THE “VIRGIN-BIRTH”: -----
THE “IMMACULATE CONCEPTION”.
Disciple Matthew’s “Disastrous” Error.
Now it’s time to look at the opposing view: That of actual “Sonship”. Even though we alluded to this next crucial segment on the previous page; in terms of Isaiah’s prophecy, it’s time to more deeply assess Matthew’s Gospel regarding the birth of Jesus. The sequence of Scripture we will use is from Fenton’s Bible, Sub: The Birth of Jesus. [Reader, note that Fenton has Capitalised part of this Scriptural sequence.]
That means he probably understood that something was amiss in the connection between Matthew’s narration at this point in his Gospel, and Isaiah’s prophecy. For, as we have seriously tried to get this point across; Fenton is the only Bible translator that we have found who understood what the true spelling of “Emmanuel” had to be! So: From Matthew 13:25:
‘However, the origin of Jesus the Messiah was thus: Mary, His mother, was promised in marriage to Joseph; but before their union, she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, however, was a righteous man; and not wishing to degrade her, felt inclined to divorce her privately. But while reflecting about it, he saw a messenger from the Lord appear to him during a vision, saying:
“Joseph, son of David, you need not be afraid to accept your wife Mary; for what is conceived in her was produced by the Holy Spirit. And she will give birth to a Son, and you shall name Him JESUS; for He will save His people from their sins.”
Now all this took place so that the statement of the Lord, as recorded by His prophet, might be fulfilled:
BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE,
AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON;
AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL,
Which, when translated, means, THE GOD AMONG US.
Then Joseph, having awakened from his sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord commanded him, and accepted his wife; but kept apart from her until she had given birth to her Son; and he named Him JESUS.’
Simple enough, do you think? Well, the first point from the centuries- long Christian interpretation sacrosanctly states that Mary was impregnated by means “different” to every single conception that has ever occurred since the dawn of earth-time among all mammals. In addition the second sacrosanct point is that surely --- according to Christian “scholars” --- only a Son of God could somehow be born “without male physical sperm impregnating the egg prepared in Mary’s womb”.
Everyone else must accept the Natural Laws of God, yet, as Jesus proclaimed: “I come not to overthrow the Law, but to fulfil it.” According to Christian interpretation of the immutable Laws of Creation in Natural-Law procreation, He was somehow not required to fulfil this very basic requirement.
Jesus simply has to be, therefore; “the Emmanuel Who was to come” -- bearing two names in One! That has been the mantra of Christianity “forever”, and we must not dare question that alleged, once-only, holy union of what, exactly?
Let’s now, from pure logic and knowledge of The Law from out of The All-Truth, pull it all to pieces and let Divine Truth, not religious untruth, rule.
Just as the physical death of Jesus at the end of His life marked His exit from earthly life, so did His birth as a baby herald His physical arrival onto the earth and into earthly existence. For in accordance with the inviolability of the Divine Laws He came to fulfil, The Son of God could not circumvent the Law that to be born of woman on earth, the seed must first be placed within the womb by a natural procreative event.
Subsequent to that seeding, a lawful gestation period of nine months in that nonetheless exalted womb. Here, however, a singularly contentious question arises with the inescapable truth that in the twin realities of physical birth and physical death, one must obviously always follow the other. Since the purpose of this Discourse is to boldly question certain strongly entrenched sacrosanct beliefs in Christian theology for one, the key now is the truth or otherwise of the so-called “virgin-birth” of Christ.
Since we cannot deny the fact of Mary’s earthly pregnancy or the earthly birth of Jesus as a baby, should we dare to believe that those earthly processes might just have been preceded by an earthly conception too? Or is that going too far? Or is it simply a matter of religious fear masquerading as the “ostensible” guardian of “religious righteousness” standing ready to condemn any attempt to delve logically into what was a completely natural event i.e., Jesus issued, and was thus delivered, from Mary’s womb. Though natural, it was, without doubt, a birth of stupendous import: One ordained and sanctified by God.
