KABBALAH INFILTRATING CHRISTIANITY

THE DEADLY FRUIT OF KABBALAH  

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 4:5

Tragedy of a Jewish Mystic

Last week, the Associated Press (8/31/99) reported the controversial fatal shooting by New York police of a mentally disturbed Jewish man. It seems that Gideon Busch had been "brandishing a hammer and threatening children while singing loudly. . .

"At least five officers arrived and found Gideon Busch, 31, in the basement of his house, wearing a prayer shawl and leather pouches used to hold pieces of scripture, police said. The officers retreated onto the street and Busch followed them, carrying the hammer, said Detective Robert Samuel. Tear gas failed to subdue the man. One police sergeant stumbled to the ground and Busch struck him several times with the hammer, officers said. After Busch ignored several orders to drop the hammer, officers fired at least 12 shots, striking him in the torso at leastseven times, police said."

A few days later, a New York Times feature story described the mental deterioration of the once bright and affable Jewish medical student who became the tormented and psychotic Gideon Busch.

MAN SHOT BY CITY OFFICERS WAS ON A TROUBLED QUEST
By Susan Sachs
The New York Times
September 2, 1999

        Ten years ago, at age 21 and with a promising medical career in front of him, Gideon Busch learned he had an incurable kidney disease.
        It was that knowledge, his family and friends said, that capsized all the plans he had for his life, driving him on a search for spiritual enlightenment in Orthodox Judaism and sometimes sending him skidding into immobilizing depressions.
        Most of the time, he was a sweet-natured young man everyone called Gary, who loved music and the quiet grace of celebrating  the Jewish Sabbath with friends. But Mr. Busch could also slide into a deeply troubled and disoriented world or his own frenetic prayers, fears and symbols.
        The two sides -- often incompatible and impenetrable -- followed him to his death.
        The police officers who shot and killed him in Brooklyn on Monday evening said Mr. Busch, tall and skinny at 6 feet 3 inches and 159 pounds, attacked them with a hammer outside his tiny basement apartment in Borough Park. On that hammer, Mr. Busch, 31, a deeply religious man who prayed so loudly the neighbors complained, had carved the four Hebrew letters signifying the name of God.
        "In his good times, he was an outgoing fellow and would talk and sing psalms around the Sabbath table," said Rabbi Yakov Saacks, the director of the Chai Center in Dix Hills, N.Y., where Mr. Busch grew up in suburban comfort on Long Island. "In his bad times, perhaps when he wasn't taking his medication, he didn't look up from his prayer book or his food.
        "There were two different Gary Busches," the rabbi added. "I loved them both."
        As they prepared for his funeral today in Dix Hills, Mr. Busch's family said he was a gentle, if distressed, young man who never hurt anyone.
        "He had a mental illness, no question about it," said his father, Norman Busch, a retired dentist living in the Long Island town of Bay Shore. "But he was not a violent person. He was never violent."
        But Mr. Busch was hospitalized involuntarily for psychiatric treatment three times at a hospital on Long Island, where doctors said he had made threats to his parents and evinced signs of paranoid schizophrenia. Two years ago, he entered a residential program for the mentally ill in Borough Park but soon checked himself out against the advice of doctors who said they did not believe he was capable of living on his own.
        Still, his family said they did not recognize the man portrayed in published reports since the shooting as behaving so erratically that his neighbors called the police and as lunging with a hammer that the police said was inscribed with Hebrew letters.
        "This is not what he was or who he is," his mother, Doris Busch Boskey, said, weeping. "They've created a person to explain away or excuse what happened and what they did."
        Mr. Busch was studying to be a doctor at Mount Sinai Medical School when he discovered, when all the students tested their own urine sample as part of a classroom exercise, that he suffered from an immune system problem. He was given a diagnosis of IgA nephropathy, a disease that can lead to kidney failure.
        Until then, his relatives said, Mr. Busch showed no signs of mental  instability. But the diagnosis shook him deeply.
        Mr. Busch continued his studies, but in his third year of medical school, he told his family he wanted to drop out. He read books on philosophy. He immersed himself in his favorite classical music and jazz. He talked of finding a spiritual path to well-being, of exploring the meaning of life. His own religion, Judaism, called him and he moved to Israel.
        Mr. Busch spent much of the next seven years there, trying out different trends and practices within the religion. He studied Hebrew and the Torah in a conventional Orthodox yeshiva in Jerusalem. Drawn to the more mystical Hasidic movement, he delved into the messianic Lubavitch sect.
        Eventually, his family said, he drifted to the city of Safad in northern Israel to study at a school dedicated to the mystical teachings of Rabbi Nachman, founder of the Breslover Hasidic sect who died in 1810.
        The school and its graduates, however, are not associated with the mainstream Breslover sect, which has shunned them as a fringe group that has gone too far in making a cult out of the rabbi's memory. The group is known in Israel for spray-painting Rabbi Nachman's name on walls and bouncing up and down as if in a trance, on street corners. Mr. Busch threw himself into the group, worrying his relatives back home.
    "When you get involved in the inner circle of a fringe group, they are very warm and welcoming," Rabbi Saacks said. "But they had a very narrow focus. They were only reading Rabbi Nachman's books, only discussing his teachings, only telling the message of their teacher -- which I'm not sure what it is -- and not focusing on much else."
        Mr. Busch recently told family and friends that he had realized the group was too extreme and assured them he was gravitating toward the more mainstream Hasidic sect.
        But he seemed drawn, still, into his own sometimes inscrutable world of extremes, where his absorbing passion for religion turned into a fervor that seemed to amplify episodes of mental instability.
        "He bounced in and out of it," Rabbi Saacks said. "Last January, he said he felt he was maybe too entrenched and saw that he had to pull back. I welcomed that. And on August 8, the last time I spoke to him, he was back with 'Rebbe Nachman said this and Rebbe Nachman said that' and this very insular approach to life."
        What his family saw were periods of quiet, sometimes desperate depression. His mother said Mr. Busch once kicked a hole in the wall of his room in her house and became very agitated. "He kept saying, I can't believe I did that. I love this house. I grew up in this house," Mrs. Boskey recalled. Shortly after that, he became so depressed he was hospitalized, she said.
        About three weeks ago, Netanya Ullman ran into Mr. Busch on the subway to Manhattan. They had met briefly when both were studying in Safad five years ago, she said, and when they met again, there was an instant rapport.
        The couple decided to get married, she said, and spoke constantly of Mr. Busch's interpretations of Rabbi Nachman's teachings.
        "Its all about talking to God out loud and going into nature and praying and very intense meditation," Ms. Ullman said.
        When he meditated, he would play music very loudly, she said. Recently, he took to dancing with the hammer, which he called his staff.
        "He put God's name on it to make it something that would bring holiness into the world," Ms. Ullman said. "He'd go outside and dance with it and raise it up and move slowly. He was like bringing down light from his staff."
        "It was for holy purposes," she added. "He wanted to bring people closer and his way of doing that was this pushing toward the boundaries of what's acceptable."
        Mr. Busch's behavior drew comments from his neighbors in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood where he moved last December in the apparent hope of immersing himself in the close-knit religious culture.
        He did not seem to connect with his neighbors, who said after the shooting that they regarded Mr. Busch as an oddball whose ecstatic dancing and music did not fit in.
        Even so, his parents said that Mr. Busch seemed content with his new life. He had taken a course in computer programming and was thinking of starting a business designing Web pages.
        But there were disturbing signs.
        Two weeks ago, he stopped by his brother Glenn's law office. "He seemed agitated, but O.K.," his brother said.
        Ms. Ullman said he stopped wearing his prescription eyeglasses. When the police came on Monday night, she said, he might not have seen them as anything more than blurry threatening figures. In the tiny basement apartment, the police said they found strange scribblings on signs on the wall. One spelled out the word "police," as "pointedly off-wing litigating intensely careful errand-deliverers."
        On Monday evening, someone called 911 to report that a man at Mr. Busch's address was menacing children in the neighborhood. When officers arrived to question him, they said, he waved the hammer at them.
        His family and friends, outraged by the shooting, said they believe Mr. Busch was frightened and panicked by the armed police officers. They said he was a spiritual man who wished for nothing but peace.
        "He was happy with the path he had taken," his father, Dr. Busch said. "But with mental disease, you do have periods of high emotion and periods of calm. He was a loving wonderful person, but he was never violent."

The September 3 New York Times stated that Busch believed he was the messiah:

"Mr. Busch told doctors at a psychiatric hospital that he increasingly feared his own impulses toward violence and repeatedly took cocaine and psychedelic drugs, his medical records show. [Doctors, nurses and social workers] said that when he was not taking his prescribed tranquilizers and antipsychotic drugs, Mr. Busch was delusional, believed himself to be the messiah, and was capable of doing harm to himself and others."

Drugs or Kabbalah?

