THE VIRGIN
BIRTH
An
Apologetic Study
The Why
Matthew
1:23 "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with
us."
The
birth of Jesus is a phenomena that has been preached and wrote about for two
thousand years now and for those of us who marvel at the ways of our God it
never loses it's wonder. The Church has made the belief in the virgin birth a
part of it's universal statement of beliefs that determine whether or not you
are in heresy, along with the doctrine of eternal damnation and the imminent
event called the Rapture. Ordinarily this is all I would need to hear to place
myself on the heretical side of the virgin birth, and indeed, I know there are
those that disavow that there ever was a virgin birth. However, I will attempt
in this writing to make a case for the reason why I still believe in the virgin
birth of Jesus and hopefully bring to light things about the birth that the
nominal Church has failed to see or at least to make known.
It
is important to understand the difference between the revelation truth of this
third day of Christ's revealing and the truth that the modern Church has
preached for the last two thousand years. The difference is that we dare to
take the established truth and take it a step further than our forerunners.
Most established Church doctrine is based on the obvious instead of the hidden
things of God. The early Church father Origen wrote that the scriptures contain
three layers of truth, which he likened to the Body, Soul and Spirit.
The
body of the scripture is the outer layer which can be read and understood by
all men. It is the most obvious and shallow of the layers of truth contained in
the scriptures, and is the most widely accepted view of truth since it does not
require any spiritual insight.
The
soul of the scripture is that layer of truth which requires a certain degree of
spiritual insight in order to read it with the understanding of the mind of
God. This layer is the dimension of the "revealed Word" of God.
Revelation Truth is the unveiling of the body of scripture to reveal the hidden
meaning within the text that goes beyond the obvious. This dimension deals
mostly with individual truths, or revelations. It is, for this reason, a
dangerous realm of truth. If not held in check, it has been known to lend
itself to puffing up of the ego and tends to lead the revelator to build altars
in honor of a specific truth which results in creating "sacred cows",
i.e.: truths that become more important than the God that they are meant to
reveal. Ultimately, fences are built around these individual revelations. which
divide and seal off the believers of that particular truth from those that see
anything deeper or shallower. The fences are meant to keep out error, but they
also shut the inhabitants off from further truth. Entire denominations have
been birthed in this way.
The
Spirit of the scripture is that layer which is the perfect revelation of God's
intent and purpose. This layer is the most secret of the scriptures. The
primary meaning for the Greek word translated "perfect" is WHOLE. The
person that delves into the third layer of scriptural truth is one that must
see the end from the beginning, seeing with the sight of the spirit that looks
at the WHOLE truth of the plan of God for the ages. You must have a desire to
dig under the surface and to see what is beyond the norm in order to come into
this dimension. The difference between this layer of truth and the soul of the
scriptures is that this layer brings all the individual truths together to form
a mosaic of truth. This realm deals with THE truth that is made up of many
truths. It channels a lot of streams of truth into one great river of life! As
this layer is revealed it opens up to us the vast and complete plan of
salvation for mankind. It is a network of truth that opens up doors that
interconnect and merge into other doors until we come to understand that
"in my Father's house are many mansions", many revelations but only
one Truth, Christ Jesus. With this layer in mind, we will endeavor to delve
into the Spirit of God's Word concerning the Virgin Birth.
The
Body of this event is that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary in a
manger. We want to go a step further than what is obvious, so we will ask
ourselves WHY? What was the
reason for the birth of Jesus to be accomplished in this manner? The scripture
plainly says that He had to be fully man in order to redeem man from the curse.
He had to be tempted in like manner, feel emotions in like manner, die in like
manner in order to be our eternal sacrifice. So why not let him be born as we
were born? There must have been reasons for this type of birth.
One
of the reasons for this type of birth is found in the obvious. If we study
God's Word we find out that God is a God with a purpose, established in Him
since the beginning. He is determined to fulfill His will and purpose and shows
throughout the history of his dealings with man that He will go to great
lengths to accomplish His good pleasure. If we follow His mode of operation we
will find that He is not hesitant to change the rules in order to accomplish
His intent. Man will never hold God hostage through disobedience. If we
continually fail He will remove us and insert someone else. He has been known
to have the elder serve the younger, allow Jacob to impersonate Esau, tell
Moses to stand back while He consumes the people so He can raise up others, and
even seek Moses' life for his disobedience. He is not a God to be messed with
when it involves His destiny for creation. He seems to have no qualms about
changing horses in the middle of the stream if necessary!
With
this in mind, we draw your attention to the lineage of David. It is out of
David's line that Christ is to be born. This is one of the requirements for the
birth of Jesus, is that he must come from the tribe of
We
must never underestimate God's determination concerning His plan for creation.
As a result of the evils of Coniah of the house of Solomon, God cuts off the
lineage of Solomon and goes through David's other son Nathan. This necessitates
that Joseph is left out of the birth process and Mary's lineage is chosen to
birth the Savior. All because of the curse on the lineage of Coniah. The virgin
birth was not brought about to prove Jesus is the Son of God. It is rather a
necessary phenomena to keep the Word of God true as spoken by His prophet
Jeremiah.
This
is the obvious truth of the virgin birth. However, there is deeper truth
involved here. God was after more than just a pure lineage back to David. This
was to make Jesus King of the Jews. But as Paul revealed in his ministry, Jesus
was more than the redeemer of
The
scriptures contain two accounts of the lineage of Jesus. The book of Matthew
starts out with this account in the first sentence: "The book of the
generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." Matthew
wrote his Gospel with an aim toward a Jewish audience. As a result he gives the
lineage from Abraham to Joseph. This satisfies the Jewish inquiry into Jesus'
lineage to David and also back to father Abraham.
The
other account found in Luke is written with another audience in mind. Luke goes
beyond the obvious and looks at the birth through the eyes of a physician.
Luke's medical mind understands the consequences of the birth being virgin,
that is, without the involvement of man. As a result, his account of Jesus'
lineage is very different from Matthew's. His account starts in Luke 3:23
"And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was
supposed) the son of JOSEPH, which was the son of HELI," Aha! Here is a
marvelous thing. Luke tells us that there is a supposition concerning Jesus'
birth and Matthew records that supposition as the lineage of Joseph. But Luke
being the physician he was, sees the birth process as a link to our
forefathers. Hence, he gives a lineage, but it is the lineage of Mary, even
though he uses the name Joseph! Notice in Matthew 1:16 that Joseph's father is
listed as Jacob. In Luke 3:23 it is listed as Heli! This is Mary's father and
the rest of the lineage is Mary's genealogy. It is still legitimate for Jesus
as redeemer of
Luke
is thinking as a scientist, and as a result he has asked the million dollar
question, WHY? Why list the lineage of Joseph if it is indeed a man-less birth?
