Kiss the Son (part 2)

This is an excerpt of a chapter from my book, Creating the Israel of God. Available on Amazon.

A Word of Warning

To all my brothers and sisters in Christ, please listen. As I made mention earlier, Jewish tradition states that it was the Shechinah which departed the temple before its destruction.

Unfortunately, I have heard far too many preachers and teachers of the Bible use this name to signify the true Glory of God, who is Christ Jesus [Heb. 1:3]. Allow me to shed some light on this topic. First of all, the term Shechinah is found nowhere in the Bible. It is a Kabbalistic term used to denote goddess worship within Jewish Kabbalism. They will deny that it is goddess worship, by saying that the Shechinah is nothing more than the feminine aspect of YHVH. But their own words betray them.

And the imagery of the Shechinah is, unabashedly, goddess-imagery: She is the Earth mating with the sky through the conduits of rain, She is the spirit in the trees, She is the ever-renewing cyclical flow of natural times and seasons.  The Zohar, for example, understands even the despised idolatries of Ancient Canaan as merely imprecise in terminology. Asherah-worship, for example, is basically worship of the Shechinah — only with the mistaken notion that Asherah is really a separate being. Indeed, in one of the most shocking passages in the Zohar (brought to my attention by Rabbi Jill Hammer), Asherah is even a future name of Shechinah herself. [https://learnkabbalah.com/shechinah-the-divine-feminine/]

The last paragraph above equates the Jewish Shekinah/Shechinah goddess with the ancient Canaanite fertility goddess Ashteroth/Asherah, which was the female consort of the ancient god Baal.

Baal was another name for Molech. Here is a note on Baalism from the Anglican Orthodox Church website.

The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence of creation over the Creator). Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity. Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh, congregants – men and women alike – would engage in bisexual orgies. The ritual of convenience was intended to produce economic prosperity by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of “mother earth.” (https://aocinternational.org/child-sacrifice-and-baal-moloch/)

Now do you see why I say there can be nothing in common with modern Judaeo ethics. It is an abomination to the LORD. God rebuked the ancient Israelites for their worship of Ashteroth/Asherah. It was one of the reasons for their captivity in Babylon.

“Asherah was the goddess of fertility, and thus represented the Babylonian Ishtar in her character as goddess of love and not of war.” (ISBE)

 

Smith’s Bible Dictionary says this about Asherah:

The name of a Phoenician goddess, or rather of the idol itself (Authorized Version "grove"). Asherah is closely connected with ASHTORETH and her worship, (Judges 3:7) comp. Judg 2:3; 6:25; 1Kin 18:19 Ashtoreth being, perhaps, the proper name of the goddess, whilst Asherah is the name of her image or symbol, which was of wood. See (Judges 6:25-30; 2 Kings 23:14 )
"The Asherah in particular (the word means 'the way to happiness') was the phallic symbol of the sex-orientated cults which dominated the pagans of that era to an extent which has not been outmatched in any civilization until twentieth-century decadence really got into its stride" (WHez).

Ashtoreth was the name of the goddess, while Asherah was the name of her worshipped image: a carved, wooden phallus. The previous statement, “Asherah-worship, for example, is basically worship of the Shechinah,” gives us insight into the true nature of this glory in Judaism. With this in mind, we can see that the image representing Shekinah, is a phallic symbol. Hence, the worship of the Talmudic god, is phallic worship. According to Easton’s Bible Dictionary, on the topic of Ashteroth, it states,

“This deity is spoken of as Ashtoreth of the Zidonians. She was the Ishtar of the Accadians and the Astarte of the Greeks (Jer. 44:17; 1 Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 23:13). . . Under the name of Ishtar, she was one of the great deities of the Assyrians. The Phoenicians called her Astarte. Solomon introduced the worship of this idol (1 Kings 11:33). Jezebel's 400 priests were probably employed in its service (1 Kings 18:19). It was called the "queen of heaven" (Jer. 44:25).”

Notice one of her names was Ishtar, an early form of what became, Easter, the spring goddess of fertility. The Jews associate the glory of God with the worship of the phallus, and many Christians lend their voice to it. Is this what we call Judeo-Christian values?

By their own admission, this Shechinah is antichrist, i.e., a substitute for Christ.

“It is through the Shekhinah that humans can experience the Divine.”

What has just been stated, is not an outlier to mainstream Judaism. This is a common Kabbalistic expression of Judaism. How can it be harmonized with our precious Faith in Christ? There can be no Judeo-Christian values or culture, when the Judaeo is given to goddess-worship, symbolized by the phallus. We have been strictly warned about being unequally yoked with such demonic filth.

An Unequal Yoking

In 2 Cor. 6, Paul admonishes the Ekklesia,

14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

As I stated earlier, I have heard far too many preachers refer to the glory of God, by the name of this demon goddess. I believe this was done in ignorance. Now, there is no excuse. This offense to Christ must cease.