A Brief Study of Reincarnation
Incarnation – incarnation – re-incarnation. What an avoidable if possible discussion – correct?
Let’s begin shall we with a good definition of each term. Our initial search produces a cop-out, it says incarnation is “an incarnate being.” Fair enough – incarnate very simply states “embodied in flesh.” Finally another excellent source touts the definition straight and forward as: “the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form.” How convenient, they left out the reference to flesh being the earthly form; and how ridiculous because words written with inconclusive intent do not have to defend midst a reasonable debate.
Incarnation – as it pertains to Christianity is a noun denoting: the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ.
It’s quite simple, to incarnate is to exist in a bodily form. So then every natural birth is to be considered an incarnation. Simply stated, to be re-birthed or “born again” is to be reincarnated.
Hold on though. That same bunch we consulted before posits the definition of reincarnation to be “the state of being reincarnated.” Ha … here we go with the same run-around. We finally found a source to say reincarnation means: “a rebirth of a soul in a new human body.” An additional source deals with the actual etymology of the English word, and not the concept only. It clarifies it thusly so: The noun reincarnation comes from the Latin roots re, meaning again, and incarnare, meaning to make flesh. It rather speaks for itself.
Now to my words. Reincarnation is then the reappearance of the soul surrounded in another form of flesh. A kernel of corn reproduces itself, not by the shell that surrounds it, but rather, by the germ of life that is hidden within. The Creator of All has set divine laws in the universe that co-ordinate incarnation and reincarnation. These laws; are hidden, yet revealed, in both the written and the oral languages of Torah/ teaching. At the very least, a great deal of teaching on this subject exists in what is often incorrectly labeled as the Law of Moses. When discovered and rightly divided, these precepts mandate the wise to readjust what others so loosely term to be as wisdom. True wisdom precedes understanding and yet it is understanding that defines the knowledge of wisdom gained. One knows, or one does NOT know; nevertheless, it is recorded “but the wise shall understand.” The last sentence bears repeating or at least paused over.
The sometimes lengthy subsistence of certain giant oaks, having challenged the material world through obvious despair and triumph alike, does not take a complete array of itself until just before its demise. Perchance the oak dispels properly the multiplicities of accumulated experiences; the conscious release assembles the knowledge of its coming and going. From the root of the inner, it returns in a higher consciousness to the same, and faithfully becomes the next. Obviously there is a lot to learn from a mature oak, one needs only an acorn.
The first body of the first Adam houses Adam’s spirit and soul. The soul and spirit needs and receives correction in the second body of the second Adam that houses the spirit of the Christ. This correction is realized by way of development. Adam was prophetically promised to live as long as a mighty oak might live; a thousand years! He lived only 930 in the first body and so we discover there are reasons why this longevity, or the lack thereof, was recorded. If the promise was 70 years shy, then a second body would be needed to live in an extension of the first promise. Does this ring in any one’s ears? Through the teaching of the anointed concepts lodged in the mind or will of The Creator and Father of All, one’s soul and spirit takes on an elevated purpose as it relates to consciousness. In referencing the divine laws mentioned above – one law is; Father Produces Son, and the will of Creator is seen accomplished in the created, or that which is called creation. The soul of the man must receive the knowledge of the son that produces the image of the father.
Jesus gave sight to a certain individual who had been blind all of his life for one reason. That reason was to record his revelation not only to those then present but for us to understand as well. He was also providing witness to what was promised Adam. Mark 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. If I don’t explain it you will not get it. He wasn’t just blurry eyed, he was revealing what we all should see and understand when first able to see the creation of Adam. He was created to live a thousand years – even as a tree. Adam was cut off from the “tree of life” until the indiscretions of his mind could be corrected. This tree represented life eternal or to be infinite and without end. The number 1000 represents this aspect of being infinite, and thus eternal. Life was symbolized by an association to the tree; initially it is called “the tree of life.” Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree. The tree represented life and so it also represented death. To hang on a tree in death meant these promised years were cut off for reasons apparent. Nebuchadnezzar’s sin was brought to bear by his vision of a great tree (that represented his very life) as it was about to be hewed down.
Above there was a mention that correction is realized by way of development. Nebuchadnezzar’s correction was about to happen. By way of symbolism his soul’s spirit was forced into the form of a second body. This is reincarnation according to classic definition. Correction of the soul in another body is either challenging spent with a beast mentality until one comes to their senses, or it can be spent skipping to the Christ body. This is the second body of the second Adam that houses the spirit of Christ where the law: Father Produces Son culminates.