Also, why stop at Abraham if our natural lineage is linked beyond the father of
faith? Some of this ability to think past the Abrahamic lineage may be because
Luke is "not of the circumcision" and may have been the only Gentile
writer of the New Testament. To be sure, Luke is lacking in the knowledge of
genetics such as we have available today, but he is aware that God is a God of
generations. He is the God OF Abraham, the God OF Isaac, the God OF Jacob. His
blessings go from generation to generation as does His judgments. I have often
stated that the highest title that can be bestowed on us is to be a man or
woman OF God. The word "of" gives us a lineage into Him. It connects
us to Him as being of His loins and made up of God-stuff. What an honor to be a
part of His lineage. Sons OF God!
Although
God could not talk to our forefathers in terms such as we have today, He did
speak to them in ways that were familiar to them in their every day lives. The
word "seed" is used in place of what we might think of as sperm. The
seed of a man and the seed (egg) of a woman. This was an agricultural term that
the average person was familiar with. The pattern of conception is played out
in a variety of ways throughout nature and the concept of seeding an empty
field and seeing life come forth was known and recognized by all. If you plant
an apple seed, you get apples. If you plant wheat seed, you received wheat.
Seed produced kind after kind. Jesus used the agricultural aspects of seeding
many times in His parables of the Kingdom. Every
once in a while, the bible records an astounding insight by the writers that
goes beyond their own knowledge. For instance, the writer of the book of
Hebrews states in Hebrews 7:9,10 that not only did Abraham pay tithes to
Melchizedek, but "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes,
paid tithes in Abraham. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when
Melchizedek met him." Well, I guess you can say that, anointed writer of
God! Talk about ministering beyond your knowledge! This old boy is talking
genetics here. The premise stated is that we can partake of things both past
and future by being OF someone else. And if that isn't enough to curl your
toenails, think about the responsibility this places on this present
generation. Future generations are depending on what we do in God. If we don't
do it, they don't do it. If we are blessed, they are blessed while still in our
loins! Mind boggling.
The
two accounts of the lineage of Jesus stated thus far are examples of the body
of the scripture and the soul of the scripture. Matthew gave the supposed,
logical account, and Luke went a step further into the limited knowledge he had
on genealogy.
In
order to reveal the hidden truth of the birth of Jesus we must look at this
event through the knowledge that has been given to us in this modern time. It
is my conviction that God has kept certain truths and understandings of those
truths hidden in Him until a time appointed. He has used many methods of hiding
these truths from us. One is to keep our minds veiled with the same veil that
was over the face of Moses when he came down from the
In
this study we will be dealing with the virgin birth with some privileged
knowledge that other ages were not allowed to have. As a result, we will have
an advantage on even the writers of the Bible since God could not speak to them
in terms that they would have no way of understanding. We will be using phrases
that are not in the Bible but are nevertheless necessary in order to deal with
the scientific reality of this glorious event. So, let us study this most
mysterious subject that we know as the virgin birth in a new and living
revelation!
The How?
Luke
1:26-37. "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto
a city of
In
this study on the Virgin Birth, we have attempted to answer the question WHY?.
We shall now attempt to answer the question HOW?. These were the first
words that Mary answered the angel Gabriel with. "How shall this be?"
This is a reasonable question and we are in an excellent position to throw some
light on this dilemma of Mary's. Many times in dealing with God we find Him
moving in realms that seem to defy all the laws that we are familiar with. Man
tends to put boundaries up according to things he is knowledgeable of and
things that he is ignorant of. Those things he is familiar with fall into the
category of what is possible, and all unfamiliar items get tossed into the
category of impossibilities. God is therefore spending a lot of time getting us
familiar with those things termed impossible since it is in this realm that He
lives and moves. So, when Jesus says in Mark 9:23 "If thou canst believe,
all things are possible to him that believeth.", He is really telling us
that there is a realm that goes beyond our narrow boundaries of perception and
knowledge. Another term used for that which is known and unknown is
"natural" and "supernatural". Natural being the term used
for processes that occur within the parameters of things experienced over and
over by the vast majority of civilization, and supernatural being the term used
for processes that occur outside of our sphere of knowledge.
I
think we will all agree that if there was truly a virgin birth it would have to
fall into the category of the supernatural. However, let us not be confounded
by this term and do like the Church has done for two thousand years and say,
"I don't understand it, but I believe it anyhow!". The very term
supernatural gives us hope. It implies that it is a natural process,
accomplished in a super way! In fact, it is my belief that God never breaks His
laws of the universe, but rather uses them in a hyper active mode when doing
the "impossible". As many of us can attest to, He is still healing
our bodies in a supernatural way, but what we know now about our bodies is that
there is a built in healing process resident in us all along. When the Spirit
moves upon us, certain natural abilities are released in our bodies that
accelerate at an incredible rate and cancer is dissolved, heart disease
eliminated, broken bones mend, etc. etc.. It is important to remember all of
these things occur on a daily basis without our knowledge. Only God knows how
many times your body has rejected cancer, or how many other life-threatening
diseases we have naturally conquered. Still, God reserves the power to accelerate
those healing processes to Himself, and thus is glorified in our healings that
fall within the boundary of the supernatural.
Immortality
is a message that involves the metamorphosis from mortality to immortality.
Scientists tell us that we age because there is imbedded within the genetic
code of our DNA little time bombs that start to go off at a certain age. This
is the result of God numbering the days of man and giving him a certain amount
of time in the realm of the living. Universally, at a set time of life, genetic
switches are thrown that start to cause our cells to explode and die. The final
result is aging, deterioration, susceptibility to disease, and finally, death.
It is our belief that God is going to "supernaturally" change us from
this cursed state of being into a new creature that is no longer subject to
aging or dying. HOW? By a natural process hyper-accelerated by the Holy Spirit!
If switches can be turned on through a natural process, they can also be turned
off by a supernatural process. Oh Hallelujah! Paul said in II Cor. 5:1-4 that
if this outer house were dissolved, we would see another house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens. He also said we groan, not to be unclothed, but
to have our mortality swallowed up of life.
It
is this process of "swallowing" that is the key to the change! When a
tadpole changes into a frog, it is not limited to the process of growing legs
and arms. It must do away with the tail and gills, literally swallowing them up
and dissolving them into its new form. The digestive tract undergoes a
transformation from digesting vegetation, to a digestive system that feeds
carnivorously. The gills must be done away with and lungs formed. Eventually,
the tadpole is no more, and the frog is all that is seen. The same process is
involved with the butterfly. Both are
natural processes of change. Is it any harder for God to supernaturally
initiate a built in process of growth and elimination in us when the time to
change is at hand? It is this similar process that will be used to put on the
new man, and swallow up the old form.
