THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Understanding one of the heavenly empowerments granted to our Beloved Lord Jesus the Christ, the Son, by GOD the Father of All, involves the spiritual truth that the Son of GOD is man’s heavenly Intercessor – as well as man’s Savior and High Priest in heaven.

Dictionary definition of “Intercessor” is: “One who petitions on behalf of another,” thereby acting to assist the one for whom intercession is sought. The position of our Beloved Jesus Christ in heavenly realms is described by the spiritually-enlightened Apostle Paul in the Holy Bible:

“It is Christ who died and is risen again, who is even at the right hand of GOD, and who also makes intercession for us” (Rom. 8:34).

“Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not that we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. And He that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of GOD” (Rom. 8:26-27).

“The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw nigh unto GOD. And inasmuch as not without an oath he (Christ) was made priest: for [beforetime] priests were made without an oath; but this [Christ] with an oath by him that said unto Him, THE LORD SWARE AND WILL NOT REPENT, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEC. And there truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. But this man, because He continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto GOD by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens; who needs not daily, as those [earthly] high priests, to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this He did once when He offered up Himself. For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.” (Heb. 7:23-28).

Prophet Isaiah had  accurately foretold events predestined to transpire after his time, describing what would take place when Jesus would later undergo His momentous Saving Sacrfice on the Cross on behalf of all men who would ever after follow Him and obey Him:

“He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because He had done no violence, neither was  there any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; HE has put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shalt see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.” (cf. Jn. 1:29; 2 Cor. 5:21).

“He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall MY righteous servant justify many: for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide a portion of the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong: because He has poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:9-12).

It is said that there is a providence that cares for fools and children, and that it is sometimes extended to cover those who walk blindly in the darkness, groping for the Light. But some are gifted to see the truth who find the Light and follow it wherever it leads. There is a great and harsh testing going on in the earth dimension, designed to ascertain which souls will be quickened of spirit and raised up to eternal life in heaven. As written:

“Despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loves, He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives (cf. Prove. 3:11). If you endure chastening, GOD deals with you as with sons; for what son is he the father does not chasten? But if you are not chastened, whereof all are partakers, then ye are not sons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but HE for our profit, that we might be partakers of is holiness. Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteouness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees: and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of The Way; but let it rather be healed. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. (Heb. 12:5-14).

Message 43 – Book 5 

When the time drew near for the Old Covenant to be replaced by the New Covenant, the Lord spoke through His Prophet Jaremiah to announce:

“Behold the days come, says the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel…This shall be the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel: After those days, said the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and I will be their GOD and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest, said the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more (Jer. 31:31-34).

Long afterward, Jeremiah’s prophesy found expression again in the New Testament:

“But now has He (Christ) obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place have been sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, Behold the days come says the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah (Ref. Galatians 3:26-28). Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, said the Lord. (Heb. 8:6-9).

To this was subsequently added: “Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness for us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after these days, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them (Heb. 10:15-16)

Jesus Christ became man’s heavenly High Priest, having expiated the sin incurred by Adam, by His ultimate blood sacrifice on the Cross, by which He paid man’s sin-acquired debts in the same realm of existene on earth, in which the original offense had been incurred (Rom. 5:12-21).

Because GOD the Father and HIS Son are sealed into a state of spiritual at-one-ness, Jesus’ profound sacrifice on the Cross allowed souls incarnated in flesh to receive the Holy Ghost, and to attune to GOD the Father. This opened an entirely new heavenly relationship for earth-bound man, in that he was able to attune to GOD the Father by Christ the Son, a reliable and dependable intercessor.

