• God proclaimed the reincarnation of  Elijah.

God Himself said that he would send Elijah just before the coming of Jesus

Mal 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

We all know that Jesus already came, so where do we see Elijah just before Jesus’ coming? It could only have been John the Baptist.

• Jesus believed in reincarnation.

Jesus declared plainly that Elijah was john the Baptist.

Mar 9:13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come…
Mat 11:14 …this is Elias [John the Baptist], which was for to come.
Mat 17:12 …Elias is come already, and they knew him not.

He couldn’t have said it any clearer than that. Elijah came and they didn’t know that it was him. Why? Because he had a different body. Not even John knew that he was him.

• The disciples believed in reincarnation.

The disciples understood that Jesus was saying that John was the reincarnation of Elijah.

Mat 17:13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

What does the rising from the dead mean? A decaying body or the spirit of one being born into a new body?

Mar 9:10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

If the disciples were wondering what it meant Jesus meant by rising from the dead, then immediately they ask him why Elijah would come first. Then Jesus tells them that Elijah has already come referring to John the Baptist. It all adds up to the fact that Elijah returned from the dead in John the Baptist.

They say, however, that he couldn’t have possibly been the return of Elijah since he didn’t die, he went up to heaven in a whirlwind. However, in 2 Chronicles 21 we discover that 3 years later Elijah turns up in another place. So the fact of the matter is that Elijah wasn’t taken up to heaven without dying, only transported to a different place. Elijah died just like any other man. Here is just another example of how the church perpetuates its lies to reinforce their false doctrines.

 

• The prophets believed in reincarnation

The prophets and Jesus said that Elijah would come before Jesus’ coming, referring to bible prophecy.

Mar 9:11 Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

Mar 9:12 Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written …

• The prophets prophesied of the reincarnation of Elijah

Mat 11:11 …Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist:
Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until [about] John.
Mat 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

You might not agree with me here, but logic and reason tells me that the word “until” is a mistranslation that should have been translated “about”. What sense would it make to say that the prophets prophesied until John? That wouldn’t even be true. But the prophets did indeed prophesy “about” John. “If ye will receive it…”, indicates that Jesus knew that many would not be able to receive the fact that John was the reincarnation of Elijah.

• Even the scribes and Pharisees believed in reincarnation.

Even the Pharisees believed that Christ or Elijah or a prophet would reincarnate.

Joh 1:25 And they [the Pharisees] asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

They obviously were expecting the prophecies to come to pass about the coming of the Messiah or Elijah or a prophet.  What else could that be but reincarnation?

The scribes quote the prophets that Elijah would come just before Jesus’ coming.

Mat 17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
Mat 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

Here the disciples asked him about the prophecies about Elijah, obviously because they knew the scriptures prophesied of the coming of Elijah and the suspected that it was John the Baptist. Jesus didn’t deny their suspicions but confirmed that this was actually true. The disciples asked him if John was the reincarnation of Elijah and Jesus confirmed that it was.

• The people believed in reincarnation.

This proves that the Jews believed that people came back from the dead in a different body.

Luk 9:7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
Luk 9:8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.

Mat 16:13 …he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

Mat 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

The people were saying that John was Elijah or one of the old prophets. It’s obvious that the people were expecting the fulfillment of the reincarnation of a prophet or Messiah.

Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Here again it shows that they believed that a man could be born blind because of what he did in a previous life.  This shows that they believed in reincarnation.

• Elijah reincarnated in the body of John the Baptist.

Elijah fulfilled the prophesy on the Old Testament in John the Baptist

Mal 4:6 And he [Elijah] shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Luk 1:17 And he [John the Baptist] shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

This shows that John fulfilled the prophecy about Elijah — Jesus quotes the very verse from the old testament and applies it to John: “turn the hearts of the fathers to the children”.

Now lots of Christians who don’t believe in reincarnation will use this very passage to try to prove that it was only the “spirit and power” of Elijah, and not actually Elijah reincarnated in John. However this actually only proves the opposite. According to the doctrine of reincarnation a person reincarnated brings with him his spiritual “baggage” with him from one life to the next. The spirit of Elijah couldn’t bring with him anything but his “spirit and power”. So this does not contradict it, it only reinforces it.

2Ki 1:8 And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

Mat 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Here it is again, the fact that John brought with him his personality from a former life. Both Elijah and John “wore a leather girdle about their loins”. This is more evidence to support the fact of reincarnation in the bible.

John himself declared that he himself was the fulfillment of the old testament prophesy.

Joh 1:23 He said, I [John the Baptist] am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

John knew that he was the fulfillment of the old testament prophesy, even though he was not aware that he himself was the reincarnation of Elijah. He was Elijah and John the Baptist were alike, Elijah brought with him his personaliity.

Joh 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Joh 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

Many will say that John directly denied that he was Elijah when they asked him, but the simple explanation for this is that John just didn’t remember. Almost no one can remember their former lives. If you tried to remember things about your childhood, you would be about to remember very little. How much less, if at all could you remember a former life, especially when you have a completely different brain where only memories of present lives are stored. The past life brain and its memories are dead. Our spirits also have memories, but these are blocked for the purpose of allowing us to focus on the present life as it is complicated enough without having to be aware of past experiences that may have been traumatic.

But again this same passage says that the priests and Levites that the Jews sent to ask him wanted to know if he was the reincarnation of Elijah, which shows again that they also were expecting the reincarnation of Elijah as predicted by the prophet himself.

If you can receive this just then listen, it’s not everyone that can except this hard saying.

Mat 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

(coming soon in the next post: “Jesus taught reincarnation”)