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There is Only One Baptism in the Spirit

I just discovered a doctrine in the church that teaches that there are different Holy Spirits; that there is the Holy Spirit you receive when you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, and then there is a separate ‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’ which some people receive immediately, some people receive after years of being a Christian, and some never receive, even though they are a Christian. This is a false doctrine!!

There is only ONE Holy Spirit

Our living Jesus in Heaven sends us that Spirit when we accept Him as our Savior. The issue about degrees of Holy Spirit is simply how much faith you have in God. The more faith you have, the more Spirit can work in you. If you have little faith, the Spirit has no room to move or work. It’s as simple as that. The BAPTISM of the Spirit is the same thing as the INDWELLING of the Spirit. It’s just that after justification in Jesus, some people have a long way to go for sanctification to reveal the fruits and power of the Holy Spirit. This is probably how it was in me.

In this false doctrine of a dichotomy of the Spirit, theologians teach that men received the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (before Jesus died for us) when they loved God, made sacrifices, and kept the commandments. This is heresy! If that were the case, Jesus would not have needed to come and die for our sins! Before Jesus, men could know God, they could walk with God, they could keep His commandments, albeit very poorly and with a lot of killing of animals, but they could not fully commune with God. That is the whole reason for the room in the tabernacle or temple, the Holy of Holies, where the shekinah of God lived. This room had to be separated by the veil so that no one except the most devout priest on the most holy day of the year, after a lot of ceremonial purification could enter, lest he be stricken down in death! After Jesus was crucified, the veil was torn in two, indicating that man was no longer separated from God.

The Holy Spirit was sent forth by God before YHWH–or anything–was ever even created. The Holy Spirit existed in Old Testament times, yes. But the Holy Spirit was in God’s realm only. It was never capable of indwelling man until Jesus sent it forth on the day of Pentecost.

Pentecost is the Greek word for ‘fifty’. In the New Testament, the day of Pentecost was the 50th day after Jesus was crucified. After Jesus was crucified, he appeared to his disciples numerous times within 40 days as told in the gospels and Acts. During one of these encounters, Jesus shared a meal with His Holy-Spirit appointed apostles, and He gave them instructions not to leave Jerusalem, but to

Wait for the fulfillment of the Father’s promise that you heard about from Me. John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit in a few days…..you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. ~Acts 1:4-5, 8

The reason for this was because Jesus wanted to send God’s Spirit to His chosen ones on the New Day of Pentecost. It was a symbolic replacement of the old Day of Pentecost, one of the three main Jewish feast days. Since the crucifixion of Jesus took place on the feast of Passover, the most holy day of the year when a lamb was sacrificed for all the sins of Israel in the past year, Jesus was replacing the old covenantal feasts with a new, final covenant. No more lambs would need to be slaughtered. To understand the new covenant fully we must understand the old covenantal feasts.

The most important of these was the Passover feast which I just mentioned. The next feast celebrated was Shavuot, or the Jewish Day of Pentecost, 7 weeks (50 days) after the Passover feast. During this feast, the first fruits were brought in from the harvest and the best were offered to God in a pilgrimage celebration in Jerusalem. It was also a time when Jews commemorated the giving of the Torah (law) by Moses, their greatest prophet.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to believers on this new day of Pentecost to show everyone that He is the New Covenant, that the fruit is no longer a physical plant, but is figurative fruit of the Spirit which was poured out on His disciples beginning on that very day of Pentecost in Jerusalem, when tongues of fire rested on those who believed Jesus is the Son of God. The Holy Spirit indwelled man for the FIRST TIME ever and gave them as much power as they could handle. That is why their works increased over time, and why He said we would do greater things than He did. As our faith increases in God, our power in the Spirit increases as well. It isn’t a separate form or type of Spirit!

Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament law so that we no longer need to pay homage to Moses as the greatest prophet and son of God, or the Torah law, but give our allegiance to the Only Begotten Son of God; Who represents all the law and the prophets, and who

sends the Spirit who makes the most valuable fruit for God.

The One who has the power to send forth the Holy Spirit to indwell man so that we need never be separated from God forevermore. ❤

In the Beginning: God Created His Family

The Creation of the World

Genesis 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 

My translation: In the beginning, ALHYM (God in all His divine plurality) created the sky and atmosphere; and the land. The land was without form and empty like a desert, and death was over the deep abyss of raging water. And the breath of ALHYM fluttered gently over the face of the waters and they changed from the abyss of raging waters into the waters. And ALHYM said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

My interpretation: God was complete and numerous. He was Everything. He had created for Himself air and land, but it was not all He wanted. He wanted more. He wanted to create a family unto Himself. So, He performed a loving action whereby He fluttered over the deep raging waters in the abyss of the desert land (as in making love to it) and in so doing he changed it into simple waters. Then He verbally spoke light into existence. And there was Light. This light was bright like the sun, but it was also good, as opposed to darkness, which denotes evil.

