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MESSAGE #598

ESAU, JACOB, ISRAEL AND CUSH
(THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK ISRAEL)

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ESAU, JACOB, ISRAEL AND CUSH
(THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK ISRAEL)

Praise the Lord, I have a revelation that I would like to share with the Body of Christ, and so I am recording this in a telephone conversation. The revelation has to do with the origin of the Jews and the possible explanation of the enmity between Europe, and Israel. We will touch a little bit on Moses and the Ethiopian woman, because these subjects are all connected.

 

I am going to go back in time, and just share with the Body of Christ a series of revelations that the Lord has given me over the years, which He is now putting together for me.

 

Going back in time, before this ministry started (this ministry is eighteen years old, so it had to be twenty or more years ago), a ministry came into the church I was discipling in, preaching British Israel.

 

Basically that doctrine says that members of the royal family of England or Great Britain are the descendents of the tribe of Judah. Jeremiah took some faithful disciples and fled to Ireland the time that Judah fell, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon took over Judah.

  

This teaching has survived, and has been circulating through the church for years. It says Jeremiah went to Egypt, and from there went to Ireland, and that is how the descendants of the Jews (of course that would be Judah) came to the outskirts of the British Isles.

 

Then eventually, the ten tribes that we claim are lost but really are not really lost, ended up in Britain and Europe, and today they are manifesting as the nations of Europe. They say things such as Denmark being the tribe of Dan, etc etc.

 

That revelation never cleaved to me. It was not able to stick to me when I first heard it twenty or more years ago. I re-evaluated it several times because it seemed to always come before me. At one point it was sticking to me, and I was saying that I believed it, but it faded away again. It never would stick to me.

 

The question is this. Who is Europe that there is such hatred between the European nations, and the Jews, that there is such anti-semitism in the European nations against modern day Israel, which is really the tribe of Judah. That is the question.

 

Even if Europe was the ten lost tribes, this did not account for that degree of hatred towards the Jews (Judah). I know that Israel, meaning the ten tribes, was at war or has been at war from time to time with Judah. Even so, such a great hatred towards the Jews, such anti-semitism which manifested and which reached its high point, or zenith in Hitler’s Germany, is inexplicable. I do not know that I could really buy that. That is phase one. That question came in to mind years, and years ago.

 

Then several years ago (I am trying to put this together, I do not have any notes), I received an email advertising a book written by a black Christian. His position was that there was a physical group of people that Jehovah had gone to first, before the Jews. He said that there was an Israel before the Israel of the Bible, that was the chosen of God, and they were the black people. They sinned because of idolatry, and pride, and because they sinned they were cast down. Then the Lord took His ministry or His spiritual offer to Israel as we know it today.

 

That really touched my spirit. I felt that there was a truth to it, that there was an Israel before the Israel of today. Now, there is another black preacher preaching the same thing, and I tend to believe it.

 

The next piece of information came a couple of years ago when someone in this ministry taped a program, I believe it was either on the History channel or the Discovery Channel. It was very fascinating. There was an anthropologist somewhere who claims that there is genetic evidence that the ten lost tribes are in Africa, India, and the Middle East. It was a very fascinating study.

 

He showed that one particular tribe in Africa had the same genetic material that he proved could be found in the tribe of Levi, in the Levite priests. This was very interesting. If there was truth to this, it means that the Jews are dark skinned people, not white skinned people; Jews today are mostly European, white skinned people like me.

 

With this theory, there seemed to be evidence, at least evidence to the effect that the ten lost tribes are in Africa, India, and the Middle East. At least there is some genetic, anthropologic evidence here, whereas there has not been any evidence (as far as I have seen), that the nations of Europe are the ten lost tribes. It is just a theory; it could be coming down by revelation but there is no physical proof.

 

Today that I am studying Kabbalah, I have learnt that the current rabbis say that Europe is Esau. This I could believe. If the European nations today are the descendants of Esau, I could understand why their hatred for Judah (modern Israel is really Judah) is so intense that it could reach to the peak of the anti-semitism that we have seen in Europe. This is because Esau believes that Jacob stole his inheritance. He robbed him twice; he stole his inheritance, and he stole the promised seed.

 

There where two things that Esau said that Jacob stole from him. He stole his birthright, and his blessing. Jacob acquired Esau’s birthright when Esau sold it because he wanted Jacob’s pottage, and Jacob acquired Esau’s blessing when he deceived Isaac into giving it to him instead of Esau.