Were drugs the catalyst which drove this tragic figure from a high level of mental competence to insanity? It is common knowledge that psychedelic drugs such as LSD are mind-altering.  However, the chemist who discovered LSD recognized early on its mystical qualities, as stated in Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion:

"[High Priest of LSD, Timothy] Leary also contacted Dr. Albert Hofmann, the Sandoz chemist who had discovered LSD nearly thirty years earlier. They met for the first time at a cafe in Lausanne. Hofmann told Leary about his informal 'wisdom school' centered around psychedelic sessions with leading European intellectuals, including Ernst Junger, the German novelist and mystic. Leary asked Hofmann about the dangers of LSD, and the elderly scientist insisted there was no evidence of brain damage caused by the drug. The only dangers, he maintained, were psychological and could be avoided by supportive conditions. In the final analysis Dr. Hofmann affirmed the importance of LSD as an 'aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality.'" [Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Grove Press, 1985, p. 269]

Although the NY Times recounted Gideon Busch's involvement in the Lubavitch and Breslover communities, there was no mention that these Hasidic sects would have encouraged the study of Kabbalah or that occult initiation in the mysteries of Kabbalah often leads to paranormal experiences similar to those produced by LSD. The end result of a course of initiation is all too frequently demon possession -- a condition the manifestations of which were exhibited by Gideon Busch.  The writings of Rabbi Nachman, founder of the Breslov sect, were diligently studied by Gideon Busch. According toBreslov on the Internet, Rabbi Nachman received his instruction in Jewish mysticism through the writings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, author of the Sepher-Ha-Zohar, Book of Light, which is the premier book of Kabbalah:

Breslov Chassidus was founded by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.  Rabbi Nachman was the great grandson of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, who led one of the greatest spiritual revivals-renewals ever to occur among the Jewish people, two hundred years ago.
Rabbi Nachman followed in the tradition of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.  Rabbi Luria, known as the Arizal, lived in the 16th century and was one of the greatest luminaries and expounders of Jewish mystical and spiritual thought.  Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was the author of the Zohar.

In performing the rituals of the Hasidim, what curious purpose was served by Gideon Busch's hammer (which he called his staff) upon which he had engraved the four letter name of God? Someone who was also educated by the Lubavitchers, such as Peter Michas of Messengers of Messiah, would be well-qualified to explain the significance of the staff engraved with the name of God.  According to Michas' book, The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan, a similar staff in the Old Testament was (1) a "divine rod" from the Tree of Life, (2) possessed of miraculous powers, (3) preserved by the Patriarchs and (4) will one day reappear to validate the true messiah. This rod had mystical powers because God had engraved upon it his own "Ineffable Name":

". . .God gave Adam a branch from the Tree of Life, which was engraved with the Ineffable Name of God (YHVH). Considering its source, it must have been of supreme symbolic significance. . .Perhaps at some future time, a discovery will be made to verify the history of thisdivine rod."(p. 119)
"According to rabbinical commentary and stories passed from generation to generation, the rod transferred from Adam successively down the line to Enoch, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and David. According to the Midrash Yelamdenu: the staff with which Jacob crossed the Jordan is identical with that which Judah gave to his daughter-in-law, Tamar. . . (p. 120)
"According to one account: On Joseph's death the Egyptian nobles stole some of his belongings, and, among them, Jethro appropriated thestaff. Jethro planted the staff in his garden, when its marvelous virtue was revealed by the fact that nobody could withdraw it from the ground; even to touch it was fraught with danger to life. This was because the Ineffable Name of God was engraved upon it. When Moses entered Jethro's household he read the Name, and by means of it was able to draw up the rod, for which service Zipporah, Jethro's daughter, was given to him in marriage (emphasis added). (p. 121)
"What makes this account so remarkable is the reference to planting the rod engraved with the Ineffable Name of God (YHVH). Considering the prior reference to God's transplanting the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, it seems of great consequence that a reference is made to planting a branch from this same tree in another garden." (p. 122)
"According to the Midrash Yelamdenu, David carried the rod into battle against Goliath. . .Undoubtedly, David's victory was proof of God's miraculous intervention. The rod, engraved with the Ineffable Name, bore witness to the authority which this miracle of redemption had been performed. . ." (p. 128)

Students of Scripture know that no such mystical branch from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden is found in the Old Testament. Rather, based on mere legends, Peter Michas has grossly exaggerated the importance and chronological longevity of Aaron's rod, which Scripture only states (1) miraculously became a serpent before the court of Pharaoh to swallow up the rods of the Egyptian magicians, (2) later budded as proof of Aaron's authority, (3) was preserved for a time in the Ark of the Covenant.
Another Tree of Life is very mystical, however, and central to the initiatory process of Kabbalah. In this mystery religion, the initiate is taught that he will ascend toward divinity (Primordial Man or Adam Kadmon) through gates or ladders of wisdom called sephiroth on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The sephiroth are comprised of the four letters of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), which are supposedly vessels through which illumination is spread to the world.  According to Professor of Jewish Mysticism and prominent expositor of Kabbalah, Daniel C. Matt, the Light of the sephiroth is believed to be Ein Sof or "God as Infinity". The sum of all ten sephiroth is called YHWH. 

"The Light of the sefirot emanates and radiates from above to below in a direct path. . .While there are many unerasable names -- the ten divine names of the sefirot -- there exists one name that comprises all ten sefirot. This is the four-letter name: YHVH. Y symbolizes Hokhmah; H, Binah; V includes six sefirot; the final H. Malkhut. Ein Sof is concealed within Keter, while its light spreads through these four letters, from yod to he, from he to vav, from vav to final he. (The Essential Kabbalah, pp. 48)

Daniel Matt tells of an "ecstatic kabbalist" of the early Renaissance period named Abraham Abulafia who recommended meditation on the name of God along with free-form physical activity as a method of entering altered states of consciousness:

"Abulafia. . .recommends focusing on the pure forms of the letters of the alphabet, or on the name of God. Here there is no concrete, particular meaning, no distraction, just the music of pure thought. As the highest form of this meditation, Abulafia recommends 'jumping' or 'skipping,' a type of free association between various combinations of letters, guided by fairly lax rules. Thereby consciousness expands." (The Essential Kabbalah, pp. 12)

This helps to explain why Gideon Busch engraved the name of God on the hammer and danced wildly with the irrational notion that such a ritual would "bring down light" and holiness into the world. The Times article reported that the fiancée of Mr. Busch told reporters that he would pray so loudly the neighbors complained:

"When he meditated, he would play music very loudly, she said. Recently, he took to dancing with the hammer, which he called his staff. He put God's name on it to make it something that would bring holiness into the world. . .He'd go outside and dance with it and raise it up and move slowly. He was like bringing down light from his staff."

Masonic Grand Master, Albert Mackey explained in The Lexicon of Freemasonry that uttering the Name of God endued one with the power of God.  Note Mackey's reference to the lost name of God, which Master Masons receive upon their initiation into the 3rd degree, according to the Masonic Legend of Hiram Abiff:

". . .The Tetragrammaton might only be uttered once a year on the Day of Atonement by the High Priest in the Holy of Holies amid the sound of trumpets and cymbals which prevented the people from hearing it. It is said that in consequence of the people thus refraining from its utterance, the true pronunciation of the name was at last lost. The Jews further believed that the Tetragrammaton was possessed by unbounded powers. He who pronounces it shakes heaven and earth and inspires the very angels with astonishment and terror.' The Ineffable Name thus conferred miraculous gifts; it was engraved on the rod of Moses and enabled him to perform wonders, just as, according to the Toledot Yeshu, it conferred the same powers on Christ. . ." [(2) Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 156; as cited in Nesta Webster, Secret Societies & Subversive Movements, p.167]

Ritual recitation of the name of God by the High Priest of Israel is also mentioned in The Torah Anthology of famous kabbalist, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, to whom Peter Michas frequently refers in his own book.  According to Rabbi Kaplan, as quoted by Peter Michas, God increased the volume of the voices of Moses and the High Priest -- not when they preached the Word of God -- but when they "recited" YHWH on Yom Kippur:

"When the High Priest recited the Tetragrammaton [the name of God] on Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] it could be heard at a very great distance. This was a great miracle, like when the Torah was given, as it was written, 'Moses spoke and God answered in a voice' (Exodus 19:19). God made Moses' voice so strong that all 600,000 Israelites could hear it. Similarly, the same was true of the High Priest. God would make his voice so loud that all the people could hear it (emphasis added)." (The Rod of An Almond Tree, p. 199)

Readers of Peter Michas' book are never told that Rabbi Kaplan or any of his other rabbinic sources are kabbalists. However, the Theosophical Glossary of H.P. Blavatsky states that ritual recitation of the Ineffable Name is a practice derived straight from the Zohar, the preeminent book of Kabbalah:

"But the Rabbins do not care to remember the Zoharic admission that YHVH means 'not as I Am written, Am I read' (Zohar, fol. III., 230a). One has to know how to divide the Tetragrammaton ad infinitum  before one arrives at the sound of the truly unpronounceable name of the Jewish mystery-god." (p. 155)