Amid interpolated assertion, this is how it is stated in Matthew 11:27:All things are delivered unto me of my Father (The Creator – Elohim): and no man (Adam) knows the Son (the anointed word – The Christ), but the Father (Who – in the fullness of time released it from himself); neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son (made in the image of the Father) will reveal him.
Herein this scripture referenced above are two distinct levels of knowledge, as indicated by the two highlighted “knows.” This development constitutes a consolidated knowledge of the below with that of the above, and the two basic levels of knowledge meld into an elementary stage that eventually defines what “ONENESS” actually is.
All precepts, including the doctrine of reincarnation, which the Holy Ghost our teacher desires us to study, in order to know, are invariably portrayed in the lives of the patriarchs. One such notable exchange to this effect is in the spirit and soul that came to inhabit the fourth of twelve brothers who collectively become Israel.
Judah, son of Jacob, had 5 sons, three by Shuah the Canaanite and two by Tamar the “palm tree” or the upright (righteous) widow of Er and Onan and fiancée of Shelah.
Judah begot Er who died leaving Tamar and himself without child.
Judah begot Onan who denounced his brother and died leaving Tamar, Er, and himself without child.
Judah begot Shelah who was temporarily protected from the visitation of the sins of the father unto the third generation. Instead, that visitation would come to rest upon the fourth generation as it was befitting Judah. Shelah’s name means a “request” or “petition”, connoting that through him a significant petition would inevitably be requested, and granted for the sake of rectification. The mother of Shelah originally means, or intends this “request” to be for a nefarious outcome, however, it is foiled, as no power can thwart the will of the Almighty. This is to constitute a token review of what would come to be finalized, and understood as the doctrine of “the restitution of all things.” In other words all things are gonna get fixed.
Shelah’s mother bore him intentionally in a place called Chezib/ meaning “falsified” or simply false. Chezib comes from a root word meaning to deceive or lie. Not only did Shelah’s mother name him, she named Er and Onan as well. Er means awake, Onan means strong, and Shelah ultimately means deception. Therefore, Judah’s first wife had an agenda laid out with the help of her father endeavoring to trap the promises that YHVH had made to Judah through Jacob in an attempt to highjack the rule of the nations and pass it along through her offspring. She pulled at the life of Judah by pulling out three sons to her dark side. She said, let me Bathshuah, meaning “The Daughter of Riches”, “awake strong deception” in Judah by binding him to the lust of the flesh. So then Judah lives the first part of his life influence by riches just as the Jews do today; for all of Israel eventually becomes identified under the tribe of Judah.
This poignant reference teaches the wise that Judah gave birth to a deception through a deception that would play itself out partially in the life of Shelah. In essence Judah set this self-chosen deception as the cause which had no course other than to produce the effect. He lied to Tamar concerning Shelah, and it came back to haunt him, through his inevitable union to Tamar. Her “request”, concerning the deception that was inextricably attached to the life of Shelah, was for a tri-fold pledge from Judah. These three parts of a pre-notional cleverly devised scheme were the antidote to Bathshuah’s three parts that were also set in motion by forethought.
First she wanted his signature ring (the signet or official seal) and secondly his bracelets (plural – as in line upon line – concerning each and every detail of promise), and coming from the word pâthîyl – primarily meaning twine or line or bracelet – in other words representing all things bound to HIM. Thirdly, she required his staff or scepter be left with her. (This was his maṭṭâh called both rod and staff – meaning branch or life support, constituting the very tribe of which he is progenitor). These three “requests” made concerning Shelah, secured and guaranteed her conception, and her right to be impregnated by Judah, for the NAME sake of the King. She became the second wife to Judah and perhaps had Judah pursued spiritual matters rather than fleshly ones, she might have been his first wife. In actuality she was his first wife, or true soulmate, but the reality is that he did not wait to find her. He was all of 16 years old when he first slept with that first woman. If you can’t see the purpose of needed correction for the mess that men and women get into; then you have at least one more reincarnation slated. When Judah finally joins himself to Tamar the spiritual purpose begins to unfold its avenue of correction.