 

Esau has this tremendous hatred for Jacob. I can comprehend that hatred coming to a fever pitch, to the point of the anti-semitism that we see in Israel today. I am inclined to go along with the rabbis that the European nations are Esau, and not the ten lost tribes.

 

In addition to going along with that just by the spirit in me, I also see this video proving that the ten lost tribes are in Africa, India, and the Middle East. That sort of just fits in. Now I have found a place for the ten lost tribes, and I found a place for Esau. I remember talking to a relative about this, at the time that the video was shown, and he said, “Do you know what that means if this is true? It means that at one point the Jews could have been black!”

 

How we became white after being black, I do not know, but I have noted that wherever I have seen an ultra orthodox Jewish Community, there is always a black community contiguous to it. This is very interesting. Most Jews will recognize that there is some kind of connection between the Jews and the Black people. I never really thought much more about it.

 

The next segment in this revelation that the Lord has been bringing forth in me for over twenty years now, is that it came to my attention, that a particular ministry that I heard of was preaching that the current Jews (of which I am one), are not the Jews of the Bible days. He says that they are a different group of people.

 

When I first heard that my reaction was, “How utterly ridiculous!” Then I kept hearing it, and eventually what came before me was a published book on the issue. Being the kind of person I am, I felt that I had to read the book so that I could hear the other side, and refute it with intelligence; that is the way the Lord has trained me.

 

I purchased the book, and read it. It turned out to be written by a Jewish anthropologist that works out of one of the most respected universities in Israel. I expected the book to be written by some anti-semite. This man was not even a Jewish anti-semite; he was not an anti-semite. He was a scholar.

 

As an anthropologist it was his belief that the Jews today are not the Jews of the Bible days, and he made a very good case of it. In a nutshell, what he said was that the Jews of the Bible days fell into idolatry to such a degree that the Lord made a transfer.

 

Let me explain that. In any event this is how the Lord comforted me, because being Jewish, I was really upset to hear this. The Lord explained to me that the same thing happened there that is happening today. The Jews today, by and large, at the very least, have not accepted Christ. The Lord has moved His national anointing to be a nation that reveals Him to the people. He has moved it from Israel to the Church. Most Christians know that national Judah lost their commission to be the nation that reveals God to the world, and that commission has gone to the Christians.

 

How can that happen? The only way that could happen is because the reality of our existence is that the people that we see in the earth are really just reflections or manifestations of a spiritual Israel that exists in the Heavenlies, a group of spiritual beings that incarnate on the earth, and have incarnated on the earth in the form of Israel. Whenever this group of spiritual beings incarnate, they appear in the earth as a group of people that represent the Living God to the rest of the world. Kabbalah calls them spiritual Israel.

 

Spiritual Israel was manifesting in the Jew, then the Jew, or at least the leadership of the Jews, refused two thousand years ago to accept God’s next move, which was Christ. Then spiritual Israel began to withdraw from the Jewish nation, and transfer their incarnation into the Christian nation.

 

My personal belief is that in this hour, we see spiritual Israel manifested both in the Jew, and in the Christian. I am not going to go into that more deeply right now. That is my feeling at this point.

 

The removal or the withdrawal of spiritual Israel from one nation, and impartation or the incarnation of spiritual Israel into another nation (of course Christians are a nation or a generation even though they are not physically related to one another), is a process that can take a long time. It has been two thousand years since the temple fell.

 

I believe that Jehovah is still manifesting through both Israel, and Christianity. He is manifesting through Christianity in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do not know what form He is still manifesting in Israel, but I believe that there is a handful or a community of Jews within Israel that are still experiencing what the Kabbalists call bonding to Jehovah. They still have a relationship with God. I believe that there are Jews that fall into that category.

 

What would cause such a condition of bonding to God? We bond to God when we seek Him with all our heart. What I am saying is that there is a group of Jews within Judah (not only within physical Israel, because Jews are all over the world), there is a group of Jews or a community of Jews, that are still cleaving to God.

 

They are cleaving, not so much to the Law, or the rituals, even thought they are doing that, but with their heart they are reaching our for the Jehovah that they know. They are reaching out with such intensity that the Israel from above, the spiritual Israel, has not completely withdrawn from them. The spiritual Israel responds to the beings or the vessels (we are the vessels, the physical men are the vessels), that are crying out, and calling to them, and trying to draw them into their lives. That is my opinion right now.

 

Whether or not it is Jehovah that is being drawn down to Israel or they are touching the Lord Jesus, and they do not know it, is an issue that I do not know. The God of Israel is still present in a community of people within Israel. He is still present in an Israel within Israel, and He is also present in the form of the Holy Spirit in the church. He is in two places right now, just like He used to be in both Judah, and Israel, known as the ten tribes. He is in two different places right now.

