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The Jesus you must know by Joseph Luxum

Introduction
May I introduce you to the most wonderful person that ever walked this planet?
In Greek He was called Jesus Christos. In Hebrew He was known as Yeshua Shel
Natzeret (Jesus of Nazareth), and Ben Adam (Son of Man). In history He is called the Mes-
siah, in Hebrew ‘Mashiah’. In English He is called Jesus Christ.
Whatever name your prefer, no matter how you go about it you will come a full circle
around to the root meaning of His name Yeshua, which means salvation.
The natural man seeks excuses in order to doubt His very existence, trying to discredit
any of the miracles Jesus performed as if He did it all on His own and from Himself. A flesh-
and-blood being remains impotent when it comes to the works of power, not even being
able to imagine anything beyond just the transitional matter. Yet, that matter speaks, hears,
sees and reasons. Nonetheless, this life-empowered matter is able to reject and discredit,
accept and consider, study, uphold and put down. A powerful matter indeed!
Intelligence is prized, but intelligence alone takes turns that sometimes may lead into a
blind alley. It is the misdirection of faculties with which we comprehend that sets us off to
wander in empty space, which at that point becomes prized above any logical intelligent
substance.
Christianity in particular left a legacy of blind indoctrination, which happens to be an ac-
cepted belief in something without substance. We might conclude that the founding church
fathers felt such need since the majority of the populace was uneducated and deeply su-
perstitious. Dispelling these superstitions was not an easy task. However, what their efforts
created was a clumsily stitched canvas of doctrines and sacraments the modern day man
can hardly understand.
Since time immemorial humanity has been drawn to the Creator and to know the hid-
den truth behind creation itself. I am after this understanding and not indoctrination of the
past.
For a moment, let’s depart from any set religious standards of whatever culture. It is not
only Christianity that lacks intelligence; we find it also in Judaism, Islam and Eastern Relig-
ions. In this precarious world all rituals are done in hope of obtaining a blessing, to merit life
eternal, nirvana or a state of awareness. Other reasons are to avoid hell, or as is the case in
Judaism, to attain resurrection and to inherit the world to come when the Messiah comes.
The early Judaism was rooted in the practice of atonement and redemption. All rituals and
sacrifices were to do with well-being and prosperity. Appeasing the vengeful God by obey-
ing His word, the Torah, was essential.
Religion per se prescribes something one must keep and in turn those obligations de-
fine a person as being Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Buddhist. However, when we come to
the country of India we learn that they ‘enjoy’ at least 600 different forms of religions with
their elaborate rituals.
Prayers are often recited according to some order so that the faithful can say words like
‘amen’ at the appropriate time together with the rest of congregants. Anyone partaking of
this daily ritual finds satisfaction of an accomplishment and finds peace of mind having the
assurance that one has satisfied one’s religious obligations and requirements; perhaps
even pleased God.
All of that is good and pleasant. Prayer is important for it keeps one on the course of
morality, but with few exceptions. In religion one may find something immoral, which to an-
other may be holy, but usually by twisting some of their Holy Book teachings, for example
those of the Koran. A Jihadist is about to follow to the dot the ideology of his or her organi-
zation. He or she is about to kill or be killed in the process so that others… Well, there is no

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thought of others; never is. Such don’t reason for themselves or seek the good of others
although they claim to do it in the name of good. After being well indoctrinated they do it in
the name of their religion. This indoctrination can be seen as brainwashing, but actually it is
the spirit of religiousness itself that makes people commit inhuman deeds. Fleshly pleas-
ures are on this side where the bodily senses cease to exist yet through the physically alive
person the indoctrinator can filter these nonsensical notions as for example: cohabitation
with 70 virgins. How can anyone in heaven or Paradise have sexual cohabitation since by
then the blown into smithereens body is nonexistent and the life energy itself remains purely
a spiritual essence? Can spiritual essence have sexual intercourse? But that’s what ruled
the ancient minds and it survived to this very day being well packaged in religion.
Enough said about the blind indoctrination of religion(s), let us focus on something that
does not indoctrinate, but intelligently presents you with logic and deduction. It is not a
question of acceptance or rejection, but rather reasoning and being involved, just as one
would savor a well-prepared meal.
We know that we are composed of at least four areas of cognizance and reason, which
is our mind; having an emotion, which is our soul; having a physical feeling, which is our
body, and also having premonitions or an extra-dimensional sense, which is our spirit. We
are also composed of at least nine components, which are:
From the Hebrew word ‘Ratzon’, which means: crown, king, and also mind, we derive
the idea of being rational.
Within our mind we find three components, in the Hebrew language called, ‘Hohmah’,
‘Beenah’ and ‘Da’at’ - Wisdom, understanding and knowledge. These three should be ar-
ranged in the following fashion: understanding acts as a sponge, which absorbs knowl-
edge. The absorbed knowledge, if being of intelligent quality, can produce wisdom, which
is not just understanding or knowledge but rather their byproduct, fruit or an outcome.
Such a person is then called wise if he or she practices the understood knowledge. So that
makes it four.
The fifth part of our being is ‘Nephesh’, soul. Within our soul we find tendencies, emo-
tional attachments and even strongholds like addictions, which, when not dealt with will
enslave the entire human being to its capricious demands. We are therefore souls due to
these two powerful components within our human structure. One component is animal like
while the other divine, ‘Nephesh Bahamit’ (animal like soul) and ‘Nephesh Elokit’ (God like
soul). Those two components function in perfect balance when ‘Ratzon’, which is also
called the ruler, keeps them balanced.
You have probably heard of the scripture Apostle Paul spoke in Ephesians 4:23, be re-
newed in the power (or spirit) of Ratzon (mind). The Greek people most likely did not un-
derstand it on account of their language, which uses PSYCHE denoting mind and soul as
one. Again, due to this deficiency they needed much more time and effort to understand
what Paul was really saying. But in order to understand something takes self-discipline,
which is the first (ninth from bottom up) of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. It is the basic
step on the way to spiritual growth. When one only caters to the soul and does not disci-
pline the mind the results can be catastrophic. If we only do what we feel, our souls will be-
come dictatorial and despotic. A cow, for example, cannot choose to eat meat while her
soul longs for green grass and that’s all she eats. A lion kills for meat and does not feel like
grazing grass. That feeling comes from the cow’s soul and lion’s soul and each do exactly
what their souls want. Can we say that a cow is enslaved to the desire to eat grass or a lion
to eat flesh? No. That would not be correct since they are animals without ‘Ratzon’ and
since they do not reason or rationalize they use their brainpower instinctively. Unlike the

