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OUT OF ZION
SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW

OUT OF ZION
SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW
(Isaiah, Chapter 2 Exhortation)

Tape 1

Praise the Lord, everybody, we are doing an exhortation on our Alternate Translation. We spent approximately 5 or 6 messages going over the Alternate Translations, alternate possibilities or interpretations of every word in Isaiah Chapter 2. We worked up and Alternate Translation, and now I am giving an exhortation on the Alternate Translation which is basically a review of all of the spiritual principles that appear in this Scripture. Some of them we have studied before, and some of them are new to us.

We are picking up with Verse 4. And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah, and the one who is near to King Adam shall convince the tribes of Elijah's gospel of peach, and they shall be instructed continually to not wage war against Adam, and Satan and Leviathan shall not raise up the vampire bat within the non-Jewish nations any more. Now, we are bringing forth a spiritual translation of the Scripture, and we understand that it is just as hard to understand the spiritual translation as it is to understand the King James translation. You have to have a background of spiritual principles. So I will give an exhortation on Verse 4 right now.

The first phrase being "and King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah." First of all, we are in the Old Testament so I don't use words like Christ or Christ Jesus because those words do not appear in the Old Testament, and as it has been taught here it was the Spirit of Elijah who incarnated the man Jesus. So when we say the Spirit of Elijah, in the New Testament we would be saying the Spirit of Christ. When we say Adam, in the New Testament we would be saying Christ Jesus. One of the biggest problems with the King James translations and her sister translations, and I am not against these translations. They have helped a lot of people for 2000 years, but those of us in whom Christ is being formed, and those of us who are going on with God, we have to have a level of spiritual truth so that we can go on. This concept of crushing the carnal mind, it is a crushing that produces life. And the way the carnal mind is crushed is that it is cast into the Lake of Fire, and if you look even in the English dictionary, if you look up words, or if you look up definitions for fire or to be burned or related words you will see that one of the alternate definitions right in the English of being burned up is to be crushed. The fire crushes us. In fact, if you take a piece of paper and put it in the fire it just folds up, and it gets crushed. It goes to ashes. So this concept of King Adam violently crushing our carnal mind, what the Scripture is really saying is that the Christ mind which first must be formed in us is going to cover over our carnal mind. The whole world, and a large part of the church, most of the church, waits for disaster and destruction to come upon the world believing that people may turn to God because of natural disasters, but the Lord Jesus Christ does not bring natural disasters upon people. The Lord Jesus Christ is Jehovah's mercy to the church and to the world. It is Satan, the god of this world, the god who formed this world illegally, that is bringing natural disasters and destruction upon the people. The deliverance that Christ Jesus brings is to form His mind in a group of people. If you are not one of those people in whom the Mind of Christ is formed He will send someone to you with the Mind of Christ, and that Mind of Christ has the power to vibrate out from the person and overlay the carnal minds of the people.

We saw this happen with Elijah, and we have done a lot of studies. The tapes are available. On Elijah, the King James translation says that Elijah spoke to the men of Israel and said, when are you going to give up these prophets of Baal? And the men of Israel did not say one word. The prophets of Baal were not human beings. The prophets of Baal were the carnal minds inside the men of Israel. The reason the men of Israel didn't say anything, didn't respond to Elijah when he said, who's on the Lord's side? The reason they didn't respond was because every one of the men of Israel had backsliden, and had been overtaken by their carnal mind. They were the very prophets of Baal. That's why they didn't respond to Elijah. He was a prophet of God, and when our mind is carnal, when we live out of our carnal mind, we are the prophets of Baal. You can have one thought that comes out of your carnal mind, and the next thought can come out of your carnal mind. But in this case, the case of Elijah, the men of Israel were completely given over to their carnal minds, and they were worshiping idols and practicing pagan religions.

Well, what did Elijah do? The King James translation says, he killed all the prophets of Baal. I think there were 360 prophets, something like that. Now, brethren, do you know what's involved in physically murdering 300 some odd people? The strength that it takes, do you think the prophets laid down? Do you think that the prophets of Baal laid down and said, kill me? Sometimes the King James translation can be true, and the spiritual understanding can be true. But sometimes, in my opinion, the natural understanding is not true. I do not believe that Elijah murdered, physically murdered, and I probably have the number wrong, 360 physical men in one day. I don't believe it. What he did was what we would say today is Christ Jesus, the resurrected Adam, Adam the Son of God, was raised from the dead in the man Elijah, and he had a mind which was a Holy mind that was fully moving in the full power of God, and that mind vibrated out from him, from Elijah, and covered over the carnal minds of the men of Israel. When the Mind of Christ in Elijah covered the carnal minds in the men of Israel they woke up as if from a deep sleep, and said, what have I been doing, let me kill this carnal mind, and each man killed his own carnal mind. How did he kill it? Christ rose up as soon as....listen, Elijah covered over the carnal mind of the men of Israel and their thoughts became clear, and they confessed their sins that they had been worshiping false gods, that they had been overtaken by their own carnal mind, and when they confessed that sin, and said, Lord help us, Adam arose from the dead in the men of Israel, and they covered over their own carnal minds. That was how the prophets of Baal were killed, so many hundreds of them in one day. This is the ministry of Christ Jesus. You see, the principle that he's going on is that everyone who rejects Jesus Christ is spiritually insane. You have to be crazy to choose the carnal mind which is Satan and Leviathan in the individual. Now remember, Satan and Leviathan are the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. You don't have to be a mass murderer to know that Satan is in your own mind. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is good and evil. There are good people in this world. Satan has good thoughts, but she doesn't have righteous thoughts. And good thoughts as well as evil thoughts eventually result in death, we die, we live a measured period of time, and we die. It is only the righteous thoughts of the Lord Jesus Christ, and, in the Old Testament the resurrected Adam who will live forever. And the personality that He lives in lives forever with Him. So Satan is the unconscious mind of mortal man. She is good, and she is evil, but whether you are the best person that ever lived in this world you are still going to die at the end of a season you die because only righteousness lives forever.

