THE REAL IMMACULATE BIRTH

 Matthew, after relating the “supposed” genealogy of Jesus then revealed his true identity:

Key Verse: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. (Mat 1:18)

 Catholics believe in the immaculate conception of Mary; that she was without sin. It was Jesus who had had no stain or blemish. Speaking of the inefficacy of material things for redemption, Peter wrote about Jesus, “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1Pet 1:19).

Every offering in the Book of Leviticus required offerings without blemish and the first of the flock. Mary, therefore, was not the offering but it was Jesus who was “immaculate”  and without stain or blemish. Not only was his flesh unmarred but so was His Spirit. Paul wrote to the Hebrews of Christ who “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb 4:15).

Why the genealogy of Jesus? Because neither Joseph nor Mary (blood relatives) were without sin, “for all men have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). That inborn sin is “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). David wrote in that song that he was born in iniquity; that he was born depraved.

The genealogy of Joseph, not the father of Jesus, was not something to be proud of but generations of degeneration. How Adam, as glorious as Father God, had degenerated to the time of Jesus to show that even the supposed parents of Jesus were sinners as well, and that as pure as they may be, were still sinners who required salvation.

John got it right. The genealogy of Jesus, as I wrote before, was directly from God to Him, to wit:

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

 The “Word” is pre-incarnate Jesus, the Spirit that had the bodily shape of Jesus (Luke 3:22). The Word became incarnate first.

Mary was the surrogate wherein God put His seed by breathing life into her, and after a period of gestation, the man (or last Adam) Jesus was born. Mary was fertile for she had other sons.

Catholics believe that she was so immaculate that the brothers of Jesus are said by them to be cousins, obviously to protect the immaculateness of Mary. Any number of lies do not make one truth; it was Jesus who was immaculate, not Mary.

The genealogy is there to show that Mary and Joseph had inherited sin from Adam; it was in their genes. Forget the notion that Mary is the “mother of God” because even Jesus denied that (Mat 12:48; Mark 3:33). Mary was no more than a fairly clean “incubator” who was the vessel for Jesus to transmigrate from the heavenly realm to this world. Mary was as much an “ark” as Noah’s or even the Ark of God whereon the Spirit of Jesus was carried by unclean Hebrews.

Praying to Mary (Marianism) – venerating Mary — is idolatry because there is only one God. Praying to Mary is as futile as praying before the empty Ark of the Covenant when God was not even on it!

Praying to Mary is a celebration of sin because Mary had sin in her genome, not willful sin but the genetic sin that she could not possibly overcome; we know that because she was shown to be of Adam and all the other sinners who came before her.

Jesus was in a literal sense molded in the womb of Mary. The material that God provided in His Seed generated flesh for Himself.

According to Luke, an angel told Mary, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the ‘Son of God’” (Luke 1:35). The Holy Ghost is to be feared because of His Purity is the “Pneuma” of God. It was not Mary that was pure but God who was Holy!

The Greek word “pneuma” comes from the root word pneo – “a blast of air”  (Strong 1890), not that the Holy Ghost is a blast of air, but like in the Book of Acts, “as a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting... and it sat upon each of them” (Acts 2:2-3).

Mary would have sensed the Presence of God, not in her but over her. There was no carnality involved, so unlike David, the “son of David” was not “shapen in iniquity” because there was no carnality involved. Jesus was formed in the same manner as Adam: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen 2:7).

The bodily shape of the Spirit of God would have overshadowed Mary.

With Adam, there was a process. His soul was created first… before the foundation of the world, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (Gen 1:27).

What was the “image” of God? I always got this wrong; that it was flesh like Jesus. Not so! “Selem” as an “image
 means “empty” which comes from the word, tselem, an unused root meaning “to shade; a phantom” (ibid).

In the process of God, Adam’s “phantom” was formed first — his soul, then in the second process his flesh was molded, then life, that which was formed before as a soul, was breathed unto the flesh of Adam (chapter two).

