THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Message Thirty: CONTINUATION OF MESSAGE 29: And the LAST MESSAGE OF BOOK 2; Book 3 Next:

“Jesus Christ is our Lord and Master, the first among those to put on immortality in order that there might be an opportunity provided for others to overcome the forces of error in spiritual activities. Only by actually living through various earth experiences may one come to a sufficient understanding of the differences between good and evil (Mal 3:18), and the fruits that follow each kind of conduct. No individual is condemned by being in Jesus Christ, but condemnation resulted from Satan’s intervention in earth affairs in a disobedient way. On may find his way out of condemnation by finding Him – Christ, who came in all ages.

“Have you read how the sons of GOD came together, and Satan came also? (Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1-10). [And GOD said] ‘Have you considered my servant, Job? Have you seen his ways?’ And the answer came back, even from the Devil’s evil force: ‘Put forth your hand, touch him in these things that pertain to the satisfying desire that is flesh, and he will curse you to your face. Then came the command to the Devil: ‘he is in your hand, but touch not his soul!

“The pattern of incarnations upon the earth by souls from higher planes was commenced for the evolving of souls into an awareness of the effects of all influences in its varied experiences in different spheres of activity. Only by Him who was the creator, the maker, the experiencer of mortality and spirit and soul, could all be overcome. And He has not willed that any soul should be lost, but has prepared a way of escape to Him, the Maker – as written in 1 Cor. 8:6.

“Who, then, is the worthy servant? He who has endured to the end!

“He has come in all ages when it has been necessary for the understanding to be centered in a new application of the same thought: the truth that GOD is a Spirit, and requires all who worship HIM to do so in Spirit and in truth! (Jn. 4:24)

“Many, then, have prepared the way as channels on the earth for the one who was to come who would maintain the course and the way, and through whom alone may salvation be accomplished. His Spirit has been present in all times and places, and in every race, color, or activity, seeking to settle the influences which bring contention in the minds and hearts of all souls that dwell in flesh.” (Composite of Edgar Cayce Readings 1158-5,9; 3054-4; 5759-5,14).

An outstanding spiritual truth that emerges from the above-quoted composite of Edgar Cayce Readings is that each earth incarnation provides a soul with a valuable experiential opportunity to increase its spiritual condition and status. By being obedient to GOD’s Will — as had the Son of GOD when He incarnated as Enoch – a soul may move toward a state of perfection in which it may be “received unto the Spirit of the Son of GOD” (Jn. 14:3) – which is “the Spirit Church.” 14:3)

On the other hand, an incarnated soul may deplete its spirituality by remaining a spiritually-dense “natural man” as Apostle Paul explained in 1 Cor. 2:14. Paul – before his rebirth experience, named Saul, had been in just such a spiritually un-quickened condition before his spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapters 9,22,26). However, when the Spirit of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost entered into Paul, he was spiritually converted, and no longer possessed “the spirit of man and of the world..” Rather he knew “things of the Spirit of GOD, which men do not teach, but which are taught by the Holy Ghost” (1 Cor. 2:9-13).

Jesus taught that those who receive a disciple of His, by so doing also receive Him, and at the same time receive the Spirit Energy GOD the Father (Mt. 10:40). GOD is a Spirit (Jn. 4:24), so for a man to “receive” a true Disciple of Jesus Christ’s, is for that man to also receive a portion of that Disciple’s Spirit, a portion of Christ, man’s Maker, and also the Holy Spirit of GOD the Father:

“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)

It was from the first day that Prophet Daniel “set his heart to understand and to chasten himself before GOD,” that his words began to be heard in higher dimensions (Dan. 10:12). It was only then that Beloved Gabriel was sent in a vision to reveal to Daniel that Michael – who was understood at that time to have been an Archangel – was Daniel’s Prince. But it was long afterward revealed to Apostle John in his Revelation that apparently Michael the Archangel was a name of the Son of GOD, who was destined to subsequently reincarnate as Jesus Christ. It was revealed through John that “He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself: that His name was called The Word of GOD; and that on his vesture was written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” (Rev. 19:12-13 16). There is no question at all as to Whom that referred.

In Prophet Daniel’s time, “Michael” was understood to be the name of man’s Savior and Deliverer: “the great prince which stood for the children of Daniel’s people,” who would stand up” in a time of great trouble, such as never was since there was a nation” (Dan. 12:1). At that time, Daniel prophesied: “many that sleep in the earth shall awaken, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2). And, the prophet added, “they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Dan. 12:3)

The “time of trouble” foretold to come by Daniel, is detailed in the New Testament:

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not seen since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days shall be shortened, there should be no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there: believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they should deceive the very elect. For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall the coming of the Son of man be. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great power and great glory. And He shall send His Angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Mt. 24:21-31). All mankind is now encompassed in that great prophecy, as unmistakable signs bear witness.

End of Book 2 in the Series, SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF. Coming Next: Book 3.

Message Twenty-Nine - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Before Apostle Paul’s dramatic spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, he was a Jew whose principle aim in life was to persecute Christians (Acts 9:1-2). After his conversion by the Christ Spirit and that of the Holy Ghost, however, he understood vastly more (Lk. 24:45), and wrote to the Corinthians to explain that the un-spiritualized “natural man” does not and cannot receive the things of the Spirit of GOD because they seem like foolishness to him, and are only spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:14). He taught that those who undergo spiritual quickening “have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16), and explained that men ordinarily know the things of the spirit of man, but not the things of the Spirit of GOD. But he disclosed that the things that he – and those who had undergone spiritual rebirth – spoke not in words that man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches. The Holy Ghost had began to be sent after Jesus Christ’s Glorification (Jn. 14:12-14, 26; Jn. 15:26; Jn. 16:7, 12-14).

The Edgar Cayce was able to enter into a deep trance state in which he received extremely important spiritual information: as had the unique Prophet Balaam long before him, who “had heard the words of GOD and knew the knowledge of the most high, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open.” (Num. 24:16). But Balaam failed to fulfill the Lord’s Will, for which reason he was diminished in the Lord’s eyes (Rev. 2:14). On the other hand, Edgar Cayce “persevered with the Lord to the end” of that earth incarnate experience, during which he received illuminating disclosures which have been preserved * for the benefit of all who seek spiritual truth.

One Edgar Cayce reading delineated an important difference between Jesus Christ the Son of GOD and other prophets who had manifested in flesh on the earth:

“The other great prophets and masters are but stepping stones to that which may awaken in individuals the knowledge of the Son of GOD in their lives.” (Edgar Cayce Reading 262-14)

The following selection of Edgar Cayce Readings discloses that the Son of GOD – first biblically revealed in Psalm 2:7-12 – incarnated in a number of earth experiences, and that his heavenly higher self is the Christ Spirit:

“To give the full concept of what it means to say that Jesus is the only begotten Son of GOD, is to give the history of all those who have entered flesh without the sexual act man knows as copulation. For He came into the earth first of those that were the sons of GOD to enter flesh, the first and only begotten of GOD. Again, as names would indicate, Enoch walked with GOD, having become aware of GOD; and was still that entity, that soul, later called Jesus, who had been Melchizedec; without father, without mother, that later appeared on earth as Jesus; the portion of GOD that manifests.

“This Spirit-Entity became as the elder brother to all who are born on earth: He is as the Maker, as the Creator, as the first and as the last; as the beginning and as the end of man’s soul’s experiences through the earth, and throughout the spheres of consciousness in and about the earth. This Spirit-Entity earned His position as elder brother of each son and each daughter on the earth: as Jesus the son of Mary, and also of Melchizedec who had no father or mother on the earth: who was therefore without days or years.

“Jesus, then, is the only begotten, the firstborn, the first to know flesh as Adam, and the first to purify it. In the same way that He found and earned His way, so man by his understanding of spiritual matters and his knowledge and wisdom of GOD, purifies himself; here a little, there a little, seeking salvation.

“One must endure to the end; that is, endure the unkind things which may be said by others: endure that which is of the world. For, as He said, ‘You are in the world, but be not of the world!

“The imaginative forces by which we bring about our activities are to be creative, and if they require sacrifice by one or another specific experiences, then one should fulfill whatever is required. That is what is meant by enduring.”

“Jesus advised that He went to prepared a place, and that if it was not so He would have said so. He went to prepare it that where was is, all who follow Him cab be with Him there (cf. Jn. 14:3). ‘Who shall I say has sent me? I AM THAT I AM!’

“Does it not all, then, remain as a whole story – that which is found in the Scripture? It is all one related statement. Without Abraham, or Moses, or King David, what need was there for Melchizedec, or Enoch, or Joseph, or Joshua to live again embodied in flesh to fulfill all? When we have fulfilled all, then we are One with Him.

“First, find yourself! Apply yourself in such a way and manner as to know what you will do with this man Jesus of Nazareth, who had also been Jeshua son of Josedech, high priest in Jerusalem; Joshua son of Nun in Shiloh; Joseph in the court of the Pharaoh in Egypt; Melchizedec as he blessed Abraham; Enoch as he warned the people; Adam as he listened to Eve… And He was first in the beginning, then lived as Enoch, then Melchizedec in the perfection. Then in the earth as Joseph, Joshua son of Nun, high priest during his life as Jeshua, and finally as Jesus Christ.”

“Make Jesus your ideal, and hold fast to it. And do not attempt to shed or surpass, or to go around the Cross: it is that upon which each and every soul must look, and know that it is to be borne in self with Him.* A.R.E. Library, 215 67^th Street Virginia Beach, VA, 23451

This Message and Series to be Continued in Message 30.

Message Twenty -Eight - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Prophet Zechariah’s strikingly accurate prophecy, biblically inscribed at Zech. 9:9), was issued several hundred years before the Son of GOD manifested on the earth as Jesus Christ of Nazareth The prophesy inevitably leads to consideration of some of Zechariah’s other prophesies. Long before the Son of GOD incarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, GOD the Father spoke through Zechariah to astonishingly foretell:

“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications: and they shall look upon me, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn” (Zech. 12:10)

It is noteworthy that the Lord foretells though Prophet Zechariah that “they shall look upon me as one mourns for his only son,” which declaration suggests that it was the Son, the Word of GOD, speaking through Prophet Zechariah on behalf of GOD the Father; or that GOD the Father and HIS Son are the same identical entity, for which reason they spoke with one voice.

Long after Zechariah’s above-quoted prophesy was given, Apostle John related an incident that took place at the scene of Jesus’ Crucifixion:

“Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with Him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw the He was dead already, they did not break His legs: but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water. And he that saw it bore record, and his record is true: and he knows that what he says is true, that ye may believe. For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled: ‘A bone of Him shall not be broken.’ And again another Scripture saith, ‘They shall look upon him whom they pierced.’” (Jn. 19:32-37).

In this above-quoted writing of John’s, it was Zechariah’s 12:10 prophecy to which he obviously referred. Zechariah also uttered another prophesy foreshadowing the time predestined to come when The Son of GOD, the Rock of Israel, would manifest in flesh as mankind’s Messiah:

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my GOD.” (Zech. 13:8-9)

When Prophet Malachi prophesied after the time of Zechariah, and before the Son of GOD incarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, The Lord used these same above-quoted descriptive terms to describe the appearance of HIS Son in the flesh:

“…the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in, sayeth the Lord of hosts [GOD the Father]. But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appears? for He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap. “And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and He will purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.” (Mal. 3: 1-4).

An understanding of the spirit meaning of these above verses falls into a category once defined by Apostle Paul when he declined to fully or precisely elaborate on the relationship between the Son of GOD, and the Son’s previous earth appearance as Melchizedec:

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

Paul described such an unspiritualized individual as a “natural man,” unable to receive the things of the Spirit of GOD, for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because the deeper abstract spiritual matters are incomprehensible to the ordinary spirit in man – which is the spirit of the world – that it is necessary to receive that which the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, teaches, “comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (1 Cor. 2:11-13). Apostle Paul was able to comprehend such abstract spiritual truths only after he had undergone spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road: during which experience the Christ Spirit and the Spirit of the Holy Ghost entered into him (Acts Chapter Nine). Before that extraordinary event he was a “natural man.”

The New Testament lays down a reliable spiritual pathway that all “natural” as yet un-spiritualized human beings may effectively follow to establish contact with Christ. As many have learned, direct contact may be effectively made by (1) frequently and meaningfully reading the Bible; (2) praying the Lord’s Prayer; and (3) meditating in faith and belief in Jesus Christ, asking in His name. We don’t receive “the Spirit of GOD, Christ and the Holy Ghost simply by attending “churches of stone’: the Spirit-church is the Spirit of the Son of GOD; and it is His Spirit into which He has promised to receive those souls who are His when He “returns to receive them unto Himself, that they may forever be with Himwhere He is (Jn. 14:3).

“The three steps emphasized above – if followed while living a sound spiritual life, patiently, seriously, and resolutely desiring to make contact with GOD, Christ the Son, and the Holy Ghost – will likely bring about a spiritually-rewarding and illuminating experience.. The Bibles urges: “Seek and you shall find!” (Mt. 6:33; Mt. 7:7; Lk. 11:9). “But without faith it is impossible to please HIM: for he that comes to GOD must believe that HE is, and that HE is a rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM” (Heb. 11:6).