 

This is how the Lord explained it to me. First of all, it is true that the modern Jews today, of which I am one, are not the Jews of the Bible. We are a different nation than the Jews of the Bible. What happened was that the Jews of the Bible fell into such a degree of idolatry that spiritual Israel transferred to another nation.

 

This was a very scholarly book; there was no prejudice in it at all. According to this Jewish Anthropologist, there was a small heretofore insignificant European nation that came in contact with the Torah and with Judaism in general. They sought the God of Israel, and touched Him; they loved Him, and the Israel above transferred from the Israel of the Bible days to this (this is the anthropologist’s terms), insignificant small heretofore unknown European nation of white people.

 

Their descendants are the Jews of today. This nation completely embraced Judaism as they found it laid out in the Torah, and whatever other information they came in contact with. These are the ancestors of the Jews of today, of which I am one.

 

One of the complaints of the Arabs is that the Jews do not belong in the Middle East because they are a European nation; they are not a Middle Eastern or a Semitic nation. Yet if you read about the Jews, you would see that they are Semites. I have read about the Jews, and I have been told that the Jews are a Semitic people.

 

I do not look Semitic; I am a very pale skin person. My heritage is Hungarian; I look Hungarian. I know a lot of Jews who say they come from Russia; they look Russian and are very white. Although I have not put a lot of time into it, I have not been able to understand how a Semitic people immigrating to European nations, and continuing to live there, would take on the physical characteristics of that nation, and  become white and look like them.

 

The thought that the modern Jews are not the Jews of the Bible touched me but I never pursued it. I now know. I now believe this teaching that the modern day Jew is not the Jew of the Bible, but the Jew of the nation that spiritual Israel transferred to when the Jew of the Bible fell into deep idolatry.

 

The next step of this revelation coming down happened very recently. When I realized that it is true that the modern day Jew is not the Jew of the Bible, I asked,” Who were the original Jews?”

 

I believe that the Jews of the Bible days are the Jews that these two black teachers are talking about. The two black teachers are saying that the black people, Ham’s descendents, were the people of God before the Jews. I think that this is true, and that these black people that were the people of God before the Jews, were the Israel of Bible days.

 

I think that the two teachings are completely in sync; that the modern day Jews are the descendents of the European nation that love Jehovah and took up the law, and the original Jews, Israel of Bible days, are the black people.

 

Here is the explanation for why the African nations are in such desperate condition. There is such idolatry in Africa, and such depth of witchcraft. I always thought that Ham was cursed by Noah, and that was the reason why Africa was in such a condition, but it is even more than that. I believe that the higher you are, at one point when you fall, the lower your fall.

 

Even at one point I had wondered why God went to Abraham first, why He did not go to Ham first, because it seems to me that the Lord always goes to the people who are most down-trodden. Of course, at this point, I do not know what condition Abraham was in when Jehovah approached him.

 

Let me make it clear. I am coming to the conclusion that the results of the heavy curses on black people today is because they were the original Jews, the chosen nation of God, and they fell into idolatry. This black preacher called Pastor XXXXXX is preaching this today.

 

Any honest person will admit that there is something wrong, that there are heavy curses that are still unbroken in the Holy Spirit on black people. I always thought that this condition of the black people was from Noah’s curse upon Canaan. Today I realize that they are in this condition because these where the original Jews that fell into idolatry. This is what is happening to them as the curse of falling into idolatry.

 

Then again of course their continually falling into idolatry even though they had been the chosen of God could have gone back to Noah’s curse upon Canaan also. It could be all interwoven.

 

My point right now is this. I do not know what condition original Israel, the Israel of the Bible days, the collective Israel of the twelve tribes that dwelt in the Middle East, was in when Jehovah chose them to be the people of God,  but they should not have white skin like I have. At the very least they should have the skin color of the Arabs, dark. I have always been taught that the Jews are Semitic, and they are dark skinned, but I am not dark skinned.

 

The next stage on the revelation was Moses, and the Ethiopian woman. I never believed that Moses married a second time. I never believed Moses married after he left Zipporah. My teaching is that Moses left Zipporah because the Lord separated them. Zipporah was a Midianite high priestess. Moses was taking her with him on a mission from God.

 

We know from the book of Ezra that the Jewish men that married Babylonian women had to leave those women and their children when they returned to God. In the same manner, Moses was required by God, to leave his Midianite high priestess wife, and her children, when he was called into the service of God. That was why Jehovah met Moses and Zipporah in the way and threatened to kill Zipporah. I do not believe Jehovah threatened to kill Moses, I believe He threatened to kill Zipporah. She had to leave him because Moses had been apprehended by the Living God.

