Monday 21 January 2013

LETTER TO PASTOR VICTOR HULBERT_SDA COMMUNICATION SECRETARY RE: INTERVIEW WITH REVELATION TV ON THE TOPIC OF THE SPIRIT OF MAN




December 16, 2012


Dear Pastor Hulbert

Re:  Your Interviews with Doug Harris_ Revelation TV.

Greetings in the name of Yahushua Ha Mashiach, our loving Saviour.

I watched some of your interviews with   Doug Harris and I have decided to write to you after yesterday’s (Sabbath, December 15) showing.   The Ruach Ha Kodesh, the Holy Spirit, has laid it upon my heart to write to you and in obedience I am doing so, though reluctantly. I am fully aware that what I write may be disregarded as were the messages the Ruach Ha Kodesh gave me for the Church in the past.  I also know the stance of the SDA Church: “WE HAVE THE TRUTH AND NO ONE CAN TEACH US ANYTHING”!!

I am writing on the section where Doug asked you about, what happens to the spirit when one dies? In reply you spoke about the death of the body itself and about the “breath” leaving it  and returning to Elohim (God). I did not hear you speaking about the   “Spirit” (spirit and soul, the true person which never dies). He tried many times to bring you back to the subject but you could not give him the answer which I knew he wanted.  I know the teachings of the SDA Church on that subject.  However, I would respectfully point out that a person is MORE THAN JUST THE BODY + THE BREATH, which makes him a living soul.  While THE BODY WITHOUT THE BREATH EQUALS A DEAD SOUL.  That however, would make man just A SINGLE BEING instead of a TRI-PARTITE BEING.

Due to some of the Beliefs and Teachings of the SDA Church, many regard the Church as an EXCLUSIVE, DECEIVED AND CULTIC ORGANISATION.  This pains me because it is the Church to which I belonged for most of my life.  I would still be a member if the  Ruach Ha Kodesh had not taught me and given me His work to do.  (This is not arrogance or egotism on my behalf).  

Pastor Hulbert, I do not want to take too much of your time but I would like to address the matter of the SPIRIT (as I am instructed by the Ruach Ha Kodesh) which Doug was referring to.  That SPIRIT (spirit and soul) is the TRUE person, not the BREATH OF LIFE which comes in at birth and returns to Elohim at death.  Please look up both spirit and soul in the Dictionaries and Concordances.  I used the following for reference when I was studying the subject:
The Cruden’s Complete Concordance, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Virtue’s English Dictionary and The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Pastor Hulbert if I may, and if you will allow me,  I will try and explain briefly about the SPIRIT  which never dies and which Doug kept referring to in his interview. The Ruach Ha Kodesh taught me many things and I am writing from what He taught me and gave me to teach.
   
MAN A TRI-PARTITE BEING!!

As human beings, we are TRI-PARTITE BEINGS (1 Thess 5: 23) unlike the animals which are bi-partite beings.  We are first “spirit” and “soul” (the “spirit” part of our being) and we live in a “body, our earthly “tabernacle” or house (2 Corinthians 5: 1-9) which is  the temple of the Ruach Ha Kodesh (1 Cor. 6:19). At conception Yahweh sent our spirits (spirit and soul, which never die) from Heaven. From the moment of our conception, Yahweh began to fashion our bodies to house our spirits, our true persons. Our spirits remained active while our bodies were being made in our mothers’ wombs until they were mature enough for us to be born into this world. They remain in our bodies, being the true persons we are, until the day we die. Only then do our spirits vacate our bodies. The spirits of those unborn babies who were aborted for one reason or another, also return to Heaven to our Elohim because OUR SPIRITS NEVER DIE.

While we were in the womb growing, we were very much alive but we did not breathe because our lungs were solid. We were kept alive and nourished through the umbilical cords attached to the placentas of our mother’s wombs.  At birth when we came out of the womb, we cried and at that time we took our first breath, which opened up our lungs. From that moment the spirit of life or the breath, took over and continues to give us life until the time when take our last breath and die. At that point our breath will return to Elohim who gave it (as it is for those who have died).  The breath of life (Genesis 2: 7) in us, however, is NOT our TRUE person, the SPIRIT.  It is only the Physiological function, the Respiration (one inspiration +one expiration which gives Oxygen to the blood and removes  Carbon Dioxide from the blood) which keeps us alive throughout our lifetime in this world.

The BREATH OF LIFE is totally separate from  THE SPIRIT AND SOUL, OUR  TRUE PERSONS, which Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians 5: 6-9,  and which Peter also refers to  in 2 Peter 1:13,14.  Paul says:

“Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”. 2 Corinthians 5: 6-9.

