Comments On Elijah 4/7/02

Right now I’m reading in the Soncino Zohar and I’m in my computer program so I don’t have a page or a reference to the book.  It is Soncino Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, page 93A if that helps anybody.  I was doing a word search on Elijah and I find the following sentence.  Our teachers have also taught that the reason why Elijah was punished was because he brought false charges against God’s children.  I had a real problem with that.  I said, Lord, I don’t understand that Elijah was punished and I don’t understand that Elijah brought false charges against Israel.  Now just before this sentence it’s talking about Elijah arising to the place where he heard the still small voice that said to him, what doest thou here, Elijah?  That’s 1Kings 19:9.  And Elijah answered, I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant.  I know that’s what Elijah said when the still small voice spoke to him.  It says here in the Zohar that the Lord’s response to Elijah’s statement was; As thou livest, wherever my sons imprint this sign upon their flesh, you shall be there.  And the mouth (meaning Elijah’s mouth) which charged Israel with forsaking the covenant shall testify that Israel is now observing the covenant.  Then it goes on to say our teachers have also taught that the reason why Elijah was punished was because he brought false charges against God’s children.

          Now I could not deal with this.  I said to the Lord, first of all, I think although I never really addressed the issue, I think that I thought that Elijah was without sin.  I know that I teach that Elijah was not born of a woman and that Michael had incarnated as Elijah without being born of a woman and I do believe I thought Elijah was without sin.  So I was shocked to read this in the Zohar that first of all that Elijah had accused the children of Israel falsely and I said to the Lord, but isn’t this true, that the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant?  How could that be a false accusation?  Then I was offended to hear that Elijah was punished.  So I prayed and I said to the Lord, if this is correct, you have to help me because I don’t receive this at all.  So I really need you to help me if this is correct.  The Lord responded to me immediately and He said to me, yes, Elijah was punished when he was cast down.  Remember when Jezebel chased after him and Elijah was completely cast down?  That’s why the angel had to come and strengthen him and he had to ascend through the wind and the fire and the earthquake and finally the still small voice.  I said to the Lord, well yes, of course.  I never thought of this before, but Elijah could not possibly have been overtaken by Jezebel if there was not one big hole in his hedge.  So I now must face the reality that Elijah had sin even though he wasn’t born of a woman and he was incarnated directly by Michael, he still was a man that had sin and that was a revelation for me.

          Then I went back to the other issue saying, well wasn’t Elijah telling the truth when he said the children have forsaken your covenant?  How could that be a false accusation of Israel?  This is what the Lord said to me.  He showed me that sentence again; What are you doing here, Elijah?  Elijah said, I had been very jealous for the Lord, the God of Hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant.  Now what was Elijah doing there?  Why was Elijah seeking the still small voice?  Elijah was seeking to be fully restored to the World of Emanation.  Elijah was in a very high place.  So God said to him, what do you want?  What are you doing here?  In other words, why are you in this position where you need to be petitioning me to be restored.  In other words, the inference is how did you come to fall down?  What happened to you that you fell down, Elijah?  Elijah manifested a spirit of pride.  He defended himself.  He said, I have been very jealous for you Lord, the God of Hosts, and the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant and I’m in this trouble because I was good and I was righteous and I was jealous for you, Lord, but those wicked children of Israel attacked me and knocked me down.  Elijah took no responsibility whatsoever for the sin that had to be present in him because we cannot be knocked down if we are without sin.  So here we see the sin of pride in Elijah justifying himself; I have been very jealous for you, Lord, and blaming the children of Israel whom he had been sent to deliver.

          Just to bring that up to date, another way to put that is that when a son of God is sent to a rising son to attack their sin nature so that Christ can come forth in that rising son or in that younger son and Satan rises up in that younger son and attacks the older son and that older son gets either knocked down spiritually or hurt physically, it is not acceptable to God to blame that young son because we cannot be hurt physically or knocked down spiritually unless sin is found in us.  I tell you all of the time that when I get knocked down because I’m ministering to you, you must confess your part in it, but be careful to not condemn yourself because I could not be knocked down if sin was not found in me.  So here we find out that Elijah had the sin of pride.  I find that so interesting.  Also what comes to my mind, for me personally, is an exciting word that I don’t think, to the best of my knowledge, I have not been knocked down spiritually from ministering to someone, from challenging someone’s carnal mind on behalf of the Lord to help that person.  I have not been knocked down spiritually from that kind of ministry in a very long time.  Although my body still gets attacked and I still from time to time become ill because someone’s carnal mind attacks me.  Only recently I had that intestinal blockage which I believe was an indirect result of my ministry to Mary.  So my body is still vulnerable, but I have not been knocked down spiritually.  So I’m moving forward in the right direction.  But isn’t that interesting, Elijah had the sin of pride. (Laughter) I never ever stopped to consider how come he was knocked down.  Praise the Lord.

