The purpose of this booklet is to encourage you, the reader, to "search the scriptures" that testify spiritually to your immortal birthright as the first-born of God. Acceptance of the Messianic message of Jesus Christ will enable you to fulfill the promise of eternal life here and now.
When you study biblical words and believe in their validity the Bible’s visionary prophecy will become a reality in your immortal life and mortal time with God. To believe the prophecy of Genesis One is to accept its original primitive pronominal language of soul. For example what is said as he, him equates you to God and his, identification of Himself.
The prophet, Moses recorded the spiritual insight he gained through the native tongue (language) of the Hebrew people. What the primitive people said in belief of a supreme divinity was recorded of a universally conceived God [elohiym, a plural sense as gods in the ordinary sense]. Scriptural words qualified them spiritually: And God said, Let us make man, in our image after our likeness…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis One, in visionary prophecy of who you are, records the qualifier: In the beginning God created. This first metaphoric message identified the people as gods whose immortal life and mortal time were qualified of God as good [a good thing] and so [set upright].
Visionary prophecy gives you spiritual insight into the immortal Word of God as the creator (the qualifier) through the mortal word where man is the created (the qualified).
Two thousand years of biblical prophecy passed before Jesus identified himself and others through the spiritual meaning of the Word said of God as “gods in the ordinary sense”.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN Chapter 10, verses 31-38 ¶3
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not;
but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken (put off);
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified [made holy], and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
The words and works of Jesus were met with doubtful disputation by the Jews because they did not believe that he was qualified to speak the words and perform the works of God. In answer to their question about himself as the Son of man, Jesus, in the Gospel of John, restated scripture as the Son of God regarding the living Word of Christ.
Metaphorically, what was said of God In the beginning reveals a universal Father that certifies the mortal birth process of your immortal birthright as "the signs of the times."