Do we All have a ‘Heavenly Mother’?
The following study - was given to me in a moment of time…like a huge wave washing
onto a beach.
I realize, ….that some folks, whom like myself, at the opening stage of being presented this view… will have a very hard time accepting some ‘new kind’ of thought like this.
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On 1-1-11, New Years day this year, someone casually mention to me that we all have a ‘heavenly mother’. He then went on to speak of other things.
For many days following… I couldn’t get out of my mind – the thought about how we could possibly have a ‘spiritual heaven mother’.
I am 65 years old. I’ve probably been to over 10,000 church services, including numerous denominations and listen to that many sermons. I also attended Bible College courses and never once – in my entire life, has any preacher, teacher, pastor or bible commentator ever mentioned anything about the saints of God having a spiritual heavenly mother.
Quite frankly, I was a bit disconcerted that my friend would even make such a statement.
However, because I couldn’t get the thought of a ‘spiritual heaven mother’ out of my mind, I finally took the matter to prayer.
I had two questions for my Heaven Father.
(1.) How could there possibly be a Heavenly Mother…when the Holy Scriptures speak nothing about it?
And –
(2.) Why is it that none of the Saints in the so-called Christian world today - have a clue about such an intriguing subject – a spiritual heavenly mother?
From my former studies - I remembered that the Mormon’s complicate things with their teaching about a Father and Mother in the Godhead… because they go on to teach that God is mortal human beings.
About two weeks went by, and I happened upon
Galations 4:26-29.
Gal 4:26-29 (NKJ)
26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: "Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children, Than she who has a husband." 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.
Oh my! There it is. This speaks of the ‘
mother of us all’.
Let’s take these verses, point by point.
*** What or who is the
‘Jerusalem above is free’?
Is this a specific location, a heavenly setting someplace…or does this speak of a heavenly family, a community?
There is a saying, “New York never sleeps”.
Does that mean that the steel, the concrete, and the asphalt never sleeps? No, this speak of the people of NY city.
Likewise, the family of God.
Eph 3:15 –
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Rev 21:9-10 –
“Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
Heb 12:22 - But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, …,
*** Who is the
‘mother of us all’?
Where did she come from?
Why was she never mentioned before?
Who is she?
We know that she is a mother.
A husband can have a wife, but you can’t have a mother without a father…and further, any
offspring / children, demands that there is a mother and a father.
Additionally…who is the father of the offspring / children?
In all the kingdoms of nature that our God has made….isn’t it ONLY the mother’s that gives birth?
So - who is this mother…our mother – the ‘mother of us all’ – that her children are born according to the Spirit?
*** Why is it written that
this mother is ‘barren’… ‘who does not bear’…’who is not in labor’?
For thousands of years during the O.T., that the experience of spiritual children being ‘born again’ or ‘born from above’ seemed to be restricted for this mother.
Matt 23:37-
“…how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”
*** What does it mean that the
‘desolate has many more children’… ‘
born according to the flesh’… ‘then persecuted
him who was born according to the Spirit’ mean?
The O.T. type of Esau and Isaac portraits each person’s struggle of the flesh man warring against his spirit man
Gal 5:17 –
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
*** Who is the husband of
‘’she who has a husband’?
Together – this husband and wife produce children, which are born according to the Spirit.
This wife / mother - according to the Spirit (whoever she is) is directly related to the mother of us all.
She is a.k.a. as the Jerusalem from above and she was barren for a period of time, yet she has a husband.
Can you tell me… who is her husband?
*** Who are the ‘
children of promise’… ‘
him who is born according to the Spirit, …
even so it is now’?
Her children are the promised seed and that those born of this mother are born according to the Spirit…even as it is now….and are free.
“Aw ha”, some wise sage will say, “The Bible states that it’s the son who sets a man free - not a mother.”
John 8:36 –
If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
True – but let’s consider these words of our Lord and Savior:
John 15:26 – (NKJV)
But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
Here we have the ‘Helper’ / ‘Comforter’ coming from the Father - that testifies of the son of God, Jesus.
*** Let’s now consider – who this
‘helper’ / ‘Comforter’ is?
John 16:7 -
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
John 14:16 –
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.
We see from the above verses John 14:16 &15:26 that the ‘helper’ proceeds from the Father.
And in the below verse John 16:13 that the Spirit of Truth will not speak on his own authority.
John 16:23 –
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
I see this as a kind of a strange combination of statements.
How come the Holy Spirit does
not speak on his own authority…if
it proceeds from the Father?
Unless the Holy Spirit is not a HE but a SHE….the wife of our Heavenly Father.
She cannot speak on Her own authority….because the authority of any woman is first her father, and then transfers to her husband.
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