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1 Corinthians 15:1-11 – The resurrection of Saul into Paul

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I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you–unless you have come to believe in vain.

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them–though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

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This will be the New Testament reading selection, if the mandatory reading from Acts 10 takes the place of the Old Testament choice from Isaiah 25. If so, it will be read aloud on Easter Sunday, Year B principal service, according to the lectionary schedule of the Episcopal Church. If chosen, it will follow the Acts 10 reading, which states, “We are witnesses to all that [Jesus] did both in Judea and in Jerusalem.” That will be followed by verses read from Psalm 118, which sings, “The right hand of the Lord has triumphed! the right hand of the Lord is exalted! the right hand of the Lord has triumphed!” Following this should be a reading from John’s Gospel, which says, “go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” [A similar account from Mark’s Gospel is an alternate Gospel choice.]

In this letter of Paul to the true Christians in Corinth, it is important to see the comparison to the Acts 10 reading. There, the verses have been chosen so we only hear what Peter said to Cornelius, his household and some of his soldiers, who were all seeking to become Christians. Cornelius was a devout man who prayed and offered alms, so God sent an angel to him, telling him to go with his followers to Joppa and seek a Jew named Simon, called Peter. That soliloquy becomes a reflection of all of the Epistles found in the New Testament, where one writer has been filled with God’s Holy Spirit [from marriage of a soul to God], has become Jesus reborn in the flesh, as another Anointed One of Yahweh [the Christ], who thereby speaks to many seeking to be Christians. It is from this realization that one must examine all of Paul’s letters, so that truth clearly stands out.

Immediately upon inspection, we find this NRSV translation is playing to the hearts and minds of those who tend to be the most active in the churches of Christianity today, which are primarily women. In the translation, which properly separates the segments of words “I would remind you” from “of the good news that I proclaimed to you” with comma marks, the error is finding between those marks the words “brothers and sisters.” That is not written.

In reality, this beginning to verse 1 states this in Greek: “Gnōrizō de hymin , adelphoi , to euangelion ho euēngelisamēn hymin ,” There is only one word written in that space between comma marks; and, that word translates to “brothers.”

This must be seen as a purposeful statement from Yahweh, sent through the pen of Paul and not Paul being caught up in the male-domination of ancient times. Yahweh is all-knowing, enough to know a time would come when false Christians would pander to human sexuality; still, He did not have Paul write the Greek word for “sisters.” In some places in his letters, Paul referred to women by name, which says the Christians he wrote to included both human sexes; and, one can assume that early Christianity likewise had a strong number of women present, as it does today. This means if is important for a reader to closely look at what is written, because a translator might be taking liberties that will lead one away from the truth of Scripture.

It is most important to understand the concept of marriage of a soul to Yahweh. Yahweh, as the Father, just as the word “God” is masculine, whereas “goddess” is feminine. Since Christianity does not worship any “goddesses” [or “gods”], the realm of the Spiritual – of Yahweh – is masculine. As such, all human beings who marry Yahweh become His wives, where this is not a statement about souls being feminine in gender [a distinction found only in the flesh]. To see that best, one must realize that everything of the material world is dead, while everything in Yahweh’s Spiritual realm is living. A soul comes from the masculine, as an extension of Yahweh, so it brings the breath of life [a masculine trait] into dead matter [a feminine trait]. The freedom a soul is given at birth then makes it lose it masculinity, becoming neuter gender in a body of flesh. Because the flesh is feminine, as matter, it has been penetrated by Yahweh [the Father] and a neuter soul gives animation to dead matter [the feminine].

When this basic concept is understood, a wife of Yahweh becomes a neuter soul in a feminine body of flesh [nothing relative to sexual organs can be intuited in that scenario], which has submitted its control over that dead matter to Yahweh. In that marriage, when God’s send to the soul His Holy Spirit [a masculine soul addition], that soul is no longer neuter, having been made masculine. In that marriage of Yahweh and soul [a return to the Father, while still in the death of flesh], the soul ceases being feminine, having become Spiritually the Son of the Father, while still in a human body [of man]. Once that transformation has occurred Spiritually, the body of flesh that was feminine [dead matter controlling a neuter soul] becomes righteous and totally serves the will of the Father. Therefore, the wife has become an Anointed One of the Father, as a Son of man, which brings about the name of Yahweh – Jesus – which means “Yahweh Saves.” A soul has been saved by returning to Yahweh, before the death of the flesh it inhabits.

