Romans 9:11-13 provides another good example of the belief in pre-existence, and probably reincarnation, in the Bible.  Although they're still in their mother's womb, God says "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated".  Since God says that he loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were born and before they had done anything  good or evil in this life, it clearly follows that they must have existed before when they had done something good or evil to deserve being loved or hated by God.

     In Revelations 3:12, Jesus says "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and shall go no more out".  "He shall go no more out" has one of two possible meanings to me, neither of which the Church  would accept.  Not having to leave the temple of God again implies that we were once in it - i.e., we were all "Adams" and "Eves" who fell from Paradise.  On the other hand, "go no more out" may mean that there is no longer a need to reincarnate, to leave the spiritual realms again to re-embody on earth.  There are other Biblical quotes that indicate a belief in pre-existence, and probably reincarnation.  Most references to these doctrines  were probably removed from the Bible.  The Emperor Justinian may have been responsible for their removal.  He was responsible for these doctrines being anathematized.  Some believe that the Emperor Constantine had all the references to reincarnation stricken from the Bible at the Council of Nicea, that the actual testimony lies in the ashes of the Alexandrian libraries that were ordered burned.7

     Another reason for a belief in reincarnation is the lost years of Jesus.  Seventeen years, more than half of Jesus's life, are unaccounted for!  Where was Jesus between the ages of twelve and thirty!?  How is it that we have so much information about the last three years of Jesus's life but have nothing about the previous seventeen?!  If Jesus were in his homeland  during those seventeen years, surely someone would have seen or heard something, and it would have been recorded.  But nothing was.  Nothing was recorded because Jesus wasn't there.  Where was he?  Jesus was in the Orient!  According to ancient Tibetan manuscripts seen by four prominent people, Jesus was in India and the Himalayas.  He went there to prepare for his Palestinian mission.   He studied under Brahman priests who taught him things that he would use in that mission such as how to teach, heal, and drive out evil spirits.  Why would Jesus go to the Orient to prepare for his mission unless he believed in reincarnation and karma, because that is what they believe and teach there?  Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian journalist, was told that there are sixty-three manuscripts in the Vatican on the subject of Jesus in the Orient.  Nicolas Notovitch was the first to discover (in 1887) the manuscripts that reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in India and the Himalayas.  If you would like to learn more about the seventeen unaccounted for years in the life of Jesus, I recommend reading The Lost Years of Jesus by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Summit University Press, 1984.

7. Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation by Noel Langley, 1968, p. 162