Part IX of Vicky Dillen's expose of the Hebrew Roots Movement deals with Practical Kabbalah: Talismans & Masters of the Name.  She writes, "The magical abilities of Jewish adepts were a sign of their mastery of the Ineffable Name. The Divine or Ineffable Name is believed to be known only by those adepts who qualify for that secret initiation and knowledge and these are believed to become endowed with 'magical powers' by uttering or writing the Name. Their magical abilities became the impetus for various Hasidic movements which divided the Jews over whether a particular adept was the long awaited Messiah. These adepts were called Masters of the Name or Baal Shems. The term, 'Baal Shem' means that the person was regarded as expert in the 'practical kabbalah' or magic. 'Baal Shem' means literally one who is master of the name of God, who knows how to employ it." [Gershom Scholem, "On The Kabbalah And Its Symbolism," p.200, Schocken Books, 1965/1996]
Part VII: Of Sages and Scholars reveals that incantations of the name of God were intoned by Jewish sages as methods of entering the very presence of God, i.e., astral projection, as documented in the section "All Sages GO to Heaven":

The earliest documents (100-1000 A.D.) associated with Kabbalah describe the attempts of "Merkabah" mystics to penetrate the seven halls (Hekaloth) of creation and reach the Merkabah (throne-chariot) of God. These mystics used the familiar methods of shamanism (fasting,repetitious chanting, prayer, posture) to induce trance states in which they literally fought their way past terrible seals and guards to reach an ecstatic state in which they 'saw God'. [Colin Low]

In some instances the sages believed themselves to have attained to the divine state, which accounts for the messianic delusion of Gideon Busch:

. . .Hekhalot texts do tend to summon angels (never God, I believe) in a very preemptory way, and they ask for various types of esoteric wisdom and theurgic power. It seems clear also that the Merkavah mystics were deified (turned to angelic creatures of fire) before the throne of God, at least for the duration of the heavenly journey. Enoch received this deification permanently when he was transformed into the angel Metatron in 3 Enoch. But perhaps not too much should be made of this either, since deification rites are also known from the pagan magical papyri . . . [J.Davila, Ancient Magic, Part III, Jewish Magic ]

In the 17th century, famous kabbalist Sabbatai Tzevi founded the Sabbatean Movement which had many elements in common with the present-day Lubavitch Movement. Tzevi's profile even resembles that of the Lubavitch messiah, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Of interest, both were prophets of millenarianism and national restoration:

"Sabbatai Zevi, 1626-76, Jewish Mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic Cabala. . . , he became deeply influenced by its ideas of imminent national redemption.  In 1648 he proclaimed himself the Messiah, named the year 1666 the millennium, and gathered a host of followers. In 1666 he attempted to land in Constantinople, was captured and to escape death embraced Islam. Nevertheless the influence of the Sabbatean movement survived many years." [Columbia Encyclopedia, p, 2389]

Moshe Idel noted in his volume on Messianic Mystics that Sabbatai Tzevi claimed to be the messiah after discovering the correct pronunciation of the Ineffable Name:

"Considering the fact that Abulafia's Kabbalah focuses on techniques for meditating on holy names and that he also saw himself as the Messiah, his writings may constitute a crucial precedent for the first 'strange deed' of Sabbatai Tzevi -- the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton. . .If we accept the evidence concerning the young Tzevi as pronouncing the divine name and proclaiming himself Messiah in public in 1648 or 1649 his later career should be understood as the culmination of a remarkable beginning. . . Tzevi's reading Abulafian quotations in Sefer ha-Peliyah prompted him to pronounce the divine name so he conceived of himself as the Messiah. . ." [Moshe Idel, Messianic Mystics, Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 187, 193] 

Other sources document the immense influence of Sabbatai Tzevi whose messianic claim instigated a great movement of consecutive Masters of the Name who were empowered as miracle workers:

"Since the sixteenth century the great mass of Jewry had settled in Poland, and a succession of miracle-workers known by the name of Zaddikim or Ba'al Shems had arisen. The latter word, which signifies 'Master of the Name,' originated with the German Polish Jews and was derived from the Cabalistic belief in the miraculous use of the sacred name of Jehovah, known as the Tetragrammaton."
"According to Cabalistic traditions, certain Jews of peculiar sanctity or knowledge were able with impunity to make use of the Divine Name. A Ba'al Shem was therefore one who had acquired this power and employed it in writing amulets, invoking spirits, and prescribing cures for various diseases. Poland and particularly Podolia---which had not yet been ceded to Russia---became thus a centre of Cabalism where a series of extraordinary movements of a mystical kind followed each other. In 1666, when the Messianic era was still believed to be approaching, the whole Jewish world was convulsed by the sudden appearance of Shabbethai Zebi, the son of a poulterer in Smyrna named Mordecai, who proclaimed himself the promised Messiah and rallied to his support a huge following not only amongst the Jews of Palestine, Egypt, and Eastern Europe, but even the hard-headed Jews of the Continental bourses. 1. Samuel Pepys in his Diary refers to the bets made amongst the Jews in London on the chances of "a certain person now in Smyrna, being acclaimed King of the World and the true Messiah." [(1)Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, article on Jews. (2) Diary of Samuel Pepys, date of February 19, 1666.; As Cited Webster op.cit., p. 181 (3) Jewish Encyclopaedia, article on Shabbethai Zebi B. Mordecai]

Through the more objective lense of history, Sabbetai Tzevi is described by the Jewish Encyclopedia as a pretender. Such will be the verdict of history against the numerous messianic mystics who would rob the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, of His glory:

". . . Shabbethai, who was an expert Cabalist and had the temerity to utter the Ineffable Name Jehovah, was said to be possessed of marvelous powers, his skin exuded exquisite perfume, he indulged perpetually in sea-bathing and lived in a state of chronic ecstasy. The pretensions of Shabbethai, who took the title of 'King of the Kings of the Earth,' split Jewry in two; many Rabbi's launched imprecations against him and those who had believed in him were bitterly disillusioned when, challenged by the Sultan to prove his claim to be the Messiah by allowing poisoned arrows to be shot at him, he suddenly renounced the Jewish faith and proclaimed himself a Mohammedan. His conversion, however, appeared to be only partial, for 'at times he would assume the role of the pious Mohammedan and revile Judaism; at others he would enter into relations with Jews as one of their own faith.' By this means the he retained the allegiance both of Moslems and of the Jews. But the Rabbis, alarmed for the cause of Judaism, succeeded in obtaining his incarceration by the Sultan in a castle near Belgrade, where he died of colic in1676." [(3)Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Shabbethai Zebi B. Mordecai.; (1) Henry Hart Milman, History of the Jews (Everyman's Library), Vol.II, p. 445; As cited, Webster, op.cit., p. 181-182]

We may reasonably infer that the Lord Jesus Christ had in mind the pagan ritual of chanting or reciting the so-called Ineffable Name when He preached the Sermon on the Mount: "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking?" (Matt. 6:7) 
In stark contrast to the mindless rituals of messianic mystics, Jesus then gave to his disciples a simple model for prayer.  What Christians have come to call the Lord's Prayer is a rational approach to God that deals forthrightly with critical issues of sin that hinder prayer.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Rather than recitation of the Lord's Prayer, Jesus intended His words to be a model for meaningful prayer. Rote prayers can easily become mantras, leading a person into a mesmerized state. New Age channeler and former Roman Catholic, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, wrote one publication which promotes the rosary as a method of entering an altered state.

Includes a practical explanation of Hindu devotion to Mother as the "Goddess KUNDALINI" --THE WHITE LIGHT that rises through the spiritual centers of your being, activating cosmic consciousness. You can accomplish this acceleration of light through the daily rosary.[Summit University Press, p. 6, as cited by Cathy Burns in Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star, p. 351]

The New York Times account of the misguided Lubavitch adherent is indeed tragic. Unfortunately, the Times failed to uncover the real cause of Gideon Busch's destruction so that others in the Jewish community would be forewarned. It is regrettable that a newspaper with such circulation and influence among Jewry does not feature a series of articles on the dangers of Kabbalism. However, there is published on the Internet an excellent treatise on mysticism by an Israeli journalist who responsibly seeks to inform the Jewish people that the once proscribed Kabbalah is now entering the mainstream of Judaism:

MASTERS OF THE BLINDING LIGHT
What Jewish People Should Know About the New Age
by Hannah Newman

"In a similar development on the mystical side of Judaism, N[ew] A[ge] spokesmen applaud orthodox Jewish teachers for recently releasing Kabbalah from the restricted access imposed on it by past generations of Jewish sages, making its teachings available to all, and even encouraging free exploration without rabbinic supervision.  In Israel the Zohar (a major Kabbalistic work) is even being sold door-to-door. [This is strictly forbidden under the 'old order' of Judaism, but NAers are not concerned with proper understanding of the teaching, since Kabbalah is simply one path to their goal of getting as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, into 'contact with the spirit realm'].  These teachers are being hailed as 'co-conspirators' who are furthering the NA Plan. [not stated whether deliberately or unknowingly, but the results will be the same.]
"From the NA standpoint, however, the value of Jewish Kabbalah lies only in its teachings which overlap 'the other ancient occult doctrines', specifically: reincarnation; traffic with angels, demons and departed human spirits; 'monism' (light and darkness, good and evil, are all sides of G-d); attributing 'secret messages' or 'hidden meanings' to words or statements which mean something else at face value; self-induced trances, resulting in visions or 'astral' (out-of-body) travels; and harnessing of superhuman powers by pronouncing sacred names. [It is noteworthy that none of these can be supported by a clear (pashat or darash) Torah passage, while some are expressly forbidden; yet they are arguably the best-known elements of Kabbalah today.  The fact that they are accepted by so many Torah Jews in spite of their dubious relevance to Torah, only supports the claims of the NA missionaries.]  The NA goal is to promote a Kabbalah in the Jewish community which goes through successive 'transformations' until it is finally severed from all links with the Torah, thus 'recovering' its 'purity'."