          Praise the Lord.  According to the Soncino Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, page 151B, Elijah is an angel.  We’re told the reason (well, there’s a story, a parable here, about a well.  It says the waters of the well rose up to meet Moses and Jacob.  Then we’re asked why did this not happen to Elijah when he fled to meet the well?  Why did the waters of the well not rise up to meet Elijah as they rose up to meet Jacob and Moses?  The answer in this paragraph of the Zohar is the reason is that Elijah is beneath the well and not above it, as Moses and Jacob were.  Hence, Elijah is an angel who executes messages.  The Zohar goes on to say further along that when a female becomes pregnant from a male because the desire of the male is predominant, the soul of the child that is born has unusual vitality.  So here we’re told that Elijah was born, but I’m still sticking to my belief that he was not born of a woman.  It just says he was born and he was born by the desire of the male, which means the male Godhead in heaven.  So we’re told that Elijah’s birth contributed, the fact that it was a male that desired his birth, contributed to him being born with a special degree of vitality and therefore he did not die like other men.  So again this is lining up with Jesus’ incarnation.  He was incarnated by the male angel Gabriel.

          Now we’re told that Elijah did not die like other men because his whole being was derived from the Tree of Life and not from the dust.  So Elijah was an incarnated angel.  I’ve been preaching all along that he was an incarnation of Michael.  Then the Zohar goes on to say, he therefore without suffering death, went up on high.  We know the Scripture says that he went up by a a whirlwind into heaven, which indicates that Elijah’s spirit was stripped of its body and that he departed this life, not in the manner of other men, but became a holy angel like other heavenly beings, carrying out divine messages in this world.  Now we’re told in the Zohar, now observe that it is written further (and this is a quote from 1Kings 19:4 talking about Elijah now) and he requested for himself or for his soul to die.  Now here’s sin again.  That’s not the mind of Christ, requesting that your soul should die.  We’re told in the Zohar this implies that he, Elijah, turned to the tree wherein death lurks.  So in other words, here we have a second sin of Elijah.  He was knocked down by Jezebel in the sons of Israel and instead of looking to God to be his salvation, he turned to the tree of life and death, which is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  So that, also, is the sin of pride.

          But when Elijah made that petition, when Elijah turned to the tree of death, we’re told in the Scripture that after Elijah turned to the tree where death lurks, God appeared to him and the Scripture says, God said, go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord.  So that word, God, is probably Elohim.  Go and stand on the mount before the Lord, which is usually Jehovah.  Then we’re told after that an earthquake and after the earthquake a fire.  Until Elijah heard the still small voice which signifies that Elijah returned to the very innermost point which is the source of all illumination.  When Elijah heard this still small voice, he wrapped his face in his mantle.  You know, I never used to understand why Elijah wrapped his face in his mantle.  He was ashamed before the Lord.  He must have had a revelation that he had fallen when he turned to the tree of death, but the man was so anointed and blessed of God that even though he turned to the tree of death, the Lord sent an angel, which is to say God came and spoke to him.  See, there was no chance for that tree of death to respond to him to take his life.  The Lord wasn’t going to have it, even though Elijah made a mistake.  Then when Elijah ascended and returned into his right mind, into his ascended mind or into his neshamah, when he saw the Lord, he must have realized that he had sinned.  Therefore he wrapped his face in his mantle.  He tried to hide from Jehovah, realizing his sin.

