The day that God died, we were given the gift of life.
The “rapture” is when Christians, both the living and the dead, are “caught up” into the sky with Jesus to be transported to Paradise in the heaven. For the dead, the rapture is the “resurrection;” their dust from the grave shall become new and be one again with their immortal soul. That is in scripture:
The Lord (Jesus) himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thes
4:16-17)
The living who are caught up shall also change. They shall be resurrected without
ever having to die. They will become a new creation, to wit: “If any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new” (2 Cor 17). Rebirth [i]
begins the renewal process. The nature of the creature changes from beast to
godly; from feral to domesticated. New creatures are no longer of the Beast but
are of God.
The rapture would then take the new creature who has the Holy Ghost of
Jesus within, and put on them new flesh to suit the Christians’ immortal souls.
However, for now, focus is on the dead in Christ who will rise. Paul referred
to that occasion when he wrote, “To live is Christ; to die is gain” (Phil 1:21).
The dead in Christ are those who shall live again in Christ. They all have
names and God knows all of them personally.
Jesus died for the living and the dead. Before Jesus was born, there were
those “in Christ.” When they gave up the “Ghost” as all the patriarchs did,
excepting Enoch and Elijah, their souls were transported to Paradise
immediately. Enoch and Elijah were caught up (raptured), although they were
alive in Christ, the Messiah. Two were raptured alive. How about the other
patriarchs?
God spoke to Ezekiel about that great day, to wit:
Therefore, prophesy and say unto them, “Thus saith the Lord God; ‘Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.’” (Ezek 37:12-14)
God prophesied to Ezekiel His purpose. Those words are the
Word of God. It was God speaking through the Voice of Jesus. God was revealing
not only his Purpose for mankind but His own death so that they need never to die.
When Jesus died, His Word came true:
KEY VERSES: And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. (Mat 27:51-53)
When He died, God demonstrated that He is Master over life
and death… not Pilate, not Herod, not the chief priests, nor the multitude.
Jesus could have merely Willed Himself off the Cross and He would have been
saved, never to have suffered death.
Something happened on the Cross that went almost unnoticed: “About
the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani?’ that is to say, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’”
Then, “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost”
(Mat 27: 46,50).
Some thought that Jesus was calling for Elijah to come save Him.
[ii]
That was not the case; Jesus was calling on His Father’s “Power.” After Jesus
gave up the Holy Ghost, all the Virtue in Him was released to heal mankind just
as he had healed the woman with the blood issue with a loss of Virtue. [iii]
When Virtue left Jesus, the “Medicine” to cure all mankind
was released from Adam to the thief on the cross beside His. As the Holy Ghost
left Jesus, the blood and water from His pierced side flowed onto the ground.
Ironically, that blood and water saved the centurion, named Longinus, who
pierced Him, along with those with him, to wit: “Now when the centurion, and
they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things
that were done, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.” (Mat
27:54)
Note that the last were made first just as Jesus said. That
day, Gentiles became Christians before the Jews were ever converted. However,
since the focus in this is not on the living but the dead, why
were the graves opened? That some immediately would come alive to demonstrate
the Power of God — that He had was the Master over Life and Death; and not the
chief priests who would decide who should live and who should die!
Many things occurred when Jesus died. He gave up the Ghost
and released the Power of God. The Father never abandoned Jesus. He was right
there on the Cross all the time! God in three statuses died as one Person and
in homeostasis with all aspects of God working together in unity.
In the Old Testament, Jews saw God but few saw Jesus. The patriarchs,
when they saw God, saw Jesus manifested in Him. In the New Testament, when the
people looked at Jesus, without realizing it, they saw the Face of God as Moses
finally did at the Transfiguration. Only Jews were on the mount that night, but
here on Mount Golgotha, the place of Adam’s skull, Gentiles saw God in Jesus
and Jesus as God! All the while, the Jews remained blind to what was occurring!
What did Virtue do next? The Holy Ghost went to the Temple
and tore down the curtain that separated God and mankind. The Jews could no
longer hide behind the Law, and the Covenant was revealed as one of grace.
Longinus had broken the Law of the Jews, but he was born again regardless, not
by works, but by grace! The man who killed God was the first to receive the
blood and water. His long lance (Longinus) surely had blood and water “funneled”
onto his flesh, and he immediately was made a new creature as the Holy
Ghost transferred Virtue onto Longinus and he received the Holy Ghost before
the Jews did later on the Day of Pentecost. [iv]
Much was happening that day that still goes unseen. Had you
seen the Roman centurion receiving blood and water, the Body and Blood of God
washed down by Living Water? He partook of the real Last Supper, wherein he ate
of the Bread of Life and again Jesus did not! Jesus served him just as He had
served the apostles at the earlier Last Supper.