Series to be Continued in Message 29 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Twenty-Seven - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The appearance of the Son of GOD (Ps. 2:6-12) in flesh as Jesus Christ did not come as a surprise to those spiritualized people on earth, who were familiar with prophesies of long-standing. One of these had been explicated by Prophet Zechariah:

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion: shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King comes unto you; He is just, and having salvation; lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.” (Zech. 9:9)

“Riding humbly upon a lowly beast of burden” had been considered the harbinger of a king to be imminently crowned, which was revealed at the time King Solomon was enthroned:

“So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the Prophet, and Beniiah…and others went down and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.” (1 Kings 1:38)

Prophet Micah foretold:

“Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. But thou, Bethlehem Ephrata, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto ME that is to be ruler in Israel: whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. Therefore will HE give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth: then the remnant of His brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.” (Micah 5:1-3)

GOD removed the scepter of power from Judah in accordance with Gen. 49:10, but afterward revived it when Beloved Mary travailed and birthed Jesus Christ in Bethlehem by way of her Immaculate Conception, in accordance with Isaiah’s prophesy at Isa. 7:14. When this took place, the door was opened, so to speak, for the Son of GOD and His brethren from among the children of Israel to return – to reincarnate on earth – in accordance with the unique promise of GOD through Prophet Malachi, when HE promised those who feared HIM that they would be HIS when HE made up HIS Jewels, at which time:

“Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves GOD and him that serves HIM not.” (Mal. 3:16-18).

As the Lord foretold though Prophet Micah, supra, “the remnant of the Son of GOD’s brethren” did return unto the children of Israel.” They had incarnated previously during the Hebraic Age, and they reincarnated among Jesus Christ’s Apostles and Disciples, having before been “His brethren” during previous flesh incarnations – in particular when the Son of GOD was Joseph son of Jacob, and his “brethren” were actually His flesh brothers.

Zechariah’s prophecy (Zech. 9:9), quoted supra, which had been given a considerable time before Jesus Christ conducted His Ministry, was reportedly fulfilled, according to Gospel writer Mark, who recounted that when Jesus and His followers came to the Mount of Olives, He commanded them:

“Go your way into the village nearby: and as soon as you enter it, you shall find a colt tied, upon which no man has sat. Cut him loose and bring him here. And if any man say to you, Why do you this? say that the Lord has need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside in a place where two ways met; and they cut him loose. And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and Jesus sat upon him. And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way. And they that went ahead and those who followed, cried out, saying, ‘Hosanna: blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that comes in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.’” (Mark 11:1-10)

This event instantly flared into a tumultuous scene of pandemonium as it dawned upon those present that they were seeing Zechariah’s remarkable prophesy bring brought into reality by Jesus Christ, long after it had been forecasted. It had been foretold and recorded during the Hebraic Age, and here it it was being unerringly and meticulously fulfilled right before their eyes! Many doubters in the spiritual empowerment of Jesus Christ were inevitably converted, from unbelievers into believers and followers of His, because of His extraordinary – even miraculous – implementation of Zechariah’s prophesy that had at last ripened into fulfillment during their lifetimes. Being knowledgeable about biblical prophecies, they immediately recognized that a prophesy of Zechariah’s – that had been reposing on the shelf of time for many years – had suddenly been brought into reality in a way that left no doubt in their minds about the efficacy and accuracy of the writings of the prophets who had paved a way before them. They had seen for themselves the striking accuracy of Zechariah’s prophesy that bridged across the centuries.

As we look back upon past spiritual events and occurrences, observing the startling lack of belief and faith of people today –, even in many Christian-oriented countries – we see apathy as a dominant factor, very much to mankind’s detriment.As Apostle Paul taught: the man who remains a “natural man,” unspiritualized, cannot receive the things of GOD because “they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:14). Paul explained a crucial difference between “natural men” and those who are able to receive the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 2:9-13).

Series to be Continued in Message 28 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Twenty-Six - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When Jesus of Nazareth was led up into the wilderness to undergo spiritual testing by Satan (Lk. 4:1-13), He was in a spiritually-quickened condition, being “full of the Holy Ghost.” He had long before been tested when He had incarnated as Adam, along with His eternal binary soul mate, Eve, and they had fallen to the wiles of Satan and been trapped in the earth dimension, unable to return at their will to the heavenly place from which they had descended for the purpose of “destroying the works of the devil (2 Jn. 3:8). They then each commenced a series of spiritually-perfecting earth incarnations in flesh on the earth, as the Bible recounts when construed in its spiritual sense; not in its letter sense (Ref. 2 Cor. 3:3-6). As Apostle Paul explained – after having been touched by the Christ Spirit during his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapters 9, 22, and 26) – for as long as a human being remains an unspiritualized “natural man:”

“He receives not the things of the Spirit of GOD: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:14).

It was after Jesus Christ underwent His Spiritual experience in the wilderness, and was able to stand up against Satan’s trickery, as noted, supra, that He was prepared to embark upon His Ministry. The Bible meticulously retraces His foot steps from the time of His exit from the wilderness through His unique earth experiences as He dramatically fulfilled His earth mission, was Glorified by GOD the Father, raised up to HIS right hand in heaven, and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18, Heb. 1-3). Souls incarnated on earth are required to pass through this spiritual “rite of passage” and emerge in a spiritualized condition: as Jesus Christ did, and as Apostle Paul later also did. They were living examples for all who would come after them to emulate.

When the Son of GOD incarnated as Jesus Christ, it was a new thing on the earth, and those He encountered along the Way found it incredibly difficult to accept Him as the Prophet long before prophesied by GOD through Moses, predestined to appear at some future time:

“And I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee [Moses], and will put my words in His mouth, and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.” (Deut. 18: 18).

Jacob had also foreseen the earth manifestation of a “Lawgiver, who would be known as ‘Shiloh’, around whom the people were to gather.’” (Gen. 49:10). ‘Shiloh’ was in fact the Son of GOD, who subsequently incarnated as Jesus Christ. It was predestined that at the time He would appear as Jesus Christ, the “Scepter of spiritual power” would pass to Him from the lineage of Judah. This had been long before foretold in the Bible:

“Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn (For he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, Jacob: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler (Christ the Son of GOD); but the birthright was Joseph’s.” (1 Chronicles 5:1-2)

Joseph son of Jacob was an earth incarnation of the Son of GOD, who, as above noted, held the heavenly birthright above the other sons of GOD. When He later incarnated as Jesus Christ, He taught that no man on earth had ever seen GOD the Father, but that those who had seen Him, Jesus, had seen the Father. The Bible discloses that GOD does not “measure out” HIS spirit to His Son (Jn. 3:34); which means that He receives it in an unlimited flow; which intimates that GOD the Father and HIS Son are composed of the same Holy Spirit Energy, yet they are two individual entities, the Spirit of the Father forming the Spirit – the soul – in HIS Son, manifested in flesh as Jesus Christ.

This idea was suggested when Jesus met Philip on the road during His Ministry, and declared to him:

“Have I been so long a time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen Me has seen the Father: and how say you then, ‘Show us the Father?’ Believe you not that I am

in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but of the Father who dwells in me, HE does the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” (Jn. 14:9-11)

There is the strong intimation in these above-quoted verses that the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father is in some ethereal way mutually-shared with that of HIS Son. That there is an attunement, or state of spiritual at-oneness, existent between them. There is, then, the further implication, that the soul in each human being – before it is quickened by GOD’s and Christ’s Holy Spirit into a spiritual state – is an un-quickened “natural man” of the kind Apostle describes in 1 Cor. 2:14. A man in this un-spiritualized state cannot receive the things of GOD because they are spiritually discerned. Nor can the soul in such a man be “quickened” into a condition that when Christ the Son returns to “receive unto Himself those who are His” (Jn. 14:2), they will be transformed and translated into heaven to be ever where He is.

This explains the biblical declaration that, “as in Adam, a natural man,” all die; even so in the Spirit of Jesus Christ shall all be made alive, but every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they who are Christ’s at His Coming (1 Cor. 15:21-22). The Spirit-Body of Christ is thus seen to equate with the Christian Church; which is where those who are of Christ’s Spirit go when they are “taken up” (Jn. 14:1-4), at the time of His return.

Series to be Continued in Message 27 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

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PSALMS RELATING TO ASAPH: WHO IS UNDERSTOOD TO HAVE BEEN AN EARTH INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD, BEFORE HIS EXPERIENCE IN FLESH AS HIGH PRIEST JOSHUA THE SON OF JOSEDECH: (Haggai 1:1, 12)

Biblical Psalms record a number of messages dedicated “To the Chief Musician” – Asaph – some of which are selectively quoted below.

King David is recorded to have dedicated a number of Psalms to Asaph, who is understood to have been “The Chief Musician” at that time:

“The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of GOD before HIS eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful. He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reaches into the clouds. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O GOD, therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. (Psalm 36:1-7)

A Psalm attributed to King David, who was incarnated on earth at the same time as Asaph, and worked with him, makes similar brief assertions:

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and HE delights in his way. Though he shall fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord holds him up with HIS hand. I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread. He is ever merciful and his seed is blessed. Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore. I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green tree: yet he passes away, and lo he was not. Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psalm 37:23-27, 35-37)

Another Psalm dedicated by David to Asaph, the Chief Musician:

“Every man walks in a vain show as he heaps up riches, not knowing who will reap them! (Psalm 39:6)

King David reportedly dedicated the following highly predictive Psalm to Asaph, the Chief Musician: to whom it would apply when he later incarnated as Jesus Christ:

“Yea, mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, which did eat at my table, has lifted up his heel against me (Ref. Gen. 3:15 and Jn. 13:18). But thou, O Lord be merciful unto me, and raise me up that I may requite thee. By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.” (Psalm 41:9-11).

The Bible notes that the following two verses, quoted from Psalm 45, were dedicated to Asaph. They delineate and quantify a difference between the spiritual power of GOD the Father and HIS Son, whom GOD sent into the earth plane, incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth:

“Thy throne, O GOD, is forever and ever: the Scepter of thy kingdom isa right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness and hate wickedness: therefore GOD, thy GOD, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” (Psalm 45:6-7)

The following Psalm, reportedly dedicated “To the Chief Musician,” Asaph, carries heavenly implications, as well as an implied differential between GOD the Father and His Son, both of Whom move through the heavens in a cloud (Ex. 16:10; 24:18; 34:6; Num. 10:34; 12:5; Lk. 9:34-35). [Luke quoted this Psalm, which had been written at a time before the Son of GOD manifested on earth as Jesus Christ]:

“GOD is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of GOD, the Holy Place of the tabernacles of the Most High. GOD is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: GOD shall help her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: HE uttered HIS voice, the earth melted (Ref. 2 Pet. 3:10). Be still, and know that I am GOD: I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts [GOD the Father] is with us: the GOD of Jacob is our refuge. (Psalm 46)

This next Psalm was biblically reported to have been dedicated by King David “To the chief Musician, Asaph,”after Nathan the Prophet came unto David after David had ” gone in to Bathsheba,” as recounted in the Bible in 2 Sam. 11:4-5:

“Have mercy upon me, O GOD, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me know wisdom. Hide my face from my sins and blot out all of my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O GOD, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. (Ps. 51:1-13.

This next Psalm of David’s was dedicated to “the Chief Musician,” ostensibly Adaph:

“The fool has said in his heart, There is no GOD. Corrupt are they that have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good. GOD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did good. Every one of them has gone back: they are altogether become filthy: there is none that do good, no, not one. Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called foon GOD. (Ps. 53:1-4).

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ASAPH: CONSIDERED AS AN EARTH FLESH MANIFESTATION OF THE SON OF GOD.

The Bible does not ascribe any parents to Asaph, who is understood to be a manifestation of the Son of GOD: which carries the implication that he simply appeared on the earth in flesh form, as He had first appeared as Adam, and subsequently as Melchizedeck (Heb. 7:1-3) – without parents or any known or recorded lineage.

In king Hedekiah’s time, Asaph was a seer, (2 Chron. 29:30) – or as would today be known as a prophet. In King David’s time, Asaph was a seer and a psalmist, many of whose writings are inscribed in the Bible. One of the most revelational of these quotes him as having declared:

“I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most high. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.” (A Psalm of Asaph: Psalm 82:6-8)

In his subsequent earth experience as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the soul that had incarnated as Asaph – the Spirit of the Son of GOD – spiritually prepared himself to “Arise and Judge the earth” after being raised up to GOD’s right hand in heaven and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). The Son of GOD fulfilled all prophecies relating to Him at that time, and during the course of His hallowed manifestation as Jesus, He on one particular occasion confronted Jews who opposed Him in a way that reflected back to His incarnation as Asaph. After reminding them that He had shown them many works from GOD His Father, He asked for which of those works were they about to stone Him? (Jn. 10:32

These Jews replied that they did not stone Him for His good works, but rather for His blasphemy as a man who “makest thyself God.” (Jn. 10:33)

Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your law? that I said, ‘Ye are all gods’ [He had made this assertion when He was incarnated as Asaph, as noted supra.] Jesus then called to their attention:

“If He [Asaph] called them gods, unto whom the Word of GOD came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, Say you then, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, ‘Thou blasphemer:’ because I said I am the Son of GOD? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in HIM. (Jn. 10:34-38). He spoke of GOD’s Spirit Energy.