 

As you may know, later on Zipporah’s father, Jethro, brought her and the two children to Moses in the wilderness, after Moses had lead the Jews out of Egypt. Jethro brought her and her two children to Moses in the wilderness. I have preached that he did this as a super witch; he did not do this as a servant of God. The Lord broke up that marriage. The Lord told Moses he had to leave his idolatrous wife at home.

 

I believe that Jethro brought Zipporah because of the Midianite god that was in him, the Jezebel in him brought Zipporah back to Moses. There is nothing in the Scripture that says the God of Israel told Jethro to bring Zipporah back. The Kabbalist and the modern Jews say that Jethro repented because we are told, (either in the book of Numbers or Deuteronomy, I may not have the book right), that Jethro acknowledged the God of Israel.

 

Then again the fact that Jethro acknowledged the God of Israel, and recognized His power, does not mean he converted. Even if Jethro converted, the Scripture says nothing whatsoever about Zipporah converting. I do not believe that Jethro bringing Zipporah back to Moses was an act of God. I believe that was an act of Jezebel. We do not hear anything more about their relationship after that.

 

I have believed for years that it is not true that Moses married an Ethiopian woman. We are told that Miriam and Aaron are jealous of Moses because of the Ethiopian woman. So many Scriptures are general that it is left to us to interpret it, and we interpret according to where our mind is. This is the danger and the blessing of the Scriptures.

 

The carnal minds of the modern day teachers, I am sorry to say, could not come up with a reason why Aaron and Miriam would be jealous of Moses other than that Moses was sexually or romantically involved with this Ethiopian woman. That is where their mind is. I never really believed it.

 

I recently read a Kabbalistic study which teaches with some scriptural proof that had no trouble persuading me that Moses never married again. He ascended into a higher place where you are not allowed to be married. That is the place that I am called to.

 

They quote Scriptures which demonstrates this. God tells the men of Israel, “When you want to approach me do not come at your wives for three days.” Then after the interaction between God and the men of Israel, Jehovah says, “Go back to your tents,” which means go back to your physical lives.

 

Kabbalisticaly, from a Jewish idiom, a man’s tent is his wife. He lives inside of her, because sexually he enters inside of her. Jehovah is saying, “Go back to your tents,” meaning go back to your natural lives where you live inside of your wife. Emotionally a man is supposed to be inside of his wife directing her, and watching over her also.

 

He did not say that to Moses. He did not say to Moses, “Go back to your tent,” because Moses was married to God and was in a higher place where he never went back to that life. When I read that study recently it was another witness to me.

 

I never believe what a lot of the Bible teachers say. Aaron and Miriam were jealous of Moses because he had a romantic attachment, or a marriage to the Ethiopian woman?

 

Then what the Lord taught me years ago came to my mind while the Lord was pulling all this together. He had said that if there is no personal name it is usually a spiritual principle we are talking about, or some kind of secret.

 

Why would the Scripture say Ethiopian woman, and not give her a name? From there I realized that a physical man could be a spiritual woman. I said, “I bet you this was not even a physical woman; I bet you it was some spiritual woman.” Then what came to me was that the Ethiopian woman is Joshua. What Miriam and Aaron were jealous of was Moses’ high spiritual relationship with Joshua.

 

Aaron and Hur were the two that held up Moses’ arms. I do not believe that they physically held up his arms, but they spiritually held him up. They were the spiritual associates of Moses that were assigned by God to support him spiritually. The way it is expressed in the Scripture is that they held up his arms. Joshua and Caleb were the two sent to search out the Promised Land. However, it was Joshua who was chosen to take over Moses’ command when Moses was taken.

 

Miriam and Aaron were jealous of Joshua who they called the Ethiopian woman. This is not even an opinion. The spirit of revelation dropped it on me, and this is what I am teaching. This is not of me, this is of God, that Miriam and Aaron were jealous of Joshua who they called the Ethiopian woman.

 

I believe that the Ethiopian woman was Joshua, and he was in a role similar to the role that John was in with Jesus. He was very close to Moses. He was a disciple of Moses, and they were very spiritually intimate. Miriam and Aaron were taking the position that you should be spiritually intimate with your blood relatives.

 

They felt Moses should be spiritually intimate with Aaron his brother, who went with him to Pharaoh. They wondered why Joshua was in their role, or why Moses was having this relationship with Joshua, and that was the jealousy. It was that jealousy that caused the judgment of leprosy to fall upon Miriam.