Now, because every human spirit incarnating on earth requires a physical vessel in which to dwell and through which to work, Jesus, too, needed a physical body to carry out His Work. However, all physical bodies entering the earth plane in baby form can only do so with an earthly conception to begin with. Does the idea of an earthly conception, then, denigrate the greatness or purity of the person of Jesus or His inherent Divinity? No; of course not. What about the purity of Mary herself, or her exalted calling? Would we regard her as being somehow soiled or impure if a conception was necessary before Jesus could be born onto the earth? Here again, of course not. Both notions are silly in the extreme.
For it would be very difficult, indeed, to reconcile the birth of The Son of God from out of a woman of the earth whose necessary purity for that purpose was somehow compromised through a natural act of copulation. So, would a possible earthly father for the purposes of a necessary conception debase the body of Mary who would carry to full term the earthly vessel that Jesus, in His Divine reality, would inhabit and work through whilst on earth? Moreover, for such a high and purely ordained purpose, might not such a man be similarly chosen from Above? And would such a union for that highest possible purpose not therefore constitute an “immaculate conception” in the truest sense? If not, why not? If not, would it be because the Bible “appears” to state otherwise?
The birth of Jesus out of Mary must be very correctly regarded as being of the most sublime purity. That correct recognition, however, should not automatically condemn every other mother before or since as being unclean or impure simply because a normal conception was obviously naturally required before a subsequent birth could be realised. If the resultant viewpoint from some religious quarters is of that mind-set for all other births, then it is one that is clearly dangerously distorted. For any such misconstrued stance would foolishly denigrate the very ordination of The Almighty in the outworking of His Perfect Laws which state that if a man and woman wish to produce offspring in the ordained natural manner, they must firstly become “one flesh”. There can surely be no argument there, for even animals have to do that.
In any case the state of marriage should not necessarily be regarded as the only institution under which a child should be conceived. If we fully understand that the inherent key attribute of The Almighty must be Love in its Divine Purity, then the very notion of a completely pure yet natural process of conception to birth, as in the case of Jesus, offers the same potential for purity for every other human mother too.
So: The completely wrong interpretation and thus reason for the wide Christian acceptance of “the virgin birth” as truth clearly lies in Matthew’s interpretation of the title, the “Holy Spirit”. Let’s look at his key Scripture again:
“Joseph, son of David, you need not be afraid to accept your wife Mary; for what is conceived in her was produced by the Holy Spirit: ...” (Emphases mine.)
Because it was so stated by one of the Disciples, it is now forever regarded as sacrosanct in its “apparent” meaning. That is; that the egg inside the womb of Mary, from which the physical foetus would grow to become the physical vessel or body of Jesus, was somehow literally impregnated by an amorphous entity, in this case the “Holy Spirit”; simply to produce just the mortal or physical cloak.
Let’s jump ahead in knowledge: What needs to be fully understood here --- once more --- is that the mortal cloak of Jesus was not Him solely and completely. It was simply the body that housed His Divine core. Despite some seriously aberrant religious ideas about the physical body, we really need to understand that the ordained path of each and every one is that it returns to the earth out of which it is ultimately constituted.
And man goes to the earth that he was,
And his Soul will return to the GOD Who gave it!”
(Eccl. 12. 6-7) (Fenton, Italics mine.)
For the necessary education of Christians --- but not for Muslims in this case --- it was His Divine core, which at the same time was He personally, which returned to become “One With the Father”. The forming of His physical body did not require the Power of the Holy Spirit to produce it. Through natural sexual union, physical foetuses by the thousands are seeded every day of the week on earth.
However, the entry of Jesus into the depths of the material world from out of The Divine Realm, to subsequently incarnate into a human body on earth, clearly did need The Holy Spirit to effect it.
So, one of the keys to a final understanding of this whole question must take into account the true meaning of the Title, Holy Spirit, in strict concert with the way that Matthew refers to it for the conception of Jesus.
