THE SPIRIT LETTERS

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

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

“If men obey GOD and serve HIM, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, they shall die without knowledge (Job 36:11-12) We ought to obey GOD, not men…(Acts 5:29); and we are witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom GOD hath given to them that obey HIM (Acts 5:32). The writer to the Hebrews says of Jesus Christ the Son of GOD: “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered; and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him” (Heb. 5:8-9).

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

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

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

WHO WAS ASAPH?

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

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

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

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

“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered: and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. Called of GOD an high priest after the order of Melchizedec, of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.” (Heb. 5:8-11)

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

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

Message 38 - Book Five

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SQUARE PEGS FOR ROUND HOLES

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

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

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

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

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

MESSAGE 36 - BOOK 5: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

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

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

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

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

The Son of GOD by his earth experiences :

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

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

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

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

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

Series to be Continued….

Message Thirty-Five: Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Be Continued….

MESSAGE 34 - BOOK 5:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE ROLE OF HORMONES IN HOMOSEXUALITY

 Homosexuality is an anomaly in mankind’s incarnations in flesh in the earth dimension; an abnormality in the development of human beings that has its source in man’s extremely complex developmental processes. Hormones stand out as a principal agent causing homosexual problems.

 A hormone is defined as a chemical substance produced in an endocrine gland that is transported in the blood stream to a certain tissue on which it exerts one or more specific effects; according to scientific findings,  a human being’s sexual organs — especially in the female — are controlled and coordinated by subtle hormonal signaling, although both male and female hormones in the gonads [male and female reproductive glands] play key roles in each individual human being’ development from infancy into a mature adult individual.

 The hormones of the testes control the development of the secondary sexual characteristics of the male, whereas the hormones secreted in the ovaries are produced primarily in the ovarian follicles. They are called estrogens and are produced in the granulosa cells. They include estradiol, which is the most important, and estrogens, which is related chemically to estradiol; and is similar in action, but much less potent.

 This overly brief description is intended only to convey the idea that the above-described hormones exert a powerful influence upon both male and female human beings as they develop and grow into manhood and womanhood. Concededly, the development of a human being from the time of its conception and birth is a much more complex process than we usually are inclined to consciously consider in the normal course of our  lives. For example we rarely give thought to the fact that FSH, a follicle-stimulating  hormone, is employed in the ripening of the follicles in the female ovary; or that LH is the luteinizing hormone that influences secreting cells of the ovaries and testes, to maintain their normal activity; or that the lactogenic hormone maintains secretion of corpus luteus to initiate the lactation processes when they are due to commence. These matters are quite beyond the ordinary considerations of mankind: yet they provide us with the clear understanding that such processes as these are crucially important to the development of mankind, and that there can be many dysfunctional occurrences as these complex naturally-timed, finely-tuned functions are naturally caused to take place. There are far too many to be detailed in this brief article, but it is not necessary to consider all of them here for our purposes. What needs to be considered is that during the many intricately-timed complex developments from the time of the conception and birth of a human child until it matures into an mature adult there are numerous opportunities for the chance intervention into that precious process for anomalous and sometimes dysfunctional changes to take place. Among those changes is the inculcation into a human being of what may be considered an abnormal dysfunction: homosexuality. 

Homosexuals generally feel that their desire for individuals of the opposite sex is a natural feeling: and actually for them it really is! The following newspaper article presents an instance in which a clearly-defined female has been — through no fault of her own — been endowed with male characteristics, including a male type of physical body that enables here to excel at a sport in which those of masculine capabilities ordinarily prevail over female competitors: 

SPRINTER’S CASE IS SPELLED OUT

 South Africa’s Caster Semenya caused a big stir at the recent world track and field championships in Berlin. She won the 800 by more than 2 seconds and it wasn’t long before calls went out, not just for drug testing, but for gender testing as well. Reports are now circulating the Semenya is indeed a woman, but she may have up to three times the normal amount of {male}testosterone for a woman.”

 There is of course no insinuation here that Semenya is homosexual, but the fact that her system is permeated with the male hormone testosterone to the extent that she was able to “win the 800″ against other female competitors leads to the high degree of probability that she was the natural recipient of male hormones during her development into maturity, which was apparently not caused by anything she did to herself.  If such unintentional biological changes such as these are considered in the broad sense, then it is more than probable that one cause of homosexuality is the aberrational effect of “misfired” hormones. That being the case, society will do well to understand that condition as being a natural development in mankind. It does not mean that the condition should be considered normal in homo sapiens, or to be exalted or boasted, but it should perhaps be accepted as a flaw in genetic development , blameless to the individual who bears it without having knowingly or intentionally having induced it into him/her self.  Thus considered in the case of hormone inconsistencies, homosexuality is not a condition to be overcome to the extent an individual affected by it is able to do so.

 This conclusion is reached because homosexual relationships are unable to produce children in the natural way human beings reproduce, which fact leads to the conclusion that homosexuality is not an intended result of normal human sexuality.

Message 33 - Book 5:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Early-on in the Bible it is written that “There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding” (Job 32:8). It is understood that this spirit is composed of two specific parts: one part is a portion of spirit energy from GOD, which in its original condition is a portion of a human being’s spirit energy that commences its development when it incarnates in a flesh body, and commences a series of earth experiences, each of which lasts as long as that flesh body is able to support and maintain life.

 When for whatever reason(s) that flesh body is no longer able maintain life, the soul cannot maintain life itself within that flesh body that is no longer alive: it is compelled to depart from that body, from whence it is translated into another one: the body of an newborn infant, in which it grows into childhood and then into maturity. The soul in that way continues its development life after life, gradually accumulating its experiences through a succession of bodies — often in the same family lineage — until it reaches a point in its development that it is able to overcome the temptations of earth, and is prepared to be raised up into much higher eternal heavenly dimensions of life.

Apostle John, in Jn. 16:33, quotes Jesus Christ as having declared: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that we “should not be overcome of evil, but instead overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:21).

 A supremely important spiritual principle is written in John’s Revelation:

“That which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations” (Rev. 12:26).

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. Behold, I come swiftly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my GOD, and he shall no more go out: and I will write upon him the name of My GOD, and the name of the city of my GOD, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my GOD: and I will write upon him my new name.” (Rev. 3:10-12).

 In sum, each soul commences its earth life when it is incarnated into the flesh body of an infant, learns about life as it grows to maturity while experiencing life in the earth dimension, and when the flesh body that has contained it is no longer able to support life, the soul moves to a place which some have defined as The Interbetween, where it remains until its next destination is determined in heavenly dimensions. Then, born into another human body, that of an infant, it resumes its skein of earth experiences, meeting life as it develops through its many experiences, to continue in the cycles presented to it.

 By analogy, this process in its basic stages is remindful of the development of a butterfly in its chrysalis stage — the pupa of a butterfly encased in a cocoon; representing a stage in that creature’s process of development between larva and adult, when many important changes occur. In the case of the human soul, encased in a series of flesh bodies life after life, it experiences the environment of the earth into which it is repeatedly projected in order that it may experience a form of life — albeit not the kind of life to which it may attain if it overcomes the earth conditions and is able to rise above the planet to which it is consigned until it finds its way out by graduating into eternal dimensions of GOD’s and Christ’s Light.  The butterfly affords us a great lesson as it develops from pupa to its GOD-intended beautiful creature, doing so generation after generation, for all to behold, and from which we may learn important lessons of life!

To Be Continued….

