To understand Elijah’s presence at the transfiguration, the ‘Baptist’ must be understood because so many thought that John was Elijah who was resurrected.
It is imperative to understand
the difference between resurrect and reincarnate.
Jesus was an incarnated Holy
Spirit. He was, as such, a real Living Soul. He was incarnated in the womb of Mary
wherein God put onto Him human flesh to make Him like mankind. Jesus was the
Word and the Voice who spoke in the Garden of Eden. John revealed that the soul
or ‘Phantom” (Ghost) of God was made flesh (John 1:14) and was called “Jesus.”
Hence, Jesus was incarnated, but
was never reincarnated. He was, is, and always will be the same.
‘Reincarnation’ simply means made
flesh again, presupposing that flesh pre-existed in another form. The form
of Jesus was always Jesus but the Substance before He was incarnated was
invisible. He was still Jesus but of another Divine Substance that was made
glorious.
However, Jesus was not
reincarnated after He died, but resurrected. As such, His Image was just
asleep for a short time. Jesus had the same flesh when He left the tomb, but it
was healed. It was not made the same as it was before but was made glorious
again. He still had the nail marks and pierced side that were inflicted as He
died, but His flesh was Glorified (John 7:39) and returned to the same Image as
Adam was made, hence Jesus was the ‘Last Adam’ (1 Cor 15:45).
Jesus Himself was sort of ‘cold-packed’
for later consumption — His body and blood. The Father preserved His only Son.
After the ‘Lamb’ was killed, the ‘Meat’ was placed in a vessel (the tomb) and
there it was sealed. The “lid” was the stone that was rolled over the opening
of the tomb. Therein, God preserved the Flesh of Jesus until the time that He
would be Resurrected. There was no sin in the tomb but Jesus Himself opened from
the outside of it once the Holy Ghost returned. He broke the seal to the ‘Preserved.’
‘The Angel of God’ who rolled the
stone back was the Ghost of Jesus. God Himself unsealed the jar so that His ‘Meat’
could be ‘eaten.’ We still do that today with Holy Communion, only vicariously.
Jesus did not see the fire, but
God shined His cleansing Light on Jesus before He was put into the vessel of
the tomb. Hopefully, the reader can see that God, the ‘Husbandman,’ was
cold-packing His Son for further consumption. It was the same well-butchered
Meat but the purity of Him kept Jesus preserved for there was no guile (sin) in
Him, unlike Eve who had guile in her and became corrupt. Once the ‘jar’ was opened,
or the ‘bottle’ if you prefer, the Meat was still fresh for God had preserved
it wonderfully.
Generally, cold-packing requires
great heat from a fire. However, that is not highly technical. God is the ‘Tekton’
(Greek) and He used high-technology. He shined His Light upon the ‘Meat’ of
Jesus and as such, the ‘transfiguration’ was preparing the Flesh of Jesus for ‘preserving’
for a future time. Hence, the transfiguration was the beginning of the process
of glorification — regenerating the same flesh for further use.
Ironically, Jewish Christians,
according to Josephus, called the crucifixion a ‘Holocaust,’ a burnt offering. Jesus
was therefore ‘canned’ in a sense, but it was God who provided the Heat, and
not the Jews. Their purpose was to make the burnt offering, all the while they
thought they were killing the One who claimed to be the ‘Lamb of God.’ God made
it a Holocaust by His Presence there for a short time; just long enough to
prepare the Flesh for it to be cleansed of sin after taking all the sins of mankind
onto His back to deliver them to Hell and Fire.
Can you now see it? Jesus was
preserved, and so it is with Christians.
Preservation is not for a moment but
for the long haul… a process in time. Preservation is to perform a purpose most
often much later.
Christians are to present
themselves as a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1) as a reasonable service for the
duration. Hence, preservation is for a long time but only until the death of
the flesh and a new incorruptible flesh put on — the same flesh but changed
when Jesus comes for what God has preserved. Now for John, the son of Zacharias:
John the Baptist was thought to
be Elijah. John was filled with the Holy Ghost from the time of his birth. How
is that known? The angel of God speaking to Zacharias revealed the nature of
John:
For he shall be great
in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he
shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of
the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go
before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a
people prepared for the Lord. (Luke 1:15-17)
Therefore, the ‘Holy Ghost’ may
be an inexact translation, or it may be exact; that will be examined. John had some
spirit planted in the womb of Elizabeth before he was ever born.