For the moment, however, two points must be considered if the question of the “virgin-birth” of Jesus is to be finally answered satisfactorily- correctly. One is the inviolability, immutability, and thus absolute Perfection of The Living Laws of The Almighty, of which we have already made a clear determination. The other is the true meaning of the word ‘conceive’, and of the word, ‘virgin’.
The Christian Church’s imposition of a narrow, intellectual constraint upon the meanings and usage of the words in this particular case fail to understand that word meanings relating to activities and ordinations from The Almighty must inherently be fundamentally more comprehensive and far-reaching in scope than any earth-orientated faith/belief dogma or doctrine.
In human thinking, therefore, the word, conceive, is invariably and immediately associated with pregnancy;
1 a. ‘To become pregnant with’.
Or b. ’To begin or induce the conception of’.
However, if we apply other meanings to the word ---
2 a, ‘To form in the mind, to become possessed by’;
or b, ‘to formulate; devise: conceive a plan’ ---
--- then a far more comprehensive aspect suddenly emerges. For if we now revisit Matthew’s narration about this matter, we have the phrase, “conceived from the Holy Spirit”; and a second, “produced by the Holy Spirit”.
Yes, it could be seen to be ‘playing with words. But what actually was conceived from and produced by The Holy Spirit here? Other Bibles use slightly different phrasing, but all must ultimately mean the same thing, simply because Jesus was born to Mary --- under the aegis of the Grace of The Almighty and His Inviolable Laws!
Matthew’s narration in The Jerusalem Bible states:
“she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.”
The angel of the Lord then says:
“because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit.”
From the King James Bible the same passage respectively reads:
“she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” ---
And from the angel,
“for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.”
With such “apparent” clarity, it is eminently clear why so many well- meaning Christians will not even begin to question the so-called “virgin- birth”. Unquestioning loyalty to a high ideal carries a certain measure of greatness. However, where it is a matter of the Truth or otherwise of a particular event, “set in motion” by the Living Laws of God, then any nominal absolute sureness of the given belief must inherently conform to, and comply with, those very Laws.
A position that does not do so --- irrespective of how strong or self- sanctified the belief may be from a human/religious viewpoint --- must therefore set itself against the very sanctity and Inviolability of the Perfection of The Laws of God: And therefore against The Almighty Himself.
Let’s now powerfully-digress from my explanations to quote passages directly from the primary publication of The All-Truth of The Spirit of Truth. So: From His Lecture; from His hand:
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND
THE BIRTH OF THE SON OF GOD
The very perfection of Creation as the Work of God makes the act of procreation absolutely necessary, because the All-Wisdom of the Creator has ordered all things in Creation from the Primordial beginning so that there should be nothing too much or too superfluous! He who thinks otherwise must also hold that the Work of the Creator is imperfect! It is the same with the person who affirms that the birth of Christ occurred without there first being a normal procreation, as is prescribed by the Creator for all mankind. A normal procreation through a human being of flesh and blood must have taken place! Even in this case!
Every man who truly understands this praises his Lord and Creator more than he who wants to permit other possibilities! The former shows such unshaken faith in the Perfection of his God as to be convinced that any exception or change in the Laws He has ordained is absolutely impossible. And that is the greater faith! Besides, all the other events agree with this! Christ became a human being on earth. It having been thus resolved, as the Perfection of God ordained, He was obliged to submit to all the Laws God has decreed for physical procreation!
If it should be objected that “with God nothing is impossible”, such a concealed explanation brings no satisfaction, for again another and quite different meaning lie in these words than that which so many people imagine in their indolence. In order to refute the wording of this sentence as commonly understood, it need only be said that imperfection, want of logic, injustice, arbitrariness and many other things are impossible with God!
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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There you have it. On this subject of the “Sonship of God”/Birth of Christ: From His Hand, He has written:
“He who thinks otherwise must also hold that the Work of the Creator is imperfect!”
