How the Birth of Jesus Reflects the Story of Creation and Humanity

I want to thank all my followers who have been reaching out with love, prayers, and inquiries over the past several years, concerned about my health. It has been overwhelming. I have completed all my treatments for breast cancer, which I have been battling for over 13 years, with three reappearances. As of today, I am in remission. I am feeling good and full of energy. I enjoy going out, taking walks, traveling, and playing pickleball. I truly trust the Lord for complete healing. I appreciate all the prayers, encouraging words, and scriptures. I am standing firm in the faith of what God is revealing to me and His purpose for me right now. 

Moving forward, I want to revisit the Christmas story. Every year during the Christmas season, while decorating and preparing our nativities, we reflect on the birth of Jesus Christ documented in that story. But what cancer has really shown me are questions that made me re-evaluate life for myself. Is that it? Is that what I'm supposed to understand about the Christmas story right now, or is there more?

We know that God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. However, His ways are new every morning. He also encouraged me not to cherry-pick His words when it comes to making doctrinal statements. I must consider every word and ask, "Okay, how does that apply to me, personally?" For example, with the word male, I can't see it as a gender issue or the word female as a gender issue, implying it's only about men or only about women. Instead, these are spiritual applications to be viewed from the perspective of masculinity as sons of God and femininity as a bride of Christ, which applies to either gender.

So, with the Christmas story, I want us to revisit some very familiar scriptures that are usually preached somewhere every year. Let's look at Isaiah 7:14, which says, "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel." 

Now reread and pause where it says, "Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign." 

Give whom a sign? What's Isaiah really talking about? Is he really talking about Jesus Christ? Now, I know in Matthew, he refers to that verse as being about Jesus, but when Isaiah receives this prophetic word, is he talking about Jesus? Hmm. 

There is an interesting story taking place around Isaiah in Chapters seven and eight, where God wants Isaiah to sleep with his wife, who is a prophetess, and she conceives a son that God told to name “Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz,” which means: Quickly to the plunder, Hurry to the loot! Before Isaiah impregnates his wife, he was told to get two witnesses (Uriah and Zechariah), write down the words of God, and place them publicly as a testimony for all to know that God had spoken this earlier, before the baby was born. Isaiah’s wife literally gave birth to the word of God!

See, that's the kind of stuff that I want to ask, "What is he trying to say to me with this verse? What is a truly prophetic word he's trying to share?” 

Say this to yourself: "Behold, the Lord Himself is going to give 'me' a sign that I am a virgin that will be with child and bear a son." 

Well, what does the word virgin mean? Okay, we're going to play that game where someone hasn't had a sexual intimate relationship. But once we limit our understanding to a female who hasn't had a relationship with a man, or the other way around, we miss out on broader perspectives. We’ve limited something that should have a spiritual meaning. Because you see, men are supposed to be virgins too. And if we only see virginity as a sexual human relationship and not a spiritual one, then we're missing something more profound that I believe the Lord is trying to show us. So, consider instead that virginity represents purity, innocence of the spirit; your spirit man will be with child and bear a son.

So, what is this child? We call this a human child. I'm encouraging you to go deeper again. Consider when the Lord gives you a word, a revelation, of spiritual wisdom and knowledge, He is imparting His seed within you, whether you're male or female. Then He says, "That seed within you is going to grow. You're going to be just like a pregnant woman, and it will grow and reach a mature state of sonship. In that sonship, you will say, “His name is Emmanuel, God is with us. God is within me. God is dwelling within my spirit." See, that takes us to a whole other level of the Christmas story.

Let's turn to Isaiah 9:6, where we find another scripture, we use with the Christmas story. This time, we're focusing on the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. "For a child will be born to us. A son will be given to us, and the government will rest on his shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace. On the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness, from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this." 

See, this is what God is doing. It's not about me saying a sinner's prayer. It's not about me receiving Jesus as my personal savior. It's about what God is doing within me. What is happening here? Who is the "us" in this verse, "for a child will be born to us"?

To me, that means men are going to give birth to a baby. Not in the natural, but the seed of God comes within you because the scriptures also tell us that there's only one husband. “For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called “(Isaiah 54:5). 

So, all the masculine men must come out of this idea of what it means to be a wife of Christ, a bride of Christ. We need to set aside our human understanding and recognize there's a spiritual meaning here. See, this whole spiritual meaning has an anointing on it, and that anointing is coming through, and it's breaking the yoke of bondage. When we accept Jesus as our personal savior, we're accepting the headship of Christ and acknowledging that we are one in Him and He is one in us. We didn’t suddenly get attached to the body of Christ; rather, we were awakened by the Holy Spirit to realize that we were already in Him.

Just as many cells in our body follow the commands of our brain cells, the same is true with the mind of Christ. When the mind of Christ and the heart of the Father, which dwells within us—God's indwelling—become one, everything flows harmoniously within our bodies. Our bodies are at peace, and we can see this through our blood pressure, pulses, and temperatures—our vital signs. The same principle applies spiritually.

Spiritually, we birth Christ. But we're birthing Christ because Christ is in us, and Christ is the power of God. It's the dunamis power of the Holy Spirit working through us. When we use words like Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, what we're saying is the mind. We're talking about the headship of the spiritual body called Christ. “Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ” (Ephesians 4:15). 

So, when Jesus came into the world as a baby, it was just like us in our born-again nature, awakening to the fact that we were first spirit beings. As spirit beings first, we can have a relationship with God as our Heavenly Father because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who came back from the dead. When Jesus was on the cross, we were on the cross. When He was born, we were born.

When my great-grandmother was carrying my grandmother in her womb, she was also carrying my mother in her womb. And my grandmother was not only carrying my mother, but my mother was also holding me. All in a seed form within the body of my great-grandmother. Well, so it is with The Word. See, we want to say that just as one Adam, we all entered our humanity with a fallen nature. Paul also told us that through the last Adam, Christ Jesus, we have all been quickened back to the original state of Adam before the fall. We don't know it because nobody's teaching us that.

When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, just as it did upon Mary, our spirits are quickened, while we were still like a virgin. And as a virgin, my spirit and the Spirit of the Lord had not yet united. But when the Holy Spirit comes upon the virgin within me, that spirit within me causes the pregnancy of The Word to be conceived within me. The same applies to men. It's not just a woman's issue as a bride of Jesus Christ; it's a matter of the spirit realm.

Our natural bodies teach us what's going on in the spirit. So that once that Word comes within us, we have the awakening of the nine essences of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). All of those are essences that are being developed for this baby, the impregnation of the WORD in us to form in our inner being or our womb-man, so that out of our womb, fountains of living water, the WORD made flesh begin to flow. 

We become living stones built upon the foundation of “Who do we say Jesus is”, as Peter described in 1 Peter 2:5, “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” This baby, the Word becoming flesh within us (John 1:14), is not born through a natural childbirth, but through the heart's circumcision. And then, from the heart, the mouth speaks and decrees—just as Jesus did in heavenly decree.

It's a process that, if you call yourself a Christian, what you're saying is not only that you believe in Jesus as your personal savior, but that you're carrying the same nature, the same identity, and the same character in His name with the power and the authority of the Holy Spirit. You are carrying the anointing of the Messiah. That's what the whole Good News is all about. That's what the entire resurrection of Christ Jesus is all about. “That as He is, so are we today in this world” (1 John 4:17).