But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia and returned once more to Damascus. Galatians 1:15-17.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Jesus had many conversations with His disciples as they stepped into their roles as apostles, but there was one apostle, who called himself untimely born and set apart from the womb, who had many conversations with Him and knew My Son better than any of the other apostles but did not know Him until after He had been crucified, died, was buried, was raised up, ascended back to Heaven, and poured down the Holy Spirit.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit 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 did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. 1 Corinthians 5:3-11.
Yes, I am speaking of My apostle Paul. And from his many letters filled with revelation straight from Me and his Spirit-filled prayers that he wrote down for you, you know him better than the other apostles too.
Paul was a Pharisee, as he describes it, he was a “Pharisee of Pharisees,” meaning he was well educated in and most zealous in keeping the Law of Moses and My Word. But he was misled and offtrack though his heart was right in his love for Me. And I saw a man of excellence and love that needed to know the truth. But there was more. He, like all of you, had a call and assignment on his life and I want each of you to walk out the life I planned and prepared for you in advance.
But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia and returned once more to Damascus. Galatians 1:15-17.
But it goes back farther than when I gave you form in your mother’s womb and you were birthed.
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and before you were born, I consecrated you. Jeremiah 1:5.
In the Spirit, and I am Spirit, I conceived you on the sixth day of creation. You were all there in Me since then. There is, as Solomon stated by the Spirit, nothing new under the sun. Everything was conceived in Me in the six days of creation to receive birth from My deepest depths at the appointed time.
Let Me show you. And if you thought My Words of creation in the first chapter of Genesis contradicted the forming of the body of Adam in the second chapter of Genesis, some even call it the second story of creation and say it contradicts the first. It does not. Nothing in My Word contradicts or changes any other part of the Word, it is one seamless, cohesive whole that fits together into the perfect mosaic of the continuum of life.
So, let us begin, but open your spiritual eyes and ears if you want to see and hear the enormity of what I am about to reveal to you.
On the sixth day of creation, towards the evening, I spoke, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” I created man by My Word in My own image, in My image I created him; male and female I created them. Genesis 1:26-27.
Stop there a moment. Contrary to what many think, this is not limited to the first man and woman, i.e., Adam and Eve. This is the conception in Me of the spirits of the entire human race, every person from the beginning to the end of time became a reality of creation within Me. I am Spirit and the part of you that is in My image and according to My likeness is your spirit. And that is what differs in you from all animals on the earth. You have a spirit. You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body, and for your time on earth it is a natural earthy body.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24.
So at that moment when the foundation of the world was laid every person was appointed, set aside in Me, and the plan for your life was written in My scroll of your life as unique as your spirit that was conceived in Me that moment. At the moment you are conceived within My Spirit I give you your assignment. But understand you were created in the sense of you were conceived within My deepest depths but you were not yet birthed in time or eternity.
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts towards me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. Psalm 139:13-18.
Do you see? You are with Me, within Me, always from the beginning of time on into the forever of eternity. Once you were conceived within My Spirit your existence was secured for such a time as this.
And how do you know this is so about Adam and Eve? In fact of all creation, because remember everything that will be was conceived in those first six days. What do I tell you on the seventh day?
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. This is the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. Genesis 2:1-6.
I entered My rest because all was complete within Me but remember what Jesus told you about the birthing of it down the ages?
For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” John 5:16-17.
I had spoken it all into being and the seed and every fish, bird and animal was there but all was still in the Spirit. First the man had to be placed there to take dominion and cultivate My creation and then up it came. All was there waiting for your appearance, for your voice. The same with the animals. Adam had to name them all before they came living beings upon the earth.
The conceived spirit of the man became a living being on earth. I formed His body, the next stage of your creation. And that is when I stop identifying Myself only as Elohim (אֱלֹהִ֖ים) and become identified as Yahavah (יְהוָ֥ה) Elohim (אֱלֹהִ֖ים).
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (the spirit of the man); and man became a living being. Genesis 2:7.
The first man had been birthed into the earth. He had been given the body that housed his spirit and soul into one three-part being, and it was the spirit that gave life.
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing, the Words I spoke to you are Spirit and life. John 6:63.
Without the spirit, which is the real you in My image, the body is dead.
Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit (breath) will return to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12:6-7.
And I made a lovely garden for the man. And I planted it. It was then the earth responded and the trees and crops grew. All were there but now they came up and out for the man, their master by My direction.
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 2:8-9.
And what came next? The animals received their bodies, souls were already conceived. Animals do not have a spirit, only a soul and a body. The soul is your mind (analytical thinking), your will, and your emotions. The problem is most people are limiting themselves to living out of their soul. But you were conceived as spirit. That is where all that is the reality of you resides.
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. Genesis 2:18-20.
It is then the spirit of the woman that was conceived, remember I created them male and female, received flesh and dwelt among you. Please be mindful, since the beginning there are only two choices, male or female, and it has not changed. I am the same yesterday, today and forever, the One who is, who was, and who is to come.
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God built into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:21-25.
I no longer call them just “Adam,” but the ish (איש) and the ishshah (אִשָּׁה). The bridegroom and the bride, the husband and the wife. Covenant.
“For your husband is your Maker, whose name is the LORD of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, who is called the God of all the earth. Isaiah 54:5. “It will come about in that day,” declares the LORD, “That you will call Me “Ishi” (my husband) . . . “I will espouse you to Me forever; yes, I will espouse you to Me in righteousness and in justice, in lovingkindness and in compassion, and I will espouse you to Me in faithfulness. Then you will know the LORD. Hosea 2:16; 19-20.
A foreshadowing of Christ and the Church.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:25-32.
I love you. You have always been on My mind and conceived within My deepest depths. Deep calls unto deep. But you were birthed into the earth for such a time as this. And tomorrow we will look at the first conversation of Paul with My Son. And that was when his true life began. Born again of water and the Spirit as a new creation in Christ.