GEHENNOM

This is a study on Gehenom, I am looking up every reference to Gehenom in my software program of the Zohar. The first reference says "the angel presiding over Gehenom is Duma, and there are tens of thousands of angels of destruction under him. He stands at its door. But those who have carefully guarded the sign of the Holy covenant he has no power to touch."

Concerning Gehenom, the Zohar says that "this is a warning to man, not to utter with his mouth words that might suggest evil thoughts, because when you do that you cause to sin the scared body on which is stamped the Holy covenant." I suggest to you that, that is the mind of Christ. That the Mind of Christ is the scared body in which you stamp the Holy covenant.

Then the Zohar says "for he who does this, he who utters with his mouth words that suggest evil thoughts, is dragged into Gehenom." What this says to me is that Gehenom is a state of being in your carnal mind.

The next occasion in the Zohar of the term Gehenom is as follows, "wherefore God should be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thy hands." I.e. which means the flesh of the holy covenant which the man has defiled, and which as a punishment is stretched in Gehenom at the hand of Duma." If the body of the holy covenant is the Mid of Christ I would say the flesh of the Holy covenant is the man that the min of Christ is in, and I could see that the man himself is defiled, buy in cautious words. I do not understand this punishment of being stretched in Gehenom at the hand of Duma. I do not understand the context of being stretched so we will just go on.

The next reference is to the torches of Gehenom, but there is not more information in this context. Hopefully we will hear more about that.

I just did a search in the Zohar on the "torches of Gehenom," and that phrase only appears once with no further information.

Next reference is to the "fire of Gehenom." I am going to do a study strictly on the "fire of Gehenom." We see that Gehenom is a fiery outburst of witchcraft destruction. The carnal mind enters in with separation. Separation in other words the two people are not longer in agreement. Then discord comes in, just hard feelings, then Gehenom was created, I am sorry then wrath, and violence. I think according, I just did a study on wrath and violence but I put it on a different tape. According to that I would say separation enters in, then the people they fall out of agreement in the mind, they quarrel, then wrath which is violent is given birth too.

Gehenom is a manifestation of the carnal mind that is violent, and attacking witchcraft. That is what I would say. Gehenom is a manifestation of the carnal mind that is beyond quarreling, it is a separation beyond quarrelling. It is a raging violent, raging spiritual violence that can come out in words. You do not have to be physically attacking any body. It is a raging spiritual violence that comes forth.

The Zohar say the "fire of Gehenom," so that would be the wrath. Wrath powered by spiritual power consumes and destroys. Or consumes and destroys all the angels that revolted against their master.

Likewise all that have vanished away and do not endure and are consumed by fire. have been, have experienced the fires of Gehenom. This really sounds like to me like the "lake of Fire."

The next reference to Gehenom in the Zohar is Gehenom as the blazing fire.

Right now more or less we are doing a side study on the fires of Gehenom. So here is the next reference to the word "fire" and Gehenom. It is talking about the Hebrew letters engraving the waters of the creation and the separation of the waters by the firmament. This is what the Zohar says, "and the waters continued going up and down until this firmament came into being and separated them. A division took place on the second day on which was created Gehenom which is a blazing fire, and which is destined to rest on the heads of sinners."

We see that Gehenom at this point appears to me what the New Testament calls the Lake of Fire, we now find out that it was created on the second day. What comes to mind is one of the Psalms that says, "do good to your enemy is causes coals of fire to be placed on their heads." Let me see if I can find that Scripture. Proverbs 25 Verse 22. Let me start with Verse 21, "if thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty give him water to drink for you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward you."

What this appears to be saying is that if you are good to your enemies, the end result is corrective judgment falls upon them, and Christ, and the reward that you get is that Christ is built in you for having a Godly response to having some one sin against you. As I look at the list of Scriptures that came up in response to my search. I see there is a lot of talk of coals of fire, and just fiery judgment. I now believe that when ever we read about fire in the Scripture in the context of judgment or coals of fire it is really talking about the Fires of Gehenom, that manifestation of Hell that is the wrath or the spiritual power of God coming forth to deal with your sin to burn up you sin.

