Perfect Baptism

To be perfectly baptized is to be washed by affusion as an infant and washed by immersion as a Gospel-believer, with Jesus Christ baptizing us with the Holy Spirit near the time of our immersion. It is only necessary to receive one of the two baptismal washings, but there is nothing in the New Testament that speaks against receiving both. (It is not a re-baptism, because you cannot redo something that has not been done before.) However, one should think twice before being perfectly baptized, because he or she might be given an additional gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38, 1Co. 12:6-11) and to whom more is given more is expected (Luke 12:47-48).

When the altar at the Annunciation of the Lord church was overturned during Mass in 2005 by vision-inspired vandals having the names Joseph and Marie, the parishioner who was perfectly baptized is the one who had the gift of recognizing the incident as a sign from God. That parishioner has the name John, and the sign told him to look under the altar in his namesake's vision, tell God what he sees, and ask God in faith for the revelation of who the souls under the altar are (Rev. 6:9-11). Because John had more faith in receiving the revelation than anyone else who has ever asked God for it, he received the revelation (Mat. 21:22, Mark 11:24), thereby making him the co-prophet of the fifth seal.