 

It was not a jealousy that the man got married. Let us say Moses did get married again. Why would his brother and sister be jealous that Moses got married again? Why would they even care? It does not make any sense at all.

 

The Scripture describing Joshua as an Ethiopian woman says to me one of two things. Either Joshua was Ethiopian, or he was still a spiritual female at the time. A possible reason why the Scripture would call or describe Joshua as an Ethiopian is this. I have found on several occasions the Lord has described someone that I know, who is not black, as a black person in a dream or in some spiritual communication. What that means is that they have the spiritual strength of Ham.

 

If God describes someone as a black person in a dream, He is saying that they are very spiritually powerful. They have the spiritual strength of Ham. They may even be an incarnation of someone who was black at one time.

 

Now that we know that the Jews of the Bible days are black, for the Lord to describe somebody as black could mean that they are one of the spiritual beings who were incarnated in the original Israel. Is that not interesting?

 

The revelation that the Ethiopian woman that Moses was involved with was Joshua is the radical revelation of the hour.

 

Let me also put this question to you. If Miriam and Aaron where jealous of Moses getting married to an Ethiopian woman, why would that be such a crime that leprosy would fall upon Miriam?

 

You have to understand how serious jealousy is, especially when it is jealousy of a spiritual relationship. Miriam was spiritually high herself; her jealousy was attacking both Moses and Joshua. She had to be attacking them, both she and Aaron, but it mostly had to be Miriam because Aaron was not punished. Miriam was the one punished.

 

Her witchcraft and her envy had to be doing serious damage to Moses and Joshua, or to their relationship, for this judgment to fall on her, because the judgment, at least in this case, was designed to stop the attack upon the other two. Moses forgave her sins and she was allowed back into the camp.

 

Let me just reiterate all the revelation that has come down. Let us put some points on it.

 

(1) The Jew today is not the Jew of the Bible days. The Jew of the Bible days is the  

Black man and not the European Jew that we see today.

 

The Jews of today are not the Jews of the Bible days, although they are a Jewish nation that the Israel above has incarnated in because the Israel above rejected the Jew of the Bible days, which are the black people. This was because they fell into idolatry, which is the condition that we find many Africans today.

 

There is great Idolatry across the land of Africa. The land is cursed, and that curse has not been lifted in the Holy Spirit. That curse can only be lifted in Christ, as He comes forth in the Black people, and not the Holy Spirit.

 

There are a lot of Holy Spirit Christians in Africa today. The witchcraft within them is a lot stronger. I am told of people that go to Holy Ghost churches who are still manifesting witchcraft. It is so deeply ingrained in them. 

 

It will take Christ coming forth in the individual to swallow up that witchcraft that is in them. This is what is going to deliver and break the curses on Africa. That is what they are waiting for.

 

This is point number one. The Jew of the Bible days is the black man and not the European Jew that we see today. This is why there is such validity to what the Arabs are saying; that the Jews do not belong in the Middle East because they are a European nation. Then you have to ask yourself the question, “How come the Jews were there originally?”

 

The original Jews came from Israel in the Middle East and that is why the modern Jews have gone back there. This is one more proof that the European Jews that are in Israel are not the original Jews. Do not misunderstand me. I think that they have a right there because they are the incarnation of Israel above today.

 

However, this is the answer to that confusion, to that point that seems valid to the Arabs, What is a European nation doing in Israel? They belong there because spiritual Israel is incarnated in them, and they are the Jews of today, and yes, I believe that they belong there.

 

(2) The second point that I have made here is that the European nations are Esau.

 

The European nations are Esau and they have a murderous spirit towards Israel manifesting as anti-semitism because Jacob acquired Esau’s inheritance, heritage, or birthright, and his blessing. Esau hates Jacob with a passion. He hates Jacob and that means he hates all of Jacob’s twelve children. He does not only hate the Jew, he also hates the other ten tribes.

 

You might be saying that when Jacob confronted Esau at the river, Esau forgave Jacob, and let him pass in peace. What happened there was Jacob had sought the Living God, and the Living God intervened and overshadowed Esau, and caused him to make peace with Jacob, and let Jacob return in safety.

 

It was only a temporary overshadowing. After Jacob was home and safe, Jehovah took His hand off of Esau, and this hatred still remains. That is the explanation for that.

 

That is the second major point, that the European nations are Esau.

 

(3) The third major point is that Joshua is the Ethiopian woman.

 

(4) There is another section that I left out that I would like to add right now and that    

      has to do with Jacob’s deception.

