Two Birth Certificates

Two Birth Certificates

12/28/13

A birth certificate is an official document that states that a specific person has been born into this world and was born alive.  Every person in the civilized world has some form of documentation that says they have been born and while these documents come in a variety of ways they all basically provide the same information concerning the individual.  Even though birth certificates can stir up controversy, they do represent a reference point in our lives, not the beginning of our life but a point in time to which one can say that they were physically present on this earth.  We all understand that birth certificates are basically a modern invention and can be altered if done correctly but one cannot change the genetics of the representative of the one who is written about on that document.  Humanity does not have a monopoly on this legal birth certificate process the heart of God keeps a divine record of our birth certificate as well, but this one includes one with a spiritual content along with a physical content. 

The examples that I am going to use in this article are going to deal with a couple of people and how their lives are representative of the birth certificates that define their lives.  One of these people has been famous for many centuries and the other person for the most part is not well known at all.  But these people share a commonality in that they have some type of controversy concerning their birth, lineage and official documentation about who is actually who.  In truth these two people represent a political nature which is still being argued over today and thus the shared gains of these two individuals are unique in a manner that their stories define how the human race exists and at the same time what separates the human race from understanding what life really is all about.

The examples of a birth certificate and the official lineage of an individual can be quite contrary to the physical norm of life that we know.  The information present on a birth certificate is bound by law as the truth and considered for all purposes to be correct.  However, being human we choose to participate in extracurricular activities that can thwart the true nature of these documents; then we might have to alter factual information to protect people’s identities that have participated in specific portions of the filled in areas within this document.  My purpose is not to open any wounds or to get people to think about what actually may be the truth about their lives but I do want everyone to understand that it is important that we know who our father and mother is and what they actually want for our lives.  It is also important for us to understand that when the truth is revealed concerning the true nature of our lives, that our birth certificates are rewritten in a unique way in which overrides all previous beliefs and beginnings and that a new life is now being transcribed through our veins.

At this point in time in our nation’s history, there is a current controversy concerning the President of the United States and the origins of his birth certificate.  I am not going to deal with this trivial issue now for it is not my intentions to divulge into a whimsical and useless debate over nothing, but there is a significant concept that is at hand here and it deals with which certificate is legitimate.  It is my intent to publically declare that the two main people that I am going to use in this article do have two birth certificates and that both situations do have relevance in everyone’s lives even today.  And while the two birth certificates may differ in some specifics let it be known that in both circumstances each birth certificate was created through the law and were valid at the time each was created.  This is one of the major points that I wish to convey to you through this article that while mankind may squabble over a person having two birth certificates and the legality of which is correct, the concept and foundational aspects are of a godly nature that our enemy is exploiting to us each day that we draw breath.

Some of you may know a little bit about my personal history in the fact that I was adopted when I was an infant, so this means that on the physical level I have had two birth certificates.  There are many details of this process that I will not write about here but please understand that my parents took every step necessary to ensure that my adoption was legal and it was done with the knowledge and agreement of all parties involved.  The procedures for adoption back in the late 1960s were basically similar to those of today and the forms to fill out in order for my adoption and printing of my new birth certificate also resembled the ones formally issued today.  The information that is contained on that form is processed and then distributed to the proper authorities along with a copy that is given to the parents of the child. In effect, my new birth certificate, while I have two on the books, is my official birth certificate and there is no way that anyone can legally claim otherwise.  Keep this process in mind as well since it too is another major point of this article.

I was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on Thanksgiving evening on 23 November 1967.  When I finally was able to leave the hospital I had a legal birth certificate that declared I was born alive and it also presented the world all of my vital information including my name, Jeffrey Wayne Cearley.  Anyone recognize that name?  Up until a few years ago I had no clue about my original name and with my birth family finding me after approximately 42 years after my birth, some blanks of my beginnings have been filled in a bit.  Most of you did not know that I also had another name before I came to be in my parent’s arms so the majority of people around here have no reason to believe that my name was anything other than Darin Lee Bishop.  So, there you go, I have had another name in my lifetime but for all but a few months of my life I have been called Darin and so shall it be this name until the day I pass from this mortal life.

I left the hospital in Arkansas and went with my birth mother to a little town called Prescott, Arkansas.  There are some details of this time period that still are yet unanswered but are minor in accordance with the remainder of my life.  In short, a few weeks passed by and my birth mother allowed for my parents to adopt me and to legally become their child.  This began a process that would change my life entirely and as I stated above even my name was officially changed.  Some of the information that was on my original birth certificate would not change because those aspects of my physical being could not change.  But other information located on that document would change and those new words would be engrained within my life and become a part of my identity that continues with me today.  Most of this information I was not aware of until I became old enough to fully understand what had occurred those years back.  My parents never withheld any part of my life from me and I considered myself lucky to have parents that loved me enough to entrust me with this information as I became of sound age.

