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CHRIST-CENTERED KABBALAH
MESSAGE #531 - Part 24
A LOOK AT KABBALAH
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A LOOK AT KABBALAH
Praise the Lord everybody. We are continuing with our review. I have drawing #1 up on the board, which is not really a drawing, but just some principles for you. Everything has an inside and an outside, even humanity, even us. We have an outside. This body is outside and we have an inside. All of our organs are inside and actually there's an inside to our flesh. There's an inside to our flesh. There are layers of flesh underneath this outer layer. Everything has an inside and an outside. Inside, for spiritual purposes anyway, inside is spirit or light. Outside is flesh, which is degraded light. I read somewhere once that a scientist said that human blood, the blood of a human being, is light that has slowed down to a spiritual crawl. You see, everything came out of the Ayn Sof and there is no darkness in Him. Everything came out of the Ayn Sof and all of it was degraded because from the minute it departed from Him, the light that departed from the Ayn Sof would lose its power. The farther away that light is from the Ayn Sof, the more its power is diminished. Degraded light is a form of light that's lost its power.
So we have different lights with different degrees of power that have come out of the Ayn Sof. Because this world is outer darkness, we have a lot of degraded light down here. We're as far away from eternity as we could be. That's why Jesus called this outer darkness. So inside the vessel is light and we know that the light that comes to be with us is the Spirit of Christ or the Holy Spirit and He comes and He lives in our heart. He's inside of us. He's also outside of us, but that part of Him which is outside of us is the overflow. Inside is the light and outside is the vessel or the container made of degraded light. Humanity is the container. We are the container. Christ Jesus is light. Humanity is the container and this very important spirit has the capacity to expand. I'll give you an example. I have a cup right here and it's half empty. I had a full cup of tea in there and it's half empty. If it were spirit, it would have the ability to expand and refill the cup, but we don't see that with tea. We don't see that in this world. But spirit has the ability to expand or to increase.
Years ago when I was a very young disciple, I had a miracle. I was very sick in those days. Someone had given me a little vial of anointing oil. I needed a refill and I don't remember the details, but I couldn't get to the preacher or whatever for more. Well, I woke up one morning and it was filled. That little bottle was filled to the top. See, spirit can expand and spirit has the power to expand matter, also. Now the King James version says there was a few loaves and some fishes and it fed everybody. Of course, that's the parable, but it is the principle of expansion. Spirit has the ability to increase itself. Talking about light and vessels, spirit has the ability to increase itself in volume. So we're talking about a vessel or a container that is half full. What I'm trying to tell you is, when light is filling that container, that light has the ability to double itself, if it wants to. It can completely fill up the container. See, we're hoping for the double portion, right? The light inside of us is Christ Jesus, We're hoping and waiting for Him to double and to, at least, double in power and, hopefully, that that energy which is His light will penetrate the thick walls of our flesh and give us health and life to this body. This body is the border, it's the outline, it's the vessel that contains the light. Christ Jesus is on the inside of us and the Glorified Jesus Christ is on the outside of us. Hopefully the two will meet and we will get caught in the middle and we will be quickened by that union between the Glorified Jesus Christ outside of us and Christ Jesus inside of us. Is everybody okay with this? Okay, let's take a picture. Praise the Lord.
Drawing #2 is a very interesting drawing. The Lord just taught me something tonight. I love when He does this. I have been struggling with this concept of the Lord Jesus being outside of us and Christ Jesus being inside of us because, somewhere along the line, I believed that God was inside of everything, so how could the Lord Jesus be outside of us? I put that question to the Lord, as I was teaching you tonight, and this drawing is what He showed me. Of course, the Lord Jesus is outside of us. All existence is in the empty space. Remember, the Ayn Sof, who is Infinite, brought forth an empty space in the middle of Himself. Today, Jesus Christ is one with the Ayn Sof. So He's outside of the empty space. He's out here. The Lord Jesus is out here beyond the creation. It's not true that God is only inside of us. He is also outside of us and this is the diagram that we receive from Kabbalah. Remember, Adam Kadmon has both linear and circular aspects. The circular aspects of Adam Kadmon are us. We are the circular aspects; humanity. The linear aspect of Adam Kadmon is the Godhead that enters into the midst of us, whether it be the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Christ or Christ Jesus. Wherever you are in your development, that is going on inside of you. Hopefully, you have Christ Jesus inside of you. The Lord Jesus who is outside of you is, today, one with the Ayn Sof. He is very far away. The Ayn Sof is beyond all space, beyond outer space. It is impossible to even comprehend where the Ayn Sof is because He is so far away in His outer aspect.