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animals, we not only have instincts, but having the ability to understand we reason; we also
increase knowledge and then practice that knowledge. Already here we see that we can
change our behavior and not be subject to the dictatorship of our souls.
‘Nephesh Bahamit’ seeks to please the fleshly or the natural man, just as the animals
do. A food and drink obsession is therefore animal like. If all emotions are there to satisfy
only the bodily urges, they come from the animal instincts, which are territorial having their
origins in fear. The apprehension about not having enough and the constant desire to get
ahead comes from the insecurity born in our soul. So that makes it five components.
‘Nephesh Elokit’ is different; for it processes spiritual properties, which feed on lofty
thoughts and their emotional associations, reach out to God and through God’s attributes
also to others. In that compartment one finds compassion, benevolent emotions, care for
others, nurturing, and peacemaking. No wonder Jesus said, ‘blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called sons of God’ (Matthew 5:9). So that makes already six components.
Somewhere in that region we find the ‘Neshamah’ (untranslatable into English), which
can be called a place of divine inspiration, soul-breath or divinely vivified soul. The bottom
line is that it is divine indeed. Within that region special brewing, as it were, goes on. God’s
ministers, artists and prophets get their inspirations from God who speaks through ‘Ne-
shamah’. In order to better understand it we also have a scripture that speaks of this spe-
cial place.

[Hebrews 4:12] For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-
edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and
marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Obviously this ever-invigorating realm can be directly connected to the Creator Himself.
Right between the ‘Ruach’, (Spirit) and ‘Nephesh’ is ‘Neshamah’ and that’s where the
word of God goes to, piercing it as with a double-edged sword. Truth or rather the Spirit of
Truth is of the heavenly Kingdom substance in which time or darkness play no role. None
of the common denominators found on earth can have any influence on the heavenly truth.
Since heaven enjoys no darkness and no time, but only bright light, nothing can hide
therein. All is in the open. No plot is possible because it needs time, which again, is nonex-
istent in heaven.
The reason that the double-edged sword divides soul and spirit is to first create the fear
of God. These things are most holy and they cannot ever be mixed, especially with our
soul’s whimsical desires. The reasons have been explained already. Second of all the dou-
ble-edged sword does not ramble around, but goes straight to the point; it does not take
you on a trip like your soul often does. Fairytales do not play any role in that region, and at
that point your own imaginations are then arrested and sort of locked up. You are the voice
of God and you speak the absolute Truth, which is called the Seal.
God’s Kingdom is sealed and that seal is His Truth. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of
Truth, which the world cannot receive; even is not able to, due to those nonsensical frivoli-
ties the world runs after.
Once the ‘Neshamah’ is thus empowered, or invigorated or still better said, inspired,
the next component of our being, the ‘Ruach’ (spirit) begins to activate the entire human
institution, which includes ‘Kleepah’ the shell, which is the body.

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[Ezra 3:8-9] “Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as
hard as their foreheads. “Like em ery harder than flint I have m ade your forehead.
Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”

[Zechariah 4:6] ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.

God is Spirit and He uses earthly vessels in order to do things on this earth through His
anointed for-that-purpose agents. Although His angels are also His messengers, they are
not called to do what His prophets, the apostles or evangelists do. No angel can be called
a pastor or a teacher. The reasons are obvious. Anything upon the physical earth must be
done through those composed of those nine components. Just as a baby is formed in the
mother’s womb for nine months so we come into this world with the nine components,
which relate to nine gifts and the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The enclosing component, compatible with this planet, the body, was Adam’s. Adam
was the first man created from the heavenly and also earthly elements. Being first an angel
in heaven he was brought down to earth in order to be enclosed in the suitable-for-him
shell. ‘Kleepah’ is that shell, which encompasses the entire human being.
When God’s Spirit inspires the ‘Neshamah’ and man’s will is activated to follow through
with that which one has received, God’s Spirit begins to take over. This takeover happens
in ‘Ruach’, the vivifying component of the human life, for indeed it is life itself. No human
agency could walk the crust of the earth without having a ‘Ruach’. However, not too many
pay attention to this most powerful and most essential component.
When someone dies his or her body ceases to breathe. ‘Ruach’ returns to the place of
its origin and the soul goes to ‘Sheol’ a place of sleep, and the body returns to the sub-
stance from which it was originally made.
‘Kleepah’ being the ninth component became most predominant in our lives and to it
we pay most of our attention, however, is it really worthy of so much care?
People kill others just to have more substance, again… for their flesh. No one kills any-
one in order to posses the spirit. Have you ever thought about it? Murder plots, the myster-
ies Agatha Christie lavished us with, deal with that incredibly strong addiction. ‘Kleepah’,
and again ‘Kleepah’… One takes another life until that life also expires perpetuating sense-
less sacrifices to the most loved god—self.

