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Christendom and Western civilization
are entering their final warfare before

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Armageddon. In these deliberate
studies of principalities and powers,

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we will be exposing the occult, revealing
knowledge of the doctrines, words,

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rites, eulogies, phrases, and
definitions that demon worshippers use.

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The only intelligent way to interpret
our times is to present a biblical

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interpretation. Jesus prophesied
that his church shall prevail.

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In Matthew 16, verse 18, he said,

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Upon this rock I will build my church,

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and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.

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Today the church must rise up to the
greatest action of its entire history.

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Welcome to the very special
class on deliverance.

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In this class that we are studying
principalities and powers,

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we have a special study
called What is Kabbalah?

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And before getting into Kabbalah, because
the only purpose we have in showing

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you this particular study is that there are
some sophisticated occult manifestations

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in the intellectual world that
some of us possibly don't realize

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and don't know that some very
celebrated people are practicing

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occult, and maybe they hardly know
what they're practicing themselves.

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And we believe and we are sure from the
teaching of the Word of God that those that

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practice the occult are
lost, that they're not saved,

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that you can't worship the
devil and go to heaven.

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And the purpose of these classes is to warn
all of us about playing with the occult

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and then also for us
to help others to come

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out of it. I've been asked the question
several times in this class regarding

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dungeons and dragons.

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which is a relatively new
game in this country of ours.

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Here is their master guide that's
a very expensive book, around $15.

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And in this guide, I want to
show you the front piece of it.

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It's diabolic.

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And when you see the devil
with all of his horns and

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his fangs and so forth. And
so it would speak for itself.

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And this is the super
guide that's here to use.

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One of the pages in here, it's
called Empirical the Chaotic,

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and shows a person on horseback
shooting people dead with a gun ray.

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And in two different
magazines that I have with me,

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some of the quotations from the Dungeons
and Dragons is, one of the games is,

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hell pits of night fang and one of the

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sayings here is that they summons
the devil to defeat opponents

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and though they begin playing
with powers uh beyond themselves

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now this is a little home game
but as we looked into it further

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uh for example psychology today said
relative to it that day and in this

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game there's hardly a game in which
the players Do not torture, rape,

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or have highway robbery
played into the game.

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And it says that here's a man
who plays the game for 40 hours a

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week.

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That it's an intoxicating situation
that you just can't get away from.

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So you get more advantages if
you're evil than if you're good.

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That being evil is easier
and is the best way.

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The game is taught. And it
goes on and tells you...

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many very terrible things about it,

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including sexual problems that are in it.

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And one of the worst things about
it is that the more I play this D

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&D, the more I want to get away
from this world that we live in.

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And it says in the Game Rules
book that I was holding up here,

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it has spells, witches, and demons
that they are being involved in.

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In these last days, the devil, in
every way that he possibly can,

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will seek to doom and damn
anybody that he possibly can.

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I would say that we should teach America
to stay with the Bible and then to stay

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with truth. You know, there's so much
truth in the world to stay with.

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People that study games like this, if
you were to ask them historical truth,

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about their own country or about other
countries they wouldn't know anything about

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it at all if you don't know historical
truth you don't know how to live today you

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don't know what it means to be in the
decline of a nation if you don't see other

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nations that have declined the same way that
this one's going yeah and so history is

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a is a strong pillar of truth and if
you don't hold on to it then you may

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not know how to live today and and so uh
There are many things that we can do to

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occupy time than playing games that take
up to 40 hours a week to play them.

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And then for us to move
into the occult with it,

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and in that area you open your mind
to Satan, and he can deceive you,

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and you can be destroyed.

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In your teaching syllabus, in
lesson 12, what is Kabbalah?

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I'd like to read you one
verse of Scripture first.

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It's in 1 John chapter 4 and verse 1.

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It says, Beloved, That's talking
to God's people, by the way.

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It says, believe not every spirit.

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Now, if God tells His people that, how
much more should we tell, you know,

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the unbeliever that, you know?
Believe not every spirit.

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If you're going to just believe
everything that comes along,

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you're going to find yourself
all messed up on your insides.

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It says, but try the spirits.
See whether they are of God.

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Look into them. Analyze them. See
the source that they came from.

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And see what they're
seeking to culminate in.

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What will be the end of them.
As if whether they are of God.

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Because many false prophets are gone
out in the world that we live in today.

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This is a warning from God for us not to
let the occult become a part of our lives.

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Many of us that haven't studied
the cults very much will say,

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what is this thing called Kabbalah?

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Kabbalah means, according to
your Webster's dictionary,

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comes from a French word for intrigue.