So this whole concept of crushing the carnal mind, what it is really saying is that Christ Jesus, the Lord Jesus Christ, the way He saves people, and I say save unto eternal life, He goes forth, He raises His own Christ mind in them, and when Christ Jesus who is the Lake of Fire, our God is a consuming fire, when He overlays the carnal mind that is the casting of the beast in the false prophet into the Lake of Fire, and they are crushed by the flames. So when the carnal mind reads something like this, "and King Adam shall violently crush their carnal mind," the carnal mind is thinking of all kinds of disaster and destruction and torment to the physical body. The carnal mind thinks about tornadoes and floods and all kinds of distress to the physical body, but our God is Spirit. He is spirit, He must be worshiped in spirit and truth, and His ministry is spiritual. His ministry is by His Spirit, the anointing breaks the yoke. So when the Lord wants to move to deliver somebody He will send a man in whom the Mind of Christ is raised, and that Mind of Christ will vibrate forth, usually through words, but not always through words, and cover over the carnal mind of the person that the Lord desires to apprehend. And when the Christ mind covers over that carnal mind they come into their right mind because everyone that's living out of their carnal mind is spiritually insane. You have to be crazy to choose this world over what Jesus Christ has to offer you. You have to be insane.

You see, the whole world is still under the illusion that Adam fell under. The Serpent used witchcraft and cast an illusion upon Adam, and he died, and we, Adam's descendants, still live under this illusion. We desire the good things of this world. Unless you are delivered, and very few are delivered, no matter how much you love Jesus the majority of the people in the church still desire the things of this world. And most, if they really examine themselves, they are not willing to give up the things of this world. They say they want Jesus, but they want the things of this world. And the things of this world have evolved out of the Serpent's mind. It is a big misunderstanding in the church that the Lord made us this way. The Lord did not make us this way. We are a fallen people, and what we look like and the condition of our mind....what we look like is an expression of the condition of our mind. So when we have the Mind of Christ we will desire very different things than we desire with this carnal mind. Now the Lord says that we are down here in hell, and we are down here for a season, and He wants us to have the best that's possible while we are down here. One of the Psalms says that He creates a table for us in the valley of the shadow of death. There are good things here in the valley of the shadow of death for those who serve Jesus, but there is something better. There is a world that is the spiritual world of God. What we were supposed to be before the fall, that is the world that He wants to bring us into. We see that we do not have to die to get into this better world. Most Christians think you have to die to get into this better world. Why do they think that? Because for 2000 years they don't see people getting into that better world. Jesus was in heaven and earth at the same time, and so were the apostles. Their mind was in heaven, but they were living in this world.

So you do not have to die to get to heaven. Heaven is a spiritual condition, it is a state of mind. Now it is not in your imagination. A lot of people that hear this message think that the preacher is saying, well if you imagine that you are in heaven you are in heaven. No. Heaven is a very real condition of mind. Now I can tell you that I have ascended. When I first came to the Lord I was in spiritually.... my mind was in a much lower place than it is now. I thought things, and I did things 20 years ago that I don't think any more, that I don't desire any more, that I would fight with all my strength to resist doing today. So my mind has ascended from a low place to a medium place, but I have not yet ascended into the high place. When the New Testament talks about running to the mountains in the hour of testing, the mountains, brethren, are a place of consciousness which is higher than I am in now. It is a place which is beyond Satan's grasp, a spiritual place where when your mind ascends to that place Satan has no power to touch you at all. No power to harass, no power to make you sick, no power to kill you. When you are beyond Satan's grasp you are in the physical body but beyond death. That was the condition that Jesus was in, and Jesus clearly said that the disciples can be as the Master. He said that you cannot be greater than the Master, but He said, what I have in the flesh you, too, can have it, but to get there is a warfare and a long journey. And in order to get there you first have to hear this message so that you know what is available to you, so that you get a vision. There is a Scripture in the King James that says, without a vision my people perish. Well, I've heard all kinds of interpretations of that, but what it means, brethren, is that without a vision of what Jesus wants to do for you, without a vision of how He's going to do it you will never get there. Now, I didn't make this up. This is the Scripture. You have to understand His plan for salvation to experience His plan for salvation, and the plan for salvation that is being preached in the church today is not a true plan. It is not the truth, and the proof of the fact that it is not the truth is that in 2000 years nobody has ascended, and because nobody has ascended the men who teach this message say, well it happens after you die. No, it doesn't happen after you die. Today is the day of salvation. Today, because of Jesus Christ, we have access to the Mind of God in a sinless condition which produces eternal life, but there is a process that you have to go through to get that Mind of God. Then, once you get that Mind of God, you must cover over and crush your carnal mind because it is the thoughts of your carnal mind that are killing you and killing me.

