The Species from Two Realms: Heaven, Earth, and the New Creation (Chicago – 1989)

And he even realized that he could look into the other realm and behold his Father within him. With eyes that we do not have, he could see the unseen. Here was a creature like no other creature that had ever lived. Here was a creature from two realms. He was what God had intended when he had created Adam. He had the life of man’s soul and his body, and not only had he not eaten the tree of life, but he was the tree of life.

When he was 12 years old, he went to Jerusalem and said Hmm, it doesn’t look like the real Jerusalem very much. He went to the temple, and he said Well, I guess that’s the best man can do to build the house of God, and he went in and started talking to these men about things that they had never dreamed of. And he was in his father’s house.

And he talked about his Father, and he asked questions, and pretty soon they were asking him questions. And he was as acquainted with his heavenly Father, his Father of the other realm, as he was with his mother of this realm. And his spiritual senses grew proportionately, until the time he was 30. He was totally grown physically and totally mature spiritually. And he walked out to where his second cousin John was, the one who had been so mysteriously born. And he walked out into the waters to be baptized, and the door opened for man to know it had opened. And the father said to the cherubim, ‘Sheave your sword; the door is open, now, forever.’ The cherubim sheathed the burning, circling sword and gave up their watch.

And the door opened. And from this realm God spoke and said, into the physical realm, ‘Behold, that is my Son, and I am very pleased with Him.’ Praise the Lord. He was one who could stand before men and say, He who has come down from heaven and is in the heavenlies right now, for he stood in both realms at me same time. He was one who had come from both realms. He lived on this earth; He died on the cross. Death could not keep him; He kept death in the grave, and he rose from the dead.

And as He rose from the dead, He was now still physical and still visible, but he was 100% spiritual. He could walk through a wall and still be physical. He was free of space and time. Yet, in space and time, He was what He will forever be: totally man, totally God, totally spiritual. Body, soul, and spirit had somewhat blurred. He was now spirit. His soul had been saturated with spirit all through His life, and now He had a translated body.

Brothers and sisters, the story does not end there. On the night of his resurrection, He came to the sons of Adam, and He saw what no man could see. He looked at Peter and saw a flesh so corrupt it would have to be one day just done away with and given a new body. He looked down into him and saw a fallen, sinful soul. And He looked deeper, and He saw a spirit dead for thousands of years. He had already spoken to these men as though all that had changed because He’s free of time and space, and He gets things like that confused sometimes. Well, He really, really does.

Do you not remember when he came to the wedding? I’ll tell the story again. His mother came to the wedding with him or came before him. He came and sat down over in a corner, and the discussion was wine. Well, he had been wine long before there was a creation. He had been light before there had ever been a sun. He had been a tree long before there had ever been an herb. All creation was fashioned after him; He was the rejoicing of angels, He was the drink of angels; He was the wine of heaven, and he knew that He’d been that so long. It’s just incredible how long he had been that. And he heard someone say, ‘We’re out of wine,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you’ve been out of wine since the Garden of Eden.’ Then someone else said, ‘What are we going to do?’ The conversation faded, and Mary walked over to these men and said, ‘Did I hear you’re out of wine?’, and they said, ‘Yes, we’re totally out of wine, and the party’s still going, the wedding feast is still going on,’ and she said, ‘You see that man sitting over in the corner by himself?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ She said, ‘Well, if he just happens to tell you something, do whatever he tells you to, no matter how crazy it is.’

But just before she had walked over to talk to them, she had sat down beside her son, leaned over, and said, ‘Son, they’re out of wine.’ And he had interfaced between two realms; he was in both of them. He turned around and said, ‘Woman, don’t talk to me that way, my time has not yet come; it’s not quite ready for a new wine.’ But she walked over and told them that. They came over to him, and they said, ‘Sir, you got something to say to us?’ He said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘I see those pots of death over there. Go fill them up with water and serve them to the wedding.’ And those pots of death brought forth new living wine.

Now, he had often interfaced like that before and afterward. And he’d get the future and the present and the past all mixed up. Before Abraham was, I am. He had spoken to these men so sure they would be saved because he had picked them long before creation that in his eyes, he knew they were already saved. They were saved. But now he comes tonight to bring new wine. It is time.

Now watch what happens. Here are Peter, James, John, and all the disciples. And there’s a dead pot. A corrupted body. A soul so desperately needing cleansing. And a spirit long since dead. And he walks over to Peter, and like his Father in the creation of Adam, he’s about to start a new creation. Brothers and sisters, three days ago, he destroyed the old creation. Now, not everybody understood that, but He understood it. It was destroyed on the cross. He’s starting a new creation. In fact, today, He’s going to start a new species. He’s done away with the old creation. He’s going to start a new creation. The old creation is gone. And the only thing that’s left of it is Simon, Peter, and a few other people. And even they have been taken to the cross. About the only thing left is a dead spirit in there. And he’s about to change everything.

He’s going to begin something that has never been on this earth before, except within himself. A species, a race, with an indwelling Lord. He walks over to Simon Peter, and he takes that same breath. Only this breath does not come from the wind of heaven. It comes from the other realm, but it is his very life now broken. Now, if you please, shattered, so that it can be dispensed. Broken, shattered by the cross, so that it can now be dispensed.

Within him is the very life and nature of the living God and the wind of the other realm, and he blows on Simon Peter. Let’s watch from heaven’s view, and if we could see the unseen, we would see that same brilliant, beautiful sparkling light, that wind churning and turning and glistening, but this is not the wind of heavens; this is the very life of God coming out of the belly, the inmost being of the Lord Jesus and comes down into Simon Peter. And as it does, as the life of God, eternal life, comes in and touches the soul, the soul turns white as snow. Praise the Lord. And that long, long dead spirit quivers under the environment of cleanliness, that which has been made clean, and the very life of God comes deeper into the soul, into its inmost reaches, and touches that long since dead human spirit with the element of the other realm with the power to raise the dead. The power that Jesus Christ has won for Himself that very morning. The power of that life to beget life. The power to raise the dead. And the eternal life of God touches that long since dead spirit, dead to the other realm, dead to the realm from which it comes. And at that moment, that which can raise the dead, the life­giving Spirit, touches the human spirit of Simon Peter, and that Spirit rises from the dead.