Hearing Seven Thunders: Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

Hearing Seven Thunders: Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

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Messianic teachings can clarify Jewish Kabbalistic teachings

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There is an apprehension  that is commonly found in Christianity about Kabbalah.  This can be for good reason, as not everything called kabbalistic is from the same source, and there is a use made of Kabbalah by some people which is occult.  However, the true source of Kabbalah is Jewish Kabbalah, which is found in mainstream Orthodox Judaism.  Occult magic is, of course, idolatry and Jewish Kabbalah, as all true Judaism is without idolatry.  Jewish Kabbalah is another way of saying the Jewish Received Teachings about the Vision of the Chariot (as from Ezekiel) and about the Torah's account of Creation.  For the very reason that these teachings can lead the untrained mind into spiritual the spiritual confusion of speculation and away from faith in the power of the Hebrew Scriptures to reveal truth and understanding, the deep teachings about the Vision of the Chariot and the Revelation of Creation have been kept - until recent times - from the public at large.

To ask whether Jewish Kabbalah is anti-Christian would require asking if Judaism is anti-Christian and today we have begun to learn that this is not the right question to ask.  Judaism may have something to offer Christianity, just as original, (non-imperialistic Christianity) may have something to offer Judaism.

Notes on The Sermon on the Mount

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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The healed came in great crowds to seek new Torah teachings from the healer.  They came in such a great crowd on the mountain that they cold not be refused.  Those who were the poorest in spirit came to the front.  These were the spiritual orphans for whom the true spiritual son would be moved to compassion, and by having compassion upon these orphans the son would come to maturity and to the place of his inheritance. 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who mourn with all the creatures of God who "groan and travail together in pain, waiting for the manifestation of the children of God".  These creatures are truly blessed.  For a new birth shall come.  And they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who do not see themselves as being entitled to judge even those who offend them or who threaten them; who are meek because they fear the Lord God of Israel.  For he will be their salvation and deliverance, and will make them the caretakers of his coming newborn earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Righteousness is the root of the tree of life.  Righteousness is the root that gathers in, takes up and learns the way of God's actions.  The way of God's actions is the water of life flowing to the tree of life.  Oh that all the little children of Adam, of the man and the woman, would know a sky filled with a light that is like a rain gently falling, watering all things with the knowledge of Israel's God!  That time is coming!  That day will dawn!

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.

Be merciful unto others, as you would have others be merciful unto you.  And if you would be just unto others, let it be with a justice that seeks the way of mercy.  For when we show mercy we find mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

It is those whose heart is pure, whose obedience is pure in going up to Jerusalem to meet with God who, in being seen by God, will see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are those who will lay down their lives in faith in order to remove fear from the world.  The first and final source of all friction and conflict between people is the fear of death.  Out of this fear Adam sinned.  Blessed are those who accept humiliation by the power of divine grace in order to bring peace, for they will be called the brothers and sisters of the son of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

A world that is broken, a world with its bones shattered, cannot give success to all its children.  Some of them it will make victims.  Some of them it will make scapegoats.  For this, such a world could be easily condemned.  But who will show it mercy?  Who would save such a world?  Anyone who would choose to save such a world must face its returning evil for good, persecution for a voice of truth.  God chooses to save such a world as this.  The Messiah of Israel chooses to serve his God in saving such a world as this.  Blessed are all those who are persecuted because they are attached to him.  The salvation of the world shall be their joy!  The healing of its bones shall be their happiness and laughter, their great reward.  And they shall breathe the air of righteousness in a world without end.  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Copyright ©2010 Max Carl Kirk
To Be Continued

Beginning At Moses

In Luke chapter 24 Mashiach is recorded as teaching concerning himself beginning at Moses.  I will briefly outline here the relationship between Moshe's (Moses') prayer for Israel after the sin of the 10 spies and Yahoshua's (Jesus') prayer for Jerusalem and Israel from the execution pole.

The Presence of The Holy Blessed One brought Israel directly from Mount Sinai to the gate of entrance into the Land which He promised to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Had they entered directly through this spiritual gate when it was in the south they would have entered without the need for the carnal warfare that remains unto this day.  They failed to enter due to unbelief in the Shalom of God.  Then Moshe prayed for them.

Although Israel would have to wander and enter only by way of violence, ending even in the destruction of  the Temple, Moshe sacrificed his own glory and prayed for the glory of the grace of God to be revealed upon Israel.  God accepted the prayer of Moshe and went forward with Israel on the path of her suffering.

Moshe prayed that God would judge Israel as though they were only little children not knowing what they were doing.  When the violence that led to the destruction of the Temple at the hands of the nations led also to the destruction of the body of Mashiach at the hands of the nations, Yahoshua pleaded form the execution pole with his Father, in unison with the prayer of Moshe, to forgive Israel as little children who did not know what they were doing.

As God accepted the prayer of Moshe so He accepted the prayer of Yahoshua and raised him from the dead and anointed him Mashiach of Israel to lead Israel again to the gate of the south, where Israel stands again at the place to choose the way of faith and shalom or wandering and violence.  Now we come to that time where the outcome will be shalom.