BIRTH OF CHRIST VS BIRTH OF JESUS (Part 2)
By Dr. Henry C. Kinley
Dr. Kinley gave this leccture at 1347 North Cahuenga Blvd.Hollywood, CA 90028,1966, Los Angeles, California, NOTE: Although the True Names were revealed to Dr. Kinley in a vision in 1931 he used Lord, God, and Jesus Christ until he published Elohim, The Archetype Original Pattern of the Universe in 1961. Minor editorial changes also have been made for clarity and to preserve the flow of thought.
[NOTE: In this lecture Dr. Kinley describes the two manifestations of the one Godhead: Christ (the incorporeal) and Jesus (the physical). He explains that the birth of Christ, or the anointed who created all things, occurred before the angelic and physical creation. The birth of Jesus, our savior occurred through the loins of the Virgin Mary. This is Christs birth into a physical body. You can find a summation of his main point in the November/Deceber 1995 "PLIM REPORT" under the subtitle, Is Spirit manifest in the incorporeal and the physical? on p. 31 of the article.)
Does John confirm the unity of the Spirit?
Lets see if we can verify and confirm that. The 1st Chapter of St. John, 1st verse states: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." As referred to in Proverbs 8:22: "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way..." Now John is saying, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God." 14th verse "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
Did the Spirit dwell in the tabernacle in the wilderness?
When Moses constructed the tabernacle and consecrated it in the wilderness of Sinai. The cloud stood above the tabernacle and in the Most Holy Place (Exo. 40:34; also see illustration in the second column on p. 8). The high priest was brought in and out once every year on the Day of Atonement. He would smite the Ark of the Covenant, which is symbolical to the throne of God, where the 2 cherubim of glory overshadowed the mercy seat, as is seen on the chart in the Most Holy Place. He put on those garments of beauty and glory and went into the Most Holy Place once every year, all other days of the year he only went into the Holy Place. Once a year he entered through the vail, symbolizing the flesh, and into the Most Holy Place, which is symbolical to eternity or into heaven. There he threw blood toward the mercy seat 7 times, first for his own sins, then for the errors of the people, that encamped 3 tribes on each side of the tabernacle and 4 sides, making a total of 12 tribes. When God had accepted the atonement, there would be a light reflected between the wings of the Cherubim. The high priest didnt see any form, he just saw the reflection of light, called in theological writing the Shekinah. That light was identified with God. God is light.
Did the tabernacle symbolize a man's body?
The high priest performed and carried out the services according to the precepts that God gave to Moses for the routine operations. This showed that the tabernacle is symbolical to your body. It is also symbolical to the body that God manifested in who we speak of as Jesus. God dwelt in that tabernacle and He also dwelt in Jesus. He expressed it this way. I am in the Father, and the Father is in me (John 14:11). And He talked so much about His Father, because He was not seeking to make a reputation for Himself, until Philip asked Him to show us the Father, that we might be satisfied (John 14:8). Christ said: " Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:9)." The Messiah explained that the body was the tabernacle through which Spirit operates, as it did in the wilderness of Sinai in the tabernacle, and as it does in you.
Is man a unity?
I have tried to explain that your body has been made up like the incorporeal form or made in the likeness and image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). You are pneuma, psyche and soma, or soul, body and Spirit (I Thess. 5:23). So to go back, this Spirit substance which is God, takes on form (Christ), and later transforms into a physical body (Jesus). It is very clearly indicated when you go into Dr. Harriss phase of it. A child is born and conceived from the sperm. It is formed, head first and then on down. Then you can understand something about the structure of the Godhead because man is made in the likeness and image of God.
Is the creator the beginning and the end of all things?
Now read Revelation 1:8-9. Revelation means reveal, but bear in mind, when you read it, that the Messiah had been in the world or He was the one that created everything. He took on a physical form and then He took it off and went out of the flesh. Now He is back in that incorporeal form where He was with the Father before the world begun, or back in that eternal state, where you dont visualize Him as a physical man. That is to say, He has entered on through the veil or flesh. & He is talking in Revelation, to his servant John on the Isle of Patmos by the angel. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is and which was," meaning which is now and which was when He was manifested in the flesh, "which is to come" (three different statements)"the Almighty".
How does the birth of Christ differ from the birth of Jesus?
We have tried to show you the birth of Christ. Now we want to talk about the birth of Jesus. The birth of Christ means anointed. The word Jesus means Savior. When you read, make sure that we take what is in the book. Who is being born here? Note and see whether or not in the 1st chapter of Matthew, if it is the birth of Christ or not. Matthew 1:18. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found which child of the Holy Ghost." Now he is talking about the thing, and they have already learned to speak of Him as Jesus Christ. Matthew 1:21. "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:" not Christ but JESUS. Notice carefully, that this book of Matthew was written about 18 years after the ascension of Jesus, the Christ we are talking about. Somehow they have begun to call Him Jesus Christ, so when he comes down to say the birth of Jesus Christ, its just a common way of expressing it. But when he gets down to the 21st verse, in the 1st chapter of Matthew, where he is actually telling the story as to whether or not that Mary gave birth to Christ or not, he did not say if you notice the 21st verse that Mary gave birth to Christ. "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins." But in reading and understanding, they have begun to call Him Jesus Christ, etc. Then we see that they use it without the distinction, in particular in reference to Christ (that created the world) and Jesus (the physical body that Christ or God was manifested in).
What happened on Jesus' birthday?
The Bible Dictionary says the birthday of Jesus is about December 5th or 25th, which is not the birth of Jesus. Mary was overshadowed with the Holy Ghost. Nobody comments on this. They read right on without taking thought of what this Holy Ghost is. The Holy Ghost is an apparition. She was overshadowed with the Holy Ghost, that apparition which Jesus talked about, that you would receive after His departure out of the flesh. He told His disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high. For He would send the promise of the Father upon them and they would receive power after the Holy Ghost would come. The same Holy Ghost overshadowed the Virgin Mary, as you read in the 1st chapter of Matthew. There are some atheists who say that it is impossible to bring about a birth without the masculine and feminine secretion. They deny the virgin birth of Jesus according to gynecology and the generations of the human species. They dont see how a child could be born without a physical father. Some of the atheists even speculate that Mary received the seed of which Jesus was born by some impregnation from the angel. At no time have I ever heard anyone say anything about the child being formed by the apparition or by the Holy Ghost which overshadowed Mary. She was impregnated by that same Holy Ghost that must overshadow you so that you can be born again. It was the same seed that the Virgin Mary conceived with and gave birth to Jesus. Now you can see that the incorporeal form overshadowed her, and the child was formed in her without the physical father as we know a birth is accomplished from that, or bring about the physical body of Jesus or that tabernacle which God was manifested in.
Did Jesus fulfill Adam's birthday?
This is to explain the difference between the birth of Jesus and the birth of Christ. As for the day and place of Jesus birth, as the first man Adam was a type of Christ, the second Adam and Christ is fulfilling that of the first Adam. As Adam was formed on the 6th day of creation, then Christ must be born on the 6th day, not the 25th or 24th, but the 6th.
As for His place of birth which seems to be by inconvenience to find an inn, and was compelled to be born in a stable with the cattle and animals. He fulfilled the conditions existing with that of the first Adam who was created from the dust of the earth after God had created the animals of the field. A stable was generally a place of shelter, in the side of a hill or bank.