The chastisement (Isaiah 53:5) for our peace (which is rebuke), or the correction before our instruction in righteousness begins (2 Timothy 3:16), was to come from the very rod that was firmly in Judah’s hand until he passed it to that desirable feminine entity hidden behind the symbolic veil of promise. That’s who Tamar represents. Upon this relinquishment of the flesh to the spirit, the esoteric exchange is released by the will of the Creator; twins were once again set in the foreground of the battleground, concerning the womb and its profound formations of duplicity. This same measure of restitution was acted out in the set of twins who were formed in the womb of Rebecca and confirmed as a part of those divine laws earlier mentioned.
Just how do these profound and opposite natures come to reside and develop in the so-called innocence of an unborn child? Father Produces Son, and scripture relates this truth in saying “Cain WAS of the wicked one” and “Jacob have I loved – Esau have I hated.” Ever wonder why? It is because there are two lions involved in this war to be “King of Beasts.” This is why Satan contended with the angel Michael for the body of Moses. There was nothing weak about the body of Moses, it housed an elevated and corrected soul that was in direct contact with the likeness of the Creator. The roaring adversarial lion seeks whom he may devour; the “Lion of Judah” seeks to inherit the promises made to Adam that he would in due time sovereignly reign over ALL the beasts of the field – etcetera. The promise to Adam was to be ruler – that would eventually make him King, however, he did not live long enough. There is only a single individual that God promised kingship to that would never leave his household of sons. That would be David and he would provide Adam his last 70 years. Blessed be HaShem.
Among natural prides of lions, adversarial lions continually seek to kill the offspring of any male that is not from his own engendering. Spiritual warfare is no different only more intense because it understands the long-term ramifications of the entire scheme of things, and not just the single lion cub in front of the resident lion king – whether he be legitimate in his claim to fame or not.
Judah suddenly must assume his lawful role as kinsman redeemer even though he is not aware that he is being coerced into doing what Onan refused to do according to Judah’s own teaching. He weds Tamar in what preambles the precept to the Levirate Law of Moses concerning what some from their platform of ignorance still consider taboo practice.
THEREFORE, Pharez, who is the firstborn of this supernally instituted union, becomes the son of Er as well as his reincarnation. The same is true of Onan. Judah became the first father of the first reincarnated son by the father and not the brother. As the father, Judah was responsible for providing the incarnate flesh for his firstborn’s soul twice. Once in the evil body of Er (evil because of how it materialized), the soul never developed to receive a pleasing review from HIM who gave it, and therefore it was removed from him (as in being uprooted and planted again, or as being broken and placed back on the potter’s wheel). The soul of Er became as Paul stated “having need to be taught again.” He also said “Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn.” This delivery is unto the truthful accusations that one has to face in the judgment at the time of the death of the body. Yes, Paul had that power. Here, in judgment, one is assigned a reincarnation in order to learn, or to be able to “fix things” and come again for re-evaluation. SIMPLE! Then the same soul of Er (considered firstborn and belonging to God) returns in Pharez to receive the higher union of spirit and soul. So then the son is reincarnated and comes to redeem himself through his own actions of choice. He has avoided the pit of destruction and could NOT return at that time unto HIM who gave to him his consciousness of being.
Job 33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Job 33:29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
The word used in verse 29 for oftentimes is actually two words and is written in Hebrew as (פעמים שׁלושׁ) (pa·‘ă·ma·yim šhā·lō·shah) The first word means a stroke, or beat as in timing, at this repetition, and also wheel, or twice, or order. The second word means thrice or simply three. So then oftentimes should be read as two or three repeated strokes, or three orders or three turns of the wheel.
Jeremiah 18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
(Job 33:29 says God or El works these things two or three times.)
Verse 4 and the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Notice the placement of the revelation concerning oftentimes: it is between delivering the soul from the pit or grave and restoring it with the life of the living as a new conception.
Job 33:24, 25 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s (as an embryo in the womb before birth): he shall return (shûb – read notes below) to the days of his youth: (as an adolescent child) (This is speaking of the new birth. His flesh becomes a new body but the soul is still the same.)
Job 14:7 For there is hope (salvation) of a tree (as like/or very man-Deuteronomy 20:19), if it be cut down (killed/ die), that it will sprout (live) again, and that the tender branch (or shoot from the original seed – the new baby) thereof will not cease (but will remain eternal by rebirth).
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit {which is} [rûach/ roo’-akh – From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions): – air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind ….] shall return [shûb/ shoob – A primitive root; to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbially again: –] unto God who gave it.