Message 32 – Book 5: Somewhere Beyond Belief

An abortion marks the termination of an opportunity for one of a soul’s potential earth experiences. Incarnate earth lives and experiences are the way souls develop from basic “raw” spiritual beings, hopefully into sublime angelic beings raised up into eternal life in the heavenly dimension.

“The children of this world marry and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage: neither and they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of GOD, being the children of the resurrection.” (Lk. 20:33-36).

This quickening elevation comes at the end of a successful earth experience when and if a soul has totally repented of all wrongdoings, has turned away from negatives ways, lives life in accordance with biblical teachings and has accepted Jesus Christ as its Savior, Intercessor and High Priest in heaven.   

The Bible spells out that when it is time, Christ the Son of GOD will return in a cloud to “receive unto Himself” all souls that are His (Jn. 14:1-4); and when He has brought under His own power all those who reject Him, He will return them to GOD the Father in order that “All may be in all.”

But man has long made himself a victim of his own flesh desires, and tends to expend much of his time in flesh on the earth pursuing sexual gratification; often in nefarious unspiritual ways. It is clear that man’s principal pathway lies in ignoring physical temptations, which, upon examination, prove to be illusory, temporal, and to lead him nowhere of value. The life of Jesus the Son of GOD illustrates that it is the life of spiritual purity that leads to eternal life in heaven: that the sexually misled individual will find only an empty channel leading nowhere: certainly not to heaven.  Spiritual desires lead to spiritual goals: when this is learned, MUCH is learned! Jesus Christ made the Way passable into heaven for all who understand that He is the Son of GOD, who entered in the earth dimension to help as many as possible find and follow Him to GOD the Father and into eternal life. He gave His earth life on the Cross after living a perfect life in the earth dimension, thereby illustrating for us how we do well to follow as best we can in His footsteps.

Whenever a male and female human being give in to their flesh desires which results in an abortion, they tamper with GOD’s creative forces with far reaching negative consequences. On the other hand, when a male and female have been brought together by the Holy Spirit in marriage, their entire relationship is based on spiritual values. It follows that abortions would be anathema to them.

To Be Continued….

Message Thirty-One - Book Five:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When the time approached for Jesus of Nazareth to sacrifice His life on the Cross, He spoke endearingly to followers, saying:

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go you cannot come; so now I say to you. A new commandment I give unto you. That you love one another; as I have love you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another” (Jn. 13:33-35).

 But it was clear that Apostle Simon Peter was of a mind to follow Jesus right then, and he asked the Master where He was going. Jesus answered, saying:

“Where I go you cannot follow me now, but you shall follow me afterwards.” Peter then said to Him, “Why can I not follow you now?  I will lay down my life for your sake” (Jn. 13:36-37). At that time, Jesus was due to be taken up into heaven and to be positioned at GOD His Father’s right hand, to be empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). But His Apostles had no idea what was to happen to Jesus, even though the time was at hand. Jesus then uttered his remarkably prophetic words that were destined to echo and re-echo through time:

 “Let not your hear be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. 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. And whither I go you know, and the way you know” (Jn. 14:1-4).

These four prophetic verses constituted a hugely important prophesy of things due to transpire in this current period when the time for the return of the Son of GOD is falling due: when He is to return in the Cloud to take hands-on dominion over all the earth; and to receive the spirit souls of all those who had truly believed in Him and faithfully followed Him and the New Covenant Gospel He preached.

 Thus when the loyal Peter asked Jesus why he could not follow Jesus at that time, Jesus, knowing that it was almost time for Him to be taken up into heaven to be empowered by GOD His Father to save the souls of those who believe in GOD and also in Him, He admonished Peter in accordance with Jn. 13:36-38, supra. Jesus knew Peter and knew that he was to be taken up into heaven later, after He, Jesus, was empowered to do so; but he knew that as of the time the conversation took place it was not yet time for Peter’s Ascension to take place, for which reason Peter could not right then go where Jesus was going. Once Jesus’ Spirit was empowered by GOD to save souls, He began to freely save the souls He knew were worthy of His Father’s consideration.

 An example is seen in that case of the man who was on the Cross with Jesus to be crucified. He pleaded with Him, saying, “Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom,” for he was convinced that Jesus was Christ, the Son of GOD, and that He could save him. As was written, “And a superscription also was written over Him, Jesus, in letter of Greek and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, ‘If thou  be Christ, save thyself and us.’ But the other answering rebuked him, saying,

“Dost not thou fear GOD, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man has does nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto you, today thou shalt be with me in paradise” (Lk. 23:38-43).

It is noteworthy that at that time Jesus did not save the man’s soul: rather, He relied upon GOD to save the man’s soul when he came before Him in heaven for judgment.

We know from the Holy Bible that it is impossible for flesh and blood bodies of human beings to be saved into heaven — to inherit the Kingdom of GOD (1 Cor. 15:50). Thus it is evident that no man in his flesh condition can be saved into heaven: it is the human spirit, the soul, that is enabled by the Holy Spirit Energy of GOD the Father and that of Jesus Christ, who receives GOD’s Holy Spirit without any measure or limitation (Jn. 3:34-36), that is able to quicken acceptable souls into eternal life in GOD’s and Christ’s Light. As the spiritually enlightened Apostle Paul noted:

“There is one GOD and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of gift of Christ” (Ephes. 4:5-7). But those who come to GOD must believe that HE is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek HIM, for without faith it is impossible to please HIM.

 And so, when Christ the Son of GOD returns in the Cloud to receive unto Himself all souls that are His, they will be received right into His Spirit — which is what is implied when it is written that those who are Christ’s are to be in Him! These saved souls will be absorbed into His Spirit Body, to be with Him to reside where the Son of GOD resides. There, He the Son will wait until His enemies be made His footstool, for by one offering He — His sacrifice on the Cross — He has perfected forever those that are sanctified (Heb. 10:13-14).

To Be Continued….

Message Thirty - Book Five: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Apostle John inscribed that Jesus had declared:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD, believe also in me.. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. 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 ye my be also.” (Jn. 14:1-3).

This remarkable comment by Jesus carried a greater meaning than is generally attributed to it! When Jesus uttered these words, He revealed a clue to a great mysery: that when He returned He would receive all those souls that were His “unto Himself!” Now, the Spirit in Jesus was that of GOD the Father, which He receives without any measure, as explained in Jn.3:34. Because the Father loves HIS Son, HE has given all things into his hand; so that He that believes in the Son has everlasting life (Jn.. 3:35-36). Because Christ the Son of GOD has the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father, the Son is in His Father — His Spirit Energy is contained within that of His Spirit-Father. Christ the Son as Jesus was able to be “raised up” to GOD His Father’s right hand in heaven, where He was empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). Those souls incarnated in flesh bodies on the earth — as the Son of GOD was as Jesus of  Nazareth — are situated as stepping stones leading to their being raised up into heaven where the Son of GOD is positioned in the heavenly hierarchy.

Christ the Son of GOD has been empowered to raise up those souls incarnated in the earth plane, in the same way GOD the Father raised up the soul of Jesus Christ: who now is able to raise up souls which are “quickened” by His Spirit Energy. The Son does not possess all the power of GOD the Father; but He is able to save souls, as the Bible discloses. Those saved souls can be raised up where the Son of GOD is — a stepping stone leading upward into the highest of heavenly dimensions. Each level is one of the rungs in “Jacob’s Ladder (Gen. 28:12-15):

“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of GOD ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereof thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed: and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all the places whither thou goest, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken of thee” (Gen. 12-15).