I
have used these examples to give us confidence when contemplating the virgin
birth. It is only different from our birth because of the term
"virgin". The main processes are the same as anyone else's. Jesus was
every bit as physically solid as we are. His body had the same organs and
systems that ours have. The only difference is in the way He was conceived,
which was "supernatural". Notice that when Mary asks, "How can
this be?", the angel refers her to Elisabeth, Mary's cousin. She is in her
old age, beyond her child bearing years, and yet she has conceived. Not quite
the same as Mary's situations to be sure, but still a miracle! There are no
easy miracles versus hard miracles. They are all in the realm of the
impossible. As Shakespeare wrote, "What is in a name? That which we call a
rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Whether it is a miracle
conception having to do with old age or a virgin birth, it is still the hand of
God. The intent here is to give Mary some familiar background. She knew Abraham
and Sarah were visited by God in their old age to birth Isaac, the seed of
promise. God seemed to be softening the blow of this unusual birth by giving
her a point of reference in what He had already done for others. Lastly, the
angel says, "For with God nothing shall be impossible".
Mary
is to be honored for her faith in God and her ability to yield to the
impossible. Her reply is, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me
according to thy word."! The Catholic Church and others have chosen to
give Mary a position above other saints. They give her great authority and a
title of "Mother of God". This is a sore point to many in the
Protestant ranks, and they choose to rant and rave about this blasphemy at
every opportunity. Personally, I don't see her any different than any wonderful
saint of God that has dared to believe His word. I do hold her in esteem for
her faith however, and honor her in the way I honor the Apostle Paul or any
other biblical hero. Just ask yourself what your reaction would have been if
you were visited with the same salutation. I have to believe I would have a few
more questions than she did! So I say with Elisabeth, "Blessed art thou
among women, Mary, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb!".
The
virgin birth is only mentioned a few times in the scriptures. It is not
surprising since the focus of the Church through the ages has been on the life,
death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. As stated, the
in-depth revelation of the birth of Jesus had to wait for a generation that
could understand its complexities. The Hebrew viewpoint of man advancing in the
plan of God was in the fashion of rowing a boat. One backed into it with the
vision toward the past. Christianity has viewed our advancement as one walking
with his eyes upon the horizon and what the future holds. One looks only at the
past, and the other looks longingly at the future. Our mission in this present
age is to view the plan of God from the beginning to the end and from the end
to the beginning. We are those of the Alpha and Omega order, the first and the
last. Our vision comes from another plane, separate from the present time, out
of the mind of the Father, who sees in the totality of His plan of the ages. Thus we can connect the old and the
new and like a pioneer trail blazer, we search out the narrow path of truth
that runs like a small vein of pure life throughout the scriptures, making
sense out of confusion and answering the critics and the gainsayers. If there
is any one thing this present age needs, it is to define the Day. By defining
it, I mean to take it out of the shadows of part truths and what men think they
believe and revealing what God's word says concerning His plan. We who have
ministered this Day have, for whatever reasons, left the scriptural proof of
what we see alone, leaving the people at the mercies of a Church system that is
full of dead man's bones. These religious graveyards are full of monuments to
past heavens and former glories, offering the people of God nothing more than
garbage heaps of rotting food, which, if one sifts through enough, there is
barely enough sustenance to keep them from perishing. Enough! Let us define the
Day! Call forth the wine and the oil, the bread and the grains. Prepare a table
of plenty and open the door to the storehouse of God's immeasurable truth.
As
we continue, we will trace the virgin birth of Jesus back to the other virgin
birth in the garden. We will show what actually took place in the womb of Mary,
as the "power of the highest" overshadowed her. Finally, we will
reveal the third birth, the womb of the church, where God is birthing another
man, not just a man, and not just a god, but a Godman!
The Who
So far, we
have attempted to answer the questions why? and how?. The WHY was
explained when we stated that the virgin birth was necessary to fulfill the
pure lineage in the flesh back to David, which was through Mary and not Joseph,
due to the curse on Joseph's lineage by reason of Coniah. (Jeremiah 22:24-30)
As a result, God re-routed it through Nathan instead of Solomon. We then
discussed the HOW by explaining that God moves through natural processes
in a super way, thus performing supernatural works. We also showed that a
miracle is a miracle regardless of its magnitude. There are no small miracles
in God! It takes no greater effort on God's part to heal you of a headache, or
a cancerous tumor. So we see throughout the bible instances of miraculous
births. Sarah (Gen. 21:1-7)(Romans 4:16-21)(Heb. 11:11,12), Rebekah (Gen.
25:21), Rachel (Gen. 30:23,24), Manoah's Wife (Judges 13:3-24), Hannah (I Sam.
1:19-20), and Elisabeth (Luke 1:13) are all examples of miraculous births,
every bit as miraculous as Jesus' was. The birth process itself is really
secondary to WHO was being
birthed.
This
is also true of Jesus being raised from the dead. He was not the first man to
be raised from the dead! Other men had been raised even in Old Testament times.
The significance of the resurrection was not in the ACT of raising from
the dead, but WHO it was that
arose! He was the prototype of all sons to come after Him. He had the power to
procreate, i.e., the ability to dominate the gene of the female host! This is
what determines the value of a stud horse or a prize bull. They must be able to
pass their attributes on to their offspring, without being dominated by the
weaknesses of the female. This is true procreation, and, as we will see, is the
reason why the actual birth process was not the true miracle, but WHO was
birthed.
However,
we must face the fact that there was a physical birth. All the invisible
promises of God must take on visibility, or, as the Holy Ghost cried out of
Elisabeth, "and blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a
performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.". The only
difference in the birth of Jesus and, say, that of Samuel, was that Jesus was born virgin, that is,
without sperm. In light of what we stated at the beginning of this article, this
is really no big deal to God. If He was able to raise Abraham's sperm count to
life again, and to revive a long dead process of making eggs in Sarah, then it
is no greater miracle to birth Jesus without sperm.
Let
me at this point take a stand on some irreverent and carnal minded doctrines
that have been suggested in the past. God did not have sex with Mary! Neither
did Gabriel or any other angelic being. All of the process took place in the
WOMB of Mary. The scripture says "And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy
womb." verse 31. It goes on to say that "The Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee." verse 35.