(The dust returns [or comes again] to the earth in reincarnation.) Both body and soul are in a come – go – return assignment until God decides otherwise.
Let us return to the Levirate Law concerning the next of kin. When the brother becomes the father, the reincarnation is set one step below for each participant. This should have been the case for Onan – as brother becoming father for the sake of brother. The brother becomes the father and the soul incarnated now has two fathers and two mothers.
Indeed the deceased brother’s wife becomes his second mother. In addition, to having been made perfect by reincarnation to live again, he now has two bodies – the one of the dead man of the dust (the presumed sinner) and the one corrected by the reincarnation in Christ (the presumed saint). The first shall be last in the resurrection and the last shall be first in the resurrection. All this is amply recorded in the Revelation.
Here is how the list of progenitors read:
Judah Pharez Hezron Ram Amminadab Nahshon Salma Boaz Jesse
Judah also begot Zerah the brother of Pharez.
Pharez was adamant concerning his firstborn status – that being the same as Er. He was the first (Er destroyed as evil) to become the last (Pharez redeemed as good); therefore being redeemed in righteousness he transferred his placement as the last to be the first. The actual DOING of the law became the rectification for his nephesh, or soul of the body. The name Pharez means “breach;” he breached or opened a gap in the womb (of duplicity) and by greater force and supernal knowledge disregarded the law concerning the evil by which he was first conceived. The door then opened to reverse the curse that had been pronounced upon the firstborn that managed to exit the womb and begin stimulating the nature of the serpent.
The “prince of this world” – through an underdeveloped mind concerning truth and consequence, had managed to temporarily commandeer the place and rights of the regal firstborn who would be the intended ruler or “King” over all that had preceded him into the material realm. This curse of enmity, and mutual bruising combats, had been the unchangeable decree since the transgression in the garden concerning the womb of all life in one called Eve (or Chavvah/ meaning lifegiver). The right of David to be KING begins here, in this conception between Judah and Tamar; which was foreordained to be accomplished through the intricacies of progeny, DNA, multiple sperm wars, as well as prophecy fulfillments and undeniably divine courses of rectification that includes teaching and learning and doing. From Judah came the lawgiver or the scribe, from Judah came the scepter or the branch; this becomes the rod of iron; finally “The Lion of Judah” comes directly from the lion’s whelp or the cub that is still in the lair. (Gen 49:8-10)
Genesis 29:35 reveals Leah left off bearing with Judah; this brought forth the praise of YHVH at his birth. Judah became the seed of praise; praise in the kingdom called malkuth, praise in Jacob, praise in Israel.
Ruth 1:5 tells us Mahlon died leaving Ruth and himself without child.
Judah died in a realization of his status as kinsman redeemer and is “born again” in reincarnation by the same status as kinsman redeemer in the flesh of Boaz and weds Ruth in what is the precept upon precept after the precept upon precept when he wedded Tamar.
Boaz is the seventh from Judah and was near kinsman of Elimelech who was Naomi’s husband and brother to Salma or uncle to Boaz. (Ruth 1:2) Naomi’s sons were destined to give sons to “the God of the King” which is what Elimelech means. The King was predestined to come from the loins of Judah. Boaz gives the second birth (life – reincarnated) to Obed for the sake of the death in the first life of Mahlon. YHVH set life and death – good and evil – in his word or intent – not to return void. (Deuteronomy 30:19) (Isaiah 55:11) Boaz became the left pillar in the porch of the Temple, which was 18 cubits high. This 18 is very significant and addressed in other writings. Boaz was the authority over the servant in charge of the reapers of the field’s harvest before it was taken into the Temple. The temple was the “house of bread” or Bethlehem. Boaz is sometimes called Ibzan (Judges 12:8) who was the 10th Judge in Israel from 976 to 969 BC (?). He was said to have been 300 years old when he married Ruth.
Boaz now becomes the second father (as the incarnation of Judah or the first father) of Obed (the incarnation of Mahlon) because Elimelech was the first father of Mahlon after the natural first birth. Judah was therefore second father of the natural first birth and the first father of the spiritual second birth. Therefore, it is that all men have two fathers – one in incarnation and one in reincarnation; then revelation will reveal the first to be the last and the last to be the first. AT THIS POINT, it is understood that there is therefore one God and Father above all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:6) To repeat – the two fathers are just one father.