On my first birth certificate, the one that states my name as Jeffrey there was no father listed on that document.  There was a reason for this and it was not until some 42 years down the road that the majority of the truth came out.  It was not from my parents but from my other siblings who found me years later.  On my birth certificate now, I do have a father listed and his name is William S Bishop and he is the one that I proudly call “pop” today.   We do find it kind of funny and ironic at the same time that pop actually had coffee on occasion with my birth father without actually knowing the fine details of all parties involved in my creation.

So you are reading an article from a person who has two legal birth certificates.  Both certificates were obtained by legal means and by the normal human methods that define the meaning of physical life.  Neither of them has been tampered with nor have they been destroyed or damaged in any way.  I am proud to say that I have two birth certificates and I am also proud and honored to say that I am thankful for those two birth certificates because if both of them were not in place today that would have meant that somewhere along the way my life might not have even been recognized by this world.  Even though I know about my birth family and have good relationships with them, I still have not met my birth mother and many other members of my family but even so, I do know which birth certificate trumps the other and I am so glad that God saw fit for me to have both families present in my life.  I am also honored and amazed at the same time to realize that God is using my example of two birth certificates as a standard of truth concerning this situation and of the importance that we understand this concept and how relevant it is in our lives.

Both of these birth certificates identify me as a physical, living human being that inhabits this planet and both indicate certain features of my physical life.  But this is where my birth certificate stops, by identifying my physical definition, and likewise my birth information on my birth certificate ends its obligation.  For a birth certificate is just that, a record of live birth and then the responsibility of that individual life then belongs to the parents and then eventually the specific person themselves.  All humans have no problem with identifying themselves through a physical birth certificate even if questions arise.  It is the other type of birth certificate and everything that it represents that some have problems believing and for this side of our lives we must turn towards God for the answer, which brings me to the second person that plays a far greater role in this article.

We should keep in mind that when we read the Bible that all of its content refers to people and about the choices that those people have made concerning their lives.  There are literally thousands of examples that took place in which humans had to endure some type of happiness or heartache.  And when one read about these stories the reader can identify with similar circumstances that face our world today.  So it seems like not much has changed for humans in the physical manner of things but when one looks at the spiritual mannerisms of humans, there is a huge difference in our actions and behaviors.  It took mankind thousands of years to figure out the principles of God’s love for us that He has created a state of progress we must confront on a second by second basis instead of immediately being thrown into one; it is a teaching lesson that deals solely on faith and belief through our Creator and not of our flawed, limited and selfish ideas.

I am only going to touch on this point of interest right at the moment but I will be writing about it full detail in a matter of a short while, but even though some of the religious events and procedures are different from the Biblical days and today, man can still function in the past records of our life.  Sacrifice after sacrifice is recorded in Old Testament pages and a person does not have to search too long until they can find the same practices occurring on this very day.  The separation of man from God allowed these procedures to take place and all of them had specific meanings that defined the relationship between God and man.  It took thousands of years for God to prepare His ultimate lineage through man to complete the restoration process that would lead to the end of our separation from God.  God knew that the only way for this restoration and relationship to be healed was to do it through both the Holy lineage and the human lineage, which in blinded human eyes seems worthless, false and beyond comprehension.  God’s son Jesus has two birth certificates as well and He is the second example of my article. 

It is well known that Jesus was born into this world as a human as well as the documented facts concerning His presence was on this earth which includes the end of His life and death.  He functioned as any other human did with having to experience every human detail that any one of us would face each day.  Every physical characteristic that a person would have Jesus inherited as well, He even was subjected to walking and eating, just as we do.  Even though there were no official birth certificates as we know them floating around back in Jesus’ times, His presence on earth documents that He was a living and breathing human being and that He did exist on this earth.  None of us can deny this aspect of Christ’s life for it is recorded in history that this person was in fact alive and did eventually die.  This fact that history records His existence means that if there were anything present that served as a birth certificate Jesus would have had one.

While the physical birth certificate of Jesus really cannot be contested, the second birth certificate of Jesus is a little bit trickier since the origin of this announcement of live birth is one of a spiritual manner.  It is this certificate that people tend to disagree with or simply do not believe in at all and will actually argue its content unendingly; however, if one stops and reasons it out logically it does make perfect sense and it serves as a bond and a seal between God and man.  God made His intentions very clear to Joseph and while Joseph had the choice to believe in what God said or not, his faith was strong enough to ignore the human criticism that his friends and the law stated; here is another example of human choice in action.  We all have to agree to bypass the physical understanding of sexual content to accept this claim and it would be very easy to ignore any other explanation other from God Himself sending a divine representative.  While God’s name would not physically be on Jesus’ birth certificate all of the signs pointing towards this claim as Jesus’ father would provide adequate evidence of His intent to claim paternity of Jesus.

