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MESSAGE # 534 -  Part 3

BERESHITH
(The Beginning - Genesis 1)

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BERESHITH
(The Beginning - Genesis 1)

Tape 1

Praise the Lord. I've changed the interpretation of the beginning paragraphs of the Zohar called Bereshith. We're interpreting it because we're not working with the original Hebrew. We're working with an English translation, which I have been amplifying based upon what the Lord has been teaching me from various texts of the Kabbalistic literature. Now for those of you who may not have heard the previous tapes, let me remind you that Kabbalah is the collective name for a series of literary works. Kabbalah is the name of the collection. There are many books under the title of Kabbalah. Basically, Kabbalah is the teaching of the Hebrew esoteric doctrine of the Scripture. The Lord brought me into a text that I had not touched upon before. He just never ceases to amaze me. I believe He brought me into this message, Bereshith, because there was something that I wasn't understanding in the series, A Look At Kabbalah. In the series, A Look At Kabbalah, I was more or less looking at a book called The Tree of Life and then He brought me into the Zoar because I wasn't getting something that was taught in The Tree of Life. Now He brought me into a third book last night to help me to understand what I was trying to teach you from the Zohar. So the Lord never ceases to amaze me. He brought me into a book called The Gates of Light, which is another book under the cover of the title of Kabbalah in Kabbalistic literature.

So I guess I should really start by showing you what I didn't understand that caused the Lord to bring me into this third book, which has been such a blessing to me that I can't even tell you. I don't remember, really ever, coming into a meeting with this kind of an anointing before I even open my mouth. But it's been on me since last night. I have to tell you that I have never understood the concept of Jesus and His body the way I am understanding it now. I don't know whether it's the books or whether it's just my time to understand it. I can't answer any of these questions. I just know that something is happening to me and that my understanding is reaching a depth that goes beyond understanding. My understanding is increasing into a personal spiritual experience that I understand. The only way I can describe it to you, is an increase of the in-filling of the indwelling of the Christ in me. Unfortunately, the message in the church today is that you have an experience and that's what you've got, but it's not true. He grows in you and He expands in you. Christ has to be grafted to you and He grows in you and He expands in you and we have the potential to have the whole, or to have at least, the power of the whole Ten Sefirot of Adam Kadmon manifesting through us.

You may recall a recent message, which I think was under the series A Look At Kabbalah where I talked about the dream that I had about the tall building and the reservoir. Well, I now realize that that tall building was the linear aspect of Adam Kadmon dwelling within me. Even though I taught it on the message a couple of weeks ago, it just really got inside me. The same thing happens here. I'm preaching something for years and all of a sudden, you tell me, well, I just got it. Sometimes I preach things that come out of my mind. It doesn't come out of my spirit. That tall building, that great building, can actually abide in us and we can become the holding tank or the receptacle for all the power of God, both of that which is above and below, all feeding into each other. We can be a walking receptacle of all of the power of God. Jesus talked about being the head of the body. I don't know, it just hit me in the shower this morning, that I just couldn't get over it, what He really meant by being the head of the body. The body of Christ is in several dimensions. There are human beings that have Christ, alone, grafted to them. Then there are human beings that have Christ Jesus, because Christ has matured into Christ Jesus. The body of people who have Christ Jesus in them is the head of the body of people that have Christ in them. I don't know whether they exist now or not, but there will be people who have the Glorified Jesus Christ joined to Christ Jesus in them. That's the marriage that we're all waiting for.

So it may not exist now. I don't know. But we're going to have three categories of believers in the flesh, three categories of believers and they're all going to be people. They are the people who have Christ, the people who have Christ Jesus who doesn't have a head attached to Him and then the people who have Christ Jesus, whose head is attached to them. When we see those three categories of believers in the earth, it will be the people who have Christ Jesus, whose head is attached to Him, that are going to be the miracle working people. Now this is not permanent. You don't have to believe that if you only have Christ, that you can never become a man who manifests Christ Jesus with His head. Everything is available to all of us, if you're willing to pay the price and go the way you have to go. You have to live totally sold out for God. Then of course, there are the people with the Holy Spirit who are still in their carnal mind, and this is going to upset a lot of people, but they will be lumped with the unbelievers. I know that I preached this years ago out of a scripture in Job. I can't quote it to you right now, but I remember preaching it years ago out of a scripture quoted in Job, that there will be two categories of people in the world after Christ Jesus manifests in His full power publicly.

There will be the people that have some measure of Christ and the people who don't have Christ at all. The people who are in their carnal mind, that have the Holy Spirit, will be lumped together with the nations and that will be a great humiliation to them. But the truth of the matter is that Jesus does not humiliate us and that everyone had the opportunity. By the time this happens, everyone will have had the opportunity to have had Christ grafted to them; to repent and pursue the truth and have Christ grafted to them. If they do not receive this experience, they will be lumped together with the nations and they'll have a second chance, if they can get past their pride. They will have a second chance. But somehow, I just never understood like I'm understanding this morning. Although we're not Pentecostal anymore, we're all out of the Pentecostal Church. To have this anointing that we so talked about in the Pentecostal Church, literally means to have God living on the inside of you. I've known this, but I just know it in a different dimension this morning, that is awesome. That dimension is more than spiritual power. Maybe that's what it is. I've known that Christ Jesus will live on the inside of us, but I think I've always perceived of Him as living on the inside of me as a force of spiritual power, even a force to do good, but it's much more than that. When He really lives on the inside of you, your whole nature and personality changes. You become Christ Jesus in your emotions and in your thought processes and that's what I never knew.

I've been preaching here for years that you have to get the mind of Christ and you have to think like Christ thinks. I do think like Christ thinks in many areas, certainly not in all areas, but in a lot of areas. I have a true Spirit of Counsel. You see, you can only have the true Spirit of Counsel if you understand how Jesus understands the problem. You cannot counsel somebody unless you fully comprehend their problem. You cannot determine what the answer to a problem is until you fully comprehend the problem. To fully comprehend the problem, you have to know how God sees that problem. If you don't understand how God sees the problem, you might come up with a conclusion such as, well, abortion seems good to me. So you have to have the mind of Christ and God's reactions and comprehension of the problem before you can see the solution in Christ. The solution in Christ is the Spirit of Counsel. I've been telling you all for years, not to counsel out of your carnal mind, but I've never explained it like I just explained it now. So I understand this moment, that to have Christ on the inside of me in the fullness of power is more than spiritual force and might. It is to have Christ on the inside of you in the fullness of His nature and His thought processes. It changes you and you become a whole different person.

It's just an awesome moment for me today. I just know that the Lord has been promising an outpouring of spiritual power for awhile now. I just know that it's coming soon. I can't make anybody any promises, but I know that it's really near and it has just amazed me to read these books. Let me just make this comment before I go any further. I just want to remind you that there are three different kinds of Kabbalah that I know of. What I call the Hebrew Kabbalah is spelled with a "K" and the Christian Kabbalah is spelled with a "C." I have looked at, at least, two of those books and I find them impure. I find them mixed with the doctrine of the Trinity, which I don't believe in. I find them mixed with Hinduism. I have taught from a vantage point of Hinduism, but only to make a point. I have never considered Hinduism a valid path of ascension for God's people. I would warn anybody against the two books that I've looked at of Christian Kabbalah. You could pick up a wrong spirit. That's my opinion. The third aspect of Kabbalah is called practical Kabbalah, which I understand is occult in its nature. I have not seen any books concerned with it and I do not want to. It's magic and these books teach the wielding of spiritual power out of one's own spirit, which is Satan. A lot of people are afraid when they hear the word, Kabbalah, but the Lord has led me to translations of the Hebrew books that are so profound that they're changing my whole life.

A couple of them that I've looked at are, perhaps, over my head in this hour. I don't know whether it's the timing that's right or the collection of all the three books that I've really focused on at one time. I don't know. Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with the books. Maybe it's just the time and the Lord is pouring out on me. I don't know. But this particular book, The Gates of Light, is not in parable form and I can understand it. At least, where I'm at, I can understand it easily. Some of the other books are in parable form and I could not understand a lot of it. But I read in this book, that in the past anyway, there were people who manifested this power of God to the point that it was a protection to them. They were protected against all physical illness and all danger of a military nature, all physical danger against being mugged, against being robbed as a nation and against being overrun by aggressive nations. That's the degree to which this power was manifested. It is not manifested in my life to that degree at this time. This book, Gates of Light, starts with a warning to not use this power for your own personal gain. It starts with a clear warning to not attempt to acquire this power or if you have it, to use it for your own personal gain. I think it was only the rabbis that had this power or the prophets before the rabbis. The rabbis came into power pretty much after the prophets passed away, which was about five hundred years before Jesus appeared.

The author talks about a rabbi that used the power for personal gain for a very understandable reason. His sister was about to be taken captive into a brothel and put into prostitution. The rabbi said to the guard, let my sister go and from that day forward, anytime you have a problem, you just call upon the God of Israel and He will help you. What amazed me in that statement was that this rabbi had the power to impart the anointing to a heathen. How do I know that? The rest of the story goes that the rabbi was punished. I don't know what that means. He must have reaped some ungodly recompense. I don't know what it was because it's not in the book. The writer of the book is saying, even though the man had this good motive to save his sister, he was punished for using the power in that magical way, in that occult way. Of course, what would his alternative have been? His alternative should have been to cry out to the Almighty to save his sister, but he took it upon himself to use what was entrusted to him to save his sister. Don't we all do that every day? We all do that every day. But what amazed me was that he had the power to impart it, even though he was imparting it incorrectly. In the church today, we can impart the Holy Spirit if the Lord allows us. As far as I know there was only one person that received the Holy Spirit from me. It was never a big part of my ministry, transferring the Holy Spirit to people. But I couldn't do it of my own. I prayed for many people and only one or two got it.

But apparently this rabbi had the power to impart this anointing to a heathen who could have easily misused it. That just amazed me. There shall be no sickness among you. There shall be no sickness among you. So to receive this kind of divine power and divine protection, which is definitely the promise of the Scripture was always known by me. I've always known that, but I always expected it to come from the outside of me. I've always expected it to descend upon me and cover me. I find out that this is wrong thinking. It has to well up from within me. That's what Jesus was talking about when He talked about that spring of living waters. It has to well up from within you. There is an anointing that comes from outside of you. It's called the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the grace and the mercy of God to the heathen, to the nations, who don't know Jesus. Of course, Jesus is the One who is manifesting Jehovah to us today. But once we get close enough to the Lord, once Christ is grafted to us, the blessings stop pouring from outside of us and we're required to do our part in having it built up inside of us. You know, I always had a measure of this understanding, but I never understood completely why I waited thirteen years for the Lord to save my life. I was dying for thirteen years after I came to God. Now I'm getting better every year. From that point of view, it's a miracle, but I did not have a miraculously instant healing. The reason for this is that I'm a natural Jew.

The healing of the Holy Spirit, which comes from the outside, which is without repentance, is not for the Jew. It's for the person who doesn't understand what the Lord is teaching us now. You see, it's for the church. It's even for the people who have been in the church for a couple of years because they really don't even know or understand that Christ is different than the Holy Spirit. They're totally uneducated. They have no understanding. No one is judging their sins. There's no man in the church. But even with this, the Holy Spirit is being withdrawn in this country. The Holy Spirit will continue to go to the nations who are ignorant of Christ and of what He truly requires of His people, but in this country where we've had the Holy Spirit since the 1940's I believe, the Holy Spirit is slowly being withdrawn. Why? Because we're suppose to be moving into a place where the righteousness of God is being built into us. The righteousness of God cannot be built into you without having your sins shown to you and without proper authority being exerted in the church and it's not being exerted in the church.