Reader, some serious advice for you: So that you can free yourself from a monumental error that will cause the downfall of many, many millions, do not think otherwise in this case. Let the religions think otherwise, for they will in any case, and for two reasons:
| 1) | The totally erroneous teaching of the Church that God can do anything He pleases --- because He is God. |
| 2) | The Spirit of Truth with His All-Truth cannot possibly have “Come to earth” –-- because they have not been “shown a sign”. Therefore, according to ‘church wisdom’, it cannot possibly have taken place. |
Question: As we more rapidly approach clearly-to-be-seen catastrophes in global societies and their fractious religions, how many of you who count yourselves among the billions of human souls within the three monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism agree with what the Bringer of The All-Truth has definitively stated here? We can probably definitively say; precious “few”, for how else can the crucial warnings from Isaiah and the Son of God ever be fulfilled; respectively, again:
“Few men left”. — and --- “Were the times not cut short, not a man would be saved.”
Since the “doctrines” of the “big three” would not believe that The Spirit of Truth has been and has anchored His All-Truth in Material Creation for all time, what does that hold for you --- followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism? I am sure you could all work it out, but you won’t, for you all have too much invested in your “religious narratives” to even deign to believe that you could somehow be terribly, terribly, wrong!
Reader, as we have said many times thus far –- and will reinforce for you many more times yet; leave the religions behind; because for your benefit, we will quote much, much more from His Hand as we proceed.
Even though we have written what The Spirit of Truth has actually stated --- for the benefit of billions of monotheists --- it is nonetheless still incumbent on this writer to continue with relevant explanations and analyses of many more topics yet. It would be better, more intelligent -- and certainly spiritually safer -- if everyone simply accepted His Truth and embraced it gratefully. You know: “Seek and you shall find.”
So, let’s continue: If we accept the idea of a physical resurrection and ascension for Jesus, then the current, accepted belief of a virgin-birth according to Christian theology might make sense. However, such an idea would need to somehow accommodate the possibility of a Divine Being from the Realm of The Almighty Himself in some way becoming physical in a kind of Divine totality on earth through an actual conception from that High Source. Using the more logical, more rational meaning of the word conceive here inherently encompasses a far greater reality that transcends and transforms narrow, earthly-religious parameters.
Thus, to form in the mind, to formulate, to devise, to conceive --- a plan, whereby Jesus, The Son of God, would incarnate on earth in a human body. That was what was conceived from, and produced by, The Holy Spirit.
An Immaculate Conception, conceived in Plan and Ordination, and thus “produced by” the Holy Spirit!
We should also recognise that the term, Holy Spirit, is a Divine Title relating to a specific Being of Divine Origin. It is not some kind of amorphous, super-endowed force or power that can perform any act arbitrarily, against the very Laws that are in Him and which He fulfils without flaw or deviation.
For that is the meaning of Perfection --- without flaw! Therefore, it does not refer to the simple, earthly matter of the impregnation of a human woman, of which there are millions at any given time.
That being the case, it should not be at all difficult to understand that whilst the earthly foetus was formed according to natural processes, the entry of the Divine Core of Jesus into that earthly vessel was, indeed, carried out in accordance with the Divine Will through Divine Activity!
In other words --- now hear this clearly --- the Living, Divine Essence of Jesus, as a Part of God, was brought down to the earth from out of the Highest Heights to then enter the vessel prepared for Him.
[Upon His earthly death, He had then to return to His Origins and become “One with the Father”, as He Himself stated.] All really quite simple to understand, but truly stupendous as a living happening!
In its earthly aspect, the historical record from that time shows that the “chosen earthly father” for the pregnancy that would house the Divine Core of Jesus was known to many, hence the inclusion into the historical narrative. [From the knowledge of the All-Truth now on earth, we can now know who he was. He was a man of noble birth and high soldierly-rank, but he was not from the Jewish race.]
