Breath of God
By Julie Hogan
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trump shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
The English word “moment” is found in only three verses of the New Testament (KJV). Here, in Corinthians 15:51-52, the word is NOT stigme [G4743] as in Luke 4:5, “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time”. . .NOR is it parautika [G3910] as in 2 Corinthians 4:17, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”, BUT it is atomos [G823], which has been transliterated as a measurement of time because the Greeks believed the ATOM to be indivisible - that is, “uncuttable” and therefore a represention of the smallest fraction of space, hence "time”. But what if the word “atomos” was really meant to be translated in it’s literal sense - that is, atomical structure?
“In atomical structure, at the twinkling of an eye. . .
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
In the Book of John, Jesus repsonds to Nicodemus’ question on whether a man can enter into his mother’s womb a second time and be born again, saying. . ."Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of WATER and of the Spirit, he CANNOT ENTER into the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:5) This statement becomes very interesting when we consider that the name for the smallest element on the Periodic Table (Hydrogen) literally means “born of water” (hydro-gen).
“Hydro” stemming from the Greek hydor (ὕδωρ) [G5204] meaning: WATER
“Gen” stemming from the Greek word gennáō (γεννάω) [G1080] meaning: BORN OF, BEGETTING, FORMING
So then, in order for me to understand how being “changed”, or “born of water” are intricately linked to being born of the Spirit and the entrance of person into the Kingdom of God, I conducted a study on the elements which make up water - that is, hydrogen and oxygen. As we well know, when two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen are joined, they form WATER, or H2O.
WATER is 18 times heavier than a single atom of Hydrogen - the lightest of all the elements.
Hydrogen (H) = 1.01 amu (atomic mass unit)
Oxygen (O) = 16.00 amu
H2 + O = (1.01 x 2) + 16.00= 18.02 amu
When using the number of Protons and Neutrons fround in Water (H2O) as “weight” measures, we get the same result:
Hydrogen has 1 Proton and NO Neutrons
Oxygen has 8 Protons and 8 Neutrons for a total of 16
H2 + O = (1 x 2) + (8 + 8) = 18
Also worth noting, is the number of electrons present in each molecule of Water:
Hydrogen = 1
Oxygen = 8
H2 + O = (1 x 2) + 8 = 10
To put all of this into perspective, the average human body consists of roughly 35,000,000,000,000 (trillion) cells, with each cell containing about 70% water. Of this 70% - the human brain consists of 73% water, the lungs 83% and blood - a whopping 90%! Now recall the words of God to Moses in Leviticus 17:11, “For the LIFE of the flesh is in the BLOOD: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an ATONEMENT for your SOULS: for it is the BLOOD that maketh an atonement for the soul.”
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED into his nostrils the BREATH of LIFE; and man became a LIVING SOUL.” (Genesis 2:7)
This “soul” is the part of man that controls his thoughts, his will, and his emotions. And, in the beginning, man’s soul was in perfect harmony with his spirit, that is God. It wasn’t until man’s soul (Woman) was taken out of him that this harmony was disrupted and then ultimately broken - the Woman eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and giving it “to her husband with her”, who then ate of it also. . .the “husband” here represeting the spirit of man.
“For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken ME the fountain of LIVING WATERS, and have hewn them out cisterns; broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
“Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM shall be in him a well of water springing up into EVERLASTING LIFE.” (John 4:14)
“He that BELIEVETH ON ME, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of LIVING WATER.” (John 7:38)
Now, when comparing the Earth to the human body, we find that the Earth’s SURFACE is made up of 71% water - which is equal to 326 million trillion 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons. So then, if everything in the natural world is a type of those things found in the spiritual world, it would seem to me that learning how water is formed. . .as well as how it interacts with its environment, would be very helpful in understanding the process of being born of both water and the Spirit. That said, let us take a look a what water is, and does throughout the different stages of its existence.
“The mass of a water molecule is between the mass of diatomic hydrogen (H2) and the mass of diatomic oxygen (O2). This means that water molcules are lighter than typical molcules that make up air. WATER VAPOR, therefore, is actually pretty light. But, at room temperature, hydrogen and oxygen are both gases, while water is a liquid, and liquids are almost always much denser than gases, making liquid water much more dense than either hydrogen or oxygen.
So, why is water a liquid when the two reactants are both gases? The answer is POLARITY. Hydrogen and oxygen molecules are both symmetrical. Water, on the other hand (and for some very complicated reasons. . .) is NOT symmetrical. For one thing, water molecules are positively charged on one side and negatively charged on the other. And, since positive and negative charges attract one another, water molecules tend to clump together when they are close, thus pulling them into a dense liquid. [Website author’s note: The more protons an atom has the more “pull” it will have on its electrons.] By analogy, it would be like tossing a bunch of tiny magnets in close proximity to one another where they would quickly pull together into a single, tight mass - whereas small bits of a NON-magnetic metal would just spread out.