The Holy Spirit is drying up and falling away. He's still flowing in some areas of the country, but He's only for a season. The Holy Spirit is the grace of God which gives you healing and forgiveness of sins so that you can be strong and sound of mind enough to pursue the Scripture, get Christ grafted to you, and switch over from the path that you're on to the path of righteousness. The people are falling away because this teaching is not in the church. So that's why I wasn't instantly healed. There were instant healings all around me and I never got it because I'm Israel. The healing is welling up from inside of me. Once Christ is grafted to you, you are Israel and your healing is not coming from outside of you. I've been telling everybody here that for years. We have all kinds of aches and pains. I've also been telling you for years that if we still have problems in our body, that it is because of sin that we haven't dealt with. If you or I are waiting for a miraculous turnaround to be healed instantly and we do not relate this healing to the dealings of the sin in our mind, we are deceived. Sickness and disease is directly related to the sin of your mind; the way you think and your dealings with the way you think. Praise the Lord.

I've read all the blessings that are suppose to be ours and I'm waiting for this to fall on me just like the church is waiting for a physical building called Jerusalem to drop out of the sky. He's got to well up from the inside of you. In order to do that, you have to be engaged in a full scale war with your sin nature, who at this time is possessing you. He still has a lot of power over me. Our great source of blessing is in Christ. The whole message is in the esoteric understanding of the Old Testament. If Israel had not sinned, they would not have seen death. Israel had everything that they needed to enter into eternal life, but they sinned. You see, you can't stand still. Either you go forward or you go backwards. The church has everything that they need to enter into eternal life, but they can't stand still. If they keep on believing that eternal life is after physical death, they're going to get physical death. They will inherit physical death. If they won't receive the truth, they will enter into death. So the same thing is happening to the church that happened to Israel. But we believe that God has a plan and that there will be a company of people who will overcome the obstacles that are internalized in their mind and in their heart. This small group of people will be the recipient of the restored relationship with Jehovah, through Christ Jesus the mediator, which will bring the power to defend the nation, to defend the church, to defend our families.

Do you know what the Scripture says? Of course, I'm talking about the church which is spiritual Israel now. The Scripture says that when Israel rises in power again, there will be Jews and Christians who have Christ grafted to them in this restored Israel. The Scripture says that their power will be so profound, they will have power over life and death. They will have supernatural power to stop wars. They will be so obviously profound that even the princes of the occult will say, let us serve them. We want what you have. Now I don't hear about that in the church today. I don't mean to be irreverent, but I see silly little children going around beating people over the head with bibles and that potential is still in this congregation. You're still out there wanting to show and tell people the way and wanting to be the big shot. But I'm telling you that the Scripture says that you will convert them at the demonstration of your own relationship with Jesus Christ and with the power and wisdom and graciousness that it brings into your life. That's how you win them.

That's what Paul said and everybody thinks he's talking about the little housewife and her husband. But that's just a parable. You will win the nation, you will win the heathen, you will win the people that think they're Christians, but are really not Christians, but are of the synagogue of Satan or the church of Satan. You will win them by manifesting the power of God with righteousness and the true love and compassion of God to them. That's what the Scripture says. They will see Him and they will fall down and say I want the same thing. So put your tracts away and put your bibles away. I mean the bibles that you're beating people over the head with. Work on yourself and forget about evangelizing unless the Lord specifically sends you. When you manifest the righteous nature of God and the power that is associated with Him, people will be chasing you around and they will be tying themselves to your doorpost, saying, let me study with you.

Okay, let's go on with this message. I do want to show you the point that I didn't understand on part 2 of this message. It has to do with the point. If you recall, on part 2 of this message, I showed you a point entering in at the top of the circle. I'm going to draw that on the board for you in a minute. I knew something wasn't sitting right with me about that, but I couldn't even get the question right in my head. I now understand that what was bothering me is that the circle is not a linear circle. The circle of the void, the circle of the empty space, it's not a linear circle. It's a sphere like the planet earth is a sphere. It's a three dimensional circle. Let me show you this on the board.

This is drawing #1. In the upper left hand corner, I've drawn what I drew in previous messages either in A Look At Kabbalah or Bereshith or probably both. The point is drawn at what I would perceive with my carnal mind to be the top of the circle. We see a line extends from the point, extends into the circle, but does not go far enough to pierce the circumference of the circle on the other side. The point is a vehicle for the light of the Infinite to flow into. If the line that extends from the point pierces through the other side of the circle, then the light of the Infinite that pours into the circle would just pass through the circle and go back into the essence of the Eyn Sof that surrounds the circle. So for this reason, the line does not penetrate all the way through to cleave to the other side of the circle. It just penetrates into the midst of the circle and it stops. What I didn't understand is that this circle is a sphere, a three dimensional circle, which means that the point doesn't have to appear where my carnal mind would call the top.

The point could appear over here, where I show you on the right side of the board. The point could appear anywhere on the surface of the three dimensional circle and that point designates the top of the sphere because there is no top to a sphere. The people here saw me take out an orange and demonstrate that there isn't a top to a sphere. So the point indicates the top. Directly underneath the top, not from a linear top to the bottom like in the upper left hand corner of the board, but a bottom that pierces through the center of the sphere and comes out on the other side. It has to pierce through the center of the sphere and that's the bottom. When we have a top and a bottom, we then can determine the four directions, north, south, east and west. So in the study of Kabbalah, we deal with six directions, north, south, east and west, top and bottom. I haven't seen any application of that yet, but this is a basic principle that we have to learn.

I've done the best that I can to show you with these drawings that the point can appear anywhere on the surface of this sphere thus designating that point as the top. It does not have to be the top as our carnal mind perceives the top because we're really talking about spiritual principles and not directions. Everything is from where you're looking at it. You've already read the notes from the message this morning and if you remember, we were talking about that which is beyond the point. This has to do with the interpretation of the Zoar, talking about that which is beyond the point as unknowable. I put my own note in the notes because I'm studying other books right now, so I distinguish between what I find in my research and what is my own comment. We're looking at the point on this drawing now. My comment was that the way it was written, I would have really thought that beyond the point meant, beyond the point into the depth of the circle.

That was what I thought when I read it. Does anybody not know what I'm talking about? That was the way I read it, beyond the point. Here's the point on the surface of the circle. When I read beyond the point, I assumed the point is coming from above or that is what I thought. The thread of light is coming from above, forms a point on the surface of the circle and then goes beyond that point. To me that means further on as you enter into the circle. Do you know what I'm talking about? But that's not what the Zoar meant. How do I know that? Because the whole phrase was, beyond that point is unknowable, the one who you cannot comprehend. Well, beyond that point, the One who is Unknowable is outside of the void. That's the Eyn Sof. He's outside of the void. So what that had to mean to me, for the Zoar to say, and beyond that point is unknowable, it had to be the entity that was inside the circle, Satan.

If you're looking from up here, beyond the point is the center of the circle. But if you're standing in the center of the circle, beyond that point is outside of the circle. So everything has to do from the vantage point. It's how you're looking at it. Brethren, I've been teaching you this for years, the carnal mind has a totally different perspective on everything than the Christ mind and they are always at odds with one another. The opinion of the carnal mind is always opposite of the opinion of the Christ mind. Therefore you can never move in the higher realms of God's Spirit with your carnal mind. As I explained earlier on this message, you can never move into the legitimate counsel that comes out of Christ Jesus if you cannot evaluate the problem out of your Christ mind. It's impossible for you to manifest the counsel of God. You might have a word of knowledge for the person, if the Lord chooses to do that, but a word of knowledge bypasses your intelligence. It comes forth like the gift of prophesy.

I tell you that so that you can understand what I'm talking about. It bypasses your thinking. It's just a word. You become a messenger that delivers a word to the person. But to manifest the Spirit of Counsel requires recognition of the problem, identification of the problem as God sees it and knowledge of God's solutions for similar problems that exist in the Scripture or that have existed in your personal experience with Him. You've seen Him react in a certain way and you have a spirit of righteousness rising up in you, reminding you that this is how God thinks about this and this is how God deals with this. You have every reason to believe that the Lord will deal with this present problem the way He's dealt with previous problems that were in the same vein. You have to have all this working in you. This is all the wisdom of God, the knowledge of God, the understanding of God. This is all the Glorified Jesus Christ. This is the head. It's the top three sefirot. You have to have this working in you before you can even hope to bring forth a solution to the problem which is the Spirit of Counsel. The Spirit of Counsel is the solution to the problem.

We're talking about the circle being a sphere. Today we're talking about the nature of God and the word today is, do not expect miracle working power to flow out of you from your carnal mind. Do not expect it. It will not happen.

Whoever is listening to this tape or reading this manuscript, if you're in your carnal mind, any miracle working power that's pouring out of you is not of God unless you're overseas someplace where they've never heard of God before and the Lord happens to be still pouring out the Holy Spirit. But if you are a Christian in the church in the United States and you have seen a great move of the Holy Spirit and then you saw Him withdraw and you've perceived what you see to be a revival of that same Holy Spirit, but your nature hasn't changed, you are deceived. It is a counterfeit Holy Spirit. Does anybody not understand the difference of what I said? I'm going to say it again. For people who do not know God in foreign lands, in pagan lands, lands where the people were raised in other religions, maybe Moslems or some were in witchcraft, some were in voodoo, all kinds of idolatry; the Holy Spirit is still pouring out to those people because they have no way of understanding the Scripture or desiring to pursue the Scripture, so He gives them His Holy Spirit, which is unmerited favor, which gives them, at least, the incentive to pursue the Word of God and read the Scripture.

Of course, the Holy Spirit can pour out on this nation too, if there are some people somewhere that just never had an opportunity to turn to God. It's not impossible. But by and large, this is a Judea Christian nation. People who have been raised in Church, who have had access to a Bible all their life, seen miracles if they were in Pentecost; the Holy Spirit is not pouring out there. Only the Spirit of Christ, which comes out of the nature of Christ, will be doing these great miracles. Apparently no one is in the nature of Christ because there aren't any great miracles being done today. Here is your explanation as to why it is very possible that many Baptists and fundamental Christians will be going into the depths of Christ Jesus and will have Christ grafted to them without first speaking in tongues. They weren't raised in a Pentecostal background. They may have been raised as a Baptist where they were taught that this is wrong. Yet, they have faith in Jesus Christ and if they touch the Lord and He decides to graft to them, He will go on skipping over Pentecost because He's not going back. He's not going into the Baptist Church and pouring out the Holy Spirit. Do you hear this? He's not going into the Baptist Church and pouring out the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was poured out in this country. It is now time to move on. The fact that the Holy Spirit is not being poured out anymore doesn't mean that if you are a Lutheran or you are a Methodist or you are a Baptist and you were taught that it is Satanic to speak in tongues and you missed it; that doesn't mean you can't go on with God. He will still graft Christ to you if you pursue Him according to the channels that will make this experience available to you.