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It has to do with that which is a plot.

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It has to do with something
that tremendously influences

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the person's mind that involves themselves
in its teachings and its learnings.

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Kabbalah speaks to us of a limited group.
You could call it a small group, but...

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possibly limited group would be stronger.

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They pick out certain very influential
persons or certain highly educated persons.

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That's the group that
they wish to deal with.

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And then it functions
with a secret design,

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and even its doctrines are very difficult
to come by because the people that are

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involved in it are not ready
to divulge the operations.

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In the Hebrew language,
it is an occult religion.

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or philosophy developed by certain rabbis,

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and it's based on mystical
interpretations of the Scripture.

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I'll be referring to that quite
strong here in our lesson,

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that they use the Scripture
as a basis for practicing

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their occult and trying to find
out certain answers that are not

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known by normally reading
the Word of the Lord.

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You'll see it in a moment. Kabbalah is a
secret artifices of mechanisms of people.

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of close design and not for popular
consumption now that happens to be what the

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dictionary says that it is secret
arts and works and beliefs

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of people of a very close design a
very similar nature like a group of

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scientists or something and not for popular
consumption and if you were to start

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studying Kabbalah, as you'll see in
the lesson here, it is an easy reading,

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it is an easy understanding, and it
isn't easy to come by the facts of it,

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even though it's been in the world
for a couple of thousand years.

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The Kabbalah is hidden
knowledge and experience.

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Its doctrines are handed down
orally through generations.

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They feel if they hand it down orally,
others outside of it can't come by it.

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You see, they have no way
of grabbing it and saying,

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I want to find out about it if they
hand the material down orally.

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From early Jewish history, Kabbalah
is a traditional framework for laws,

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legends, ideas to become
associated with the Pentateuch,

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which is the books of
Moses in Genesis, Exodus,

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Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
The word cabinet that we use...

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very much in our world, such as the
president's cabinet and so forth,

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evolved from the word Kabbalah. And
it means a deep discussion by a few.

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Now, Kabbalah has three aspects.

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It has the emanation, which
is the Sifiroth doctrine.

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It has the methods for
interpreting scriptures.

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And it has the Redeemer doctrine.

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The Kabbalists say all
scriptures have hidden meanings.

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There's a heart of it right there.
You can just underline that.

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All scriptures have hidden meanings.

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If you start looking for
hidden meanings anywhere,

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you're going to come up with something
that won't be correct and right and true.

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The Word of God is simple, and you don't
have to find any hidden meanings in the

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Word of God. It means what it
says, it says what it means,

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and just leave it right there. and you
don't have to go any further with it.

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For example, the phrase, no fire on
Sabbath, is interpreted in this way.

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Well, fire is light, so to
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and they start making Scripture mean something
else than what God has just said that

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it means. Kabbalah is strongly
based upon symbolism,

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and especially in its
relationship to numbers,

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which we'll be showing
you in a few moments.

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Now, a religion or a cult...

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in this land that came up out of
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They rose up out of the Kabbalah movement.

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And any inordinate desire for the
preternatural always leads to the occult

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infiltration. Any time that you have an
inordinate desire for that which is the

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supernatural and preternatural,
you're going to end up in the occult.

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God reveals things to His people, but He
reveals them to us through His Spirit.

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And if we have that desire to know,

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and we don't want to come
in God's way to receive it,

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the devil's bound to say,
well, I'll give you something.

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And he does.

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The esoteric searchers for unknown
information are the secrets of

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the divinity and spirituality
can terminate in the occult.

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Metaphysical concepts of human
destiny can lead to the occult.

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All deep mental concentrations must be
God -directed or Satan will step in and

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intrude and misguide a person.

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If you know these things, it
helps us to keep ourselves clean.

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You would be amazed at the number
of messed up intellectuals,

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not in our country as much as in a country
like France or in a country like Germany,

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just messed up intellectuals that have
found if you'll excuse the phrase,

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a highfalutin philosophy that's directed
through religion into an occult

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situation.

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In your page 77,

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mysticism is an

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acoustic system.

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The initial or final letters of the
words of a phrase might be joined to form

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another word. which is then
given an occult significance.

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The significance of another word might be
explained by expanding that word into a

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phrase and using each letter of the original
words as initial letters of one word of

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the phrase. Now, if you want to get
yourself messed up, just start with that.

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Just get you a sentence and say, well,

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now this letter here that ends here
ought to be the first letter over here.

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And that looks kind of cute.

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And you say, well, hey, why don't I take
these three letters over here and hitch

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them over? Well, look, that
means something, doesn't it?