Note: These subjects are extensively expounded upon in the book “The More Excellent
Way” by the same author.

Now we have come a full circle around and I hope that you have used self-discipline
and your faculties of cognizance.
Religion does not deal with understanding, knowledge, wisdom, intelligence or logic;
perhaps because it has never been in its leaders’ interest to make their faithful educated, or
even to provide them with personal freedom to think on their own? However, Jesus was
not that kind of a leader, He never claimed to be one; nonetheless He was called Master,
Teacher and Rabbi. But He called Himself Ben Adam, which literally means the Son of
Adam, translated as the son of man.

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When you study Jesus you will find an amazing feature, a characteristic belonging only to
Him.

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These are His characteristics:


1. Selflessness
2. Complete dependence on the heavenly Father
3. No deviousness or any hidden agendas
4. Giving complete freedom by not indoctrinating
5. No religion, rituals or any call to them
6. He reasons, stimulating man’s intelligence by putting forward questions
7. He absolutely never displayed any form of pride

The accounts we have in the four Gospels are tremendous; and by just studying them,
along just those seven lines, one finds them astonishingly potent and most worthy of our
attention and scrutiny.
Have you realized that Jesus had the absolute and constant awareness of the Father’s
will, purpose and thought process? You might say that Jesus is God. First of all, God is
Spirit, His Son said (John 4:24), not flesh-and-blood, which Jesus was. A physical god is
an idol. Jesus fulfilled the Law just as He stated, therefore He could never call Ben Adam
God. To the Jews this was an alien idea and the division between those two camps came
over this issue. Nonetheless, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews 1:3 made it plain.

[Matthew 5:17-19] “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did
not come to abolish but to fulfill. “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. “Whoever
then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same,
shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

The fulfillment included this:

[Deuteronomy 4:15-18] “So watch yourselves carefully, since you did not see any form
on the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, so that you do
not act corruptly and m ake a graven im age for yourselves in the form of any
figure, the likeness of m ale or fem ale, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth,
the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on
the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.”

The Jesus you must know is the one who was the Father’s mirror and not His fleshly
image; God’s spiritual representation. Jesus reflected the Father in words and actions and
did exactly as He was commanded.
Only Ben Adam (or human being) possesses the pride of life and the vanity of this pre-
sent life. Choosing to do the Father’s will is the actual reflection of the heavenly glory down
to earth. Ben Adam obeyed the Father to the last iota and radiated His light.

‘We have seen His glory’ Apostle John said.

[John 1:14] And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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The radiance is unmistaken. Set a mirror against the glory of God the Father and reflect
it down to earth and it will blind you. The disciples were indeed blinded by His glory.

The author of Hebrews 1:3 said, He (Jesus) is the radiance of His glory and the ex-
act representation of His nature.

Radiance or reflection and representation; these three words make the picture clear, for
a flesh-and-blood image could never be mistaken for a fleshly God walking this earth, but
rather the Word, which became flesh or actual. The word God had sent to us became ac-
tual and factual and this represents His love for us.
Up until the time of Jesus, when it came to the idea of love, grace or peace, humanity
was engrossed in deep darkness. None of these were ever mentioned or considered be-
fore. Violence and iron-hand dominance was the rule; only with the arrival of Jesus were
people exposed to the ideas of heavenly truth, love, grace, peace and joy. Jesus repre-
sented the Perfect Love of God, which casts out from its presence all fear. That was phe-
nomenal and revolutionary. In His presence people felt well and secure.

[John 10:17-18] “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so
that I may take it again. “No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own
initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This
com m andm ent I received from M y Father.”

This statement was shockingly new. No one in their right mind would ever say such
words. Because it was brand new and fresh it was hard to swallow; too many had choked
on the Master’s statements.
Obviously, Jesus knew exactly what the Father wanted, but as Ben Adam He did not
have to fulfill it and if so another Jesus would have to come down to us and go through the
same process until the Love of God would be satisfied. That is a fair inference that we can
make.
Self does not exist in heaven; this feature is only common to earth where localization
and handling of physical matter is possible. Therefore Jesus, as the Son of Man, had to
exercise His will and with all of His earthly faculties make an effort so that His mission might
be realized. The only way He could do that was through the power of the incredible love of
which He spoke so much.

(The booklet ‘The Essence of love’ goes deeper into this subject.)

He said that He has the power to lay His life down and by the same token to take it up
again, and that is most incredible also. None of us were called to love the world to the point
of laying our lives down in order to reconcile the world with the Creator, but only the First-
born Son. His love for us had evidenced itself in the fact that He was not murdered or
forcefully killed by external means. Rather, He relinquished His life. Right there is the power
of resurrection. Had He laid down His life for just His self, no resurrection would be possi-
ble.
How did the Firstborn (ref. to 1 Colossians 1:15) of all creation do it?
The natural man always seeks ways to support his wobbly state of being. The physical
man defines a definition, and redefines it furthermore for matter seems to be never satisfied
with itself. It is completely in love with itself. The love of money, which defines our existence

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upon this physical plane, is the root of all sorts of evils, because in its name it actually cre-
ates sin. Sin, being the way of pain and suffering, is the byproduct of all egotistical pursuits.
For the very first time in man’s history Ben Adam brought about something of the op-
posite kind: redemption from the sinful nature and salvation from eternal separation. That
purpose was very clear to Him until the point of dying on the cross. The moment all human
torments came upon the Son of God the Father turned His face from His Son. The Father-
consciousness left Jesus and at that moment the Son experienced dreadful loneliness.