As far as I know, the only channel that will do that is the Doctrine of Christ. I could be wrong because there's a lot I don't know. But that's how I see it. The Holy Spirit is grace to the people that don't know the Scripture. So if you spend twenty years as a Baptist and you know the letter of the word and you feel the Doctrine of Christ is truth, you're being drawn to it. Your relationship with Jesus Christ, through the letter of the word, has created a strong enough manifestation of Christ, in you, to draw you to the truth of the Doctrine of Christ, so you can have Christ grafted to you and you can completely bypass the Holy Spirit. Eventually the Spirit of Christ will pour out of you when your nature changes and lines up with Christ Jesus. I think that's a very exciting word. I always knew it could be true, but I never understood it the way I'm explaining it today. I want to tell you something, what just came out of my mouth was a pronouncement from Christ Jesus to the whole church that it's not too late, that miracle working power is about to pour out. But I want to tell you that when the Spirit of Christ pours out miracle working power, it doesn't come alone. It comes with what? What does it come with? Yes, it comes with judgment. The Holy Spirit comes with grace and forgiveness of sins. You just say I'm sorry Lord; I'm a sinner and you're healed. But you cannot get healed by the Spirit of Christ without judgment. Why? Because you have to change. You see, you can get healed by the Holy Spirit without changing. To get healed by the Spirit of Christ, you have to change and you can't change until your sins are exposed. The way your sins are exposed is by judgment, judgment, judgment, judgment. I rebuke all of your carnal minds that won't see it.

There's no healing without judgment. There's no healing without exposure of sin and repentance that comes forth from the judgment. There has to be a confession that you're sick because of sin. Well this is suppose to be Bereshith, but I can't get off of this this morning and the feeling in my spirit is that we've gone through another door. Another door has opened and the Lord is moving very rapidly and what is being preached today, I remind you, is causing thought forms to be formed and to go out into the spirit. There are many that are hearing this message in the spirit. What does it mean? I don't know. Does it mean a greater withdrawing of the Holy Spirit in other areas of the country? I don't know. It might. But I know that it means the outpouring of the Spirit of Christ, but He's coming with judgment. You better not get too close if you're not willing to have your sins judged and to change. You see the healing that comes with the Holy Spirit has no strings attached to it. Come and take your healing. But the Spirit of Christ has a string attached to it.

So, I do have a whole message this morning. Let's try it again. The Lord is telling me that there are people right here in this congregation that are still hoping for healings without realizing that that healing is intimately associated with their facing the sins of the unconscious part of their mind. Right in this congregation there are people who are hoping for healing and they're hoping for it like you hope for the Holy Spirit to heal you and it's never going to come. He says, I've been telling you this for years and I don't know how to make it any clearer. It's not going to come the way you think it's going to come. It's not coming out of heaven like a dove that's going to heal you because of grace. You're past grace. The healing that you wait for, the healing that you hope for, will arise within you as you look inward and face your negative side and reject it and war against it, which will result in Christ Jesus being built in you and your healing will come when Christ Jesus builds in you. I rebuke the lie, says the Lord, I rebuke the lie that waits for a healing passively; I rebuke the lie. You have become Israel, says God. Grace is over for you. Is that a bad thing? No! It is a good thing because the healing that comes with grace leaves you vulnerable to other diseases and you die. The healing that comes from the Spirit of Christ leads to eternal life, a change of nature. Eternal life is in a change of nature. It's not dropping out of the sky like rain.

Well, I guess there's an angry spirit on me this morning. Praise the Lord. I hope somebody got helped. I just heard in my head that Santa Claus is dead. (Laughter) Praise the Lord. Grow up, it's time to grow up says the Lord. Healing should be in your mind. Healing should be intimately associated with judgment; intimately associated with judgment. Corrective judgment is the exposure of your own sin nature and the tearing down of that sin nature. To think of healing in any other terms is a Santa Claus mentality. The Lord gives gifts to children. You are not children anymore.

Okay, we are interpreting the first paragraph of the category called Bereshith, the beginning, in the Zohar. I had to make some changes. According to the translation that we're working with, I believe it says; In the beginning the king decided to sketch a vessel. Based on the knowledge that I have so far, I knew that Malkhut, the tenth sefirot, has the kingship. When Malkhut dwells in a man, he becomes a king and the bible character associated with Malkhut is King David. He was a king and he had the victory in the physical wars that he fought because Malkhut dwelled in him and, of course, the name of God associated with the tenth sefirot, is Adonay. You know, for years I've heard about people doing studies of the names of God, but I was never attracted to that study. I guess it wasn't my time. I guess I thought, in my mind, that it was a carnal study, so who cares about the names of God? I want to get the meat of the Scripture. I want to get the Doctrine of Christ out, but I now understand that a study of the names of God imparts those names to you, when you actually study the attributes of that name. I guess I never really understood the concept of the Name of God. A Name of God is a quality of the Godhead. One of each of the names of God is a quality of the Godhead, of His personality, of who He is and how He expresses Himself to us. We know that God doesn't have a personality, but He expresses Himself to us in terms of personality so that we can comprehend Him. When we fully understand what that name means and how it relates to us and what we can expect from it, that Name of God is built in us. I never understood that.

So today we will start on a study on Adonay, the Name of God which is associated with Malkhut, the tenth sefirot, which is called kingship or sovereignty.

To go along with my notes, I originally interpreted the word, king, in the Zohar in the first paragraph of the chapter on Bereshith, to be Adam Kadmon's Malkhut because that was the best I could do at that time, but obviously it was wrong. So the Lord put me in another book to explain to me that it was wrong. What's interesting is I never know why I'm reading these books. I just pick them up and start reading them. So I had to go into the Zohar, Bereshith, to understand the teaching of The Tree of Life that the empty space was a sphere and that the point could appear anywhere on the surface of that sphere. From the Zohar, I had to go into The Gates of Light to understand that I was interpreting the word, king, wrong. It is not Adam Kadmon's Malkhut who had an idea to sketch a vessel into the substance of the empty void. It was Adonay, an aspect of the Godhead. We're told in another place that this aspect is enclosed in the Eyn Sof , in the Unlimited One. So the Unlimited One, who is unified, the Unlimited One who is beyond our ability to relate to, is called "it." The books call Him "it" because He is neither male nor female. I have trouble calling Him "it" and I can't seem to get the word out because it's offensive to me. But He is asexual. God is asexual in His aspect of the Unlimited One, which is beyond our ability to comprehend.

He is so far from animal, mineral or vegetable, that we cannot comprehend Him. In that condition He is unified. He has within Him different attributes. Adonay is within Him. I Am is within Him. El is within Him. Jah is within Him. There all within the Eyn Sof, but they're undifferentiated. He's manifesting as one. The best example I could give you is a human being; myself. I am made up of trillions of cells. I have many organs; I have a heart, I have lungs, I have a liver, I have eyes, I have a nose and I have a mouth. All of these aspects or attributes of myself manifest to you as the human being named Sheila Vitale. As I preached to you this morning and teach you, all of these attributes of myself are engaged in the unified procedure or the unified expression of myself that is teaching you. My brain, my mind, my mouth, my vocal cords, my body is moving with expression as I talk to you and you perceive me as one. So the Unlimited One is one. He has all these potentials within Him. It would be as if my heart had the ability to express itself to you independently, which of course, is not the case. But if you can just imagine that my heart would have the ability to relate to you independently, you can get the idea. In fact, if I were to stand up and touch you, my arm would have a relationship with you.

Right now you're seeing all of me. I was praying for you earlier and my arm reached out and touched you. My torso touched you. So the Eyn Sof, the Unlimited One, He has all of these aspects within Him, but He operates in unity or He exists. He doesn't even operate, He exists. Actually, Kabbalah teaches that He doesn't even exist because the word, existence, implies something that is recognizable and the Eyn Sof is so unrecognizable that the early teachers call Him nothing. Now when I first read that in the books, that the Eyn Sof was nothing, I had a real problem with it especially since we know that Satan is called "nothing." But the Lord showed me that everything exists on both sides, on the negative side and on the positive side. The Lord showed me that there's a difference between nothing and nothingness and that He is nothingness in that He is not manifested in His form as Eyn Sof. Even then He's not in a form. I mean they're having trouble finding words to describe Him. When we talk of the Unlimited One, He is nothingness. He is totally un-manifested. We don't even know how to recognize Him. So it means none being. Nothingness means none being, not in existence. Satan is nothing. He has no value, but the Unlimited One, He is nothingness. He's not manifested to us in any way. Out of that Unified Eyn Sof, He sent forth an aspect of Himself called Adonay. What's interesting is that Adonay is the lowest level of the Godhead known to man. It's interesting to see how God works. See, He didn't send out the highest aspect of Himself first. He sent out first, the aspect of Himself, that would dwell in mankind. Let me show you this on the board.

This is drawing #2. I'm trying to demonstrate to you how, first of all, Eyn Sof had a creative utterance; let there be. I don't know exactly what the words were that brought forth the empty space. Maybe it was let us make man in our image or let there be light. I don't really know for sure and that's why I just put the four dots there. But Eyn Sof decided to have a creation and He or "it" made a creative utterance and in response to that creative utterance, Adonay, who is presently un-manifested and a part of the unity of the Eyn Sof, vibrated forth. It's just as if my brain would say when I was sitting in that chair, I want to get up so that I could explain this drawing to you. I willed to rise up out of that chair and I stood up and here I stand before you. But there are people in a wheelchair that can will to stand up and their bodies do not obey. So there is the spiritual strength within me to will my body to stand up. Well, you say, Sheila, it has nothing to do with will power or spiritual strength. Their legs are crippled. Brethren, if they had the spiritual strength to command their legs to stand, a cripple would stand because the spirit is suppose to rule over the physical body. That is not our condition today because we are lost in sin; sin, sin, sin. My beloved pharisees; I've got a pharisaical congregation. Sin, sin, sin; you are sick because of sin. You are weak because of sin. You are in pain because of sin.

Our spirit is suppose to rule over our body. When our spirit is in full communion with the Lord Jesus, we will rule over this body and the body of others as He wills. See, we have His mercy in our life, but we do not have the fullness of His power in our life and we will never have it until we start to look like Him, act like Him and think like Him and speak like Him and approach problems with our mind as He does. So Adonay, which was an aspect of the Eyn Sof was in complete submission to the whole of whatever it is that is incomprehensible to us, called the Unlimited One, the Eyn Sof. He sent forth an aspect of Himself to manifest His will and Adonay went forth as a strand of light, we're told, and as that strand of light approached the circumference of the sphere of empty space that existed within the Eyn Sof, a point came into existence because there was a sphere of empty space and then there was a strand of light. When the two touched, there came something new. When a man marries a woman, we now have something new. We have a unity called the married couple and when that married couple come together and their seeds touch, it brings forth a child. We now have a new entity. It's called a family. When two things touch each other something new is born. That which was born when the strand of light touched the surface of the sphere was this point and the point has a name and its name is reshith.

Now please just bear with me. I will eventually get around to getting on tape the difference between reshith and bereshith, but I'm just telling you what I read in the Zohar now. They call both, reshith and bereshith, the beginning. Although there is a difference between, reshith the beginning, and bereshith the beginning, but we're not up to it yet. So please just bear with me. So the point, you might say and this is probably not accurate, but if it helps you, you might say, when the strand of light known as Adonay, touch the surface of the void, there was born a new entity called point. The reason this point is called beginning is that everything outside of the sphere, outside of the empty space, is totally incomprehensible to us. We can't see it, we can't touch it, we can't feel it, we can't understand it. We believe it by faith, but it's totally incomprehensible to us. Therefore this point in this sphere is only what's comprehensible to us. Outside of this sphere is Infinity. We can't comprehend it. Inside of this sphere is everything that's finite, which we are at least capable of understanding. Therefore, this point was the beginning of the finite world and everything that we are capable of understanding. This is the division between the Infinite, which is outside the sphere and the finite, which is inside the sphere. That which is outside of the sphere, we will never understand while we're in the flesh and that which is inside the sphere, we have a hope of understanding and we are understanding little bits of it so far.