I see Psalms 140:10 says, "let them be cast in to fire, into deep pits." now sheal is the pit. I think I did read something in the Zohar, I do not know if I put it on this tape or not. I read it in this study that Gehenom comes out of Sheal, so Gehenom is the spiritual fire that burns up the sin, which arises out of sheal, which is the pit. The sheal is a level or a grade of the carnal mind. I also read in this study but I do not think I put it on the tape that Korah and his family when they fell down in to the under the ground alive they went into Sheal. I have always known what happened to Korah and the people with him is that they lost their Christ mind and they fell down into their carnal mind. I see here a witness that Hell is a condition of mind and that the condition that are mind is in, produces the circumstances of our life.

If we are in hellish conditions in circumstances in our life, that is an indication where our mind is, that our mind is in a hellish condition. Now if you repented to the Lord and the circumstance of your life are still Hellish, all is means is that you have not been fully delivered from Hell yet. If you do not have a relationship with the Lord, and you are in poverty or you are in physical pain, or if you have any kind of distress or destruction in your life, you need to know that your mind is in a condition of negativity, that has produced that condition in your life.

We are told that there are a category of beings that are unfinished that they are not completed above neither are they completed below. The reason that they are not completed, that the Zohar, at least this translation of the Zohar gives. Is that they were not completed below therefore they cannot be completed above. I do not understand that, because to me, my understanding is that what ever is completed above must manifest in completion below and this says the exact opposite. I am waiting for the Lord to explain that to me. In any event, the term the fire of Gehenom is used with regard to those creatures.

The Zohar says they became a great danger to the world because with them the whole of the left side roused itself, and the Fire of Gehenom began to flash. We now know that the fire of Gehenom flashes. I believe the flaming sword that guards the entrance to Eden is a flashing sword. To me that is one more witness that this fire of Gehenom is the "Lake of Fire," which destroys sins thus which purifies us. If this is true the flashing sword that turns every which way before the entrance way to the Garden of Eden, is a flashing fire, the flashing fire of Gehenom. Which is the Lake of Fire, that exposes sins and destroys it so that we can be purified to enter into the Garden.

The Zohar tells us that twelve months is the fixed term of punishment in Gehenom for the guilty. I do not know what that means. 12 months is one solely year I do not know what that would mean concerning the Jewish calendar, even so one year I do not know what that means.

I know that in the book of Revelation there are Scriptures that refer to one year. That would have to be another study. The Zohar continues to says, seeing that seeing for six month the wicked in Gehenom are punished by water, and another six months by fire. Well it is talking about Noah's flood. Asking the question "why did the waters prevail for 12 months?" We are going to stay on this subject. 
The punishments of Gehenom water and fire are let loosed together. it is my understanding that Chokhmah is water and Binah is the fire. So this would be like saying the judgments that come form Chokhmah and the judgments that come form Binah were let loose at the same time. That must have been a horrible horrible experience, because I know that the judgments of Binah alone are very powerful. To have the two of them together wow.

Rain descended upon them from above and at the same time scalding waters hot as fire gushed up from below. I am nit sure what this means. Rain descended from above, if what I just said is correct, that would mean that Chokhmah came down from above, the waters of Chokhmah. The judgment of wisdom and scalding waters hot as fire gushed up from below. i do not know what to make out of that because I once had a revelation that Binah... I think that there are Scriptures that say Binah is the terrible ice.

Sometimes the waters are hot and sometimes they are cold. The story where read that where Binah is the terrible ice, talks about the melting of her waters. So she is not always relating to man in the same state, where fore I would imagine it would be possible that her waters could be scalding at some time. What also is interesting is that Jesus talks about desiring us to be boiling waters and not lukewarm. He refers to us as waters, so we are the offspring of wisdom. I do not have anymore revelation on this at this moment.

Then the Zohar says that the punishment for the people that lived at the time of the flood was the same of that is in Gehenom. Which judgment consists of fire and water. It continued that way until they were utterly destroyed. Another reference of Gehenom being both fire and water inflicted upon the sinners that are there. The Zohar continues to say the punishment if sinners in Gehenom last twelve months after which the Holy One raises them out of Gehenom where they have undergone purification. Another witness to me that this is the purifying Lake of Fire that burns up our carnal mind.