This overtly contrasted against the old covenant in that under it the children of Israel had been dependent upon human priests to intercede to GOD on their behalf — human priests who tended to be imperfect and sometimes spiritually unreliable to the extent that under the Old Covenant man’s relationship with GOD was at times steered away from spirituality and more toward earthly rites and rituals designed and fostered by men who did not have direct contact with the Lord as did prophets on the order of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

Thus when the Lord selected HIS Son to finish the work HE HIMSELF had begun in the earth plane (Jn. 4:34; Jn. 5:36), it marked a huge step forward for mankind, because GOD’s Son was reliable to the utmost, as He had proved beyond the shadow of a doubt when He went willingly to the Cross to attune for man’s sins.

Prophet Balaam long ago promised that a STAR would come out of Jacob, and would become a GOD-quickened Heavenly Scepter, predestined to rise up out of Israel. Balaam made it clear that he would see Him, but not then, because in Balaam’s time the Star had not yet been born:

“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh. There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise up out of Israel.” (Num. 24:17).

As it turned out, the Star foretold to emerge from Jacob was Joseph the son of Jacob, whose higher-self Spirit in heaven is understood to be the Lord the Son of GOD, who the Bible discloses had first entered the earth plane as Adam (Lk. 3:38). Long afterward that Spirit is understood to have incarnated on the earth as Jesus of Nazareth, in fulfillment of yet another dream of Balaam’s:

“Out of Jacob shall come He that shall have dominion.” (Num. 24:19)

This Star was predestined to reign over the Twelve Tribes of Israel:

“I [Jesus] have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches: I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. (Rev. 22:16)

“For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s (1 Chron. 5:1-2).

It was foretold through Prophet Micah that the One who was to one day rule Israel would be born in Bethlehem, in Judah; which turned out to be Jesus’s birthplace. Micah’s remarkable prophecy also foretold that a remnant of the tribes of Israel would return in Jesus’ time (Micah 5:23) — a momentous event guided from above by the Son that GOD had formed (Ps. 2:6-12). It appears that the children of Israel who had obeyed the Son of GOD were the same souls foretold by Prophet Malachi to return (Mal. 3:16-18); and it appears that they did return in the flesh as men of Jewish descent, at the time of Jesus of Nazareth’s appearance on earth.

That these events were to come to pass, was subtly revealed in Jacob’s predictions to Joseph, and in his blessings to some of his twelve sons. When he was age-atricken, Jacob blessed them, and posted a startling prediction that carried important future famifications.:

“And Israel [Jacob] said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but GOD shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers (Gen. 48:21).

This turned out to be a dual prophesy, applicable in both the letter and spiritual sense. In the letter sense, it foretold that Josephs bones would be brought out of Egypt at the start of the Exodus; carried into Canaan and buried there in accordance with Joseph’s deathed request (Gen. 50:25). As subseqently noted in the Book of Joshua, Joseph’s dying wish was duly carried out:

“And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Israel, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritanceof the children of Joseph” (Josh. 24:32).

But Jacob’s fore-vision that GOD would bring Joseph again unto the land of his fathers, apparently carried a more spiritual meaning. It did not simply foretell that Joseph’s skeletel remains would be returned to the land of his fathers, but rather it is understood by some to foreshadow that his spirit would subsequently appear again in flesh — which apparently occurred when He was later born as Joshua the son of Nun (Exodus 33:9-12).

These above-described events represent a spiritually-defined pattern of reincarnation which appears to trace the earth testing of some souls that have appeared in the earth dimension in a biblically-recorded pattern that indicates that souls pass through a severe testing in the earth dimension while learning, by what might be called a trial and error process life after life, as they attempt to attain to increasingly higher levels in the heavenly hierarchy, that they may ultimately be with Christ the Son of GOD (Jn. 14:1-4); and even with GOD HIMSELF! As the Bible suggests, even the Son of GOD successfully went through such a testing process and suffering (Heb. 5:8-14).

This work is based on the Author’s opinion.  As with all things, please exercise discernment.

