The development of a child of God is in every way comparable to that of a human child. Just as the egg in the female body is the beginning of existence for a human child, so the spirit in the human brain is the starting point for the child of God (Jn 6:63).

Just as the female body is constantly ready for fertilization - a few days each month - the human spirit is also usually ready to be fertilized. And then, if the woman allows it, the egg in the womb is fertilized by male semen. And if the man allows it, his spirit is fertilized by divine seed  (Jn 1:13; Jas 1:18; 1Pet 1:3; 1:23; 1Jn 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1; 5:4; 5:18; ¹⁾) - when reading the Word of God, the Bible.

If physical fertilization does not take place in the human being, the woman’s eggs are excreted every month until a certain age. The spirit of the human being, however, remains receptive throughout his or her life. If it has not been spiritually fertilized, it will be disposed of at the Last Judgment (Mt 25:41).

If after conception in the case of the human child the period of pregnancy is nine months, then the human being, as God’s child, goes "pregnant", so to speak, for the rest of his life.

The further development of the human child in the womb, during pregnancy, therefore corresponds to the spiritual development of the child of God in his or her entire earthly life. Both in the human child and in the child of God, all conceivable complications are still possible during this time of growth (Eph 4:14), up to stillbirth (Hbr 6:4-6)!

On being born from water (amniotic fluid), the human child then enters into a new world, unknown to it until then, with completely different living conditions (breathing, food intake, movement) (Jn 3:5-6). And likewise the child of God will find at his or her rebirth – the resurrection out of the Spirit (Jn 3:6-7) – another, eternal dimension, with completely new conditions of existence.

And likewise the child of God will find at his or her rebirth (Mt 19:28, 25:31: both biblical passages refer to the resurrection/Last Judgment!!) in the resurrection out of the Spirit (Jn 3:6-7), another, eternal dimension, with completely new conditions of existence (Jn 3:8).

But while the human child usually grows up with its parents and later leads its own life, the child of God – as a human being – has been its own "mother", the brain the "womb" of the spirit, and now, after its rebirth, as a spiritual being, has an eternal life (Lk 20:36) and a spiritual, heavenly Father (Jn 4:24).

God will give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Rom 8,11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.. Rom 8,11;

And then – only then – the children of God, having been born again of the Spirit in the resurrection, will have reached that state of being which the Lord prophesies to us in Jn 3,8, which is the state of being enjoyed by God, the angels and the Lord himself after his resurrection and in which He was able to walk through closed doors and through walls (Jn 20:26):

"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going;

so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
(Jn 3,8)

What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of spirit is spirit. And that, now, is also the form of existence – namely as spiritual beings – of which the Lord promises us in Jh 3:3 that this is the way we can enter the kingdom of God (heaven).

Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
(Jn 3,3)

Humans are in a prenatal phase in their life as intelligent mammals on earth. Rebirth takes place after his physical death and the resurrection of the spirit in the timeless heavenly dimension, the kingdom of God, as an immortal, sexually liberated spiritual being.

1Jh 5,10 Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.

5,11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

(See also "Quantum theory proves that consciousness [the spirit] never dies!")

Many people did not understand this two thousand years ago, and some still do not understand it today.
(God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1Tim 2:3-4;)

But there is a second way to enter the kingdom of God:
Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be saved!

[Jn 11,25] Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;’

[Jn 14,6] Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father
(to eternal life in the kingdom of God) except through me.

The "premature births".

And then there are the spiritual "premature babies". They have not (fully) undergone the above development into a child of God on earth, but they have done the most important thing that needs to be done: they have believed in Jesus Christ as their Lord and God and as their Savior. This is enough for them to be born of the spirit at the resurrection.

After their spiritual birth, in the kingdom of God, the heavens, they are then provided with the information that strengthens them as a child of God and allows them to recognize their decision as the right one. It is similar to a human child coming into this world as a premature birth, but already being able to think completely rationally and decide whether it should stay in this world or return to its mother’s womb and be born dead.

Anyone who has ever seen the glory in heaven and experienced the joy and love that the children of God have for their Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, in contrast to the godless, who are also immortal spiritual beings and have to spend their eternal existence in the fiery magma of hell, does not have to think long to realize that they have made the right choice.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

Jn1,6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 1,7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 1,8 was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 1,9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. ,10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 1,11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 1,12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 1,13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. Jn 1,6-13;

I pray for all those who are reading this and are undecided. Please accept this last offer of our Lord and God Jesus Christ. He has been given all power in heaven and on earth by the Father, and what he says applies. You cannot imagine the glory that reigns in the kingdom of God and the despair and gnashing of teeth that will reign in hell for all eternity. Receive Jesus Christ.

Before his death our Lord Jesus Christ addressed the following prayer to the Father for all those who would come to believe in him:

The prayer of Jesus for all human beings who believe in him.

Jn 17,1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 17,2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. 17,3 This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.17,4 I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 17,5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

17,6 I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 17,7 Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; 17,8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. 17,9 I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; 17,10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 17,11 I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. Jn 17,1-11

MAKE HEAVEN MATTER

 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, as it is written:

«What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived – the things God has prepared for those who love him».

these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no-one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ. (1Cor 2;)

¹⁾ The ancient Greek verb gegennhtai (gegengätai = begotten or born) is to be translated with "begotten" and not with "born" in the entire first letter of John: 1Jn 2:29; 3:9; 4:7; 5:1,4,18; as well as in the following biblical passages: Jn 1:13; Jas 1:18; 1Pet 1:3, 23; (also not "born again" but "begotten again") - spiritually begotten again after being fertilized by the Word of God. (See also Discourse 85: True and false rebirth.)

Rabbi Chofetz

A visitor came to Rabbi Chaim Chofetz one day to ask his advice. When the man saw that the rabbi’s apartment consisted of a tiny room with only a couch, a table with a chair and a row of books, he asked the rabbi in amazement, "Master, where do you have your furniture and household goods?"

"Do you have furniture and household goods with you?" replied the rabbi.

"Me?" asked the puzzled visitor. "But I’m just here for a visit. I’m just passing through!"

"So am I" said Rabbi Chofetz.

The Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen, from Radin, was certainly one of the greatest Torah scholars of modern times. His unparalleled halachic work, the “Mishna Berura,” is the considered the definitive compendium of Jewish law. In addition, his writings on good deeds and kindness, “Ahavat Chesed,” and his treatises on the evils of Lashon Hara, the “Chofetz Chaim” and “Shmirat HaLashon,” show his great piety and saintliness. He is known never to have spoken unfairly about anyone.

(See also Discourse 152: " The Chofetz Chaim on Aliyah – Are we living in the end times?.")