Ok I can see your taking this to heart, and I don't want to be at odds ends with you over what may be somebody's last words, we both know how that feals right.
Let's go to scripture and look at a real prophet, it's somebody who has an excellent spirit,
Jeremiah 1.5 God says to Jeremiah I knew you befor you where born.
Which means Jeremiah could have been here in a previous life, that was what made him special,
Jeremiah does not apply to every person, because some people are yet to be born.
I see Blains patience and reassurance to me and others in taking time to explain, is of Good spirit.
Also if we look to the bible we see lots of prophecies being spoken to individuals,
Jeremiah could have been here in a previous life????
That is utter heresy! That is called reincarnation. And don't think the Israelites didn't know about it. The Egyptians believed in it, and they spent some 400 years surrounded by the false Egyptian religion & culture.
Before I was saved, I too believed in reincarnation. By the end, (meaning just before Jesus saved me!) I was finding it very hard to justify. So what exactly was sent from a dead body to a baby? A soul, a heart, a memory? Obviously not! We don't retain memories of earlier lives, although some pretend to! God places a soul in us. Our heart is a part of our own unique body. God has promised he has known & saved us before the foundation of the world!
"For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." Romans 8:29
"For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love 5 He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will, 6 to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved." Eph 1:4-6
No hint that we have lived multiple lives!! Just the promise that God created us, chose us in him!
Hindism & Buddhism both believe in reincarnation. People move onto their next lives, based on their good works & spiritual progress. It is a works based religion. Christ set us free from a works based religion! It is the only religion that salvation comes from a perfect God, no mistakes made! (We obey God and do works, after he saved us, not to earn or keep our salvation! James was right that we do show our faith by our works- but only after God has saved us!)
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph 2:8-10
It is not of ourselves! That knocks reincarnation out of contention as a possibility after death, right there!
But the other thing about reincarnation in India, in particular, is that it led to the caste system. If the station you are born into in life is based on your works in the last life, then if you are born a Dalit, the lowest caste, for example, then it is your own fault you are ignored and hated by others - because you last life you did more bad things than good! If you are born into a high caste, well, you deserve all the perks and comforts, because, after all, you earned it with your good works & deeds in you previous life! And that results in a most evil kind of bondage! A real plan of the devil, to keep people in poverty and die young!
But worse, in 5000 years of Hinduism in India, if you deserve your caste, then no one is going to make an effort to help you, better you, include you, educate you, etc. and that was exactly how the British found it, when they ruled India! Not everything the British did in India was a good thing. They had their own, much looser class system. But even they saw how horrible the caste system was, particularly for the lower castes. Life was a dead end for those unfortunate enough to be born to a lower caste! They banished the entire thing!
I'm sure the Christian faith of the British certainly influenced them to destroy such a horrible system! I won't even get into the after life beliefs of Buddhists! I could say a lot more, but instead, I'll go back to the point of my post!
"Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." Hebrews 9:27-28
After God saved me, and I was a new Christian, sometimes I would have doubts about whether perhaps I would be reincarnated, rather than be with Jesus when I died. It was many years of brain washing, believing in such a wrong thing. But this verse in Hebrews, lays to rest the concept of reincarnation completely!
We are destined, or appointed to die once! The verses before these also say that Jesus himself only lived, or appeared once on this earth, although he certainly returns as that same person on Judgement Day at his Second Coming!
So, you have some spiritual issues to deal with too, Fundaamental! Read the book of Hebrews a few times. It has deep theology on the purpose of Jesus as reflected in the Hebrew Scriptures, including fulfilling more than 300 of them!
I am rejoicing now, as I remember being so involved in the New Age Movement for many years, when God saved me out of those deceptive, subtle lies! I pray you to will come to understand that God had given us only one life, in which we should believe and serve Christ!
No! Jeremiah, did not live previous lives! He was special because God placed his Spirit in him, called him and he obeyed! He called Israel to repentance in many ways! He simply was a man marked by God! Never did he live other lives! Please repent of this foolish lie from the devil!