This line or thing that differentiates or separates says, over here it's infinity and over here it's finite. This line or this thing, that's says, well you're now in a place where you have the potential, where you'll maybe understand this stuff. It's not hopeless. That which separates the infinite and the finite for us is this point. What's underneath this point we can comprehend. What's beyond this point, don't even waste your time. You'll never get it. Even worse than that, Satan might come and teach you and you'll get it wrong. So concentrate on what you have a hope of understanding. This point is called reshith, the beginning. Then this point extended down to the farthest point is like saying, for example, you can buy a plane ticket to the farthest point that you want to go. Let's say, you want to go to Africa or Australia, which is even further than Africa, and you want to start coming backwards and make stops all along the way. You want to buy a round trip ticket to New Zealand or Australia. You go there, take your twelve or fourteen hour plane ride, spend some time in Australia and then take one or two hour flights and stop in all the countries and all of the cities of Australia and all of the countries all the way back to the United States. That's what happened over here. The aspect of the Eyn Sof that He sent forth to establish the beginning was the aspect of Himself that would be the farthest away from Eyn Sof. He sent forth Adonay, who would be the tenth sefirot and she went as far as the line, that extended from the point, would go to. Then other aspects of God filled in the linear aspects on top of that.

You see, if Eyn Sof sent forth El first, El would have only gone as far as here. I think El is the fourth, if I'm not mistaken. El is associated with the fourth sefirot, if I'm not mistaken. It's I Am, Yah, Jehovah and El. I'm pretty sure, but I may be wrong. So let's just say El is the fourth sefirot. He wouldn't have gone down where Malkhut is. Why would El want to go down where Malkhut is if He sent forth I Am first? I Am is right up here at the top. Why would I Am want to go all the way down to where Malkhut is? If Eyn Sof sent forth I Am first, the line would have never extended far enough to establish Malkhut. So He sent the one who would be last, first. Now that's sounds familiar. I heard that some place before. He sent the one who would be last, first. And the one who was last, from God's point of view is the one who was first from man's point of view. He's closest to us. I'm likening Malkhut to Christ, but they're not exactly the same. We'll get into that at another time. Their function is very similar. Christ is close to mortal man. We could not have a relationship with I Am. We would die. Why would we die if we tried to have a relationship with I Am? Who can answer that question?

COMMENT: We would burn up.

PASTOR VITALE: Why would we burn up? Say that word. It's so painful for my beloved pharisees. Say it, say it. Why would we burn up? Say the word. It's three letters. It starts with "s" and ends with "n." Say it. Yes; sin, sin, sin.

We are unholy. We are unclean. When you enter into a relationship or when you enter into the presence of the holiness of God or as Kabbalah puts it, the Holy Names of God or the holy aspects of God, their righteousness automatically judges our sin and we would be consumed. The further away you get from the holiness of God, the names of God are still holy, but the more it is possible to come into their presence without being destroyed. But even so, brethren, those of you who know me, you know I have very mixed reactions about this, but the truth is that people who come into my life walk away under judgment. It's very dangerous to be around me and it really has nothing to do with me personally. It's really the one who lives inside of me. I mean I just hear it over and over and over again. I don't seek to harm anybody. Sometimes I don't even have to say anything. If you are truly a son, judgment is in you because all judgment is given over to the son. Now if you live a life where you meet people and you talk to them and nothing happens in their life, you need to know that the son is not living in you. Judgment falls all around me on every side. I don't have to do anything. See, a lot of people meet me and they want to get close to me because they see the anointing, but they don't know what they're playing with. Of course, hopefully it's not destructive judgment, but what determines whether or not it is destructive judgment is whether or not you repent. I pray that all men should repent. But I've seen a lot in the towns that I pass through and I'm telling you the truth, the church doesn't understand this. They don't understand judgment. The church has been under the Holy Spirit for so long that they really think they can do anything they want and there will be no consequences. Not only that, but they think the Holy Spirit will protect them. This is not true.

So did I explain this principle to you? Does anybody have a question on this principle? You know, we cannot take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. That doesn't mean don't use a curse word. Well, you shouldn't be using curse words, but that's not the depth of that commandment. The name of the Lord is His nature. When you say you're a Christian, you are carrying His name. If you take His name and you don't manifest His nature, you're taking the name of the Lord in vain. What does that mean? You took the name of the Lord. You said, yes, I am a Christian, but I don't have to manifest His nature to you. I can do anything I want to you. I can act like I'm in the world and who's going to stop me? Well, brethren, that's taking His name in vain and He will stop you. If you're blessed, He will stop you. If not, He will flee from you and Satan will stop you. Boy, this is a heavy message today. Whatever is going on, this is a heavy message today. What if you don't know how the nature of the Lord would behave in a particular circumstance? Well then, you pray for judgment, if you have any brains at all, concerning a knowledge of the Scripture.

You can be a PHD and have no brains, brethren. You should be praying for judgment, that somebody should tell you what you're doing that's wrong. Look at the Psalms. David prays for judgment all the time. Send down your judgments, oh God. Something is wrong in your life. You're praying day and night for God to help you. Pray day and night for the Lord to show you what you're doing that's wrong. The help of God is to show you your sins. You can't say that you are a Christian and live like the world. I don't mean you have to be in fornication or stealing. It could mean lack of respect for authority, whether it's your mother or your school teacher or your pastor or the policeman, you're still taking the name of the Lord in vain. You're not acting like He would act in that circumstance and specifically in your relationships with other people. Don't say you're a Christian and act like a heathen. If you don't know what a Christian acts like, you better get on your face and ask the Lord to let you know because you will be held accountable for every wrong communication. The closer you get to God, the more accountable you will be held.

Are you going to die? Are the tires on your car going to roll off while you're driving on the Long Island Expressway? No. But you will experience painful circumstances that are rightly related to your transgression. If you disrespect an elder, you're not going to crash on the Long Island Expressway, but someone who you have authority over will disrespect you. You will reap what you have sown. Every sin has its just recompense. You don't go dying because you disrespected your mother. However, if you disrespect your mother to the point that the Lord can say that you hate her, you've then become a murderer and you are subject to premature death and that is the truth. He never commanded us to love anybody because you can't legislate your emotions, but you can legislate your behavior. You can do what's right. If she was the worst mother in the world, she's your mother and God says honor your mother and father. Any questions over here?

So we're back to this interpretation of the first paragraph of Bereshith in the Zohar. I see that I didn't even type Adonay in there. In the initial stage of creation, Adonay, the king, decided to sketch a vessel that reflects the brilliant flashing light of the Infinite. Of course, why did Adonay decide to do that? Because the Eyn Sof desired it. The Eyn Sof willed it and Adonay decided to go forth to obey the Eyn Sof and go forward and sketch a vessel that reflects the brilliant flashing light of the Infinite. Of course, that vessel is Adam Kadmon. Adam Kadmon is the vessel that holds and reflects the brilliant flashing light of the Infinite. And there issued from within the incomprehensible secret place of the mysterious Limitless One (that's the Eyn Sof) an unformed cloud of diffused matter (that means scattered, spread out matter) into the void that hung unsupported within the enclosed ring of the empty space. Of course, it was magnetism that held it up. It was unsupported, held by gravitation, which is magnetism, within the enclosed ring of the empty space. Of course, that's a three dimensional ring with a sphere. And the cloud of diffused matter was undulating (that means it was moving) almost imperceptibly. So the Infinite decided to pour its light into Adam Kadmon, the vessel that Adonay sketched. So the Infinite decided to pour its light into Adam Kadmon, the filter that quantifies and limits the light of the Infinite, and the colorless light of the Infinite which is neither white nor black nor red nor green nor any color at all, emanated forth into Adam Kadmon.

Now that's so interesting to me, the colorless light of the Infinite. We know that color relates to degrees of vibration or the range of vibration. So that means that the light of the Infinite either has no vibration or is vibrating at such a slow (it may be slow or a rapid rate of speed) that it's considered non vibrating. Are you following me? I remember when we did the Quantum Mechanics series, I remember doing a sketch of an eternal sound wave. The sound wave was going up and down, up and down, and then it went off into infinity. It was virtually a straight line. Now we know when we take a reading on somebody's heart, that a straight line means death. But of course everything in the natural is the opposite of that in the spiritual. I honestly don't know whether the light of the Infinite One vibrates so slowly that it is imperceptible to us mere humans or it's vibrating so rapidly that for all intents it disappears. I think the answer is that it's vibrating so rapidly that as far as we're concerned, from our vantage point, from where we're standing, it disappears. It disappears to such a degree that we cannot even call it white light. Of course, white light is the most rapidly vibrating light of all of the colors. So the light of the Infinite vibrates more rapidly than what we know to be white light. Probably the light of the Infinite is of such a substance or an essence that we can't even comprehend it. I don't even know enough about physics to understand about light waves anyway, so I don't know what I'm talking about.

It will be very interesting to find out how we will acquire all the knowledge of the world once the Lord Jesus is fully manifested in us and permanently dwelling in us to the point that He's permanently manifesting in us. We are suppose to have all knowledge. I can't help wondering whether we will have to go through all the books like you see in the science fiction movies, like you saw in Matrix. He was viewing all of these computer books and the pages were just turning rapidly before him. Will we learn like that? Will we have instant knowledge? I know right now I'm a mixture. A lot of things I have to study and the Lord helps me to understand the books. Then other things just come into my mind. I can't tell you where I got it from. It was just that Christ Jesus spoke it to me. So it will be interesting to see how our ability to learn changes when Christ Jesus takes up permanent residence or when the Glorified Jesus Christ takes up permanent residence in us. I don't know what the answer is right now. So we see that the light of the Infinite was colorless. It's neither white nor black nor red nor green nor any color at all. All of this light emanated forth into Adam Kadmon and Adam Kadmon distributed measured amounts of the light of the Infinite into the unformed matter in the midst of the void. The light of the Infinite differentiated into a multiplicity of gradations and each grade of light vibrated and flashed within the dark cloud of diffused matter as a unique signatory color. The color identified the rate of vibration. Each grade of the light of the Infinite engraved its unique signature upon the World of Emanation which is below Adam Kadmon.

So it looks like each color signifies one of the sefirot. At least as of today, I believe we could say that each of the Ten Sefirot can be identified by a color or by a vibration that is associated with that color. That's very interesting to me. There are seven colors to the rainbow and three basic colors. Red, yellow and blue are the three basic colors. If there are seven colors of the rainbow, then the upper or three highest sefirot could be the main colors. Red, yellow and blue would be Keter, Wisdom and Understanding. It could be red, yellow and blue. I don't know which would be which. Then the seven sefirot below would be the rainbow that came forth from them. I do know that I have read that Abba and Imma, which is Wisdom and Understanding, gave birth to the seven sefirot below. That's the teaching. That sort of fits in. It will be interesting to see if the Lord will tell us which of red, yellow and blue is associated with Keter (crown) Chokhmah (wisdom)and Binah (understanding).