To me, this is a simple concept. We all see Jesus as a male, who called himself the Son of man. It becomes simply that acceptance that is then projected onto every human being [those “this of man” – “tou anthrōpou”], meaning all who become the Christ, chosen by Yahweh to be married to His Holy Spirit, are also made His Son, as Jesus reborn. Thus, all true Christians becomes “brothers” in that common relationship with the Father, regardless of the gender of their dead matter surrounding their transformed souls.

Simply by understanding this most solid cornerstone of truth that IS CHRISTIANITY – where all members, male and female, are Jesus Christ resurrected in dead matter – all are “brothers,” because “sisters” becomes a statement of refusal to become masculine by the Spirit. It reduces the truth of Christianity to the same level of failed devotion to Yahweh that was Judaism and all other religions in the world.

Another error of translation is overlooking the capitalization of the word “Gnōrizō,” which is the first person indicative and the first person subjunctive usage of “gnosis,” meaning “known.” This means the capitalization shows the importance of a statement of fact [the indicative mood] and a statement of the future and/or present hypothetical [the subjunctive mood], where the importance becomes a divine statement being made by Paul. His chapter then begins by stating, “I make known” or “I could make known.” That duality from the same word then speaks directly to the “brothers” in Christ, as those who were Jesus reborn in Corinth [males and females] that Yahweh is speaking in this letter [indicative]. At the same time, the same word is speaking to all [then and now] who need to hear the voice of Yahweh speaking through Paul’s words, so they will receive the knowledge that leads one [all sexes] to become “brothers” [subjunctive]. The translation as “I would remind” is then misleading, in the subjunctive mood only, lacking any way of being seen as a statement of vital importance [from capitalization].

From that word comes the little Greek word “de,” which the NRSV sees as unimportant, thus not translated. The word bears the importance of a statement that says “now” [a present tense declaration], while also reflecting “next, on top of this, or moreover.” (Strong’s Usage) As this is the beginning of Paul’s fifteenth chapter in a letter sent to the Christians of Corinth, these first two words say Yahweh has been speaking through Paul in everything written prior, so “now” here is another lesson that God is stating “to you,” where “you” is then clarified [after a comma mark] as “brothers” [in Christ].

Following the comma that sets off “brothers” is Paul writing, “of the good news that I proclaimed to you.” This means he wrote the word “euangelion,” which is generally known as “the Gospel,” which means “the good news.” This, like reading Paul write “adelphoi” and then believing that means “brothers and sisters,” becomes a severely misleading element of today’s Christianity. The truth relative to the meaning of “good news” has been completely lost.

When Paul wrote, as the voice of Yahweh speaking to true Christians in Corinth, “of the good news that I proclaimed to you,” that “good news” was not Paul going from town to town saying, “Jesus is the Messiah. Our Messiah has come … and gone … but he rose again … then ascended … but it is all a sign of good news to believe!” That is how many Christians think, when they hear someone say “spread the Gospel.”

Realizing there was no New Testament yet published when Paul wrote, and realizing none of the four “Gospels” were known by anyone, like they are known today, the “good news” Paul spread was akin to him saying, “Remember when this prophet you have memorized said this?” Or, “Remember how David wrote this in his Psalm?” Paul was addressing the questions the Jews [and then Gentiles] had about a prophesied Savior; and, Yahweh was answering those questions in ways that no one had ever heard explained before.

Those answers were the “good news” and it was so good that those hearing it became saved Spiritually. When Paul arrived in Corinth and began answering the questions Jews [and Gentiles] had about Scripture, which had never been convincingly explained to them before, his answers [spoken by the Holy Spirit] transformed them. It was to the new Christians in Corinth just as three thousand [or so] heard Peter and the others doing the same explanations of Joel, telling that “good news.” The truth of explanations of Scripture opened hearts and minds, allowing the Holy Spirit in.

Seeing that, Paul then wrote, “which you in turn received.” That means they heard the truth be spoken and accepted it as the truth they had been seeking to find. It also says they then “received” the Holy Spirit, which made them Christians, just like those three thousand pilgrims on Pentecost.