It is widely believed that these above words were uttered by GOD the Father, but in truth they were given by the Son of GOD, who is the Word of GOD. The Son of GOD was the Maker of all things for GOD the Father, as the Bible discloses when it is understood by its spirit, not by its letter (2 Cor. 3:3-6). It is confirmed by Apostle Paul after his enlightenment on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapters 9,21,26), when he wrote to the Corinthians:

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

When it was written in the Holy Scripture of truth that Beloved John had quoted Jesus Christ as having declared that He would return again and “receive those of His ‘unto Himself,” it meant that the Son of GOD would return when it is time, and would actually receive the souls of those who are His INTO HIS OWN SPIRIT. This time is not very far off, and those whose desire it is to be in heaven forever can improve themselves spiritually between now and then, so they may be members of the “sheep” of whom Jesus spoke, who are to be with Him in Heaven; rather than one of the “goats” described in Mt. 25:32. As written, we do not go to heaven, we grow there! Jesus Christ has opened the way into heaven; as stated in Jn. 14:1-4, and He admonished us that where He went ahead of us we know, and The Way we know (Jn. 14:4). Whether or not we choose to follow it, is a choice for each soul to make.

To Be Continued

Message Twenty-Nine - Book Five: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

He is to return in the Cloud — as the Bible records that He has before returned over the people of Israel — as has been foretold in Isaiah 35:10, and Isa. 51:11. It has been variously inscribed how the Son of GOD is to return from His place at the right hand of GOD the Father in heaven, is to return to take dominion over all the earth when it is time; as biblically inscribed. The time of His return is often referred-to as The Rapture, when He is to return in the Cloud to restore order over all the earth, and establish His New Covenant Gospel of love, truth, light, and fairness in all matters, and receive all souls that are His and have attained to eternal life.

The enlightened Apostle Paul, after his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapters 9 etc.) states that at a certain time a trump will sound, at which time what has come to be commonly known as “The Rapture” will take place. This raises the question as to what will take place at that time. Apparently human beings and their flesh bodies are not to be raised up into heaven because Paul, after his rebirth experience by which he gained knowledge of many truths previously unknown on the earth, taught:

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in the twinkling of an eye, the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption; and that mortal must put on immortality. So when this corrupted shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. Oh death where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to GOD, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:50-58).

Paul’s above-reported ideas suggest the possibility that all saved souls are to be raised up at one time, as an addition to the heavenly congregation. But Paul in another place indicates that each soul is to be raised up from the dead individually, and in a particular order:

“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming” (1 Cor.15:21-23).

The simple explanation of this is that the first Son of GOD was also the “firstfruit” whose Spirit incarnated in the body of  the first Adam, and later as the second and last Adam was quickened and resurrected by the force of GOD the FATHER’s Holy Spirit energy (1 Cor. 15:45-47). All those died who were “in Adam,” but after the Son of GOD returned as Jesus Christ of Nazareth in His perfected spiritual state, the situation was changed.

Paul completes his spiritual chronicle by indicating what was to take place after Jesus Christ was raised up to GOD’s right hand and empowered over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). Paul writes:

“Then cometh the end when He (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father, when He shall  have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For HE hath put all things under His feet. But when HE saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that HE is excepted, which did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto HIM that put all things under Him, that GOD may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15:24-28).

When Paul writes that “Then comes the end,” it appears that he refers to the end of the earth testing of souls…

To Be Continued….

Message Twenty-Eight - Book Five: SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Holy Bible spells out in detail what is to take place when the earth testing of souls is finished, and the Lord calls all of His to Him in the eternal heaven. Apostle John writes of this wonderful occurrence, as biblically set forth in Jn. 14:1-4:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD, believe ye also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. 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. And whither I do ye know, and The Way you know.”

The Lord the Son of GOD’s promise that He would “come again” and receive those who were His unto Himself, resolves a great mystery concerning His return. Because He has declared that He will receive souls who are His, it becomes clear that He will return as the Bible reveals — in a Cloud (”And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory” (citing Rev. 7:14-14). And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near (Lk. 27-28).

This above disclosure reveals that the Son of GOD is to return in a Cloud — as He has appeared many times to the people of Israel during past times — and that He will “receive unto Himself” the souls of those who have incarnated in flesh bodies and passed testing in the earth dimension. The remarkable aspect of this comment by the Son of GOD; quoted by Beloved John who undoubtedly heard Jesus declare it; is that it discloses to all mankind that when they have passed earth testing, they may expect to be “raised up into heaven” to the place where the Son of GOD has previously “gone up:” to where Christ the Son now is; at GOD’s right hand.

This answered the great question of what happens to a human being when it has fulfilled its earth mission. The flesh body is not raised up into heaven: as inscribed in 1 Cor. 15:50; “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD” (1 Cor. 15:50). In short, human beings should not expect to be raised up embodied in flesh into heaven: GOD is a Spirit (Jn. 4:24); for which reason HIS Son is also a Spirit, and those who stand to ascend into heaven where Christ the Son has gone on our behalf — and where GOD the Father of all is “Above all, through all, and in us all” (Eph. 4:6) – should be aware that spirit-souls are unable to take  their body with them if and when they are Saved into eternity by the quickening Holy Spirit of Christ the Son of GOD. It is the saved soul that is raised up to be with Christ the Son of GOD, and with GOD the Father forever in eternal life in heaven, because they are Spirits of the highest order. Human souls are the wondrous parts on mankind that are able to be changed instantly (1 Cor. 15:51-52) “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3: 18).

There is a natural (flesh) body, and there is a spiritual body (1 Cor. 15:44).

“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) and we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body; according to what he has done, whether it be bad or good (2 Cor. 5:6-10).

Therefore, as Apostle Paul admonishes us, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?” (2 Cor. 6:14).

Our earth experiences in flesh are all a test of us, that GOD may ascertain who will place his utter faith and belief in HIM and in HIS Son, whom HE sent into the earth dimension to make the Way passable into the eternal heavens for those who demonstrate while incarnated in flesh their desire to attain to eternal life in the Light with GOD the Father and HIS Son, and those who are found acceptable to reside forever there.

To Be Continued…

Message Twenty-Seven - Book Five:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When Apostle Paul underwent his spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapter 9, etc.) he received the Christ Spirit as well as that of the Holy Ghost, and he then understood spiritual mysteries that transcended what had been known by men on the earth until that time. Among other things, Paul wrote of what happens to the souls incarnated in men at the time when the flesh body dies. He wrote of this phenomenal process to the Corinthians, asserting, among other things:

“If Christ be not raised, our faith [in Him] is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die [For the Son of GOD as Adam had not yet spiritually perfected Himself sufficiently that He was empowered by GOD His Father to bring about the resurrection of the dead], even so in Christ shall all be made alive. BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER: Christ the firstfruits; afterward those that are Christ’s AT HIS COMING. The end comes when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to GOD, even the Father: when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all enemies under his feet.” (1 Cor. 15:17-25).

“And when all things shall be subdued under Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto HIM that put all things under Him, in order that GOD may be all in all. (1 Cor. 15: 26-28).

Yet, Paul says,

“Some man will say, “How are the dead raised up and with what body are they raised up? Thou fool, that which thou sows, thou sowest not that body that shall be [after death], but GOD gives it a body as it has pleased HIM, and to every see his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial [earthly] is another. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption [in flesh]; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown a “natural” {flesh] body; IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body (Cf. 1 Cor. 2:9-15).