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That's the way people get caught in
many things and even in simple games

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that you have in your home.

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If you're not careful, the devil will hitch
himself onto anything you permit him to

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because he's a bad devil.

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The second one of these is
your point number five,

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the thimura. Or the transposition.

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A themura consists of transposing the
letters of a word or more frequently

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replacing them with artificial equivalents
obtained from one or the other of a group

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of formal anagrams. And the most popular
types of replacement are the following.

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This will get you. By folding the alphabet
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the other, we obtain a code.

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in which corresponding letters on the upper
and the lower lines could be substituted

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for each other in interpreting
a scriptural passage.

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It's amazing to me that people
don't want to take the clear,

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intelligent word of the Lord and accept it
like it is than to think they've got to

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take the alphabet and fold it up and
let the letters drift together and say,

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say, we're going to get
something out of here.

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We're going to get something
mysterious out of here.

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Anytime you want something mysterious,
the devil's got loads of it.

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The lower line could be reversed
and then similar substitutions made.

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We must know precisely
to what use geometria,

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notarikon, and the more it were put. These
methods were used for two prime purposes.

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First and foremost, to derive from the
scriptures a hidden occult meaning.

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And that didn't start in this generation
or in this thousand years, you see.

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People trying to get hidden meanings
out of what God has simply said.

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to validate the Scriptures.

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And here's where they say, now, well, it's
an honest thing and a good thing to prove

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the Scripture. And they, as
we're going to show you,

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they seek to prove them but with numbers,

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that if these numbers all come out right,
then the Scripture is proven to be true.

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To validate Scriptures is literally
inspired of God by showing the remarkable

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numerical relationships which
presumably existed in them.

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The emanation doctrine, the Kabbalist,

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The Kabbalists conceived of God's
attributes as being actual emanations.

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This one you should give a
little closer attention to.

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The Kabbalists conceived that God's
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emanations from him, something
that flowed out of him.

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And the emanations were, per se, they would
be produced by a voluntary retraction or

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self -limitation of God. And this retraction
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creation.

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That creation had birth pangs and that
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came forth from the person of God.
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He is boundless. He is limitless.
He is the in and the in soft.

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The lower particular emanation, the more
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transcendence. And the
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The entire ten emanations were repeated
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regressions from God to our world.

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These four realms were
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Azuleth, the world supermanals, and
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a variant. Scheme limits the
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the worlds of angels,
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And this is the presentation of this
subject given by Menahem Reconati.

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Menahem Reconati, I'll be telling
you a little more about him.

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He made this thing flourish in Italy.

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Now, three primary Kabbalistic methods
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And we're going to get into these
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uh gematria defined as a process of creating
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of words this method is used in the hebrew
the latin and the greek languages that is

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that god is solely good and the first
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uh ye yewah means equals one they're
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as to their numerical value that yewah
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equals seventeen Then they says tov,

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which means good in Hebrew,
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And that rishon, which means first,

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equals 2 plus 1 plus 3 plus
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And so they're seeking to find perfection
in the Word of God by numbers.

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And they said that you can take the numbers
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set in the pattern.

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I don't think God is dependent
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I'd rather look at the mountains and look
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there he is, than to take down a name
and say, well, a T means so much,

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S means so much, R means so much, and by
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I come, oh, well, it's perfect,
you see. We've got to 17 here.

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The Kabbalic and Talmudic teachers,
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were the Hebrew teachers,
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Kabbalic in a great sense. They vied
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Both of them attempted to discover a
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authenticity of the scriptures.

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Now, neighbors, if you want to start trying
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means, the devil will take that
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God doesn't need any
proof. He lives within us.

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and we don't need any proofs of him we got
it inside of us i know that i live in him

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because we have the spirit of the living
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in the kabbalah in reaction to the
talmudic approach emphasize the text

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itself the letters the words the numerous
equivalents instead of making attempts at

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allegorical interpretation and extension
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kabbalist were more interested in the
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They were certainly not
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Now, the Karadites, another movement
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causistry, in the hundreds
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there's been great confrontation
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how to prove that the, especially
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if they were written by one author, And
you'd be amazed at the number of controversy

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there's been over whether there were three
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man that wrote the book of Genesis.

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And just recently, they put the
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had it to come out of the computer.

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And they said, well, the
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Well, we knew it all the time.
Why bother with a computer?

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They were, these Korahites were extreme
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Their concern was limited to
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You see, people, if you just
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they can call you surface
or anything else, you know.