The above-quoted verses unquestionably reveal – when considered in their spiritual sense – that Asaph – for whom the bible discloses no earth parents – was an earth manifestation of the Son of GOD, whose Spirit subsequently incarnated as Jesus Christ. The verses provide palpable evidence that it is not possible to conceive of the origins of Jesus Christ without understanding the pattern of reincarnation that is at work in human beings manifesting on Planet Earth. The Holy Bible provides clear and convincing evidence that the spirit soul incarnated in “the first” Adam (Lk. 3: 38 and 1 Jn. 3:8), long afterward manifested as Jesus Christ, “the Last Adam” of whom Apostle Paul write in 1 Cor. 15:44-48.

One spiritual revelation which may be construed from the above-quoted biblical verses is that Jesus’ comment about Asaph’s disclosure that “Ye are all gods” implies that spirit-souls incarnated in human beings on the earth are actually biblically referred-to as “the children of the most high GOD.” It insinuates that the souls incarnated in human beings are actually portions of the spirit energy of GOD’s angels, or “gods” existent in higher dimensions than the earth. This accords with biblical verses bearing on that subject:

“Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou are clothed with honor and majesty. Who covers thyself with Light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: who lays the beams of His chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds His chariot: who walks upon the wings of the wind. Who makes His angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.” (Ps. 104:1-4)

This above-quoted Psalm 104 specifically refers to the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father, Who is a Spirit, as biblically disclosed in Jn. 4:24; whose Spirit Energy is “above all, and through all, and in us all” (Eph. 4:6). It is GOD the Father’s Spirit Energy that composes all things: and it was Jesus Christ His Son who Made all things of GOD’s Holy Spirit:

“But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of Whom are all things: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” (1 Cor. 8:6).

The Son of GOD, after His incarnation as Asaph, manifested as high priest Joshua the Son of Josedech, born into the Priesthood Tribe of Levi, during which experience he held the Urim and Thummim by command of GOD to Moses (Num. 28:18-23). [The Urim is understood to be a symbolic object in the High Priest’s breastplate.]

Thus, when the Son of GOD was long afterward reborn in Bethlehem as the result of Beloved Mary’s prophesied Immaculate Conception (Isa. 7:14), He already held – as the result of His unique Spiritual Inheritance (Heb. 1:4) – the Aaronic Priesthood, which had been ordained to Him when He had been Joshua son of Josedech (supra). And He also held the Eternal Heavenly Priesthood of Melchizedec (Heb. 7:1-3); Melchizedec having been an earth manifestation of His as He made his way through His biblically-recorded incarnations from His fall as Adam, to His victory as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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Message Twenty-Three - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Joshua the son of Nun’s prediction that Israel might eventually lose the promised land GOD had given to them, came to pass afterward, for reasons foretold by Prophet Zechariah:

“Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass that as HE cried, and they would not hear; so they cried and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through or returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.” (Zech. 7:12-14)

Long after that time, Apostle Paul explained to the Gentiles that many of the branches of the original root of the spiritual tree of Israel had been broken off; and he warned the Gentiles that they should themselves be careful in their ways because they also might be broken off if they failed to continue in goodness (Rom. 11:16-22).

After Joshua’s the son of Nun’s flesh demise, his spirit subsequently reincarnated as Joshua the son of Josedech (Haggai 1:1, 12 14), high priest in the time; when Prophet Zechariah was incarnated on earth (Zech. 6:11). Both of the “Joshua’s” were flesh incarnations of the Son of GOD, whose initial earth manifestation was announced in Psalm 2:6-12. And when that hallowed soul was subsequently reborn on earth to Beloved Mary by way of her Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the name “Jesus” meant the same as “Joshua” – the spelling having been changed from one language to another.

Joshua the son of Nun is biblically portrayed as one of the few leaders of Israel who was able to sustain the people along The Way the Lord had laid down, so they might prevail over their enemies:

“And Joshua said unto the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve HIM. And they said, ‘We are witnesses.’ Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your hearts unto the Lord GOD of Israel. And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our GOD will we serve, and HIS voice will we obey.” Joshua 24:22-24)

“And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and HE delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them, and HE sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.” (Judges 2:8, 11, 14).

Looking back: the powerful spiritual force of moral righteousness that had long before sustained Jacob’s son, Joseph – an earlier earth experience of the Son of GOD – when he had been falsely accused, imprisoned and enslaved in Egypt for an alleged crime against Potiphar’s wife (Gen. 39:1), continued to bear him up when he reincarnated as Joshua. In the same spiritual way that Joseph had prevailed above his brothers in Egypt and had been granted the birthright over them (1 Chron. 5:1-2), so in his earth experience as Joshua the son of Nun, he had emerged from anonymity as a mere lad among the Congregation led by Moses, to lead the people to defeat the accomplished warrior Amalek at Rephidim.(Exodus 17:10:13).

It was after the overcoming of Amalek at Rephidim that a remarkable sign of the efficacy of reincarnation was biblically recorded:

“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi; for he said, Because THE LORD has sworn that the Lord will have war with “Amalek “from generation to generation.” (Exodus 17:14-16)

Construed in the spiritual sense – in accordance with 2 Cor. 3:3-6 – the above three verses disclosed that it was to be emphasized to Joshua the son of Nun that Amalek was destined to be diminished to the extent that he would no longer be remembered on the earth – from under heaven. This was predestined to take place because GOD the Father had sworn that the Lord, HIS Son, would continuously conduct war on the earth against the soul that was at that time incarnated in the flesh body of the warrior Amalek. They were predestined to continue their dispute against one another without let-up during coming generations.

GOD appointed Joshua the son of Nun to be Moses’ minister (Josh. 1:1-3), and he served as the spiritual channel between GOD and Moses on the Holy Mount, after which he was chosen to succeed Moses during the second attempt to cross Jordan. It provided a sign that his heavenly higher self, the Son of GOD, would lead Christ’s followers across the heavenly river (Ps. 46:4) into the eternal Promised Land, the New Jerusalem.

For those who receive it; the soul of the spiritually-quickened Joseph son of Jacob was that of the Son of GOD: the same spirit that later incarnated as the soul in Joshua the son of Nun, and after that as the soul in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. These incarnations were all stepping stones in the preeminent sequential chain of earth manifestations of the Son of GOD, leading from Adam to His remarkable seating at GOD’s right hand in heaven, and His ultimate empowerment over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). One of the Son’s notable incarnations was as Asaph, of whom the Bible ascribes no parents or lineage.

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Message Twenty-Two - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Holy Bible reveals that the SON of GOD’s incarnate earth experience as Joshua the son of Nun, propelled Him ever closer to a seat in heaven at GOD His Father’s right hand. But His advancement to that exclusive heavenly position was not yet at that time due to be fulfilled.

Joshua had divided and apportioned the land that GOD had given to the Twelve Tribes, and conveyed to Caleb the land that included Hebron, “because he had fully followed the Lord GOD of Israel” (Josh. 14:13-14). But Israel has long since fallen into secular ways and is today opting to compromise its unique spiritual inheritance by softening its attitudes with Arab neighbors. When the Son of GOD incarnated as Joshua, He urged Israel to follow GOD’s Will at whatever cost, as he had done during that lifetime:

“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the Flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Josh. 24:15). In Joshua’s time, Israel followed the Lord’s Will, not that of other nations.

Under Joshua’s leadership, Israel took possession of a large part of the land that GOD had promised the people who chose to follow HIS Commandments and ways (Exodus Chapter Twenty-Three). On the day of his death, he cautioned his people that if they fell back into the ways of the nations they had invaded, that they might as well know that GOD would no longer drive any of the other heathen people out from before them, in which case they would perish from off from the land HE had given them (Josh. 23:12-13). But the whole situation has changed.

Today, Israel stands ready to give up strategic positions won in the 1948 war in the hope that their enemies will honor treaties the two nations have carved out; in the face of knowing that Hamas is sworn to the destruction of Israel, and is backed by Iran’ s leadership. Muslims wait and watch for GOD to “raise up” a prophet they understand to be their “Mahdi” they believe to be the twelfth prince foretold to appear in Ishmael’s lineage (Gen. 17:10). They expect this prophet to lead them into a world-wide victory that includes the utter total destruction of Israel and the United States, and all other nations aligned with them. But, the question arises: is this destructive view truly in alignment with GOD’s Will? Both sides believe they are correct.

These above-noted Muslim predictions are in direct opposition to Hebrew prophesies that long ago foretold an antagonism destined to spring up between Jacob’s sons, Ishmael and Isaac, which animosity has been swept along through their succeeding generations to this day. They have never gotten along in harmony with one another, and chaos has been a fruit of their disturbed karmic relationship. Their chronic unresolved dissension appears now to have festered into a ripened boil, about to burst upon the world, if it is not curtailed. Hopefully it will be peacefully brought to a conclusion by Christ the Son of GOD: to whom Christians believe GOD has given all power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). This is one of the great contemporary questions of our time.

Muslims have elected not to recognize GOD’s empowerment of Christ HIS Son over heaven and the earth: they do not accept the Son of GOD as man’s Intercessor to GOD the Father. Prophet Isaiah had taken note of GOD’s disappointment that there was no man who was an Intercessor, and HE took steps to remedy it (Isa. 59:15-21). Christians understand that Christ the Son of GOD sacrificed Himself by GOD’s Will, and was raised up to HIS right hand in heaven to ever make intercession to HIM on behalf of all mankind who will accept the Son’s sacrifice on the Cross (Rom. 8:32-34). This spiritual development is biblically reinforced in Rom. 11:12; and the writer to the Hebrews confirmed that the Son of GOD, Christ, “Is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto GOD by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25). This is a foundational belief of Christianity, important to Christians in light of Christ’s declaration that “All things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven” (Mt. 18:18).

For those who depend upon the Will of GOD the Father – whose Spirit Energy understood to be “above us all, through us all and in us all” (Eph. 4:6) – it is of crucial importance that HE has seen fit to empower HIS Son over heaven and the earth, as noted supra; because it may constitute a profound error to attempt to seek directly of HIM without seeking intercession to HIM by HIS Son. The Bible indicates that here was a time when it was permissible and effectual to do so – before GOD’s empowerment of HIS Son – but to rely upon contacting HIM directly during this current period risks not being heard, or perhaps even going against HIS Will. Such matters are for each soul to decide for itself; and to gain or lose spiritually according its belief and faith.

We are biblically advised that Abraham was chosen by GOD as father of the Hebraic Age because he obeyed HIM, and left no doubt that he would continue to do so; and would impress it upon his children to do the same (Gen. 18:19). In fact, the Bible states that his son, Isaac, was chosen by the Lord to carry Abraham’s lineage into future generations because Abraham had “obeyed GOD’s voice, and kept the charge given to him by the Lord, as well as HIS commandments, statutes and laws” (Gen. 26:5). Where that leaves souls incarnated in flesh on the earth today is thus a crucially-important matter for each to determine.

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Message Twenty-One - Book 2- SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When the Holy Bible is considered as an anthology of individual segments of spiritually-meaningful events and occurrences, historically disclosing man’s spiritual development on the earth, it sheds light on the fact that souls composed of GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy began to incarnate in flesh bodies in the earth dimension to initiate the Adamic generations. As recorded in Lk. 3:38, the Son of GOD first descended into the earth plane, for the purpose of “destroying the works of the devil” (2 Jn. 3:8). Souls loyal to the Son also began to incarnate in flesh, starting a war in heaven (Rev. 12:7), which was terminated when the Son, the Lamb of GOD, overcame the negative one “by the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, and by the word of the testimony of His followers who “loved not their lives unto death” (Rev. 12:10-11).

In consideration of these above-described events, the remarkable spiritual source that spoke through Edgar Cayce disclosed – during certain of his in-trance readings, detailed revelational information that very closely followed biblical writings:

“Without Moses and his leader, Joshua son of Nun [which spirit is understood to have later reincarnated as Jesus Christ] there is no Christ. Christ is not a man – Jesus was the man; Christ the messenger; Christ in all ages, Jesus in one; Joshua in another: Joshua the prophet, the mystic, the leader, the incarnation of the Prince of Peace. Joshua was the interpreter through whom the message was given to Israel.” [on the Holy Mount] (Cayce Readings: 991-1; 362-1; 3645-1}.

When it was time for the chosen people to cross Jordan to enter the symbolic promised land of earth that GOD had promised them, Moses was withdrawn from his leadership position, and Joshua replaced him in command. Moses conceded that the Lord was angry with him for the sake of the people, so that he was not allowed to enter himself. It constituted a great sign that it was not the spirit of Moses that was to eventually lead the people across the Heavenly River (Ps. 46:4); rather it was that of the Son of GOD – in that life incarnated as Joshua the son of Nun – who was predestined to ultimately do so:

“But Joshua the son of Nun, who stands for you, he shall go in: encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.” (Deut. 1:38).

In that period the Son of GOD, incarnated as Joshua son of Nun, Israel’s shepherd and protector, was partway through His skein of earth experiences that had begun as Adam, which series of spiritually-perfecting earth experiences were destined to cause GOD to ordain Him man’s Redeemer, Intercessor to HIM, Savior and heavenly high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek (Heb. 6:19-20).

Moses underwent a profound experience in which GOD commanded him to take off his shoes because he stood on Holy Ground (E. 3:1-5), and Joshua underwent the same kind of experience (Josh. 3:1-5), denoting his exceptional spiritual empowerment. It was when he followed Divinely-Guided instructions that the virtually insurmountable wall around the City of Jericho collapsed in a heap as the people shouted a great shout that brought it down when Joshua gave a signal. (Josh. Chapter Six).

