The church I use to go to also taught me that interpretation.
It was after the "weird" stuff happened after childbirth birth that I started reconnecting to spirit teachings. (Trying to make sense of what was going on with me)
I was at this point shunned by my church group for needing to take space to find his true character and seperating from their "Jesus Club".
It was this verse that changed my opinion on that:
[Mathew 11]
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In this verse It appears he is saying john the baptist was the reincarnated spirit of Elijah.
Badly mistreated.... indeed. Clarifying he
Knew what fate was to be awaiting him...
~ and When I tried to reconnect to my christian friends to discuss I was later blocked completely and called bad names.... ^_^;;;
Happy to have those who care to dive deeper into all these subjects.
That is not the only time he has taken himself off the pedestal that people seem to want to put him on. He did that when he confronted somebody for calling him 'good teacher'. Matthew 19:17.
That is why I don't refer to 'Jesus' but rather a philosophy for how we should be living our lives, a level of behaviour, self-governance and consciousness that allows us to fulfill the benefits we want to see manifested here for the benefit of all and then the Spiritual rewards will follow.
That is a very interesting observation. Thank you for sharing it, despite all the markup text mixed in with your post. ;)
I figured you would have no trouble reading through it ;) hahaha sorry about that!
I have edited this story again
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Ty