John’s purpose is also given. He
prepared people for the Lord, or literally to be possessed by the LORD GOD.
The preparation was the washing of the vessel clean for the LORD to possess
them. As Jesus said, “And no man puts new wine into old bottles; else the new
wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish”
(Luke 5:37).
The primary translation of the
Greek word ‘neos’ is not ‘new’ but ‘fresh.’ Likewise ‘bottle’ is not literally
‘bottles’ but ‘leathern.’ Of course, leather is flesh, so for the wine to
remain preserved and palatable, the flesh must be refreshed.
That was the purpose of John. He
was essentially the ‘washer of vessels’ that were to be filled with effervescence
— ‘an appealing lively quality”
Therefore, Jesus was not speaking
of bottles nor wine at all, but human vessels and ‘Living Water,’ or His Holy
Spirit.
Therefore, the purpose of John
was not to save by water but to prepare the human vessels for filling with the
Holy Spirit. Keep in mind that there are not three baptisms but only two mentioned,
but of the two, only one of them was effective in preserving the soul (Ephes 4:5)
— the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.
John’s was a baptism of
preparation for the one effective Baptism — the imbuement of the person with
the Holy Spirit. With that said, water baptism is not soterial, but a step in
the preservation process. As it turns out for repentance to cleanse the vessel
— “I (John) indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He (Jesus)
that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He
shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire” (Mat 3:11).
Hence baptism is a process of
preservation. Just like canning preserves, the jars (or bottles) first require
washing, then filling, then heat for some amount of time. It is well-known that
the filling of the vessels is with the Holy Ghost, but less obvious is that the
‘fire’ is the Power of God. The ‘fire’ is judgment as John the Baptist revealed,
“Whose (Jesus’s) fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor,
and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire” (Mat 3:12).
Now, the purpose of John the Baptist
is known. In summary, he came to wash the outward flesh of people clean in
preparation for God to come in the form of the ‘Preserver.’ The name ‘Jesus’
means ‘Ya(weh) Preserves.’
In the beginning God planted a Garden
of living souls, consisting of Adam and Eve (Gen 2:7) and their seed (multiplication;
Gen 1:22). By now the ‘seed’ — the gens of Adam and Eve — have become
flesh, and it is time for them to be preserved. It seems that the preservation
that God chose was not by synthetic preservation as in modern canning, but what
housewives for generations have called ‘cold-packing.’
As anyone knows, if good fruit is
placed in a can that is not purified, the can will explode, not from the forces
without the vessel but from within. Only the preserved fruit can break the seal
once it is sealed unless it falls away from its place of storage. (Of course,
the user can break the seal as the contents are needed for use. In this situation,
God is the ‘User’ and Christians the ‘preserves’ unless they have spolied.)
John “preach(ed) the baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins” (Mark 1:4). As explained above, the repentance
is the cleansing of the soul more so than the flesh as the vessel is more than
the flesh, but the ‘soul’ of men. The Garden is of ‘living souls’ not dying
flesh! Baptism only cleans the flesh that will soon die anyway, but it
represents the cleansing of the vessel that was once the very Image of God —
the ‘shadow’ of the person, or the ‘Phantom’ (ghost) as the Hebrew word ‘Selem’
(Image) means.
The water cleans the flesh, but repentance
cleans the soul. The purpose of both is for the remission of sins, so that the ‘cold-packing’
preservation will never explode from within. As such, sins are remitted at the
time before placing the vessels in the fire, or else the preserves will not be
preserved.
The remission of sin is accomplished
by God, not the water, and then the vessels (souls) are sealed (John 6:27),
wherein the ‘cold-packing’ is our flesh as the ‘fruit’ of God.
God sealed His produce as the ‘Husbandman,’
and once it is sealed, it can be broken only by Satan from without as in the
beginning, by God who will not do so until required, or by the person within by
falling away (Heb 6:6)… falling off the place of storage in the world. (It would
help if the readers would study the process of canning cold produce and sealing
by fire to understand the divine preservation of living souls.)
Reader, be patient. The goal is
to reveal the nature of Elias (Elijah) but this was an opportunity to explain
baptism as well.
With John’s origin and purpose
explained, since he is compared to Elijah, next consider Elijah.
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