So it is a whole process which we have been preaching here for years now, how you have to do it. But this concept in Verse 4 of violently crushing the carnal mind is talking about only one thing. It is talking about the Mind of Christ overlaying the carnal mind, and the Mind of Christ, Christ Jesus, is the Lake of Fire, and fire crushes, and fire suffocates. So when the Christ mind fully overlays the carnal mind and suffocates it to the point that the carnal mind is not functioning we will be sinless because Christ Jesus is incapable of sin, and when He is the only mind that is living through us we, too, will be without sin. The book of revelation talks about this principle in Chapter 20 in a poetic way saying, and the angel came down from heaven with a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold of that Satan and put her in the bottomless pit and put a seal on her that she should not come up any more. Well, that is the same thing as I just said except it is in a parable form, it sounds good, and it makes people feel good because Satan is going to be defeated, but what does it mean for you, the human being, what does it mean for you personally that Satan is going to be put in the bottomless pit? What it means for you is that Christ Jesus is going to cover over your carnal mind which is Satan and Leviathan and utterly seal her over so that she cannot think through you because her thoughts are the sin nature which cause you to die.

As I have been saying for many years now every wonderful thing that we hear in the Scripture that sounds good, we have to understand what it means, we have to understand what it means in our personal life. There is not a general Satan, there is not a red freak out there somewhere who is going to be captured so that we can live a good life. Satan is in us. Everything is spiritual. Brethren, the Holy Spirit is in you, and Satan is in you, and the demons are in you, and the carnal mind is in you, and everything is inside of you. This whole world is outer darkness. It is not realistic to say that the Holy Spirit is inside of you, and Satan is outside of you even if you understand that the demons are inside of you. It is not realistic to say that the Holy Spirit is inside of you, God is inside of you, Jesus is inside of you, Christ is inside of you, the demons are inside of you, but Satan is not inside of you. Everything is inside. Different people have different names for this concept. We have a carnal nature, we have a sin nature, the Scripture calls it iniquity. Satan is in the midst of the personal iniquity within you. It is just different words.

So we are going on with Verse 4. And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds, violently crush their carnal minds, by casting their carnal minds into the Lake of Fire, and one of the messages that we preached going all the way back 10 years ago, in one of the earliest messages, is that the Lake of Fire descends upon us. Just as Paul says, we are to be clothed upon. In the spiritual world, frequently things are in the complete mirror of what we wold think them to be in this world. So when the Scripture says that the beast and the false prophet shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, that's what it says because that's the translation that we can understand, but the truth is that the Lake of Fire is descending upon our carnal mind. Christ Jesus is covering our carnal mind, crushing it, suffocating it to the point that it cannot function because it is the very function of our carnal mind that ultimately kills us. Paul talks about the motions of sins. It is the movement of Satan within our very mind that ultimately results in our death. She must be bound so completely that she cannot move because when she moves she marks the earth of our mind, and this is the mark of the beast. She must be silenced completely so that the mark of God will be impressed on our mind that we might be in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah. Reform that mind which is presently in the image of Satan. The carnal mind is in the image of Satan, and we are being renewed in the image of our mind. So when our mind is cast into the Lake of Fire, the Lake of Fire descends upon us, that mind shall be renewed, and the spirit shall be reformed into the image of Elijah, In the New Testament we say the image of Christ. Just as if you are making a glass object, and you want to remold the glass you just lower that glass into the fire, and it becomes hotter and hotter until it comes to the point that you can mold or blow that glass into the form that you want it. So the whole principle of violently crushing the carnal mind is that the Christ mind will utterly melt, and doesn't Peter talk about the elements melting and crashing down? Our carnal mind must be melted so that she can be reformed in the image of or in the nature of the One who is sinless, and when our carnal mind is formed in the nature of the sinless one we shall be sinless. We, who are we? We are the personality. The common expression in the church is that our soul will be saved. I don't like to use that word because the word soul in the New Testament has a different meaning that the word soul in the Old Testament, and that is why I don't like to use that word. But the truth is that it is our personality which is being saved, and the personality which we are either lives or dies, either lives eternally or dies depending on the mind which is expressing itself through our personality. When our mind is in the image of the beast we live for a season, and we die, but when that mind is engraved with the image of the sinless One, the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall live forever. You don't have to die. It is not true that's pagan religion. The church is fully infiltrated with pagan religion. If you take the time to study it out that is an Egyptian doctrine, that we go into the eternal world after this physical body dies. The Scripture says nothing of the sort.

