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>> [00:00] Hi. My name is Eric Nielsen and this is The Mystic Post. Today’s video is
on baptism by fire and it’s all about whether or not the experts could be wrong on the subject.
I’m going to show you later that when you go over to Wikipedia, that people have tried
to put in information on the subject, but nobody seems to know and my stance on this
is because Jesus had the ability through centering prayer or a meditation, that he probably got
from the desert fathers back in his day and he was able to reach this center of consciousness
or what people call God.
So to start, this is basically about Matthew 3:11 and 12. Let me read it for you. “I
indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier than
I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and
with fire.”
And then in 12, “Whose fan is in his hand, he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather
his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Now this part about the fire, people think is retribution for your sins and burning in
hell and all that. That’s completely not the case. In verse 12 here, the wheat is considered
your soul and gathering up and putting it in God’s place is putting it into the garner;
and the chaff is the body, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the afterlife and
burning up in hell. This is all part of what Jesus saw as he came out from God, merging
with God and seeing the Trinity, et cetera until he was back into his world.
Now if you look here, you could see that the article is in dispute at the top here by the
scales and they’re asking for more information. They want it cleaned up. They want citations.
They want improvement on the whole thing and then down here where the second arrow points
at the bottom is a few gentlemen. Most of them came from the early 1900s or 1800s and
they were bible scholars.
So as you can see, Wikipedia is basically asking for more because the experts don’t
know exactly why it is that John the Baptist sent everybody to Jesus for baptism by the
Holy Spirit and by the fire, but that was because John the Baptist knew of Jesus’
story and baptized people in water, in order to – while he told the story and then people
would go and probably see Jesus to learn more. So they shared in their ministries to spread
the word that Jesus had to everybody. This is my opinion.
OK. So, one of the gentlemen is a Joseph Henry Thayer. You can see when he was born, but
overall, we’re here to say his part that he put into the Wikipedia. “To overwhelm
with fire those who do not repent, i.e. to subject them to terrible penalties of hell.”
And then Mr. Vine here, “Fire of this passage of the fire of the divine judgment upon the
rejecters of Christ, where a distinction is to be made between the baptism of the Holy
Spirit at Pentecost and the fire of the Divine Retribution.”
Then the last two gentlemen here, you have their comment which is, “Fire of divine
judgment”.
All these people have the same thing which has to do with sin and burning in hell and
that is simply not the case. They’re mistaken. They don’t know what they’re talking about
because very few people understand that Jesus’ core teaching is all about his message from
what he saw when he turned within himself, as he tells all of us to do in order to see
the kingdom of heaven.
Now this part here by John William McGarvey as you can read at the top here, his background.
He was an educator, author, minister and taught for 46 years. Now he observed and reported
in Wikipedia that the phrase “baptize you in fire,” cannot refer to the Pentecost
because there was no baptism of fire on that day. Then he goes into talking about the tongues
and he has his own reference for that.
So let me ask you some questions here. What if John the Baptist’s Ministry through the
ritual of baptism by water was actually in the business of referring people to Jesus’
larger ministry? What if Jesus shared with John the meaning
behind baptism by water, Holy Spirit and fire, and the two were working together to better
spread the core teaching of Jesus to the people?
What if John the Baptist wasn’t qualified to teach the concept of the baptism by the
Holy Spirit or by fire therefore he had to send people that might be interested in learning
how to do this I’m talking about meditation or some sort of prayer that was common by
the desert fathers during his time that he would have sent them to Jesus to find out
how.
Then I want to ask you to think about this concept and I will send you over to a free
e-book to where you can see exactly what I’m talking about. I had this meditation experience
and over the last 40 years of reading the bible and other texts and trying to figure
out what had happened to me. I started seeing all these things that were recognizable to
me and I’m trying to share that with everybody.
So this could explain why John made the comment that, “He who comes after me is mightier
than I,” and that simply would be Jesus and it would be because he saw what John the
Baptist didn’t see but had gotten word of through Jesus telling him.
OK. Like I said before, what if Jesus’ core teaching had to do with Jesus’ ability to
experience the inner realm within all of us? After all, he did state that the kingdom of
God was within us? Doesn’t it make sense then that someone had to have witnessed the
Holy Spirit as being the first thing to come out of the source we call God in order for
the church to have the concept of the Trinity in the first place?
I mean they talk about that the first thing away from God is the Holy Spirit, but somebody
had to have seen it. So that’s the only way they could know. My comment is that that
was Jesus. A lot of people believe that the Holy Spirit is where they got the word of
in the bible for those that believe the bible is the word of God, but that to me is not
the case.
I believe that the whole teaching around all three of those baptisms has to do with Jesus
going within himself like I said before. And if you would like to learn more and get a
feel for what I’m talking about, I explained those three baptisms through what I saw during
my experience in a book called The Mystic’s View: The Real Meaning Behind Baptism; Water,
Holy Spirit and Fire.
Just click on this link here at the bottom and it will take you over to a website where
you can get the link for picking up the book on the given days that it’s offered for
free.
Thank you very much. This is The Mystic Post. My name is Eric Nielsen and my website is
down here in the right hand corner, www.EricRobertNielsen.com. Again, thank you very much. I appreciate your
time. [08:48]