Confirmation of that “receipt” of the Holy Spirit is why Paul then wrote, “in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved.” The Greek word “hestēkate” is translated as “you stand,” but this means they “stood firm” in faith of the truth, which makes this a parallel of Jesus telling his followers they had to raise their stakes. To “stand firm” is to become a solidly planted stake in the earth, upon which the good vine grows good fruit. Being “saved” means having married their souls to Yahweh, becoming His wives.

Paul then wrote something like a disclaimer, which becomes the prior possibility of the subjunctive mood having been written, stating, “if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you–unless you have come to believe in vain.” That says true Christians “take possession of the message” [the meaning of “katechete”], where “take possession” means the sacrifice of self-ego, so one’s soul can be divinely possessed by the Holy Spirit. Those who truly married Yahweh will be in that transformed state of being; but, those faking it will “have come to believe in vain.” There, the Greek word “eikē” [“vain”] says they exist with “no value,” which is the same state of being one had before [since birth]: a soul ruled by its flesh.

In the translation that follows, where the NRSV shows Paul writing, “For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received,” the literal English translation says, “I delivered,” where the capitalization of “Paredōka” becomes a statement that the self-ego of Paul was not the “I” [first person singular] speaking. Instead, Paul spoke by being led by the Mind of Christ, as the messenger of God. That delivery was “for” the need “of you,” who questioned the meaning of divine texts never explained. Paul then delivered the answers to the “what,” most importantly [the unseen use of “kai”] that which Paul “received” from Yahweh. There, again, the first person singular says Paul, a seeker like those in Corinth, sacrificed his “I’ to “receive” the Holy Spirit and be in possession of the Mind of Christ.

This has to be grasped, because the normal Christian brain today reads [or hears], “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures” and thinks “Christ” means Jesus. It does not. It cannot, because one who has been “Anointed” by Yahweh has been awarded eternal life, which cannot die. Jesus was the “foremost Christ,” who died in the flesh and was resurrected, but Paul could not attest to that as fact.

Paul could attest to himself having “died,” so he could become the “Christ.” Thus, because Paul had become the “Christ” [his name change from Saul to Paul], he “died” of self-will and his sins [Jesus asking Saul, “Why do you persecute me?] were erased. It was the Torah, Psalms and Prophets, whose writing tell everyone who sacrifices self to Yahweh will be saved, through becoming the “Christ” [Greek for one “Anointed” by Yahweh].

The known story of the time of the feast of the Unleavened Bread, when Jesus died, was buried, and after three days raised becomes a distraction to modern Christians, because they only know that was what happened to Jesus. Paul spoke as Jesus reborn, so he could see his old self [Saul] “was buried,” never again to be the flesh that ruled over his soul. In Saul’s case, he specifically was blind “for three days,” before his sight returned and he saw the light of Christ, changing his name to Paul. He had been raised after three days. Paul’s story was the same as Jesus’ retold, which means all the true Christians in Corinth had similar stories of themselves: died, buried, raised. The number “three” becomes the addition of the Holy Spirit to their body and soul, as the Trinity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

When the NRSV translation then says, “that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve,” it must be remembered that Saul was not a friend of Simon Peter or any of the disciples of Jesus. Because Judas Iscariot had been a traitor that was not present in the upper room, what Paul wrote is then relative to Pentecost, not Easter. It was after the seven weeks “Counting the Omer” had passed, when Simon, called Peter [aka “Cephas” or “Rock”] had the Holy Spirit come to him, so he “appeared” as Jesus reborn. The same happened to “the twelve,” because by Pentecost Sunday they had elected another follower of Jesus to take the place of Judas Iscariot.

When Paul then wrote [led by the Holy Spirit], “Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time,” the number “five hundred” does not jive with the nearly three thousand who heard Peter and were transformed. The meaning of “he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time” [no “sisters” written] says that the spread from twelve to three thousand then [from “epeita” being a statement of “afterwards”] led to the transformation of “five hundred more resurrections of Jesus” [males and females included]. It says all were transformed at the same time [from “ephapax” meaning “once, once for all; at once”]. The use of “at one time” also means this transformation was a permanent bonding of a soul with Yahweh, never to be undone.