          Then the Scripture says, then a voice came into him and said, what are you doing here, Elijah?  He was caught.  His sin was completely exposed and in the hour that Elijah’s sin was exposed, his answer was I have been very jealous for you, Lord.  I’m really okay, Lord, I really didn’t do anything wrong.  Then he said it’s all the fault of the children of Israel.  You know what that sounds like to me, Adam saying, it’s that woman that you gave me, Lord.  She’s the cause of all my problems.  So we see that even though Elijah was an incarnation of the angel Michael, he was very much a man.  We’re told that Elijah was a man in the Scripture.  He was a fallen man.  Isn’t that interesting.  He blamed everything on that woman who was appearing as the sons of Israel.  Then we’re told, the Zohar goes on to say, that that voice which is Jehovah, the Tetragrammaton, said to him, well how long are you going to continue to be jealous of me?  In other words, how much longer will you be fighting for the righteous spirit?  You have already closed fast the gate so as to secure yourself from death.  You’re already above death.  So why are you continuing to be jealous for me?  I’m not really sure what that means because then Elijah replied, for the children have forsaken thy covenant.

          Well, the only thing I can get out of this right now is that Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord and God said to him, how long will you continue to be jealous of me?  You’ve already ascended above death.  Why are you still fighting my battles?  The understanding that I have right now is that for Elijah to have said I’ve been very jealous for you, that means that Elijah was fighting the Lord’s battles with his carnal mind.  The Lord came to him and said, well why are you fighting my battles for me?  You have already ascended above death which means you’re suppose to be dead and the mind of Christ in you is suppose to be fighting your battles.  How come you’re still doing it yourself?  Oh I think this is the answer.  I think I’ve got it.  The implication here is that this is the reason, this is the sin that was manifest that caused Elijah to fall.  He was fighting that battle for the Lord in his carnal mind and in his carnal mind he had that spiritual strength.  You may remember, what Elijah did was that he used mind control on the sons of Israel and he covered over their carnal minds which were risen up in high spiritual power to the point that the Scripture calls the sons of Israel, the prophets of Baal.

          Elijah came and with his mind control covered over those carnal minds and repressed it and put those carnal minds under Elijah’s Christ mind.  But it was only a temporary solution, you see, because there was no repentance on the part of the sons of Israel.  So at some point, the sons of Israel came up, out from under Elijah’s power and they went after him and knocked him down.  So we now see the secret of the conversation between Elijah and the Lord after Elijah ascends to the place where he’s hearing that still small voice, to that high place in the mount.  The Lord is explaining to him, the reason you fell, Elijah, is that you’re not suppose to be jealous for me after you enter into life.  You are not suppose to be fighting my battles in your carnal mind after you ascend above death.  You are suppose to be dead and it’s my life in you that’s suppose to be fighting those battles and this is why you fell down.  Alleluia!!!

          We’re further told concerning Elijah that when Jezebel threatened Elijah, it is not written that he feared. Now according to this rendition of the Zohar, the English translation would say, Elijah feared. Whether or not that actually appears in the King James, I don’t know at this moment. I would have to look it up. I guess I have to look it up. Okay, now the Zohar is referring apparently to some English translation that is different than the King James. It says here in the Zohar, when Jezebel threatened Elijah, it is not written that Elijah feared, but that he saw. When I went into my on-line program of the King James version, I see that the verse that the Zohar is referring to is 1Kings 19:3. In the King James version it does not say feared. It says saw. When he, or when Elijah saw that, he rose and went for his life. So apparently we have a good translation in the King James here. So the Zohar goes on to comment saying, what did Elijah see? What was it that he saw? The Zohar says, he, Elijah, saw that the angel of death had followed him for a number of years. Now remember, this verse comes right after Jezebel’s threat. 1Kings 19:2 says, Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying, so let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them (one of the prophets that Elijah just killed) by tomorrow about this time. Now of course I don’t believe Elijah killed the prophets, but they died to Jezebel’s service and Jezebel was saying to Elijah, just as you did to them, just as you cast down their carnal minds, I’m going to cast down the mind of Christ in you. That’s what I believe it means.