The Greek word for power in this verse is "dunamis" #1411 in the
Strong's Concordance. It means "Force; specifically miraculous power;
Mighty (wonderful) work". The Greek word for Highest is
"Hupsistos" #5310 in the Strong's Concordance. It means "The
Supreme (God); highest place". The Greek word for overshadow is
""episkiazo" #1982 in the Strong's Concordance. It means
"To cast a shade upon; i.e. (by anal.) to envelop in a haze of brilliancy;
fig. to invest with preternatural influence.". This is the same word that
is found in Matthew 17:5 at the transfiguration of Jesus. When the disciples suggested
building three tabernacles to honor Jesus, Moses and Elijah, a bright cloud
enveloped them and a voice said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased, hear ye him”. This is the same overshadowing presence that enveloped
Mary's womb and the same power from the Highest that transfigured Jesus and
later raised him from the dead and is the same miraculous, mighty, wonderful
working Holy Spirit that worked the mysterious work of God within her
reproductive system and brought forth the Savior of the world. What a mighty
God we serve, people!
God
let Mary know that it is the same miraculous power visiting her that has in
times past visited the wombs of old
testament women. Indeed, their testimonies may be the reason why Mary received
this word with so much faith. As an added assurance, the angel tells Mary that
Elisabeth has also conceived IN HER OLD AGE. And, finally, the statement:
"For with God nothing shall be impossible."
Eventually,
we will delve into what actually took place in Mary's womb. We will stick to
our premise that God moves within the confines of His natural laws and
processes but uses them supernaturally. We will take advantage of the God-given
knowledge available to us in our present age and try to present a scenario of
the physical performance of God's promise to Mary, and to the entire creation,
that He would send a savior to redeem us from the curse of Adam and to be our
elder brother, or, the one through whom our inheritance flows. We will be using
some scientific terms that we will do our best to use in such a way that we all
can grasp the meaning of them. Do not let the unfamiliarity of the terms
intimidate you. If we can understand the types and shadows of the tabernacle in
the wilderness, surely we can comprehend the types and shadows of the house
pitched without hands. Indeed, as we will show if God permits, they are both
one and the same!
To
understand the difference between the virgin birth and a normal birth, we must
first know the details of the normal conception. Every one of us were conceived
by a union of our mother and father. There has not been a spermless birth
outside of Jesus. Many think that the virgin birth of Jesus exempted Him from
being like us. In fact, He had to be just like us in order to redeem us. Some
think that denial of their adamic roots will somehow assure them a spiritual
exemption from death, but I must tell you dear ones, we have all received the
mark of Adam and will only be released from the dominance of that gene by being
born again, of an incorruptible seed. Titles (Sons of God; Kingdom People; Life
Preacher) and about 75 cents will get you a cup of coffee, but that's all. We
must be born again from the power of the highest overshadowing our nature and
transforming our man.
First Adam - Last Adam
Gen 2:21-23 “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof; And the rib, which the
LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man. And Adam said, This is now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man. (KJV)
To understand the significance of the
virgin birth of Jesus, we must connect this miraculous birth with another
earlier miraculous birth, that of Adam. It is of utmost importance to
comprehend the connection of the two. Indeed, when dealing with revelatory
truth, we must always ask, how does this truth fit into the entire plan of God?
Does it enhance the flow of understanding from the Alpha to the Omega? Is there
a relevancy to other biblical events that clarifies the thread of truth that
runs through the plan of the ages from beginning to finish? We hope to
demonstrate that there is a connection between the earthly beginnings of Adam
and the earthly beginnings of Jesus. Jesus is the Son of God. Adam was the Son
of God. Luke 3:38 "Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth,
which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God."(KJV) First the
natural, then the spiritual. First the sin, then the cure. First corruption,
then incorruption. First Adam's birth, then Jesus' birth.
The first virgin birth was that of Adam.
He was the first of his kind, mankind. He was created by God out of the dust of
the earth and was breathed into by the breath of God and became a living soul.
He was a spirit man wrapped inside a dust body. His body was composed of the
same elements as the rest of creation. He was chemically, and biologically an
earth man, but in spirit, he was a heavenly man. He was man, but was made up of
both feminine and masculine qualities. There
was none like him in all the universe. He was the only one of his kind in earth
or in heaven. He was the first God-Man. He was a heavenly creature wrapped and
swaddled into corruptible earth. He was both terrestrial and celestial, both
light and darkness, both life and death. He was the first of many to fall from
grace. He was both great and terrible. No wonder all of the Elohim was gathered
around this strange and frightening creature. There must have been a pause in
heaven, as when one catches his breath when startled, when the act had been
accomplished. For now, the process has begun, God's plan was set into motion
and there was no turning back. The creature was subjected into vanity and
nothing could save him but God's everlasting grace, which was to find its way
into the world in like manner, born of a virgin, wrapped in humanity, another
God-Man. But this time He would come as the Redeemer, the Anointed One, the
savior of the world, Emmanuel, the Son of the Highest, our Lord and King,
Christ Jesus!
Adam was the first house pitched without
hands. He was the true tabernacle, the House of God. God must have a house to
dwell in. He must be seen in His house, not the church buildings we meet in,
but this house that we are, our body. We will always have a body. Even when we
lay this body down, we have another body, eternal in the heavens. II Cor. 5:1
states "For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens." Literally translated this says that "If our earthly
house of our tent were to be loosed from its parts and separated, we would see
an unfinished house being built, eonian in the heavenlies." God wants a
new body to dwell in. He is a God of the living and not the dead. This means He
can only be revealed in the way He wants to be revealed, through the living.
Those that have passed on to be with the Lord live in God, but we who remain
are the only ones that God lives in! The focus and working of the Spirit is on
our side of the river. Redemption must come from the visible side toward the
invisible side. They can visit us, encourage us, groan for us, but we must be
their saviors.
As stated, Adam was made up of both male
and female genetics. When God created Adam, he created him with the same
genetic material that we have. We are his offspring. This genetic material that
we pass on to each successive generation was a mystery to mankind until around
1953. That was the year that an English biochemist, Francis Harry Compton Crick
and an American biochemist, James Dewey Watson presented to the world a
molecular structure of our genetic material found in the nucleus of all human
cells. It was the first time anyone had given form and structure to the nucleic
acid responsible for birth and cell replication. The name for this beautiful
and awesome structure is Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or simply DNA. I am sure you
have heard it mentioned on the TV or read about it in the paper. This
remarkable discovery reveals to us for the first time in all history what the
great original Genetic Engineer made man from.
The structure of DNA is that of a double
helix, which, when straightened out, looks just like a ladder or a spiral
staircase. It has two ribs, or sides that are joined to each other with rungs
of genetic material. When our cells go through cellular division, the ladder of
DNA separates the two ribs from one another, much like a zipper, and one half
of the chromosomes go to one side of the cell and the other half go to the
other side, and the cell divides, replicating itself and creating two exact
copies. This is the process of mitosis. When creating sperm cells, or egg
cells, the cell divides and separates as before, but retains only one rib of
DNA, or a half of a ladder. This is the process of meiosis.