And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah, the one who is near to King Adam. The Spirit of Elijah, the one who is near to King Adam. In the New Testament we would say the Spirit of Christ is near to Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus is our new man, and the Mind of Christ Jesus is within Him, and there is a spirit in that mind. The name of that spirit is the Spirit of Christ. So there are two major aspects to the mind, the spirit of the mind and the mind, and for the carnal mind the spirit of the mind is Satan, and the mind part of the carnal mind is Leviathan. So when the Scripture talks about a mind there is always a spirit involved, the spirit of the mind. So we see that the carnal mind will be reformed into the image of Elijah, in the New Testament the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the One who is near to King Adam or in the New Testament Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus is the resurrected Adam. Adam is the Son of God. He is the one that Jehovah appointed to be King of the creation. A lot of people in the church today believe that Adam fell, and that he was done away with, and now God is doing a new thing. I don't know enough about their doctrine to preach it here or tell you exactly what it is here, but the truth is this. When God appoints somebody to an office, and they have a bad moment or they mess up God does not throw them away. God works with them, and He convinces them, and He convicts them, and He rebuilds them, and He retrains them until they do what He has said they will do because the word of the Lord cannot come back void. Genesis 1 said, Adam is King of the whole creation. That's what it says. That means Adam is King of the creation. He died, he was raised from the dead in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, and now he will be raised from the dead in many of the members of humanity. He's rising from the dead, and the day will come that every human being on this the face of the earth will manifest the risen Christ, and those who don't manifest the risen Christ will pass out of this world. You are not going to be murdered by the Lord, but everybody dies eventually. They will pass out of this world.

So the one who is near to King Adam is the Spirit of Elijah or in the New Testament the one who is near to Christ Jesus is the Spirit of Christ. And it is the spirit that brings the judgment. The spirit of judgment is an administration of the Spirit of Christ. It is the mind that speaks, it is the mind that reasons. The Lord Jesus Christ is sending His sons to reason with people, to preach this doctrine of Christ to them, to tell them the truth, and then the Spirit of Christ goes forth and brings forth judgment. Now there are two kinds of judgment. The judgment that the Spirit of Christ brings forth is not the destruction of tornadoes and floods that's happening in the world today. Satan is doing that. That destruction that's happening in the world and in this country today is a manifestation of the sowing and reaping judgment. It was initiated by Jehovah. It is a righteous law; otherwise, there would be total criminality in the universes. What you sow, you shall reap. If you murder, you shall be murdered. But it was Jehovah who sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the merciful way of escape from this hard law, that if you make a mistake, if you do something wrong Satan is coming to take vengeance either on you or on your descendants. That is a hard law. It is a law that's necessary for the preservation of balance in the universes, but it is a hard law without mercy. So Jehovah has two laws. He says, for those who are willing to repent and say, I did it, I'm sorry, get me out of here, He has the merciful White Throne Judgment which recognizes your confession and repentance and makes a way of escape through union with the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ because there is no law for a righteous man. So when you confess your sins and repent the Lord Jesus Christ comes to you and begins the process of killing the carnal mind in you that's living through you that caused you to commit your sins, and everybody sins. Every day we all sin because there is a criminal mind in us.

So, Jehovah's way of escape, and He always makes a way of escape, His way of escape is to give us a new mind, a righteous mind which will think only righteous thoughts because there is no law against a righteous mind. There is no judgment against a righteous mind. If you only reap what you sow, and you only sow righteous thoughts what kind of judgment is there on you? Only blessings and blessings and blessings and blessings and blessings and blessings and blessings. So our problem is this mind that's in us, this criminal mind that was imparted to humanity when Adam fell. So the first judgment which is the harsh but righteous sowing and reaping judgment destroys the whole man, the mind and the personality that the mind is in. Everybody dies. But the White Throne Judgment, the mercy of Jehovah, destroys the carnal mind and not the man, destroys the criminal mind and not the personality. Now you can't live without a mind so first the mercy of Jehovah, the Lord Jesus Christ, gives us His mind, a righteous mind, and then proceeds to kill the unrighteous mind. And at the moment of the death of the unrighteous mind, the righteous mind kicks in, and the Scripture says we are caught up and raised from the dead because death is in the form of a mind. This carnal mind is death unto us, and the Mind of Christ is life unto us because so long as we think with the carnal mind Satan will be there. Satan has legal ground to do everything she does. She cannot touch a righteous man. Our deliverance is in a new mind which is in the righteous image of the sinless Son of God. We, the personality, are married to a mind. It is a spiritual marriage.

Paul talks about getting divorced in Romans, I think it is Chapter 7, I may have the wrong Chapter. He says, act as if you are not married to that other guy any more. Act as if you are already married to the One that you are promised to. We are promised to the Lord Jesus Christ so he says, forget that other guy, forget that criminal mind, reject the thoughts of your criminal mind and cleave unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and your forgiveness of sins which is by faith, because when you first turn your heart towards the Lord Jesus Christ you are forgiven by faith, but the true forgiveness of sin imparts eternal life. So if you are aging, if you get sick from time to time, you are not saved. You are promised, you are engaged. The reality of the forgiveness of sins which is the salvation of the personality is the impartation of a righteous mind which will preserve the life of your personality because it never sins. So from the day we are promised, from the day we receive the promise, we are supposed to be on a journey to first have the Mind of Christ formed in us, and then when the Mind of Christ is formed in us, because the Mind of Christ is our weapon, we are supposed to go forth to violently crush our carnal mind because she is the source of every problem that we have in the world from the simplest little hurt in our emotions to our ultimate physical death. The carnal mind is responsible for this. Praise the Lord.