Indeed, Mary was vilified because of her [once-only] association with a man when out of wedlock; hence Joseph’s disquiet. Ordinarily, as a devout Jew, Joseph would have had no hesitation at all in accepting a wife who was “with child from the Holy Spirit”. Imagine; a once-only event for a God- fearing man. What an incredible honour. The historical reality, however, simply serves to show the complete naturalness of the whole event in the first place, as it must clearly be if it is to accord with the Perfection of the Living Law in all matters. Thus, the actual father was also one especially chosen --– precisely to ensure an “immaculate conception”.
If we now analyse the meaning of the word, ‘virgin’, the reader may perhaps intuitively recognise a far greater reality of interpretation here too. Even though we believe our previous analyses have offered a clear enough picture of the forces and processes that brought Jesus onto the earth, we should still nevertheless go through this last little exercise in word meaning.
Thus, the accepted meaning in current doctrine regarding Mary interprets virginity and/or the virgin birth as stating that she had not ever had sexual relations with a man. We must therefore conclude that Mary became pregnant through a method that somehow precluded all the natural processes that the Living Laws of God unequivocally state to be inviolable. As we have said, such a notion would have to go against the very Laws that Jesus Himself stated He had come to fulfil.
If, however, we apply broader parameters to the concept of ‘virginity’ in the context of the complete organic process of childbirth, then we may begin to discern a far deeper and more natural meaning for the word than is currently applied in the case of Mary. Moreover, if we extend the very essence of the word ‘virgin’ and apply it to a process that had not ever come into activity before, then we can correctly state that prior to the particular activity, the key aspects associated with it must have been virginal. Within Mary, therefore, the organs of procreation and reproduction were virginal for the birth of Christ. They had not come into activity in this manner prior to that exalted birth.
So, a virgin birth for Jesus was the reality. Thus did Jesus -- as a PART of GOD --- fulfil every last nuance of Creation-Law by which, and for which, He came down to the earth!
One final word on this subject: if we are able to grasp the fact that The Holy Spirit, both in Term and Title, is exactly synonymous with The Holy Will, then we will see that the true Title here is The Will of God! Therefore, the whole, almost incomprehensible nature of the entry of Jesus onto the earth, was conceived from, and produced by, God through He Who was then, and Who is today, and Who will thus forever be --- His Will.
The whole thrust of Islam and its vitriolic insistence that there could not possibly have been a Son of God/Sons of God because God “did not have a wife” is so narrow and earthly in its concept as to surely be the gravest slur and outrage, and the worst affront possible to the Sublime and Purest Majesty of The Almighty!
The Muslim world reveals itself as not possessing even one ounce of any kind of deeper spiritual understanding in such a serious and inexcusable denigration of “DIVINE TRUTH”.
There is, of course, a really pointed and brutally-logical question we can ask here about the entry of Jesus on to the earth; one which has its Source in The All-Truth. Since Christianity, and even Islam, seem to unequivocally believe that “God can do anything He wants” -- because He is God”; we should ask ourselves why He did not place Jesus on earth as a fully grown man? That would surely be a simple thing for The Creator to achieve, according to earthly religious thinking. Immediate adulthood for Jesus would have thereby obviated the need for His babyhood and childhood phase. Why waste time in “growing up”?
We have scribed a notional “religious” extrapolation of “what God can do” to illustrate how very silly such a belief is in its unnatural connotations; for the Laws governing earthly procreation just as naturally also reflect the inviolability of their unchangeable Perfection. This fact offers the absolute premise once again that, even here, in the conception of the earthly vessel for Jesus, the Laws could “not be overthrown”, as He Himself clearly stated.
Now that is what I have written, but from out of the most wonderful and Perfect knowledge contained in The All-Truth of The Spirit of Truth Himself. Let’s now read from His Hand more from His Lecture on exactly this subject.
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THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND
THE BIRTH OF THE SON OF GOD
It could further be argued that if in this sense nothing is impossible with God, He could just as easily with a single act of His Will have made every man a believer! Then He need not have permitted His Son to become man and exposed Him to earthly hardships and death on the cross! He would have been spared that stupendous sacrifice!