The numbering of “five hundred brothers at once” becomes clarified, when Paul then added, “most of whom are still alive, though some have died.” This then has less to do with only “five hundred” becoming reproductions of Jesus Christ, but more to do with the other twenty-five hundred on Pentecost. Paul was saying “most of them were still alive in the Christ Mind,” which means they took a little more time to truly transform into Jesus reborn and earn their souls eternal life. Three thousand [there about] were touched by the Holy Spirit, with five hundred of those touched becoming full, permanent resurrections of Jesus as the Christ, instantly. Some, however, reverted back to being Jews, who came under heavy rejection by the Jews [men like Saul persecuting them], so they stopped receiving the Holy Spirit. In doing so, they returned to a death sentence, which is the judgment all mortal creatures are born to find, without receipt of Yahweh in marriage to their souls. Still, most would eventually make the full transformation.

From this God-led knowledge of what happened before Paul’s soul was saved by Yahweh, he then knew that James was later transformed. This is worthy of being understood that the Saints married to Yahweh’s Holy Spirit were able to transform disbelievers, such as was James, the brother of Jesus [the son of Mary and Joseph]. The name “James” is related to “Jacob,” such that the name means “Supplanter” or “He Who Closely Follows.” This name remaining the same [after conversion from Jew to Christian] says James was sent by Yahweh to be the brother of Jesus, who would later be reborn in the name of Jesus, supplanting him in the line of Mary and Joseph. James would become a ‘twin’ of Jesus, figuratively. Just as Jacob took the birthright of Isaac from his brother Esau, James would assume the role as leader of the Jews [versus Gentiles], as Jesus had been. Those two brothers were wary of one another, just like James rejected Jesus as the Son of man.

With this mention of James, before the mention of Paul [as the last saved], in between is “then to all the apostles.” This use of “apostolois” cannot be seen as “the twelve,” who were saved well before [not “afterwards”]. It then says all who are married to Yahweh, who will become reborn as Jesus Christ, will be “messengers” of the clarifications of truth, as to the meanings of Scripture.

When Paul is then shown to write, “Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me,” here that little word “de” is omitted from translation, which means “next, on top of, moreover.” As such, the statement of “last” [from “eschaton,” a word connected to “eschatology”] says another phase comes last. This use, at the beginning of a new verse [not capitalized] becomes a statement of the “endlessness” of salvation. It says salvation will “last until the end of time” and it will be the “next” step that comes “to all” souls saved.

The meaning of “as to one untimely born” simply says when this transformation takes place, no one will know. One cannot set a fixed date beforehand, as to when one’s soul will be saved. No checklist of good things to do can be marked off, like being married to Yahweh brings a set number of merit badged that have to be earned, in order to become deemed an Eagle Scout. Still, the same word “last” means when that birth of salvation does arrive, then there will be no time limit as to when it ends. It is “last” because it is “untimely born.”

For Paul to say, “he appeared also to me” means his birth of salvation was totally unexpected, seemingly coming from nowhere. Saul was traveling to persecute Christian Jews, when he saw a light flash and heard a voice asking him why he did what he did. Saul had not planned the transformation that would come over him.

It is this aspect Paul having been “untimely born” that led him to write, “For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.” In reality, that is a poor translation. What is written makes this become crystal clear, as the Greek text states: “Egō gar eimi ho elachistos tōn apostolōn.” Literally that says, “I for exist the least of the apostles,” which must be looked at closer.

The capitalized first word is “Egō,” which is the first person pronoun “I,” but the capitalization makes it become the importance of “Self,” which is a “Soul” that is led by its body of flesh. It is why the English usage of “ego” is synonymous with “self-importance” [thanks to Freud and Jung]. This is then followed by the word ”eimi,” which is a statement saying, “I am” or “I exist.” This means the focus of Paul’s words were not on himself, or his own “ego,” but importantly a statement about all “Ego” that declares “I am.”

That becomes a declaration of how little “Ego” means, compared to salvation by Yahweh. It says the “least” element that makes one a “messenger for Yahweh” is self-importance. That becomes a statement that the sacrifice of self, in marriage to Yahweh, is how one retains the permanence of salvation and does not turn away and re-embrace death, as a desire to become again a mortal prison for a soul.