[Matthew 27:46] About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi,
Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have Thou forsaken Me?”

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The time is short and your faith must rest on the fact derived from what your spirit man can
tell you. Listen to your spiritual man; make your ‘Neshamah’ alive.

[Luke 1:34-35] Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” The angel
answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
M ost High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the
Son of God.”

Angels never speak in their own name or on their own initiative, they always convey
God’s word for they do not posses ‘self’, which is only common to flesh-and-blood human
beings. Angels do not reason, nor are they able to educate us, for teaching and the proc-
lamation of the Good News belong to us, the flesh-and-blood people meant for their own
kind—people. Whoever therefore willingly becomes like an angel, by surrendering one’s will
to the will of the Father, obtains great power and glory, like Enoch of old did.
The Spirit had also created the first Adam. God is Spirit. Period. That spiritual embryo, if
you will, God brought down to this physical planet then from the cosmic dust and all the
elements found in the Universe He composed the ‘Kleepah’, which was going to enclose
that living spiritual angelic embryo.
Adam was made out of two parts, which were physically separated into Adam and Eve.
That was already a miracle in itself and the Bible is its record, not science. Science will tell
you about human-like creatures and evolution, which the Almighty created also, but sci-
ence will not tell you that God the Spirit made Adam.
The first Adam corrupted his ways and had not repented; otherwise the record of his
repentance would have been found in the Bible. (Hebrew word ‘Shuv’ means repentance
or complete return to God on His terms.) For this reason the Bible was written and pains-
takingly preserved.

Now, we come to the genealogy of Jesus.


Luke 3:23-38 begins with this: (v. 23) When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was
about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli.
The genealogy trace ends with this: (v. 38) the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the
son of Adam , the son of God.

The Bible is very clear about the lineage of Seth from whose line, after a very long pe-
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‘supposed’ be included in the text. Logically speaking, if Jesus was not the son of Joseph
then why include His genealogy at all?
There are many speculations, and one of them is to convince some that Jesus was the
Messiah coming from the line of King David, but the word ‘supposed’ throws many off
course. On one hand He was Ben Adam and on the other Ben Elohim (Son of God). This
duality is very important for if Jesus was just fleshly, redemption would’ve been ineffective.
The lineage is very important because we must see logic in all that God does. God in-
deed created Adam, but Adam was not conceived the way it is common to earth. Eve
conceived and bore children. Just as God created all ministering spirits in heaven, which
angels are, so He also created Adam, but He made his shell compatible with the earth’s
natural laws.
God called all of His sons as God’s sons for He made them as such through Adam.
Anyone identifying with Adam is God’s son.
Now, all people became corrupt and yet God preserved the line of Adam through Seth
to continue on through Noah’s family. That is the reason why we have genealogy ending at
Adam. If Adam was the father of mankind, genealogies are useless.
The reason why we have so many speculative writings in Jewish antiquity is to cover up
that great secret. Jews were always persecuted due to their prowess in many areas, com-
merce included. The constant education of the Jewish mind sharpened it beyond all others,
but the reason why that sharpening took place is because of Adam, then Cain and then
Seth. Cain’s descendants specialized in just the physical things; they spurred technological
advancement, while Seth’s descendents concentrated on logical matters, examining God’s
universe and its makeup. They wrote many things and interpreted spiritual things by mixing
the fleshly, marketing the supposedly spiritual knowledge. Kenites were the organizers and
marketers and they saw to it that the so-called spiritual literature was ‘hot’ enough to sell,
just as it is today. Sensational things sell much faster than plain honest truth.
Out of that mix came out monstrosities, which seduced the mind of those who through
jealousy were very much interested in the Jewish mind. Today the same mind has gone
further, leaving behind a foolish legacy which when taken seriously enslaves and arrests our
spiritual capabilities of deduction and logic. One of these monstrosities was the idea of an-
gels copulating with flesh-and-blood women. As if by saying, “leave us in peace, go and
read something sensational and enjoy yourselves.” Yet the secret remained a secret. The
Bible traces descent because before the creation of Adam there were other kind of folk
with smaller brains. It is proven that about 6,000 years ago the human brain grew.
Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus mention these things, but never proved or
disproved them as total nonsense, for it suited the Jews quite well to keep it that way.

In Genesis 9:24-27 Noah blessed two of his sons and cursed his grandson:

1. “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants, he shall be to his brothers.”


2. “Blessed be the LORD the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.”
3. “May God enlarge Japheth and let him dwell in the tents of Shem and let Canaan be
his servant.”