That things happened as they did shows the inflexible nature of the Divine Laws which have been active in Creation from the very beginning, and the perfection of which makes a forced intervention for the purpose of changing them in one way or another quite impossible.
The blind and contentious opponent could now stubbornly assert that the way it happened was according to God’s Will. That is quite right, but in no way a counter- proof! On the contrary it merely confirms the previous reasoning, provided one drops the more naïve interpretation and follows the deeper explanation necessarily demanded by all utterances of a spiritual nature.
It was the Will of God! However, that has nothing in common with arbitrariness! On the contrary, it means nothing less than the confirmation of the Laws of God placed in Creation and which bear His Will; it means absolute obedience to them, allowing of no exception or circumvention whatever! It is just in the necessity for compliance that the Will of God reveals and manifests itself! Otherwise Jesus need not have been born of a woman on earth, but could quite simply have made a sudden appearance!
In order to fulfil His mission Christ had therefore inevitably to submit to all the Natural Laws, that is, to the Will of His Father. That Christ did so is proved by His whole life -– His normal birth and growth, His feeling both of hunger and fatigue, His suffering and finally His death on the cross. He was subject to everything to which man’s earthly body is subject. Why then should His procreation alone have been different, when there was absolutely no necessity for it? It is just because of the naturalness of everything that the Saviour’s task appears even greater, by no means smaller! Likewise Mary was no less blessed on that account!
THE “SPIRIT OF TRUTH”!
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Reader, did you recognise the power and sheer logic of His Words to begin with, and thus the stupendous nature of what is inherent in the quoted passages? If you did not, then understand this: What is inherent in His Words exactly fulfils the prophecy of Jesus about ‘the Coming of The Other’ who would “lead us into All Truth” (John 16). Because here, we have precisely that Other Son, the Prophesied One –- now bringing us “enlightening Truth” about the birth of Jesus!
Christian reader: Do not take out of context or misinterpret the sentence: “He would have been spared that stupendous sacrifice!”, and attempt to use it to justify His Crucifixion for your inexcusable sins. Of His All-Truth, The Spirit of Truth warns:
“Take it all or take nothing!”
So, by a natural act of procreation to produce the earthly vessel of Jesus, every other act carries a similar potential for a pure conception too. Unfortunately, however, many conceptions today occur as a result of drunkenness, drug use, and/or general social debasement, and cannot be considered even remotely pure.
Now: As the Spirit of Truth has written; if it is believed that “God can do anything He wants because He is God”, why not take the next obvious step and “allow” God to make us all sinless and perfect, but of course without free-will and personal spiritual responsibility. There would then have been no need for Jesus to come down to this earth at all.
He would have thus been spared His life of struggle against an intransigent people who, even though awaiting His Coming, nevertheless still murdered Him, and in the most brutal method of the day. The whole assumptive-belief is as silly as it is puerile, and is nothing more than crass “religiosity”, driven by beliefs formulated by supposedly “educated” humans. Truly, as Paul wrote in his day: The Lord chooses the foolish of the world to educate the ‘wise’. Under the aegis of a Divine Mandate and led by Guides-Unseen, the unassailable knowledge of and from that exalted Divine Gift of The All-Truth permits this “foolish one” to at least “point the way” to a degree of knowledge not previously known.
The words of Jesus declaring that He had come to “fulfil the Law” simply cannot be misconstrued; they mean exactly that. Without exception, we are all born under the Law, we produce “our works” under the Law, and we die under the Law. Throughout our complete existence, for however long that may be, we receive the “returns of our works”, good or bad, under the aegis of The Law.