“And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul: the last Adam [Jesus Christ] was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man [Adam] is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.. As is the earth earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; NEITHER DOES CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION.” (1 COR. 15:45-50).

By these words, Paul advises us that no man while in the flesh can inherit a place in heaven because all flesh is corrupt. Only when he becomes quickened by the Christ Spirit, can a man ascend forever into a heavenly place.

To Be Continued….

Message Twenty-six - Book Five -  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

The Holy Scriptures disclose that GOD is a Spirit — actually the highest form of Energy known to man, existent at the level of Creation – and that HE must be worshiped in Spirit and in truth (Jn. 4:24). These holy writings also reveal that GOD’s Son, who manifested in the earth dimension as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, receives GOD’s Holy Spirit without any limitation (Jn. 4:34), and further that GOD loves HIS Son and has given all things into His hand (Jn. 4:35). This disclosure equates with Jesus’ declaration: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Mt. 28:18). It is accordingly presumable that Jesus Christ the Son of GOD is also a Spirit, composed of  the Spirit Energy of GOD the Father of all things that ever were, are now, or that ever will be.

The Bible records that Jesus Christ promised that if He was ”taken up” He would return for those who were His. Apostle John reports that Jesus said:

“Let not your hear be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I do 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. And whither I go you know, and the Way you know.” (Mt. 14:1-4).

In that way, Jesus made it clear that after He was ”taken up” to GOD His Father’s right side, He would at some later time return in the cloud; the same or a similar one in which He had appeared in Egypt long before (Isa. 19:1): and similar to the way He had led His chosen people of Israel in a cloud all the night with a cloud of fire (Ps. 78:14). It was a voice from “the cloud” that apprised Peter, James and John on the Mount that: “This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you Him” (Mt. 17:5). Much later, Jesus said to  people present gathered aound Him on one occasion:

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.Then let them that who are in Judea flee to the mountains; and them which are in the midst of it depart from there; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance [GOD's vengeance upon mankind for his wickedness] that all things that which are written may be fulfilled. There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive in all nations: and 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; and the sea and the waves roaring: Men’s hearts failing them, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption dwaws near (Lk. 21:20-28).

This is the time when Christ is to return to retrive those who are His, in fulfillment of Jn. 14:1-4, as above noted. In those verses, Jesus is to “receive all of His “into Himself.”  That will be the way man’s salvation will come to pass, and it will take place for each soul when Christ the Son of GOD returns and “receives each of His INTO HIMSELF. It is thus understood that it is the spirit soul in each human being that will be drawn into the Christ Spirit — which is in fact THE REAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Each soul that is quickened by the Christ Spirit Energy will be literally received into Christ and saved into eternal life, as He has promised: they will never die, but have life everlasting (Gal. 6:8).

To Be Continued….

Message Twenty-Five - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

A mystery that has baffled mankind through the ages is: what is to become of souls incarnated in flesh bodies that inevitably die after each earth experience? What becomes of those souls that are freed from their earthly flesh containers? Where do they go? What is to be their fate?

We learn from the Holy Bible that what becomes of incarnated souls when the flesh body in which they have spent a lifetime on the earth depends upon the spiritual character, faith, and belief each has maintained during its earth experiences. The Bible defines a heavenly dimension of existence to which those souls may attain if they persevere in belief and faith in GOD their Creator, who at the time of their Creation set them on a pathway directed toward eventual eternal life with HIM in higher dimensions than the earth. But men in that primeval condition did evil to the extent that they were unsusceptible to attain to life in heavenly dimensions, where evil is impermissible. GOD then sent HIS Son into the earth dimension in flesh form, susceptible to death in the flesh, His mission: to overcome earth’s temptations on behalf of all mankind, and convert all who would believe in Him and follow Him so He could convert them into a condition in which they could be raised up in a perfected state into heaven to enjoy eternal life in GOD’s Light. These received their Holy Spirit Energy from the Son of GOD, who the Scripture of Truth tells us receives GOD’s Holy Spirit without any limitation (Jn. 3:34).

The Bible discloses that the Son of GOD first incarnated in the earth dimension as Adam the Son of GOD. In the New Testament, when Luke enumerates the generations of the Divine Lineage, he recapitulated them thus: “Canan , which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, WHICH  WAS THE SON OF GOD” (Lk. 3:37-38). Adam, then, was the first incarnation in the earth dimension of the spirit of the Son of GOD that was destined to live later as Jesus Christ of Nazareth, when He would become man’s Savior, Intercessor to GOD the Father, and eternal High Priest in heaven, in whose name men would ask all things of GOD the Father of all (Jn. 14:13).

It is understood by some that during the Son of GOD’s earth experience as Adam He fell from GOD’s Grace because of his failure to obey GOD His Father’s Will, for which reason when He died in the flesh He was taken to the “Interbetween” to await his next opportunity to reappear in the flesh in the earth dimension: which He did five generations later as Enoch the son of Jared (Gen. 5:18-24).  As Enoch, the Son of GOD “walked with GOD, and was not; for GOD took Him.” (Gen. 5:24). After that, He manifested successively in several flesh bodies on the earth in what became known as the Divine Lineage; at length appearing as the son of Mary by way of His prophesied virginal birth as Jesus of Nazareth (Isa. 7:14).

And speaking through Prophet Isaiah, the Lord foretold what was to become of the earth and its inhabitants when it was time:

“Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of HIS fierce anger (Isa. 13:9-14).

GOD sent His Son into the earth plane, and gave Him power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18) — even the power of judgment over all souls: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad” (1 Cor. 5:10). Because of the above-recorded writings in our biblical book of truth, we are able to understand much of what will take place when the period of the testing of souls expires and Christ at GOD’s right hand makes disposition of their respective futures.

To Be Continued…. 

Message Twenty-Four - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

At a time before His Ultimate Sacrifice on the Cross, Jesus declared to His followers: “I am the Light of  the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of life” (Jn. 8:12). Jesus said unto them: “Verily, verily, I say unto you that whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin (Jn. 8:34) If GOD were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from GOD; neither came I of myself, but HE sent me. If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.” (Jn. 8:52). The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily I say unto you that except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also shall my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor (Jn. 12:23-26)

The thrust of this declaration by Jesus, is that those who would believe in Him and follow Him and His New Covenant Gospel would not walk in darkness, but would have the Son of GOD’s Light of Life; and when it was time they would be with Him in heaven at GOD’s right hand. It has now been nearly two thousand years since Jesus spoke those words, and many signs indicate that the time nears for His return in the cloud to take dominion that all things which are written may be fulfilled (Cf. Dan. 9:26-27),

“For  then will be the days of vengeance that are to fulfill all things that are written, for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be lead away into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun and the moon, and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity: the sea and the waves roaring: 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 shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draws nigh” (Lk. 21:22-28).

There are signs that these thing are beginning to draw near, and with that in mind, here is a prayer for this current time of expectation:

Beloved Lord Jesus Christ the Son of GOD, in whose name we ask all things, we pray for your return in the cloud to take dominion as soon as it is time. And when you return, we pray that you will receive us unto yourself, and take us up with you where you are, that we may be with you there ever to serve you, when as and where you will have us, in accordance with your Will” (Jn. 14:1-4)  Amen.”