That realization becomes why Paul said he was “unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.” The same lack of fitness applies to all who wear the face of Self and refuse to submit that “Ego” before Yahweh, refusing to wear His face as His wife.”

Here, the Greek begins as “hos ouk eimi,” where the word “eimi” is repeated, as “who not exist.” This becomes relative to the “Egō gar eimi,” where the negative state of “ego” [“not exist”] is then “fit to be called an apostle.” Rather than apply “not” to “fit” and change that to state “unfit,” Paul wrote “no ego” makes on “fit to be an apostle.” Therefore, Paul was certainly not making a claim that he [an apostle, a Saint] was unfit to serve God; only those clinging to self-worth fall into that category.

This is then why we read Paul writing, “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain.” In all cases of apostlehood, it is the sacrifice of self-ego that bring about the “favor” [from “chariti” meaning, “grace, favor, gratitude, thanks”], because [following a comma mark] Paul said, “eimi ho eimi” – “I am that I am.” In case you have forgotten, YHWH [Yahweh] is derived from the Hebrew meaning the name of God is “I AM That I Am.” Therefore, the “grace of God” comes when oneself has submitted fully to Yahweh’s control.

From that remarkable understanding, one can see why Paul wrote, “his grace toward me has not been in vain.” Here, Paul is shown to be repeating the earlier use of “vain” [“eikē”], when in reality his word choice now is “kenē,” meaning “void.” The same use as “vain” is possible, but the point made is that sacrifice of oneself to Yahweh is not simply made by “empty” words. This relates to those [in the subjunctive mood] who say they want salvation, but then refuse to receive the Holy Spirit to get it, doing nothing that tells Yahweh one will sacrifice self-ego to be His wife and follow His Will completely.

This commitment is then why Paul wrote, “On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them–though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.” The opposite of “kenē,” which can mean: “empty (in moral content), vain, ineffective, foolish, worthless, false, unreal, pretentious, hollow” (Strong’s Usage) means Paul fully sacrificed himself to do the work of the Father who adopted him. This is not Paul bragging about doing more works than “all” other apostles, but “all of them” who offered Yahweh “empty” promises of devotion, doing nothing, made Paul’s work a willingness to do difficult tasks. The work Paul did was not self-motivated [“it was not I”] because he had sacrificed his “egō” [“not I”]. With that sacrifice brought upon Paul God’s Holy Spirit, as “charis tou Theou hē syn emoi” – “the grace of God was with me” [“me” being a statement of being, in union with Yahweh].

In the final verse of this reading selection, we read Paul stating, “Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.” Here, the conditional is presented as “if” [“eiti” means “whether, and if”], which becomes relative to “me” [“emoi”] being with Yahweh, such that the “if” is the union that makes an apostle. Paul was an “I” with the Holy Spirit. Likewise, the same “if” refers to many unions with the Holy spirit, so marriages to Yahweh also makes other be just like Paul. Those many act as “they,” all who are in union with Yahweh, all true Christians. It will then become the true trait of a Christian, as those who will “preach” [from “kēryssomen” meaning “we proclaim, preach, herald”]. Everyone married to Yahweh will speak in His name, so other souls can also be saved.” Paul wrote that to the Corinthian Christians in the second person, as “episteusate,” which goes beyond belief, to mean “you have faith.”

As a reading selection possible on Easter Sunday, when Jesus proved the truth of his raising after three days, the point of that miracle of Yahweh says Jesus was raised so he could become Paul. As Paul reborn as Jesus, others were led to true faith, from hearing the truth of the Word explained to them so their hearts opened up to Yahweh and they had faith by becoming another Christ, Anointed Ones of the Father, Sons of man – Apostles and Saints. The Easter season is not about repeating the story of Jesus coming out of his tomb, because the readings of Easter are all about others dying of self and becoming Jesus reborn in new flesh. The Easter season is seven weeks of basic training, so new Pauls and new Peters are sent by Yahweh out into the world, ministering His Word to those who have questions in need of answers.

1 Corinthians, Language, Teaching

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 – Do you feel lucky?

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I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you–unless you have come to believe in vain.