Paul also tells us in  Thess. 5: 23:

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”.
Here, it is clearly stated that we are first spirit beings: spirit and soul and we live in a body (created in our mothers’ wombs). The spirit (spirit and soul) is the “image” and “likeness” of Yahweh, which He made us in (Genesis 1:26, 27).  We must understand that Elohim (God) is a “Spirit” Being, as Yahushua tells us in John 4: 24.  Elohim is still a Spirit Being, except for Yahushua who has retained His humanity, after He came and died for our spirit beings.  

The spirit (spirit and soul) NOT THE BREATH OF LIFE, which Doug was referring to and pointed out to you in John 11: 25, 26, and also in 2 Corinthians 5: 6-9, is the part of our being which NEVER DIES!!  It is also the part of the being which Yahushua told us about in Luke 16: 19-31. Likewise, it is also the part of the being John wrote about in Revelation 6: 9-11 concerning the souls of the martyrs who are in Heaven, crying under the Altar.  It is the part of our being for which Yahushua came and died to save us from HELL when we die and from the Lake of fire and brimstone in the final Judgment (Revelation 20). Please understand that Yahushua did not come and die for our sinful mortal bodies. He died for our spirit beings (spirit and soul).

Our spirit being (spirit and soul), is our  true persons  which inhabits our bodies and the part of our beings which controls our minds, our intellects, our wills and our emotions. It is the part of our beings which gives instructions to our bodies to carry out its dictates, good or bad.  The SPIRIT part of our beings is the part of us that MUST BE BORN AGAIN of the Ruach Ha Kodesh (John 3: 3-5). The SOUL is part of our beings which MUST BE CONVERTED (Psalm 19:7, Acts 3: 19). IT IS NOT OUR BODIES WHICH MUST BE BORN AGAIN, OR BE CONVERTED.

 It is the spirit part of us with which Elohim communicates and the part to which He speaks to us in dreams and visions (Job 14: 13-17).  It is also the part of our being which goes about and does things while our bodies are asleep and which we recognise as dreams when we wake up.

Our physical bodies, the houses of our spirits and our souls, are very, very important.  They  give us the legal right to be in this world and to do what our Elohim sent us to this world to do for Him.  At death that legal right is taken away and then we  (our spirits: spirits and souls) MUST  leave this world. At death,  our spirits (which are very much alive)  will go to one of two places as Yahushua clearly tells us  in Luke 16:1-31 about the rich man and the beggar, Lazarus. (This account in Luke 16: 19-31 is NOT a parable, but a TRUE ACCOUNT of what happens at death.) For those who have accepted Yahushua as their personal Saviour from sin, their spirits (spirit and soul) go to Heaven when they die.  Those, however, who rejected Yahushua, their spirits go to Hell, which is a REAL PLACE.

At death, the body (which was born in sin and shaped in iniquity) is no longer required.  It then returns to its dust and knows nothing (Psalm 146: 4, Job 14: 21).  The situation is totally different for the spirit which continues to live on because it never dies, as I have already stated.

Pastor Hulbert you remarked to Doug that if the spirit is already in Heaven, why should they come back to this world to reconnect with the body when Yahushua returns.  If you will permit me, I will try and explain this.  May I therefore,  respectfully point out, as Doug was trying to do, that due to the sin nature in us, our present bodies cannot go to Heaven because they are subject to death (1 Cor 15: 50).

At death the spirit (spirit and soul) which does not die leaves the body, its old house in this world.  It has to leave then because without a physical, earthly body, it is an incomplete being and has no legal rights any more in this world.  When the spirit (spirit and soul) leaves the body at death, it becomes a bi-partite being but it is still VERY MUCH ALIVE. Therefore, at death when it leaves the body it goes to one of two places: HEAVEN, for the righteous and HELL, for those who have rejected Yahushua as Saviour and Lord (Luke 16: 19-31; (2 Corinthians 5: 1-9).

In Heaven the righteous is then clothed in a heavenly body (I Corinthians 5: 1-3), while in Hell the spirit is in great torment.  (By now you may be getting very angry with what I am saying because it is totally against the beliefs and teachings of the SDA Church, which teaches soul sleep when the body dies.  Please be patient and read to the end where you may  see what others who have been resurrected are saying.)

Please understand that when we were created, we were made tri-partite beings and when our spirits i.e. those who are saved go to Heaven, they are only bi-partite beings closed in heavenly bodies.   They are therefore incomplete beings.  At the return of Yahushua for ALL His followers, He will bring back the spirits of those who have died and are with Him in Heaven.  He will resurrect and  re-create their bodies (whether in the graves, the elements, etc.) and re-unite their individual spirits, their true persons  with their new immortal and glorified bodies (1Thess 4: 16,17; 1 Corinthians 15: 50-54).  Only then will those who are saved be spirit, soul and body, fully tri-partite beings in glorified, immortal bodies as Elohim  intended when He first created Adam and Eve.