Humanity is under an illusion, you see. What is the illusion that humanity is under? The illusion humanity and the church are under is that Jehovah made this world as it is today, that Jehovah formed us as we are today, that sickness and disease is from Jehovah, that death is from Jehovah, that every evil in this world is done by the Lord Jesus Christ who is Jehovah's representative to us. But this is not true. Every evil known to man today is the expression of the god of this world, and the god of this world is Satan. She is the one who kills little babies, and she is the one who produces people without legs and without arms. The Lord Jesus Christ does not do this. He has come to save that which is lost. What is lost? We are lost. We are lost in our mind. We cannot find God. Well, not me, not us here, but the world in general cannot find God. He has not moved, he has not changed, He is not hiding, He has not gone away, but we have been removed from Him. Why? Because a carnal mind was formed in us that got in between Adam and Jehovah. Adam or the Mind of Christ in the New Testament, and she is covering us over. We have found Scriptures that say she covers us over like an eye lid covers over an eye. The carnal mind is lying on top of our potential to bring forth the Mind of Christ, and our potential to see God, and the overriding characteristic of the Mind of Christ is pride.

If we do not stop blaming God for all of these things, the true God, the Lord Jesus Christ, if we do not stop blaming Him for all of our troubles it is not likely that we will ever overcome our carnal mind because when we blame God for our troubles this is an honoring or a worshiping of the carnal mind. And the carnal mind is the idol in our heart. She is in the image of Satan, and so long as we agree with her thoughts we are worshiping her. That is what worship is. Worship is agreement in thought. The Scripture says that the Lord is spirit and we must worship Him in spirit and truth. How do you worship in spirit and truth? You must believe the truth with the spirit of your mind. That's worship. Whatever you truly believe you worship the spirit that has given you this thought. So the Lord's deliverance for people who are believing wrong thoughts is to tell the truth. Jesus did not do that to you, Jesus did not fail you, you are not in that condition because Jesus failed you, and you can only be in that condition because you have failed to do something that will access the power of God to deliver you. So the Lord comes and tells you the truth without condemnation, and for those men who say, oh my God I can't believe it all of these years I've been responsible in my thoughts, if not in my behavior, but in my thoughts for all of these evil things that are happening to me, have mercy on me oh God and help me. The one that falls down on their knees and repents they shall receive the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ, but once the truth is imparted to you, to the person that does not take the victory they have made an educated choice, and if they continue to cry out to God all that He will do is to continue to send the truth to them. You must repent, you must repent, you must repent because if you do not repent you are worshiping Satan, and until you give up that foul behavior and worship Me (God) there is nothing I can do for you.

So we see that the Spirit of Truth is essential. The problem is that what a lot of people think is the truth is not the truth. There are supposed to be two witnesses to the truth. The person who speaks the truth to you by the Spirit of Truth, and the Spirit of God in you that says, amen. Now if you are so completely given over to your pride that you cannot hear the amen within yourself there is nothing that God can do for you. So what happens? You come under the sowing and reaping judgment because you are sinning again. If God comes to you and tells you the truth, and your pride is so thick that you can't hear it pride is sin, and unconfessed sin is judged by whom? Who judges unconfessed sin? Satan judges unconfessed sin. So you come under trouble in your life. You come under sickness and floods and financial disaster, and all kinds of disasters in your life until you cry out and say, Lord what am I doing wrong? And some people die without ever crying out and saying, what am I doing wrong? But the person who cries out and says, what can I do Lord? What must I do that you will deliver me from this? And the person who hears and does it they are the person who is delivered. Now this sounds very hard, but that's the way it is, and I am persuaded that the Lord Jesus Christ is a righteous God. So it has to be right. It has to be right. Praise the Lord. He's good and His mercy endures forever, and He's righteous, and He's never ever been, nor ever will be, unfair to anybody. We are the spiritual criminals, we must find out who we are, and we must get into right relationship with Him. We are the spiritual criminals. He is the perfect, infallible God who can do no wrong to anybody. Everything He does, even if it is painful at the moment, comes from a motive which is designed to help us. So even if it hurts us it is because we are in wrong condition. If you have a broken leg that has been set wrong, and the doctor has to break that leg and reset it he is causing you pain, but he's doing it to help you. Everything the Lord Jesus does for us is motivated to help us and restore us to Him in the perfect relationship that will impart eternal life to us. Everything that He does has that motive. So even if He says to us, there is nothing I can do for you then that is His motive. He's saying to you, I can't help you with that attitude, I cannot help you while you are worshiping Satan, what will you be, how can I make you righteous when you are worshiping Satan? So He does nothing, and He turns you over to the one who you worship until, like Nebuchadnezzar, you wake up one day, and you look up and you see that the God of heaven, the Lord, rules in heaven as well as in earth, and when you repent, if you repent, He begins to restore you immediately, immediately!

So this is the vision we must have. He is perfect, and we are spiritually criminal. If something is wrong in our life, and we are not getting a little bit better every day....we all have problems, but we are supposed to be going forward, the problem is not with God. The problem is with us, and the prayer is, Dear Jesus, have mercy on me, tell me what I must do that I am not doing, that I'm going down instead of up, it's me, what did I do, what must I do now? That's the prayer. Only pride will stop you from praying that prayer.