No one within the span of man’s existence can argue that each life represented does not have a purpose, no matter what that person has done.  Each person has an effect on someone else whether it is good or bad.  One would tend to believe that even though some may see no good in a person, others who knew them in another way might differ from their specific opinions.  Jesus had a purpose in His life as well and it was to provide the bridge that would once again connect God and man. Joseph had a specific purpose and role to fill while Jesus was in Mary’s womb and his presence sets in motion the legality of the father’s presence in a child’s life, both before and after the conception of a child. 

Just a short statement here on another topic, but there would be no way possible for Jesus to represent this bridge to God if He was not born differently than any other human on this earth.  So, this means that Jesus had to have another birth certificate because the bloodline that He received was from God the Father and not from another human being.  Therefore, this establishes the legitimacy of Jesus having two birth certificates and the legality of each, with the holy bloodline trumping the physical.  The Bible is very specific about the events that surround the conception of Jesus.  The entire bloodline that was established within Mary was a Holy one where it did not involve the human act of sex for Mary knew no man at this time. 

Even at the time of Jesus’ birth Mary was still did not know intimately what sex was and in truth was faithful to God while she was pregnant with God’s son.  We read that Mary was a quiet and simple girl and was afraid of what the local laws could have done to her because of her betrothal to Joseph.  Joseph was also placed in a precarious position and most likely had to encounter some type of ridicule for keeping Mary in his life.  But both of them understood what had transpired and their faith in God guided them in every movement.  This is another step and confirmation that God had already written the second birth certificate of Jesus even though He had not been born yet and it should serve as a notice of the importance of a baby within the confines of a mother’s body.

Here comes the fun part of the article.J  When Jesus was twelve years old the Bible states that He was in the Synagogue teaching, while His earthly parents were out looking for Him.  They understood that Jesus was only a boy and that He still needed to be close to His parents and had placed the fact that Jesus was God manifest on earth and that He had a mission to accomplish even though He was a young lad.  Yet Jesus was doing what He was commissioned to do by His father and can you imagine the looks on Mary and Joseph’s faces when Jesus reminded them of this fact?  Even though Mary and Joseph had been told by God that Mary was going to give birth to Jesus, they still had the earthly foundational beliefs that resided within them.  Jesus’ other birth certificate had already been written and He understood what His purpose was in life even at a young age.  Not many twelve year old children understand what their life’s goals are at that age but from this example and other factual examples in history that I have read, preteens do understand their calling in life even though they may not fully comprehend it as such. 

Referring back to the present situation concerning the major flap going around our nation concerning our top leader and his birth certificate, yet sticking to the fact that this piece of history is not the centerpiece of my article, yet at the same time needing to address this issue because the concepts of the arguments of the physical is relevant to our understanding concerning the concept of two birth certificates.  I have been shown details that many will find, or should find, very eye opening and has direct meaning to each one of our lives.  The arguments with this personal issue is whether or not that he has two birth certificates or not and if so which one is actually legal.  Some even question if he has any legal birth certificates at all.  Now while this imminent debate has settled down somewhat, there is a reason behind all of it and you might be surprised to know the reasons why.

This point of interest brings up a question as to why this issue has made such worldwide attention in the first place.  The surprising aspect of this current issue is actually addressed by Jesus while He was still walking on the earth.  After Jesus was born then reached the age of adulthood His work on earth continued as it had been ordained.  All of the humanness that He encountered and all of the personal drama that He witness could not deter His belief in His true father, in mankind itself nor the mission that He was to complete.  And informing us of this detail about our lives was part of His mission.  Not only does it apply to the President of this country but it also applies to each and everyone else that is lucky enough to escape the womb intact and breathing.  Ready?  Here I go with the explanation.

Why two birth certificates?  Well it all comes to light when Jesus is talking to the people about seeing the Kingdom and how one must be born again to witness this part of life.  The fascinating part about this concept is the legality questions that have been raised and the fact that a person has two birth certificates in the first place.  It took me a while for God to show me some things about this process and how we are being blind to the fact of a few things about our own lives.  Now we all know that God has a plan for each one of our lives and that our enemy will have a counter plan for everything that God instills.  Sometimes the counter plan that our enemy has can be funny, especially to us when we figure some things out and after we get through laughing, we then realize that we have been lied to and this should anger us to no end.  To be honest people we have been lied to and we need to understand that the physical birth certificate issue is actually a process that we really need to have in our lives.  Yes, we need two birth certificates and they both need to be legal in the eyes of each government; the physical government and the spiritual government.