John wrote of the pre-existence of Jesus as the Word. The soul of Jesus was never created. John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). Compare that, with Gen 1:1 “In the beginning God created…” that says Jesus is God and was before the creation.

Indeed, Peter speaking of Christ, “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Pet 1:20). Why was Jesus made visible with flesh (manifested)? “That they may behold my glory, which thou hast given Me: for thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24).

Jesus, as the Word before He was made flesh, was glorious, and He was manifested for mankind to behold His glory. His glory was not in His flesh but in His Spirit (Pneuma). Spirit cannot be seen by unwilling eyes so Jesus received flesh so that sinful man could see the pure Spirit that was within Him.

Adam, before the foundation of the world was made glorious as well. It seems that the world, literally the cosmos, was made before Adam and described in chapter one of Genesis.

I have written before of two creations — Paradise in heaven in chapter one and Paradise on Earth in chapter two. Genesis 1:1 also implies that — God created the “heaven and the earth” the other realm (in chapter one) and this cosmos (in chapter two). Paradise in heaven was “very good” (Gen 1:31) (meod tob) — exceedingly or forcefully beneficial, perhaps glorious.

There were not two creations for Adam (both of them) was the only creature who was created, but it seems that his soul (phantom) was created first, then his body made of material.

In other words, the flesh of Adam was the vessel in which God breathed unto him life, or the Spirit of Himself whose image was the soul of Adam before he had flesh. The life that God breathed unto Adam was animation. He was not just a vessel but a being that existed with movement according to his own faculty of the will.

The ancients describe the soul as the inner man that is a sort of invisible flesh with the same shape. It has the bodily shape of the person but is of a different substance. God filled that “Adam” with His Spirit, then made shaped clay around the soul for a physical image.

Jesus, on the other hand, always existed as a “phantom” so to speak — as an invisible glorious being that clouded eyes could not see. Perhaps God molded Jesus in the womb of Mary because gestation is indeed a molding process wherein, according to Arnold Giselle, all the systems, including the personality, are molded in synchronicity to develop an infant ready to endure the world.

God made for Jesus a vessel (Jesus called that vessel His “cup”), obviously the Holy Grail that would contain His Living Waters, or Holy Spirit.

The vessel of Jesus was filled at His baptism. John baptized John  with water but at the same time, God the Father baptized Jesus with Living Water, “The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, ‘Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased’” (Luke 3:22). The Holy Ghost was the shape of the man, Jesus, and not the shape of a dove. The dove was the dynamics of God’s virtue (dynamis).

Mary transported the Seed of God which was molded and made the “vessel,” and then God filled the vessel from the “oven” of Mary with His Holy Spirit.

The son of man, Jesus, stood there after the ritual cleansing of His flesh (baptism) to prepare it for filling, then God entered in Spirit the vessel that He had prepared.

With Jesus, God reversed the order of Adam’s creation; He made the vessel then filled it, whereas with Adam, He made the filling then put it in a material vessel. The reason being is that the flesh of Jesus was borne here by God, and then He filled the body of Jesus with the “bodily shape” of the Holy Spirit (Pneuma, Wind) that was Himself!

The Holy Ghost that filled the flesh of Jesus was in bodily shape. That would perhaps be the Soul of Jesus, containing the Spirit of God, that looked just like Jesus in the flesh but was a phantom of sorts that Luke could actually see.

The Holy Spirit is omnipresent because God is not confined to one place at one time. Hence, the Spirit of God was the invisible image that flowed as Living Water into Jesus. Perhaps, the Spiritual Substance of God entered Jesus via His nostrils just as it did with Adam. Of course, nostrils may just be figurative; better said is “countenance” (ibid).

Adam did not breath or do anything to be created. God just came to Adam and gave Him a righteous countenance, glorious like His own. God did the breathing then and He does now. We cannot regenerate ourselves any more than Adam generated himself.