And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah, the one he is near to. The image of Elijah is the spirit of the mind. And King Adam or Christ Jesus, in the New Testament, shall convince the tribes of Elijah's gospel of peace. Now we are talking about the 12 tribes of Jacob here. There is a difference between Israel and the 12 tribes of Jacob. When he had that experience with the angel, when Jacob had that experience with the angel, that angel was the resurrected Adam in him or Christ Jesus in the New Testament, and we have a whole tape on that if you would like to find out what really happened in that wrestling match. It is not accurate in the King James translation. And when Jacob overcame his carnal mind, when Christ Jesus prevailed in him as his mind, his name was changed to Israel. So when the Scripture talks about the 12 tribes of Jacob it is talking about the physical 12 tribes of Jacob, but Israel is the spiritual tribe. Every member of Israel is not Israel. All Israel is not Israel. So the 12 tribes of Jacob are the physical descendants of Jacob, but Israel is Jehovah's Son. Israel is the group of men, and I say men, there is no male or female in Christ Jesus, I'm not talking about your physical body, Israel is the group of men who have the root of Christ. Samuel went looking for the King of Israel. He found him by spiritual direction, David, the youngest child of Jesse. Sometimes we hear about Hindu practices or Buddhist practices, this is the testimony of the Dalai Lama that when the Dalai Lama dies the Buddhist priests go out, and they look for young children to see where the Buddha has incarnated again, and there was a time in my life that I thought that was a ridiculous pagan practice, but do you know that is a spiritual practice, and that it is a scriptural practice. That is what Samuel was doing. He was going out looking for the young person that Elohim was incarnated in. That's what that is all about. Samuel going to the house of Jesse and saying, let me see all of your sons, the Lord has told me that He has incarnated in one of your children. Elohim incarnated in human beings, and when He incarnates, most of the time, He incarnates through a babe that is born of a woman.

And King Adam, or Christ Jesus in the New Testament, shall convince the tribes of Elijah's gospel of peace. Now in the New Testament that is the Doctrine of Christ. And they shall be instructed continually to not wage war against Adam, and the tribes, the 12 tribes of Jacob, when they hear the Doctrine of Christ they shall be instructed continually to not wage war against Adam. Is that shocking that the 12 tribes of Jacob wage war against Adam? No it is not shocking. I mentioned this earlier on the message that the men of Israel in Elijah's day that their mind had been completely corrupted. You see, this is the major problem with Israel and with the church. The minds of the people are continuously being corrupted. The Christ mind is continuously being converted into the carnal mind, and the problem, the major problem that the people have, is that they don't recognize it when it happens to them. I have personally experienced it. After being raised up to a high place, preaching this glorious message, my mind was corrupted, and I did not even know it had happened to me. When I found out it was absolutely shattering, when I found out what had happened to me, and that I did not recognize it. It was absolutely frightening to me. It happened to Israel. Adam was raised from the dead in the men of Israel, and the carnal mind crept up and overturned that mind, and the men who had been the personalities that hosted this glorious Son of God did not even know that their minds were corrupted. I've seen it happen time and time and time and time again. The person doesn't know that the carnal mind has overturned the Christ mind in them, and then maybe 10-20 years later they finally realize that something is wrong in their life. I have a fleece with the Lord to show me the second I go off. I don't want to wait 5 years, I don't want to wait 1 year, to find out I've been doing in the wrong direction because when you go off in the wrong direction what do you have to do? You have to turn and go back to the point of departure. You must go back to the point of departure, and all those years are lost. I don't want to lose any time with God. I ask Him to show me every mistake that I make so that I can be walking behind Him every step of the way, but this is the problem with the church today. Satan uses witchcraft. She is the witch, and she casts illusions on our minds. She would like us to think we can do things that will separate us from God. She convinces us that we are right when we are wrong. It is an invisible overturning of our mind, and when the Lord Jesus Christ comes in to deliver us He wages war against the criminal mind that Satan has raised up in us. Actually, it is Leviathan that raised up that mind in us.

So when King Adam or Christ Jesus in the New Testament teaches the 12 tribes of Jacob the gospel of peace of the Doctrine of Christ they shall be instructed continually to not wage war against Adam or against Christ Jesus. The only way you can be instructed to not wage war against Adam or Christ Jesus is to learn how to recognize Him, and this is one of the major issues that is being taught in this ministry and that Christians have to know. We must learn to distinguish between the two minds, and the two minds manifest as the thoughts of our own mind. We must learn to recognize who is talking to us, and the way we do this is by sitting under the instruction of the Doctrine of Christ. It is not the instruction alone. Christ must be formed in us. Brethren, the way you recognize the counterfeit is by becoming intimate or having an intimate relationship with reality. So we are challenged to become as intimate with the Lord Jesus Christ as we can possibly become, and the way we become intimate with the Lord Jesus Christ is to have His Son formed in us because it is His son that He joins with. His Son, Christ Jesus, being formed in us is joined to our personality, and the Lord Jesus Christ joins with His Son, Christ Jesus, and the three of us become one. So when you have an intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, when you talk to Him every day, and when you know His voice, when the voice of a stranger enters into your mind you are going to recognize that it is not your lover. Jesus is our lover. The way you become intimate with the Lord Jesus is to have His Son formed in you, and the way you have His Son formed in you is to become familiar, or to sit under the preaching of the Doctrine of Christ. And the Doctrine of Christ will teach you to not wage war against Adam by teaching you how to recognize Adam.