Boaz is actually a composite of two words BO (in him) from ( בּואH935) and AZ (fierce, strong) from ( עזH5794). The Strong’s concordance meaning of H935 means both “come” and “go.” These terms apply to the action of “filling the void” or to “enter” the “entrance.” The H5794 portion of his name means “strong, vehement, or harsh.” So then Boaz is identified as “fierceness in him” or “in him is strength” which refers to Judah (being incarnated in him). This legacy of boldness directed unto unfinished business caused him to be roused fiercely as a lion, to perform the law of the near kinsman marriage. (Genesis 49:9) This is a “family law of brothers;” for the world has no interest in this redemptive measure of understanding. The “Lion of Judah” was NOT to be denied his assignment in any that participated in the secret of the predestined kingdom.
Obed Jesse David (seventh from Jesse)
Mark 10:29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,
Mark 10:30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Mark 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
Notice all but two distinctions above are promised in this age or world, to be given a hundred times over in the world to come. The two are father and wife. Verse 29 lists eight separate leavings; Verse 30 intentionally lists only six to have an eligibility to the hundredfold reward. Why is this? Christ became our kinsman redeemer and therefore our father (in producing the child that we ourselves were unable to produce) and though we may come from many mothers’ wombs we have but ONE wife.
We are not promised a hundred wives, as many idiots throughout history have seemed to have thought, and have also put a down payment thereupon; merely asserting foolish and arrogant privilege as they see it. This is what was being done in the days before the flood. Genesis 6:2 states “and they took them wives of all which they chose.” So the fact is sometimes men marry other men’s wives and don’t know it, but neither do the wives know. Especially if they all start out at that “sweet-sixteen” age. Righteous folks should expose this as a putrefying defamation for our unlearned, because of being untaught, youth. It is only a few that seek to understand why there is so much trouble in the supposed consecrated institution of marriage. Even when the answers are discovered by one or both parties in a less than perfect marriage, the solution remains discoverable amid a reasonable conversation, and a mutual agreement. One can admit to making a mistake, but when two admit to it, then a fresh start can be amiably set to course. This does not necessarily dictate divorce either. Reincarnation repairs not only the mistake of marrying the wrong person but a host of other mistakes as well, until we are all acquainted with wisdom and understanding. Fools ignore the obvious “but the wise shall understand.”
How do you supposed that the Lord of Hosts emphatically promises to recompense all wrongdoing and the like? Not only are we recompensed by penalty for evil doings we are recompensed by reward for good deeds as well (Luke 10:35). Too many people realize evil people go to their graves hanging on to evil deeds that were NEVER rectified, and they feel as though the score was NEVER settled. Fools ignore the obvious “but the wise shall understand.”
When they “become the next” and reach an age of accountability then the secret of settling the score through having to come back and face the music will set in. If they never seek to understand their lot in life then they will remain ignorant and die again. Hopefully their actions will satisfy all of their obligated assignments that were reached in the previous and present courtroom of truth and consequence. Becoming the next is an opportunity for the soul to present itself back unto the Creator as being what the Creator intended all along the way, to the beginning, from the end. The ONE wife is the consummate soulmate that must accompany one’s entrance back into the garden, and vice versa. However, this eventual requirement does not negate the fact that some spend entire lifetimes with soulmates BUT JUST NOT “THAT” SOULMATE. There was no intention to get this far into unraveling the quagmire of the multiplicities of poor choice; but we may continue the revealing or not below. There are five levels of soul to rectify.
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Both words for heart and soul in this scripture are written as being plural – meaning that you could possibly or assuredly have more than one of each. Study it folks.
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Scripture teaches in what direction the tree falls there’s where it lies. If we are not perfect when we die we do NOT enter in to the perfect presence of our Father in order to BECOME perfect. We become perfect in order to present ourselves into that perfect presence because we belong there having become perfect. The dues will have been paid, and we will not have been allowed to just skate through life, without performing an active role, after understanding, why we were brought to life or into very existence. Perfection comes by what is suffered or endured. Yahushua (Jesus) spoke certain words to some disciples and then admonished them to “go and learn” what was meant by what was said. You only learn what you hear and experience.
To those that regularly insist that the price of redemption was paid at Calvary – and therefore end of argument – you are mistaken, and therefore stumbling in confusion, and close to being deceived. “Harsh words,” you say? The harshness that accompanies the coming King’s expression as being the Lion of the Tribe of Judah is not considered “harsh” by those that understand; it is to them, instead, issues of “truth.” So change it to “truth words,” you say! Seek to understand and not to dismiss the conversation.