Eve was beguiled a second time soon after the first: Upon the birth of Cain, she said, “I have gotten a man” (Gen 4:1). No, she had not because she was not the LORD GOD! Only God can breath life and Eve certainly could not!

Note that God also breathed life unto the body of Jesus after His vessel was cleansed. It was not the water that breathed the Spirit of the Father into Jesus, but God did so Himself.

Never give water the efficacy of God as that would grieve the Holy Spirit and be blasphemy (Mat 12:31).

The Substance of God entered the body of Jesus and that “Substance” was a Spirit that flowed into the body of Jesus and changed his earthly countenance to glorious, having the Glory of God within Him.

The Glory of God is the original image of God that God breathed unto Adam. Sin removed the Glory of God and displaced it with the guile of Lucifer, who beguiled Eve. That bewitchment, I believe, was passed down to men and women via the mitochondrial DNA of women, thus, the declaration that Eve is the “mother of all living” (Gen 3:20).

Jesus would have the mitochondrial DNA of Mary because she nourished Him and was the raw material for His flesh. On the other hand, since Joseph was not a parent, only God the Father, then Jesus would have only the YY-DNA, as I apostatized in my book, On the Origin if the Universe and Man.

In the figure #2 below is a representation of the normal DNA of a man compared to the DNA (figure #2) from the blood that Ron Wyatt claimed to be Jesus.

 

Figure 1: DNA of Messiah

Figure 2: DNA - normal

 

Jesus was, therefore, not just born of a woman but fulfilled at His baptism wherein only on Himself did the Holy Ghost remain (John 1:33). For the others who John  baptized, it was not for reception of the Holy Ghost, but for “repentance for the remission of sins” (Mark 1:4) — to clean the vessel in preparation for a filling that occurred at the coming of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2). The “one baptism” (Ephes 4:5) that has efficacy is not baptism with water but with the Living Water from the belly of Jesus when it flowed at the crucifixion.

Note that the blood was a “propitiation” for “sins that are past” — iniquity or original sin that came by means of genealogy (Rom 3:25).

Jesus fulfilling the Law was fulfilling the germline of Abraham of which Matthew wrote. It would no longer be by Abraham’s bosom but by the blood from the Bosom of Jesus. But it was by “blood and water.”

At the crucifixion, “One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34); not just the blood of Jesus, but the “Living Water” that the soldier saw. He saw Jesus give up the Ghost; he saw the bodily shape of Jesus in Spiritual Substance leave the belly of Jesus, as He made the ultimate sacrifice for the regeneration of all of Adam’s kind.

¹² But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: ¹³ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:12-13)

 Sons of God are not so much the direct offspring as the gens of God, but in the Greek “technon” — offspring that are vindicated, as the root word means (ibid). Those who receive Christ are sons of God in the same manner as Jesus is the son of David.

Jesus was not directly the son of David, but through Mary, had the gens of David — a clan with the same male progenitor. That Jesus was the son of David and was heir to the throne of David meant little. That He is the son of God means much because He is not just king but King of Kings.

Receiving Jesus is a change in countenance just as Adam received the countenance of God when God breathed His Spirit into the man and glorified Adam. Glorification is literally forcefully excellent.

Force implies power. Jesus induced power to those who receive Him. Jesus lost virtue to those who received Him. About the woman who touched the garment of Jesus, He remarked, “Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me” (Luke 8:46). The woman received Jesus and the power of Jesus was transferred from Him to her and changed the blood issue.

Virtue is dynamis in the Greek (dynamics). Dynamics is the transfer of energy from one place to another. The “carpenter” Jesus was so much more than a carpenter, but a tekton. The “Tekton” shared his power with the woman, and she became a technon, or the offspring of God.