Enoch a son of Jared (Gen. 5:18). Query: What spirit soul was incarnated in Enoch? who fathered sons and daughters (Gen. 5:19). Enoch lived sixty five years, during which time he also fathered Methuselah (Gen. 5:21). Enoch lived three hundred and sixty-five years, he “walked with GOD,” and he was not because GOD took him. GOD removed Enoch from the earth because he obediently walked with GOD, which is ultimately one of the most important aspects of a soul’s learning experiences while incarnated in a flesh body in the earth dimension. The earth is a crucially important place where souls are tested stringently with a view toward sufficiently demonstrating their obedience to GOD:

“If men obey GOD and serve HIM, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, they shall die without knowledge (Job 36:11-12) We ought to obey GOD, not men…(Acts 5:29); and we are witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom GOD hath given to them that obey HIM (Acts 5:32). The writer to the Hebrews says of Jesus Christ the Son of GOD: “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” (Heb. 5:8-9).

What spirit was the soul in this man Enoch? who early-on in man’s earth experiences sensed the everlasting value of obediently “walking with GOD.” When we consider that the Son of GOD first entered into the earth plane in flesh as Adam (Lk. 3:38), during which earth experience he fell from GOD’s Grace because of His disobedience, and inadvertently took many down with Him (Rom. 5:19). It follows that because He had entered the earth dimension as Adam and fell, then because of GOD’s Grace He was able to return to fulfill that which at the first He had failed to fulfill, He would have learned from His experience as Adam, and would likely have done better in His next incarnation. Is it not most likely that the same GOD-given privilege is granted to all souls? and that we should all learn during our various earth experiences to obey GOD obediently?

When viewed by its spirit-meaning — as opposed to its letter meaning (2 Cor. 3:3-6) — we can be confident that our Beloved Father of All will provide a fair number of incarnate earth experiences in a series so we may each have ample opportunities to demonstrate our spirituality to HIM; and to Christ the Son of GOD who entered this earth plane in the flesh body of Adam, and to whom GOD has seen fit to grant power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). It certainly appears to be the case that Enoch the son of Jerod was an earth experience of the Son of GOD, who had fallen as Adam, and who subsequently incarnated as Enoch to commence a series of Divinely Inspired earth flesh testing experiences, ultimately leading to His supremely exalted experience as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, man’s Savior, high priest in heaven, and heavenly Intercessor to GOD our beloved Father of everything that is, or ever was, or that ever will be.

The following message is based on the Author’s opinion.  Please exercise discernment.

WHO WAS ASAPH?

The spiritually brilliant King David dedicated Psalms to Aspah, a son of Berachia, as biblically  enumerated in such verses as 1 Chron. 6:39, and he is identified as the Chief Musician in David’s time. Psalm 82 is a Song or Psalm, the authorship of which is attributed to Asaph, and it reads::

“I have said ye are Gods, and all of you are the children of the most high. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. (Ps. 82 6-8) 

For those who will consider 2 Cor. 3:3-6, this appears to be a veiled reference to the Son of GOD, who later incarnated on earth as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, man’s Savior, high priest in heaven, and Intercessor to GOD. After His sacrifice on the Cross, GOD Glorified His Son, and gave Him power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), so that He “inherited all nations” in fulfillment of Asaph’s prophesy, supra.

Those who believe in reincarnation and accept its principles, are inclined to consider that Asaph was one earth experience of the Son of GOD during His spiritual preliminary developmental and testing earth experiences. Our Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD, apparently subjected Himself to the same kind of earth experiences in flesh as we also must pass through in order to attain to a spiritual condition acceptable to GOD our Father. As written in the Book of Hebrews of the Son of GOD, incarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth on earth:

“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 many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.” (Heb. 5:8-11)

During Apostle Paul’s illuminating spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, he learned many spiritual truths that had not been before understood on the earth. He was struck down by the Christ Spirit and did not immediately recover from the shock of “the experience.” After he regained his senses, he set about visiting the various peoples to reveal what he had learned that they might profit from it. To the Corinthians he revealed a great truth that  has helped the understanding of many:

“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).