One of the great prophesies of all time was recorded when the people of Israel crossed Jordan with Joshua at the helm. It took place at a site in the river where the priests bore the ark of the Covenant while standing on supporting rocks. Joshua commanded a man from each of the Twelve Tribes to select a rock from the riverbed and carry it to the opposite shore, on the Canaan side, where they were secured during their first night in Canaan. These stones were later carefully transported to Gilgal where they were arranged in a circle, designed to preserve, as a spiritual sign, the importance of what had taken place there.

This extraordinary sign was complemented by a second one. Joshua next proceeded to select twelve stones of his own choice, and meticulously and purposefully placed them precisely where the feet of the priests had stood firmly and securely in the Jordan River. This remarkable act constituted a prophesy foretelling that a day was to come when – as Jesus Christ – He would select Twelve Apostles, along with His Disciples, who would “stand in the place of” the former Levitical Priests previously ordained under Moses. Jesus later disclosed to His Twelve that He “knew whom He had chosen.” (Jn. 13:18). He had known them when He had incarnated as Joshua son of Nun; and also when He was Joseph son of Jacob, and they had been His brothers; and during other earth experiences when they had incarnated together.

This pattern was reflected when Prophet Elijah set about “repairing the Altar of the Lord which was broken down,” and he selected twelve stones to build an altar to the Lord. In a startling symbolization, Elijah dug a trench around the altar which was “great enough to contain two measures of seed (1 Kings 18:30-32). This foretold that ‘Twelve Stones’ were to be selected later; and also that there were to be two separate divisions of ‘the seed of Abraham,’ which would be selected in two different periods of time: one portion during the Hebraic Age; the other during the ‘times of fulfillment’ of the Gentiles, as enumerated by Jesus Christ:

“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: the sea and the waves roaring. And 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 they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and with great glory (cf. Jn. 14:1-4) And when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws nigh.” (Lk. 21:24-28)

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Message Twenty - Book 2 -SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Certain biblical writings convey the principle that the more obedient to GOD an incarnated soul wills itself to be, the more spiritually-quickened and psychic it is apt to become: the more spiritually-influenced For example, Moses was referred-to as GOD’s servant because he made of himself a human earthly channel who could be relied upon to do GOD’s Will whenever he was called upon.

A profound delineation between the obedient meek Moses and other prophets was expressed in the time of Aaron and Miriam when the Lord descended suddenly in the pillar of the cloud to admonish them:

“Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream. “My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house. With him I will speak mouth to mouth. (Num. 12:6-7; Ref. Heb. 3:2).

It was thus explained that the Lord’s Prophets, being spiritually-quickened, would receive GOD’s word by way of dreams and visions, whereas Moses, having proven himself totally observant of GOD’s Will and fully trustworthy, would be able to communicate directly with HIM.

This principle was exemplified in the case of the remarkable Prophet Balaam, of whom it was written:

“He has said, who heard the words of GOD and knew the knowledge of the most High, who saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: I shall behold him but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy the children of Sheth. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains in the city.” (Num. 24:16-17, 19).

This remarkable above-quoted prophesy predicted, of course, the flesh manifestation of the Son of GOD as Joseph the son of Jacob; an earth incarnation of the Son of GOD long before He manifested as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The Holy Bible reveals that Prophet Balaam’s negative earth experience turned out to be disastrous because of his abject failure to obey GOD (Duet. 23:5; Josh 13:22; Josh 23:9-10; 2 Pet. 2:15), and that the Lord did not forget his negative works:

“But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat those things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.” (Rev. 2:14)

It is understood that each soul is granted a number of earth incarnations in which to spiritualize itself synchronously with GOD and HIS Son – perhaps even a limited length of time – and it may be that the soul that had been Balaam has since reincarnated and improved its spiritual condition.

One of the Lord’s greatest prophets of all time, Jeremiah, proved to be unerringly accurate; indicating that he was close to GOD and obedient to HIM and HIS Word. After the chosen people of Israel had been exiled for forty years for their disobedient refusal to enter into Canaan, their earthly promised land, a time came when GOD elected to again test their obedience. They were centered in Jerusalem, which was heavily guarded and defended, a city in which they felt safe from invasion by their enemies. But Nebuchadnezar, king of the Chaldeans in Babylon, was possessed with the idea of taking dominion over that nation, and Jeremiah prophesied of that situation:

“Thus saith the Lord, He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.” (Jer. 38:2)

It was a supreme test for the people of Israel, who felt safe in Jerusalem, but knew that if they voluntarily entered into exile in Babylon they faced a tortuous future at best: they could not imagine worse. They must have asked themselves why their Lord would have placed them in such a predicament? There were only two doors open to them: if they remained at home in Jerusalem, they were predestined to die a horrible death. On the other hand, if they chose to go into exile in Babylon, they would suffer, but live through it. The Lord spoke through Jeremiah, comparing those who did HIS Will and accepted exile in Babylon, as a basket of good figs, whereas those who chose to remain in Jerusalem would be as a basket of evil figs:

“Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will given them an heart to know ME, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their GOD: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

“And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely thus saith the Lord,, So I will give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: And I will deliver them to be removed into all of the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. And I will send the sword and the famine, and the pestilence, among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.” (Jer. 24:5-10)

It was another great test of the chosen people of Israel – those who obeyed GOD’s Word, spoken through Prophet Jeremiah, entered into a compressed spiritual exile designed to see which of them would follow GOD’s Will. The whole world undergoes just such a form of testing in these Latter Days, and whose who obey GOD’s Will and “prevail to the end,” stand to receive a reward. glorious beyond their wildest dreams

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Message Nineteen - Book 2 SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The writer to the Hebrews wrote of Jesus Christ that He was:

“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 you are dull of hearing.” (Heb. 5:5-10)

The writer added that at the crucial time when those for whom the Book had been written, that they needed to teach others the first principles of the oracles of GOD, they were in need of instruction – that they drank “spiritual milk” rather than the “strong meat” of truth designed for those of full age who are able to discern between good and evil” (Heb. 5:12-14)

Because of the spiritual ineptitude of those he addressed, the writer did not attempt to explain the spiritual relationship between Jesus Christ and His previous incarnation as Melchizedec But this had previously been intimated in the Books of Enoch:

“And afterward, in the last generation, there will be another Melchizedec, the first of twelve priests. And the last will be head of all, a great archpriest, the Word and Power of GOD, who will perform miracles, greater and more glorious than all the previous ones. He, Melchizedec, will be priest and king of the place, Akhuzan, that is to say, in the center of the earth, Jerusalem, where Adam was created, and there will be His final grave.” (2 Enoch 71:34-36)

Jesus Christ was required to make His miraculous Blood Sacrifice only once – as men are appointed to die only once, and after that to be judged (Heb. 9:27). After the Son’s Judgment, GOD transformed Him and translated Him to HIS right hand in heaven (Heb. 1-1-3), and empowered Him over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18).

An Edgar Cayce Reading sheds important light on this heavenly development:

“Jesus came into the earth, the first of the sons of GOD to enter into flesh, the first and only begotten of GOD. Again, as names might say, Enoch walked with GOD, became aware of GOD and HIS movements – but nevertheless still that entity, that soul, called Jesus – as Melchizedec, without father, without mother, came as the soul of Jesus; the portion of GOD that manifests” (Edgar Cayce Reading 1158-5)

Because it is understood that Jesus of Nazareth had reincarnated before on earth as Melchizedec, GOD’s eternal heavenly high priest (Hebrews Chapters Seven and Eight) it becomes evident that when Melchizedec had blessed Abraham with bread and wine at the battle of the kings (Gen. 14:18-19) it was much more than happenstance. The same two exalted souls were subsequently involved, even though hundreds of years separated the two spiritually-synchronized events. It provided evidence that souls retain certain important characteristics from one incarnation to another, although many years may intervene between their earth appearances.

Evidence of Divine Guidance in such spiritual event is biblically disclosed in a prophesy of Isaiah, who was a spiritual channel long before Jesus Christ manifested on the earth:

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; HE has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound (Refer: Isa. 49:8-9). To proclaim the acceptable year of the vengeance of our GOD; to comfort all that mourn.” (Isa. 61:1-2)

Luke reports that soon after Jesus commenced His ministry, He reiterated these words in the temple, but stopped short of stating that it was at that time “the day of vengeance of our GOD” (Lk. 4:13-18). He knew that it was not yet time for Him, the Son of GOD, to take vengeance upon the Heathen as had been foretold, in Psalm 2:6-12, that He was to do. As David had long before foretold, it is to be the “second Lord” at GOD’s right hand, who is predestined to descend upon the earth to fulfill that Prophesy (Psalm 110:4-6).

We here refer briefly to the work of Glenn Sanderfur in his book, LIVES OF THE MASTER, supra,, in which is noted the fulfillment of Isaiah’s above-cited prophesy. He discloses that the Melchizedec Texts discovered at Qumran identfy Melchizedec as the one destined to fulfill Isaiah’s prophesy!; and he adds that the Texts point to the “King of Righteousness” – a term frequently applied to Jesus Christ – as the promised Messiah, long before Jesus manifested on the earth. He refers to Him as the one who would “overthrow Belial” and execute GOD’s Judgment on the earth: and that this King will be Melchizedec “redivivus” – or, Melshizedec reincarnated. (Lives of the Master, Page 88). He quotes noted authority Birger A. Pearson as having stated that the identification of Melchizedec with Jesus Christ is also documented elsewhere in Christianity, particularly in the expanded Nag Hammadi Library, causing Mr. Peason to comment:

“We are drawn to the conclusion that, in the revelation which the priest Melchizedec has received, he has seen that he himself will have a redemptive role to play as the suffering, dying, resurrected and triumphant Savior, Jesus Christ. From what we read, it seems that the victory of Jesus Christ is at the same time the victory of Melchizec, and that in fact they are one and the same.” (Lives of the Master, Page 89). This is an example of understanding spiritual matters according to their spiritual meanings, rather than their letter meanings (2 Cor. 3:3-6).

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Message 18 - Book 2- SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The writer to the Hebrews summed up important aspects of what had happened to the Son of GOD as the result of His experience as Enoch son of Jared:

“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because GOD had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased GOD. But without faith is it impossible to please HIM: for he that comes to GOD must believe that HE is, and that HE is a rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM.” (Heb. 11:5-6)

Professor Odebarg extracted from ancient texts information shedding light on some particular reasons for Enoch’s translation:

“The main reason for Enoch’s translation was the sinfulness of the generation of the Flood, to which he was to bear witness to future generations of the world to come. His testimony was to justify the destruction of all living beings in that generation through the Flood. The high Angels ‘Azza, ‘Uzza and ‘Azzael protest against Enoch’s translation, but GOD rebukes them and elevates Enoch into a ruler and Prince over them.

“The idea of Enoch’s removal to heaven in order to be a witness against the sins of mankind is attested in Jub. Ev 21 seq. His function of witness is there made the essential part of his office as Scribe: ‘And he, Enoch, testified to the Watchers who had sinned with the ‘daughters of men,’ [as noted in Gen. 6:1-5], and Enoch testified against them all: * for which reason GOD brought the waters of the Flood upon all the land.

“The same idea that Enoch was a witness in heaven against man’s sin persists in later traditions. When the generation of the Flood sinned, GOD took Enoch to be a witness against them: so that if anyone might say that if man sinned it was because he was Created from the four elements; or because his generation was composed of wicked men, GOD would then answer: ‘Behold, Enoch was also in a generation of wicked men, and was also created of the four elements, yet he did not sin!” (Odeberg’s 3 Enoch, Pages 8-9)

Book 3 Enoch further describes Enoch the Son of GOD’s venture in heavenly dimensions:

“In that hour three of the ministering Angels came and brought forth charges against me [Enoch] in the high heavens, saying before the Holy One, blessed be HE: ‘Said not the Ancient ones, First Ones, rightly before Thee? Do not created man!’ The Holy One, GOD the Father, Blessed be He, answered and said, ‘I will bear, yea, and I will carry and will deliver.’

“As soon as they saw me, they said before HIM: ‘Lord of the Universe! What is this one that he should ascend to the height of heights? Is not he one from among the sons of those who perished in the days of the Flood? What doeth he in Raquia?’

“Again the Holy One, Blessed be HE, answered and said to them:’What are ye, that ye enter and speak in my Presence? I delight in this one, Enoch, more than in all of you, and hence he shall be a Prince and a ruler over you in the high heavens.’” (3 Enoch 4:6-8)

In 3 Enoch is inscribed the following discussion, ostensibly taking place between a man’s spirit and his soul, they being in this case considered as separate spiritual parts:

“Interesting passages on the relation between spirit and soul are: The spirit spoke with the soul and the stinking [flesh] body, but the body gave it no answer. While the spirit stood and spoke with the soul and the flesh body, the liberator arrived, and stepped forth to say:

“I hear a voice of a voice of two voices siting together informing one another: one voice that of the soul and the other the voice of the spirit: ‘By thy life, my sister, bring me with thee when thou leave this life.’ This is evidently intended to show that in this context the spirit is conceived of as being the higher of the two; and further, that the spirit is thought of as undefiled by an earthly life; whereas it is the soul that may be deceitful, and whose fate will be determined after death according to the character acquired in its previous existence; whose deeds will be weighed in the balance.’

