the Creator of all things. Death, therefore, is not the end of all things, it is only another beginning that may lead to ever-increasing higher realms in GOD’s heavenly hierarchy.

Near the end of His Ministry, Jesus asserted to His followers that he planned to go and prepare a place for them, and that He would come again and “receive them unto Himself” that where He was, they may be also.” And He added, “Whither I go you know, and THE WAY you know” (Jn. 14:3-4). When He disclosed that when He came again, He would receive them unto Himself, He divulged a great secret: that when He returned in spirit-form in the cloud (Lk. 21-27), those who were His would soon be redeemed (Lk. 21:28). If a human being is to be received by the Lord, it must be in spirit form in order to be “received unto the Lord Himself” because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD, who is a spirit (supra), as is HIS Son, who was Jesus of Nazareth on earth.