The
sperm is half of the man's ladder and the egg is half of the woman's ladder.
When joined in the womb, they unite to form a new ladder, complete with two
sides, one donated by the man, the other by the woman. This is now a new
creature, made up of one half of its father's material and one half of its
mother's material. This single cell wonder is termed a Zygote. It is neither egg
nor sperm now, but a new thing! When it duplicates again in the womb, it will
create two cells, each one having a complete ladder within it. Each time it
multiplies it will be multiplying under the same genetic pattern that was in
the DNA of the Zygote. It will follow the pattern and produce the head, feet,
arms, lungs, brain, and so on until a complete baby is birthed from the womb of
the mother. This is the wonder of the birth process, as dictated by the Master
Genetic Engineer, God Almighty.
Keeping all of this in mind, let us go on
to the birth of Adam. His mother was the earth, being made from the dust. We
bear the same chemical components found in the earth and atmosphere around us.
Physically, we are products of the elements found in our planet. As we have
said, Adam was a mixture, or compound, of that which is spiritual and that
which is natural. This is what separates us from all other created beings. We
are both. Adam was so unique, he could not join himself with any of the
creatures made before him. So the Lord caused a deep sleep to come on Adam and
He took one of Adam's ribs and from that rib He made a woman.
I am sure this has been preached on
thousands of times, but I would like us to take the present day knowledge that
I have stated in the previous paragraphs and apply that knowledge to this
account. This is the first genetic surgery ever performed. The scripture says
God took from Adam one of his ribs and closed up his flesh instead thereof.
This follows the example of zipping and unzipping the DNA molecule. God
unzipped Adam's molecular structure and took from it the rib of DNA material,
and then through the process of mitosis, He zipped the ladder back up, or, as
the bible states, He closed the flesh up. For a long time, when I was a young
Christian, I thought women had one extra number of ribs in their rib cage.
Otherwise, this account is wrong if taken literally, since it says God closed
Adam's side back up and never gives him his rib back. We have 24 ribs, 12 on
each side. Both men and women. These are all very significant Biblical numbers,
but that is another message.
The
word for rib in the Hebrew is Strong's # 6763 tsala` "a rib (as curved) literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a
door, i.e. leaf) hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an
object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or
ceiling) timber or plank." It comes from Strong's # 6760 tsalah
"curve; to limp (as if one-sided)". Does any of this sound
familiar to you? The word for rib denotes a curved timber or plank. It is
mostly used in context of building foundations and deals directly with material
used for the flooring and ceiling. The DNA structure is called the building
block of the body. It is our genetic foundation and it is curved into a double
helix. It is this structure that God took one rib of, or one side of, and made
woman. He literally performed the first cell division that we call meiosis, or
the dividing of a diploid DNA structure into a haploid structure, used in
conception.
The scripture says He made a woman. The
word used for made in the Hebrew is Strong's # 1129 banah, "to
build". He built the woman from the genetic material in Adam's DNA that
was both masculine and feminine. In Jacob's dream, in Genesis 28:12-13 it
states "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 whereon thou liest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed." There is no doubt in my mind
that Jacob saw the structure that we have finally seen in our century. Jacob's
ladder is the DNA structure that connects us to God. It is the ladder that
guarantees us audience and relationship with an invisible God. It connects
heaven and earth, man and God, and is the pattern of the tabernacle pitched by
God and not man. Is it just coincidence that Jacob is moved to name that place
We know how God spoke to Moses to make
sure he built all things according to the pattern. Genesis 25:8,9,40 "And
let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all
that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all
the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it... and look that thou make
them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount." The word
for pattern here is Strong's # 8403 tabniyth "structure; by implication, a
model, resemblance". It comes from the root word #1129 banah. This is the
same word used for God "made" a woman. After the sin in the garden,
Adam called the woman, Eve, the mother of all living. She was the model, the
resemblance of Adam. Just as the Church is the model and resemblance of Christ.
There are two patterns in the earth, or two images (icons). One is the pattern
of the limited, corruptible tabernacle. The other is the pattern of the true,
unlimited, eternal tabernacle. Each has its own life and dynamics. One leads to
life, the other to death. Jesus Christ came to bring both patterns, or ribs,
together to form a new thing, a new man, a new wonder.
Is it any coincidence dear ones that the
very word used in the bible (rib) is found in the word that the scientific community has chosen to call our genetic
material, deoxyRIBonucleic acid? I will let you decide if these events
are chance or by design. As for me, I cannot escape the fact that God has
reserved some truths for this day that could not be revealed to other ages
except in types and shadows, always looking through a cloudy mirror, bound not
by unrighteousness but by dispensation. In this feast of Tabernacles, is it not
fitting that God would show us Jacob's ladder, not in a dream, but in reality.
The invisible has become visible and the dark and mysterious things are being
learned by babes.
The first time I saw a human cell, I saw
the pattern shown to Moses in the mount. Not a building of wood and metal, but
a living organism, the very thing God has been after all along. There, inside
the cell walls stood the outer courts with their activities of cleansing and
moving in and out of the outer wall. The cell membrane is differential in it's
structure, allowing certain things in but keeping other things out, much like
the outer courts of the Tabernacle of Moses. The cell even has its own
Levitical priesthood, keeping the tabernacle clean and performing priestly
duties of maintenance and communication to the rest of the body.
Look
a little closer and you will see the nucleus of the cell, the Holy place,
separated from the rest of the cell by another veil of cell membrane. The
nucleus is like a cell within a cell. It's membrane is even more differential
in nature than the outer court membrane. It is here that the cell receives it's
instructions on how to operate and divide. Mysterious communications to and
from the rest of the vast body is kept intact by complex exchanges of intelligence
received and given by a specialized class of priests called ribosomes.
Look
even closer and you see a third chamber, the holy of holies of the cell. The
nucleic membrane of this final chamber is extremely picky about what it allows
through. This is holy ground. This is the dwelling place of the Shekinah glory
of the body. It is from this inner chamber that the wings of the cherubim join
together and the testimony of who we are and all that has been before us is
stored. Adam's genes are in here along with every other descendant. The
testimony is made up of both the good and the bad of our forefathers. Some
genes give life and health, others give disease and infirmity. It is all there,
the good, the bad, the ugly. It is a great and terrible place. From this holy
place the command comes to grow, mature, live, heal, and later in life, to age,
shrink, hurt, and to die. It is where cursing and blessing both live, health
and disease, mortality and immortality, all is locked up within the double
helix of DNA that calls this place home.