To Be Continued…

Message Twenty-Three - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

After Beloved Apostle John had inscribed his revelational message in Jn. 14:1-4 – declaring that Jesus Christ was going to prepare a place for those of His — John then wrote:

“Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that 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. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and HE shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever: even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, neither knows him: but ye know him: for he dwells with you, and shall be in you” (Jn. 14:10-11; 15-17) After Paul’s spiritual conversion and enlightenment on the Damascus Road — described in Acts Chapters 9 et seq. — Paul wrote to the Corinthians to explain that it was the Holy Ghost that would explain to those undergoing spiritual rebirth, the spiritual things that the Holy Ghost teaches; whereas the “natural man” — in his unspiritualized state — does not and cannot receive because they are foolishness to him; and that in his unspiritualized state he cannot know them, because they are only spiritually discernable.. This spelled out that unless and until a “natural man” unspiritualized by the Christ Spirit, underwent the spiritual rebirth process as had Paul, he would be unable to comprehend  “the things of the Spirit of GOD.” (1 Cor. 2:13-14).

Paul indicated that he had received these matters of truth, and spoke them: not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches: comparing spiritual things with spiritual (1 Cor. 2:13).  Before Saul of Tarshis’ spiritual rebirth, after which he was renamed Paul and made an Apostle of Jesus Christ’s, he had been an example of a “natural man,” devoting much of his time to persecuting Jesus’ followers.. Paul subsequently apologized for his militant behavior, explaining:

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the Ministry: who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting.(1 Tim. 1:12-16).

The thrust of this is that men are not ordinarily born in the earth dimension with a built-in knowledge and understanding of Jesus Christ’s New Covenant principles: during one earth experience of another they need to receive His Spirit Energy in order to become enlightened as did Apostle Paul — even to comprehend the spiritual meaning of Paul’s writings. The Bible contains “letter” writings, and spiritual writings, the spiritually meaningful ones ” that give life” take precedence (2 Cor. 3:3-6). Men receive the Christ Spirit when by believe in Him and dedicatedly follow Him as a Disciple. Those who are “born of water, and not of the spirit” — are able to become spiritualized with GOD’s Holy Spirit Energy by passing through a spiritual rebirth experience, as did Apostle Paul. As Saul son of Tish, Paul had been a tormentor of Jesus’ followers; but after his Damascus Road experience he turned his life completely around, and went off teaching and preaching Jesus Christ’s New Covenant Gospel. Belief and faith in Jesus Christ as man’s Savior, Intercessor, and Eternal High Priest in heaven is established by understanding and accepting that He, the Son of GOD in flesh, suffered unspeakable pain on the Cross to Save those who would ever afterward trust and rely upon Him to save them into eternity.

As Jesus is quoted as having declared: “In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you.” (Jn. 14:2). In those same four verses, Jesus promised to go and prepare a place for us, that where He is we may also be! (Jn. 14:3-4). The Holy Bible tells us that GOD raised up Jesus Christ to HIS own right hand in heaven, where He has been given power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). What do we have to gain by believing otherwise?

To Be Continued… 

Message Twenty-Two - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

When GOD the Father empowered Jesus Christ over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), it signaled fulfillment of the promise Jesus had made to His followers that He would return when it was time, and that in His absence He would prepare a place for them where He had gone. Apostle John reported that Jesus had specifically promised:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. 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 ye may be also. and whither I go ye know and The Way ye know.” (Jn. 14:1-4).

The thrust of these two remarkable verses is that Jesus knew that it was contemplated by GOD His Father that He was to be taken from the earth plane and raised up into the highest of all heavenly dimensions above the earth, and that He would at some time in the future draw all of those who would believe in Him UNTO HIMSELF. This meant that it would be the souls of those human beings who believe in Him and followed Him in faith and belief that He would save them into eternal life who would also be transformed and “taken up” – translated into heaven even as He had been — forever to be with Him.

One implication of Jesus’ promise to His loyal followers, was that they would need to die before this transformation and translation could take place: It was the souls of His Saved ones that would be transformed into eternity. After Apostle Paul’s illuminating spiritual rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, he admonished the Corinthians:

“This I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD; neither does corruption inherit incorruption” (1 Cor. 15:50)

Paul thus explained that “the last trump” SHALL SOUND, and in the twinkling of an eye the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we all shall all be changed so that then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory” (1 Cor. 15:52-54).

And Paul added:

“The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks to GOD, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”

Series to be Continued in Message 23 - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message Twenty-One - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

There is substantial biblical evidence that the term “Spirit” refers to Creative Spirit Energy, the source of which is GOD the Father of all things; who is HIMSELF a Spirit (Jn. 4:24) — actually THE SPIRIT “above us all, through us and in us all! It was GOD’s supremely powerful Spirit Energy that raised up HIS Son Jesus Christ from the dead: and if HIS Spirit dwells in a man, that Spirit shall quicken those mortal bodies in which it dwells (Rom. 8:11). His Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are HIS children (Rom. 8:16). Therefore if we are GOD’s children, we are heirs of  GOD, and joint heirs with Christ the Son of GOD, granted the opportunity to suffer with Him, that we may be glorified together (Rom. 8:16-17).

A Psalm of David — dedicated to the “chief Musician”, Asaph (who some understand to have been an earth experience of the Son of GOD) – advises that GOD is able to renew the spirit in a man at HIS Will: to create in him a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10.). This referred the spiritual rebirth process which so radically changed Saul of Tarsus from a persecutor of Jesus’ followers that he changed his belief and ways and went off serving his newly acknowledged Lord Jesus Christ. No longer a spiritual vagrant, Paul subsequently confessed that he had before been a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, but that he had obtained mercy because he had done what he did ignorantly in unbelief — that the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, for which reason he, Paul, had been granted mercy in order that in him, first, Jesus Christ might show a  pattern to those who would thereafter believe in Him to life everlasting (1 Timothy 1:13-16).

The risen Christ’s supervening spiritual power over heaven and the earth given to Him by GOD His Father (Mt. 28:18), leaves no doubt but that Spirit is a powerful Energy Form, which has been demonstrated through the ages by, for example, the power of fervent prayers (Jas. 5:16). The Bible records an instance in which the prayers of Jesus even restored to life the deceased body of Lazarus (Jn. 12:1-3). In that case it was evident that more is involved with prayers than the simple act of praying words: a transfer of Spirit Energy from Jesus to Lazarus was also a part of the saving process. As Jesus later declared: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profits nothing: The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life” (Jn. 6:63).

It is evident from the above verses that Spirit is a form of GOD-activated Energy that moves through space: that prayers are a form of such Energy, so that an individual in one area of the world can bring about positive changes, or negative ones, to someone at that time residing in a distant area of the earth. Those who pray for the good of others, do good things for themselves and others: whereas those who send out negative curses seeking to harm others, under karmic laws place themselves at risk. Those who condemn others actually effectively condemn themselves. For example, those Arabs who seek the destruction of Israel stand to attract spiritual forces that militate against themselves! This is why Jesus Christ the Son of GOD’s New Covenant of Love, Truth and Righteousness is to critically important: GOD the Father is the force behind HIS Son, and as Jesus taught: “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven” (Lk. 6:36-37). And He added: “The disciple is not above his master, but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Lk. 6:40-41).

Jesus was well aware that it was ncessary for Him to be slain and then raised up into heaven and empowered: “And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven. For as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For GOD so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but haverlasting life. For GOD sent not his Son into the world to condemn the worls; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believes in Him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not blieved in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This principal was expressed in Mt. 28:18, where it was written: “And Jesus came to them (His followers) saying, ‘All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.’”