Christian Kabbalah?

The infiltration of Kabbalah into the Jewish community is a tragic development that is drawing many into the experiential and irrational world of Jewish mysticism rather than the Torah (first five books) of Scripture, which is God's prophetic revelation of Jesus Christ. Happily, throughout history there have been Jews to whom has been revealed the true Messiah and these have been spared the spiritual bondage of the superstitious oral traditions of Jewish mysticism. However, non-Jews and converted Jews may not take comfort in believing that Kabbalah is an exclusively Jewish phenomenon. This sourcebook of Freemasonry and other occult traditions is becoming accepted and even fashionable in social and religious circles worldwide. 
Christians in particular would be unwise to consider themselves invulnerable to the creeping deception of Kabbalism, for its sorcery has gained a large following among those who subscribe to false teachings of The Hebrew Roots Movement.  The real tragedy is that these dangerous teachings -- which should easily be recognized as counterfeit by Christians -- are given the cloak of respectability and orthodoxy by the misnamed Discernment Ministries. In reality, the Hebrew Roots Movement promotes a form of Christianized Kabbalah, the true source of which is The Lubavitch Movement. 
Those who believe that the Hebrew Roots Movement is a last days return to the  Jewish roots of the Christianity should read up on Church history. Daniel Matt, noted in his introduction to The Essential Kabbalah that, during the Renaissance, medieval kabbalists gained entrance into the Catholic Church by feigning faith in Jesus Christ. 

"Although Kabbalah emerged within Judaism, and has deeply affected Jewish thought and religious observance, its influence extends far beyond. Italian Renaissance humanist Pico della Mirandola immersed himself in Latin translations of Kabbalah, believing it to be the original divine revelation. Long lost and now finally restored, Kabbalah would enable Europeans to comprehend Pythagoras, Plato, and the secrets of the Catholic faith. Pico claimed that 'no science can better convince us of the divinity of Jesus Christ than magic and the Kabbalah.' His controversial, syncretistic 900 Theses drew heavily on Kabbalah and laid the foundation for Christian kabbalistic literature. Pico's follower, Johannes Reuchlin, produced the first systematic work of Christian Kabbalah, De arte cabalistica." (The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, p. 16)

Two centuries earlier, the kabbalists had not fared so well. The ecstatic kabbalist, Abraham Abulafia, "came to see himself as playing a messianic role, and he actually attempted to meet with Pope Nicholas III in the summer of 1280, apparently to discuss theological and political questions. The pope condemned him to death by burning, but before the sentence could be carried out, the pope himself died. After a month in prison, Abulafia was released." (The Essential Kabbalah, pp. 12)
However, by 1493, the works of Pico della Mirandola, the famous student of Marsillo Ficino, founder of the neo-Platonic Academy of Florence, had captivated Pope Sixtus IV who mainstreamed the Cabala as orthodox doctrine.

"This reasoning appears eventually to have been endorsed by the Church in the case of Pico, who joined to his Hermetism a 'Christian Cabala,' and concocted a universal system in which Cabalistic ideas played a considerable part. Although condemned by a tribunal, Pico's synthesis was rehabilitated in 1493 by Alexander VI, whose recognition of the Cabalist as a loyal son of the Church seemed to give some authority to Pico's position. It should be remembered in this context that Sixtus IV (Pope, 1471-84) had himself translated seventy Cabalistic books into Latin, and that the concept of the 'Christian Cabala' was not peculiar to Italian thought. Reuchlin, the foremost Orientalist of the time, and the author of the first Hebrew grammar, came nearest to success in the attempt to transform the Cabala into Christian philosophy - although his pupil Widmanstadt considered the Jewish tradition as 'a Trojan horse introduced into the Church'. But the Hermeticists and Cabalists of the Renaissance were always maintaining their orthodoxy." (James Webb, The Occult Underground, Open Court Press, 1976, p. 221)

It was one hundred years later, in 1586, that Pope Sixtus V arranged for an obelisk, the phallic symbol of Kabbalism and Freemasonry, to be moved from Vatican Hill to its present position before St. Peter's Basilica. This was the same obelisk which the Roman emperor, Caligula, had transported from Egypt to Rome in 37-41 A.D. [Ralph Woodrow, Babylon Mystery Religion, pp. 32-3]
Renaissance Gnostic, Hermeticist and Cabalist, Pico della Mirandola ". . .conceived of Hermes and Plato as aids to persuading those to religion who would not accept Scripture alone." Are spiritual conditions any different within the Hebrew Roots organizations which reject the authenticity of the Greek New Testament and/or require rabbinic commentaries to understand the New Testament? Have the Freemasons and Kabbalists changed their seditious tactics of infiltrating the Church so as to bring about another "renaissance of religion" -- as predicted by Jay Gary in his Bimillennial report?

"We must recover the simple idea that the spark of eternity has been placed within each human being. We must fan this flame, this tiny spark within each person -- and insure that no government, no group, or no authority is allowed to smother or snuff out this sacred flame&hellipAs early citizens of the 21st Century, we have a sacred duty to carry this torch across the length and breadth of the planet. Let's blow the Jubilee trumpet and herald this coming renaissance among government, education, arts, media, business, and religion."

Speaking prophetically, the Lord Jesus Christ warned his disciples about ravenous wolves who would enter the Christian Church, not sparing the flock. Like the famous Trojan Horse of Greek mythology, these infiltrators would masquerade as Christians, but purvey doctrines that are calculated to corrupt and destroy true Christian faith.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7:15-20

The unfruitful works of darkness became evident in the tragic life of Gideon Busch.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.  Galatians 5:19-21

Likewise, Galatians 5:22 describes the fruit of the Holy Spirit which are produced by the pure doctrine of the Word of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 

Ephesians 5:9 also mentions goodness, along with two other fruit of the Spirit:

For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 

Every spiritual leader will bear fruit either according to the works of the flesh or the fruit of the Spirit. Christians must therefore carefully evaluate the fruit of those who claim to teach the Word of God by the quality of character that is produced in their disciples. However, fruit takes time to grow and the Hebrew Roots Movement is a relatively new phenomenon. For this reason, Christians would be wise to examine the fruit of the Lubavitch Movement before entering the same broad road to destruction via the Hebrew Roots Movement. 

Kabbalah Secrets Christians Need to Know: 

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We live in a time when false teachings are infiltrating Christian Theology at a rapid rate. This important book exposes one of the greatest threats to pure Biblical Christianity. Deanne Loper uncovers the deception by giving a detailed description of what Kabbalah is and equips believers to recognize it in its morphed form of Christianity. The evidence shows that the god of today’s Babylonian and kabbalistic Judaism is NOT the God of the Bible and that the current convergence of Christians coming under rabbinic authority will bring them, not to the one true God of the Bible, but to the subservience of the god of Kabbalah – Ein Sof – and to its hierarchy of gods.

The Judaising of the Christian Church

MINI-DESPATCH. March 3, 1999.


