In one sense of what is called ‘spirit’, as is taught in the Book of Enoch, there is a set of characteristics which define something. This goes back, apparently, to the way of thinking and seeing the world in very ancient times. The sun has rays of light, and it has heat, and we could see it as two sets of characteristics: a spirit of light-giving nature, and a spirit of heat-giving nature. God creates such spirits—such defining sets of characteristics—just as He creates the things which have these spirits. Therefore the spirit defining something exists as something in its own right. Jesus said he is there in existence before the birth of Abraham, who was born centuries before Jesus was born. But there is an extension of this sense of what is called a ‘spirit’ which is the intention of something either happening or coming into physical existence. There is a phenomenon of intent becoming known at a spiritual level, and this is part of this domain of spirit too. Jesus can say he exists even before the ancient figure Abraham was born, because not only are the set of characteristics defining the anointed one, the Christ, as a spirit, a defining set of characteristics, there in those times, but the divine intent of this spirit becoming flesh and blood one day, as Jesus, is also there. Once God defines Jesus and forms His intent that Jesus would come one day in flesh and blood, this spirit is there in existence in the universe.