The Temple’s curtain would no longer serve a purpose. The
Temple was open to all. Finally, Japheth would live in the tents of Shem, as it
was promised after the flood. [v]
Longinus was the first to obtain a Temple covered by the Ghost of Jesus. His
soul became the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
Then then as a quake, the Holy Ghost rent the ground as He
had the curtain. Later on, the Holy Ghost would come as a “rushing mighty wind”
from heaven [vi]
but this time as an earthquake. God in Heaven could reach even into the Earth
and catch up those who had faith even long ago. There are many candidates for
the first rapture: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses. Since it was “the
place of the skull” it was most likely Adam’s skull to which it referred. [1]
Adam’s grave, said to be under Calvary, was opened and he arose!
Did righteous Abel rise with his father? I have contended before
that since evil Cain was “of the Wicked One” then Abel was “of the Righteous
One, or he would not be called “Righteous Abel,” [vii] and
whose blood was shed as a propitiation for Cain’s sin. Although Cain had been
kept safe by the grace of God, he still had the Wicked One in him. It
seems that Cain died as the unholy temple of Satan.
Abel, was perhaps, the incarnation of God as he manifested
Him. Jesus appeared in many forms in Scripture. He could have appeared as Abel
as well as he could the Man who wrestled Jacob or the fourth Man in the fiery
furnace! The name, Abel, means “breath.”
Was Abel the Breath of God that would breathe life again? Were
Abel and Jesus the same Being? They both shed blood for mankind, did they not?
Was it Abel to whom Jesus cried rather than Elijah? As His breath left Him, the
Holy Ghost of Abel would return to the ground and raise His father, Adam. That
is speculation but it seems probable. You decide.
“Many,” it says, rose from the ground after the quake. The Testament
of Simeon, the son of Israel, revealed this event. Although it was written
around 200 BC, it recounts Simeon’s Last Will and Testament. His will would be
done, and he told his sons and daughters about a future event. Their inheritance
would come on a later day — the day that God’s Will was “probated.” [2]
Simeon spoke his will and God’s New Testament, to wit:
Then the whole Earth will rest from trouble, and everything under heaven shall be free from war. (Peace would come to Earth): Then Shem shall be glorified; because God the Lord , the Great One in Israel, will be manifest upon the earth (as man). By himself he will save Adam. Then all the spirits of error shall be given over to be trampled underfoot. And men will have mastery over evil spirits. Then I shall arise in gladness and I shall bless the Most High for his marvels. [because God has taken a body, eats with human beings, and saves human beings. (Testament of Simeon 6:4-7)
Why did Jesus say, “Marvel not; ye must be born again?” (John
3:7). Because the Marvel of the Most High God was to die so that Simeon could
live. Simeon did not deserve life, for he shamed by not being his brother’s
keeper when he turned on Joseph. Simeon is symbolic of Cain who turned on his
brother. Well perhaps, “Abel” in the flesh of Jesus was there to sacrifice
himself for Simeon.
Simeon was speaking of the Crucifixion, when the “spirits of
error shall be trampled underfoot.” Simeon was providing the mystery of God to
his sons: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen
3:15). That was God’s promise to Adam for Adam-kind.
Simeon knew that! He referred to that promise when he wrote
that evil would be “trampled underfoot.” That is what Jesus did to the Serpent
in Judas on that day, and perhaps the sinful bones of Adam beneath Calvary as
Jesus walked the Way to the Tree of Life (The Holy Cross).
Simeon went on, “Then I shall arise in gladness and I shall
bless the Most High for his marvels.” Who arose from the grave when Jesus died?
Simeon knew he would. He would marvel not because he trusted the Lord
for rebirth.
What you did not see around the Cross was Simeon raised from
the dead. Why so? His spirit arose with the help of the Holy Ghost, and then
when Jesus was resurrected, Simeon was as well. On the third day, just like
Jesus, his soul and body became one again.
In my book, The Skull of Adam, I wrote of
confrontations between John the Baptist and Herod. I also wrote of Adam’s
encounters with his progenitors. It seems that Simeon was also raptured when
Jesus was resurrected. If Adam and Simeon, both sinners, can live again, even
you and I can be as well.
Adam sinned against his Father and Simeon his father, and
yet, God had grace on them both.
On that day, Shem was raised from the grave. He represents
all the Jews. On that day, Longinus was “saved.” He represents the Gentiles. Finally,
Jews and Gentiles would live in the Tent of God, the vey Holy Ghost of Jesus. There
is room in the “Tent” for all; even the servants — the Canaanites that we know
today as Muslims.
Muhammad promised much but had no power to save. It was not
his blood and water that was spilled. However, those who carry the sword
against God can be saved as well, if they turn away from Muhammad and Mecca,
and “would see Jesus.” [viii]
Oh, by the way, Muhammad died. God suffered death but He still lives!
[1] See
my book, The Skull of Adam, for much more on that.
[2]
See my Facebook Video (Feb 17. 2021) about God’s Last Will and Testament.
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