It is understood from this spiritual empowerment by GOD the Father of HIS Son that the Spirit Church of  Christ is not necessarily always found in “churches of stone” on earth, but rather in heaven where the Son of GOD now resides at the right side of GOD the Father, who is a Spirit existent “above all, through all, and in us all” as noted supra at (Jn. 4:24). Thus the spiritual-religious believer in Jesus Christ who earnestly and fervently prays to GOD and to HIS Son while in a quiet place may expect to have his prayers received and acted upon by the Holy Ghost, who often appropriately intercedes on man’s behalf to bring to his mind all things Christ has ever said to him. As Jesus testified while He was incarnated on earth, “When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Sppiit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he will testfy of me. I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear to hear them now. Howbeit when he the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak; and he will show you things go come. He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and show it unto you. (Jn. 15:26; Jn. 16:12-15).

Jesus promised His followers that a day would come when He would return for them, so they would be able to join Him in heaven: “Let not your heart be broubled: ye belive in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I do to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you you unto myself: that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and The Way ye know. (Jn. 14:1-4).

At one point during His Ministry, Jesus counseled His followers: “Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the Light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not there he goes. While ye have the Light, believe in the Light, that ye may be the children of Light.” (Jn. 12:35-36). Even though Jesus Christ the Son of GOD has been raised up to GOD’s right hand, there is still time to find His Light and follow it to where He is!

To Be Continued… 

Message Twenty — Book Five — SOMEWERE BEYOND BELIEF

Whenever we pause from our daily routines to ponder how we came to appear on this far-flung planet, expending our life’s time focused on whatever comes to mind, we at times are moved to ponder the origins of our existence; which to our finite mind seems so incredibly far off and impossible to comprehend as to leave us utterly at a loss to continue our search for knowledge and understanding. Where do we search for such abstract information that can be relied upon?

Science depends upon that which may be utilized to observe what man seeks to study — even using the most advanced highly-developed technical gadgetry, from telescopes to microscopes and beyond. But, alas, even the most sophisticated of these is unable to afford man an understanding of the causes or reasons for all he beholds in the vast universe that enfolds him.

The Holy Bible provides mankind with an understanding of man’s proportionate relationship to his Creator. Speaking of the miraculous powers of GOD, Job declares that hell itself is naked before HIM, and that destruction has no covering — that GOD stretches out the north over the empty place, and even hangs the empty place upon nothing (Job 26:6-7). And Job adds, “There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding” (Job 32:8).

The Holy Bible explains that GOD’s Holy Spirit is a powerful Energy Form, capable of leading man safely out of spiritual darkness; which is the state of spiritual ignorance characteristic of man in the unspiritualized state in which he initially incarnates in flesh in the earth dimension. Until he attains to a spiritualized state or condition, he is a “natural man” as described by Apostle Paul:

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which GOD has prepared for them that love HIM. But GOD has revealed them to us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of GOD. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of GOD knoweth no man, but the spirit of GOD. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the  spirit which is of GOD; that we might know that things that are freely given to us of GOD. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy God teaches: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man 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. 2:9-14).

In these above-quoted verses, Paul refers to himself and those who have also received the Christ Spirit — as he had on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapter Nine) – as those who have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit Energy of Jesus Christ, which the Son receives from GOD the Father of all things without any limit (Jn. 4:34). In their new condition, they are able to receive and understand the thoughts and ideas of GOD. 

In his time, the Apostle John noted that “except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD (Jn. 3:3). John knew that a man is born of water when he is born in the flexh during an earth incarnation, and that he would be consigned to the earth dimension unless and until he was able to acquire the Spirit of Jesus Christ — which is the Spirit of GOD the Father of all things. Man’s spirit birth refers to the spiritual rebirth process that occurs when the Spirit Energy of Jesus Christ enters into an incarnated soul, quickening it so it undergoes a conversion from a “natural man” into a spiritualized  man as described by the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 2:9-14). Paul understood how that spiritually metamorphosing conversion takes place because he had himself experienced it on the Damascus Road at a time when he was still a “natural man.(Acts Chapters 9 etc.) At that time he had received the Spirit Energy of the empowered Christ the Son of GOD, as well as that of the Holy Ghost, after which he began to visit the various tribes to divulge to them what he had learned. 

It is understood that GOD’s Holy Spirit is the Spirit Energy the flows from GOD into HIS Son, which quickened Him into a powerful Heavenly Figure at GOD’s own right side — the position to which He was raised up and empowered by GOD His Father after His remarkable sacrifice on the Cross. Jesus Christ received that converting Spirit Energy without any limitation — “without any measure” (Jn. 4:34). When this unique transmission of Spirit-Enegy of GOD the Father began to flow into HIS Son Jesus the Christ, it then began to flow also from Christ into whomever He chooses to imbue it. It is a closed circuit, so to speak; not randomly made available to every soul. Only those incarnated souls who Are acceptable to Christ who “talk the talk and walk the walk” with the Son Are able to attain to the spiritualization process, because man’s earth experiences are a test designed to provide a way to establish which souls will believe in GOD and HIS Son, and believe in and follow both in faith and belief, always obedient to their Will.

On one occasion while the Son of GOD was incarnated on earth as Jesus Christ, He said to His followers: “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works that may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in HIM” (Jn. 10:37-38).

The process of spiritualization of souls by the powerful Holy Spirit Energy of GOD and His Son  is in some ways similar to the charging of a battery by a battery charger. To be successful, the battery being charged must be in a condition to receive the energy being discharged into it by the charger. In like manner, the soul of a “natural man” must be  prepared and susceptible to receive a powerful charge of Spirit Energy from the Son of GOD – which is the Spirit He receves from GOD the Father without any measure. When such a transmission takes place, the soul receiving Christ’s Saving Spirit Energy will usually be shaken by it, and undergo multiple manifestations of a spiritual kind. The Bible describes a number of such experiences: as in the case of Apostle Paul Himself. When the Spirit of the Lord the Son entered into Paul on the Damascus Road he was shocked into insensibility — as related in Acts Chapter Nine. And as other believers-in and followers of Jesus Christ underwent similar experiences, they also underwent testing by the Holy Ghost as they were converted from naural men into spiritualized men by the powerful Spirit of the risen Christ. This process continues in the earth dimension to this day, as souls incarnated in flesh continue to find and follow The Way Christ made passable from the lower levels of natural men, that leads to an eternal sanctuary in the Light of GOD and HIS Son above the bestial earth plane

Series to be Continued in Message 21 - Book Five — SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 19 - Book 5 - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

A determined little girl student wearing a supremely confident expression on her determined face sat at her school desk intently sketching on a drawing pad. Her teacher, monitoring the class at work, paused at the student’s desk and asked the little girl, “What are you drawing, dear?” The intent little girl replied, “This is going to be a picture of GOD!

The teacher replied, “Are you aware that nobody knows what GOD looks like?” to which the little girl, obviously undeterred, responded, “Well, they will when I get finished!”

GOD is spoken of countless times every day all over the world in many different languages by folks who speak of HIM as they might speak of a neighbor with whom they are well acquainted, although they feel close to HIM as the result of having read about HIM in the Holy Bible; even though it is written into the Holy Scripture of Truth that “GOD has made everything beautiful but has set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that GOD makes from the beginning to the end” (Eccles. 3:11). This admonishes us that however much we may learn of spiritual truths, we will not be able to elicit all aspects of our creation and our heavenly and earthly status. There are many reasons for this state of affairs, all of which rightfully belong in the province of GOD’s Will.