Here we have the emergence of the three types of people inhabiting this earth.
The seed with which God associates is Shem. The Field is Japheth, or the masses,
which fill the earth, (which Jesus also called the world). And Canaan, the offspring of Cain

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whom He distanced Himself from. Nonetheless, these three have different roles to play on
the stage of human affairs.
God seeks to preserve the spiritual seed upon the earth; these are His overcomers, but
their facilitators are those whose god is the mammon of unrighteousness—the Kenites—
mentioned in Matthew 13 as the tares. The masses are called the world or as in the same
chapter ‘the field’.
In the genes of Noah’s sons and his daughters-in-law also resided the genes of giants
who originally came to be through the clash between the Adamic genes and the non-
Adamic people already inhabiting the earth, which the scientists talk about. We are not
paying attention to them right now, however, but to the lineage of Adam.
Clearly, by introducing Himself to us as Ben Adam, Jesus had indicated who He really
was and through Him who we are today also. Since Adam was born of God the Spirit, so
was Jesus who was also described as the Second Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45 and in Ro-
mans 5:14). However, as already stated, Adam was not conceived, but Jesus was. This
should not surprise anyone or become a point of contention, for those who believe in
Adam’s creation and identify with him, should not find it strange that Jesus was conceived
of the Holy Spirit, in heaven, and then placed within Virgin Mary.

[Matthew 1:19-21] “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife;
for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.”

I have identified my lineage and I stick by it. As long as I can remember, my affection for
God was always there, and the desire to know Him also; what more evidence do I need? I
hope you are also in that same class.

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There is no greater joy than the joy of discovery that leads to life eternal, which begins now.

[Matthew 1:19-21] “She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, (YESHUA,
in Hebrew SALVATION) for He will SAVE His people from their sins.”

Here God speaks of salvation, which is going to be conceived within Mary’s womb and
brought forth in order to save many.
What do we need to be saved from? What’s wrong with us that we need a Savior?
These are reasonable questions that some might ask.
Oh my friend, just addressing this thrills me. My spirit man begins to rejoice in that
which is about to enfold.
As already mentioned, the Bible terms sin as the way of pain. (Psalms 139:24) Indeed,
something worth being saved from. We create sin; we bring it on ourselves as well as on
others. No wonder Jesus taught us to part with it.

[Luke 11:4 - literal translation] “Forgive our sins as we forgive those that have
sinned against us.”

Jesus taught us in the Lord’s Prayer. If the way of pain and hurt is defined as sin, then
we must let go of hurting altogether.
However, something happened to our heavenly Father that could not be undone unless
there was atonement made for our apostasy and the embrace of our wicked ways.

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No matter how you look at it, all roads lead to repentance, and repentance takes us
back to our heavenly Father and the only way to arrive there is through His Firstborn Son.
After reconciliation with the Father through Jesus, which results in salvation (not yet the
new birth which is a complete change; yes, REBIRTH) the love for God intensifies. There is
the spiritual growth under His grace. Then comes the complete repentance that includes
even the sins of our forefathers. The entire human tree, with its root, stalk and crown is
then cleansed. That’s the New Birth spoken of in John 3. After that experience one grows
and grows real fast. Understanding, knowledge and wisdom then become evident.

(The author goes in-depth into this subject in one of his books entitled ‘The Awesome
Power of Repentance’.)

But who is His firstborn Son? Why is God Love and why does He love us? What is that
love? Have we become love-less? What’s going on? Do I need religion to reconcile with
God the Father?
I’m not going to scare you with the eternal fire of hell. And frankly speaking, once you
are released from this earthly material, your body, you will not experience any pain, just as
you can only physically be burned. The spirit creatures cease to experience it for fire does
not sting spiritual beings. So there is no point in giving the hell fright to an intelligent mind.
Nor will you see devils with horns and tails piercing you with their sharp-pronged instru-
ments of torture, for in order for this to succeed one would very much need a physically
alive body.
As you can see this sort of scary religion worked only on the attached minds whose
perceptions were purely and irrationally material. How can you comprehend God the Spirit
with just the physical faculties? I hope that at this point you will throw all your religiousness
away, if any; otherwise there’s no point in going any further.
Either you are of God’s seed substance or not; either you are His own sheep or not.
Perhaps, and only temporarily, you may be lost, entangled in this world’s thorn bushes, but
still His sheep. Sooner or later the Almighty Sovereign God will find you also. You may be
the prodigal son who contemplated joining the swine and eating their food; yet still a son
who only needed to return to his father’s house.
God never converts wolfs into sheep, but finds lost sheep. Ben Adam is Ben Adam. I
am also of the seed of God, through Seth, those upon whom God’s affection and favor
rests. If you are not of that line then even the eternal-fire-of-hell-scare won’t impress you.
But if you are His seed, His son or daughter, then you will understand it. Let the spiritual
faculties be awakened in you so that we would not waste our most precious time.

[John 3:6] “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.”

There are two tracks upon which we tread, one is physical and the other spiritual, what
is sandwiched between these two is the soul and its components. The soul always cleaves
to the most dominant part of the human being. If that dominant part is the flesh, the soul
will serve it, but if the dominant part is the spirit then the soul will also do the same for the
spiritual part. But the decision comes from the ‘Ratzon’, which must be first cleansed be-
fore it can make such powerful - and of very much eternal consequences - decisions.
Therefore, that which is born of just the flesh remains flesh, but that which is born of the
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journey can be corruption, slow decay and the grave; or, growth in knowledge, majesty,
and power. The spiritual, soulish, physical and mental health promotes life, even the life
Enoch obtained without corruption.

[1 Corinthians 15: 45-46] So also it is written, “The first Man, Adam, became a living
soul.” The last Adam (Jesus) became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not
first, but the natural then the spiritual.

Only anything fleshly decays; the spiritual is not able to. The very notion of angels be-
coming corrupt is actually foreign and belongs in the Apocrypha books and rightly so. It is
all folkloric and fantasy-driven fairytales. Those that still have the need for self-definition can
only define their physical existence with the pride of this physical life, never the heavenly.
The natural is only a shadow and a symbol of that which stands behind it; yet even a
symbol can obscure the spiritual reality, which is incorruptible and unchangeable.