          So back to the Zohar commentary now.  Then in the very next verse, let me remind you, 1Kings 19:3 says, And when he, or when Elijah saw that, he arose and went for his life.  So the Zohar says what does that mean?  What did he see when Jezebel said that to him?  The Zohar says Elijah saw that the angel of death had followed him for a number of years, but Elijah had not been delivered into his hand.  Then the Zohar says, and the verse continues where it says and Elijah went for his life, which literally means, and Elijah went for his soul.  That is to say he, Elijah, resorted to the foundation of his soul, that is to say that Elijah proceeded to attach himself to the Tree of Life.  Nevertheless, in the next verse, in verse 4, we’re told that Elijah requested for himself that his soul should die.  This implies that Elijah turned to the tree wherein death lurks.  So this is the sin that Elijah knew that he had been under supernatural protection for years and yet, when Jezebel threatened him, his fear (and this is my interpretation-the Zohar doesn’t say fear) his fear, despite the fact that he saw, that he knew, that the angel of God had protected his life supernaturally for years, despite that, his fear drove him to attach himself to the tree of life and death.  He turned to the spirit of death saying let me die.  In other words, I do not have the faith that the Lord will see me through, even though I know that He has kept me alive supernaturally for all of these years.  Now that Jezebel has threatened me (this is Elijah speaking) I do not have the faith to believe that the Living God can sustain me over and above Jezebel’s threat.

          By that descent of mind, Elijah attached himself to the tree of death and make himself vulnerable to death.  He actually put himself in harm’s way, but the Lord had mercy on him and before the spirit of death could claim him, God came to Elijah and said, what are you doing Elijah?  What are you doing here?  That angel strengthened Elijah and he started to ascend and he ascended, as we all know, through the fire and the earthquake and the storm and the fire and the earthquake.  Then finally, when he got to the mount where the still small voice is, which is the innermost part of ourselves where the highest grade of God is and the voice said to him, what are you doing here?  Now what are you doing here.  See, I always thought that God was saying to Elijah, what are you doing in this high place?  But I don’t think that’s what God was saying to him.  Jehovah was saying to him, what are you doing here and I think that the word, here, means what are you doing here by the tree of death?  You are a man who has been living a supernatural life for all of these years.  What are you doing here where I’m finding you in this place of death.  What are you doing here?  And Elijah hid himself in his mantle because he knew that he had fallen before God.  You see, because someone who is in favor with God speaks to God face to face, but Elijah hid his face in the mantle because he knew he had fallen in his mind and he was ashamed before God.

          Please note that Elijah hid his face in the mantle before the voice came to him.  So I would even take that as an act of repentance or at least an act of confession of sin that Elijah was fallen because he wrapped his face in the mantle because he knew that he was ascending before his God.  Then the voice came to him and said, what are you doing, Elijah?  What are you doing here in this place with the tree of death?  And Elijah said to him, well I wound up in this place of death because I’ve been so jealous for you.  I’ve been fighting your battles and I fell down into this place where death is and it’s all the fault of the children of Israel because they broke their covenant with you.  So now God’s punishment for Elijah was (well before I say that, let me say this).  Earlier on this message, I said that I now realize that Elijah was punished and that his punishment was that he fell down, but I have to stand corrected on that.  God does not cause us to fall and God does not do evil to anyone.  What appears to us as evil, if in fact it comes from God, is always for our good and therefore from God’s point of view, it is not evil, because evil done unto us that results in our good is not evil, but it is good.  So Elijah’s fall, which there was no good thing in that, could not possibly have come from God, so therefore I now understand that the punishment from God because of Elijah’s transgression, Elijah went into pride, because fear is pride.  Then he blamed Israel, which is more pride.  Elijah’s punishment is as follows.

          This is again Bereshith, Section 1, page 209B.  But I think these are the old page numbers.  I don’t think these are the page numbers of the most recent edition of the Soncino Zohar.  But whatever, let me go on.  The Zohar says; Then the Holy One said unto him, as you live, in whatever place (talking to Elijah now) the rite of circumcision is performed, you must be present.  Now of course, this is a supernatural judgment, that wherever a male is being circumcised, Elijah must be present.  The reason that Elijah has to be present is that Elijah, the one who pronounced Israel guilty, must now be the witness that every time one is circumcised, that Israel is observing the law and Israel is righteous.  We can say that this judgment is now being fulfilled spiritually because Elijah is now a part of the being of the Lord Jesus Christ and everyone that has the seed of Christ grafted to them has the Lord Jesus, Elijah and Moses or the soul of Moses, Elijah and the Lord Jesus, which is one soul, which is one multiple soul, attached to them.  In order for one’s heart to be circumcised, well let me say one’s heart can only be circumcised if one has Christ grafted to oneself.  So if you have Christ grafted to you and then your heart is circumcised, Elijah, which is a part of the seed of Christ, is present at your circumcision and Elijah is one of the witnesses that is swearing to your righteousness.  Isn’t that interesting?  Praise the Lord.