At Yahushua’s return, as you know, He will change the mortal and corruptible bodies of His  living children into  immortal, glorified bodies (1 Corinthians 15: 50-54).  He will then take ALL His redeemed, both the resurrected and the living, children to Heaven for the thousand years (Revelation 20: 6). At that time all those who are alive at the return of Yahushua but who rejected Him, they will die and their spirits will go to Hell and join those who are already there because the true spirit of man never dies (Luke 16: 19-31). 

The purpose of Yahushua returning to this  world IS TO TAKE ALL HIS CHILDREN TO HEAVEN, BOTH THOSE WHO HAVE DIED IN HIM AND THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AT HIS RETURN.  The full plan of redemption will then be completed and He will “see the travail of His soul and be satisfied” (Isa. 53: 11).  His sacrifice for our sins will then be WORTH IT ALL, as He will live and dwell with us. First we will be with Him in Heaven for one thousand years,  followed by the  new earth; where sin will never again raise its ugly head  and where there will be no more suffering or sad partings in death (Revelation 21 and  22).

Pastor Hulbert, as you know, at the return of Yahushua to this world, the earth will be desolate, except for Satan and his demons. The final judgment follows a thousand years later when Yahushua will return to this world and resurrect ALL the dead whose spirits are in Hell.  He will  re-unite  their spirits with their bodies, so that they stand before Him in that final judgment and  give an account to Him of their lives in this world and their reason for rejecting His love and sacrifice for them.  They will then receive their reward (along with Satan who deceived them), in the lake of fire and brimstone, where their spirits will be tormented forever because the spirit does not die (Revelation 20:10).

The matter of the spirit of man, NOT the breath, can be a complex subject for those who do not understand about the true spirit of man.  However, the Ruach Ha Kodesh is here to teach us all we need to know about Yahweh's Word, including this subject on the spirit and soul of mankind.  
There are many people who have been resurrected from the dead and millions who have had Near Death Experiences (NDE), including one of my late uncles, who told me about his experience after he had his first heart attack and died. Many of them have told and are telling their experiences (including children who died) about what they experienced after they died and left their mortal bodies.  I will give a few of the websites, so that you can hear what they are saying. 

Pastor Hulbert, it is my prayer that you  (who speak on behalf of the SDA Church, and the church on a whole),  will have a better understanding about what really happens after the body dies. It is my prayer also that the Church will begin to re-examine some of its doctrines and teachings of the 19th century and with the help of the Ruach Ha Kodesh make changes where necessary. I believe this is important because an ex-SDA I am fully aware of the teachings of the church and understand why other Christians who are opposed to the SDA Church, regard it as an EXCLUSIVE and  CULTIC ORGANISATION!! This is the reason some of them have written to Doug and questioned the appropriateness  of the SDA Church being on the Revelation TV.

May our Elohim: Yahweh, our Father, Yahushua Ha Mashiach, Jesus Christ and the Ruach Ha Kodesh, the Holy Spirit bless you  and continue to use you as you faithfully minister for Him.

Yours in the blessed hope,
                  
Sister Ellisa Asherel



SOME  WEBSITES OF PEOPLE RAISED FROM THE DEAD OR HAD NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES (NDE).

  (To Hell and Back _Horrors of Hell)

(Surprise Sithole 8 persons came back to   life_ Sid Roth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WLXabdHxI&feature=related                     
  (Raised from the dead. Richard Madison)
(Woman went to Hell after committing suicide)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WthZQtPtj20&feature=fvwrel                             
  (Raised from the dead­. _ Nigerian Pastor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcz2hprZqs&feature=related                          
  (Man died and saw Satan in Hell)

(Pastor raised a dead  girl)

(The Lazarus Phenomenon)

((Angelica Zambrano _First experience. Died for 23 hours)

  (Angelica Zambrano _Second Experience)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsrvxd_litte-boy-visited-heaven-and-saw-jesus-colton-burpo-heaven-is-for-real_shortfilms#.UKQPp-SN6So
(Experience of Colton Burpo,  a little boy)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoervu_a-glimpse-of-eternity-ian-mccormack-heaven-visit-true-story-testimony-re-enactment_lifestyle#.UKQQsOSN6So
(Ian-McCormack _died and resurrected)
  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWBovyyC6Vg&feature=fvwrel                                        (Adolph Hitler in Hell_ Bryan Melvin )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6138KRaiJsQ&feature=related                                     
(Girl went to Hell and came  back)
Near Death Experiences
http://www.youtube.com/user/billsvideos123?feature=relchannel                                        
(Girl goes to Hell and then paints the pictures)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TC-TLFYNCQ&feature=related                                   
  (Muslim  near death experience)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OicKqButpA&feature=related                                                                     (Muslim Terrorist, Khalil, encounters Yahushua)