Secrets from Beyond The Grave

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Abraham and Sarah would have a son named Isaac (Gen. 17:19). Elizabeth and Zacharias would name their son John (Luke 1:13). Mary's son would be called Jesus , for He would save His people from their sins (Matt. 1:21). In certain instances, the sexual identity of the child was known, the name of the child was given in advance, and the purpose or plan for the child was made known before the birth. In two instances, the names of great leaders were given hundreds of years before their births: one was Josiah (1 Kings 13:2), and the other was Cyrus (Isa. 44:28). The foreknowledge of God would indicate that God knows the name, the sex of the child, and the child's destiny before the child is ever conceived in the womb. I believe that the soul-spirit of the child begins its life force the moment that actual conception occurs. Life can only come from a Creator who has given His creation the power to reproduce. I believe that the life force creating the soul-spirit of a child begins at the moment of conception. After all, how could the fetus even grow if there was not a special force of life behind the joining of the egg and seed of the parents? Consider numerous couples who for varied reasons are unable to conceive a child. At times the reason why conception does not occur is a mystery. However, life must come from the giver of life, and the Almighty was--and still is--the originator of life. He is also able to cause the barren womb to bring forth. In the Bible, many important Israelites were birthed out of the wombs of barren women: Sarah was barren until, at age ninety, she conceived Isaac. Rachel was barren until she conceived Joseph and later Benjamin. Rebecca was barren until she conceived twin sons, Jacob and Esau. Hannah was barren until she gave birth to Samuel, followed by six other children. Elizabeth was barren until she gave birth to John the Baptist. In certain instances, these barren mothers began crying out to God and interceding to give birth, and the Lord "opened her womb." Mary was actually a virgin, but God chose her to carry the future Savior of the world and proclaimed that all the nations would call her blessed (Luke 1). Conception begins the life force and the actual count of the nine months of a standard pregnancy. All indications in the Bible of God's foreknowledge, all biblical words used to describe the infant in the womb, and the fact of a growing fetus are indications of life . When Gabriel told Mary that she would have a son, he said, "That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35). In the King James translation, the word thing is used 116 times. There are numerous words that may be translated as "thing." However, this word in Greek is hagios , which is the word for "holy, sacred, and blameless." The angel was not calling Jesus a thing--an object growing in Mary--but was identifying the holiness of the thing she was going to carry. Other believers theorize that the soul and spirit are placed within the infant at about six months when the fetus has developed certain abilities. They base this concept upon statements made by Elizabeth concerning John the Baptist. When Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, she was already six months pregnant with her son, John. As Elizabeth and Mary began talking, suddenly the baby "leaped" in Elizabeth's womb. The mother cried out, "The babe leaped in my womb for joy" (Luke 1:44). The Bible says that John was "filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb" (v. 15). According to all New Testament scriptures that speak of the infilling of the Spirit, He comes into your human spirit to abide. The New Testament speaks of a prayer language or