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them–though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

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This is the Epistle selection to be read aloud on the fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C, according to the lectionary for the Episcopal Church. It will follow a reading from Isaiah, where he had a vision and saw seraphim above the throne of Israel [not Yahweh’s throne in heaven – there is no such throne], to which he wrote: “each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.” That will be followed by a singing of Psalm 138, where David wrote, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you keep me safe; you stretch forth your hand against the fury of my enemies; your right hand shall save me.” All will accompany a reading from Luke’s Gospel, where Jesus told Simon-Peter, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

I wrote about this reading less than a year ago. Those observations can be read by searching this site by name and number of this reading. I wrote about this as it was then presented as a reading for Easter Sunday, in the Year B (scheduled April 4, 2021). Today [after the Epiphany] and then are the only two times this reading will be read aloud in Episcopal churches. Since I wrote deeply about this reading less than a year ago, I will not repeat that depth here now. Instead, I will assess these words from an after the Epiphany perspective on ministry.

As an after the Epiphany reading, it is important to see this as a time of internship, after one knowns one’s soul has married Yahweh and given birth to His Son Jesus – the gift of Christmas, confirmed on the Epiphany. The “Epiphany” reflects a personal experience, when one knows that one has been forever, divinely changed. The excitement of that new “’Christmas gift’ is one wants to go out and give it a try. This becomes a time that is symbolic of Jesus sending his still ‘in-training’ disciples out into temporary ministry … ‘to get their feet wet.’ This is how one should see how Christmas is the birthdate of John the Baptist, with Jesus born on the eve of Pentecost [six months later]. Thus, the ‘trial period’ is when one’s soul has been saved and then goes into ministry as the precursor of Jesus [as John first], who then comes later, when one’s soul graduates from ‘disciple school’ and enters into a lifetime of ministry as Jesus reborn.

In this ministry, it should be realized that all of the ministers who are Spiritually reborn as Jesus will include both males and females, just as there were male and female followers of Jesus of Nazareth. This ministry is not about a physical change having occurred. A physical change in human beings can be when puberty hits, and the neuter child matures and becomes either an adult male or adult female. A spiritual transformation is an outpouring of unseen Spirit, with no observable changes in the physical body [no sudden hair growth in previously smooth places]. A spiritual possession by Yahweh is absolutely and completely soul related; and, there are absolutely no souls that have sex organs.

Only physical males and females have need to procreate. Yahweh’s plan of Creation was so worldly creatures could multiply and populate the earth. The souls giving life to worldly creatures is like adding electricity to a pre-programmed machine. The machine does what the machine is built to do. The machine does not act because the electricity is leaned towards masculinity or leaned towards femininity. Electricity, like Yahweh, is an outflow of life; so, a soul is like electricity … an extension of Yahweh to make dead machines come to life.

Angels [saved souls] released from their bodies of flesh do not reproduce and cannot reproduce. All that is spiritual is of masculine essence – it penetrates the material realm. All that is physical is of feminine essence – it receives the spiritual realm. The electricity is masculine and the machine is feminine. Thus Yahweh breathes in [He penetrates] the spirit of life [a neuter gender soul] into a body of flesh [the receptor that is dead without life placed into it]. As neuter gender souls in feminine bodies of flesh, they take on the essence of that which is feminine, when a soul is trapped within a body of flesh. In this way, souls in the flesh all [males and females] become the brides of Yahweh and the mothers of Jesus’ soul resurrected in those mommy souls. Until a soul becomes an angel released [the until death should you part thing], the soul in flesh remains feminine, until it receives a masculine addition to it – a Spiritual masculine addition.

This means that everyone who walks the face of the earth as a human being [a soul animating dead matter] is either male or female physically … for the purpose of reproducing on earth. All souls, however, regardless of their human gender, are going to end up released from their bodies of death as souls that are eternal. Only the bodies of flesh are temporal. This means souls in bodies of flesh are called mortals – they are born to die. They are all born to eventually release the body of flesh back to the earth.

A soul released that has not married Yahweh and given rebirth to His Son is called a failure. It was neuter soul placed in feminine essence, for the purpose of adding Spirit, to become masculine essence in the realm of death. A soul that fails to achieve this addition of the masculine Spirit has failed Yahweh; therefore, those failed souls do not go to heaven [for long]. All souls released from a body of death will enter the outer realm of the spiritual for Judgment. When found a failure, that soul will then be re-placed back into a new body of dead flesh [the one cell variety]. This is reincarnation.