The Light was what was created by this loving act of God when He united with the waters in the desert. God is Father, He made love to the deep water and in this act the water became His wife containing His Spirit, and they bore a Son. God breathed out to make His wife, and He spoke His Son into existence, and gave YHWH power to use the Spirit at His discretion. This Son became material in the form of Jesus, but He has existed from the beginning!

The breath of God became the Holy Spirit, and the voice of God became YHWH. That is why the Holy Spirit is invisible, and Jesus is the Word.

The New Testament Greek word for Jesus as the only begotten Son of God is monogenes and is best translated as the unique Son. 3439 monogenḗs; properly, one-and-only; “one of a kind” – literally, “one (monos) of a class, genos” (the only of its kind).

In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life is the Light of men. ~ John 1:1-4

This is the same thing that happened when the maiden Mary conceived by ‘illegitimate’ means and God’s Spirit changed her fetus into Jesus:

And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. ~Luke 1:35

And something similar occurred at this time regarding John the Baptizer:

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. ~Luke 1:15

The Spirit of God

John 7:38–39 suggests that water represents the Spirit of God. Jesus preached that those who believed in him in accordance with the Scripture would receive the power of the Holy Spirit, which he likened to “rivers of living water.” Jesus’ prophecy was later fulfilled in Acts 2:1–4 when his apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. From these verses, we can perceive that living water in the Bible symbolizes the divine power and presence of the Holy Spirit.

Miriam (Old Testament) /Mary (New Testament)

מרה (mara) and ים (yam) The first part of the name Miriam could also be regarded as related to the verb מרר (marar), meaning to be bitter or to be strong. The adjective מר (mar), meaning bitter (Genesis 27:34, Exodus 15:23). The masculine nouns מר (mor) and מור (mor), mean myrrh (same word). Myrrh, the oil of anointing priests, joy, weddings nights, and JESUS. Whereas the second part of the name Miriam holds some resemblance to the word ים (yam) meaning sea. This word in plural, ימים (yamim) denotes the general concept of seas or the whole of all the seas (Genesis 1:10). A second word that looks like it was derived from a root ימם (ymm) — and is therefore assumed to be related to ים (yam) — is the masculine noun ימם (yemim). It occurs only once, in Genesis 36:24, and what it means exactly is unknown. All we know is that the ימם (ymm) were found by Anah in the wilderness, and most translations choose for “hot springs” (https://www.abarim-publications.com/Dictionary/y/y-m-mfin.html)

Hence, the name Miriam also means Bitter Waters or Waters Of Strength.

Jesus is YHWH, Yahweh, who is the steward of all living and whom God has made King to rule and reign in His kingdom as His Son. His symbol is the literal sun, which is a circle. It is more specifically illustrated with a triangle above it as over the Tomb of Talpiot and means the rising Son. But there is also Mary, who is the feminine force, who represents wife and mother. She is an ethereal being because God created her from His breath. She became the embodiment of His Spirit, and together these two created Life, YHWH. She has divine protection from ALHYM. Her symbol is water, also the circle. She is sent forth by God and His Son for His purposes to be fulfilled on earth as it is in Heaven.

I don’t know why this is so shocking to Christians. This is one way that I really resonate with Catholics, because they understand the value of Mary in Jesus’ life, or by extension, for all God’s chosen ones. It’s so ridiculous when people use the male pronoun ‘he’ when they refer to the Holy Spirit. It’s totally illogical and not how God made life. Do they really think that a male God breathed His male breath and made a male Son? It’s no wonder women are oppressed. There is no accounting for their importance in the story of life. That is not God’s way. God created man in His image. Male and female He created them. If He created them male and female and they were created in His image, why then do men yet believe the Godhead trio is only male? How does it follow that life began? But of course, as with a good husband, God wants to keep Mary hidden and safe.

Anyway, I had always wondered about God hovering over the face of the deep and thought it was an unusual way to describe creation. Why did He need to hover over water before he spoke light into existence? It seems like He would just speak light into existence like He spoke everything else into existence. Why hover over the deep waters first?

To me it’s obvious because I have known the truth of Mary and the femininity of the Holy Spirit for a long time. I just never noticed what was hidden in plain sight: that God made love to the raging waters and Mary, His wife, was created.

Again, it’s for those with eyes to see and ears to hear. ❤