Continuing with the Zohar text " they remain there sitting at the gate of Gehenom," now this is after they have been purified.

I really see myself in this position right now. "they remain sitting at the gate of Gehenom, and when they sinners enter there to be punished, they besiege mercy on them." Brethren this is the sons of God interceding for the sinners of the world.

"In time the Holy one take pity on them and causes them to be brought to a certain place reserved for them." Jesus said "I go to make a place for you." "from that day onward the body rests in the dust, and the soul is accorded her proper place. Well Jesus said He was going to give us rest in the flesh, although it does not sound that way in the Zohar. Well we do not know what body it is talking about. It could be talking about the mind, The mind is a body. It could be talking about the mind of Christ. I do not know, but we do receive peace while we are still in the flesh which is the dust, and out soul is accorded her proper place.

What is the proper place of our soul? The soul is the personality and her proper place is at the right hand of Jesus Christ, we are to be the bride of Jesus Christ.

Talking about the flood again, the Zohar says "cold water descended from above, while seething water bubbled up from below mingled with fire. Water mingled with fire. I know Binah is the fire, it sounds like Binah is fire and water, and she is a mixture of Chokhmah and Binah. I guess her fiery side boils the water. We also know that Jesus Christ, not Jesus Christ, but Christ int he individual is boiling, Satan's waters in the individual. Binah is fire and water, that could be the mixture of the spirit of Christ and the waters of the individual that are being boiled. That is interesting.

The text of the Zohar continues on "they thus underwent the two punishments regularly meted out from on high." Ok I am going to stop here let us go on t the next reference.

We now see a reference that says again Gehenom, the sinners are punished in Gehenom for twelve months, half with fire and half with snow. Water in another form. When they go in to the fire they say "this is really Gehenom." When they go into the snow they say "this is the real winter of the Almighty.'
Now that is really interesting because I always thought that the winter was Satan's territory. That the cold was Satan's territory. I think that I read somewhere that the snow burns. I thought I read that somewhere in the Zohar but I am not sure. When they go into the Judgment of the snow they say "this is the real winter of the Almighty." I guess the winter is a period of Judgment because the almighty is signified by heat.

I had a revelation at one time that the snow was the sons of God, and the sons of God are bringing judgments, so it doe all add up. "They begin by exclaiming alas and then they exclaim woe." We know that there are three woes in the book of Revelation. This is interesting the Zohar says "and then they exclaimed woe, the supreme punishment is with snow.

Not so Israel for who is it written, she is not afraid of the snow." Her household. Israel is not afraid of the sons of God, or righteous judgment. Because all of her household is clothed with scarlet." The Zohar says that the word scarlet may be red, that the Hebrew word translated 
"scarlet" maybe red a little differently. Which means two, instead of scarlet it means "two" it says that refers to the pairs of percepts such as circumcision. This is all works of the law.

The word scarlet may also be taken to indicate the robe of judgment. Which is assume for punishment of idolaters. We see that Israel is not afraid of the judgment of the sons of God. All of her household is clothed with scarlet, that means they are already under judgment. You see went you are under the judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ. When you are under the corrective judgment of the sons of God, or when you are judging your own sins, you do not have to worry about the sons of God coming to judge your sins.

This next reference to the Fire of Gehenom we are told that Moses was not subject to that fire, he approached the burning bush and he was not consumed. This is the first time that I ever recognized that burning bush as Moses' own carnal mind being a flamed with the judgment of God that purified it so that he could speak to the Lord.

We have now completed commenting on all of the places in the Zohar where it talks about the fire of Gehenom and we are returning to our regular study just in the word Gehenom. I will comment here that those wicked in Gehenom will acknowledge the justice of the Holy one. So once again we see a witness that Gehenom is a corrective judgment which produces repentance and wisdom, praise God.