 

It always bothered me that Jacob, one of the forefathers of Israel, could be such a morally weak man that he stole his brother’s blessing. Several years ago I preached a message on this when I was still teaching the Doctrine of Christ. I looked up every word in the Scripture, and received a revelation that Jacob was told to do so by the Lord, which the Lord spoke through his mother.

 

It is true that he deceived Isaac but it was necessary because Isaac himself was deceived. Apparently in those days the forefathers had the ability to impart spiritual power to their children. This was not just a blessing; this was spiritual power, and also the spiritual seed. This was important.

 

Isaac was dying and he had to impart the spiritual seed to the son who was prepared to receive it. That son was Jacob, but Isaac was in love with Esau. Esau was his eldest. Isaac was thinking, “It is the natural rule in the world that the eldest gets the blessing, gets the seed, and gets all my spiritual inheritance.”

 

In addition to that, Esau was the one who was spiritually powerful and Isaac was the one who had the root. He had the wisdom, and he had the spiritual potential but he had no spiritual power. Isaac was drawn to the son who we might say, was charismatic.

 

This is a powerful lesson that the Lord taught me several years ago, when I was new at running this ministry. There was someone here who was spiritually powerful and I thought that they should be the one to assist me, but I found out that I was wrong.

 

I found out that the person was not ready to assist me. I found out that being highly spiritual (having words of knowledge, speaking in tongues, prophesying, and things like that), does not mean that you are prepared for ministry. The sign that you are ready for ministry is that you are stable and committed, that you keep your word, that you labor faithfully, and that you submit to authority.

 

Most of the people who are high spiritually do not necessarily have these other qualities because these other qualities are developed over time. They are a sign of maturity. Spirituality in the form of speaking in tongues, prophesying, and having words of Knowledge, is called the female spirituality. It is not necessarily accompanied by any kind of emotional or spiritual stability. It is charisma; that is all it is.

 

I have learned my lesson. I have to choose the people that will assist me based upon their faithfulness, on their submission to me, on their willingness to rectify wrong things and seek God, and do what is right. It is maturity.

 

We see that Isaac had the same experience that I had; he was running after the highly spiritual person thinking that he was the heir. Isaac was mistaken. For the Lord to raise up Jacob to deceive Isaac, the Lord must have gone to Isaac many times before that, to tell him that he was going to give the blessing and the promised seed to the wrong son, which son by the way, wound up marrying a heathen woman. The seed would have been corrupted.

 

Isaac apparently did not hear Him, so the Lord went to Jacob through his mother Rebecca and told him to deceive Isaac so that he could receive the seed. Of course Jacob was the one that was supposed to get the seed. It was like stealing what was already his. It was not obvious to Isaac or Esau that Jacob was the one to get the seed. They were not hearing from God.

 

It always bothered me to think that Jacob put goat skins on his hands or his wrists, and the back of his neck. It bothered me that Esau was so hairy, that his hairiness was likened to goat skin. It just never sat right with me, but I could not understand it so I let it go.

 

Also concerning hair, I have been saying for years that hair signifies spirituality, but I did not understand where that symbol came from. I had always questioned why Elijah was called a hairy man. I always thought that it meant that he was spiritual but I thought it was a strange way to express spirituality.

 

I recently learned through a Kabbalistic study that was dealing with Adam Kadmon how hair signifies spirituality. If you are hearing this tape you should have some Kabbalistic background and you should know who Adam Kadmon is. He is the primordial man.

 

Some of the light from the Ayn Sof that poured into Adam Kadmon’s head came out of His ears, some of it came out of His eyes, some of it came out of His nose, some of it came out of His mouth. After that, the light to be channeled down into Adam Kadmon’s torso had to pass through his neck and the neck is a bottleneck.

 

Think of it this way. Adam Kadmon’s head was filled with light, and even though some of the light came out of his ears, eyes, nose, and mouth, there was still so much light and all of that light had to get into the neck to be passed down to the torso. The light was too much to fit into that bottleneck.

 

 That preponderance of light in the head of Adam Kadmon therefore burst forth through his face and chin in the form of a beard, in the form of hair. That is why Adam Kadmon is described as having a long beard. Of course this is a Kabbalistic principle but the thirteen attributes of mercy are in that beard.

 

I could never understand that, but it is because the beard represents the light of the Ayn Sof that entered into Adam Kadmon that could not fit through the throat in order to pass on down to the torso and the reproductive areas.