          The Lord is telling me that the reason that Elijah wrapped himself in his mantle is that no one can come uncovered before the presence of the Lord, so that mantle that he wrapped himself in, was the mantle of righteousness, which was the Christ that was within him.  That Christ that was within Elijah is the very angel that came to him when Elijah was first lying in depression by the river.  

          New Paragraph requested here.  I have always wondered two things about the relationship between Elijah and Moses because I could not find anything in the Old Testament associating Moses with Elijah, but we do see the two together on the Mount of Transfiguration.  The other thing that I wondered about is the scriptural basis for Jesus being the incarnation of Elijah, because so far what I have read in Kabbalah, I see that Moses is called Messiah and that the Messiah, the son of David which the Jews believe is yet to come, they tell you will be a reincarnation of the soul of Moses.  So up until this minute I have not been able to deal with these two issues that I just laid out.  The Lord put me in a study in the Zohar today.  I’m reading in the Soncino Zohar and it’s called shemoth, that’s one of the sections of the Zohar.  I don’t know what it means.  Shemoth, section 2, page 197A and this is what I read.  Quoting the verse of Proverbs 30:4 in the King James.  Who has ascended into heaven and descended?  Who has gathered the wind in his fist and who bound the waters in his garments?  Who has established all the ends of the earth?  What is his name and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest?

          I find that so interesting because, although I’ve read the book of Proverbs many times.  I had no recollection of such an overt reference to a great one and his son?  Now the Zohar says, this verse has already been explained.  Who has ascended up into heaven.  This alludes to Moses.  Now this is the commentary of the Zohar.  The one who ascended up into heaven is Moses, of whom it is written quoting Exodus 24:1; Come up unto the Lord.  This is still quoting the Zohar.  According to another interpretation, who has ascended up into heaven, that’s quoting the King James now, alludes to Elijah.  So we have two different opinions on this scripture of Exodus 24:1.  One opinion says, the one that went up to heaven is Moses and the other opinion says that the one who went up to heaven is Elijah.  So the Zohar commentary continues, it may be asked how could Elijah have ascended unto heaven, seeing that the heavens cannot endure even so much as a mustard seed of the matter of this world.  How then can the Scripture say, and he (that is Elijah) ascended up by a whirlwind into heaven?  The commentary in the Zohar continues; But it was with Elijah as it was with Moses.  So here we see, as far as I’m concerned, this is the first time I have ever seen a commentary on the relationship between Elijah and Moses and here it is.

          Continuing with the commentary of the Zohar; In connection with Moses, it is first written (and this is exodus 19:20 in the King James.  It is quoted here in the Zohar; And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai and then the Zohar says, and further it is written in Exodus 24:18 quoting the King James now.  And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount.  Back to the Zohar commentary now.  Now in as much as the Holy One, blessed be He, was on Mount Sinai regarding which it is written (and this is now quoting Exodus 24:17) and the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on top of the mount.  How could Moses have entered into the presence of the Lord.  That question is asked by the Zohar now.  Since the glory of the Lord was devouring fire on the top of the mountain, how could Moses have entered into presence, Moses being flesh?  Now the Zohar continues, the answer is found in the words (and this is quoting the King James now) and Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount.  The Zohar goes on to say; This shows that Moses enveloped himself in the cloud as in a garment and having thus wrapped himself round, he was able to draw near to the fire of the glory of the Lord.