We read in the Zohar "when the left awoke, there awoke discord, and through that discord the wrathful fire was reinforced and there emerged from it the Gehenom which those originated from the left and continues there. We see that discord, now we read in another place first comes separation, then comes discord, then comes the wrathful fire, that is the spiritual fire that shoots out with power. That is not just anger, that is anger that comes forth with power, and that wrathful fire was reinforced. What does that mean? It means that another spirit joined it self to it to it, possibly. The righteousness of God, the judgment of Binah.

Then the Zohar says "and there emerged from it, "from what, from the reinforced wrathful fire.. Gehenom, and Gehenom is the corrective judgment, so the wrathful fire might be Gevurah which destroys, but when Binah is joined to it. When Tiferet is joined to that, Gevurah, we see corrective judgment.

Here we see that the central column is the third day. The Zohar tells us that in the work of creation there was an antagonism of the left against the right. The division between them allowed the Gehenom to emerged an fasten itself to the left.

The Zohar says that when darkness asserted itself, that is the serpent I presume. "When darkness asserted itself, it did so with fury and created Gehenom, and created fiery judgment which attached itself to it." Gehenom was attached to the fury of the darkness.

We have a sentence in the Zohar that sounds like sheal is an aspect of Gehenom. The Zohar says " as soon as the Sabbath ends, there ascends from Gehenom from the grade called sheal, a party of evil spirits who strive to mingle among the seed of Israel and attain power over them. This sounds to me like Gehenom contains many grades, and the Lord just brought to my memory an aspect of the Zohar that I read the other day that says there are many stories in Gehenom.

That really excited me because of that dream I had all those years ago, where I was looking out a window, and I saw below me, a great reservoir of tumultuous waters. I looked up and there was a high rise building an office building. All I saw was the windows, it went up so high that I could not see the top of it. I could see people looking out the window in several of the stories. I forget a lot of my dreams but that dream I could never forget. Eventually I came to under stand that I was looking at the reservoir of power that were available.

Today the thought just came in to mind that that reservoir is the power of Christ. It is the branch of the tree of the power that is available. The building with all the people looking out of it, I had believed that that was Jacobs ladder climbing higher and higher grades leading to heaven. Reading this about Gehenom I am inclined to think that high rise building represented all the grades of Gehenom because I am certainly coming out of Gehenom. My life has been extremely difficult an painful, I am only alive by the grace of God. I defiantly have ascended, I am way higher that I was when I first came to the Lord. I do believe that in compared to the scheme of things I am still very low.

Right now I am fighting off a sore throat I still get sick, and I still have some trouble with anger, and frequently unrealistic, inappropriate anger, so I still have problems with my personality, and I am not at all satisfied with the measure of power that I had. I would like to be able to heal people and I would like to be able to have a greater political impact than I do, so I know that I am not all that high. Compared to the church I have power, the church is dead. I do have some power, but I know I am now where near, I am not even in the ball park to say that I have arrived.

Now I understand that that apartment building that I saw in that dream were the many stories or the many grades of Gehenom, and I read in a passage right in this study, it is probably on this tape, well it may not be on this tape, I am switching back and forth between this tape, I am trying to keep it strictly for Gehenom, and another tape. I did see something in this particular study that said that "after a soul is purified in the fire of Gehenom which I believe to be the corrective judgment of the lake of fire, that that soul is delivered from Gehenom and that soul becomes an intercessor and an encourager for other souls going into Gehenom. I am in that place now. I do not know if I can say that I am delivered from Gehenom or not, I would not think so. But I believe that I can be experiencing both manifestations of Gehenom right now. That I still am in Gehenom and also some areas delivered from Gehenom enough to be a comfort and a guide to people that are passing that way, then eventually the Zohar says the person that is delivered from Gehenom their body rests into the dust. To me that means the peace that Jesus promised us.

Peace of mind, which is a cessation of conflict between the carnal mind and the Christ mind. The only way that could happen is if the Christ mind wins. The body comes to rest and the soul goes tot he place appointed for it, I believe if the personality joins with the Christ, marries Christ. According to this revelation the top of that building of which I could not see in my dream.

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