Those who receive Jesus are “children” in the sense that they share the attributes of the father.  Just as Jesus looked like a man but was God inside, Christians are still humans outwardly but like Christ inwardly. Receiving Christ is obtaining His countenance, but not by your own devices but by grace.

Grace is a countenance, is it not? “By grace (charis) are ye saved through faith” (Ephes 2:8). Charis is by divine influence and is not of yourselves, as scripture indicates in that same passage. It is by the dynamics of God sharing His virtue.

Born again, is literally “engendered from above” but that is more than receiving the genes of God; like Adam, it is taking on the countenance of God.

How to know if you have been born again? Your countenance should have changed — your phantasmal form… your Spirit within your soul. As such, those who receive Christ have Christ within; not the man Jesus but the Holy Ghost of the man who died so that you need not.

“He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation” (Mark 3:29). Receiving Jesus, since we can no longer touch his garment, is simpler; He touches us! We need not do anything but reach out, and His invisible “garment” transfers virtue, and with that the Holy Ghost of Jesus is the Spirit of Jesus within the Christian. To reject the Ghost of Jesus is rejecting the person Jesus.

Engendering is not so much the genealogy of Jesus but His countenance. Anyone can procreate by the transmission of genes, but Jesus engenders those who He adopts with His likeness, to wit:

⁴ He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ⁵ having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. (Ephes 1:4-5)

 So, for now, Christians retain their flesh, but are regenned at the rapture when Jesus changes the flesh of the righteous and makes it incorruptible for those who have endured to the end. Endurance are not works but maintaining the faith. Born again is not with new genetics but new countenances.

Whereas natural offspring cannot, the adopted can reject their new parents.

A parent is one who nourishes. The legal process forces children into adoption, but by grace, Jesus makes it a choice. To be a child of God requires the sinner to reach out, and then the virtue in the form of love is received. The virtue is always there to be taken, but it cannot be had without the person reaching out to receive it. The reach is not by motile means but by faith… this man is who He says He is and that is God. It is mental work (katergazomai) and not ergo work.

“Election” is not a contest for who runs the race for all run. God has chosen us (Adam’s kind) before the foundation of the world (kosmos) to be holy. That was done when Adam was created holy and in the image of God.

He did not choose any of the other kinds, but our kind. Adam was elected; Adam is a species and not the person. Humans (humane beings) were chosen to be loving and it was us, not the other animals, that were to be sons of God like Adam. Some apply that to individuals, but Adam was more than one person, but the entire population of the Garden of Eden.

Now let us return to the key verse: “She (Mary) was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” She was not pregnant; then she was! Joseph was not part of it, only God and Mary. The Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary and Jesus appeared right then in her clean and vacant womb. Jesus was not created in the sense of any other baby, but pre-existed in one realm, then appeared in this realm.

Jesus transmigrated spiritually from one realm in heaven to another realm on Earth as if it was the same place. With that said, the Christ is still with us in the substance of His Holy Ghost, thus He is indeed “Emanuel” — God With Us.

Jesus was engendered by God to be a mate to the genome of Mary. Thus, Jesus was both the “son of man” through Mary and the “son of God” through the virtuous power of the Holy Ghost. The latter is the Substance of the Father Himself, therefore, Jesus is of three substances: the Father, the man Son, and the Holy Ghost, in that the Spirit of the Father came into Mary.

God is not complicated, but He is mysterious. How He does it is miraculous but what He did was so simple. He was born to die so that you need not. That God in three substances was on the Cross was the perfect sacrifice for all our sins.

Death is commonplace now. When someone dies unexpectedly, it is just another one of many tragedies. However, when Jesus died, it was not a tragedy but a sacrifice that we should appreciate. To deny that God in three substances died on the Cross is taking the Name (“Jesus”) of God in vain!

Death is indeed common, and everyone will die a physical death. We cannot skip that part, but we can omit dying forever. The flesh dies but the soul never does. It lives in one of two places: torments or heaven, and it is our choice to reach out for Jesus or not.