The Kabbalah Connection (Continued)

I have asked my friend, Barbara, to write a series for this blog on The Kabbalah Connection to the Hebrew Roots movement and dominionism. Here is an important warning about the worship of angels.

(The Kabbalah Connection continued)

The Angel Emma

By now many people in Christendom have heard of the angel Emma. Bob Jones (Kansas City prophets, presently Elijah list) introduced Todd Bentley (Fresh Fire ministries) to Emma. Emma is described as an angel that “birthed” the “prophetic move” in Kansas City in the 1980s. She is also described as a “mothering” angel that emanates brilliant lights and colours.

1 John 4:1:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

The Bible does not ever refer to an angel named “Emma”, nor does it ever refer to female angels. There are no birthing angels in the Bible. So who is the “mothering” entity named Emma?

Kabbalah:

The Zohar is a foundational text for kabbalistic thought. It is Jewish mysticism from Babylon. It is in the Zohar that we find a mothering female entity named “Ema”. According to the Zohar, it was Ema, not God, who said “Let us make man in our image”. (An alternative spelling is “Imma”.)

From the Zohar:

“Likewise, the one who said ‘Let there be light’ ‘Let there be a firmament’ Let the waters gather etc. is called 'Aba' (in Zohar), but the one who said ‘Let us make a man in our image’ is 'Ema'. For Ema said to Aba ‘Let us make a man’ but Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu (Aba) did not agree to his creation until she said to him "What difference is it to you, if he sins it is against me that he sins, as it states ‘A foolish son is the anguish of his mother’ but not the anguish of his father.”

Bible:

The Kabbalah and Zohar consistently exalt themselves against the Holy Word of God. The creation of the world was completed by the triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God did not submit to a female entity. He works all things after the counsel of His own will.

Genesis 1:26-27:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

Genesis 1:2:
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters

Colossians1:4 and 15-17:
4In whom (Jesus Christ) we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: 17And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

Biblical warnings about the worship of angels

Colossians 2:18:
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind

2 Corinthians 11:13-15:
13For such are false apostles,:deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Acts 7:41-42:
41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

A Final Word

2 Corinthians 6:17-18:
17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. 18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/todd-bentleys-and-prophet-bob-jones-angel-emma/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah


From the Zohar to Safed: Development of Theoretical Kabbalah. By John F. Nash
http://docs.google.com/viewer?=v&q=cache:NuPjsFxdBjcJ:www.uriel.com/knowledge/articles-presentations/Nash%2520articles/EQ050209--Zohar-Safed.pdf+zohar+from+babylon&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESio0Rr0Tme_Efr5N4nGU9vzbJVpLtdGArxb2ilDFqf4KO8Vhwd4aRzQ05jFAEeRlGvBFGqqw42Vvf1qj-zJ4lL87PEdrQXfueCzuqi8qccMj4f1LCoada9b6fRjPFe1hNJO64fL&sig=AHIEtbTnnlBCm8ydPc7FVp4glyQmuuEnLg
Ibid Page 41

http://www.chayas.com/tetsaveh.htm

Bible, Ephesians 1:11

All scripture passages are from the King James Version.


[Barbara for Lighting the Way]