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The Korahites would light no fires on
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They were, the Bible said there
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Because the Torah states that
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asserted that it was all right to light
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them burn on the Sabbath day.

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Now, these people are doing
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Like one rabbi there in
Israel, when we lived there,

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a man that I took a taxi and
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It was a Sabbath day,
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the religious people are not supposed to
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And this rabbi came up and
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Well, he says, I'm non
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But said, you are a rabbi, and you're not
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just so far, which is about from Jerusalem
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And so that's all the further you're supposed
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Well, he says, it's all right.

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Well, he said, now tell me how it's all
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Well, he pulled a bottle of
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And he says, well, you see, the Torah
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sea. It's only on the land.

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He says, I'm going to sit on this bottle
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Now, if you want to take the word
of God and play with it, you know,

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you can find a lot to play with. But
God's word is not to be played with.

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God's word is to be
believed and acted upon.

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And stronger than that, God's
word is to be given to others.

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I mean, if it's anything at all, According
to the word of the Lord, it's sharing.

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And when we share this gospel with the
whole world, Jesus is going to come.

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Can you say amen? Amen. What is the spiritual
value of this thing called Kabbalah?

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How many Jews and Christians and esoteric
searchers for truth have wandered in

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Kabbalistic labyrinths? Can
such wanderings be justified?

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And if not, can historical understanding
at least clarify the motivations?

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The true value of the emanation people...

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The Kabbalistic doctrine must
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First, its truth is not sufficiently
attested by scripture revelation.

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The only means by which such a
metaphysical concept could, in principle,

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be verified. The Bible does not mention
the sephiroth anywhere within it.

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And more important, the tenor of such
passages of scripture seem definitely to

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contradict such notion. You don't have to
count the alphabet and you don't have to

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count numbers in order to find
the truth of the word of God.

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There is one God, one mediator. mediator
between God and man, the man, Christ Jesus.

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So let no man beguile you of your
reward in a voluntary humility,

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worshipers of angels, intruding into
those things which he hath not seen,

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intruding into those
things he hath not seen,

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vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
that's where these things come from,

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not holding the head from which all
the body by joints and bands have been

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nourished together and
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increaseth with the increase of God.

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That's from the book of Colossians
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God says, don't let any person beguile
you and to make you think you're going to

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receive some kind of reward for some kind
of a voluntary humility in trying to seek

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out something that others do not know
related to the worship of angels and anything

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of a supernatural nature, intruding into
those things which he hath not seen.

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In his own humanity, in
his own personal being,

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vainly puffed up with his fleshly
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which is the Lord Jesus Christ,
from which all the body,

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we are the total body of Christ, that we're
joined together and having nourishment,

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nourishment ministered to us by
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,

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increasing with the increase of God. That's
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And then 2 Peter 1 and 20
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that no prophecy of the Scripture
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These persons are not supposed to take
the Word of God and to try to bend it and

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stretch it and move it to make it mean
what they would like for it to mean.

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Because the Word of God is
supposed, from God's viewpoint,

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to mean exactly what it says, simply
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And if they will accept it on that basis,

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then they will have the fullness of
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The Greek word for private, when
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can also be translated
a secret interpretation.

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That we are not to take the
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and to use it for any
secret interpretations.

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And that is what Kabbalah is all about.
That is exactly what it's all about.

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And so in the occult, in the occult,
you have them seeking to know mysteries.

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And in that occult, a culture situation,

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Satanism comes to be a force and a
power and an easy way for them to seek

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knowledge that doesn't belong to them and
to seek understandings that are not there.

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And then that leads them away
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The devil will always want you to accept
something good if he can get you not to

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receive that which is best.
He'll say, take something good.

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but don't ever take what is best.

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And God is saying to you and to
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and not just that which might be good.

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When they began with the Kabbalah and
many other of these occult situations,

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they seemed like intense persons
seeking to know more about God.

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And the devil took advantage of
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You can do anything to an extreme.

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The Word of God wants us to
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and for us to know the truth,
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But the whole heart of God's revelation
from Genesis to Revelation is involved

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in scattering the Word
and giving the Word.

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And I have discovered that any man that
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He just gets further than he can go.

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But if you'll just share the Word and keep
newborn souls coming to the Lord Jesus

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Christ, you can live a
rich, happy, rejoicing.

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a tremendous life pray for people that
are in the cult there are hundreds of

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thousands of people involved in things like
kabbalah and they don't even know that

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they're in the occult they don't even know
and when they come upon something that

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gives them a little tingle back there or
something another of mysticism they think

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that's very good when actually it's the
devil manipulating their souls and keeping

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them away from god