Thank you, Sandra. Regarding “in the beginning” stirring something deep in you, it is likely a response both to the mysteries of the distant past but also your own beginning. This is something all people would otherwise share though it seems that the majority are too caught up in the present world and mere temporary things to consider such depth of thought. I remember thinking such things when I was only a kid in wonderment of how we all got here. From that we get into the deeper subject of why.

Our five senses are constantly giving us a massive amount of information. It is therefore not hard to get caught up in the here and now. It is also the case that we must survive in this realm and that has always involved great difficulty. Whatever one achieves in that area to even a small degree must be built upon to gain the ability to gain more to not only survive but hopefully thrive, at least to a degree, in order to have a better life and gain more freedom. This ongoing effort has a great tendency to take our eyes off the eternal and the eternal questions thereof, primarily of one’s own existence and beginning. It is why so many have so little capacity to think beyond the surface. It is also the case that the majority often mocks those who think about such things and demand that people be “down to earth.” This is due, again, to the need for survival here, to engage in whatever hard work one can do to earn money, and then spend the money in a way that ultimately merely reinforces one’s temporal life.

While it is true the some people get their head so lost in the clouds in non-Christian thoughts and lifestyles they are of little earthly good and can lead people astray, and sensible people are right to be very wary of them and the damage such thinking and lifestyle can do to a family or community, this response must never be made to real Christians actually serving God. (Sadly, this was the way the Lord was often treated.)

Therefore, one certainly has a responsibility to take good care of earthly matters. But one also must take care of heavenly or spiritual matters and this involves “in the beginning.” Yet even here searchers of truth are often cut off by religionists who claim they already have everything figured out. It is why pretty much all Christian churches/ministries/ministers/etc. are predisposed to tell everyone their version of what they must believe and what they must do and how they must live. They may be right on some of the basic NT fundamentals and that’s good but certainly are not teaching the full Gospel. Thus, if a searching Christian gets too deep in the Word of God and goes beyond the local statement of belief in such places and among such “down to earth” Christian people, they too will be looked upon with disdain and often mocked. As far as they are concerned, just as I stated previously, their enterprise and church group is much more important than any spiritual searching for greater New Testament truth. This is because they must have everybody on the same page to make what they created work.

The Lord Jesus, however and obviously, did not have such an attitude. He said His kingdom was a spiritual kingdom. One could not see it with the five senses so much, but like the moving air—the wind—one could know that it was there.

Remember, Adam and Eve were created with a spirit, a soul, and a physical body. When they sinned their spirit died. Afterwards they were only soul and body and no longer had the spiritual connection to God and heaven and spiritual things as they did before. This is the condition they passed on to all future humans. It why the Lord Jesus said one must be born again. This is what the experience in Acts 2 is about in that it is a new birth experience. It is when the spirit of a person is resurrected and comes alive again. It is when a person becomes a three part individual again—spirit, soul, and body instead of just soul and body. This condition cannot be perfect again as it was in the garden for various reasons (yet will be in heaven) but is the means by which one can again communicate with the Lord, be aware of and connected to the spiritual, and be able to exist in and work in the Lord’s spiritual kingdom on this earth in the present.

Regarding angels, no, angels do not enter into and inhabit human bodies. However, it is the case that the evil fallen angels (demons) can possess human beings. They have the ability to take control over people who go too far into evil things or who continually reject the Lord. The New Testament Scriptures are filled with such accounts of demons taking advantage of fallen humans who fall far into temptation. But demons can never inhabit a truly born again individual who is filled with the Holy Spirit of God as per the Book of Acts and NT accounts.

Again, we are born physically into a fallen world in which evil exists. We are not in communication with our Creator and are generally unaware of spiritual things. Yet some people have an inherent sense and respect of spiritual things and long to know more which starts them on a search for truth. They are open to God. They become spiritually hungry. This allows the Lord to begin the process of leading them to Himself. It eventually results in such people becoming reconciled with the heavenly Father they never knew but knew must exist and must somehow love them and want them. Yet no one finds Him. It is always He who finds us:

So He told them this parable, saying, “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’” [Luke 15:3-6]

Blessings to you my good friend. I appreciate you continuing to read my work and allowing me the joy of this communication with you. Hope all is well

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