Not content with having limited man’s knowledge of all the many aspects of his creation, the Ecclesiastes writer disclosed, “I have seen the travail which GOD has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it” (Eccles. 3:10). Not only are we to be limited in what we can learn about our existence, we are advised that we are to be “exercised in travail” during our incarnate earthly learning experiences! Why should not such conditions predominate? GOD exists in dimensions far above and beyond man’s comprehension; should the statue understand the carver’s reasons why he chipped away as he chose to do?

But the Holy Bible supplies stepping stones to provide mankind a way to understand basic essentials in the process of his creation. The spiritually illuminated Apostle John established the all-important principle that GOD IS A SPIRIT (Jn. 4:25). Understood in its spiritual sense – in accordance with 2 Cor. 3:3-6 – GOD the Father is the Creator of all things that now exist, that have ever existed, or that will exist in the future. As Apostle Paul, after his powerful rebirth experience on the Damascus Road, disclosed to the Ephesians, “There is one GOD and Father of all, who is above us all and through us all and in us all (Ephesians 4-6).

By this we understand that GOD’s Spirit is Creative Energy existent at the highest and most powerful level known to mankind. It pervades all things, being the Spiritual Energy in everything that exists, including ourselves. Jesus declared that GOD the Father is in Him, and He is in GOD (Jn. 10:38). Thus we understand that GOD’s and Christ’s Spirit Energy are present in both. Thus the Spirit of GOD the Father of All things is in Jesus the Son of GOD, and that the Son of GOD is also a Spirit.

GOD, then, is a Spirit Energy having the property of being miscible within itself in all its various vibrational frequencies of which it is composed, and HE is able to control, regulate, and adjust them at HIS Will. And since GOD has seen fit to empower HIS Son over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18), presumably the Son also has the power to control and regulate all things at His own Will.

Series to be Continued in Message Twenty - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

Message Eighteen - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

A FEW SURPRISING BIBLICAL DIVULGENCES, EXPLAINED IN APOSTLE PAUL’S REVELATIONAL DISCLOSURE TO THE CORINTHIANS AFTER HE HAD UNDERGONE SPIRITUAL REBIRTH ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD, THAT THE BIBLE MAY BE VIEWED IN TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS: THE LITERAL ON ONE HAND, AND THE SPIRITUAL ON THE OTHER.

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of GOD; Who also has made us capable ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” (2 Cor. 3:5-6).

One of the most striking examples of this principle is found the Old Testament writing enumerating the two esteemed figures – Beloved Michael the Archangel and Beloved Archangel Gabriel – to each of whom are attributed an extremely high individual spiritual empowerment. But upon examining subsequent biblical New Testament writings we discover that the name Michael the Archangel was an appellation that during early times actually referred to the Son of GOD (Psalm 2:6-12), who subsequently became known on earth under the name, Jesus Christ of Nazareth., man’s Savior, and sole eternal heavenly high priest Intercessor to GOD.

The Holy Bible – considered in its spiritual sense – reveals that when Jesus Christ had fulfilled His excruciating blood sacrifice on the Cross on behalf of all souls at that time incarnated in the earth dimension or that in the future would manifest in flesh here, GOD gave Him power over heaven and the earth (Mt. 28:18). HE also increased the empowerment of Beloved Archangel Gabriel, who had demonstrated his faithfulness to the Son through the Old Testament period – as noted therein.

It was Beloved Gabriel who called from heavenly dimensions to Prophet Daniel, commanding him to “make Daniel understand” a particular vision he had seen (Dan. 8:16). This was not a small thing! It required the obviously powerful spirit of Archangel Gabriel to bring about a radical change in Daniel that would enable him to understand that which he had been unable to comprehend at all! Add to this, that Gabriel also subsequently appeared to Daniel, made contact with him and spoke with him, informing him that he been sent to give him skill and understanding (Dan. 9:21-22). It was thus clear that God had granted Beloved Gabriel a more than considerable spiritual empowerment.

Such appearances a a messenger of GOD became the pattern that was to be followed by the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth and Other Comforter. Jesus told His followers who kept His Commandments that He would ask GOD the Father to send in this powerful messenger in His name (Jn. 14:15, 26; Jn. 15:26; Jn. 16:9,12-15). It came to pass as had been prophesied. Luke 1:19 recounts that Gabriel appeared to Priest Zacarias to “answer his prayer,” and advise him that his wife Elizabeth was to bear a son, whose name was to be John, who was to be “filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother’s womb” (Lk. 1:11-25). Then Gabriel appeared again, “having been sent from GOD into Nazareth, a city in Galilee,” where, he advised Mary, she had found favor with GOD, and that she was to conceive and bring forth a son called Jesus, to whom GOD “shall give the throne of His father, David; and that He was to rule over the house of Jacob forever, and have an unending kingdom (Lk. 1:26-33), Gabriel explained to Mary that her cousin Elizabeth had also conceived a son in her old age, although she had at that time been barren: because with GOD nothing is impossible! (Lk. 1:36-37).

When the Old Testament days gave way to Jesus Christ and His New Covenant of Peace, Love, Light and Truth, the Son of GOD’s, the appearances of the prophets ceased, because by the power of the Christ Spirit and the Holy Ghost, every man became his own prophet. There was no longer any need for seers or soothsayers: those who believe in Jesus Christ inherit their own eternal Prophet, along with eternal life. As Beloved John wrote:

“Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. 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. And where I go you know, and the Way you know” (Jn. 14:1-4).

Series Continued in Message 19  

Message 17 - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF - Continued from Message 16

The biblical story of Hannah and Samuel discloses that they both battled against negative powers that sought to afflict them to prevent them from fulfilling their earth missions. The barren Hannah prayed feverishly to bear a spiritualized son, promising the Lord that she would see that he was raised in spiritual surroundings. After Samuel was born, she placed him with a priest who, it turned out, was not all that spiritual, but Samuel was able to fulfill his life’s mission despite the continual interventions of negative forces (1 Sam. Chh. 1-4). As Apostle Paul afterward cautioned, “we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22).

These negative forces frequently are able to veil a soul’s true spiritual condition, misleading it to mistakenly indulge carnal earthly ways. And whenever a misguided soul turns away from evil-doing, believes in the Lord and begins to live a spiritual life, satanic forces immediately spring to the attack. But if an afflicted person persists in faith and belief in the Lord, His Holy Spirit quicken that soul, and the Holy Ghost sent to provide a new foundational understanding of spiritual truths – as in the case of Apostle Paul. When that takes place, those who have previously been negatively inclined unbelievers often undergo a profound spiritual rebirth experience, after which they are inclined to live such spiritually escalated lives as to suppress and overcome negative forces. These converts pave a better way for themselves, as well as for those around them, as well as those who come after them: whose lives they influence. For instance, the children of two such parents, even when initially born into a negative situation, may find their lives powerfully influenced and altered for the good by positive changes their parents make, even in later years.

Children Inherit The Spiritual Condition To Which They Have Attained In Past Lives Man is composed of three parts: spiritual, mental and physical, for which reason a combination of these individual characteristics shapes the destiny of each individual. As written, mind is the builder: that which the spirit and body desires is brought into existence by the mind. But according to the Bible, a man should predominantly seek the survival of his soul, because his flesh desires lead him to no more than temporal satisfactions, whereas his soul can lead him into eternal life in GOD’s heavenly Light. It is the spirit in a man, his soul, that is intended to guide, move and direct him through his earth experiences, doing so in ways that will inspire him to overcome the powerful animalistic carnal earthly desires that retard his spiritual development.