Jesus, conceived of the Holy Spirit and brought forth like any other human being, was
about to redeem not angels, but us humans. That was the reason why He had to be de-
posited in a physical body of a virgin woman and naturally brought forth; otherwise the
price of redemption would hold no value. All soldiers and saintly people have wished to re-
deem humanity, but these mere mortals did not have the power—Jesus did!

Apostle Paul brooded in this—and if you excuse me for saying it—mulled over this sub-
ject in his letters, but it seemed as he was not given the privilege to glue all the pieces to-
gether and make a monolithic legible picture. I am no Apostle Paul, but I quote Daniel 12:4,
“seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will
increase.”
Thank God for His grace and the increase of His knowledge. However, before I could
be so free and independent I had to sacrifice the fellowship of fools. Once He showed me
much of the theological gibberish and that waste of time playing with it I then decided to
break away, fast and pray.
I paid indeed a steep price, for like a lunatic I wandered the desert, fasting and praying
and seeking God. I fasted on just pure water since I was 12 for others, and then witnessed
real miracles. Three days, seven days and 12 days and then 21 days, many times. When I
was about to turn 40 I fasted 40 days on just water. During that long fast I received the
revelation of self-nullification. Being unable to walk, dizzy and extremely weak I sat down
and wrote the revelation down. Very slowly, making less than foot-length steps I paced my-
self to the printer and printed the booklet ‘The Great Mystery of Self Nullification’. Hardly
anyone could understand it. The bells where ringing, but from which steeple no one knew.
Today, I went further and completed the process of His holy refinement. The booklet be-
came a small book ‘The Portals of Immortals’.
I fast no more, for there is no need to. The only thing fasting does is weakens the pride
of life secreted in the flesh. Once you weaken the flesh you weaken the pride of life, but
once you gain the ability to humble it and become a hollow vessel before Him, then quite
naturally He fills your being with Himself.

[2 Corinthians 3:17-18] Whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Apostle Paul speaks here about the Lord YHVH; and Him being the Spirit, where He is
there is liberty. Clearly, it states that where The Spirit of God is there is plenty of space and
no territory to fight over. No limitations and constraints. No condemnation and no judg-
ment. Freedom. Only in that freedom we can comprehend God’s ways, which then be-
come extremely plain and simple.
A physical person interprets things with the limited in time and space faculties, while the
spiritual person sees with much more than a panoramic sight; actually a bird’s view eye-
sight. Even more, one can see God’s words from His point of view, from above; and in the
same spirit He had given it. This faculty we already posses, ‘Neshamah’ and ‘Ruach’ both
belong to God, but the ‘Ratzon’ must relinquish any claims as to something of one’s own.
In Genesis 1 we read about God’s Spirit brooding over the chaos. This word ‘brooding’
denotes a mother hen sitting on eggs waiting for them to hatch. She overshadows the
eggs with her feathers. This idea is made clear in this verse.

[Genesis 1:2] and the Spirit of God was moving over (or overshadowing, which is the
same act) over the surface of the waters.

When the angel said to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you;” the reference to the very act of cohabiting is obvious. The
overshadowing by the POWER is always by God’s Spirit. As to say, the Father and His wife
His Ruach have already created the Son, which now must be placed in you (Mary), which is
the actual conception. This conception is nothing else, but overshadowing, just as in the
natural a man overshadows his woman and she becomes pregnant.
Eve was taken out from the first Adam who was one unit enclosing both genders. He
was not a man as I am a man. He was the prototype secreting the new genes for all hu-
manity. Miriam (Mary) conceived and brought forth the second Adam by the same Spirit. It
is of no surprise that God through His Spirit created the first and second Adam.
If we cannot understand it and accept as the truth then we have no business of talking
about the new birth. We have nothing to do with God or the supernatural works of power
today. If we invalidate God’s miraculous works then how much more we prevent ourselves
from seeing His miracles today? Being born again is the first and the greatest miracle hu-
man beings can experience.
If Jesus was just the firstborn soul of God, but conceived of man’s seed like everyone
else, then our hope and faith in Him is null and void, a sign that the physical first Adam still
controls our spiritual faculties. No redemption, no salvation, no life eternal would be possi-
ble if only a natural man had done it having a nice wish to die for the world and then hap-
pened to fulfill it… perhaps accidentally.

No scientist ever thought about the fact that without Jesus no atheism would be possi-
ble. The freedom of thought we enjoy today we owe to Jesus. Without Him we could never
be able to approve or disprove something in religion. It is this freedom, which He paid the
price for in which we can philosophize with academic smart grins and with eloquent ex-
pressions.
Lots of people give large sums of money to undermine the Christian beliefs, yet that
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to remove from the picture frame. No one could ever do it under the Babylonian, Persian,
Greek or Roman rule. Just think about it for a moment.