 

I now understand why we are told Elijah is a hairy man. What it means is that he had so much of the light and energy of God in him that it was bursting out of every pore in his body. Whether or not Elijah was physically hairy, I do not know. Personally I doubt it, but that is what the term means. It means that he had so much of the light and energy of God that it was pouring out of his very pores.

 

Back to Jacob, I am telling you that it is just a parable that Jacob put the goat skin on the back of his neck and on his fore arms or his hands (I do not remember exactly where they were). The back of the neck is the throat energy center.

 

For some reason the Hindus call that energy center the throat center, but the Jews call it the neck. Of course it is the same center that goes through from the neck to the throat. I do not know why the Jews see it the other way. Actually it is the Hindus that see it the other way, because it is probably the carnal mind that sees it as the throat center, and the Christ mind that sees it as the neck center.

 

Let me remind you that Esau was the brother with the branch of the tree. He had all of this spiritual energy but he was not responsible or emotionally or intellectually stable. Jacob was the brother who had the root; he was faithful and stable but had no power. In order to deceive Isaac, Jacob had to receive an increase in power.

 

We have a Scripture in the Book of Acts that says that if we seek after God, if we feel after Him, we will be sure to find Him. This is talking about seeking God or feeling after Him with our mind. Our mind is likened to the hand in the Scripture because the minds grasps. It grasps ideas. It also grasps people’s souls.

 

The mind is the spiritual hand, so we spiritually feel after someone with our mind. It is called discernment. We are told in this account of Isaac and Jacob that Isaac felt after Jacob. He did not feel his hands. I want to tell you right now he did not feel his hands.

 

This whole concept of Jacob putting the goat skin on the back of his neck and on his hands is talking about Jacob acquiring the power, the power of Imma actually, to increase whatever power he had.

 

Jacob’s deception of Isaac was based upon the power that was on him when Jacob entered into Isaac’s presence. Isaac discerned whoever was around him by judging the spiritual power on them. Isaac says in the Scripture, “You have the voice of my son Jacob but the feel of my son Esau.”

 

Here we see a weakness in Isaac. He is listening to his discernment of the presence of spirituality as opposed to the intelligence of his own mind. This is part of the training that we all go through when we are learning to serve God.

 

We cannot live our life by dreams, revelations, and prophesy. All of these have to be witnessed to, and be under the control of the wisdom of Christ within us. If we just follow after dreams and spiritual signs we will be destroyed.

 

This is a weakness that carried from Isaac all the way to the modern-day Jew today. Jesus said to the Jews, “You Jews are always seeking after a sign. You are supposed to be able to look at me and see my works and hear my words and recognize that I am of God. Why are you looking for a sign? The only sign that you are going to get is that I am going be delivered from this physical body.  That is the only sign you are going to get, and you are not even going to believe that one.”

 

We see that Isaac was weak in his spiritual education and that he was following after the spiritual person and not the wisdom of God. This is a major lesson that every Christian moving on in maturity has to learn. We live our life by the wisdom of God and not by the spirituality, which may be of God or it may not be of God. Satan comes like an angel of Light and does everything that the Holy Spirit can do except deliver us to Christ. She is the complete counterfeit.

 

Jacob was not so hairy that his skin felt like an animal skin, it makes no sense at all.

 

I think I did not make a point here. Let me put this in. When Jacob slaughtered those goats and cooked the meat, that slaughtering was in the form of a sacrifice to Jehovah. We are not told that in the Scripture but I believe it was slaughtered as a sacrifice to Jehovah. When that sacrifice was made out of obedience to God, power came down upon Jacob and he received the power that he needed to deceive Isaac.

 

God spoke to Jacob either through his physical mother, or through the Partzuf called Rebecca. I do not know which it is at this point.  Jacob was doing as he was told, and because of his obedience when he slaughtered those goats, the power of the Imma, or the power of the Partzuf Rebecca (I am not really sure which), came down upon Jacob and he received the power that he needed to deceive Isaac.

 

The reason for the deception was that Isaac was about to make a mistake, and there was no way to convince Isaac not to give it to Esau. It was not a physical tangible thing that Isaac was going to give to Esau, it was a spiritual impartation. There was no way to wrest it away from Isaac other than by deception. It was not something that he held in his hand that one could take away from him. Deception was the only way.

 

If Jacob was spiritually mature enough or powerful enough to take it from Isaac that would have been the other way, but Jacob did not have that spiritual authority or spiritual power. Therefore Jehovah had to use the methods of this world and Jacob is still paying the price for using a method of this world to achieve God’s purposes, which methods are not acceptable in this world. He is still called a thief and a deceiver today, yet he did what needed to be done.