          Okay, now here’s the similarity with Moses’ experience and Elijah’s experience.  Still quoting the Zohar, in a similar way, Elijah of whom it is written, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, so therefore it is written about Elijah that he went up to heaven by a whirlwind and the Zohar says, Elijah entered into that whirlwind and enveloped himself in it as in a garment and in this way Elijah ascended on high.  So we see that Moses could face the devouring fire of the Lord because he was wrapped in a cloud and that Elijah could go up to heaven because he was wrapped in the whirlwind.  Elijah entered into that whirlwind and enveloped himself in it as in a garment and that was how Elijah ascended on high.  So we see that Elijah and Moses have had similar (not the same but similar) ascension experiences and now we’re told in the Zohar the following recondite passage was working and it means not easily understood or having more than one meaning.  So the Zohar tells us the following recondite passage or the following mysterious passage or the following passage that could have more than one meaning is found in the book of Adam, the first man.  In that book we see a description of the generations of mankind and this is what it says now.  I’m quoting the book of Adam, the first man.  A certain spirit will one day come down to earth and will clothe itself in an earthly body and will bear the name Elijah.

          Now here we go, here is the scriptural basis for Jesus being the incarnation of Elijah.  Remember this was one of my two questions that I have not been able to understand since I was reading so much about Moses being Messiah, why does the New Testament say that Jesus is the incarnation of Elijah?  So personally, I believe that both Elijah and Moses are two lifetimes in a collective spiritual lifetime.  I believe that the angel Michael incarnated Moses and then the soul of Moses incarnated as Elijah and then the soul of Elijah incarnated as Jesus.  I’m not going to get into my whole doctrine of spiritual lifetime here, but those of you who study with me understand what I’m talking about.  So here is our scriptural basis.  Of course, it’s not the King James Translation, but it is a Zorahic basis, it is a Kabbalistic basis for Jesus being the incarnation of Elijah.  So when we look at the New Testament and we see Jesus speaking to the people and saying, who did you come out to see?  I think it’s very ambiguous as to whether Jesus was talking about John the Baptist, which is what most of the church believe or whether Jesus was talking about Himself.  He was probably speaking about the two of them.  Then Jesus told the Jews that were present, if you can receive it, this is the spirit of Elias.  Here is the Biblical foundation for that statement.  Now remember the Jews of Jesus’ day knew the Kabbalah.  So they knew what Jesus was talking about.  Well you might say, Sheila, the Kabbalah wasn’t written until the 11^th century or the 12^th century.  It first appeared in the 11^th century.  That was the first written appearance of it, but Kabbalah was taught to the Jews by word of mouth for as long as the Jews were around.

          So when Jesus told the Jews, if you can receive it, this is Elias, He was referring directly to this passage in the Zohar, which quotes another book called the Book of Adam, the first man.  Now I’ve gone on the internet and tried to locate a copy of this book and if it has been translated into English, I have not been able to find it.  So it is possible that it has not been translated into English.  Now getting back to the quote from the Book of Adam, the first man; A certain spirit will one day come down to earth and will clothe itself in an earthly body and will bear the name of Elijah.  Jesus fulfilled this.  Going on with the quote; While still in the body, he who is an incarnation of Elijah, he will soar aloft and divesting himself of that body, he will enter within a whirlwind where another luminous body will have been prepared for him.  Now isn’t that luminous body what we saw on the Mount of Transfiguration?  Is this not another way of saying that Jesus was in heaven and earth at the same time?  Okay, back to the quote from the Book of Adams, where another luminous body will have been prepared for him so that he will be an angel among angels.  You know, I always wondered about that experience on the Mount of Transfiguration.  I understood that Jesus revealed His true spiritual nature and I understood even before I ever went into Kabbalah, I understood that Elijah and Moses were a part of the incarnated soul of Jesus.  I always understood that, but it just seemed to me that this Mount of Transfiguration experience, that it just came out of nowhere with no lead up into it as why Jesus would do that.

          He just suddenly one day took Peter, James and John up into a high place and He was transfigured before them.  But according to our study now, we see that Peter, James and John should have known what was happening because these men, I believe must have known, for Jesus to do that, they must have been familiar with this passage from the Book of Adam the first man, that a certain spirit would one day come down to earth and would clothe himself in an earthly body and will bear the name of Elijah.  While in that body he will soar aloft and divesting himself of that body, enter within a whirlwind where another luminous body will have been prepared for him so that he will be an angel among angels.  Continuing with the quote from the Book of Adam.  But whenever he will come down to earth, he will invest himself again in a material body which will remain in the lower world and it is in this body that he will make himself visible on earth.  While it is in the other body that he will appear on high.  That’s the end of the quote.  Now the Zohar says, this is the recondite meaning of the words; who hath ascended up into heaven and descended.  Now that’s the Zohar quoting Proverbs of the King James.  Who hath ascended up to heaven and descended?  We’re being told in the Zohar that the meaning of this phrase, who hath ascended up unto heaven and descended, is explained in the Book of Adam, that this spirit is going to come down to earth and its name is going to be Elijah.