The reason why Jesus had to be born naturally through a woman had to do with re-
demption of the natural human being, not necessarily the spiritual. In fact the spiritual per-
son inside the ‘Kleepah’ was too oppressed and locked in the dungeon of just the fleshly
priorities. At last, God heard our cry and sent His Son in order to free the spiritual man, just
as He had freed the natural man from Egyptian slavery.
His character, types and shadows and dealings with mankind point back to Him, the
compassionate and loving Father.
When the price was paid on the cross and the Father could no longer look upon His
beloved Son, for He saw the world’s sin—so violently thrust upon Him who knew no sin—
He hastened His Son’s death.
Yeshua died on the eve of the Passover Sabbath, which fell on Thursday. (All Jewish
holidays begin with a Sabbath. For example, if Passover falls on Wednesday then Wednes-
day will be called Sabbath, but it begins on the preceding day at sunset.)
Just as Jesus said that He would be in the belly of the earth, (the field) just as Jonah
was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, we should not embrace
tradition against His own words. Thursday eve was the Passover Shabbat (Hebrew for
Sabbath) and those that laid Him to rest hurried to the MIKVAOT (ritual baths) where they
had to wash themselves for the first Passover Seder (Seder means order). Thursday night,
Friday night, and Saturday night makes three nights.
The Bible teaches us that days also include nights, even if that day might not be a 12
hours span it is still called day.

[Genesis 1:13] There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Consistently through Genesis 1, God counts days beginning at sundown. But rather the
light of the day is what Jesus referred to.

[John 11:9-10] “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he
does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. “But if anyone walks in the
night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

(I’m not trying to be smart here or to show off. Someone must make the record
straight.)

He was about to redeem the world, pay for it with His own blood. Yet, He did not do it
for all, but for the hidden within the field treasure.
The Holy Spirit-conceived man entered Sheol, which was created for the purpose of
hiding and preserving His treasure, which can be compared to Noah’s Ark.
Jesus called the World ‘Field’ (Matthew 13:38) and being consistent in His expressions
we understand that in that field God hid His treasure. (v. 44)

Note: The author elaborates in-depth on the hidden treasure in the compilation of en-
couragement letters entitled, ‘Be Encouraged Today’.

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Since Apostle Paul said that the natural is first and the spiritual second, he said it in ref-
erence to Jesus being the second Adam, who put to death the works of flesh with its sin
and the very ability to do harm. The way of pain, caused by the flesh-and-blood people
was atoned and paid for. Jesus, who knew no sin, became sin for us, the very embodiment
of the human refuse. As terrible it might sound, it is indeed what had happened on Gol-
gotha.
If Jesus was just a good man, a prophet and great teacher, your hope is in vain. Any
chances of redemption and salvation are null.
What you must know is the fact that Ben Adam unequivocally stated that ‘of Himself He
could do nothing’. In other words, when it comes to works of power, (miracles, signs and
wonders) the self is impotent.

His words changed the world and His miracles make us dumbfounded.

In John 5:19 & 30 He said that He was not able to do any work of power or say what
He said. But this statement only shows that the flesh-and-blood Ben Adam, if He were just
a good man, He could do nothing of Himself. His very appearance on this dreary planet
and the very purpose for which He came, signifies the fact that if it had not been for His
coming, Cain would still wield rule over us.
Jesus was buried in the ground or the field, which is neutral and symbolically speaks of
the world (Japheth). The mystery however is not why He did it for the entire world, since the
world does not get it anyway, but rather for some higher purpose, which only a few of His
own will grasp.

Since Jesus was completely Father-dependent, He had to posses this awareness al-
ready in Mary’s womb. Humanly speaking that is impossible. And judging from His words,
so beautifully preserved in the Gospels, we can take one breath after another without end
for how can an ordinary human ever say such words.
How could anyone say that I lay my life down and I have the power to do it? But not
through suicide, for He knew Judean, Roman one religious systems well as well as crooked
human ways. Even by choosing Judas He knew very well what He was doing. So true He
stayed to His mission throughout His life.
As a twelve year old He said in the Temple that He was about His Father’s business.
How could He have known that He had the power to take His life back? (The agnostic
speculates that it was some death-inducing herb, and being a smart man He picked one
for that moment to fool the Judeans as well as the Romans.) We are all tempted to explain
things our way.
Either we embrace pious blind belief in the death and resurrection of Christ, and His re-
demptive sacrifice; or choose speculations like Him being a smart man, miracle worker,
seer, prophet or psychic. Or we choose to seek the truth, ask God and get answers.
Imagine you laying down your life. Jesus, before He had actually laid His life down, re-
peatedly spoke of that looming torment as if preparing His loved ones for that event. That
event being filled with incredible horrors and sufferings, so terrible that no one could ever
plan for. While bearing in mind the well-being of others the prophet saw the beatings and
bloodletting; the crown of thorns; the bone splitting nails, the cross; the ridicule and open
mockery. Yet He was aware of this since birth. For He said that He came into this world for
that very reason.

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The Apostle Paul clearly speaks of Jesus as the word of God through which God spoke
and created the world. Jesus, being that Word, was with the Father from before the very
foundation of the world. Through Him all things in existence came to be just as He Himself,
as Ben Adam came to be.
[Isaiah 53:3-5] He was despised and forsaken of men, man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief; and like one from whom men hide their face. He was despised, and we did not
esteem Him. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we our-
selves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through
for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our wellbeing
fell upon Him.