The “natural man” (Heb. 5:12-14) tends to consider his physical body the dominant and most important part of his being, his mind a complementing useful tool designed to assist him in whatever ventures his desires lead him to undertake. If his desires are selfish and his actions harmful to others, another peg is inserted into the negative side of his karmic record, and the particular causative defects, if left uncorrected, are handed down to be dealt with in future generations. On the other hand, if during previous incarnations a man has, even by old age, reached the spiritual understanding that doing evil is negative, forbidden and spiritually costly (Heb. 5:12-14), it may be so indelibly imbedded into him as to carry over into successive earth experiences. In any event, personal restraint is not easily brought to bear. As Jesus taught, the spirit is willing to hold the errant body in check, but the flesh is weak and tends to give in to carnal desires (Mt. 26:41).

Infants enter into a world filled with karmic traps, and need all the assistance they can get to keep from becoming snared by negative forces (Ps. 119:110). They bring with them whatever karmic gains or losses they have sustained in their previous earth experiences. Under the beneficent terms of Jesus Christ’s New Covenant, the heavenly fate of children now depends upon their inborn karmic condition. It is contingent upon whether they in some way find and follow the Way into the eternal Light of GOD that Jesus Christ the Son of GOD has made passable. And that in turn depends largely upon family influences brought to bear upon children during their formative years, and even afterward.

If, during one or more previous earth experiences, a child has been been close to the Son of GOD during times when He appeared on earth as Adam, Enoch, Joshua, Joseph, or during any of His other earth manifestations – especially when He was Jesus of Nazareth, and more especially if He has saved that soul. A spiritual providence acts on that child’s behalf. At some point in its earth experience, the Lord may intervene with His powerful quickening Spirit Energy – as He did with Apostle Paul on the Damascus Road – to open and illuminate a soul’s understanding (Lk. 24: 45). The Holy Ghost may illuminate that soul’s knowledge of important spiritual truths , including things to come (Jn. 16:7,12-15). But biblical writings disclose that it doesn’t just happen as the result of a few passing wishful thoughts: it comes about as the result of a serious determined seeking of the Lord (Heb. 11:6).

The heavenly rule that “All things gained or loosed on earth are gained or loosed in heaven” (Mt. 18:18), works harmoniously with the 3 to 4 generation rule. The two together define the proposition that there is an eternal heavenly dimension (Jn. 14:1-4) to which incarnated earthbound souls may hope to aspire. But biblical writings caution that those who do evil, who are disobedient of GOD’s Will, are earmarked for disaster if they fail to change their ways before the destructive Armageddon Angels descend upon the earth in fulfillment of longstanding prophecies (Rev. 16:15-18; 20:6,14; 21:8).

“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.” (Eccles. 12:13-14)

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.” (1 Cor. 12:13)

“For ye are all the children of GOD by faith in Jesus Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”. (Gal. 3:26-29).

End of Series Entitled: Karmic Effects Of The Biblical 3 to 4 Generation Rule.

Next Series begins in Message 18 - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.

Message 16 - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF: Continuing From Message 15

Some Ramifications Of The Three To Four Generation Rule

Surveying man’s spiritual condition today, it is difficult to overlook his wilful depletion of his hard-gained spirituality, and his commensurate decline into the same pit of carnal depravity as caused the awesomely destructive Great Flood in Noah’s time. His spirit debasement is profuse, flooding into all aspects of his life. Political, governmental, even some religious organizations, have increasingly tended to adopt spiritually corrupt ways. Increasing numbers of liberal-thinking, carnal-minded people have abandoned their spiritual roots to focus on seeking power, wealth, fame and other material gains; no longer trusting and following the Lord their Maker, and GOD the Father of all things – to do their own will. It is readily understandable why man’s backsliding spiritual disobedience of HIS laws of love, truth and righteousness will be brought to a sudden halt when Armageddon comes upon the earth, to remove intransigent evildoers and unbelievers (Jude 6-8, 14-19). For the good of all who strive for an eternal heavenly city (Ps. 48:8; Heb. 11:10-16); Rev. 21:2,10), there must come a cleansing of all those on the earth who remain negative to that time. It is foretold to be the most terrible time ever seen on the earth or that ever will be (Dan. 12:1-3) and is projected to come swiftly at the time of the return of Christ the Son to take dominion over the earth:

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so also shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken and the other left. Watch therefor: for ye know not what hour your Lord does come.” (Mt. 24:37-42)

These are not, as many suspect, idle speculations inscribed in the distant past, aimed at projecting things destined to come to come to pass in our time. They will occur as the result of the incomprehensible power of GOD, who requires respectful obedience from those given life by HIS Holy Spirit Energy. The 3 to 4 generation rule is the balancing beam on which mens’ works are assessed, their every action in some inscrutable way examined and ultimately brought into judgment (2 Cor. 5:10). The rule profoundly affects man’s spiritual development and his progress toward a place in GOD’s heavenly hierarchy.

The burden falls heavily upon each and every man and woman to make careful choices in selecting a mate with whom to bring children into the world. A marriage to an unspiritual mate decreases the chances that the members of a family being formed will likely make significant gains toward reaching a heavenly estate. For a member of any family to live carelessly and immorally is to invite disaster for their children, for the effects will be felt for 3 to 4 generations. Anyone who selects a mate and marries for shallow carnal reasons, overlooking spiritual considerations, can expect the souls of their children to be drawn from a pool of relatively unspiritual souls waiting in other dimensions for a favorable earth opportunity. Incarnating souls are fitted compatibly into a lineage existent at the same comparative spiritual level, in the same way they inherit parental physical and mental characteristics. For example, the spiritual level of Isaac was proportionate to that of his spiritually-quickened parents, Abraham and Sarah; whereas the spiritual inheritance of Ishmael depended upon that of his father, Abraham, as influenced by that of his mother, Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian handmaid, who was not Abraham’s binary soul mate. Her influence on following generations could not rise to the level of Jacob and Rachel and Leah. And it is noteworthy that the children of Rachel were more spiritually quickened than those of Leah.

Biblical examples of the 3 to 4 generation rule confirm that spirituality is an inheritable characteristic. In light of that premise, it is not surprise that Hannah, the illuminated Prophet Samuel’s mother, was extremely spiritually quickened before her son was conceived and born. Although barren for years, when she prayed for a son, she promised to”give him to the Lord all the says of his life” (Sam. 1:11). Hannah was a keenly sensitive prophetess, aware of many abstract, little-known spiritual truths. For example, it was written that she knew:

“The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory; for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and He hath set the world upon them. He will keep the feet of His saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness: for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed”. (1 Sam. 2:6-10).

We can be certain that Samuel and his mother, Hannah, were binary soul mates, born into a mother/son relationship, even as was Beloved Mary and Jesus long afterward. In Samuel’s case, he inherited his high spirituality from his mother, in accordance with the positive side of the 3 to 4 generation rule. Likewise, Jesus Christ was born as the product of a series of highly spiritualized unions. However, it needs to be kept ever in mind that satanic spiritual influences play a devastating role in the development of highly spiritualized men and women, incessantly attempting to tempt them, to draw them into unspiritual ways. Sex is a powerful force, tempting many to disrespect their spirituality to satisfy physical desires in useless, even harmful, ways. As written, when all else fails, the devil sends a woman! (Cf. Prov. 5:3-10, 18-21; 7:1-18; 21:9,19; 22:14; etc.)

Series Continued in Message 17 - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.