From the article "
Reincarnation Is An Irrefutable Fact"
The most important words in all of Scripture may be found in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, where Christ-Jesus said the following:-
John 3:3-13
3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born from above, he cannot SEE the Kingdom of God.
3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
3:5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water (human) and then is born (later) from above as his spirit-"Being" (his REAL self which is NOT human), he can NOT enter into the Kingdom of God (Who is a Spirit-"Being").
3:6
That which is born of the flesh is human; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (a spirit-"Being") - (a human+Being).
3:7
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
3:8
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and where it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (How can I not be human?)
3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?
3:11
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
3:12
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly (spirit) things?
3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of Man which is from heaven.
The reason these words are the most important should be self-evident; if one cannot “see” the Kingdom of God then they have absolutely no hope of entering it.
Christianity (
Matt. 15:14)
wrongly teaches people they are humans that have a soul, which is exactly backwards and thus totally illogical. If we are not the Soul, then what passes on? As everyone should well know, all human existence ends with human death, so if someone is “only human”, then there is no life after death, as human death is a certainty.
The
TRUTH is we are spiritual-Beings (Souls) incarnated
inside human-animal bodies
exactly as God has told us (
Gen. 2:7). When the human body of a human+Being dies, the spirit-Being (Soul) is simply liberated (“unlocked”) from the body, and is taken to the Astral Plain/Plane, also known as
“Paradise” (which is
NOT heaven – see John 3:13 above) to be told the plain truth about its most recent incarnation, as described above.
After our life review, the knowledge of evil that has been accumulated during the most recent incarnation is erased, and we are then sent back, with the
cumulative knowledge of good that we've learned through
ALL our previous incarnations. That way each Soul is in the exact place it has
earned a right to be, in eternal time. Perfect divine justice.
Is there any physical evidence of this? Absolutely. There are numerous accounts of people having similar out of body experiences, particularly “NDEs” (near-death experiences). One book on this subject for those who may be interested:
“Return from Death: An Exploration of the Near-death Experience” by Margot Grey.
For someone to be born
again from above, as their TRUE,
spiritual “self”, something
must die first. And that something that must die is the human “self” with its self-will. This was exemplified on the cross, when the human body of Jesus, that Christ (the Spirit-Being) was incarnating, was crucified and physically died. We know Christ did
not die on the cross because of the resurrection. Father had to physically show us that there is
spiritual LIFE after human death, by resurrecting the body of Jesus, and even after that, and all Christ had to suffer to get that point across, people
STILL don't get it.
Revelation 28:10-12
28:10 For the body is mortal and will decay, but the spirit is eternal and knows not death.
28:11 All will come upon the Earth a hundred, hundred times (
Enoch 90:1;
John 9:2), and still will
the spirit be raised by the Father.
28:12 For the sign of the resurrection of the Son is the sign of the Life Eternal.
The “first death” that
must take place is the death of the “self”, referenced in the following verses.
Hebrews 9:27-28
9:27 And as it is appointed unto (the "Self" of) men once to die, but then after this the Judgment:
9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear
the second time without sin unto salvation.
So how is Christ (the Spirit-Being), Who became a man (the Word was made flesh –
John 1:14) going to appear a
SECOND TIME?
REINCARNATION
2000 years ago, Christ (God's Eldest Son) incarnated Jesus (the son of Mary's body), becoming the human+Being known as Jesus+Christ. Jesus died on the cross, and that body is long-gone, but Christ is
SURELY alive today. He is in fact
REINCARNATED in a
NEW human body from Joseph-Ephraim (
Gen. 49:10,
22-26) with a
NEW NAME (
Rev. 2:17 ,
3:12,
19:12),
exactly as prophesied and promised to His disciples.
Christ also told His disciples, i.e. those that keep Christ's sayings and
DO them, to
crucify their “selves” DAILY, and that some of them wouldn't “taste death” until they saw Him
again, during
His SECOND Coming. Clearly the term “death” does not always refer to the physical death of the human body, or Christ could not have made the following statements:
Matthew 16:24-28
16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples,
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
16:26
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
16:27
For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his WORKS.
16:28
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste death(of the "Self"), TILL they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.
Luke 9:23-27
9:23 And he said to [them] all,
If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
9:24
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
9:25
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
9:26
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and [in his] Father's, and of the holy angels.
9:27
But I tell you of a TRUTH, there be some standing here, which shall not taste death (of the "Self"), TILL they see the Kingdom of God.
Christ
obviously did
NOT mean that the human bodies His Disciples were using 2000 years ago wouldn't die. What possible reason would there be for them to live in the same bodies for 2000 years only to die at their first glance of the Kingdom of God? There is
NO DOUBT Christ was referring to the death of the “self”, because it is the “self” that
MUST be overcome and put to death for someone to be born
AGAIN from above, and
ONLY by being reborn as one's true,
spiritual self [realizing the
TRUTH that you are a spirit-Being (Soul) temporarily “locked” inside a human-animal body] can one “see” the Kingdom of God, which is the REAL,
spiritual world that is within you and without you (
Thom. 1:6). Unseen by human eyes.
Likewise, taking up one's cross and crucifying one's “self”
DAILY cannot possibly mean killing the human body, as that can only be done once. It should therefore be self-evident the reference is to the death of the “self”, where all selfishness dies (
Gal. 2:20) and the sole/soul desire is to serve the greater, common good. Just as Christ exemplified by giving His human life for the good of us all.
Christ said “But I tell you of a
truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste death (of the "Self"),
till they
see the Kingdom of God”, so Hebrews 9:27 cannot possibly mean we only live one human life, or it would be calling Christ a liar (
NOT wise –
Isa. 5:20-21,
John 14:6).
Any reference to “death” therefore
MUST be taken in context, as it doesn't always, or even usually, refer to physical death. Please see a few examples below.
John 5:24-25
5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and liveth by Him that sent me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from "death" unto Life.
5:25
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the "dead" shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall Live.
John 11:25-26
11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth me, though he were "Dead" (under God's death sentence for treason -
Rev. 12:7-9;
Matt. 8:22;
Luke 9:55), yet shall he Live (be pardoned):
11:26
And whosoever Liveth and believeth me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the "Dead" (those under God's death sentence for treason -
Rev. 12:7-9;
Luke 9:55) bury their dead.
John 21:21-23
21:21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what [shall] this man [do]?
21:22 Jesus saith unto him,
If I will that he (also) tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee? follow thou me.
21:23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what [is that] to thee?
There are also references in Revelation to the “second death”, which is the death of the Soul (the
REAL you, the spirit-Being within), when it is cast into The Fire (on Judgement Day – see
Mal. 4).
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of "Fire".
This is the second death.
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
ALL LIARS, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with Fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that
overcometh* shall not be hurt of the second death (the Fire).
*overcometh his own ego “self” by learning to destroy it/put it to death
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the
first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be channels of God and of Christ (
Gal. 1:10), and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Being born
again from above (
John 3:3), resurrected from the “dead”, i.e. those under God's death sentence for treason (
Rev. 12:7-9,
Deut. 28:15-68), is the
first resurrection. There can be no first resurrection without a “first death”. And the first death is achieved by putting the human (flesh/carnal mind), and all of its selfish desires (its own will) under subjection to the spirit-Being within (
I Cor. 9:27), which is the
ONLY Way to become a channel for God and actually
DO His Will (
Rom. 8:5-8).