Okay, let's go on. I already told you this, but I'll read you my notes. In parts 1 and 2 of this message, I amplified the word, king, to mean Adam Kadmon's Malkhut. But the Lord has shown me that kingdom is an attribute of Adonay called Malkhut. The ray of light that entered into the void was not Adam Kadmon, but this ray of light created Adam Kadmon's circular sefirot. Now what's interesting is that all of the Ten Sefirot are considered created. Adam Kadmon's circular sefirot plus the line extended by the penetrating ray of light is called Adam Kadmon. The circular sefirot and the line together are called Adam Kadmon. Adonay is the ray of light. The point is a creative utterance called Reshith, the beginning, and Adam Kadmon is the line on the circles. After Adam Kadmon was created, the light of the Infinite shown through Adam Kadmon. Adonay is the name of God that is associated with the attribute, Malkhut, which means kingdom among other things. Malkhut is the attribute of God that judges all of creation, but also acts as the great benefactor to all creatures. Now does this not sound like the Lord Jesus Christ? Does not the Scripture say all judgment is given over to the Son? Jesus Christ is the judge and He is also a great benefactor that gives great blessings. You see, the two have to go together, brethren. The two have to go together and the reason that the two have to go together is that if you keep getting blessings, blessings, blessings, and your sins are not exposed and you don't deal with them, all of these blessings with an unchanged nature will give Satan legal ground to give you great grief. You know I've read the Bible through so many times, but much to my surprise, what's interesting you at that moment sticks with you. You forget everything else. In this study it was brought to my attention a scripture in Proverbs that says, when God gives you great gifts, that you get them without suffering. That just so touched me. All that I could think about was the Kennedy Family. All the blessings that were on that family and all of the money, not that money alone is a blessing. Money is a vehicle that gives you the opportunities that people with money have. That's the best part of money. If you think the best part of money is living in luxury, you're making a foolish mistake because to have luxury without purpose and righteousness in your life is just destruction. We see that with some of the Hollywood movie stars who go on drugs. Robert Downey Jr. has everything to live for. He's a great actor. He has all kinds of money and he's a drug addict to the point that he's going to jail for six years, I believe. So money without character is disastrous. It's a curse. Money without character is a curse. So the truth about money is that it gives you an opportunity to partake of the good things in life, to not have to spend almost your whole life working so that you could provide shelter and food for yourself and your family. It allows you to have shelter and food without worry, so that you could pursue God if it's a genuine call on your life, or pursue your talents without worrying that you have to go to work. Your children can go to school and live up to all of their talents and you don't have to worry about financing it. That's what the blessing of money is, that you don't have to spend your whole life worrying about acquiring the needs of life; food, shelter, clothing, and spiritual and mental growth. That is the blessing of money. If God does see fit to give you more than you need for these things, well then you become a blessing to others. Let's say you're a millionaire and you live in a mansion, well then you become an employer. You give jobs to the maids and the groundskeeper that work for you. Somebody has to be the employer. Somebody has to be rich enough to have employees. But to be rich for money's sake is utter disaster. You're better off being poor. So when I read this, all I could think about was the Kennedy family, all that money and how they educated all their children. A son was the President of the United States. The oldest son died. He was educated and was being groomed for the presidency and was killed in the war. All the children were educated. The second son becomes President of the United States and the third son probably would have been President if he wasn't assassinated. The only son that lives is Ted Kennedy, who in my opinion, is an absolutely reprobate man. This is my opinion. Ted Kennedy is not of the stature of his three brothers. I think one of the daughters died in a plane wreck also. (End of tape 1)

Tape 2

We are talking about the Kennedy family. They used their money, at least what I could see of it, for the good purposes. They gave their children an opportunity to pursue their talents which resulted in their privilege of being public servants. You know it's a privilege to be a public servant. Not everybody, but a lot of people give up much more profitable jobs or at least they use to. The country is very jaded today. But in principle, it's an honor to be a public servant, if your heart is right towards it, and to be educated and intelligent enough to be a leader in this country. The Kennedy family employed people and did everything I just stated on this tape and the curse is still going. John Kennedy died a premature death. I mean the whole family is utterly cursed. Although it seems to be more on the males than the females. There was one daughter who died in a plane crash. It seems to be more on the males than the females. So there had to be something lacking there, but this message is not about the Kennedy family. What I'm trying to tell you is that a scripture was brought to my attention in Proverbs that says when the Lord Jesus gives you great wealth, you get it without sorrow. I had never seen that scripture before. You get it without sorrow.

So you could be wealthy and be a great blessing to other people, your immediate family or whoever you choose to bless would have the privilege of pursuing their talents and serving God or serving the nation. You would be an employer and be in a position to be a benefactor through grants and gifts to other people without having sorrow in your personal life. This just blew my mind. I never thought of it before. I never much focused on money because I grew up in the church in the prosperity era where they were preaching this prosperity message, which is really an abomination. There is a true prosperity in Christ Jesus. But I want to tell you my very strong and educated opinion. The financial prosperity that is truly available in Christ Jesus is something that comes as the fruit of His nature. See, there are gifts associated with the Holy Spirit and great wealth is not one of them. Because to have wealth without the righteous nature of Jesus Christ is destruction. How do you think the Lord can make a statement like He makes in the book of Proverbs; I will give you wealth without sorrow. How can He say that, other than to give you along with the wealth, the character that will serve God and live righteously.

So therefore, if God has promised to give you wealth without sorrow, He would be breaking His own law by giving great wealth to people whose nature is still of the world. Can anybody not understand what I'm saying? It's not enough that you got a revelation of tithing, which is good. I got an e-mail the other day. Somebody told me that the tithe is canceled. Well, you can say that if you want to, but my answer to that all the time is, if the tithe is canceled, then you're left only with alms deeds, which means you have to go by your own conscience. If your own conscience is not the conscience of Jesus Christ and you wind up hoarding your money, no good thing can come upon you. You have to have a giving heart. If you don't have a giving heart, then put yourself under the law and tithe. But you've got to give one way or the other. You've got to give for financial blessings to flow in. But for God to give you great wealth without changing your nature to a righteous nature that would deal properly with that wealth, He would be breaking His own law because if you get wealth and you don't live right, Satan will surely see that you reap what you sow and that would make God a liar, who said I will give you great wealth without sorrow. Therefore, it is impossible for our great God to give great wealth to anyone who would receive sorrow as a result of that wealth because of the condition of their mind and their nature. Now get that, whoever is hearing this tape or reading this transcript. Praise the Lord.

So Adonay is the name of God that is associated with the attribute Malkhut, kingdom, that makes you a king. A king has to have something to rule over. That doesn't mean you're a tyrant. It means that when Adonay dwells with you or when Malkhut dwells with you, you have leadership qualities. That's what it means. Malkhut is the attribute of God that judges all creation, but also acts as the great benefactor to all creatures. Of course, I'm relating this Malkhut to Christ Jesus. The difference between Malkhut and Christ Jesus is this. What man can live a life holy enough for Malkhut to abide with him? Malkhut must abide with us permanently. He cannot come and go. He has to abide with us permanently for the manifestations of the attribute of God called Adonay to manifest itself through us. One of the attributes of Malkhut who is associated with Adonay is great blessings. What man can abide this, especially since Adonay is also associated with judgment. But the man, Jesus Christ, did succeed. He was holy enough. He utterly subdued His sin nature by the Spirit of Holiness, we're told in Romans 1:4, and He overcame and He ascended and He was glorified.

His victory, the victory of Jesus Christ over the world is imparted to us, as a gift, in His seed. Because the seed of Jesus Christ dwells in us, we have in Him the ability to overcome our sin nature and live this holy life. So we see that Christ Jesus is an overcoming seed. Jesus Christ is a seed or the cutting of the one who has already entered into the highest realms possible and He's in us, when He's in us and grafted to us. He's right here with us to help us to overcome our sin nature so that these names or qualities or attributes of God can grow in us and manifest in us that we might become a vessel that will be qualified for the Glorified Jesus Christ to come down and dwell with His son who is grafted to us. So we have a much better chance of entering into these promises than the Jews did. I honestly do not know what percentage of the average Jew lived on this level. All the books are written by rabbis. Was it just the prophets that lived on this level? Was it just the rabbis that lived on this level? I know that we're told, when everybody was under Moses, that nobody was hurt or when everyone was under Joshua, that nobody was hurt in battle. But that's because they were under a great prophet that was very ascended.

So I'm inclined to think that even in Israel, the average man could never have attained to this condition of Malkhut dwelling with them to this point that great protection and prosperity and health was manifesting in their life. They were married to the great one who was living in the prophet. It was Michael who was dwelling in Moses, that was the great one and that was married to the spirits of all the common people of Israel. So the grace that was upon Moses was granted to the other people. I believe that the promise of the New Testament or the New Covenant is that every man has this ability to ascend in Christ Jesus, but until you're fully ascended to the point that you're sinless, you, whoever you are, will be put under a man who is higher in Christ Jesus than you are because this is how we're going to raise each other up. No man can go it alone. Everybody has to be under some form of authority. Well Sheila, you're not under any form of authority. Well, I guess for now, anyway, I'm the highest that there is. What can I tell you? It's nothing I did. The Lord picked me up off the garbage heap and He's my Head. But the average man in this hour will be under another man that is manifesting Christ Jesus. So I liken Malkhut to Christ Jesus, although they're not the same because Christ Jesus is Malkhut plus the personality of the Lord Jesus Christ, who has already overcome the world. That's the best I can do right now.

Okay, Malkhut is referred to as kingdom because all that concerns God and His creation occurs within her jurisdiction. You see, brethren, everyone who has Christ Jesus manifesting in them, you have authority. If you see something wrong going on in the supermarket, you have authority. Now that doesn't mean that you physically go over and intervene because you'll probably get booted out of the supermarket. But you have authority to pray and you will be shocked at what happens when you start moving in this authority when your motive is right. I have even spoken in the spirit to children who were disrespecting their parents and seen a positive change. All authority is given unto us in the spirit; in the spirit, as long as we are in the mind of Christ. If you're doing this in your carnal mind, if you're doing this to make yourself feel good or to build up your ego, you are not in Christ and it is witchcraft. That is the truth. All authority is given to Christ, brethren. All authority is given to Christ. Malkhut is referred to as kingdom because all that concerns God and His creation occurs within her jurisdiction. We have the right to pray about everything that we perceive to be wrong as long as we've placed ourself before the Lord to have Him assure us and He has assured us that we are in Christ, that there is no personal motive, no motive of personal gain, that has called our attention to this issue.

The name Adonay actually means ruler and witnesses to how the power and the energy is received from the highest name of God which is Ehyeh, YHVH. See, I say Jehovah when I see the Tetragrammaton YHVH. The reason I'm spelling it YHVH here instead HVYH is because I'm in a different book. This author is spelling it YHVH. The other book that we were in spelled the Tetragrammaton differently. The whole concept of this Tetragrammaton with its four letters is HVYH in the other book, is that this name is suppose to be unpronounceable. What I read is that nobody knows how to pronounce this name. Well, we could say Jehovah, but that's not the correct pronunciation of the Name of Power. Nobody can say that name and when I see these four letters, I say Jehovah, because it's easiest for me. The principle behind it is that there is such power in this name and the correct pronunciation of it has been completely lost. But you have to understand that this is a spiritual principle and that the person who ascends high enough in his mind, the person in whom the mind of Christ dwells permanently, on a high level, will automatically be expressing or manifesting this name. It's not a verbal pronunciation; is it Jehovah or is it "Jeheva." That's not it. It's an expression of the nature of God associated with that high level. Apparently, it's such a high level that nobody around is expressing that nature anymore.