 

This is a dangerous teaching, to say God can use methods considered wrong by the world to achieve His purposes. We have Christians all over the church doing what they think needs to be done, but it is their thoughts coming out of the carnal mind and not God, so that does not count. It only counts when you are really hearing from God, and you do what needs to be done to achieve God’s goals, because the Lord has told you to do it.

 

Jacob had to use the methods of this world to achieve God’s purposes, but he had to reap what he sowed. Deceiving your father is wrong and stealing is wrong. What Jacob did is a form of stealing. However, God stopped the judgment short of destruction.

 

How did Jacob reap what he sowed? He had to leave his home to go marry far away. He was afflicted by Laban who robbed him. Jacob stole and he was stolen from. Jacob escaped and he was confronted by Esau who wanted to murder him and his whole family. He was only saved because Jacob sought God in that account in the Book of Genesis of Jacob wrestling with the angel.

 

When I studied and preached that message, I came to the conclusion that the angel was Christ coming forth in Jacob. The Kabbalists say it was Esau’s mind that Jacob was struggling with. When I sought the Lord on this issue, He told me that both were true, that there were two angels there. At that time the Lord showed me in the Scripture that there really were two angels there.

 

First Jacob struggled within himself, he struggled with his own fear and Christ overcame Jacob’s fear. When Christ emerged in Jacob, then that angel Christ struggled with Esau’s angel, the mind of Esau, and defeated Esau spiritually. That is why Esau let Jacob and his family or his tribe cross the river without harming them. Jacob experienced a bad moment, he experienced fear. He experienced being robbed, and he experienced being betrayed by his father-in-law.

 

Here we see a very interesting principle that has manifested in my own life. I will just take a few minutes to put this on the tape.

 

I live in a condominium, and over a year ago, the Lord raised me up to unseat the woman who was President of the board, because she was abusing the condominium. She was stealing. I was the vessel that He used to unseat her. I became President and this past year, I definitely have been reaping what I had sown.

 

Exactly what I had done to overcome the previous President was happening to me. The board was rebelling against me. I could not understand why the board was rebelling against me this way, and why I was having the same experience, when I was serving God by doing what I did.

 

Here is the answer to my question. I did not have the spiritual power or authority to unseat this woman strictly with spiritual power. I had to do things in the natural that are not acceptable to God. I had to rebel against the establish authority, for example, to unseat her. Therefore when I became President my board rebelled against me. I had to reap what I sowed even though I was fulfilling God’s purposes.

 

The Lord will always stop that sort of sowing and reaping judgment short of destruction when you have done it for Him. I still had to reap what I sowed, and Jacob still had to reap what he sowed. He is still reaping today; he is still called a deceiver today.

 

I am not inclined to impute that term, deceiver, to Jacob. I know what he did was deception, but he served God and he saved the promised seed.

 

If Isaac had imparted that seed to Esau, when Esau married the heathen woman, that seed would have been corrupted, and everything that Jehovah had put into His plan to that date, would have been destroyed. He would have had to start all over again. He would have had to find another Abraham and would have had to start all over again.

 

I think I have pretty much covered everything. Do you have any questions?

 

COMMENT: This is a very interesting teaching. I would like to have the message so I can study through it again.

 

PASTOR VITALE: For those of you who did not understand what I said previously, I would like to clarify that Numbers 12:1 does say that Moses married an Ethiopian woman, but there is such a thing as a spiritual marriage. Moses was spiritually married to Joshua, just as Elijah was spiritually married to Elisha and Jesus was spiritually married to John. It is just a term indicating a degree of spiritual intimacy.

 

I have no problem taking Numbers 12:1 to mean that Moses had a spiritual intimacy with Joshua that was on a level that would be described as a spiritual marriage. Apparently Moses was training Joshua to be his successor, and this is what Miriam and Aaron spoke against.

 

What did they say? They said, “Hath the Lord indeed spoken only to Moses? Has He not spoken by us?” What would this kind of question have to do with Moses’ physical, carnal, human marriage to an Ethiopian woman? This is the kind of response that we would hear as a result of spiritual jealousy.

 

They are saying, “Moses, what do you mean, joining into this intimate relationship with Joshua. Who do you think you are that you have the right to choose Joshua as your successor and by-pass us? Who do you think you are?” That is what Numbers 12:1 is talking about.

 

Again I point out that Miriam was the one punished, not Aaron. We see that Miriam was the ring-leader. She had apparently convinced Aaron to go along with her, but Miriam was the one who the Lord held responsible. Praise the Lord.

 

04/03/06 kml

04/15/06 mml-final edit