“This may be compared and contrasted according to which, on the one hand, the spirit exists holy and pure from the beginning, and on the other hand, the spirit can be defiled during an earthly life.

“There are frequent passages pointing to the idea of the spirit’s possible corruption because of it own doings during its life in ‘the world of illusion,’ the earth. After its flesh death, the Judge examines it concerning its sins and aberrations [Refer to Heb. 9:22-27: "For it is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment] (3 Enoch 177-178)

Judgment of a man’s soul, then, is not delayed until the one great final judgment (2 Cor. 5:10). Whenever, during an incarnate earth experience, a man’s flesh body is no longer able to sustain life, so that its earthly systems shut down, the soul continues to live on in some other dimension until disposition of its future is determined in higher dimensions, according to what it has to that point accomplished during its skein of earth experiences. In the case of Enoch, who “walked with GOD all his life, he was taken up into heaven by GOD (Gen. 5:22-24), because he had obeyed GOD:

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear GOD and keep HIS Commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For GOD shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

* The propensity of the Son of GOD to speak out against negative behavior wherever it occurs was expressed by the Son, when – incarnated as Joseph son of Jacob – He spoke up against his brothers to his father, Jacob, to deliver “an evil report” of their misbehavior (Gen. 37:2).

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Message 17 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The ancient Books of Enoch advance the hypothesis that Enoch son of Jared was an earth manifestation of the Holy Spirit of the Son of GOD, that followed on the heels of His initial attempt as Adam to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 3:8). The Son’s ability to turn away from his former Adamic disobedience against GOD and “walk with GOD ” all of that incarnation marked him as having the ability to remain spiritually uncorrupted in the face of flesh temptations which, seven generations before, had trapped him and his binary soul mate Eve in the earth plane. The Enochian writings establish the hypothesis that it was Beloved Michael the Archangel – Prince of the Seventh Heaven, the Son of GOD– to whom GOD the Father granted the Eternal Heavenly Princeship, based upon his earth experience as Enoch. The Bible discloses that the Son afterward incarnated in a spiritually-perfected state as Melchizedec, Eternal Priest of the Most High GOD (Gen. 14:18-19; Hebrews, Chapters Seven through Nine).

Professor Odeberg notes that Metatron is the designation of “the Angel of YHUA,” who “bears the ineffable name” in Exodus 23:20-22; and that he is connected to “the Angel of the Presence” in the Book of Jubilees (I:27-29; 15:27; 31:14 – another designation of “the bearer of the ineffable name.” It was this “Prince of the Presence, Metatron, who restored Enoch’s spirit energy and put him on his feet (3 Enoch 1:8, supra, Pg. 61).

Professor Odeberg concludes from his studies of ancient writings that many of the functions of Mikael, highest of the Angels in the earlier anthology, are transferred to Metatron, GOD’s Vice-Regent over the world, and with HIS Principal Servant of the Most High, the Chief of the Service. He understands that all these titles are in one way or another connected to the most exalted position in the presence of the GOD-head.

There is the suggestion in these writings that until the Son of GOD incarnated as Enoch, after His fall as Adam, that Archangel Satan may have tentatively held the heavenly title, “Prince of the World,” which later came to be known in ancient writings as the Metatronic Throne, when it was ordained to the Son after His experience as Enoch. Jesus Christ of Nazareth appears to have suggested this when He declared to His followers that He would not talk much with them when it was time for Him to depart from them, “for the prince of this world comes and has nothing in me” (Jn. 14:30). He of course referred to Satan who at that time still retained a powerful influence in the earthdimension, and will continue to do so until he is removed during the Thousand Years of the First Resurrection (Rev. 20:1-6).

Jesus further advised His Disciples that they would continue to have tribulations, but nevertheless to be of good cheer because He had “overcome the world” (Jn. 16:33). It meant that He had fulfilled the powerful prophesy written in Gen. 3:15 which had endured through the generations, coming to pass at the time when Satan “raised himself up against the woman” because of the enmity GOD had provoked between them (Gen. 3:15). This is becomes comprehensible when it is understood that the spirit that had been Eve had long afterward reincarnated as Beloved Mary, and Adam, her binary soul mate, had manifested again as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. They had undergone a number of reincarnations, during which time Satan had remained his negative self, provoking trouble at every opportunity.

When Satan instigated Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus’ Disciples, to do his evil deed against Jesus (Jn. 13:18), then was the prophesy fulfilled relating to the “bruising of the head” of Satan’, but the “bruising” only of the heel of Jesus Christ the Son of GOD. To Satan it was a deadly “bruising” – he was predestined to lose his heavenly position and to suffer much (Rev. 20:10) – whereas Christ the Son of GOD was translated to GOD’s right hand in heaven and empowered over heaven and the earth (Dan. 7:9-27; Mt. 28:18) – even to one day conduct the final judgment of all souls (2 Cor. 5:10).

At a time when the Son of GOD was known on the earth as Michael the Archangel, Israel’s Prince, it was written that He was one day to “stand up” to disclose His heavenly empowerment (Dan. 12:1-3). But it was later biblically divulged that the great “Angel of the Presence,” identified as the heavenly higher self of Enoch, was not actually an Angel at all; but rather was GOD’s Son that HE had appointed heir of all things, by whom HE had made the worlds; and who, “after He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Heb. 1:1-3). The truth that He IS the Son of GOD, man’s Intercessor to HIM, and eternal heavenly High Priest “after the order of Melchizedek,” is a principal disclosure of the Writer to the Hebrews (Heb. 8:1-2).

Among other revelational spiritual truths, he disclosed that a heavenly judgment follows the death of each person, and that this was even the case with Jesus Christ. He was only once offered up as GOD’s sacrificial lamb, crucified to bear the sins of many, so that He would not be subjected to such multiple sacrifices as would otherwise have been the case. After Jesus’ Crucifixion, He “went to a Judgment by GOD His Father,” sand was afterward translated to GOD’s right hand and empowered over heaven and the earth (Jn. 28:18). As the Hebrews writer intimated, the Son’s Crucifixion was designed as a marker for those who look for Him: that He shall “appear the second time without sin, unto salvation” (Heb. 9:28). Christ the Son’s return in the cloud (Lk. 21:27) is predestined to take place when He comes again to “receive unto Himself those that are His” (Jn. 14:3). Thus the lapel buttons of many loyal Christians today read: “Waiting for YOU!”

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Message 16 - Book 2 -SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The idea that the name “Metatron” is the name of an Angel whose heavenly office indicates a peculiar relationship to Michael the Archangel, considered to be the Champion of the Jews, is found in two excerpts form the work, Butler’s Lives Of The Saints.* It is first noted that an ancient Jewish writing known as The Testament of Abraham places Michael the Archangel as GOD’s Commander In Chief – the organizer of all relations on earth – who is so powerful with GOD that, at his word, souls can be rescued even from Hell itself. An offertory chan is next cited in Butler’s above-cited, writing, in which the assistance of Jesus Christ blends with the Intercession of Beloved Michael for salvation:

“Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of Hell, and away from the deep pit; deliver them from the mouth of the lion that Hell may not swallow them up and that they may not fall into darkness, but may the standard-bearer Michael conduct them into the Holy Light, which thou didst promise of old to Abraham and to his seed. We offer to you, Lord, sacrifices and prayers; do thou receive them, Lord in behalf of those souls we commemorate this day. Grant them, Lord, to pass from death to that life which thou didst promise of old to Abraham and his seed.”

A strong correlation between Enoch son of Jared and the Redeemer promised to Israel is presented in 2 Enoch:

“Thou shalt be glorified before the Lord’s face for all time, since the Lord chose thee, rather than all men on the earth, and designated thee writer of all HIS creation, visible and invisible, and Redeemer of the sins of man, and helper in thy household.” (2 Enoch 62:5)

Ties linking Metatron to Michael are found in a number of places. In his work 3 Enoch, Dr. Odeberg cites Grunwal as having contended that the term “Metatron” signifies a “palace, place, or abode,” and that it is parallel with that of the Divine Name (Intro., Page 134). He notes that Levi ben Gerson considers Proverbs 1-8 a definition of the word “Metatron,” meaning “active intelligence.” He further suggests that the word is derived from the Latin word for “mother” (Page 135). Bartoloccius is quoted as having explained the origins of the term “Metatron” as:

“The Angel mentioned in Exodus 23:20 is Mikael, the Custodian of Israel [which correlates with C. F. Moore’s comment in 3 Enoch, page 131; that the name inherent in Mikael is ‘God Almighty,’ since GOD, operating all the miracles of the guidance of Israel through the desert. during the Exodus, apparently communicated HIS omnipotence to Mikael."

Prof. Odeberg also cites authority for the proposition that the term "Metatron" is synonymous with the position next under the Throne of GOD the Father:

"There is not single instance in any known Jewish source of Metatron being represented as the co-occupant of the Divine Throne. On the other hand, the interpretation of Metatron as denoting a celestial being who was next after the King of the world, the representation of the Most High, is that which of all interpretation advanced best accords with the essential character assigned to Metatron in the earliest representation of him, above all in our book." (3 Enoch, Introduction, . Pages. 135-136.)

Professor Odeberg takes the position that the Throne plays a central part in the conception of Metatron, whom he defines as: the celestial being who occupies the Throne next to the Throne of Glory, that of GOD the Father, was known to the ancients as "The Lesser YHUH," and its occupancy conforms to the hypothesis that it was at the first occupied by Satan, as suggested in Ezekiel 28:13-19; but that it was subsequently occupied by Christ the Son of GOD; who, after His earth experience as Jesus Christ, was transported to GOD’s right hand where He was seated and enthroned (Heb. 1:1-6; 1 Peter 2:6-12), and empowered by GOD the Father over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18).

This agrees with Hebraic writings on the order of Psalm 2:6-12; 110:1; and Ezek. 21:25-26. The Books of Enoch, considered in parallel with Dr. Odeberg’s Introduction to 3 Enoch, explain the concept of the term "Metatron." When viewed with the hypothesis in mind that Michael the Archangel was a name by which the Son of GOD was known in ancient times, and that He was also once known as "Metatron," a clearer understanding emerges of the Son’s unique spiritual transition from Adam to His spiritually-royal position at GOD His Father’s right hand:

" (1) Representations of Metatron in 3 Enoch picture Him as the Angel who, as GOD’s representative, is seated upon a Throne of His own. This is moreover explicitly stated to be a reflection of the Throne of Glory (3 Enoch 10:1; and compare Jn. 3:21). "On this Throne Metatron is seated as the Holy One is seated on HIS Throne, only that Metatron’s throne is placed – to denote its second rank, ‘at the door of the Seventh Hall’ (3 Enoch 10:12; 48C:5,8). Further, Metatron’s enthronement and his investment with all the splendours forming part of the enthronment, or being corollaries to it, constitute the central picture in the Enoch-Meatatron fragments (3 Enoch Chapters 10-15; 48C:5,9).

"(2) 3 Enoch actually associates the name "Metatron" with the enthronement of this celestial bring, hence implictly connects the word "Metatron" with the word "throne’. It is significant that according to the large Enoch-Metatron piece (Enoch Chapters 3-15), Enoch is in the course of his elevation and transformation into a high angel-prince, is not officially pronounced in the heavens as "Metatron" until immediately on his having been enthroned by the Most High (3 Enoch 10:3).

"(3) Also in the Talmud the significance of Metatron gives the key to an understanding of the other features of the Metatron concept. Thus, as the Angel enthroned on a throne next to that of His Master, Metatron will naturally be identified with any angel-prince that before had been regarded as the Angel nearest the GOD-HEAD, or as the representative of the Most High – or will take over the functions assigned to that Angel. On this basis, the functions or identifications of Metatron are easily explained." (Odeberg, 3 Enoch, Introduction, Page 138)

* [Christian Classics, Westminister, Md., Orig. Pub. 1756-1759, Pages 678-679]

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Message Fifteen - Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

At the time Daniel prophesied he was obviously under the impression that it was Archangel Michael who was to “stand up” to be recognized as man’s savior, at the time of Deliverance (Dan. 12:1-3). But it should be kept in mind that in Daniel’s time the name Jesus Christ was unknown because He had not yet appeared on earth bearing that name. Long afterward, Apostle Paul declared that the Lord would return “with the voice of the Archangel” (1 Thess. 4:15-16), but Paul knew that Jesus Christ — not Archangel Michael — was the only name by which a man must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12). Many years had intervened from Daniel’s time until the Son reappeared as Jesus of Nazareth, man’s Savior, no longer with the name Michael. As the Lord disclosed through Prophet Malachi, (Mal. 3:16-18), GOD had merged the spirits of the chosen people of the Old Testament into the New Covenant and many had returned. Among those reincarnated were Jesus and His Apostles and Disciples, whom called and chose as he located them.

By the time the Son of GOD reappeared as Joshua the son of Josedech, Prophet Zechariah was prophesying for the chosen people of Israel. It was a crucial time that marked an extraordinary earth experience for the Son of GOD. Prophet Zechariah was shown a vision in which Joshua was standing before the Angel of the Lord, with Satan at his right hand to resist him. The Bible describes what took place:

“And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at Joshua’s right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto Joshua he said, Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.” (Zech. 3:1-5).