Of course, the Ayn Sof, in the form of Christ Jesus, is inside of us. So it's much easier to make contact with the God in the midst of us than the God that's outside of us. It's impossible for humanity to contact the God outside of us. He's beyond space, as far as we mortals are concerned, and infinite. Space is infinite in comparison to us. What does that mean? It means space is so vast that we cannot even comprehend what's on the other side of it. But there is another side of it and it's called the Ayn Sof. But it's beyond our comprehension to even imagine it. Therefore, we turn to the God in the midst of us. So the Lord Jesus Christ is ascended higher than all heavens. He's ascended above all the heavens and He's now one with the Ayn Sof. He is out here beyond infinite space. See, the Theosophists will tell you there is nothing beyond infinite space, but Kabbalah tells us that Ayn Sof is beyond infinite space. Hinduism and Theosophy tells us that infinite space is the Almighty. That's what those philosophies teach. They teach that infinite space is God, but infinite space (at this point, I'm not sure whether it's the dragon or not) but I guess infinite space is the dragon. I would say that. I might have the name wrong, but it's somewhere from the negative timeline. God is beyond infinite space and impossible for man to reach. Can you hear this? The absolute miracle of it, that the Lord Jesus came and entered into the midst of us because it is absolutely impossible for us to get to God. Infinite space, the stomping ground of the Dragon, has stood between us and has raised herself up between us and the Ayn Sof.
So the Lord Jesus Christ came into the midst of us. We could not go to Him; He came to us. Here is the diagram. The circular sefirot of Adam Kadmon signifies humanity. Almost all of the teachings of Kabbalah have to do with the linear aspect of Adam Kadmon. See, we have the Doctrine of Christ, which deals with the circular aspect. We have the knowledge of the serpent and the serpent's kingdom to whatever degree the Lord has given us that knowledge. So what did the Lord teach me tonight? I've read this in the books, but it just jelled in my mind, tonight, that we are the wall. We are the wall. We, humanity, we are the border. We are the container, just like a cup is the wall for the water inside of the cup. The cup is a wall to the water. It's a border. It's what separates the water from what's outside of the cup. That's what we are. We're the cup. We're the border. We're the wall that separates the linear aspect of Adam Kadmon from the Ayn Sof which is the true eternity. According to this drawing, I remind you (in case you're not remembering) that the light from the Ayn Sof enters into Adam Kadmon, pours into Adam Kadmon, and Adam Kadmon has openings in him. Adam Kadmon is a filter because if the light of the Ayn Sof poured into us with full force, it would destroy us. So Adam Kadmon (or Christ Jesus to us here) is a filter that only lets limited amounts of the light of God into us. We would burn up otherwise. So the Ayn Sof, He is outside of all that there is in that empty space that the Ayn Sof brought forth.
Do you remember how He formed that empty space? Does anybody remember? He contracted Himself. He contracted Himself and formed an empty space in the midst of Himself. So is there anybody that cannot see that we are the wall? We are the border and we know that the pattern of the Fiery Serpent is spiralline. So we are the spiralline aspect of the creation. Adam Kadmon is the straight line. We had a lot of teaching on that at one time. Outside the two, both the linear and the spiralline aspect of the creation, lies the Ayn Sof, who today, is one with the Lord Jesus. Humanity is the container that holds the light called Christ Jesus. The Lord Jesus is outside of humanity. The two, the Lord Jesus and Christ Jesus, are moving towards one another, penetrating humanity from the inside out and from the outside in. They will meet, the Lord Jesus and Christ Jesus, they will meet in the walls of the human body and in that meeting eternal life will be imparted to our flesh. Christ Jesus is penetrating outward. The Lord Jesus is penetrating inward. We are closer to Christ Jesus because He's in the midst of us. That's why (as I have told you many times) if the Lord speaks to you in a loud voice, most likely it's the Lord Jesus. He's calling from far away. If the Lord speaks to you in a soft voice, it's most likely Christ Jesus in the midst of you. Christ Jesus in the midst of you speaks in a soft voice or He speaks through your thoughts. He speaks to my thoughts more often than in a voice.
It doesn't happen very often, but on occasion I have heard the voice of the Lord. I haven't heard the voice of the Lord Jesus in a long time, but I know that when I hear a shout, it's the Lord Jesus shouting from outside the empty space. Isn't there a scripture like that? An archangel will shout; that's the Lord Jesus calling from outside the empty space. So we are the wall. Since the Lord quickened to me that we are the wall, I picked up a few scriptures that I'd like to comment on. Isaiah 36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language: for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. Okay, this is what the Lord said to me about the people on the wall. It doesn't sound like this in the King James Translation. I also took a look at the interlinear text and I didn't really have time to work it through. You were all in here waiting for me. But the Lord told me what it means to be on the wall. It means to be on top of the wall, to be upon the wall.