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A CRITIQUE OF THE HEBREW ROOTS MOVEMENT.
The Judaising of the Christian Church.  The following statement from Endtime Ministries, which publishes Despatch magazine quarterly, is the stand which this ministry has defended and Imagestained for many years. The Hebrew Roots Movement/Messianic has been gathering strength in these last days. The influence of this HRM is quite beyond mere evangelism of Jewish people. Both the HRM and the Messianic Jew groups have moved into an influence over Christendom which is quite astonishing. We view this as another instance of apostasy in the Age of Apostasy which marks the end of the Church Age, and a religious trouble of the pre-Tribulation perilous times in which we live. We will not delve into many manuscripts and compare many quotes from different sources, this sort of expose has been adequately handled before, by a number of Christians. We will stick to the bare issues, so that all who read can (hopefully) see the basic dangers and aims clearly.
The various shades of this apostasy do not make any of it acceptable to Biblically sound Christians.
Some insist they are "good" Hebrew Roots ministries, opposed to the "unsound" Hebrew Roots ministries' emphasis. As Christians who are redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, we rightly see only those who are redeemed, and those who are not.
Those Jewish people who will not accept Christ Jesus as Saviour are unsaved.
Those Jewish people who have accepted Christ as Saviour are CHRISTIANS.
There is now no Jew or Gentile in Christ Jesus, we are now Christians together. (Gal.3:28) .
All who are saved must come away from the old religious systems they adhered to before receiving new life in Christ. Jesus Christ is NOT a religious system which can be joined to another, even Judaism.
He is unique, He is the Lord God Who came to die for the sin of the world. He is Christianity Personified.
This statement is not issued in order to denounce the Jewish converts to Christianity. This is made to call to order those converts who refuse to submit to proper Church Age order. We live in times when the majority of the churches in Christendom have slipped away into New Age pseudo Christianity. There are few Biblical fundamentalists who will assess the situation, or challenge the stand of the Jewish converts. This statement is made to call to order those Christians who will not aid these converts by leading them deeper into Christ Jesus. It is made in order to save young Christians from being led astray into Judaising doctrines and teachings as they are presented by the HRM/ Messianic Jew Movements et al.
May God show us all Christ Jesus in all His glory afresh.
These are the Images apostasies we see in ALL shades of the HRM, or ANY, for that matter, who call themselves Messianic Jews/ Messianic Ministries:
1. The call is going our loud and strong for the Christians to recognise extra-biblical Jewish books.
These are supposed to give understanding of the Greek New Testament.
See our link online to the Preserved Greek Text book
This is basically a refusal to submit to the closed Canon of Scripture, preserved by the Lord in the Greek language. Whether Christians are from Jewish backgrounds or not, we must all recognise the authority of God's Word, as given to us in the Canon of Holy Scripture. No other books can or should be added to this Canon.
No controversy can be entered into on this point, no other authority can be accepted.
Jewish books do NOT enlighten Christians as to the "hidden meanings" of Scripture.
The deep things of God are shown to surrendered Christians by the Holy Spirit opening Scripture, not by Jewish books making the Bible plain!
2. The "Replacement Theology" controversy should be rightly understood.
Jewish converts seem to say, with the support of some other Christians, that they do not believe in "replacement theology". By this they mean that the Church has not replaced Israel, God has still got His Plan ahead for Israel and the Jews. This appears quite correct on the surface, but a subtle twist has entered in. The Jewish converts now believe that they are going to be used of God as individual Jews, and Jewish ministries, right NOW! Before the Tribulation. This is not Scripturally correct in any way. God is going to take up the NATION of Israel in the Tribulation period of seven years. Israel will return to the Lord God and mourn the One Whom they pierced. (Zech. 12:10). (After this Church Age is finished). God has never said that individual Jews, at the close of the Church Age, will come forth with Jewish teaching which they will tack onto Christian teaching! These are not Jews, anyway. Every Jew who was ever converted to Christ in the whole two thousand years of the Church Age has become a CHRISTIAN when he/she was saved. The converts from the Jewish religion must humbly join the Christian Church, not make a new merger with us and Judaism. With Jewish books and feasts and the rest of it. There is NO Hebrew Roots Movement/Messianic Jew et al  that is legitimate in the Christian Church! There is NO separation of the Body of Christ into Jew and Gentile.
The HRM and the Messianic Jew phenomena is not recognisable in Church history as being legitimate in any way.
The idea has arisen that the Jewish converts are being taken up and given a special ministry at the end of this Age. They are being used because of Biblical prophecy about God taking up the Jews again? As we have already discussed, this is not Scriptural at all! Instead of being One in Christ with the rest of the Christian Church, they are seeking a sort of "replacement theology" which is a back-to-front version of the replacement theology we have know previously in Church circles. This time, the Jewish emphasis, books and even would-be rabbis, are replacing Christianity and the closed Canon of the New Testament.  Neither error is acceptable! The Church has not taken over Israel in God's Plan, but neither can Judaism take over Christianity. ISRAEL, as a nation, will again come into her own in the TRIBULATION, after the Church is gone and the Church Age is closed. The HRM or Messianic Jew concept is NOT just a kind of Jewish Convert denomination. It is far more than that, it is the attempt by unsound Judaisers to commit religious adultery!
See the book of Galatians for more about this in the early Church.
3. The leaders of this remarkable move by the Jewish Converts (JCs) will not address the real issues. There has developed an unhealthy refusal to debate, to be confronted, or to submit to reason from the clear and plain Word of God. The Greek New Testament has been proposed by the JCs  as being not sound enough to be believed, as it is at present. Those who insist that the NT in our hands is reliable, our authority, and must be obeyed, are accused of being ignorant of the original Hebrew texts! We are being seen as those who are just not aware that the Reformers, who translated our KJV, were unsound and rather ignorant??? There is really no clear way to appeal to these JCs, as they are lost in the idea that they alone can find out the real meaning of the Greek New Testament, by bringing forth the Hebrew originals!
Christians who submit to such notions will find themselves deprived of the most important thing they have  - belief in the Bible which they hold in their hands. They will be deprived of another most important thing, religious freedom in Christ: the right to open and study the Bible for themselves. They will then return to a sort of dark age, where only the priests/rabbis can interpret Scripture FOR them. Why? Because only the Jewish converts/rabbis can read and interpret the Hebrew texts which THEY SAY are the authentic and correct New Testament. Out goes the Greek NT you have at home in your KJV, in comes the Judaic version with its priests/rabbis. It is on its way people, there are already priests like Dick Reubens in action. Oh, and let us not forget that anyone who opposes these stupendous moves are labeled at once by the JCs as being, "anti-Semitic."
Is all this important? You better believe it is!!!
4. A mountain of material is coming forth by those who see the desperate need to call the JCs and various Christian ministries to order!
The issues are so complicated, the documentation is vast, the answers given by the JCs are so wordy, that clear sense is hard to arrive at. There are a number of smoke screens going up from the JCs' camps. We need to examine these smoke screens carefully. One is that the critiques which are coming forth on the HRM and others are presented by ignorant people, who do know what they are talking about. Here the JCs cite their superior knowledge of Jewish books, and claim that they are NOT trying to replace the God preserved Greek NT with a Hebrew version. This is indeed a smoke screen, sadly. Even a casual visit to a HRM or Messianic Jew Website will show the reader that this is so.
5. A clear evaluation of what is happening at this time must be made,
FREE of two major stumbling blocks.
These are:
(a) AN EMOTIVE response to anything that even resembles criticism of people who are Jewish.
If any Jew was in danger of imprisonment on the grounds of their race, I and others I am sure, would personally defend them even at the risk of our own lives. For instance, what happened in Hitler's Germany. This issue of the HRM/Messianics has, however, nothing whatsoever to do with insulting Jews, racism, or discrimination. It has to do with the defense of Christianity and the Christian Scriptures. We are facing what could well develop into an overthrow of the Christian Reformation! This time by JCs who are determined to cast doubt on our faith by challenging the very Scriptures we have been given by the Lord.
They will not submit to the Greek New Testament, and are instructing others to follow suit.
(b) There is a mass of material surrounding the debates on the HRM and the JCs.
These may or may not contain material which has come from occult sources, why this is so or not so could be debated forever. This debate is in a way a side issue, and can be left for the moment. We must, in my opinion, evaluate the reality of the HRM and JCs,  FREE of confusing issues about sources and documents. Get onto common ground, and you will see clearly that we must not allow our Reformation Scriptures or our Greek NT to be overthrown.
6. The whole "Hebrew Roots" concept is so unbalanced and unscriptural;
that it is clear to see that the JCs and some Christian ministries lack CHRISTIAN teaching and study. In sounder times for the Church, Godly preachers and pastors would have grounded the JCs in the Faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today we are in midst of an unprecedented apostasy! The JCs have few Godly men to instruct them, few who even care if they re Images caught between Judaism and Christianity! They should be called upon by Godly men to press on toward the goal of their high calling in CHRIST JESUS. The idea that we all must go back to our "Hebrew Roots", in any way at all, is NOT Scriptural or Christianity. THEY must go on to the Reality in Christ, the OT is a mere shadow compared with the NT.  We can't accept the notion that the OT opens and enlightens the NT, and the old Jewish books (non-Canonical) will give light to the NT. The truth is the opposite! The NT opens the OT, and shows what the symbols and shadows really meant. It is by far the greater revelation, and the DEEPER things of God are found in the NT, not the OT. We are rooted, all of us, in CHRIST, the OT is filled with the glory of the Living Son of God, and the NT opens up His glory.
7. All sorts of false doctrines are already proceeding from the HRM/Messianic Jew Ministries and JCs. No wonder - they are not rooted in Christ Jesus.

"As ye have received Christ Jesus as Lord, so walk ye in him.
ROOTED and built up in HIM, and stablished in the faith,
as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." (Colossians 2:6,7).

Read what Paul had to say about Judaism. In Philippians 3:1-10. He counts the Judaic system he has left behind now he is a Christian as being "but dung" compared to Christ:

"But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things (compare verses 1-6),
and do count them but dung that I may win Christ.
...That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death."

