In the posts What is the Soul? and What is Sin? we addressed the fact that a soul is born into sin due to the fact that it is automatically thrust into and bathed in a mix of dark and light energies at birth and remains in this state until it consciously decides to invite the Holy Spirit to indwell it. Sin is everything that keeps a soul away from God and tethered to the world construct. Therefore, any attachment to the material realm will keep a soul in a sinful state. While some fleshly actions carried out by souls in the world seem worse than others, from the perspective of leaving this realm, a tether is a tether. For example, Saul of Tarsus who became the apostle Paul, used to imprison and murder Christians before he was called by Jesus on the road to Damascus and became one of the most fervent believers and a Christian martyr himself. This should convince all captive souls that they too can be saved.
I would like to clarify however that while the world likes to tout the motto, “Do what thou wilt” insinuating that souls can sin endlessly without consequence, this is a misunderstanding of the Word of God. The world also likes to state that intention is not important in particular when we try to defend captive souls, but that is also untrue.
Only truly repentant souls who accept by faith the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to atone (pay) for their sins can be saved. Once a soul crosses that bridge, it begins to be transformed by the Holy Spirit. A soul cannot accomplish this transformation itself, only the Holy Spirit can effect this change such that a soul cannot work out its salvation in the mind or through its own works which would only serve to boost its ego and its pride and bind it further to the World. Once the transformation begins, a soul becomes less and less inclined to sin and cannot live as it once did.
THE CROSSROADS
If a soul goes beyond sinning unconsciously and consciously chooses to join the dark kingdom in whatever circumstances, whether at a very young age or as an adult, there is no reason for it to think it cannot be saved. As long as the soul is attached to God via the silver cord, it can be saved. This cord will only be cut on judgement day if God so decides. In the meantime, as the apostle Paul who used to be a murderer was saved, this is a message of hope for all captive souls that they can also be saved.
The good news is that Jesus already paved the way for your soul to be redeemed.
THE LAND IS THE SOUL
The Word of God makes clear that born-again souls become living temples for God to dwell in – read The Last Temple. While there may also be a third physical temple built on the Temple Mount since everything in the Word of God is expressed both in the physical realm and the spiritual realm, ultimately God wants human beings to become living temples of worship for Him.
The outer court of the spiritual temple is an idiom for the body whereas the Holy Place and the Land on which the tabernacle of God is to be built is an idiom for the soul since a spiritual temple cannot be built without the soul just as a physical temple cannot be built without the land. The Holy of Holies is an idiom for the place where the Spirit of God dwells. Since the tabernacle was originally a tent containing both the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies, we can draw a parallel between the tabernacle and the soul since the soul is a spiritual vessel often referred to as a tent (and a robe) in the Word of God and when worshipping God through Christ who is the High Priest, the soul is in the presence of God in the nuptial chamber or the Holy of Holies, in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The Israelites were allowed to enter the outer court of the Temple only; The Priests who were consecrated to God and who ensured that they were Holy could serve in the Holy Place; the High Priest alone could enter the Holy of Holies, the dwelling place of God, but only once a year, on the Day of Atonement
A veil hung in the Temple separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. This veil apart from ensuring nobody except the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies, was meant to illustrate the consequences of sin and how it separated us from God. Up until the time of Jesus, entry into the Most Holy Place was reserved for the High Priest.
When Jesus was crucified, there was darkness over the earth; an earthquake struck and the tombs of dead saints were opened; Jesus cried out, and “the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom”. This act of God confirmed that from that moment on, there was no longer a barrier between God and His “children in the making” because Jesus the Messiah, our High Priest and Mediator between Humanity and God, had abolished it in blotting out the sins of those who would be born again by His blood and by the Holy Spirit of God. Thus, every soul born again in Christ can now approach God through Jesus Christ since through His sacrifice, He has erased all of our sins having redeemed us, having paid for us the debt ransom to free us from the world and its Law of death (of the soul) for sins.
Matthew 27:50-52 “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.
Seeing the above, we can understand that a purified born-again soul is like a Priest in the Holy Place, but since it abides in Christ who is our High Priest who dwells with God, it can be inhabited by the Holy Spirit of God. The soul in Christ therefore becomes God’s dwelling place, the Holy of Holies located in the Temple that is the body.