This is the reality of most gases. Gases are generally NON-polar, which allow them to float around in the air and remain separate. But any polarity means that the two molcules that come close to each other will tend to pull together, and if you have a lot of the same polarized molecules that are close to one another, they’ll pull into a single mass of liquid - at which point the newly formed liquid FALLS.” - Geoffrey Widdison, BS & MEng in Chemical Engineering
“For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the VAPOUR [breath] thereof: Which the CLOUDS do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Also can any understand the SPREADINGS of the clouds, or the NOISE of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his LIGHT upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth MEAT [understanding] in abundance. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the CLOUD [veil] that cometh betwixt. The NOISE thereof sheweth concerning it, the CATTLE also concerning the VAPOUR.“ (Job 36:27-33)
“As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their [mans] image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a BEAST before thee. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psalm 73:20-25)
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness ARISE with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as CALVES of the stall.” (Malachi 4:2)
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a LIGHT that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Day Star ARISE in your hearts.” (2 Peter 1:19)
Clouds are often used in the Bible to symbolize the Saints of God. When we examine how clouds form, we find that the density between water vapor and air is NOT enough to make a single water vapor molecule “rise up” through the air. That’s not how clouds form. When clouds form, an entire mass of air rises due to SUNSHINE (light) heating the gound beneath it. As this mass of air rises into the cooler temperatures found in the atmosphere - the air cools to the point where water vapor condenses - forming clouds. Out of these clouds, tiny dropplets begin to fall down in the form of mist and rain. But, in the case of thunder storms, these particles begin bouncing off of one another so rapidly that electric sparks of super-heated, ionized air (up to 60,000 degrees farhenheit!) “explode” into bursts of energy we call lightning. The sound we hear following these bursts of energy are the super charged particles as they are “cooling off”. The longer the thunder rolls, the longer it takes to cool the particles and the air around them.
“And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were THUNDERS and LIGHTNINGS and a HEAVY CLOUD on the mountain, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud; and the whole people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain. And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in FIRE; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly. And the sound of the trumpet increased and became exceeding loud; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a VOICE.” (Exodus 19: 16-19)
For as LIGHTNING cometh out of the east, and SHINETH even unto the west: SO SHALL ALSO the coming of the Son of Man be.” (Matthew 24:27)
“God THUNDERETH marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend.” (Job 37:5)
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit [BREATH] of God MOVED upon the face of the WATERS.” (Genesis 1:2)
“The VOICE of the Lord is upon the WATERS: the God of glory THUNDERETH: the Lord is upon MANY WATERS.” (Psalm 29:3)
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb STOOD on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a VOICE from heaven, as the voice of MANY WATERS, and as the voice of a great THUNDER: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” (Revelation 14:1-3)
The “voice” of the Father is His WORD. . .His very BREATH. . .even Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the scripture says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . .And THE WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1 & 14)
“For our CONVERSATION is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our VILE body, that it may be fashioned like unto His GLORIOUS body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” (Philippians 3:21)
“And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the STARS of the heaven, and as the SAND which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed MY VOICE.” (Genesis 22:15-18)
Scientist and astronomers imagine that the universe came into being via a “big bang” and I couldn’t agree more! I believe the thundering voice of Our Father went out into the emptiness of space, filling it with super-heated particles of gaseous vapors that are still visible today in the form of STARS. As these stars burned, the super-charged particles they released clumped together (whether rapidly, or over time. . .) to form the planets - the most perfect and fertile among them being the Earth. Thus, nearly all of the elements that make up the human body were once stars. We are, quite literally, “stardust”.
Now, coming to Matthew chapter three we read. . .
“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: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge His FLOOR, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the CHAFF with unquenchable FIRE.” (Matthew 3:11 & 12)
“And he shall bring forth thy righteousness AS THE LIGHT, and thy judgment as the noonday [SUN]. (Psalm 37:6)
I am reminded hear of how Satan provoked David into numbering the children of Israel, which angered the Lord greatly. David was then faced with three forms of punishment from which he had to chose: “Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel.” David chose to be given over to the hand of the Lord for three days saying, “. . .let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.” David knew from experience that man is incapable of restraining his vengeance - exacting it to the fullest - and so he opted for the righteous, but merciful judgment of God instead.
“So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.” (1 Chronicles 21:14-16)
Now compare this with Revelation 7:9-17. . .
“After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes [a symbol of righteousness], and palms [the symbol of victory and of peace] in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATER: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”
“And he [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” (Luke 4:16-21)
We are not told why Jesus stopped reading mid-way through Isaiah 61:1-3, although I believe it is possible that He may have been leaving a bread crumb for the Saints of God today. . .
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. . .and the DAY OF VENGEANCE of our God; to comfort [bring victory and peace to. . .] all that MOURN; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of HEAVINESS; that they might be called TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING OF THE LORD, that he might be glorified. (Isaiah 61:1-3)
I am reminded here of the following passage of scripture. . .
“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause BREATH to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: BUT THERE WAS NO BREATH IN THEM. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and BREATH upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.” (Ezekiel 37:1-14)
“So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth:
It [Jesus] shall not return unto me void, but it [He] shall accomplish that which I please,
and it [He] shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it [Him].”
Isaiah 55:11
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David, and the Bright and Morning Star.”
Revelation 22:16
The following hymn was written by our brother Edwin Hatch in 1878. . .
Breath of God
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
fill me with life anew,
that I may love what thou dost love,
and do what thou wouldst do.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
until my heart is pure,
until with thee I will one will,
to do and to endure.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
till I am wholly thine,
till all this earthly part of me
glows with thy fire divine.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
so shall I never die,
but live with thee the perfect life
of thine eternity.
May this be the response of our hearts, even today!
Julie Hogan
1/1/2026
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