Resurrection Life of Jesus Church
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW
PART 7: JESUS VS. KABBALAH
RLJ-1783
JOHN S. TORELL
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
MY PERSONAL KABBALAH EDUCATION
I graduated from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California with a Masters of Divinity. During my time there, I never heard the professors speak about the Kabbalah or the Talmud. Were they ignorant? No, they just didn’t talk about it and every student was purposely kept ignorant about these topics.
It was not until around 1979 that I gained insight through a Baptist pastor named Gordon Ginn. This was long before the internet and I had to utilize books and newsletters to gain knowledge about the Kabbalah, Talmud, and how a secret international Jewish group was building a network to usher in a world leader that would unite all the nations into a World Federation. Using this material, I wrote a book in Swedish called “The Message of the Bible in the Last Days.”
During our 1980 summer evangelization in Sweden and Finland, we came to the city of Narpes in Finland for a two week campaign. I showed up early with the purpose of speaking to Kjell Sjöberg, a prominent Swedish Pentecostal pastor, who was the speaker for the first week. I wanted to give him my book and share what I had learned.
He promised to read it and was visibly shaken when I met with him the next day. Kjell told me that if what I asserted was true, his view of the world and the end times would have to change 180 degrees. Like the Bereans in the Bible, he told me to give him six months to confirm my assertions.
I was back in California when I received a letter from Kjell telling me it was worse than what I stated in my book. He had visited Israel and spent time at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It had a Kabbalah faculty chaired by Professor Gershom Scholem, who was a scholar on the Kabbalah. Sjöberg told me about four books that Scholem had written in English detailing the origin of the Kabbalah, its goal of world conquest, and how its adherents were well on their way.1
The other book that has provided me with deep insight into the Jewish history is the rabbinical textbook by Solomon Grayzel.2
Some years ago I coined the statement: “You will only look for something that you know exists.” Using these two books, I have been able to learn the scope of the Kabbalah, how long ago it was founded, and how it drives the Zionist movement. Its goal is to establish control over Israel and make Jerusalem the capitol of the future World Federation.
As my knowledge grew, I decided to write about the Kabbalah and its insidious belief system. My first book described the Kabbalah’s foundations and how this belief system progressed until 1666, when Rabbi Sabbatai Sevi declared he was the Jewish messiah.3 By knowing the past, it will help you discern current events and what will happen in the future with Antichrist.
My knowledge of the Kabbalah and the Jewish people comes primarily from Jewish sources. There are other historical sources as well. I stand by what I teach and consider myself to be a self-taught scholar on this subject.
TEACHING OF THE KABBALAH
The Kabbalah teaches that when Moses went up on the mountain to meet God, he met the evil god. The Kabbalistic founders have twisted the biblical record of Moses going up to the mountain to meet God, while the 70 elders stayed at the foot of the mountain. Exodus 24:9-16
Thus the teaching in the Kabbalah is that the 70 elders at the foot of the mountain met the good God who told them that he became confused during the creation, and part of him fell into the bottomless pit where it took the form of a holy serpent (their future messiah). The Jews are obligated to bring the holy serpent up from the earth so that this messiah can set up his kingdom of Israel.
Korah, the cousin of Moses, embraced the primitive teaching of the Kabbalah and started an uprising against Moses and Aaron. He accused Moses of taking the people out of Egypt so he could become a prince over them. He asserted that Egypt, not Canaan, was the land of milk and honey. It was a serious insurrection and God had to intervene supernaturally to squash it. Numbers 16:1-3; 12-14
GETTING THE SERPENT OUT FROM THE ABYSS
There are two ways to get the holy serpent out of the bottomless pit:
1. The Low Road: Make everyone sinful and cause the world to become void of all goodness.
2. The High Road: Make everyone righteous and cause the world to become good.
The Kabbalist’s chose to take the easy path – the low road – and this means that its adherents need to break every law in the Old Testament. According to them, the more you sin, the more you serve God!
The prophet Isaiah rebuked the followers of the Kabbalah and told them that hell is their destination. Isaiah 5:13-21; 28:14-21
The apostle Paul was accused of being a Kabbalist even though he forcefully rejected the teaching of the Kabbalah. Romans 3:1-18
The majority of Christians don’t know anything about the Kabbalah. It is not common for the few scriptural references in existence not to be attributed to this insidious religion.
The Kabbalah intends to set up the kingdom of God by force and Jesus rejected that notion. Matthew 11:12
There were Kabbalists among the followers of Jesus, and when they saw the Him feed thousands supernaturally, they decided He was the Messiah and wanted Him to set up the kingdom of Israel. John 6:11-15
The Kabbalah is a religious system dating back to King Solomon. Its followers will usher in the Antichrist to the world. Jesus put the warning out but Christianity has failed to understand it. Revelation 13:11-18
All the Jews living at the time of Christ knew about the Kabbalah, King Solomon had promoted it in Israel and that his Kabbalistic number was 666. 1 Kings 10:14, 18-20
KABBALISTIC STRANGLEHOLD
John the Baptist was the forerunner to prepare the Jewish people for the coming Messiah. He told his audience that he was merely opening the door for the anointed one to begin ministering. John did not preach that the Kingdom of God was going to come with violence. Quite the opposite, people were to repent and walk with God.
John the Baptist and Jesus broke the back of the Kabbalah by publicly exposing it.
Matthew 3:7-12
It is noteworthy that none of the Gospel writers ever said that John prayed for people to be healed and set free from demons. His ministry was about repentance and people confessing their sins.
1. THE MESSIANIC IDEA IN JUDAISM, Gershom Scholem, Schocken Books, Inc., New York, 1971
2. A HISTORY OF THE JEWS, Solomon Grayzel, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1947
3. https://rljc-eaec.org/bookstore/kabbalah-book-1-sabbatai-sevi/
Remember, it’s not so important how you begin your life after salvation, but how you finish it!
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