Understanding the above is important because it leads us to a better understanding of how Jesus has provided for the redemption of souls – the purchasing of souls back from the world – in line with the redemption of land in God’s Law.
REDEMPTION
1. The action of regaining or gaining possession of something in exchange for payment, or clearing a debt2. The action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil.
“God’s plans for the redemption of his world”
GOD’S LAW FOR REDEEMING THE LAND AND THE SOULS
Land
In the Word of God, the land and all created things belong to God and are simply leased to its Tenants, His children. God’s children can sow, harvest and also build on the land; for example, they can build a temple, but this temple, the land, the firstfruits of the harvest and flocks always belong to God. Just as the Land is leased to God’s people, so also are the souls leased temporarily to allow life to take place and choices to be made until judgement day. If the silver cord is cut on judgement day, that soul which is a spark of God, is taken back by God but if it is redeemed, it receives a new permanent body, the Oikētērion.
Because God’s People are meant to only be tenant administrators of the Land, they were forbidden to sell the land.
REDEMPTION OF PROPERTY
Leviticus 25:23-28 – “‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me. And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.“
From “God’s Law for Redeeming the Land: ” Inasmuch as the land was Yahweh’s land, the portion held by an Israelite was inalienable … an individual Israelite received his portion by inheritance. There was no other legal method devised whereby he might come into permanent possession of landed property, and there was therefore no proper way in which to dispose of property except to apportion it to his legal heirs. This prohibition of a permanent sale was on the basis that the property was not actually the possessor’s to sell. He could not sell what he did not own.
When land was sold, it could only be sold within the same Tribe and it was merely the use of the land that was sold, not the land itself as it belonged to God. If, because of poverty or for any other reason the tenant of the land could not buy the use of his land back (could not redeem it), his nearest relative had the duty to redeem it to keep the land use within the Tribe – this nearest relative was called the Kinsman-Redeemer.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER
From God’s Law for Redeeming the Land website: “Land redemption in Israel involved two significant responsibilities for the kinsman-redeemer. First, he had to pay the redemption price for the land and thereby obtain the right of tenant possession. Second, after obtaining that right, he had to take actual possession of the land and thereby exercise administrative control over it. In situations in which the kinsman-redeemer did not take possession of the land for a long period of time because he was far removed from it, and usurpers occupied and used that land during his absence, he would have to evict the usurpers before he could take actual possession of the land. Sometimes this eviction required the use of force by the kinsman-redeemer when the usurpers resisted removal from the land.“
From E. W. Bullinger, The Apocalypse or “The Day of the Lord,” the two responsibilities of the kinsman-redeemer are as follows:
“But the payment of the price is only one part of the work of redemption. If the price be paid and there be no power to take possession and eject the holder the payment is in vain. And if power be put forth and exercised in casting out the usurper, without the previous payment of the redemption price, it would not be a righteous act. So that for the redemption of the forfeited inheritance two things are absolutely necessary, price and power.”
Thus, we can see through the precise manner in which God provided for the redemption of the land the price and power that would one day be exercised by the truest of all kinsmen-redeemers, the Christ, He who paid with His blood for the redemption of our souls and who will come in strength to seek us out.
CHRIST THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER
In order to prevent the sale of Land (or souls) from being permanent, God established the year of Jubilee, the year following the seventh sabbatical year (the 50th year). The redemption of property was definitely part of Jesus’ mission when He gave His life on the cross.
Jesus clearly declared the mission of His ministry on a sabbath day in the synagogue after returning from the Jordanian desert where He was tested by Satan and where He fasted for 40 days and 40 nights. He stood up to read and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
Isaiah 61:1-2
“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, (omitting “and the day of vengeance of our God” which will occur on His second coming for judgement day).
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Then He said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
The year of the Lord’s favor was the proclamation of a year of Jubilee in the Hebrew tradition. The Book of Leviticus prescribes a special year, a Jubilee Year, in which debts would be remitted, lands restored to their original owners, and slaves liberated.
Passover originally represented the passing over by the angel of death in Egypt of those houses inhabited by the Hebrew slaves who had put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on their door as prescribed by God through Moses and their subsequent liberation from Egypt to travel to the Promised Land. Subsequently, Jesus would by His sacrifice and resurrection give an additional meaning to the Passover.