So the name Adonay means ruler and witnesses to how the power and the energy is received from the highest name of God, which is Ehyeh. That's translated I AM Jehovah. I have an asterisk there. Well, I've really been struggling with this message. I don't see any comment with an asterisk on it. So let me just continue to read and I'll see if I can find out what that asterisk means. Obviously it's an explanation as to why I'm saying Ehyeh Jehovah because if you look at the charts that I've given you, Jehovah does not appear until the third level, understanding. I've never seen Ehyeh or I AM associated with Jehovah. So let me just read my whole statement and see if I can answer this here. The name Adonay actually means ruler and witnesses to how the power and the energy is received from the highest name of God, Ehyeh or I AM-Jehovah. But Malkhut specifically refers to the way the world is governed through judgment. The Hebrew word for judgment is Din, but Malkhut specifically refers to the way the world is governed through judgment, brethren, righteous judgment. The world is governed with judgment. There cannot be any manifestation of Christ without judgment because everyone is fallen and Christ is correction. He is correction personified. So the world is governed through judgment, whose power emanates from the name or the aspect of God called Adonay. So Malkhut is an attribute of God. Malkhut describes certain aspects of how Christ Jesus will manifest Himself to us and in us to other people.

The way He deals with people is through corrective judgment and the power to do that emanates from the aspect of God called Adonay, which is the lowest aspect of God. It is the aspect of God that is closest to man. Malkhut clave to David and David ultimately received the kingdom called the kingdom of the house of David. You see what this is saying, is that David never could have been a physical king if he didn't have this aspect of God cleaving to him. We cannot do anything in the natural if we are truly living for Christ unless the associated aspect of the nature of God dwells in us. We, the personality, must be following after the Christ Jesus that's dwelling in us. That's why if you have a ministry or if you desire a ministry, you must ask for it. You cannot go out and do it yourself. I am amazed at how from time to time, someone will come to me and ask me how they could start a ministry. Brethren, I never started this ministry. I didn't even want it. God had to come to me two or three times. Does that mean I'm great and He was begging me to do it. No! He just knew that I thought I couldn't do it. I was physically ill and very weak. I just didn't think I would be able to keep my commitment. So I kept saying no. But you can't say no to God for very long. Why would He come back? Because He knew my motive wasn't evil. It wasn't rebellious. I didn't think I could do it. You can't start your own ministry. The closer you get to the Lord, the less you even rule your own life. You can't even rule your own life. If you want the solutions to the problems in your family solved, your best bet is turning them over to the Lord; your job, your finances, your personal life. The closer you get to Him, the less you have to say about it.

I perceive Malkhut to be manifesting to the church. Well, here I have written Christ Jesus, but I'm thinking it should really just be Christ. You see, all of these books that comprise Kabbalah, they're written in different centuries and the names that they use don't always jive. One book will say the Unlimited One or the Limitless One. The other book says the Eyn Sof. One book says JHAV. The other says YHVH. In their foundations, they all pretty much agree with one another. But I find the teachings of Isaac Luria a great help and when I was putting this issue before the Lord, I asked if Malkhut is Christ or is Malkhut Christ Jesus. This is what the Lord told me. He gave me a deeper understanding than appears in this book, The Gates of Light. He told me that Malkhut has a personification. Does anybody remember the name of the personification of Malkhut? Yes, the personification of the attribute of God called Malkhut, kingship, the personality associated with that name is Nukva. Nukva has certain powers when she is unmarried and other powers when she is married. Now the book, The Gates of Light doesn't make that distinction. But as you read through the book, I can see those distinctions as I read through the book, that Malkhut has different functions. I'm going very slow today, but we will get to it eventually, either in tonight's service or next Thursday. Adonay has all different functions and I don't think the author of The Gates of Light really distinguishes the circumstances under which she has different powers.

But when I questioned the Lord, this is what He said to me. She has the lesser powers when she is unmarried and she has the greater powers when she's married and who does Nukva marry? Does anybody remember who Nukva marries? Who is her husband? I shouldn't say that; I'm sorry. She is married. Nukva is married, but she isn't always living with her husband. When Nukva couples with her husband, what is the name of her husband? No, Jesus is pretty close, but in Kabbalah we use a different name. What's the name? Yes, Ze'ir Anpin is the husband of Nukva. They are separated, according to Isaac Luria, on the weekdays and they come together and couple or have spiritual sexual intercourse on the Sabbath. When Nukva and her husband, Ze'ir Anpin couple, great blessings go forth. That's the teaching from The Tree of Life. So here we really see the same thing with less of a separation between the two functions of Adonay and Malkhut. See, all these names are enough to drive you crazy, so I'm going to try to not go back and forth too much. So we're talking about Malkhut and when I put these issues before the Lord, I realized that, basically, I have to say Malkhut is manifesting to the church as Christ. But when she couples with her husband, Ze'ir Anpin, she manifests Christ Jesus and she receives more power. This is where I am right now. Malkhut is manifesting to the church as Christ and when Christ in a man is married to Christ Jesus, that is the marriage that increases the power.

Now there's a group of people in the flesh that have Christ alone. There's a group of people in the flesh that have Christ Jesus. Christ in you is married to Christ Jesus in me. I've told you this before. So you have available to you all the blessings of Christ Jesus through this marriage, certainly, every time we come together. It seems to me that we're permanently joined. I'm not always physically with you, but you're always in my heart. So as far as the relationship goes between Christ in you and Christ Jesus in me, I think the marriage is continuous, but I don't know. I don't want to get into areas that I don't know, that I really am not sure about. But certainly, when we're in service like this together, the power of the coupling of Christ or the power of the coupling of Nukva and Ze'ir Anpin go forth. I've told you many times that we are a body of Christ, that we are a collective unit and when I preach, even though I'm preaching and you're listening, the power that is resident in Christ in you is rising to the surface and a cloud is formed over this meeting. We are a collective unit which produces and manufactures thought forms that the Lord Jesus uses to help the members of His body even on the other side of the world. I've been telling you that for years and here we see we have an example, a personal example, of the coupling of Nukva and Ze'ir Anpin as Isaac Luria expresses it. When we gather together, this collective body that I've been telling you about for years; it's the Sabbath Day and it's the coupling of Ze'ir Anpin in me and Nukva in you. Christ Jesus in me and Christ in you; together we exert and manifest more power than anyone of us would manifest on their own.

Okay, we're going to do a study on Adonay, the name of God that is associated with the tenth sefirot, Malkhut. But before we start I want to explain Jehovah's importance and preeminence amongst the names of God, which I have been unable to explain up until now since Jehovah appears as the third, not the first most important name in the tenth sefirot and Jehovah is associated with Binah, the third sefirot. So when you look at that list of ten sefirot, Jehovah is the third one down and I have not been able to explain to you how there are two names of God that are higher than Jehovah and yet all of us who have been reading the Bible for years know it's obvious to us that Jehovah is preeminent in the Old Testament. I've preached it for years that Jehovah is God and Elohim is under Him. I was shocked, myself, to find out that there were two grades of God higher than Him, but I felt the Lord was telling me that it was true. So here we have an explanation that has really satisfied me. All the names of God are intrinsically tied to the Tetragrammaton which is the YHVH. That's the abbreviation of the name of this very high aspect of God, Jehovah. Even though many would argue that the name Ehyeh, which is I AM, which is associated with the first sefirot, Keter, is the highest name of God. That's the first sefirot. That's the highest name of God. Well how come Jehovah is mentioned throughout the whole scripture much more than I AM. Here's the answer why. The answer to this puzzle is that the Tetragrammaton is like the trunk of a tree from which the branches grow. The branches grow out of the trunk and the name Ehyeh, which we know to be I AM, is like the root that other roots grow out of.

So we see that Ehyeh, I AM, produces roots and the Tetragrammaton, YHVH, produces branches. Yet, it is the trunk of the tree that nurtures the branches which are the names of God, each one of which bears a different fruit. A name of God is an attribute of God. Each attribute of God bears its own fruit. So we see that Ehyeh, that's I AM manifesting as Keter and Yah manifesting as Chokhmah, are roots. That of course, is the crown and wisdom. Keter is the highest level, crown, and yah manifesting as Chokhmah, is wisdom. They are roots. The crown and wisdom, they are roots. But Jehovah who manifests Binah, understanding, is a tree trunk. She is the trunk and that the remaining seven sefirot are branches that grow out of the tree trunk. We're looking at an explanation of mediator-ship here. What this is really saying is that the reason that Jehovah is more prominent or more involved with the seven lower sefirot, which are in men, is that Jehovah is the mediator between mortal man that's manifesting some nature of God and the aspects of the Almighty that are so high that we could never relate to them. It's as if the Eyn Sof is manifesting Himself as I AM and Yah and He said to Jehovah, you are the general that I am sending to mortal man. Yes, you're a two star general and there's a three star general and a four star general above you, but you have the sole responsibility, Jehovah, of dealing with humanity. You are going to be my emissary to humanity and yes, there are two higher than you, I Am and Yah, but you're the one that's dealing with these people. The Bible is written to us. The Bible is God's message to humanity. Therefore Jehovah is mentioned preeminently in the Scripture because He is the general that is sent to deal with us. We couldn't relate to anyone higher.

So we see that Jehovah is in a position of mediator between mortal man who has the potential to manifest the seven lower sefirot. We have that potential to manifest grace and overcoming power and victory and the mind of Christ and all that, down here. Many of us are starting to do that, which gives us the ability to relate to Jehovah, but we could never comprehend the I AM. He's too high. But as we ascend and we become a part of the tree trunk, eventually, we will relate to I AM also, because, eventually, the whole creation will be swallowed up into the Father. So we see that Ehyeh, I AM, manifesting as Keter and Yah, Chokhmah manifesting as wisdom, are roots, but that Jehovah who is Binah, understanding, is a tree trunk. So the greatness of God has sent us understanding. The remaining seven sefirot are branches that grow out of that tree trunk. The lower seven sefirot which are the seven days of creation, we're told, are branches that grow out of Jehovah, the tree trunk. Therefore, the seven lower sefirot are more intimately related with Jehovah, the tree trunk that generates them, than they are with the roots of the tree. It is the tree trunk that nurtures the branches that carry the other names or attributes of God, each one represented by a different fruit. So you see, our proof that we're manifesting any particular attribute of God is the fruit or the expression of that attribute. Anybody could say that they have the nature of God, but you have to put your behavior where your mouth is and of course, your behavior has to arise out of the nature of God. We have some people who are phonies. That is the definition of pharisee. They have all the moves and they know how to act, but their heart is not manifesting the true nature of the Almighty.