The focus of our enemy is to make sure that we do not see or understand what our overall mission is and for him to confound our ideas and lives with enough nonsense that we purposefully render our mission invalid due to the backlog of trivial information that we allow to infiltrate into our lives.  Case in point is the controversy over the President’s birth certificate.  Our enemy is using this concept to frustrate our minds and our thoughts enough to make sure that by the time things come out that we will be so sick of the issue that we will not want to have anything to do with any further knowledge about birth certificates.

Jesus addresses the crowd and mentions the phrase that says a person must be born again to see the Kingdom.  This is an important statement because it mentions about being born again.  The person who asks Jesus the question about how can someone enter into his mother’s womb again is a logical and physical question but it is the spiritual birth or in this case rebirth that Jesus is talking about.  See, our spiritual connection with God died in the Garden when we choose to sin.  We broke that oneness with God and our spirits were automatically separated from God.  It is this reconnection that Jesus is talking about when He states about being born again.  One must see and understand the Kingdom and comprehend what the Kingdom is before that person can accept or reaccept the connection that allows us to be joined with God again.  In other words, when we truly turn our lives back to God we are spiritually reborn and reconnected with God.  This is the sole purpose of why Jesus came to the earth; to reconnect our communication lines with God.  His mission serves as a spiritual birth certificate, one that God sees on His spiritual level and recognizes our spiritual lives through the blood of Jesus. 

This means that only Jesus can serve as the connection between God and man.  This also explains the reason why God had to conceive Jesus into Mary and that it could not have been legally and properly completed by human means.  This is the part where I am going to step on toes but it needs to be said and it needs to be proclaimed throughout the world as the truth, and yes, this is part of the fun part of the article as well.  There is absolutely no way that two humans who conceive a child can honestly and truly produce a person who has the direct connection to God.  It does not matter how pure their parents’ genetic codes are, they will still produce a flawed offspring.  The bloodline is of human origin and therefore it is faulty where the spirit is concerned.

Any claims, by any person or group of people who state that their offspring is the Messiah, or has the answers for humanity through their offspring is a lie.  It does not matter what type of intentions that they have, it is a lie.  Jesus was the only one that was ever created by Holy blood and raised through human means and thus He can only be the one that provides our second birth certificate.  No one else and I mean no one else no matter how good they might sound to the human ear, can truly and spiritually proclaim this title. 

The human has two parts to our existence, one physical and one spiritual.  One is easily comprehended and the other is difficult to understand, but both are present in each of us and we need to keep this in mind at all times.  If we have these two parts that that means we need two birth certificates in order for us to be totally alive.  So it is natural when people try to end a life before it leaves the womb that our enemy would try every measure possible to make sure that we do not understand the spiritual birth certificate concept as well. 

Look at how many heated arguments and yelling has transpired because of this issue.  It has further deepened the wounds of this country and unless we allow God to change our lives the wounds will not be able to heal correctly and our country will continue its downward spiral; in every way not just on the physical side of things.  This issue also should cause us to examine our laws and come to the understanding that our laws are flawed by the very ones who have created them.  The same arguments are being played out for our spiritual birth certificates as well and it is just as important that we keep these spiritual documents in tact so that we may know, understand and live a full life.

I ask you to read this article over again to make sure that you grasp this concept and that you understand how vital it is that we know about our two birth certificates and the importance of each one to our lives.  And if one stops and thinks about some of these details, it would become clear to them of why we have two birth certificates and why it is important for us to fight for both of them.  God cannot leave one side of our lives undone, He must be complete in all areas and that is why He made our spiritual birth certificates but since we have the physical aspect of our lives and the spiritual aspect as well both documents must be alive in order for us to know true eternal life.  It also sheds light into the category of the spirit in terms of its place with God and how it is no longer separate from God, as long as we choose it to have a spot.  See the spiritual birth certificate actually gives life through Jesus to God.  This is the born again portion and the restoration of the spirit that we choose to separate from God back in the Garden of Eden

It is a necessity for us to have two birth certificates and this article proves that God wishes to have both physical and spiritual communications with His people.  God is a complete God and He only wishes to have a relationship with us.  Jesus is the only way that we can have God sign our spiritual birth certificate and the only way that this can occur is I we accept His ways and mission.  It is time that we open our spiritual eyes again and to begin to fill in the blanks for both of our birth certificates.  God promises us that He will restore our land if we turn from our wicked ways, this is the act of repentance and it is the first step of bringing to life our second birth certificate.

DLB