At this point, Joshua had been spiritually cleansed by the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father of All, and the Angel who spoke for GOD declared to Joshua:

“Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.” (Zech. 3:6-7). Joshua was at that time a flesh life of the Son of GOD.

The above verses revealed that Joshua had been selected from among all the chosen people of Israel, and intimated that his next flesh manifestation on earth would be with great power and authority. But if it was to come to pass, it was necessary for him to “walk in GOD’s ways and keep the charge GOD had given him.” Joshua was destined to become GOD’s servant, THE BRANCH of the Divine spiritual tree HE was building:

“Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men to be wondered at: for behold, I will bring forth my servant THE BRANCH.” (Zech. 3:8).

As the Lord had foretold through Prophet Malachi, the Old Testament, the Old Covenant, had given way to the New (Hebrews 8:6-13).

The promise that power to conduct spirit-cleansing – held by GOD the Father – was to be granted also to HIS Son, was made when, during His earth experience as Joshua the son of Josedech, He was given “a change of clothing, from his “filthy” earthly flesh to new ethereal raiment:

“Take away the filthy garments from him, and unto him he said, Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.” (Zech. 3:4).

After the Son of GOD had passed from that earth life and reincarnated as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the effect of his “change of raiment”while he had been Joshua was graphically illustrated when He took His Three chosen Apostles, Peter, John and James, to the Mount of Transfiguration. There He was transfigured in their presence, and His raiment was white as the Light (Mt. 17:1-2; Mk. 9:1-4; Lk. 9:29-31).

The Son of GOD’s change of raiment when He was Joshua was a preparation for His next earth manifestation as Jesus of Nazareth, illustrating the crucially important principle the Son later revealed when He reincarnated as Jesus:

“All things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven.” (Mt. 18:18)

After His fall as Adam, the Son of GOD passed through a number of spiritually-ascending earth incarnations, each one moving Him ever closer to the perfected spiritual state in which – as High Priest Joshua son of Josedech – He began to be prepared to fulfill His pre-eminent mission.

Outlined in the Bible is the spiritualization process by which incarnated human souls may be quickened by the Spirit Energy of GOD – which Christ the Son receives from HIM without limitation (Jn. 3:34). Earthbound souls incarnated in flesh are required to pass through the same process as had the Son of GOD, during each experience making spiritual gains, or incurring losses, until a sufficient state of perfection is attained. One difference is that before GOD brought in HIS New Covenant, HE was mans sole direct source of salvation, whereas afterward the Son also became man’s savior, all power having been given to Him in heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). This had been foreshadowed by the Lord through Prophet Zechariah:

“Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; and speak to him, saying, Behold the man whose name is THE BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne:” Joshua did in fact “grow up out of his place” as Zechariah had foretold, when, as Jesus of Nazareth He was raised up to GODs right hand in heaven; and has since “ruled upon His Throne” (Mt. 28:18).

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Message Fourteen - Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

As Adam, the Son of GOD had incarnated with Eve, His binary soul mate, but, being tempted, they had fallen from GOD’s grace. They then both commenced a series of reincarnations to make their way back into GOD’s grace, and fulfill the purpose for which Adam, and presumably also Eve, had entered into the earth plane intending to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 Jn. 2:6:8).

They had intended to accomplish this by establishing a Divinely Guided lineage on the earth, able to prevail over Satan’s lies and deceits.

The Son of GOD seven generations later reincarnated as Enoch to walk obediently with GOD during that lifetime. It was a marker for all mankind to observe: fallen souls might from that time return in subsequent flesh experiences, until they learn to be obedient to GOD’ s Will. HIS Holy Spirit Energy is the ethereal matrix – the Spirit Creative Light Energy – that is the life-giver to all that is, ever has been, or ever will be. The Son of GOD has that Spirit without limit (Jn. 3:34).

During the Son of GOD’s earth experience as Enoch, He kept in step with GOD, walking with HIM respectfully and deferentially, ever regardful of HIM and HIS prevailing Will (Gen. 5:21-23). The desired pattern fir all souls incarnating in flesh in the earth plane was in that way illustrated:. Every soul that falls has a way of escape from its earth entrapment through continuous earth experiences provided by reincarnation, which process provides a way for souls to continue perfecting themselves by returning to the earth plane after each “life”in a new body, and at a different time,. As man over time makes spiritual gains, he builds up an increasingly quickened karmic spiritual disposition, which, in time, if continued, results in his elevation into a higher position inGOD’s heavenly hierarchy. That pattern is seen illustrated by the Son of GOD’s series of successive earth experiences starting with Adam and ending as Jesus of Nazareth. But, until man accepts the inevitable principle that he must obey GOD his Father, and the Son of GOD his Maker (1 Cor. 8:6; Heb. 5:9), his spiritual development remains incomplete and he is stalemated in a precarious spiritual condition, caught trapped in the cycles of reincarnation. Each new birth on earth brings new opportunities to ascend upward toward the top GOD’s Spirit Mountain.

The Holy Bible affords us a graphic step-by-step record of the Son of GOD’s spiritual escalation from temporal flesh as Adam, to His exalted position at GOD’ the Father’s right hand in the highest of all heavenly dimensions. He had initially entered the earth plane as Adam for the purpose of “destroying the works of the devil” (1 Jn.3:8; cf. Heb. 2:14-15), but because He was deceived by Satan’s lies and deceits He suffered flesh death without having completed his earth mission. He was confined to the earth plane until such time as He would be able to regain GOD’s grace. But seven generations after the Son’s experience as Adam, He reincarnated on planet earth, born as Enoch the son of Jared. He “walked with GOD” throughout that appearance, and at some point “was not” because, having demonstrated His complete obedience, GOD removed Him from the earth (Gen. 5:23-24).

The Father then gradually elevated HIS Son through the reincarnation process, doing so in successive stages, gradually elevating Him into increasingly higher positions, until at length He became known as Michael, one of the Chief Archangels (Dan. 10:13) The Bible reveals that by Moses’ time the Son was still not empowered above the devil, whom the Lord Himself had appointed “covering angel over the earth” (Ezek. 28:14). As biblically disclosed, “… Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke thee.’” (Jude 9). At that time the Lord the Son of GOD – known by the name Michael, chief of the Archangels, – was still not positioned to directly overrule Satan, but He instead called upon GOD to rebuke him.

Still later, in Prophet Daniel’s time, it was foretold (Dan. 12:1) that it would be “Michael the great prince which stands for thy people,” who would one day “stand up” at the time of deliverance of His people. This actually referred to Jesus Christ the Son of GOD when He would later appear at His Second Coming; but in Daniel’s time the Lord the Son was known as Michael the Archangel, and His flesh manifestation as Jesus Christ lay yet far in the future..

The above-quoted biblical writings indicate that it had in some way come to be believed on the earth that Michael was in fact a powerful Archangel, when in fact He was all along the Son of GOD. The writer to the Hebrews clarified this misunderstanding when he wrote of the Son: “When He had by Himself purged our sins, [He] sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high: being made so much better than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name then they. For unto which of the angels said HE at any time? Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee” (Heb. 1:3-4; cf. Ps. 2:6-12). According to the Bible, HE had not uttered it to any of them. The fact that the Son of GOD had become known under the name Michael the Archangel was explained by Apostle John in his Revelation, in which he disclosed that Christ “had a name written that no man knew but He Himself” (Rev. 19:12).

It is apparent that Daniel would not likely have known that the spiritual entity at that time known as Michael the Archangel was actually the Son of GOD, destined to subsequently manifest as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It would only have been known to him if Gabriel had disclosed it to him, and there is no credible evidence that Gabriel had done so.

The sacrificial blood of lambs had never been able to bring about salvation, “But Christ has come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building: neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Heb. 9:11-12) The writer to the Hebrews added, “Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself to appear in the presence of GOD for us” (Heb. 9:24). “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” (Heb. 7:25). He holds the eternal Priesthood of GOD, granted to Him by GOD the Father when He had incarnated as Melchizedek – king of Salem, or Jerusalem – and brought forth bread and wine with which to bless Abraham It became a sacred ritual He long afterward, as Jesus Christ, established as the Holy Sacrament, the Eucharist.

Series to be Continued in Message 15 of Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Thirteen - Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When GOD spoke through HIS Prophet Malachi, HE carefully constructed a foundation on which to reveal that HE planned to merge HIS chosen people, Israel, with the Gentiles, under the Leadership of he Son of GOD:

“Behold, I will send my messenger; and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord whom ye shall seek, shall suddenly come into His temple), even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appears? for He is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap; And He shall sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.” (Mal. 3:1-4)

Then, after having promised that the offering of Judah and Jerusalem was to once again be pleasant, as in times past, GOD declared:

“I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob ARE NOT CONSUMED. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, but ye said, Wherein shall we return?” (Mal. 3:6-7)

GOD responded by rhetorically asking, “Will a man rob GOD? But ye have robbed me. But ye ask, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings,” HE replied. (Mal. 3:8). GOD’s chosen people had apparently been failing to fulfill the the requirement that certain tithes were to be paid to adequately support the Levitical Priesthood and temple rituals. Thus the Lord chastised them, saying, “Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring me the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, the Lord replied, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing,, that there shall not be room enough to hold it.” (Mal. 3:8-9).

God then disclosed what HE would do in return for HIS people if they would be obedient to HIM: “I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightful land. Your words have been strong against me, yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? (Mal. 3:11-13).

GOD’S reply was swift and to the point: “Ye have said that it is vain to serve GOD: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And that now we call the proud happy; yea , they that tempt GOD are even delivered!” (Mal. 14-15). GOD had been patiently enduring HIS chosen peoples’ spiritual misconduct for centuries. He had repeatedly warned them twice sent them into harsh exiles, but the time had come for an even moe radical change on the earth. It was being announced to a particular gathering of the Lord’s chosen people addressed by Prophet Malachi. It is evident from what the Lord declared through HIS Prophet that this gathering was composed of souls that had previously incarnated and reincarnated through the centuries from the time of the fall of Adam and Eve.

It is biblically reported that among those present during this momentous prophesy by Prophet Malachi were some “who feared the Lord, and spoke often to one another: that the Lord paid attention to them, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon HIS name” (Mal. 3:16). But that was not the conclusion of the matter: the Lord then uttered a declaration that forever removed any doubt about the fact that there has been a pattern of reincarnation at work among mankind’s generations from the time of Adam and Eve.

Referring to those who feared GOD and thought upon HIS name, the Lord, speaking through Malachi, then continued: “And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. THEN SHALL YE RETURN and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves GOD and him that serves HIM not.” (Mal. 3:17-18).

At least certain ones of those addressed by Prophet Malachi did return in accordance with GOD’s promises, resulting in the merger of those souls that had incarnated and reincarnated as Israelites through the centuries. They were those who had “feared the Lord and thought upon His name”; about whom that book of remembrance had been written” (Mal. 3:16-17). The New Covenant, promised by GOD through Prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 31:31-34) had been fulfilled, and with it came the end of the Hebraic Age with the merger of Jews and Gentiles. It was accordingly thereafter written:

“There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For WHOSOEVER shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom. 10:11-12)

In accordance with this change, Apostle Peter, speaking of Jesus Christ, declared: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we are able to be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

Series to be Continued in Message 14 of Book One, SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Twelve - Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Speaking through HIS Prophet Malachi, GOD castigated certain of HIS chosen children declaring that HE had loved HIS people, yet they had asked, How had HE loved them? HE explained that Esau was Jacob’s brother, but that HE loved Jacob, whereas HE hated Esau so much that HE had laid his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. And HE explained that Esau’s impoverished people had obstinately declared that they would return and rebuild their desolated places;but the Lord declared that even as swiftly as they would rebuild it, HE would throw it all down again: that HE would have indignation against them, even while GOD Himself would be magnified. (Mal. 1:1-5)

HE accused the Levitical priests of despising HIS name, and yet, HE, declared, they had asked, how had they despised HIS name? He responded by explaining that they had offered polluted bread upon HIS altar, while at the same time asserting that the table of the Lord is contemptible. The Lord asked, “If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is that not evil? – and HE added, “if you were to offer it to your governor, would he be pleased, or would he accept you?” (Mal. 6-8).

HE then gave a clue that HE had in mind bringing the Gentiles into the fold with HIS already chosen children of Israel: “For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles: and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen,” saith the Lord of Hosts. But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, ‘The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even HIS meat, is contemptible..”But cursed be the deceiver who has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices it unto the Lord a corrupt thing.” (Mal. 1:11-14). In that way, GOD suggested that HE planned to send HIS Son into the earth plane as Adam, who would latter incarnate as Jesus of Nazareth, GOD’s perfected “sacrificial lamb,” after He had been perfected in the temptations of the earth plane. The Son was predestined to replace GOD’s former establishment of the negative Archangel Satan – whom HE had, at some previous time designated covering angel over the earth: HE had done this at a time when Satan was perfect in his ways (Ezek. 28:13-16), but after disobedient negativity was found in him, GOD had decided to remove him from any empowerment whatever (Ezek. 28:16-19). The Son of GOD entered into the earth dimension as Adam – along with his binary soul mate, Eve — destined to replace Satan.

After GOD spoken through Malachi against Esau and Edom, and derided the attitude of HIS chosen people, HE then directed HIS remarks toward the Levitical priests, saying, “This commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart to give glory unto my name, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed…and you shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi. My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared, and he was afraid before my name. The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and turned many away from iniquity.” (Mal. 2:1-6).