Now: Before we join Isaiah and his revelation of the actual Spirit of Truth, let us once more in reinforcement reiterate the fact that since the physical body is not the “animating power” of any individual, the “inner animating power” that actually was Jesus, was therefore not that of His physical body. That was of the earth. His “inner self” --- which revealed Itself through the powerful radiations emanating from the physical body He was obliged to take upon entering the material world in strict accordance with the Eternal Laws He came to fulfil --- was of Divine Origin. These facts naturally call into question the believed physical resurrection of Christ.
Notwithstanding what we think are sufficient pointers in the above explanations, the spiritually-perceptive reader can deduce the Truth of what actually occurred there as well. [A later Discourse on the life of Jesus will offer clarification of not only the Resurrection, but the Ascension also.]
To our revelation then: Earlier on in ‘Acknowledgements’ we stated that we would write more about Fenton to demonstrate why he was compelled to embark on a fifty-year ordained mission to re-translate the Bible. In the Scriptural sequence about the virgin birth in the Gospel of Matthew, Fenton’s single-word commentary gives the true meaning of “God-with-us”.
Yet despite the fact that even the early Church understood the association of that term with a particular Name, what was not understood was the critical spelling of it, for when spelled correctly, vis-à-vis, IMANUEL, The Name directly-connects to DIVINITY.
Virtually every other Bible shows it as Immanuel or Emmanuel. To quibble over such a small difference in spelling may seem rather trivial or pedantic, but it is very far from being so. For this singular and very profound insight demonstrates and reveals Fenton’s true Calling to “put right” the Bible, for the name IMANUEL in its seven-letter configuration signifies the meaning of the Number associated with that Name, and that fact was not revealed until the early part of the 20th century. Moreover, it was revealed by The Spirit of Truth Who was then on earth with His All-Truth, in which He made known that revelation --- but after Fenton’s death in 1920.
Understand here that we do not mean mundane or psychic-based numerology; we mean the Law of Numbers from out of Creation-Law. Thus, the number 7 signifies and is The WILL ----- of GOD!
You may ask: Why are we ‘pushing’ this feature of the name, IMANUEL, in a strong association with Isaiah so intensely? Well, it is because of this fact: Of the many prophets of the Bible, he was the only one who gave name and prophetic insight to the allied crucial event that would decisively impact on all of ‘future’ humanity --- the actual arrival of The One with the Final Truth.
Christian Bible scholars have completely missed the profundity of what the ‘Great Prophet’ was really saying, and Islam very wrongly believes the Scripture portended the birth and Calling of Muhammad anyway.
A further grammatical aspect of the Title, Spirit of Truth, concerns its long-accepted structure and word-emphasis. In the historical, religious sense, the written use of it commonly reads as, the Spirit of Truth, with a kind of accepted emphasis on the underlined words. The key ‘spiritual insight’ here pivots on what should be emphasised; the “of”. Correct prominence there gives much-needed and long-overdue recognition of the true meaning of that exalted Title: The Spirit OF Truth. Complete, inherent, personal as the Being OF Truth, not a human spirit of earth who can somehow become The Spirit OF Truth by simply being instructed in The Truth.
That is precisely why this is not just another pointless, pedantic exercise of silly word-games, for it should not be difficult to comprehend that by changing the emphasis of the word, ‘of’ --- which grammatically connects the terms Spirit and Truth --- to the designation, “OF” Truth, a very different concept emerges! It is one that is very clearly far more profound.
As we have already explained, the blame for the disastrous interpretative- error regarding Isaiah’s 7:14 Scripture as our “allied crucial event”, can be laid directly at Disciple Matthew’s feet. Unfortunately, it is now bequeathed to posterity in global Christianity without any of the tens of thousands of ‘scholars’ understanding an error so serious that it actually equates to a “spiritual death sentence” if not recognised in time.
For Isaiah did not prophesy the birth of Jesus. His great prophetic mission was more directed to Proclaiming the Coming of the actual Spirit of Truth. The “Church” has consistently “pushed” a terrible distortion for all of its religious life. Here it is again. From: Isaiah 7:14. (Fenton Bible. Underline mine).