          Now we’re told in the Zohar another interpretation of this phrase from the King James, who hath ascended up into heaven, is an allusion to Elijah, whereas the words, and descended (from the King James) alludes to Jonah.  So we are being told here that Jonah was an earthly incarnation of Elijah and I find that so interesting because we translated the whole book of Jonah and came to the conclusion at the end of our study that Jonah entered into sinlessness, that he ascended into a state above death.  That’s the conclusion we came to.  Now we’re told that Jonah was an earthly manifestation of this spirit that we know to be Elijah.  So the Zohar goes on to say that this word, to descend, alludes to Jonah whom the fish caused to sink into the nether most depths of the sea.  Jonah was only made possible by Elijah.  That means Jonah was an incarnation of Elijah.  Elijah ascended and Jonah descended and the one as well as the other requested for himself that he might die.  So we see as a scriptural witness that Jonah was an incarnation of Elijah, that the two of them both Elijah and Jonah, wanted to die.

What’s coming to my mind right now is that Job had the same death wish also.  He said, I should have never been born.  Very interesting.

           Continuing to quote the Zohar.  Further the words, who hath bound the waters (now that’s quoting the King James) alludes to Elijah who bound up in a bundle as it were all the waters of the world so that neither dew nor rain came down from heaven.  Well I’m not going to read the rest of these quotes because it really doesn’t have to do with our study here.  I do want to put on here that I have been aware and am aware that there is a prophesy in Micah that Elijah will come to restore the hearts of the fathers to the children and that was the only scriptural basis that I had for understanding that Jesus was an incarnation of Elijah, but I was never satisfied with that.  It just didn’t jell in me, but this quote from the Book of Adam; Jesus is a direct fulfillment.  How could the Pharisees have not picked this up?  I think they did pick it up.  They had to pick it all up, but they just didn’t want to believe it.  So we see that Jesus is both Messiah Ben David, an incarnation of Moses and the fulfillment of the prophesy of this spirit called Elijah.  And why did Jesus say this is the spirit of Elias, if you can receive it.  Why didn’t Jesus say this is the spirit of Moses?  Once again, because of the spiritual lifetime.  The angel Michael incarnated Moses and then Moses was taken from the earth and then the angel Michael wore Moses as a garment and incarnated again as Elijah.  And Elijah, the man, was a garment that covered Moses who was covering the angel Michael.  Layers of soul and then the next time the angel Michael incarnated, he incarnated with two garments.

          The first garment of the angel Michael was Moses and the second garment of the angel Michael was Elijah.  So Michael incarnated under the name of the latest, the most recently acquired garment which is Elijah.  But now that Michael has incarnated through Moses and Elijah and Jesus, Michael takes the name of his most recently acquired garment.  And the angel Michael is appearing in the earth today as a spirit, not called Elijah, but as a spirit called the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of Christ.  That Spirit of Christ is in the process of doing these outstanding miracles while preparing to come to a place where He will be doing the same outstanding miracles that Elijah did and that He did through the man Jesus.  So here we have a witness to the scriptural relationship between Moses and Elijah as they appeared in Jesus.  It’s the witness in the New Testament that they appear in Jesus.  Moses is the teacher.  Moses is the deliverer of the people.  Moses is the man that...(goes to next tape)...