The JCs under discussion are not thrilling with wonder because of the Presence of Christ in their lives. They are falling backwards into the "dung" of the old, obsolete system! 
Help them Christians, they know not what they do. They need prayer and instruction.
We have seen doctrines from the JCs which would make any fundamental believer stand aghast!
Yet, if those presenting unsound doctrines and beliefs are ex-Jews, then they seem to be sacrosanct!
* We dare not say they are preaching against the Trinity;
* they are looking for "hidden" meaning in Biblical revelation just like Gnostics do;
* we are not allowed to say they should accept sound fundamental precepts, i.e. there is ONE interpretation, many applications; and
* we must not mention any leanings toward Unitarianism or British Israelism!
* We cannot insist that they must accept sound doctrines, or ordinary CHRISTIAN statements of faith - or anything else it seems.
If we do so, we have touched the belly of the sacred cow, and we face screams of  the "anti-semitic" variety. Christians cry "racism" and weep tears about the persecution being perpetrated against Jewish brethren!
This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH, brethren and sisters in the Lord. It is not good enough for the Lord we serve, or for the Jews He has shed His Blood for.   SNAP OUT OF IT! This is SERIOUS!

Faith Alone (In Christ Jesus);
Grace Alone (Through His shed Blood);
Christ Alone (No Jewish Traditions).

8. Where to from here? 
You, the reader, have the choices before you. Defend the Faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, help the JCs sort themselves out, OR stay on the fence! Another choice is unimaginable - stand and cry "anti-semitism" and let the possible over-thrown of the `Reformation'proceed, and help establish rabbis for the next phase of this astonishing move! Do so, and you deny Christ.
LUTHER said this in his day, more than four hundred years ago:
"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every part of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all battlefields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."
Access Link here to our home site material re this issue.
P.S. MERCY AND TRUTH ARE INSEPARABLE! The exposing of the TRUTH must always be accompanied by MERCY!
The Christian way of life is a way of godliness, and God is filled with mercy as well as truth.
The false doctrines and counterfeits which have been taken on board by people and ministries may well be disasterous spiritually. But we are still to have mercy upon those who have been deceived. Especially if those affected are basically sound doctrinally in most areas. We must always show courtesy, gentleness and compassion - or we are NOTHING!

"Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about them about thy neck;
write them upon the table of thine heart:
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
 (Proverbs 3:3,4).
"Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy,
and for thy truth's sake." (Psalm 115:1).
"He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (Micah 6:8).
"Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." (Luke 6:36)

W. B. Howard ...Editor of Despatch

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Jonathan Cahn's Judeo Masonic Hand Sign

THE ANCIENT  MYSTERY BEHIND THIS VOODOO GURU HAND SYMBOL.

THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT WAS TAKEN FROM CHARISMA MAGAZINE AUGUST 2015 ON AN ARTICLE THAT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT JONATHAN CAHN:

"After a search that took him(Jonathan Cahn) through the OCCULT, UFOs and NOSTRADAMUS".....
                                                                             TROYANDERSON page 58      

  MATHEW 24:24 NIV
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Oct 2, 2025

Kabbalah is the oldest religion on earth. It began with the serpent in the Garden of Eden as he deceived Eve into believing she too could become like God. Kabbalah contains all of the fallen-angel doctrines of occult magick, dark rituals, and divination that have corrupted the human race throughout history and into the present day.

Over the ages it has been cleverly disguised as many different things, and is the core foundation behind every powerful secret society. Kabbalah is ultimately the religion of Lucifer, and is contained within the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, also known in Kabbalah as the Sefirot Tree of Life.

As a Born-Again believer in Jesus Christ, I have come to recognize Kabbalah as the antithesis to the Biblical Gospel taught in the New Testament. Kabbalah opposes the truth and deity of Jesus in every capacity. It has a very specific agenda that is directing the high level Kabbalists of the world into creating the chaotic and anti-Christ world we are currently experiencing. Kabbalah affirms every single wicked agenda as well as the teachings of the world’s false religions. These are the reasons that convince me of the truths I reveal in this documentary.

I feel prompted by the Holy Spirit to expose what I have learned about Kabbalah to my fellow believers in Christ Jesus, so they can recognize it’s deceptive infiltration into the church.

What I present here in this documentary is only the tip of the iceberg regarding the satanic doctrines of the Kabbalah. I urge everyone to do their own research and come to their own conclusions about this. The truth is that there is only one direction the Kabbalah takes its students, and that’s toward the false light of Lucifer.

May this documentary expose evil in high places and glorify the Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. -BEN (Born Again) https://benbornagain.faith

Dear Viewer: Do you honestly believe this man is America's Prophet?

Rabbi Cahn also uses the “V” hand sign, which he states is a symbol of blessing. The V hand sign represents the Hebrew letter, Shin. Its display is part and parcel of Jewish religion. It’s part of a Kabbalistic occult ritual.
Many Jews revere the Egyptian Kaballah. Rabbi Cahn has made references to the Zohar, which is used by Kabbalists.

Gershow Scholem (1897-1982), Professor of Kabbalah at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said that the Kabbalah contains a great deal of black magic and sorcery, to invoke the powers of devils to disrupt the natural order.

Kabbalism is Satanism because it says God is formless and unknowable, not even part of the universe. The essence of Satanism is to deny God. Virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were Kabbalists.
This version of the “V” salute is a greeting by Rabbis in the Hebrew tradition. The hand split down the center represents the 2 letters on each side of the “V” in deVil, as the initials DE and IL represent the fingers.

Mr. Jonathan Cahn is fully aware that this hand symbol was popularized in Star Trek by Leonard Nimoy(Mr. Spock). This statement  of his can be found in his teaching CD series 
" A GUIDE TO THE JEWISH WORLD" Also at the bottom of this page you can watch a 3 minutes plus video where he actually acknowledges that Mr. Nimoy adopted this occultic hand symbol for his characetr Mr. Spock. CHRISTIANS BE ON YOUR GUARD: THESE OCCULTIC HAND SYMBOLS ARE  INFILTRATING THE BODY OF CHRIST NOW!
 FOR MORE DETAILS WITH REGARDS TO THIS MASONIC HAND SYMBOL  REFER TO THE FOLLOWING BOOK "MASONIC AND OCCULT SYMBOLS ILLUSTRATED" PAGES 237-239 BY AUTHOR DR. CATHY BURNS. ALSO BE SURE TO VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK :

Nimoy's Vulcan Sign is Invocation of the Devil ...

henrymakow.com/2015/03/Vulcan-Sign-is-Pure-Satanism.html

 Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy ("Mr. Spock") is constantly sighted in cabalistic poses. His famous Vulcan hand sign on the TV series was actually the Hebrew letter, Shin. Its display is part and parcel of Jewish religion. So, every time viewers observed Mr. Spock (Nimoy) giving the sign, they were unknowingly being made a participant in a cabalistic occult ritual.

Mr. Spock, a Star Trekcharacter played by actor Leonard Nimoy, became famous for giving the Vulcan greeting with his right hand. Nimoy, a Jew, says that the sign is the same gesture given in Jewish synagogues when the rabbi and elders bring out the Holy of Holies. It is based on the Hebrew letter "shin." In essence, on the popular TV show, every time Spock gave the "shin" Vulcan greeting hand sign, he was invoking cabalistic magic.

These are devil worshipping Witchcraft V symbols pasted off as peace signs.

When they do this they are cursing us as all people who worship Lucifer take part in Witchcraft.

Jesus said Bless and Curse not. Pray our Lord breaks the powers of Witchcraft on your Mind.

http://www.ynetnews.com Nov 11 2011

This was taken Nov 3 2011 and we can see clearly the Pyramid of the

Satanic Catholic/Pagan Sun Worship directly behind them by design.

They are all about the 3 and we can see in the Palestinian Flag 3 colours and the Pyramid.