When
God numbered man's life, He put a genetic code of death in our genes. It is a
medical fact that at a certain time of our life, genetic time bombs start going
off and our cells start dying at a faster rate than when we were young. It is
this death process that some of us are looking to see done away with in Christ.
It is called the message of immortality and life. This will be a supernatural
event, meaning that natural processes will be used in a super way to perform the
miraculous. It is my belief that there is an original code of life imbedded
within our cells. This pre-fall code is still intact genetically, but is
superceded by the curse of Adam, which in reality is a genetic death. God spoke
it out from the Logos, but fulfilled it through the DNA pattern of a limited
life. If God reverses the curse and commands life to come out of death, then it
follows that it will be fulfilled genetically also. This agrees with the
language that Paul used in I Cor. 15:53,54, "For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. So when this corruptible
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." Nothing is destroyed here in the literal sense, it is
swallowed up into life. A genetic code of death is superceded and swallowed up
by a genetic code of life!
To
see Deoxyribonucleic Acid through a regular microscope, it looks like a dark,
cloudy mass, Look into this through an
electron microscope and you find it is not cloudy at all but made up of
Chromosomes, the dwelling place of DNA. And it is here that you realize that
you have looked into the face of God and have seen what prophets of old saw
through dim visions and dreams, and you have seen things that you are not
worthy to even consider. It humbles you and causes tears to fall from your face
as you count yourself as the lowest of the low. If only Paul or Peter or Origen
or Eusibius or other mighty men of the past could have seen this, what glory
they could have wrought. Paul could only preach on gross anatomy, i.e. hands,
feet, head, etc.. What would he have been able to do with the knowledge that we
have? After all, it was unto Paul that God revealed the message of being the
God of the whole world and not just the God of the Jew. Paul saw a spiritual
seed that had it's beginnings in Adam, prior to the Abrahamic covenant. It is
that singular seed, which is the genetic inheritance that we all share, whether
black or white or brown or red, American or Spanish or African or Russian or
Israelite, it comes from a common beginning and will culminate in a common end.
Physical immortality is not the ultimate goal.
It is Incorruptibility, the change of nature that will give us eternal joy and
peace in our God. Without partaking of the Father's divine nature, physical
immortality would be the closest thing to eternal torment that man could ever
see. However, it is the combination of both immortality and incorruptibility
that will identify this new creature. The ladder that Jacob beheld connects
heaven to earth, and God to man. Help us, Oh Lord. Unknown to us, we have laid
sleeping in the very place the Most High God dwells in, Bethel, the House of
God, who we are.
The Third Virgin Birth
Rev. 12:1-6 "And there
appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with
child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the
third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the
dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour
her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and
to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days."
So
far, in this study of “The Virgin Birth”, we have attempted to show the
correlation of the birth of Jesus with the birth of Adam. Adam being the
prototype of a fallen race of mankind, Jesus being the prototype of a redeemed
race of new creatures. Both births were virgin in nature, that is, void of the
involvement of man. Adam was formed of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into by the very breath of God, and he became a living soul. Jesus was formed
by the overshadowing of Mary's womb by the power of the Holy Ghost and He
became a quickening spirit. I Corinthians 15:45.
I
also attempted to show that Eve was built up from the "rib" of Adam,
the rib being in actuality the DNA of Adam's genetic Logos. Eve became the
"mother of all living", meaning that you must be "born of a
woman" in order to be a candidate for this redemptive plan of God. It is
now known in our modern times that the woman passes on the only pure genetic
lineage of our forebearers. The DNA that is passed on to us by our fathers is
mixed with the DNA from all our ancestors, with many branches and stems in our
family trees. But it is now known that there is another strand of DNA found
outside of our Nucleus and contained within a cellular organelle called the
Mitochondria that is passed on through the woman undivided, and unmixed.
This
mitochondrial DNA is what God used as a gate back into Adam. Eve and all of her
daughters were genetic gates, carrying the original genetic law of sin and
death which was written into Adam's DNA. This genetic Logos predetermined the
fall of Adam. Romans 8:20 "For the creature was made subject to vanity,
not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope."
It also, however, predetermined his redemption. Romans 8:29,30 "For whom
he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did
predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified."
This
genetic Logos carried both the law of sin and death, and the law of the spirit
of life. When Jesus was conceived, he took upon himself the likeness of sinful
flesh. Romans 8:3 "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh." Jesus partook of the mitochondrial
DNA of Mary in order to obtain a direct line back into the genetic Logos of
Adam's fall. He not only dealt with sin in the spirit, he dealt with it in
"the flesh". The code of death is implanted in our genes, with
cellular "timebombs" going off as we grow older. Scientists say that
we have the capability right now to be physically immortal, but there is a
genetic law written into our DNA that instructs our cells to self-destruct at
an appointed time of our life. This is the genetic Logos that was written in
our cells by God when he formed Adam.
Jesus
came to rewrite Adam's law of death, and disannul it with His victory over it
"in the flesh". He had to become our elder brother in order to do
this. Philippians 2:6-11 "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found
in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given
him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father." Praise the Lord! Jesus, being in the "form"
of God, took upon himself the "form" of a servant, and was
made in our "likeness" and being found in "Fashion"
as a man, humbled himself and was in turn exalted by God and given a name
whereby every knee would bow at it's mention, whether the knee was in heaven,
or in earth, or under the earth. What a great redemptive plan our God has
wrought!
We
all had our origin in God. We also were found in the form of God, being made up
of God-stuff. We also took upon ourselves the fashion and likeness of sinful
flesh. We have all walked according to the course of this world, knowing its
current of earthly pleasures and self-fulfilling existence. But at least for a
certain amount of us, we never did fit fully into the scheme of things. We
always felt a resistance in us, an indescribable urge to fulfill another
destiny that we knew nothing about in our intellect, but we were never allowed
to go to the limit in the carnal world. Something was always holding us back,
closing doors that we wanted open, opening doors that we wanted shut. Little
did we know that we were pre-determined, pre-chosen, pre-called, pre-ordained
to fulfill a higher destiny. This sticks in the religious craws of many dear
saints, but this is biblical reality. Many are called, but there are a few that
are chosen, not born after the will of man, but birthed with another agenda.
These are born without the choice found in the rest of creation. Theirs is not
to reason why, theirs is to do or die. The only choice these sons have, is not
IF they are going onward, but HOW they are going. God has an easy way, and a
hard way. If we are quick learners and if we have an aversion to painful fire,
we will start yielding to the workings of the Lord in our lives. If we are
stubborn and rebellious, we will have a thorny and rocky path, reinforced with
the determined judgements of God. It makes no difference to God which path we
choose, the end result is the same. We will arrive at our predetermined
position and destiny in life. It is just that some of us will arrive having had
a glorious time of rejoicing and praising, and others will arrive looking like
something the cat dragged in. Regardless, we will all arrive!