..... is a spiritual entity.  Pharaoh, I think the way I preached it in the Doctrine of Christ is that Pharaoh is the union of the serpent and Satan and the devil in an individual.  It’s a high spiritual ascension that challenges Christ Jesus.  It’s a man that is Pharaoh, a highly spiritual ascended man in the spirit of witchcraft.  Elijah is the one with the miracle working ministry.  Yes, Moses worked miracles to bring forth the deliverance from Pharaoh.  Moses’ miracles were specifically designed to deliver the people from Pharaoh, but Elijah executed judgments.  He withheld the rain.  Elijah traveled in the spirit and Elijah dealt with Jezebel.  So what is the difference between Pharaoh and Jezebel?  Pharaoh is the highly ascended mind of the carnal mind.  It’s the highly ascended condition of the carnal mind.  Jezebel is the highly ascended carnal mind in a Jew or in a Christian.  A person that honors Jehovah, if you’re a Jew, or the Lord Jesus Christ if you’re a Christian, but you’re still manifesting out of your highly ascended carnal mind, you now become Jezebel.  Remember that Leviathan is the pride of the Jew or the pride of the Christian and the word, Leviathan, is only one or two positions after the word, Levi, in the Hebrew Lexicon.  The tribe of Levi, who are the priests, become Leviathan when the pride of the carnal mind overtakes the call of the priest on their life.

          So we see that Moses deals with the people who are still in their carnal mind and Elijah deals with the people who have Christ, but are refusing to give up the power that they have out of their carnal mind and use that witchcraft power against the minister of Christ that’s trying to bring them into the spiritual walk.  Moses had thousands of people that he ministered to.  Elijah had one spiritual disciple.  Moses had thousands of carnally minded people that he put under the law and Elijah had one spiritual disciple that he taught how to live in the spiritual worlds.  In Jesus Christ, we have both of these ministries.  In addition to these two ministries, the ministry of the ascended carnal mind in a man who doesn’t have Christ and the ministry of the ascended carnal mind in a man who does have Christ, the first being Pharaoh, the second being Jezebel.  Now in the Jesus ministry, we see Jesus ministering to and bringing forth Christ in twelve individual disciples.  Remember Moses dealt with thousands and the Jezebel that Elijah dealt with were the sons of Israel.  He also dealt with a collective many1membered people.  But Jesus we see ministering to His individual disciples.  Now Elisha was in training to be a prophet under Elijah.  As far as Moses and the people in the wilderness are concerned, the only thing that I could see is that Moses’ ministry to the people, to the Hebrews in the wilderness, was to equip them to enter into the land, to take the land.  That means to take their own personality and body away from the authority of the carnal mind.  Elijah was training Elisha to be a prophet.

          So once again Moses was with the carnal Jew and Elijah was with the spiritual Jew and Jesus Christ (it’s my understanding) had twelve disciples that He was training up to be sons of God, which means He was training them to overtake their carnal mind and take authority over their own personality and own body.  He was also teaching them to be highly spiritual people.  That is the definition of the son of God, to be one who goes in and takes the land away from the carnal mind, the land of their personality and their body, away from the carnal mind and also to become a highly spiritual person who is a prophet.  A prophet is the intermediary between God and man.  A prophet hears from God and gives the messages to man.  We are to be kings and priests.  As a king we rule over our own personality and body.  As a priest we intercede between the carnal minded Christian or Jew or anyone that we choose to have mercy on.  We are the mediator between the carnal person who’s in their carnal mind and the Lord Jesus.  As a prophet we are the messenger of the Lord Jesus to whoever He sends us to, to the carnal man; Jew, Christian, Greek, whatever.

          So Moses had the ministry of the priest.  He was training up the people to be the priest.  Elijah was training up Elisha to be the prophet and in Christ Jesus we have the same ministry that Jesus Christ had.  We’re training people to be both priest and prophet, although Jesus said we would do greater works than He did and the greater works that we’re doing concerning Jesus Christ is (well let me tell you this first) Jesus Christ’s mission was to be crucified, to rise from the dead and to ascend above this world out of the body so that He would be in a condition where He could pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh and therefore seed all of humanity with the life of God.  Now we, the son of Jesus Christ, and of course in the Book of Adam (I don’t know whether it was the Zohar or the Book of Adam- something that I quoted earlier) it says that spirit and his son.  So it even tells us that Elijah is going to have an offspring and the offspring of Elijah are the sons of God that are coming up in this generation.  Our job is to pass on the nature of Jesus Christ to all of these carnally minded people.  So we see a merging of Moses’ ministry, which is to the carnally minded man and of Elijah’s ministry which is to the spiritual man.  We, the sons of God, are to make the carnally minded men spiritual by engraving them with the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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