“The priests’ lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But you have departed out of the way: you have caused many to stumble at the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi. Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.” (Mal. 2:7-9).

Then the one who had spoken these words asked a hugely important rhetoricalquestion: “Have we not all one Father? Has not one GOD created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother by profaning the covenant of our fathers? (Mal. 2:10).

Prophet Malachi, having noted GOD’s dissatisfaction with Esau and the Levitical Priesthood, also pointed out that even Judah – upon whose Tribe and success the New Covenant depended – “hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.” (Mal. 2:11).

This of course referred to events described in Genesis Chapter Twenty Eight, relating that Judah had undertaken an affair with Shuah – a Canaanite who was not under the mantle of Jacob’s spirituality – and had fathered three sons by her; none off whom were satisfactory to the Lord, who was preparing a Divine Lineage through the tribe of Judah. The introduction into that hallowed lineage of children, not spiritually quickened and guided by GOD, was unacceptable to HIM, and marked a temporary setback in the development of the Divine Lineage that HE contemplated.. HE declared that HE would “cut off any man who made this error of judgment, even the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offered an offering unto the Lord of Hosts. “And” HE declared, “this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that HE regards not your offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.” (Mal. 2:12-13).

Then the question was asked, “Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet she IS thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant! And did HE not make one [of this couple?] Yet had HE the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That HE might seek a godly seed? Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.” This sage advice is particularly important in this current period of casual sex and random physical relationships between unmarried couples. who knowingly and intentionally risk pregnancies in which spiritual considerations are set aside in favor of satisfying carnal flesh desires; which has negative effects upon children in current and future generations.

Observing the effects of these degrading influences on HIS Children, GOD lamented through HIS Prophet Malachi, “Ye have wearied me with your words, Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied HIM? When ye say that everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and that HE delights in them: or, asks: Where is the GOD of judgment?” a vexatious question if ever there was one!

.Series to be Continued in Message 13 of Book One - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 11 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

In his Psalm 110:4, King David declared that the Lord, GOD the Father of All had permanently anointed the “second Lord,” the Son of GOD, as a ‘priest forever after the order of Melchizedek: who had manifested before on earth as the king of Salem, Jerusalem. Melchizede, Priest of the Most High GOD, had met Abraham after the battle of the kings, and blessed him with bread and wine (Gen. 14:18-19). It was a spiritually-oriented ritual that long afterward formed the basis for the hallowed Christian Eucharist established by Jesus Christ; understood by some to have been a subsequent earth manifestation in flesh of the Son of GOD when GOD empowered him over heaven and the earth and elevated Him to HIS right hand in heaven (Mt. 28:18).

The writer to the Hebrews associated Christ’s Eternal Priesthood – ordained to Him by GOD after He, as Jesus of Nazareth, had been made perfect (Heb. 5:9) It was actually the save Priesthood formerly ordained by GOD the Father to Melchizedek (Heb. 5:5-6). But that writer stopped short of explaining the reincarnational connection between Melchizedek and Jesus Christ, implying that at the early time they lacked sufficient spiritual understanding to conceive of such a relationship (Heb. 5:11-14). But subsequently the writer did elaborate on the greatness of Melchizedek:

“For this Melchizedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high GOD, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is King of peace: without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of GOD, abides a priest continually.” (Heb. 7:1-3).

It is manifest that if Melchizedek did not expire after He had fulfilled his days on earth – if He simply continued to be alive in heavenly dimensions – that His Priesthood had also remained viable. As noted ,supra, He was made like the Son of GOD, who did not expire after His life on earth as Adam, but reappeared as Enoch to “walk obediently with GOD” all of His days (Gen. 5:22-24).

As explained in the Book of Hebrews:

“For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchizedec there arises another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For HE testifies, THOU ART A PRIEST FOREVER AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEC. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. This man, because He continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore He is able also to save them that come unto GOD by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them. 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 evermore.” (Heb. 7:14-17, 22, 25, 28)

Thus earthly priesthoods have been dissolved, insofar as Christians are concerned: they no longer har spiritual efficacy for those who accept Jesus Christ as their eternal heavenly Priest. Any who desire to follow the Law given through Moses, or any other religious doctrine, are free to place their faith in it although an Edgar Cayce reading asserted:

“As He, Christ, gave: he that receives a prophet in the name of the prophet receives that prophet’s reward: or that ability that an individual spiritual force may manifest in the life of that individual… Hence, each in their respective spheres are but stepping stones to that that may awaken in the individual the knowledge of the Son in their lives.” (Reading # 262-14)

The spiritual connection between Melchizedek and Jesus Christ by way of reincarnation has not been generally accepted, for reasons explicated in Heb. 5:11-14. These verses also explain why another important verse in the Book of Hebrews has caused so much confusion about the pattern of reincarnation in which the souls of human beings are caught up until they are freed from it by faith and belief in Jesus Christ. Then they no longer “go out” into the earth dimension:

“Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands – churches of stone – which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of GOD for us: Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with the blood of others. For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now, once, in the end of the world when He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” (Heb. 9:24-26).

The next following verse the Book of the Hebrews quotes an all-important observation of Apostle Paul’s, noting that “our sufficiency is of GOD, who has made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter understanding kills, but the spirit gives life.” (2 Cor. 3:3-6); and, “Jesus Christ opened man’s understanding that he might understand the Scripture” (Lk. 24:45). One verse, though, that has caused problems, is: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” (Heb. 9:27-28)

The letter meaning of this verse can be construed to be that men die only once, and thereafter go to the Great Judgment ( 2 Cor. 5:10). But the spiritual meaning of it is, is that the flesh body of a man dies but once, whereas the soul lives on, subject to the Lord’s will: perhaps to reincarnate at some later time in the body of an infant to mature and continue its spiritual development. The process of spiritual quickening is not accomplished in a single incarnation. Even the Son of GOD required a number of incarnations between his first flesh manifestation as Adam (Lk. 3:38; 1 Jn. 3:8), and His subsequent reappearance as the totally-perfected Jesus Christ.

As Apostle John noted: “The wind blows where it wants, and we hear the sound of it, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes; and so it is with every one that is born of the Spirit.” (Jn. 3:8)

Series to be Continued in Message 12 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 10 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE SON OF GOD AS THE BIBLICAL ROCK OF ISRAEL

Moses prophesied to Israel:

“The Lord thy GOD will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye will hearken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.” (Deut. 18:15,18).

Long afterward, the meaning of this prophecy was interpreted in the New Testament:

“This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your GOD raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall you hear. This is He that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to him in the Mt. Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the lively oracles to give unto us.” (Acts 7:37-38).

We know now that his was not actually an angel that was the “Prophet” foretold by Moses: rather, it was the Son of GOD who spoke: as Apostle Paul disclosed, after his illuminating spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road:

“…all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea: and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all did eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” (1 Cor. 10:1-4)

It was inscribed in the Book of Deuteronomy that Moses had declared:

“I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe you the greatness of our God, He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.” (Deut. 12:3-4)

This above-quoted divulgement by Moses appears, at first consideration, to refer to GOD the Father of all Creation, but in fact it refers to HIS dear Son. Moses spoke of the “angel” which spoke to him in Mount Sinai and to the fathers who received the “lively oracles to give unto us;” but the Bible reveals that it was actually the Son of GOD who had spoken those words. An objection to this might conceivably be interposed on the ground that Christ the Son of GOD was not an Angel: that He was made “so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they: for unto which of the angels said HE at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?” (Refer (Ps. 2:6-12).

Yet the Old Testament asserts that it is Michael the Archangel who is predestined to “stand up at the time of Deliverance” (Dan. 12:1). It is therefore understood that Michael the Archangel was a name applied to the Son of GOD in Daniel’s time. When Beloved John received in Spirit his Revelation, he saw heaven open to reveal a white horse, on which was riding Him that was called “Faithful and True,” and in righteousness He does judge and make war. And He had a name written that no man knew but He Himself. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and His name is called, The Word of GOD. And He had on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS (Rev. 19:11-13, 16). Without question, this referred-to the Son of GOD.

It is accordingly understood that Michael the Archangel was a name written in Daniel’ time, which referred-to the Son of GOD. It was feasible for Jesus’ name to have been disclosed in Daniel’s time, because it would be centuries afterward before the Son was destined to incarnate as Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Insofar as Daniel would have known, Michael the Archangel was the name of the Spirit that was to subsequently incarnate as Jesus Christ.

Moses revealed the identity of the Rock of Israel, as noted supra, and Hannah, the Prophetess mother of Prophet Samuel, later also wrote of the Rock, compared to whom none were as Holy (1 Sam. 2:2). She strikingly foretold that He would one day thunder out of heaven to break into pieces the adversaries of the Lord, and to judge the ends of the earth, while keeping His Saints, though the wicked be silent in darkness (1 Sam. 2:9-10).

King David later revealed that the Rock of Israel was his Lord, whose Spirit spoke through him (2 Sam. 22:32; 23:2-3). This striking comment leads to David’s revelational disclosure in one of his Psalms:

“The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” (Ps. 110:1)

This epic verse discloses that David was aware of the Presence of two Lords in heaven: one GOD the Father of all Creation, and the other who was to ultimately be seated at GOD the Father’s right hand in heaven: as was subsequently revealed by Apostle Paul, in 1 Cor. 3:8. David had also noted that the “second Lord” was his, David’s, Lord.

The “second Lord” written of in David’s Psalm 110:1 is of course the Son of GOD, and David revealed in his Psalm 110:4 that GOD the Father had forever determined that the second Lord, the Son of GOD, “was a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,” which carries far-reaching implications. For one, it explains Jesus Christ’s eternal heavenly Priesthood elaborated upon by the writer to the Hebrews.

Series to be Continued in Message 11 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message.9 - Book2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE “HOLY SPIRIT” AND THE “HOLY GHOST”, Cont’d.

The name “Holy Ghost” does not appear in the Old Testament, but only appears after Jesus Christ of Nazareth was raised up to GOD’s right hand and empowered over the heaven and the earth. This is because it was intended that there would be a virtually seamless transition from the last days of the Hebraic Age into Christ’s New Covenant. It is now understood that the great Archangel Gabriel had begun to function as GOD’s heavenly messenger in Daniel’s time, manifesting powers of fore-vision and able to inform that Prophet of many previously unknown spiritual secrets. For example, it was Gabriel whose presence so affected Daniel that he became dumb and set his face to the ground (Dan. 10:15). This powerful Archangelic messenger of GOD visited the Prophet to “make him understand what would befall his people long while afterward, during the Latter Days” (Dan. 10:14). He called Daniel a man greatly beloved, and commanded him:

“Understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee I am now sent:” (Dan. 10:11)

This authoritative command left the standing Prophet trembling (Dan. 10:11), illustrating Archangel Gabriel’s extremely quickening spiritual power.

Leaving out a protracted discussion of Gabriel’s powers, which were commensurate with his high position in the heavenly hierarchy at that time, it is important to note his profound spiritual influence upon Prophet Daniel. And it is particularly noteworthy that Gabriel had been specifically SENT to Daniel to deliver a message to him concerning what was to befall his people, Israel, IN THE LATTER DAYS. This provides a key that may well help unlock the identity of the heavenly identity of the Holy Ghost.

Gabriel’s activities and feats are enumerated in the Old Testament, which Covenant was effectually brought to its conclusion when Jesus Christ brought in His New Covenant. But that change did not end Gabriel’s earth visitations: he subsequently appeared on the right side of the altar of incense as priest Zacharias prayed, during the New Covenant period. (Lk. 1:11, 19). As he had long before imparted important messages to Daniel, Gabriel accurately foretold that his wife Elizabeth, despite her advanced age, was to bear a son, to be named John, who would “turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their GOD (Lk. 1:15:16). By the time this took place, the Lord of Israel, – not GOD the Father, but HIS Son – was incarnated on earth as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whose appearance John the Baptist had announced: including that He was to baptize with the Holy Ghost (Mt. 3:11-12).

The Archangel Gabriel was then sent to the virgin Mary, declaring that the Lord was with her and that she was blessed among women (Lk. 1:26-28). He advised her that she should fear not because she had found favor with GOD, and was predestined to bring forth a son whose name was to be called Jesus; who would be great; called the Son of the highest, who was to inherit the throne of His father, David , and reign over the house of David forever, with no end of his kingdom (Lk. 1:30-33).

After this there is no more biblical mention at all of Beloved Archangel Gabriel: but had he been foreclosed from all future contact with souls incarnated in flesh on the earth?

After Jesus Christ’s remarkable blood sacrifice on the Cross, and His having been taken up to GOD’s right hand and empowerment by GOD over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), an unusual occurrence began to be seen on the earth. It appears in detail in Jn. 14:15-17, 26; Jn. 15:26; and Jn. 16:7,12-15. How to explain this phenomenon? Beloved Gabriel’s sudden absence from all biblical writings, and the sudden appearance of the Holy Ghost?

After Christ’s Glorification the Holy Ghost began to contact Jesus’ followers, quickening them so they were able to understand spiritual truths, while guiding protecting, moving and directing them along the Way Jesus had made passable into heaven. Of the Holy Ghost’s role, it was biblically inscribed: “And when they bring you unto the synagogues and unto magistrates and powers, take no thought how or what thing you answer or what you shall say, for the Holy Ghost shall teach you at the same hour what you shall say” (Lk. 12:11-12). At one point during His ministry, Jesus declared, “He that believes in me, as the scriptures have said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (Jn. 7:38). The next verse added: “‘But this spoke He of the Spirit which they that believe in Him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.” (Jn. 7:39).