“However the Almighty Himself will give you a proof. -– Look! That Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and you shall call his name God-with-us.”
As we have previously stated, through its Divine Ordination, the far-reaching ramifications of this super-critical Scripture was always to cast a net so wide that it would, hopefully, encompass all of global humanity at this critical time in our collective journey.
We have determined the fact that Isaiah did not prophesy the Coming of Jesus; did not prophesy Muhammad, but, instead, prophesied the Actual Spirit of Truth -- by Name. Moreover, he further prophesied the “future historical time-frame” of His incarnation on earth and, along with Scripture from other Prophets and Books of the Bible, actually indicated the kind of geographical location where He would be found. It was not the dry, desert lands of the Middle East that Christianity and Judaism have long believed simply “had to be”, so not Jerusalem.
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Now we need to connect the following key Scriptures to the far-seeing prophecies of Isaiah that link those relevant Scriptures to our time today. These are the Scriptures that each monotheistic claimant to the Spirit of Truth must possess --- if a particular religion is to hold any kind of entitlement to even just ‘perceived’ religious authority, and thus primacy of place. So, we have these: from the Book of John, respectively, (16: 13-14.) and (16: 7-8. Fenton both).
“When, however, the Spirit of Truth Himself comes, He will instruct you in all the Truth... He Himself will honour Me...”
Preceding that definitive Scripture is a ‘lead-in’ to it; and one that has triggered several different opinions as to its actual meaning?
“...because if I do not depart, the Helper will certainly not come to you; but when I depart, I will send Him to you . He, on His coming, will bring conviction to the world...”
That is the key prophecy from the Bible uttered by Jesus --- The Son of God for Christians, but just the ‘son of Mary’ for Muslims --- that ultimately drives the “Ownership wedge” between Islam and Christianity. Scriptural pronouncements or prophecies inherently carry within them the “two-edged sword” characteristic, in that Scripture and Verse can be interpreted in many ways, and certainly to fit a given belief.
The unbreakable connection from John 16:7-8, particularly, to the next group of ‘Isaiah prophecies’ resides in the phrase, “will bring conviction to the world”. Insofar as the prophecies of Isaiah represent the “hammer blow” for we of planet earth at this time; John’s, “instruct you in all the Truth”, is absolutely and immutably connected to IMANUEL and the 20th century. In its terrible reciprocity, the secondary aspect of John’s Scripture --- “will bring conviction to the world” --- especially connects to our “Sodom and Gomorrhic” world of the 21st century.
From the Christian perspective, Isaiah’s 7:14 Scripture tracks a little further on to a very relevant Scripture: 8:10. (KJV)
“Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught, speak the word and it shall not stand: for God is with us.”
In the context of the associated Verses, this particular Scripture could be interpreted as Isaiah receiving direction about what The Lord has in store for the intransigent in the land at that time. However, by connecting Isaiah 7:14, vis- à-vis, God-with-us, --- meaning IMANUEL, to Isaiah 8:10 above; ‘for God is with us, Who is the very same IMANUEL; --- we should begin to discern a powerful connection from those prophecies uttered 800 years before Christ, to the present travail of the earth’s peoples.
It may seem a tenuous attempt to make ‘something’ fit our narrative, but these are very early days in terms of on-going revelatory knowledge to conclusively tie all the threads together. For all discussion and analysis, and all threads in all Discourses herein, ultimately lead, in one form or another, spoken or unspoken, back to “The Spirit OF Truth”, His Origin, and therewith, His actual Identity. So, reader, keep that fundamentally-crucial thought as you journey on with us.
The connection to our time, therefore, is with the Name:
IMANUEL!
Yet there is more. The following group of prophecies should show you, reader, why Isaiah is referred to as the Great Prophet. If you do not believe it now, don’t worry, you will. For what he prophesies in his wonderful no-nonsense way, in 2020 is already taking place on earth as just the beginnings of what will be our collective and very well-deserved final outcome --- just as he states in this next Sub-section.