God
has invested too much into His redemptive plan to allow your flesh or mine to
halt His will. Some of us walk in God, others are dragged in God. Some of us
leave dainty, light footsteps behind, others leave claw marks. Some of us fall
on the rock, others are constantly having the rock fall on their heads.
Eventually we all get the message. We no longer have a say in our lives.
Another feeds us, another clothes us, another leads us about.
Obviously,
I have not been talking about the vast majority of the Church. I am talking of
an elect, a firstfruits, a remnant. In the previous pages, I stated that the
type of birth that Mary was involved in was not the real issue, but rather what
came out of that birth. The scholars have chosen to center their attention on
the birth itself, whereas we should understand WHAT was birthed. The cure for Adam's disease of death was
birthed. The door for creation to go through into the grace of God was birthed.
The King of kings and the Lord of lords was birthed. It matters little HOW He
arrived, the main point is, HE arrived! May I say also, it matters little HOW
you arrived on the scene, the only thing you need to consider is that somehow,
someway, God has brought you through it all, and you have arrived! This is the
moment that your whole life has been pointing up to. You have arrived at your
point of destiny. When your faith was too weak, and you had given up all hope,
His ordination carried you in your times of faintness. Some of you are tattered
and torn from fighting God's will in your walk, but listen to the prophet as he
tells us your end result.
Zechariah
3:1-8 "And he showed me
Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan
standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The
Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with
filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto
those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him.
And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee,
and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair
mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him
with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by. And the angel of the Lord
protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; If thou wilt walk
in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my
house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among
these that stand by. Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows
that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring
forth my servant the BRANCH."
The
question that we all should be asking ourselves today is, "What is
relevant, and what is not?" Is it relevant whether you came from
Pentecostal backgrounds, or latter rain, or sons of God, or drug addiction, or
atheism, etc., etc.? You are here! That is all that matters. We are being
wearied by our questions of how, why, and when. Virginal or non-virginal, the
only thing relevant to the task at hand is that God now has a people who are
coming to terms with who they are, and how they are to be used to bring life to
dying creation. Everything else is mute in the face of the dire circumstances
facing us.
Revelations
Chapter 12 is a very relevant part of the Bible to us in this day. However, let
us not weary ourselves with the symbols and shadows contained in this chapter.
Our focus should be on the fact that this woman has given birth to a man child,
who is caught up to the throne of God. For the time being, the woman is not our
focus, the man child is. You will notice that the dragon is not focused on the
woman herself, he is only interested in what the woman brings forth. The thing
that worries the dragon the most is not the woman, but the power that the child
bears. The woman is just a vessel, a gate, though which the true seed must
pass. The woman is pictured in a triumphant imagery, with the sun clothing her
and the moon under her feet, but the dragon doesn't seem to be worried about
killing her as much as he is about killing the child that she births.
The
woman is the true virgin church that Christ has kept from the rest of the
religious world. No matter how she attempted to find love and understanding in
the lovers of the Babylonian system, she has remained childless until she comes
into the overcoming state of being we find her in. From Jesus until now, she
has been kept by a divine appointment of God, not allowed to be married to the
carnal mind, constantly being saved by the right hand of God's power.
When
we say that this is the virgin Church, I would like to qualify the term
"virgin". In Mary's case, the mother of Jesus, it was a physical
term, meaning that the birth was spermless. In the case of the Church, it is a
spiritual term, meaning that a child is formed without benefit of the beliefs
and doctrines of men. I am not defending Mary's chastity or whether she had
ever known a man in her lifetime. I do defend the birth of Jesus being void of
Joseph's having had intercourse with her, and any other man. In the case of the
Church, I do not defend the Church as being totally chaste or virgin in her
past. She has, in fact, known a life of many lovers in her days of searching
for her true identity. But in her heart of hearts, she remained a virgin to her
destiny. No former lover has ever captured her totally. All through the realms
and orders of the past eons she has been abused, pillaged, beaten, raped,
robbed, ravaged, emotionally devastated, left for dead, stripped of hope, told
of impending doom, given no chance, filled with despair, shipwrecked, scarred,
torn, molested, used to fulfill men's lust for money, fame and fortune, and
then thrown out in the streets after they had their way with her, childless,
friendless, without city, without family, drinking of the cup of sorrow and
eating the bread of affliction, in truth, her whole existence one of shame and
torment.
But
through it all, through every tear, cry, and shriek, she would not die. Through
the fire, through the flood, and thank God through the Blood, she continued her
search for her true Husband, her true lineage, her true destiny. Once a
backslidden whore, now we see the end result of the eternal mercies of the
Lord. Like Mary Magdalene, she once had her own private demons to contend with,
but now she is seen in the presence of God, pure, chaste, as much a virgin as
any other young maid, her past forgotten, her shame swallowed up in victory,
instead of being defeated and beaten down by men, she is now clothed with the
sun, with the moon under her feet, a mother at last, and determined to birth
this child even in the face of death itself. What a wonder she is! A great
wonder! A living example of how God takes our ugliness and shame and makes
something beautiful and good out of it.
None
of us would care to open our closet doors and show off the skeletons of our
past. This company of predestinated sons have no confidence in their flesh. God
seems to have gone out of His way to make sure of that. But we have all
learned, that you can rape us, abuse us, strip us, and leave us naked, but we
have a spirit within us that will find a way to keep us going. Cancer, disease,
poverty, worldly ruin, we have tasted of it all, and what we have come to know
is this: That God is bigger than it all! He is bigger than your failures,
bigger than your persecutors, bigger than your bank account, bigger than death,
bigger than sin, bigger than our fallen nature. He has a plan, and He will not
fail. It has been sure and steadfast in the face of all dragons and serpents
and it will continue on until every knee breaks
at the mention of Jesus Christ.
The
virgin church is a reality. God has reserved unto himself a church within the
church. Sitting in every pew of the nominal church is a true church, who is
just now coming to themselves and are starting to know of their true existence.
Hid in the wilderness of the earthly works and carnal doctrines of the world,
there is a people that are starting to grow sick of the fleshly administration
of a corrupt priesthood. They are virgin, never fully swallowing the fables of
the Babylonian doctrine of faith, but not knowing where else to go to survive.
So they await the coming of the Lord, the only way they know how, eating
sparingly of the crumbs that fall from the table of the spirit.