Like Klu klux Klan/Freemasonry Albert Pike founded Both which is Witchcraft add the Catholic Intel Agency = 3 

The V-Sign is the Sign of the occult, satanic Sabbatean/Frankists  http://okkulte-nazis.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-began-in-germany_24.html

And here's another famous sign out of the 60's and 70's, also making a strong come back now. Which has always equated with the above symbol; peace. But the true meaning of this "V" sign goes way back to the 18th century Illuminati. This symbol represents the fulfilment of Illuminist founder Adam Weishaupt's satanic "Law of Fives". http://members.tripod.com/~RU_BOLD/occult_practices.html

"The "v sign" has a colorful history. "V" is the Roman sign for the number five and Adam Weishaupt used it in the Illuminati to symbolise the "Law of Fives,'' but there's more. In the Cabala:
"the meaning for the Hebrew letter for V (Van) is 'Nail.' Now, 'The Nail' is one of the secret titles of Satan within the Brotherhood of Satanism. Satan is letting us know that this is one of his favourite signs. Why else does he like the PENTA-gram (Penta = five!) and the FIVE-fold salute used in Masonry and Witchcraft?''
Furthermore: "The Leftists, radicals, and Satanists who have popularised that sign...know its ancient significance very well. In fact, that 'V' sign is now used extensively by such Communist organizations as the Young Socialist Alliance, Vets for Peace in Vietnam, and the Students for a Democratic Society." 
v is VAV in hebrew with the number 6 given to it
6 the number of sin

Vulcan was a sun deity who was associated with fire, thunderbolts, and light. The festival in honour of him was called the Vulcania in which human sacrifices were offered. "According to Diel, he bears a family relationship to the Christian devil.' It is fascinating to know that he married Venus, another name for Lucifer or the devil. What is even more interesting is that Vulcan is adored in Masonry under the name of Tubal Cain. In the Masonic Quiz Book the question is asked: "Who was Tubal Cain?" The answer is: "He is the Vulcan of the pagans.''
    In Masonry, Tubal Cain is the name of the password for the Master Mason (or third) degree.
    Listen to what occultist and Mason, Manly Palmer Hall, has to say:
"When the Mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mastery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. He must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, Tubal-Cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a ploughshare.''
    There is also a sexual connotation associated with Vulcan and Tubal Cain. Former Mason, Bill Schnoebelen, explains:(also see picture below)

"For Masons who wish to conceal their membership from non-Masons, but still advertise it to their Lodge brothers, there is a special pin (or tie tack) they can wear. It looks like an upside down golf club with two balls near the top....Many people assume the person is a golfing enthusiast, but it is actually a visual Masonic pun.
"This is called the 'Two Ball Cane,' and is a pun on the secret password of a Master Mason, 'Tubalcain (sic).'...It is also an all-too-obvious pun on the 'god' of Masonry, the male reproductive organ. Nice, eh?...especially when many men wear these wretched things to church on Sunday!"-- Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, pp. 233-238. [2008] "Peace" Sign

Evil Teachings of Kabballah/The Zohar/The Talmud

Torah Restoration Ministries - Evangelist Daniel John Lee

www.spiritandtorah.com/evilteachings_renewedcov.html

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First, I want to apologize for not writing this article sooner.  It is long overdue, and I am grieved at the many Messianics and Hebrew-Christians who, upon entering into the Truth of Torah-keeping, are quickly overcome by the wicked one in falling into a deception as old as babylon.

In fact, it was in Ancient Babylon, while the Jews were captive during their 70 year exile, that the Kabballah was first introduced into Jewish culture.

Kabballah, Talmud and the Zohar continued to grow once the Jews returned to Israel and completely infested the Pharisees and Sadducees of the 1st century.

By the 13th century, Kabballah/Zohar and the Talmud had become so complicated and bloated, it threatened to destroy the Jewish people.  Fortunately, even some Jews who had not yet come to Messiah, began to finally see how satanic the teachings first brought from ancient babylon were.

Avi Ben Mordechai and James Trimm, respected "elders" in the Messianic movement, both teach and support kabballah.  Kabballah is a so called "way to interpret the Torah using mystic Jewish understanding" and its supporters claim they are led by the Ruach ha Kadosh.

In fact, as someone once commented to me, Kabballah is merely a replacement for the Ruach itself.

Kabballah teaches, among other things, that eventually you can become so godlike, so close to YHVH that you no longer need Torah.  That you no longer need to obey YHVH.  That you can basically be YHVH yourself.  Utter blasphemy.

It is no coincidence that satanists, witches, warlocks and other pagans love kabballah and use its teachings and incantations often.

There was even a Messianic pastor in southern California, tutored and instructed by Avi Ben Mordechai, who became so wrapped up in Kabballah, Talmud and the Zohar, that he began using wands, casting spells and even erected a mirrored pentagram in the main sanctuary.  YHVH struck this pastor with cancer and he perished, but Avi Ben Mordechai continues to peddle his black-magic teachings cloaked in the guise of Hebrew-roots and Torah teaching.

I suppose it is inevitable that Satan, desperate to stop the rising surge and tide of Truth, would pull out his darkest and most evil strategy -- reviving the kabballah.

The Talmud, which has now been codified, contains so many blasphemous instructions, so many rules AGAINST the written Torah -- NO ONE should ever study it.  The kabballah is FAR WORSE than the Talmud.  The Zohar is just as bad as the kabballah.

Many Messianics and Hebrew-Christians, along with other Israelites and other Torah-keeping movements, think it is beneficial to study the Talmud.  Wrong.  Talmud is wholly darkness and ought not to be learned.

While there are some Jewish traditions which are harmless -- such as observing Hanukkah or placing a seat for Elijah at Passover -- most of them are so steeped in satanism, witchcraft and darkness that no one should ever even read the Talmud.

If you have a Talmud, any books on kabballah (such as those written by Avi Ben Mordechai), or any reference to the Zohar -- you should BURN THEM.  They will lead you into perdition.

To the Torah and the Prophets should have been the rallying call of the Messianic movement.  Unfortunately, those who do not even bother to keep Torah, but are merely watered-down versions of pagan christian churches, have lost their savor.  My former congregation -- Rehoboth -- was Laodicean to the core.  However, those who are serious about keeping Torah tend to get trapped in Talmud, the Zohar and kabballah.  Nathan Lawrence has committed this error and made a shipwreck of his faith and his congregation (which I visited during my time at Rehoboth).

It is time to return to ONLY the Torah and the Prophets.  They are breathed with the Ruach and, as the ReNEWed Covenant authors did, can be used to understand our Messiah YahShua even more.

Child Sex in Talmud

As an addendum to my article on Kabballah, I would like to prove that the Talmud is wicked.

The link below proves that the Talmud allows sex between adults and children as young as 3 years old.  Utter wickedness.  The Jews often refer to this wicked Talmud as the Torah.

The Jews did the SAME thing in the 1st century, referring to their man-made, wicked Talmud as the Torah.  Torah has NOTHING to do with Talmud.

Go ahead, read for yourself:
http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/america_2.html

Now, NO Messianic or anyone else who desires to keep Torah can justify studying the Talmud.  It is completely evil.

I MAKE THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION FROM TED W. PIKE'S BOOK "ISRAEL OUR DUTY OUR DELIMMA" FROM PAGE 103: " The Kabbalah at this time was a Babylonian brew which included such occult features as REINCARNATION, NECROMANCY, CONJURATION, ASTRAL PROJECTION, COOPERATION WITH DEMONS, ASTROLOGY, NUMEROLOGY, AND A VAST SYSTEM FOR THE USE OF CHARMS, AMULETS & INCANTATIONS". In short, most of what was distinctive of BABYLONIAN & EGYPTIAN SORCERY WAS INCLUDED IN THE ZOHAR! Even today virtually all occult systems (especially THEOSOPHICAL ONES) and practices, including WITCHCRAFT & SATANISM, borrow heavily from the KABBALAH(AS PRESERVED IN THE ZOHAR) in their rituals and symbolism".

IN THIS VIDEO CLIP JONATHAN CAHN ADMITS HIS AWARENESS OF THIS OCCULTIC SYMBOL BEING ADOPTED BY LEONARD NIMOY INTO STAR TREK

IS THIS HAND SIGN A PROPHETIC SYMBOL FOR THE ENDTIMES LIKE JONATHAN CAHN

CLAIMS IN THIS VIDEO? WATCH THE NEXT TWO VIDEOS BELOW FOR THE 

UNDERLYING TRUTH.

THE VULCAN: Kabbalah, Freemasons, and the Council of Nine

16 Signs of a False Prophet/Teacher

What does the Bible say about false prophets/teachers?

by Mark Ballenger

Matthew 7:15-16

What does the Bible say about false prophets and teachers? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15-16, “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.”
Whenever Jesus tells us to “beware,” he means this in the most literal sense. As Christians we must be on guard, for wolves dress in sheep clothing, trying to masquerade as innocent pastors but in reality are dangerous false prophets and teachers. Wolves are cunning, they prey on sheep rather than on other wolves, and therefore Christians must know how to detect a dangerous leader, for they will not be obvious, especially if you are an accepting person.
1 John 4:1-3 tells us that anyone who does not confess Jesus Christ has come in the flesh from God is a false prophet. This sign of a false prophet is the most obvious. But again, as Jesus warned us, false prophets are crafty and they won’t always reveal themselves this easily. This is why 1 John 4:1 tells us, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
So here are 16 signs of a false prophet and teacher.