Why would the first Christians believe in Him in such a way that no one could ever chal-
lenge their faith? Why would they lay their lives down for the deposit of faith within their
hearts and be crucified, burned or eaten by lions? If Jesus was not born of the Holy Spirit
and born of a virgin then their loss of life was also in vain?
One third of this world claims to profess Christianity as their religion. Whatever the rea-
son for their statements, this signifies three kinds of people upon this planet: Japheth - the
Filed, Canaan - the Tares; and Shem - the Good Seed.
It is not accidental that Jesus was born in Judah and is called the Lion of Judah. A Jew
is a Jew when he is born of Jewish woman, and not necessarily of Jewish father. That’s the
Judaic law. But who is a Jewish man conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a Jewish
woman? Yes, you have the answer - Redeemer.
Every Friday night, the Sabbath, observant Jews light up two candles. One candle is for
creation and the second for its redemption.
Two chapters. One is corrupt without hope and the second chapter contains redemp-
tion. Flesh-and-blood cannot redeem anyone, but the Holy Spirit within the ‘Kleepah’ can.
Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit and being constantly aware of His presence walked in
accordance to God’s ways. Never deviating from the path of righteousness and the pur-
pose for which He came into the world. This had to come from being born of the Spirit, for
before the Holy Spirit arrived on the day of Pentecost, no one knew God’s Spirit. It was
something shockingly new and fresh.

• Two baptisms, Noah’s flood and the baptism that came after Jesus
• Two births, the natural and the supernatural
• Two redemptions; payment and possession
• The natural Adam and the Spiritual Adam

Without Jesus being conceived and brought forth by the Holy Spirit there is no hope for
either the Jew or gentile. All is futile and all spiritual learning is in vain.
But if indeed, He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born into this world with the
power of the Holy Spirit to accomplish His mission on earth, then that was completely new
and never heard of before.
Jesus is the new chapter for all mankind. He is not a new thought, or new philosophy
or religion, like Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity or Islam. He is
totally unique and unlike anyone else.
He is not a theology and no one can claim monopoly on Jesus. He is the picture in the
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within the frame of Christianity. Therefore that picture frame must emphasize rather than
obscure Him.

[Luke 4:1] Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led
around by the Spirit in the wilderness.

Who has ever walked on water? Jesus walked on water and was transported from
place to place like Philip was in the Book of Acts, but that was because of Jesus and His
redemptive work. Without Jesus, no miracle could have been performed by any of His dis-
ciples and those that heeded their message.
Jesus could not only hush the storm, but also shorten the distance. The moment He
stepped into the boat the vessel arrived at the shore.
Jesus bypassed all known spheres of time and matter. He met with those from the
past, like Moses and Elijah, and also with those in the future on the Mount of Transfigura-
tion.
We have this account because His disciples witnessed it. Do we have any reason to
discredit their testimony? Just as no one saw Jesus praying on the mountain alone at night,
because witnesses were absent, clearly, the accounts we do have, speak of observable
facts.

[Matthew 14:23] After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by
Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone.

Here the account ends for lack of witness. And since this account ends in this fashion
all other accounts make His words all the more credible.
Jesus said: “The Father loves you because you love Me.” ‘Although those that hate Me’
are not being hated back; for the Father nor the Son hate; they are love, even the perfect
love. However, those who still compare Jesus to all other great men of religion do not
humble their pride of life before Him for in their ambitions they seem to be still trying to slice
for themselves their own piece of the pie.

[John 16:27-28] "For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and
have believed that I came forth from the Father. “I came forth from the Father and have
come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father.”

How did He come from the Father, in what way? All humanity came forth from the Fa-
ther - the Creator of Mankind, so what’s so special about His statement, or why is He say-
ing it?
The Father is the Spirit and of that same Spirit the Son was conceived and born. Any-
one communing with Him has the hope of becoming like Him, even as brother or sister of
the Firstborn.

Dear friend, your faith rests not on speculations of man’s wisdom, yet wisdom plays a role
here for indeed it is not man’s wisdom, but God’s.
If you do not know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior and feel the need of recon-
ciliation with your Heavenly Father then do not delay, but fall on your knees right now and
cry to Him for mercy. I guarantee you that if you do it with desperation and deep contrition

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He will not only hear you, but will send His Son Jesus to you. In whatever fashion He might
come, spiritually or visually, you will know that the Great Shepherd had just found you - His
own sheep, lost yet now found; and He will bring you back to His fold.
By way of help please begin to audibly cry to Him beginning with these words:

“Oh Father, I have sinned and I walk the way of pain. I am disgusted with myself and
loathe all I have done. I need You! I need your redemption right now!”
Say to God:
“I love You more than the things that bind me. I love you more than my soul and my
body; and as limited it is; it cannot ever be satisfied. Fill me oh Father!
Save me! Forgive all my sins.”
(Here list all the sins you can remember. Don’t yield to the temptation of not audibly
confessing them. Choose to love God more than your own ways, thoughts or crazy pleas-
ures, which must be repeated over and over again; and never satisfy.
Between the natural man and the spiritual one there is the divide of which you have just
read. On the left of that divide is the old you. On the right is the love of God and the power
to completely transform you from the ground up. On the left of that divide are the segments
of time, which must always be repeated in order to extract any physical pleasures from. On
the right is the pleasure of freedom, joy, peace; the spiritual rush, which never goes away
for it is indeed eternal. Choose that.)

Close your prayer with this confession: “I believe in You, Lord Jesus My Savior. You
have died for me on the cross and You rose from the dead and are alive today. I open my
heart to You. Please come in and reside in me, in my mind, soul, spirit and body. Cleanse
this house of mine and make it your holy temple. Fill me with the Holy Spirit of Life and let
me rejoice like a child. Thank you. Amen.”

Whatever you have experienced is eternally yours; and however you have experienced
it belongs solely to you my friend. You are unique and special in His eyes and He truly loves
you. Enjoy His presence now and remember to never yield to your ‘Nephesh Bahamit’ but
rather choose the other region. That choice is crucial. From now on you will grow, daily, in
His grace.

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