See, the church today, by and large, wages war against the Lord Jesus Christ. They wage war against His doctrine, they wage war against His truth. The majority of the churches today are under the instruction of the carnal mind, if in no other teaching, in the teaching that says you should not become spiritual. We have whole denominations that teach against speaking in tongues and the gifts of the spirit, and even the denominations that preach speaking in tongues and the gifts of the spirit will teach you to not go on. Speaking in tongues and the gifts of the spirit is spiritual preschool. It is the beginning of your spiritual life in Christ. The next step is the Doctrine of Christ which, by and large, the church rejects. I say all the time that it is going to take a miracle, and the miracle that the Lord Jesus Christ has for the church is this. He is raising up a small group of believers who are strong enough, not because of anything that they did, but because they were called to do it, to go on to have Christ formed in them, to be fearless and not afraid of listening to the Doctrine of Christ and trying the spirit and praying about it and getting the second witness from the Christ in their own heart. And when these people mature, when this group of people mature they will be sent out by the Lord Jesus Christ to speak to the rest of the church one man at a time, and to have their mind cover over the carnal mind of the person they are sent to so that person can hear the truth. I haven't experienced that yet so I am not there yet, but this is the revelation that the Lord has given me of how it is going to happen. Some people may be getting this message through the books. The books and tapes are all over the world right now, but it takes more than reading the message. You have to be willing to recognize that the mind that is possessing you is a criminal mind, and you have to be willing to war against that criminal mind. If you are not willing to war against that criminal mind it will war against Christ in you. And a house divided will not stand, so you are not ready to war against the criminal mind in you until Christ is raised from the dead in you. That is the sound of the battle. When Christ begins to rise from you, when the Mind of Christ is raised in you, when He appears in you that is the sound of battle. He immediately goes to war against your carnal mind, and this is a vicious battle between the two minds in each person, and the determining factor is the personality. The two minds fighting are two males fighting over a female, and the female is the personality. The personality chooses who her champion will be. Now if you choose your carnal mind you probably won't have any trouble in your life because, for all intents and purposes, you are dead and Satan will leave you alone. But if you choose the Lord Jesus Christ, your carnal mind and Satan will harass you and torment you, and you will have war every day as you are instructed to cleave unto Christ Jesus who is the resurrected Adam and wage war against your carnal mind. If you don't do anything, Jesus said if you are not for me you are against me.

If you don't do anything you, the personality, will wind up cleaving to your carnal mind and waging war against Christ in you. If you are not engaged in any kind of warfare that you are aware of in your heart and in your mind most likely your carnal mind is killing Christ in you every day, and the reason you don't feel it is that we've been the carnal mind for our whole life. Christ Jesus is the invading force. Every man born of a woman is formed in the Serpent's image. We are a fallen creation. Jesus called the Pharisees vipers. He wasn't calling them names. He was telling them the truth about their condition. We are in the Serpent's image. You worried about the mark of the beast? Everybody that is born of a woman has the mark of the beast. You have to get rid of that mark and replace it with the mark of God.

Once Christ is formed in you, and He is waging war with your carnal mind to the point that you are at least listening to the Doctrine of Christ you shall receive instruction as to how to not wage war against Adam by distinguishing, by learning how to distinguish between Adam or Christ Jesus and your carnal mind, and Satan and Leviathan shall not raise up the vampire bat within the non-Jewish nations any more. Now that word vampire bat is a translation of a negative particle, and, as you know, the negative particle is a hidden way of talking about the Serpent's household, and it is up to the translator's license to determine whether he will translate a negative particle "Satan" or "Leviathan" or "the Fiery Serpent" or the "Devil." In this case I chose to translate it the vampire bat for two reasons. First of all, it was in this study of Isaiah Chapter 2 where we received the revelation of the vampire bat, and the vampire bat is the ascended Fiery Serpent who has ascended all the way up to the sixth energy center of the counterfeit. We have had quite a bit of teaching on that if you would like to review those tapes.

We all have a Fiery Serpent. The Scripture calls her the Seraphim. The Hindus call her Kundalini. The English translation is Fiery Serpent. Every human being born of a woman has a Fiery Serpent indwelling....now it is not a snake that you find out in the garden. She is an energy source. Daniel talks about the god of forces. She is an energy force within the human being, and when she ascends apart from Christ Jesus she ascends in spiritual power, and this is the whole concept of a person who was engaged in witchcraft. This is how they get their power. Some how this energy source that every human being is born with ascends to a high place apart from God, and they become powerful in witchcraft, and it was in this very series, I think it was one of the later verses, that the Lord revealed to us that the name of the entity in that high place in the counterfeit time line is the vampire bat. We know that the name of the one who was in that high place in the sixth or the brow energy center, the Old Testament talks about the priest putting something between their eyebrows. It is talking about the place between the eyebrows. That is a symbol of a high place in the spirit. And what is the name of the one that occupies that high place in Elohim's time line or Jehovah's time line? Does anyone know?