1. Many false prophets/teachers are gifted communicators but poor expositors.
The requirement of an elder (pastor) is not gifted communication but the ability to teach the word of God accurately. If someone is pretending to be a good teacher of the Bible when in actually they are simply a gifted orator who uses Christian ideas in their talks, which are presented as sermons, this person is a false teacher/prophet.
Twisting a passage of Scripture to mean something other than its intended meaning is the defining mark of a false prophet or teacher. But because they are cunning, they mask this deception with brilliant communication style.
(1 Timothy 3:2)

2. False prophets/teachers love large crowds rather than deep growth.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to preach to a lot of people. This is a good desire if the motivation is to help many know God more through your preaching. However, a false prophet/teacher loves large groups of people rather than “loving people.” Individuals are a nuisance. They love crowds for the sake of being admired and praised.
(John 12:18-19)

3. False prophets/teachers hate being rebuked and disciplined.
You can always know how authentic someone’s faith really is when they get corrected and disciplined. False teachers/prophets love to be seen as the leader, model, and the one doing the rebuking. But their faith is not genuine if they cannot receive corrections because all Christians will at times be in need of loving discipline by others.
(Matthew 15:12-14)

4. A false teacher/prophet loves money.
The mark of a true prophet or Bible teacher is not a hatred of money or a vow of poverty. But most false prophets/teachers love money and use the gospel for personal gain.
(2 Corinthians 2:17, Titus 1:7, 1 Timothy 3:3)

5. False prophets/teachers hide problems in their family life.
One of the qualifications for being an elder/pastor is that you manager your own household well. This does not mean, however, there will never be problems in a qualified pastor’s home. Sometimes he can lead well while his family is following poorly.
However, when his poor leadership (which he does not repent of) is the cause of ongoing problems, this is when he is disqualified. A false prophet/teacher knows this, and so they hide the problems in their family. When a good pastor has family issues, he will seek the help of others, overcoming his fear of people judging him.
(1 Timothy 3:4)

6. A false prophet/teacher is often accompanied by a spiritually immature spouse.
Having an immature spouse does not mean you are a false teacher/prophet. And being a false teacher/prophet does not automatically mean your spouse is also a problem. Typically, however, people with similar character and values flock together (which is also why false prophets/teachers have bad marriages since both have bad character).
(1 Timothy 3:11)

7. A false prophet/teacher will be adored by his followers but despised by many “outsiders”.
If everyone hates you, it probably means you are a cruel person who advances your own agenda at the cost of others. If everyone loves you, it probably means you fear telling people the truth and want the approval of man more than God’s approval.
A good teacher, however, will be loved by some and despised by others. He will have a good reputation with outsiders. A false prophet will have a bad reputation with people who are not his followers. He will create an “us verse them” mentality in his church (cult). Those who don’t support him will be blacklisted by him and his followers. A true Christian leader desires his local church to be united with other local churches and leaders for the sake of supporting the universal church and being a witness to the world through Christian unity.
(1 Timothy 3:7, John 17:20-21)

8. Pride fuels false prophets/teachers.
Satan was brought down by his own pride. So many times pastors start out with good intentions, but over the years their own pride corrupts them. They may not have started out as a false leader in the church, which makes it difficult for people who have been around them along time when suddenly they realize this person has changed. The mark of maturity is humility, and only mature Christians should seek to be leaders in the church. A false prophet/teacher is not motivated by love for God and people but by pride and the desire for self-exaltation like Satan.
(1 Timothy 3:6)

9. A false prophet/teacher knows the Bible just enough to twist it towards their own ends.
A false Bible teacher will know some doctrines, but they will not love doctrine. They will know some Bible, but they will not love reading it. They will preach passionately but not live for Christ passionately. They will have an appearance of godliness, but they will lack real power in applying God’s word for his glory.
(2 Timothy 3:5, 1 Timothy 4:16)

10. A false prophet/teacher avoids strong elders.
A pastor who picks elders rather than a pastor picked by elders is a red flag. Certainly there are times for church-planters to pick elders to start a church, but even these elections should not be his sole decision. A good pastor will seek strong elders before seeking large numbers of congregants. A good pastor is eager to empower elders and be submissive to them.
Trying to build a church without strong elders is like building a house on a weak foundation. It’s like starting construction before getting your loan approved. A New Testament Church must be elder led, where everyone, including the pastors and other elders are held accountable to the group of elders. A false prophet knows this but avoids other strong leaders because he wants all the control and hates being corrected. He sets up figurehead “yes men” as elders to have an appearance of a New Testament church but in actuality he alone is still able to keep control. He surrounds himself with weak leaders who will struggle to discipline him (which is also why a false prophet/teacher often puts family in leadership).
(1 Timothy 1:5, Acts 14:23)

11. A false teacher/prophet will have a life that looks nothing like his sermons.
A false teacher/prophet primarily errs in preaching the word of God accurately. But another significant mark of an unfit pastor is one whose life contradicts the content of their own sermons. It’s possible to fake your faith for an hour in the pulpit. But it’s impossible to fake your faith throughout your whole week. Faith is expressed through your deeds. A false prophet will have a life full of evil deeds, hidden from the public of course. Don’t expect a false prophet/teacher to open up his home life to his church. There are too many secrets there for that.
(Matthew 5:19-20, 1Timothy 4:12)

12. A false prophet/teacher often points to their past “ministry successes.”
Again, many pastors turn into a false prophet/teacher over a period of time. Just because God did good through someone in the past does not mean they are for sure a true pastor pleasing to the Lord. God is so powerful, he can bring about converts and develop true Christians even through false teachers/prophets (Philippians 1:15-18).
Overtime, however, the fruitfulness usually fades, and thus they typically talk about the glory days of the past and remind people often of their past “successes” in ministry.
(Matthew 7:22-23)

13. A false prophet/teacher will often preach the same message over and over again.
John Stott said, “Every heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.” By zeroing in on one doctrine, they often misrepresent other doctrines. A false teacher/preacher also steers clear of expository preaching because he wants to avoid parts of Scripture that do not advance his personal agenda or that he feels personally convicted by. Many false preachers try to preach through books of the Bible, but they reveal their falseness through turning every passage into a sermon about what they want to say rather than what the point of that specific passage actually is.
(2 Peter 2:1-3, Matthew 6:7)

14. A false prophet/teacher will surround himself with weak willed people.
A wolf maybe evil, but he is not stupid. False pastors love power, therefore they try to fill their churches with people who are easy to manipulate and control. If you are an “easy going person,” a false prophet/teacher will butter you up with titles, compliments, promises of promotions, and through confiding in you as a friend. But don’t be mistaken, this is all about getting control over you.

15. A false teacher/prophet seeks to “please God” in return for “blessings” and “success.”
A false teacher/prophet is often very religious. They might fast often, pray long public prayers, and perhaps have never even taken a drink of alcohol in their life. While doing such pious acts can be great benefits for any pastor, a false pastor does these things as a way of appeasing God. A false pastor makes sacrifices because he thinks God will bless him with power, ministry success, financial gain, or a bigger following (Acts 8:18).
A false prophet/teacher seeks to “glorify God” so he can be successful in ministry (followed by a lot of people for his ego) rather than seeking to be successful in ministry for the glory of God. If a false prophet/teacher like this does achieve some “success,” you will know he is false because he will take the credit for the success, sometimes blatantly but always in the heart. He will give himself credit because he believes that through his religious acts God has blessed him and his ministry.
(1 Corinthians 3:5-7, 1 Corinthians 4:6-7, Acts 8:18-23)

16. False prophets/teachers are led by their desire to be worshiped.
So what does the Bible say about false teachers, prophets, and pastors? Ultimately a false church leader is just that – false. The theme of their life will be deception, hiding, and lies. They distort the word of God in preaching and they distort the example of Christ in their behavior. They tell people what their itching ears want to hear so that they will receive from the people what they want in return – power, fame, finances, and other worldly pursuits.
In short, a false prophet/teacher does what he does because he desires to be worshiped by people rather than lead the people in worshiping God. He does not want to serve God. He pretends to serve God so people will serve and worship him.
(2 Timothy 4:1-5)

Here exposed are the secret techniques used to fleece money from God’s people. Don’t be naive thinking that these schemes have spread throughout the world by accident. These techniques are talked about and shared behind closed doors by the clique of pastors who employ them.

It’s big business. Some of them laugh at us like con-men laughing at their marks. Seriously, if you don’t believe that there are men like that, then watch the 1972 documentary Marjoe on You Tube. You’ll soon realize that these wolfs in sheep’s clothing have been a blight on Christianity throughout its history.

In case you are wondering how much Jonathan Cahn charges for his speaking engagements; it's between $10,0000-$20,000 for approximately one appearance! And this does not include his product sales. Here is the link below for the evidence:

https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Jonathan+Cahn

JONATHAN CAHN

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For more information with regards to Mr. Cahn's Extra-Biblical sources and their associations with the occult click on the links below:

http://seraphimre.blogspot.com/2015/02/jonathan-cahn-author-of-book-harbinger.html
http://seraphimre.blogspot.com/2015/02/jonathan-cahn-teaching-from-babylonian.html

The danger of the Kabbalah - סכנה של תורת הקבלה

Messianic Judaism: A Growing Deception

seraphimre.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-danger-of-kabbalah.html

JONATHAN CAHN PICTURED IN FRONT OF THE STAR OF DAVID AND THE UNDERLYING TRUTH BEHIND THIS HEXAGRAM

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HERE'S THE FULL DOCUMENTARY

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