Each of the names of God has descriptive attributes associated with it. For example, some descriptive attributes for the Tetragrammaton, the Hebrew word is NORA, which means awesome. I love that song, He's An Awesome God. The Tetragrammaton, YHVH, He is also the remover of sin. He's the one who takes the sin away. You see, the Holy Spirit forgives us by faith, but Jehovah, who is manifesting Himself to us as the Lord Jesus today, removes the sin. We should all know here that sin is removed only after it is exposed, confessed, and repented of. Sometimes we have to repent and pray for a long period of time before the Lord Jesus removes our potential to do that sin. The remover of sin means that the potential is removed. You become incapable of it. He's also the one who ignores sin. If He wants to, He can cover your sins. The name of God called EL, is Chesed, wisdom. Gadol is one of His attributes called great. He also shows mercy and pardoning. For Elohim, two of His attributes are mighty and judge. So we see that judgment is associated with Elohim. I have been preaching for a long time that Elohim is at the foundation of our nature in Christ. Elohim sent Michael. Michael manifested as Elijah. Then Elijah manifested as Jesus. Elohim is at the root there, is at the foundation there. Elohim is the aspect of God that enters into judgment. Of course, all judgment is given over to the son. That means we must be an aspect of Elohim. In the same way that the Tetragrammaton EL and Elohim have descriptive attributes, each descriptive attribute has its own descriptive attributes, until all the words of the Scripture are interwoven into a tapestry of God's descriptive action, all of which are tied to God's names, which, in turn, are tied to the unpronounceable Tetragrammaton, YHVH.

Now remember, we're not talking about words here. I've tripped over this for a long time. We're not talking about the verbal pronunciation of words. The spiritual pronunciation of a word is to express that quality of God. To say the Tetragrammaton is unpronounceable means that nobody in the earth today has the ability to manifest the nature of God on the level designated at or identified as Tetragrammaton. You see, Elohim signifies judgment. I manifest the nature of God as Elohim, frequently. Every time you're here, I'm judging your sins. I'm manifesting the name of God called Elohim. I'm manifesting Elohim to you every time I tell you that that was not Christ, but that was your sin nature that spoke out from you. I am manifesting Elohim to you when I do that. Jesus said to the disciples, you've been with me these three years and you still don't know that I am the Father? Jesus manifested the name of God or the attribute of God called the Father to the disciples. So we see, that every word of the Scripture is ultimately tied to Jehovah, which makes Jehovah the mediator between the entire counsel of God as represented by the seven lower sefirot and Ehyeh (I Am) and Yah (wisdom) the roots of the tree. Jehovah is the mediator between the counsel of God that's in the earth and the roots of the tree, the high manifestations of God. Therefore, we can now understand why Jehovah rather than Ehyeh (I Am) and Yah, takes the preeminent role in the Scripture, which is God's message to mortal man. The Scripture is God's message to mortal man.

So we're about to enter into a study on the name Adonay, where we will talk about many attributes. I hope we can cover all, but I can't honestly tell you that we'll do all, but we're going to talk about the way Adonay manifests through men and to men. Adonay is the aspect of God who manifests in the attribute called Malkhut, kingdom. When you see me manifesting authority to you, that's Malkhut who is manifesting in me as Christ. When Christ in me is married to the Lord Jesus, which I'm sure is the case when I'm preaching, I'm manifesting Malkhut plus all of the six sefirot above her. I feel like I'm really confusing you. I'll put this on the board for you and then we'll call it quits for today. It's time for dinner. I'll just put this last item on the board for you. Okay, I know this is getting confusing, but this is what we've got. Part of the problem is that we're dealing with Kabbalistic works from different centuries, from different authors, that don't always use the same names. But all the names are valid. We're dealing with Adonay, an aspect of God. Now that name is in the Scripture. Adonay is an aspect of God. Adonay manifests itself to mortal men as the tenth sefirot called Malkhut, the lowest sefirot of God, the closest sefirot to us. It is the first sefirot for us and the tenth sefirot from God. Is everybody okay with that so far?

Malkhut is an attribute or an expression of Adonay. The best example that I have I am going to repeat because I think you can understand it the most. I manifest Elohim to you when I correct you or when I expose your motives as being the motives of your carnal mind. When I correct you and tell you that you are doing something wrong, I am manifesting Elohim to you. How do I know that? Well, I've been taught that one of the attributes of Elohim is judgment. So that's how I know it. If you do something wrong to me and I truly forgive you, I'm manifesting Yesod to you. That's the fourth sefirot. How do I know that? Because I'm taught that the expression or the attribute of Yesod is mercy, which is the forgiveness of sins. So to say that we have an attribute of God, but not be able to express it means that we're a phoney. The New Testament tells us love without works is dead. Isn't that the Scripture? Love without works is dead. So you tell me that you love me, but you don't act like you love me. Therefore, even if you do really love me, if you don't show me the expression of it, it's the same as if you didn't love me. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same as if you didn't love me. So we have aspects of God and then we have the expression of that aspect. It's by the expression of that aspect, which the New Testament calls fruit, that we know whether or not we're really manifesting any particular aspect of God. Well I have the love of God. You do? How does it show? Are you forgiving the sins of people who have truly violated you? You see, now here's where you get into trouble. It cannot be a religious work. You have to be able to judge whether or not it's true forgiveness. Unless you're very mature in Christ, you may not be able to do that. You may have to get a witness from someone else, from an elder in Christ, if you can't do it for yourself. You, especially, think you forgive people and you're convinced that you do, but the Lord has shown us that all you did was put Satan in the pit and she's just manifesting all over the place. She hasn't really forgiven. You've just locked up that quality of yourself, but you haven't really stopped her. So Adonay is the aspect of God called a name of God. It's one of the names of God. Adonay expresses itself to us as the sefirot called Malkhut. Malkhut is an attribute or an expression of Adonay. Every name of God has attributes. Every name of God is an aspect of the nature of God which is recognizable when it is manifesting. Every name of God is an aspect of the nature of God and every aspect of the nature of God is recognizable if you know what to look for. It is recognizable when it is manifesting. You can't say you have the nature of God or that you're in the image of God if you're not manifesting or expressing this nature. You see, even if it's there, if it's covered over, it's fruitless. You're a dead tree.

Okay, now we're on the right side of the board. Now here's where we ran into a problem with this book, The Gates of Light. If I hadn't studied Isaac Luria, I would never be able to understand from The Gates of Light that Malkhut is both married and unmarried and that she manifests more power when she is married than when she is not married. What I got out of The Gates of Light we'll go into in this study. He's talking about all the different expressions of Adonay. As he goes on in his book, he gets to an expression or an attribute of Adonay called All. Well, why would he call her All? I didn't know. The Lord had to tell me. The author of this book is Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla. He's dead, of course, and I don't know offhand when he lived, but I think he was a part of a community. This central text of Jewish mysticism was written in thirteen century Spain. He was in Spain where Kabbalah flourished. I guess it was before the inquisition when they all fled. This book is considered to be the most articulate work on mystical Kabbalah. Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla goes into the names of God and he goes into the many many attributes of Adonay who was relating to humans as Malkhut. Are you okay with that?

Adonay is the aspect of God who relates to us as Malkhut, the tenth sefirah. Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla goes into all the different ways that Malkhut relates to us. I'm sort of ahead of myself with this except that it seems appropriate now. He starts off by explaining the way that the unmarried Malkhut relates to us. She has a certain measure of power and we'll go into that after dinner tonight. But then he gets to the point where he says, yes, the word, All, is also an attribute or an expression of Malkhut. Then he goes on and gives all of these examples of how she behaves and the things that she does when Malkhut is manifesting to us as the All. The Lord had to explain to me that starting with that attribute of All, Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla is starting to talk about the way Malkhut expresses herself to us when she's married. Before the All, everything in that book was a description of how Malkhut relates to us when she is alone, when it is somebody that just has Christ in them. After Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla introduces Malkhut, whose attribute is the All, that is the beginning of all the things and all the ways that Malkhut will express herself to us when she is married. Now I'm taking this very slow. I really don't want to confuse you. I want you to get this. Now we learned from Isaac Luria that Malkhut has a personality. She has a name that makes her into a personality. She's not just loving kindness. That probably doesn't associate with her. I just can't think of an aspect of Malkhut right now. She's not just a king. She's king "so and so." She has a personality. That attribute is tied to a personality.

Isaac Luria developed this whole system of partzufim, personalities, to help us to understand the nature of God because this is very complicated. So is anybody struggling right now with me saying that Malkhut is the expression of the nature of God or the aspect of God, Adonay, and that Nukva is the personal expression of Malkhut? Are you okay with that? So now the Lord is bringing the teaching of Isaac Luria into our study with Joseph Gikatilla. I think this is wonderful, personally. This is very exciting. I now can understand that the expression of Malkhut to us as the All is talking about the married Nukva. You may remember this. We took a lot of time on how Nukva marries Ze'ir Anpin, how they are a married couple, but that they're not always living together and that when Nukva marries Ze'ir Anpin, when they couple together, when they have spiritual sexual intercourse, great blessings go forth and new souls are made. Remember that teaching? So let me just review Isaac Luria to you. Ze'ir Anpin is a partzuf, is a personality that expresses six of the sefirot. Ze'ir Anpin expresses six of the seven lowest sefirot. The top three sefirot are called the Head. Keter is called crown. Wisdom is called father and understanding is called mother. They're very high. The people who have Christ in them are just beginning on their path. We don't have all that much to do with them. They would be expressing themselves to us as the Glorified Jesus Christ. See, once Christ is grafted to you, we're pretty much relating to Christ in ourself. The Glorified Jesus Christ, He's just up there watching over His son. He only comes in when there's trouble. Can everybody say okay to that?

Once Christ is grafted to you, Christ is your Savior. Christ grafted to you is your Savior. The Glorified Jesus Christ is only watching over you like a mother hen. He's only coming down to intervene when Christ in you can't handle the job. Are you okay with that? We're taught that the seven lower sefirot are related to the seven days of creation. What does that mean? It means that the seven lower sefirot are closer to the heart of mortal man. We can't really relate to those high sefirot, crown, wisdom and understanding. That's really high. We're just trying to make it where we are. The seven lower sefirot are closer to mortal man. We stand a better chance of moving in and acquiring these attributes of God. One attribute of God is grace. You know, this is not just for us to receive, this is for us to give out. Grace includes forgiveness of sins. Are you really forgiving your enemies? Gevurah, which is might; we manifest that with the Holy Spirit. Everybody here has manifested the might of God and Tiferet, which is a combination and a balancing of grace and might. You know, we've talked about this so many times, if you just stop to think about it. I'll either tell you, now don't baby that person or don't talk to me like that. Don't make me feel bad, don't say, oh, I'm so sorry that happened; don't make me weak. I've rebuked all of you for doing things like that. That's overdoing the grace and the might would be someone who's too tough.

I just heard that last week. Someone's wife just had a mini stroke and there was this young twenty five year old woman. She's very nice, but all young people think they know it all. Here's the man in pain and she's saying oh well, she'll be alright. In other words, what are you even talking about it for? Well, the man needed to talk about it. This balancing of mercy and toughness is called Tiferet. I call it merciful judgment because it tells the truth. Not many people have this. Either they're too tough or they're too soft. So this Tiferet is being developed, at least in this fellowship. I don't know that anybody really has this in this fellowship. Then comes Netzach which is victory or overcoming. Well, everybody here is an overcomer. You've all overcome a lot of things in Christ Jesus and you're all in the process of overcoming your carnal mind. You couldn't be sitting here if you weren't overcoming your carnal mind. Then comes Hod, the mind of God. Well, you're moving in, but no one here is really manifesting the mind of God. I can't say that is happening here in New York. But you're getting there. We have examples of how God thinks. What do I mean by the mind of God? How God thinks, how God views a situation, how He identifies it, how He analyzes it and how He relates to a problem. The thought processes of Christ; we're working on developing that here. In Hod we have male authority. You don't get the male authority until you have the mind of God. You get the mind of God when you acquire these other qualities. So everybody here has grace. Everybody here has might.

