The Idolatry of the Shekinah

Have you ever heard a Christian minister of the Word, refer to the glory of God as the Shekinah? Perhaps you have used this reference yourself. Most do so, thinking they are using an ancient Hebrew term for the glory of God. When in doubt, one sure way to determine whether a word or phrase is valid for NT usage, is to ask if it is found in the Apostolic writings. This word is never used in the NT writings to refer to the glory of God.

Unfortunately, far too many Christians 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 the goddess who is worshipped within Jewish Kabbalism. From the Judaic website, learnkabbalah.com, we read,

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. Ashteroth was the female consort of the ancient god Baal, which is 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/)

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 statement above, “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 ignorantly 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 Judeo is given to goddess-worship, symbolized by the phallus. We have been strictly warned about being unequally yoked with such demonic filth.

It is, in fact admitted that the Jews seek spiritual union with this pagan goddess. They do so in the act which they call “davening.” This is the motion of rocking their hips forward and backward, as seen below.

Brother Nathaniel, who was born and raised a Jew, until Christ Jesus found him, says this about the Jewish practice of Davening.

The wailing wall is the seat of a satanic ritual outlined by the 13th century jewish occult system known as the Kabbalah as expounded in the zohar and expanded upon by the 18th century Hasidic movement. You see, this so called divine presence at the wailing wall is actually the kabbalistic feminine emanation of their false god the Shekinah. Watch closely how the rabbis thrust their pelvises and penises back and forth in a prescribed prayer movement called, davening. The Jew copulates with the Shekinah in order to give birth to an erotic union with the Ein Sof, the kabbalistic masculine emanation of their false god.

As we can see from the above, for a lover of Jesus to use the idolatrous term, Shekinah, to refer to His glory, is utter blaspheme. Although done in ignorance, it can no longer be an acceptable excuse to continue to use use this term to refer to the Glory of the God and His Son, Jesus Christ. Paul foresaw such filthiness creeping into the midst of the Ekklesia of Christ, in his own day and for all the future, when he said,

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.

We must endeavor to seek only that which is approved by Christ and His Apostles. In the first century Ekklesia, there were two streams of doctrine that flowed in Judea. There was the doctrinal leaven of the Pharisees, and the doctrine of the Apostles. These same two streams are still flowing in the midst of the Ekklesia of Christ. This offense to Christ must cease.

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