In other words, there is only one way you can be on top of this wall. Of course, it's talking about our consciousness because we are the wall. We are made of flesh and we're likened to wood, to a tree. To be upon the wall is to be on top of our flesh nature. That's what it means to be upon the wall, to be on top of our carnal nature. The only way we can be on top of our carnal nature is to be thinking with the mind of Christ. Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words: Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? Okay, now in this verse, He's talking about the men that sit upon the wall and another translation of the Hebrew word translated, sit, means to marry. At least it's an idiom that means to marry. So this enemy of Israel is saying that he's sent to destroy the men who are married to the wall, those of us who are married to ourselves. We're suppose to be married to the Lord. But the ones that are married to the wall are the ones that are married to themselves. Who is ourselves? The scripture says we are married to ourselves. Who is ourselves?
COMMENT: Leviathan.
PASTOR VITALE: Yes, when we're married to our carnal mind.
So to be sitting on the wall means that you're married to your carnal mind. To be on the wall means that you're above your carnal mind. Now we're up to Isaiah 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord. Okay, I did look at the interlinear text with that one and I do have a better understanding of what it says. This is a very rough translation, but it says something like this. First of all, the prefix is vav and yod before the word, turned, and vav and yod signifies Adam Kadmon. Then Adam Kadmon turned Hezekiah's personality. The word face means personality. Then Adam Kadmon turned Hezekiah's personali that arises out of the V is identified by the number 45, MaH (45) and the Tetragrammaton that arises out of the last or the second H is identified by the number 52, BaN (52). So when we hear the name SaG 63 we know that it's talking about the Tetragrammaton that arises out of the first H of the inclusive Name. What does inclusive Name mean? The inclusive Name is the Tetragrammaton that includes all four, AB (72), SaG (63), MaH (45) and BaN (52). The inclusive Name includes all of them. SaG (63) is the Tetragrammaton that arises out of the first H of the inclusive Name. Does anyone have any questions on that?
At least from what we've studied so far, what is the function of SaG (63)? I'm sure there's many more functions than this, but based on what we've been learning, what is the function of SaG (63)? Is she going up or is she going down? She's going down, she's descending. SaG (63) is descending into where? Yes, she's descending into Ze'ir Anpin. Can anyone tell us the purpose of SaG (63)'s descent into Ze'ir Anpin? Why is she descending into him? Does anyone know?
COMMENT: To get connected to Malkhut?
PASTOR VITALE: Well, the first half was right, but it's not Malkhut. SaG (63) is descending into Ze'ir Anpin to connect Ze'ir Anpin to Binah, not Malkhut. Now Malkhut is down at the bottom and all life is in Binah. So SaG (63) wants to connect Ze'ir Anpin to life, the life that's above. SaG (63) is descending into Ze'ir Anpin to impart the life that is in Binah, which is eternal life, to the world below. So you had the general idea. Now what specific part of SaG (63) is descending? You're getting a test tonight. What specific part of SaG (63) is descending into Ze'ir Anpin?
COMMENT: Tevunah
PASTOR VITALE: Yes. Wow, you guys are flying tonight. I shouldn't be calling you, you guys. You sons, you're flying tonight. Yes, Tevunah is the part of SaG (63) that is descending into Ze'ir Anpin. Which letter of the Tetragrammaton that's identified by the Name SaG (63), which of her letters is Tevunah? Tevunah is the one that's descending now. SaG (63) has four letters, Y H V H. Which of her letters is Tevunah? Yes, Tevunah is the last letter, the second H of the Tetragrammaton, identified by the number 63. Wow, that's fantastic. You're getting it. Excellent.
Let's see what else can I test you on here? Okay, I'm going to cover up this board here. What numerical value does the simple H have? Yes, 5. Okay, how do you spell the H that has a numerical value of 10? Yes, heh. How do you spell the letter H that has a numerical value of 15? Yes, hey. Yes, excellent. You've go it. So I hope you all understand now that Tevunah is like a pregnant woman. She's reproducing. She's becoming doubles. Everything is doubling. Of course, we won't do it tonight, but Lord willing, on Sunday we'll see that the vav (13) doubles and becomes 26. Then the next part is a little complicated, but we'll just take it a step at a time and I'm going to stay with you until you understand this, as long as it takes. I see that if I break it down like this, you can get it. I think that's marvelous. Anybody have anything to say? Any questions or comments? Anyone want to say Alleluia? Well, we thank you, Lord, for wisdom. We thank you for increasing our intelligence. We thank you for the power to do what most men couldn't do. I was discouraged as I went into the Internet and I tried to contact a few rabbis who had pages on Kabbalah. I was discouraged by everyone of them from going on with this study. But Jesus said, do it. We will expand. We are expanding and as we do what He has told us to do and as we follow His lead, the world is waiting for us. His world is waiting for us. Okay, God bless you all. Goodnight.
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