Over great periods of linear time [only existent in the material realm] an eternal soul most likely will be female in reincarnation and then at other reincarnations be male. Depending on how many failed lives that soul has lived, over great epochs of linear time, one soul can be female many times, as well as male many times. A soul that has struggled with releasing the influence a body of flesh has over that soul can become confused and think its sexual orientation of its last life [or past lives when the same human gender for many lives], this is a test of Yahweh placed on those souls, for them to find the way to resist all sexual influences and finally receive the Spirit. With the Spirit the soul is then capable of rejecting influences to sin and earth eternal life with Yahweh.

The soul is always neuter. Only the flesh has sex organs. If a soul has been saved from all this repetitive ‘restarts’ it will remain with Yahweh in heaven for eternity. Because Yahweh is the Father, thus the masculine essence of the Spiritual, all souls who abide with the Father must be His Son. If all are His Son, where all call Yahweh their Father, then all saved souls are “brothers.” Because there are absolutely zero sex organs in heaven, there are no ‘sisters’ there. The feminine realm is only the material realm, meaning all souls placed into that realm take on the femininity of that material realm. All souls in human flesh – both with male and female sex organs – are ‘sisters.’ As such, the souls in human flesh are all potential ‘brides-to-be’ of Yahweh; and, they are all potential ‘mothers’ of His Son Jesus. Thus, Paul was not writing to the saved souls in temporal bodies of flesh in Corinth [who were undoubtedly both of the male and female varieties] about physical matters. Paul was writing to them only about spiritual matters. Therefore, ALL of the Corinthians to whom Paul wrote were “brothers” in Spirit.

None of the female Christians in Corinth saw their souls as being ignored by his writing that word. Their souls knew they were “brothers” because their souls had given birth to the masculine essence Jesus. Jesus can then be seen as the Savior because he is the much needed addition of masculine Spirit that will transform a neuter soul and grant it eternal salvation.

Now, this is a simple matter to grasp. The confusion comes when the pricks that run all the churches have been elevated into positions of authority, while having absolutely no experience of the Spirit of Yahweh within them. The times when Apostles led churches are long gone. They were all crucified by Rome or burned at the stake or executed in Inquisitions.
They have been made as rare as unicorns. Therefore, when none of the leaders of churches are filled with the Spirit and then reborn as Jesus, then none of them will have a clue why Paul wrote “adelphoi” and did not add “adelfés.”

Because they do not know why, they do not explain why [as I have just done]. By not being able to explain why there are no “sisters” being pointed out by Paul, these pricks begin making up Scripture to suit their personal needs [those of unsaved souls in degenerate flesh]. Those ‘needs’ are to keep the cash, checks, and tithes coming into the coffers of the churches [to pay for all the things the pricks love to surround their heathen souls with]; and, they know in these modern times that the menfolk have long given up on religion, only driving their aged wives to the church on Sundays. Thus, to keep the women seeing how they are such an integral part of a thriving religious organization, the pricks pander to the feminine egos. One easy way to do that is by adding a nonexistent “and sisters” to what Paul wrote.

That simple addition diminishes the whole value of what Paul wrote. Those souls in desperate need for a masculine Spirit addition are told nothing about that need. Paul, as a saved soul who wrote to other saved souls, wrote the truth to help those who read his words today. Those to whom Paul wrote [males and females] all knew they were “brothers” spiritually, because human gender did not mean squat. Today, the blind pricks lead the blind seekers to the great pit of death, where another reincarnation awaits them all [at best].

I wrote that less than a year ago; but it bears repeating again. Divine Scripture is only written by souls married to Yahweh, who had given rebirth to His Son Jesus – being Jesuses reborn – so they all wrote the Word of Yahweh. All who think changing one iota of divine Scripture will not condemn their tiny souls to eternal damnation [no more reincarnations to start over again] will be in for a HUGE SURPRISE. This is where remembering what “mortal” means … brothers and sisters.