After Christ the Son of GOD had been glorified and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18),THEN the Holy Ghost began to manifest and exert the kind of influence over Jesus’ followers; in the same proportionate manner as had Beloved Archangel Gabriel in times past: except it was through the Spirit, not any more in person. This appears to be attributable to John’s advisory: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself: but whatever he shall hear: and he will show you things to come” (Jn. 16:13). His identity would presumably not be readily accessible because he would not speak of himself.

Credence is added to that hypothesis by the fact that Christ the Son of GOD, once empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), may well have selected Beloved Archangel Gabriel as the Holy Ghost, because he and Beloved Archangel Michael were the two Cherubim GOD that had, ages before, been placed by GOD at the East of the Garden of Eden, with a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (Gen. 3:24). Nothing is impossible with the Lord! (Lk. 1:37).

Series to be Continued in Message 10 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 8 - Book2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

DISTINGUISHING THE TERM, “HOLY SPIRIT” FROM “HOLY GHOST.”

In the last message in this series, Message 7, Book 2, appeared the following biblical passages:

“Apostle Paul taught the Corinthians that the body of a man is his temple, in which the Spirit of GOD dwells (1 Cor. 3:16), and, he added:

“Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of GOD and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20). “The price” paid, was Jesus Christ’s unimaginably excruciating blood sacrifice on the Cross.

These above verses appear to suggest that the terms “Holy Spirit” and “Holy Ghost” have exactly the same meaning, whereas in fact these two references have somewhat different applications. Generally speaking, the term “Holy Spirit” refers to GOD the Father’s Spirit Energy of Creation: which is described in the Bible as “Above all, through all, and in us all” (Eph. 4:6): the Spirit which flows from GOD the Father into HIS Son without any limitation (Jn. 3:34).

It is noted by Apostle Paul, in 1 Cor. 3:16, that the flesh body of a man is his temple, his holy place, in which the Spirit of GOD dwells. That this refers to GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy of Creation, but not necessarily the Spirit of the Holy Ghost, is implicit in Paul’s delineation and separation of the two terms. This distinction is reasonable because, according, to John Chapters Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen, the Holy Ghost did not manifest until after the Son of GOD had been translated to GOD’s right hand, and was empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). Accordingly, GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy must have been infused into man a long time before the Holy Ghost was sent, or else man would not have had life. Jesus’ Apostle James wrote that “the body without the spirit is dead.”(James 2:26): and the Holy Ghost was unknown to mankind until after Jesus Christ was raised to GOD’s right hand and empowered. The term “Holy Ghost” does not appear in the Old Testament, albeit it is understood that the identity of the Spirit that was to become the Holy Ghost, apparently does appear.

The Holy Ghost – the Spirit of Truth and “other Comforter” – is, for one thing, the New Testament designation of the Spirit-messenger that GOD began to send: possibly at the behest of Christ the Son of GOD, after His Glorification (Jn. 14:13-17, 26; Jn. 16:7, 12-16). This messenger obviously conducts GOD’s Holy Spirit into Christ’s Disciples, as he is sent, On one hand, the Spirit Energy of Creation exists in every living human being: whereas on the other hand, the Holy Ghost is specificallysent to those who are spiritually designated. If one who receives that Spirit does not fulfill its obligations, the Holy Ghost may withdraw or be withdrawn:

“It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of GOD, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of GOD afresh, and put Him to an open shame. For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from GOD. But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.” (Heb. 6:4-8)

It was written as early-on in the Book of Enoch:

“Blessed is the man who, in his patience brings his gifts with faith before the Lord’s face, because he will receive forgiveness of sins. But if he takes back his words before the time, there is no repentance for him; and if the time pass and he does not of his own will that which he has promised, there is no repentance after death.” (2 Enoch)

The sum of these matters is that the term “Holy Spirit” apparently refers to the super-powerful Light Spirit Energy of GOD, which, among other things, affords the spirit-portion of human beings. The term “Holy Ghost” refers to that portion of GOD’s Spirit Energy specifically conveyed into certain individuals, particularly Disciples of Jesus Christ, by means of a heavenly messenger. This is the subject of the next message in this series.

Series to be Continued in Message 9 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 7 - Book 2 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Bible subtly discloses the foundational knowledge that there is a process of reincarnation of souls at work on the earth, and has been operative at least since the Son of GOD incarnated as Adam to destroy the works of the devil (1 Jn. 3:8). The New Testament reveals that the Son of GOD, incarnated as Jesus Christ, had “overcome the world” and its carnal ways (Jn. 16:33), and Apostle Paul taught that we “should not be overcome by evil, but should overcome it (Rom. 12:21). Beloved John’s Revelation spells out the existence of this pattern, and provides important basic details concerning it:

“Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my GOD, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him my new name: 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 comes down out of heaven from my GOD: and I will write upon him My new name. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in HIS throne.” (Rev. 3:12, 21; and refer to Rev. 2:11, 17, 26, Rev. 3:5, 12, 21, and esp. Rev. 21:7)

During the Hebraic Age, members of the Levitical priesthood had sought to intercede to GOD on behalf of Jews, but long experience demonstrated that earthly priests were unable to sufficiently stave off carnal desires to maintain a sufficiently perfected spiritual condition. At the close of the Hebraic Age, when the Son of GOD, incarnated as Jesus Christ and fulfilled His blood sacrifice on the Cross, He was translated into heaven to GOD’s right hand and empowered there (Mt. 28:18), He became mankind’s eternal heavenly priest and Intercessor to GOD the Father, for those who would accept Him. The writer to the Hebrews went go great lengths to explain this in detail, which, simply is that earthly priesthoods are no longer spiritually effectual, or even needed, for those who consider Christ their eternal heavenly priest.

This is compatible with the understanding that earthly “churches of stone” were replaced by Christ’s Holy Spirit, which became the heavenly church for His Disciples. In the wake of Christ’s having been empowered at GOD’s right hand, granted all powers over heaven and the earth (Heb. 1:1-3; Mt. 28:18), earthly churches became meeting houses for faithful believing Christians: whereas the Spirit-Body of the Son of GOD – the spirit-body of Jesus Christ incarnate – became the eternal Spirit Church for those willing to accept it. That is the thrust of the following biblical verses:

“Now of the things of which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens: a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which GOD pitched and not man. For every [earthly] high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are [already] priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of GOD when he was about to make the tabernacle: for See, saith HE, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed thee in the mount. But now has He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.” (Heb. 8:1-6).

“For the law [of Moses] having been a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Wherefore when He [Christ] came into the world, He said, Lo I come to do thy Will, O GOD. He took away the first [Law of Moses] that He may establish the second [His New Covenant]. By which Will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Heb. 10:1,5,9-10).

That the Spirit-body of Christ the Son of GOD is the true Christian Church is clearly implied in the Book of John, in which he quotes Jesus as having declared:

“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.” (Jn. 14:2-3)

When Christ the Son of GOD returns it will be to receive all who are His Disciples into His Holy Spirit, which involves the souls of those who are pledged to Him being received into His Spirit: which IS The Christian Church, in the Spiritual sense. This He divulged during His earth Ministry, when He at one point entered into a dialogue with Jews in the temple:

“What sign do you show us?” they asked. Jesus answered , “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” They replied, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will rebuild it in three days!?” But, John explained, “He spoke of the temple of His body.” (Jn. 2:18-21).

Apostle Paul explained to the Ephesians:

“Now through Him [Christ] we both [Jews and Gentiles] have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of GOD; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; In whom the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord: in whom you are built together for an habitation of GOD through the Spirit.” (Eph. 2:18-22)

Apostle Paul taught the Corinthians that the body of a man is his temple, in which the Spirit of GOD dwells (1 Cor. 3:16), and, he added:

“Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of GOD and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD’s” (1 Cor. 6:19-20)

Series to be Continued in Message 8 - Book 2 – SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 6 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

There is a striking disparity between those who believe that mankind was the preconceived work of GOD, and those who, perceiving that fossil remains prove that man began walking on the earth millions of years ago, are convinced that he is simply the product of an advancing evolutionary progression based on fortuitous evolutionary chance. By this line of reasoning, man is actually an animal possessing superior brain functions, developed more or less randomly through many centuries without higher-dimensional guidance or protection, to the point that he vastly exceeded his more primitive forbears.

This idea is like a nut-shell without a nut-meat inside – a hollow shell of an idea that fails to live up to any intended or comprehensible potential. It is presumptuous to assume that a human being is simply an animal with a superior brain, despite pointed biblical disclosures to the contrary, indicating that it has simply taken man a long while to reach the understanding that his origins are first and primarily spiritual (1 Cor. 15:47).

After his spiritual rebirth on the Damascus Road, Saul son of Kish – later renamed Paul – disclosed that a human being is composed of not one body, but two: one an outer-shell temporal flesh “natural body” (1 Cor. 2:9-14), and also an invisible soul body within it, composed of a portion of GOD the Father’s Holy Spirit Energy (1 Cor. 15:35-44). And he also revealed that the “first body” was not spiritual: that the “natural” body had preceded the incarnation of the soul (Cor. 15:46). After the flesh body was in place, then the soul incarnated within it.

From these disclosures it is understood that man’s flesh body first appeared on the earth – not as an ape-like creature, but as a human flesh being that evolved through many centuries until angels were able to be infused, or infuse themselves, into them. In short: the Spirit of GOD preexisted man’s manifestations on the earth, and his flesh body appeared later in a form into which soul-portions of GOD were able to incarnate. It was a Divine development that afforded GOD the opportunity to test his spirit Children in a free-willed environment in order that they might develop themselves by their experiences, gradually learning to obey HIS Will (Heb. 5:9).

Scientists have learned that homo sapiens has populated the earth for many millennia – but they do not understand, nor yet accept, that during those earth lives there was not a spirit soul incarnated in those primeval bestial beings. After an adequate period of development, flesh bodies were Divinely upgraded to enable them to receive and accept compatible souls composed of GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy. This spiritualization process is described by Apostle Paul in His letter to the Ephesians at 2:1-5, 18-22.

The souls in man are actually the spirits of angels Created by GOD, and Made by Christ HIS Son; as Jesus subtly divulged when, speaking of “the children of this world,” He declared that those who are “worthy to attain to resurrection from the dead cannot die any more,” because they “are equal unto the angels and are the children of GOD, being the children of the resurrection” (Lk. 20:36). For those who will receive and accept it, this comment, it conveyed the understanding that the spirit-content of the souls incarnated in man are actually the spirit-bodies of the Angels of GOD. These angelic souls do not die after each testing incarnation in flesh: The flesh dies, but the soul is returned to “the inter-between” – a “half-way house” of sorts, between the earth dimension and heaven – where it undergoes a contemporary judgment (Heb. 9:27). There a soul apparently receives a heavenly assessment of its most recent earth incarnation, and it is then determined where and how it will next manifest. During pre-Christ days decision apparently was exclusively in the province of GOD the Father; but after HE empowered HIS Son over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), Christ the Son took over the reigns of governing mankind. He assumed that exalted office, with the assistance of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, sent as “another Comforter” (Jn. 15-17, 26; Jn. 15:26; and Jn. 16:7,12-15).

Early-on the Bible divulged that when the first spiritualized man, Adam, incarnated in the earth plane he was under a severe obligation not to use knowledge in any way that might tamper with good or evil, or with GOD’s spiritual rules and laws applicable to the earth plane. Man was to simply follow GOD’s Will, walk a straight line, and not go off on his own to satisfy his own flesh impulses. Man’s incarnations in flesh on the earth are an inducement for him to focus on converting his flesh “natural self” (1 Cor. 2:12-14), into an earthbound spiritualized “heaven-bound” being.

It is biblically disclosed that for any man to ignore or reject GOD’s Will, the penalty is certain death (Gen. 2:17). This did not mean that his soul was mandated by GOD to die as a result: it meant that his earth life in that current incarnation was at risk because of his disobedience (Gen. 38:7-10). As divulged in Gen. 6:1-7: souls incarnated in flesh bodies that strayed too far from GOD’s Will had nearly caused GOD to abandon HIS creation of mankind, having by their own self will let themselves be drawn into wicked beastly ways; which was far from GOD’s intentions. Gen. 6:3 notes that mankind is only “also” of flesh: that his flesh body is only of secondary importance. It is his spirit, his soul, that is of primary importance, being a portion of GOD the Father’s Spirit Energy, of which Jesus Christ, GOD’s Son, was the Maker:

“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.” (1 Cor. 8:6)

GOD the father’s Spirit Light Energy of Creation is the Divine Spirit matrix (Jn. 4:24) existent above all, through all and in us all (Eph. 4:6). Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, is seated at GOD’s right hand in heaven (Heb. 1:1-4), empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18) as our Beloved Lord the Son of GOD: our Savior, Intercessor to GOD, and high priest in heaven forever; who first descended into the earth as Adam (Lk. 3:38; 1 Jn. 3:8), and later as Jesus Christ ascended into the heavens that He “might fill all things.” (Eph. 4:9-10)

“This man, because He continues forever, 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.” (Heb. 7:24-25)

Series to be Continued in Message 7 - Book Two - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.