And
so shall they be until the man child comes into his destiny. The focus is not
on the woman, it is on the child. The woman has fulfilled her work for now. She
has delivered through the ages past a pure lineage that travels through the
mighty men of valor of latter rain and Pentecost, down through the early
Universalists, on through Martin Luther and his fellows, but mostly through men
and women that will remain nameless to us, devout men and women of God, never
having written a book or preached behind a pulpit, just runners of faith,
carrying a seed of promise like a baton, passing it along to each successive
generation, delivering their faith, having confidence in God that His
determination would not let the seed fall to the ground. Each generation acting
as a womb, keeping the seed growing and developing until the fullness of times.
The seed of the woman goes back through the dark ages, through the corruptness
of the Constantine-inspired Christian empire, whose offices of priesthood
became nothing more than political elections, filled by men with alternative
motives. It is seen in the early church fathers, in Eusebius, and Gregory of
Nyssa, in Origen and Clement of Alexandria, on through Polycarp and Paul and John, the one that Jesus loved, and
through Peter on into Jesus. Our lineage is intact, we are true sons, born of
the spirit, named with His name, sitting in His throne, side by side, we bear
the baton of the ages. If you have seen us, you have seen Him, if you have
heard us, you have heard Him. We are His expression, His mouthpiece, His Word,
His authority, His song, His love. We bear His DNA, His genetic fingerprints,
we are bone of His bone, spirit of His spirit. His child are we, His man child.
This
man child is the final product of the virginal birth process. He is what God
was after all along. Adam was made from a dual molecule of DNA. It's structure
is a double helix, a ladder that is twisted, like a spiral staircase. Eve was
built from one rib of this ladder. The children of Adam and Eve inherited one
side of the ladder from Adam, and the other side of the ladder from Eve, which
is the process that you and I were birthed by in the flesh. Adam's rib
contained death and life, corruption and incorruption, mortality and
immortality. Adam is the father of a fallen, dual race of mankind.
Jesus
partook of this corruption and overcame it in HIMSELF. He became the prototype
of a redeemed race, not through the flesh, but through the spirit. Adam's curse
of death was passed on in both spirit and flesh, having an immediate effect
spiritually, but a more gradual effect in the body. Notice how the offspring of
Adam show immediate signs of the fallen nature, hence Cain and Abel, but a more
gradual effect on the amount of years they were able to live. Adam lives 930
years; Seth 912; Enos 905, and so on. There are blips of added years to
Jared and even his son Enoch who walked
with God until he became not. These exceptions are due to an individual victory
over the sin nature in each one, but the nature of Adam continued to wear the
children down until Abraham lives to be an old man at the age of 175 years. The
genetic message of death in the genes of Adam's DNA finally reach their
predetermined saturation of the human body, 120 years. Adam infected the human
race spiritually and mortally but with more immediate results spiritually.
In
Adam's body, and in ours, there are trillions of individual cells, each having
within them the complete genetic code and intelligence that created all the
trillions of cells from one cell in your mother's womb. The same amount of
genetic information is in the cells of your big toe, as are in your brain
cells. The modern day "Gene Hunters" are presently studying the human
genome to try to "read" it's molecular language, for somewhere in the
molecule of DNA is the message that gives you life, and also the message that
ends your life. Mortality and immortality lie down side by side in your cells.
In the beginning of your life, the immortal part has dominance and your cells
multiply and grow at a fast rate, each day bringing more and more evidence of
life. At the latter part of your life, the death part of your DNA takes
dominion and each day brings more and more evidence of death working in your
body. Eventually, the "timebombs" going off in your body take their
toll and you grow susceptible to diseases and your organs and systems start to
run down, and you succumb to death.
Jesus
also passed on a rib of genetic material to us. He is the prototype of a
new race of creatures. He came to
disannul the covenant of death and the agreement with hell that is written in
our genes, both natural and spiritual. Man was separated from God on both
counts, spiritually and physically. Adam had an effect on the whole man, and
Jesus Christ has an effect on the whole man. As Adam had an immediate effect on
the nature of man, so did Christ have an immediate effect on the nature of
those who are "born again". A true conversion is an immediate
conversion. It is not a process of learning a doctrine of the Church, adding
your name to the membership roll, being baptized a certain way, and finally
learning to quote favorite scriptures and beat on a pulpit. True conversion is
as instantaneous as a bolt of lightning. The Apostle Paul will testify to that.
One moment you are a fire breathing persecutor of the Church, the next you are
knocked off your horse, blinded, and being told to change your present course
in life. His rib went into all the world, and has remained within the womb of
the church until this day.
We
are the product of the rib of Jesus, combined with the rib of Adam. That is our
uniqueness. We are not angel, or seraphim, or cherubim. or like any other
creature made. We are redeemed man. We bear both genetics, fallen DNA and
pre-fallen DNA. Everything that we were in God before we took on flesh we have
brought with us into this body. For two feast-days now, we have laid this body
down in the reality that in Christ we will never truly die. Even if we lay this
mortal down, we live on in God, thanks to the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead. Christ has put death under HIS feet, and has made an open display of
HIS dominion over hell and the grave. What we must do now, is bring this
triumph beyond the individual Son of God into the many-membered Son. It is not
enough to have Jesus alone raise from the dead. We must also be changed! It is
written in the Logos of our God DNA! ICor. 15:54 "...then shall be brought
to pass the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory!" Oh
praise the Lord! It is written. Where? On the tables of our DNA! The word of
God is taking on flesh!
Our
mother was virgin, as His mother was virgin. We have mixed with flesh, been
baptized into it and have overcome it through the word of our testimony and the
blood of the Lamb. We have bought the whole field for the treasure hid within
it. We have been birthed without man, overshadowed by the Holy Ghost. We are in
the world, but not of it. Let others compete for the accolades of men, selling
their souls to fill their tomb-like churches. We have given up the tomb for the
womb! Hid for now, unknown and unheard of, we sit at the feet of God, learning
righteous judgement, losing our desire to impress flesh, and to be impressed by
flesh. The only thing that catches our attention now is the voice of our
shepherd.
The
third virgin birth, like the previous virgin births of Adam and Jesus, is not
so much about the method of birthing, as it is about who is being birthed. This
third birth brings forth the corporate man, a composite being, made up of sons
from every color and creed. It is a living, functioning organism, with healing
in his hands, and the word of life in his mouth. Nations come to his rising,
kings throw their crowns at his feet, the abundance of the sea is converted to
him. What manner of creature is this? Neither male nor female, circumcision nor
uncircumcision, greek nor jew, bond nor free, but a new creature, a new species of God-man, a compound of earth and
heaven, darkness and light, failure and victory. Like his mother, he is a true
wonder, a complete man, a man of destiny and purpose, to reconcile the world
back unto God, and to bend every knee. Even so Lord, even so.
Written By Bob Torango