We're waiting for you to put it together into merciful judgment because nobody here really exercises righteous judgment. Either you don't want to show the person their sins because you're too soft or you're showing them their sins in an ungodly way. So that's pretty much where you all are now. We're trying to balance these two qualities. Then when you balance them, you have the victory and the mind of God will start manifesting through you. You have to have these four qualities before the mind of God really starts functioning in you. So all of these six qualities; grace, might, merciful judgment, victory, mind of God in male authority; Isaac Luria put them all together in a male personality called Ze'ir Anpin. We know Him to be Christ Jesus. If you think you're manifesting Christ Jesus, then every one of these six qualities have to be expressed through you. If they're not, you're not manifesting Christ Jesus. Now in spiritual things, it's not going to be that first you'll express grace and then you'll express might. It's not linear. All of these qualities are being developed in you simultaneously. You may have one quality manifesting with more strength than another quality. But unless you can honestly say that you have seen all six of these qualities manifest at once, at any one time, you're not yet manifesting Christ Jesus and that's okay. You should know where you're at. But you are all married women because everybody here in this fellowship is the unmarried Malkhut, which is Christ and Christ in you is married to Christ Jesus in me.

That means that everything that I've got is yours for the taking. As you sit here in submission to me and as you confess your shortcomings, you will be everything in Christ that I am in Christ, someday. But when you stand up to me and I'm not pointing at anybody right now (this is really for the tape) and insist that you're right when it comes to issues of identification of problems or how to deal with problems or issues of authority or how you relate to somebody, I'm always right. You're never suppose to talk back to me. You're suppose to go to the Lord and say, Father, I think Sheila may have made a mistake. If I'm wrong, correct me, but if she was wrong, correct her. But in any event, straighten my heart out, because if I think that she did something wrong to me, there is something wrong in my heart and I can't live like this. So either fix me or fix her. There's never suppose to be a controversy here and I'm not talking about what happened to you last week. That was a genuine manifestation, which I see as very positive, that repressed emotions were coming out. So as long as you stay in submission to this imperfect person here with God as the ultimate judge, everything that I have is standing ready to flow into you as soon as you get all the dirt out of your channels. Everything I am in Christ, it's yours, but you have to unplug the channels. You've got dirt clogging up your wells. That's just the truth. God wants you to have everything and I want you to have everything. I'm not holding anything back from you.

So we see that we're reconciling Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla's teachings with Isaac Luria's teaching and that Isaac Luria's teaching is helping us to understand Rabbi Gikatilla's teachings. We now understand that Christ can be in us in two forms. All of you, to whatever degree you're manifesting Ze'ir Anpin when you're around me, you have an imputed Ze'ir Anpin. Maybe my mind is affecting you. Maybe you're doing things my way. That's okay for a season. Eventually, it has to grow out of its own root in your own heart. So getting back to Rabbi Gikatilla, we have an unmarried Malkhut which is likened to Christ in us and a married Malkhut, which is likened to Christ Jesus in us and Rabbi Gikatilla calls his married Malkhut, All. When Malkhut is married and she manifests as the All, she has powers that surpass the single Malkhut. After dinner we will go into some of the different attributes of Adonay and we'll have an opportunity to see what she does when she's manifesting as the All and what she does or can do for us and for other people through us, when she's manifesting as other attributes. Now did you get that? I think I explained this. Are there any questions? Are you all okay?

This is very hard, but I feel that you've all got it. You weren't getting it when I was talking from my chair. This is very hard. Listen, you know you've got to be right down the middle on this. Don't be too hard on yourself and don't be too soft on yourself. This is very hard. Not only are you learning Kabbalah, but now the Lord is interpellating Kabbalah from different centuries with different words. He's interpellating them. He's mixing them together, Rabbi Gikatilla with Isaac Luria's teaching. This is very hard. So whatever you're getting, you're doing great. Just keep hanging in there and submitting to the teaching and you will have a breaking through. You will have a piercing through. Is there any question I can answer for you now on any issue that we spoke about today?

COMMENT: I have a question about the I AM. The Scripture says that Moses answered to I AM in all of his contacts and you say I AM is unapproachable.

PASTOR VITALE: It's not that He's unapproachable. I don't know if I would use that word, although perhaps that's correct. But what happened with Moses is really expressed in a drawing from a previous message. Let me see what I could say to you right now. When Malkhut is in us, when Christ is grafted to us, she becomes a receptacle for any manifestation of the Godhead, for any of the sefirot that want to come down.

So let's put it this way. This may not be completely accurate, but I'm going to try to explain it to you this way. The I AM is up there and He's left the whole care of mortal man to these lower sefirot. But Moses was given an assignment to deliver the Hebrew children from Pharaoh and he needed great strength to do it. Therefore, I AM came down, descended into Moses' Malkhut and spoke to him. He came down. The higher grade of the Godhead came down. Malkhut, she's the female. We're the socket that the ball goes into. We're female. We receive. Malkhut receives. Any aspect of the Godhead that wants to, once Malkhut is cleaving to us or once Christ is cleaving to us, any aspect of the Godhead can come down. That's why it is so important that Christ is grafted to us, because unless Christ is grafted to us, we do not have the vehicle for the Lord Jesus to come down and cleave to us. This way, once Christ is grafted to us, the Glorified Jesus can come down whenever He wants because He's got His point of contact in us. But the Glorified Jesus Christ has a plan and His plan is that before the Glorified Jesus comes down and dwells in you, first He wants you to be Christ Jesus and He wants you to be married. If all you have is Christ, if you're just starting, He wants you to be married to a man or a teacher or a pastor that will disciple you, that will give you everything they have in Christ Jesus and then as Christ in you matures, eventually, the Glorified Jesus Christ will come down into you.

But in the case of Moses, it was like an emergency. Moses was sent on a mission and he needed that power. If I'm not mistaken, the time at which I AM came to speak to Moses was when Moses didn't want to go and he was troubled. I'm thinking it was when his son wasn't circumcised, but I could be wrong about that. But the bottom line is that the highest level of power came to Moses as an indication that Moses was going with the power of the full Ten Sefirot, the full miracle working power of the Ten Sefirot. That was when that commission was given to him by the highest general. Does that help you at all? He can come down whenever He wants, you see. Let me give you a more natural example. Let's say you have a child in the first grade and he's starting to learn math. Well, let's say his father is a PHD and teaches physics or teaches calculus in college. The father can come and teach math to his first grade son. He could do it if he wants to, but there's no practical reason for him to be doing it. He provides first grade teachers for his son. But if there ever was some kind of emergency, let's say the little boy was failing the class, the father with the PHD in calculus could come down and help him to learn how to subtract, if he wants to. But the Lord is very economical. Everything is in order. He only comes down when He's required.

That's one of the biggest problems in the church today. Everybody wants to get their needs met from God according to their way and the Lord is bringing the church into a discipleship program and the church is filled with rebellion and doesn't want to disciple. They want to be in charge of the pastors. They want the freedom to come and go from church to church as they please and they don't want the correction. But in due season they will all come under correction because the Lord is moving, at least in the church in the United States right now. He is moving us out of kindergarten. The Holy Spirit is pre-school, not even kindergarten. The next step up is discipleship. You have to go to the church where God puts you. But of course, before God can do that, He has to manifest the teachers. The only reason the church is not under full discipleship or under full judgment yet is that the teachers haven't manifested. Right now the Lord is raising up the teachers and you can't be a teacher unless you've been through the White Throne Judgment yourself. How long is this going to take? I don't know. God has all the time in the world. But it's started. We know that it's started and that's very exciting.

Does anybody else have anything to say?

COMMENT: You no sooner wrote down on the board, Christ in one man marries Christ Jesus in another man and two scriptures immediately popped into my head. How can two walk together unless they be in agreement and the other scripture was, if two agree in prayer.

PASTOR VITALE: Yes, well I've always known that. To start with your second scripture first, I've always known that that did not mean if two carnal minds agree in prayer, anything will be answered to them. I've always known that it didn't mean that. It has to mean the agreement of Christ. It has to mean, at the very least, Christ in you and Christ in me, in agreement. It may mean something more than that. It may mean Christ in one person and Christ Jesus in another person. That's really true. I never thought of that. How can two walk together if they're not in agreement. How can the disciple and the student walk together if they're not in agreement. The only way we're going to be in agreement, when we're still as mortal as we are, is for the person who's under the authority to submit. That's true of your natural husband and it's true of your spiritual teacher. Submit, submit, submit. Do whatever you're told or asked to do and if it's really bothering you or it doesn't even have to be bothering you, just put it before the Lord. But make sure you put it before the Lord with a submitted heart. I'm going to accept it, Lord. I'm going to accept what Sheila said, I'm going to accept what my husband said, unless you intervene. I'm going to assume that it's right unless you move to make a correction. There's going to be peace in this house. It's the only way you can walk together. It's the truth. Anybody else? Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord. We're back from dinner and we're just going to review some of these terms because these names are confusing a lot of people. I exhort you all if you're having trouble with the names, don't worry about it and just sort of lean back and let the message flow over you and just let whatever the Lord wants to quicken to you be quickened to you. Adonay is one of the names of God. We're dealing with the names of God, a name of God signifying an aspect or an attribute of God. It's like I am the whole person, Sheila, but this is my right arm and this is my left arm. This is the left arm of sheila. This is the right arm of Sheila. All of the names of God are collectively called the Tetragrammaton that no one knows how to pronounce. I'm going to say Jehovah, JAVH. All of the names of God are inclusive in that one name, Jehovah. Adonay is the lowest level of the names of God. She is the level that is closest to man. Adonay, one of the names or aspects of God expresses itself as Malkhut, the tenth sefirah. Malkhut is an attribute of God called king.

If Malkhut dwells in you, you have a spiritual potential to be king over your family. King means leadership. That means you have leadership qualities and that Adonay goes forth and defends you and fights your battles because associated with kingship is militarism. Every kingdom has an army because this is a hostile world. So if Malkhut dwells in you, if she cleaves to you, you have leadership qualities and of course, leadership qualities are on the masculine side, which means you have male strength and leadership qualities. You have the defense of yourself and the wherewithal to win your battles. Your legitimate battles have to be legitimate in Christ, so we talk about that in terms of being a son. I've been telling you all here for a long time that if you're a housewife and you've been a housewife for all of your life, you may find it a little more difficult. You may have more trials in training to go through to be a son of God than a man who has been an executive for twenty years who's used to ruling over an organization and managing people. But you're not going to jump from being a frightened little housewife, who can't make a decision without asking her husband, to being a son of God manifesting authority in the Kingdom of God. If that's what you think, you're deceived. It's a journey.

This kingship, this authority, has to be built in you little by little; the manifestation of authority. To have a position in this world where you are a king, where you manifest leadership qualities and authority involves being responsible, doing what you say you're going to do, being responsible to remember what you say you're going to do and to do it excellently, to be reliable. So if you have those qualities when you first start on this program, well, you're ahead. Praise the Lord. You can work on something else. But if you come in here and you don't have those qualities yet, you need to know that those qualities must be developed in you because you cannot go on with God until the foundational qualities of a son are developed in you. If you're looking for eternal life and you can't remember to do what you said you were going to do, you're going to be bitterly disappointed. Eternal life is the final reward of developing all of the attributes of the nature of God and God doesn't forget what He says He's going to do. He doesn't say it and forget to write it down and then forget all about it and think nothing of it. So you have to be realistic. To expect eternal life and think nothing of not being able to deliver a true analysis of what you've said, you're completely out in left field. It's not going to happen. That's the truth.