In the Greek text written by Paul, the single word “adelphoi” is written between comma marks, which sets that one word apart from all the rest in this chapter. That one word was singled out for a divine purpose. That divine purpose is to force those who read this letter to contemplate the meaning of “brothers.” That contemplation has to come from every one reading the letter being of different genders. When Yahweh is saying, “Contemplate why only ‘brothers’ is written,” only the blind and ignorant would say, “Well, I guess Yahweh forgot to tell Paul to add ‘and sisters.’”

As a newbie minister sent out in internship in this ‘after the Epiphany’ time period, if all you do is go from church to church saying, “Paul did not write “and sisters,’ and here is why,” then let that be how you see the reactions that come back to you. Either people’s hearts will open and welcome what insight you bring, which they had never seen before, so they too can begin to court Yahweh and seek His proposal for divine marriage; or, the people will run you out of the church on a rail, cursing you for having dared to speak for God [when they do that by adding “and sisters”]. Then, one either enjoys the comradery of new fellowship or one knocks the filthy dust off one’s sandals and leaves that unholy place, where rejection permeates all souls in flesh there, allowing their judgment days to be when the truth smacks them across the soul. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. Each soul decides its own fate … but if someone told them Yahweh sent them with an important message to be heeded, and that message was not heeded. Well, they made their reincarnation bed, so let them lie in it.

With that, I leave you to read what I wrote in-depth about this reading selection from Paul last Easter Sunday. If that is not enough, then try this: Talk to me about what it is you seek. Being silent will haunt you when it is time to lay your bag of dirt in the ground and stand naked [and sexless] before the throne of Judgment. Silence gives your soul a thirty-three percent chance of losing everything, forever. In the words of Dirty Harry, “You have to ask yourself, ‘Do I feel lucky?’”

Okay, let me add a little more to this.

When Paul wrote that “Christ died” [“Christos apethanen“], the translation of “died” is misleading. The word “apothnéskó” means, “the separation that goes with the “dying off (away from).” This means the “Anointment” of Jesus by Yahweh was “separated when the body of Jesus returned to death, when the soul of Jesus went away from” that body. To read Paul as saying, “Hey guys, my man ‘Christ’ – us cool religious dudes can call Jesus ‘Christ'” is wrong. Jesus was a soul in a body of flesh, whose soul was “Anointed” by Yahweh. That soul is always “Anointed,” thus always a “Christ” – The Christ. So, when that soul of Jesus is resurrected within one of those neuter souls in bodies of flesh – the addition of the masculine Spirit – Jesus lives again and the Christ is in whatever body of flesh a saved soul occupies.

That is when Paul began a series of statements that say Jesus “appeared” [“ōphthē“]. That word is a form of “horaó ” [3rd person singular – Aorist Indicative Passive], which means “he was seen, perceived, attended to,” with the deeper meaning relative to this [HELPS Word-studies]: “often with metaphorical meaning: “to see with the mind” (i.e. spiritually see), i.e. perceive (with inward spiritual perception).” This means the soul of Jesus – as The Christ – became the inward spiritual perception [the masculine addition of Spirit]: in Cephas [Simon-Peter]; in the twelve; in “more than five hundred brothers at once;” then in James; and, then all the apostles [which is in addition to all listed prior]. After all those souls, Paul then wrote, “he became my inward spiritual perception” [“he appeared to me”].

This is not Paul talking about some ghostly form of Jesus, or some spirit that had physical form of some kind being seen by those who were the first true Christians – all having been reborn as Jesus, all having been Anointed by Yahweh as His Son resurrected – so ALL had that masculine Spirit added to their souls. When Paul said his soul was “least of all,” well by golly gee, that is why he changed his name from Saul to Paul [a word meaning Small].

Everyone today is smaller than Paul, if one’s soul is led around by a brain that thinks like the pricks hired by religious organizations, paid off with the money you small people give them, so they can keep your souls smaller than Paul. What Paul was writing to the true Christians he met in Corinth was more for us today, by telling them then [in a letter], “Always remember when Jesus was first reborn into your souls,” That is a Christmas to always remember; and, to receive this reminder in writing is the Epiphany of knowing one soul reborn as Jesus is not the only soul that has his masculine Spirit added. It is the realization that one’s soul has been saved that sends it out in the world with that Good News.