Jesus’ death on the cross allows for all souls enslaved by sin in the world construct, who accept Him as their Messiah, to be freed from the world. As per God’s Land/Property Redemption Law Principles, Jesus the High Priest of the Tribe of the born-again souls, paid by His blood to redeem the souls (land) which belong to God and paying their sin debt in the process, in order to allow these souls to return to their original Owner in the Promised Land, where God dwells, (i.e.: Heaven). The new spiritual birth therefore allows a soul to become a child of God and to “pass over” from the world (from death) to the Promised Land (Life).
WHAT CAN THE SOULS DO WHILE THEY WAIT FOR THE RETURN OF CHRIST?
Since Jesus paid the price to redeem our souls, born-again souls belong to Him (souls are betrothed to Him, or engaged to Him for the wedding day). Jesus exercises administrative control over our journey by being our High Priest once we are born again. We should be consecrated to God and live according to Jesus’ teachings.
If a soul is captive, it can be born again and be saved in the same manner. If force is required to remove the usurpers, (i.e.: those entities binding the soul to the Kingdom of Darkness), Christ can remove their tethers.
The saved souls are called to observe daily God’s Word and His commandments and the teachings of Christ and, to love and worship the Lord God and to serve Him with all their heart, all their soul, and with all their strength. Doing this keeps the usurpers away from Christ’s land, the souls, and ensures the souls’ transformation through the Holy Spirit continues until they become fit temples or tabernacles of God.
Deuteronomy 6: 4-7
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 11: 8-28 – God’s Holy Covenant
“Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end – (The Promised Land).
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul […]
Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
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If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.
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No one will be able to stand against you. The Lord your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—the blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”
God’s Holy Covenant above provides that God will deliver souls out of the hands of their enemy, the Adversary, to take them to the Promised Land (Heaven) if they obey His commandments and Jesus’ teachings and if they are consecrated to Him, worshipping and serving Him with all their heart, and all their soul and all their strength, daily. For a born-again soul having circumcised its heart from the world and putting to death the old self to allow the child of God to be born and to be refined through daily trials, expressing this soul change through daily worship to God in essence represents a daily sacrifice.
The Word of God mentions that in the end times, those souls that will accept the mark of the Beast will no longer practice or will no longer be able to practice the daily observance, worship or sacrifice, they will not be inclined to keep God in their thoughts and in their heart, and this will in essence allow the usurpers to seize the souls since their acceptance of the mark would confirm their allegiance to Lucifer/Satan thereby forsaking God’s Holy Covenant. Of note, God’s Holy Covenant provides that believers always keep God’s commandments in mind (forehead) and do His will (action – hand). By way of emulation, Satan foresees that his mark will be applied on the forehead or on the hand. It is clear that this mark has for main purpose a transfer of allegiance where Satan wishes to be worshipped in the place of God.
Daniel 11 : 30-32 – “Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.
His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people who know their God will firmly resist him.”
It should be noted that the development of the current Biotech vaccines are Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiatives, therefore military or armed forces initiatives These do aim to affect the body or temple and perhaps diminish its spiritual potential through gene editing of the VMAT2 gene (based on previous documented DARPA experiments), among other modifications including the densification of the carbon-based body through the use of graphene oxide, a derivative of carbon.
Of note, the carbon molecule contains, 6 electrons, 6 protons and 6 neutrons, hence 666, and since the human body is a carbon-based construct, it is indeed the number of a man in the flesh. But even if we were to disregard vaccines altogether, accepting a mark confirming that you wish to remain in the flesh and in the world is an allegiance to the world and its leader and a refusal to pledge allegiance to Christ and God. “Love of the world is enmity with God” (James 4:4).
Revelation 13: 11-18: The Beast out of the Earth
“Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”
Please keep the above in mind before you accept another foreign substance in your body or a mark, especially if you are required to pledge allegiance to Lucifer/Satan in the process. If you have, you can ask God to be justified of all sins through the blood of Jesus Christ by accepting His sacrifice to redeem you from the world and, be born again through the Holy Spirit.
Think twice before selling your inheritance like Cain and Esau did, by taking the mark – as you do not own the land that is your soul, or the body that is the temple, they belong to God and they were purchased by Christ on the cross for those who wish to be born again.
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