The life of Christ was lived to show the way, the truth and the life; just as the words he spoke were provided as directives to live a life to be able to enter into the next life that was destined to pursue greater understanding. It was lived as an example. It was lived also in an endurance, and lived in suffering, in order to learn and exhibit perfection. He left us all here to be born again. If the price was paid at Calvary then there would never be a need for another birth from that time forward and CERTAINLY no need of a rebirth or “born again” experience. Would there? The price was not then paid for all, instead it was REVEALED for all. Nor did all accept the revelation of the redemptive path attached to that day either. Could it actually be that the esoteric transfer of knowledge, and understanding, and wisdom, was being presented in the statement of Christ when he said “You must be born again?” This statement was directed to an individual that was certainly trying to understand by being taught; a fact that should be viewed more specifically rather that generalized. Nicodemus said, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God.
Immediately came “Except a man be born again.” He cannot see or otherwise perceive or understand, nor can he enter, or experience the kingdom to which he would hope to come, or go to. In other words without reincarnation the experience of the reclamation that Boaz reached is impossible.
At this juncture the discussion of being born of the water and of the spirit ensues, and Jesus tells Nicodemus of nothing but earthly examples in order to understand, and he NEVER gets into the heavenly depths because of a lack of understanding. John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Nicodemus was admittedly farther along than most seekers of truth, and looking for the way out of the rat race. Why couldn’t Jesus just tell him the secret outright? Actually he did but Nicodemus did not understand; he had not reached that systematic line upon line level.
Here’s my confession since most readers are not privy to my upbringing which has all been orchestrated by the CONDUCTOR himself. I came up late in life through the Pentecostal ranks; therefore, I am extremely familiar with all the denominational nuances in that entire circle, of what being “born again” means, as well as what it takes to bring it into practice, or implementation. Baptism and receiving the gift. By all the dogmatic assertions of names, methodologies, and evidences – of them all have I learned to lay aside, as childish. You could make the case that I know what I am talking about. What was said earlier … even though I said it? You only learn what you hear and experience. That’s the reason Nicodemus had to go and learn, (OR EXPERIENCE), what he did not, and could not, know, at that particular time. His rebirth had to be as a child to be taught by a father that had perfected the level he needed to master. So then wisdom and understanding teaches me the majority who read this so-called essay will not only disagree with it, but will mostly simply not be able to understand it.
The esoteric teaching involved in the discussion of being born again is far more reaching than a few words penned from memory a few years after the fact, that the mixed multitude still haggle over. There is a song to which I make reference occasionally. It says: “The code of the west ain’t some words on a page, you just naturally know it when you come of age.” How true to those that understand and how silly and meaningless to the others.
Jesus went on to explain what Moses did in the wilderness by way of symbolism, and actually played it out in real time, is the same that he was about to do upon the symbolic and real hill called Golgotha. Symbolism in real events, all of scriptures is replete with such, but none the less the symbolism is there. Just as the baptism was symbolism, so too was the circumcision as well. All of it had a necessity to be carried out for the purpose of learning what it symbolized. All of what took place in the temple at Jerusalem involving various sacrifices etc. was all symbolically oriented. These religious activities were for the Jews to learn, and then teach to the nations of the world. Oddly enough during a certain time, however, there were certain devout sages, and spiritually devoted righteous men that refused to come and participate in the symbolistic practices. They were beyond symbolism, and beyond faith, in the sense of it being identified as substance of things hoped for, and evidence of things not seen; they had reached the level of understanding that speaks of the end of faith being the actual salvation of the soul.
John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
That which is born of the flesh is born … of the will of the flesh. God is a Spirit and that which is born of the Spirit is born … of the will … of God.
Becoming the next is an intimation, presented at the time of judgment, as to how one could go again, and come again, and gain and retain the knowledge of why their entrance both ways was granted, and that they were fulfilling their assignment to work out the salvation of their own soul. This is opposed to an assignment which some consider the easy way out: which would be a stint in the pit. Yep … that would mean hell so that there would be no misunderstanding. Of course the subject of just what hell is needs to be addressed as well.
As to that aspect of “go again, and come again” here’s a promise:
Revelation 3:12 Him that overcometh Becoming the Next will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: A Brief Study of Reincarnation.
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