COMMENT: The eagle?

PASTOR VITALE: Yes, the eagle. The symbol of the one who was between the eyebrows, as the book of Leviticus puts it, in Jehovah's time line is the eagle, and another name for Him is King Adam. This is Adam who has ascended all the way up to the sixth energy center where he meets the Spirit of Elijah in the Old Testament, in the New Testament it is Christ Jesus, ascending all the way up to the brow center where He meets the spirit of the glorified Jesus Christ, and the two marry and become one. So Adam's name changes to King Adam at that point.

There is a time line that is parallel to Jehovah's time line, and that is the Serpent's time line so there is an entity that dwells in the sixth energy center of the Serpent's time line, and the two are across one from the other, and they have spiritual battles. So the name of the one in the Serpent's time line who is in that high place of the brow energy center, the Lord revealed to us through this very message, is a spiritual vampire bat who drains our energy. If you have an experience where you are around somebody and after you spent some time with them you are completely drained, the chances are excellent that they are in a high place, that the energy force that they were born with has ascended to a high place in the Serpent's time line, and they are draining your energy. You see, everyone that is born of a woman is dependant. We are all lacking. That's why we are female. Whether you are in a male body or a female body, if you are born of a woman you are lacking. That means you cannot survive without outside help. You need clothing, you need food, you need water, you need fellowship, you need affection, you have emotional needs, you have spiritual needs, and you have physical needs. The whole of humanity is female. See, the Lord Jesus does not need any of these things. He doesn't need to sleep, He doesn't need to eat, and if you think that the Scriptures says He needs us you have a false interpretation of the Scripture. He doesn't need us, brethren, we need Him.

So the whole world is female. We are all lacking, and Jesus Christ is the only one who can complete us in righteousness. Now there are spiritual criminals in this world and most, or a large percentage, of them don't even know that they are in this condition. When I talk about witchcraft and spiritual criminals a large part of them, especially the ones in the churches, don't even know what they are doing. The church is perishing for lack of knowledge. They are in total darkness and ignorance or 90-95% of darkness and ignorance. Brethren, when we are spiritual....well, we know how to get food in this country, thank God we are not starving, thank God we are not naked, and there are some hungry people that don't have food in this country that don't have food, but I am not addressing that issue right now, that is another issue, but, by and large, the majority of the people are clothed and fed. But if you have a spiritual need, brethren, the answer for you is to draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ because He is an energy source that cannot be depleted. If you have any kind of a compulsion, if you are or have been a drug addict, if you are or have been an alcoholic, if you eat compulsively, if you steal compulsively, whatever your problem is, if you have a compulsion it is because you have a spiritual and emotional need which is not being met. Jesus Christ can meet your need if you give Him a chance. He doesn't meet your need by the laying on of hands. He meets your need through His word and through His spirit that He will form in you, and He is a source of energy which cannot be depleted. If you have a problem with lust, any kind of lust, sexual lust or any other kind of lust, the answer for you is to pursue the Lord Jesus Christ through the Doctrine of Christ and through a personal relationship with Him within yourself, but it takes time to develop this relationship. A lot of people want instant gratification.

There are people today, brethren, right in the church that have an emotional need, and they will choose to call up another believer and keep that believer on the phone until that irritation that is manifesting as a need calms down, and what they have done is sap the energy of their friend who cannot afford to lose it, and they have chosen to do that rather than to go to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because it is easier to be comforted by a human being than it is to get before God and do what ever you have to do so that the anointing manifests in your life. That is if you are a beginner. It is not true of me. I know what I have to do, and it has taken me a long time to get here, but when I have an emotional need, if I am in distress, I know how to get to the anointing, but for years I was one of those people who would call up somebody else so that I could feel better, but you drain your friends. This is not God's way of doing it, and when you do that the chances are....when you are the person who is so needy that you choose to call up a friend, and you leave them drained, you satisfy yourself and leave them drained, the changes are excellent that this need that you have had has resulted or caused, I don't have all the answers at this point, your ascending into the brow energy center of the counterfeit time line. Now that is a hard word, but I'm telling you the truth. In order for you to be strong enough spiritually to drain energy from another person, even if that strength is manifesting as a need, you have to be ascended into a very high place in the counterfeit time line.

I am going to say it one more time. Even though it looks like you are the needy one, you are upset, you have problems, you feel bad, the carnal mind would say to me, Sheila how could you say I am ascended in the counterfeit time line? Well, it is the truth, you see. It is the truth because Satan is the plane where our emotions are. These emotions that we have are not of God. Emotions that hurt us, emotions that cause us pain, emotions that cause us to hurt because we are hurting, this comes from the astral plane which is Satan's world. The Lord Jesus Christ, and the whole world above of which Jehovah and Elohim are, is a world of calmness. It is not a world of emotions. It is a world of evenness. Intense emotions are not found there. Emotions, intense emotions, are out of the Satan which is within us, and this is our unconscious mind. She manifests through our emotions. So we might be able to say, if we are emotionally needy, if we are upset to the point that we just want to talk to somebody so that we could feel better, that is Satan manifesting through us. As a blood sucker, as a parasite, as we can have a parasite in our physical body that will consume all of the nutrition that we eat so that we can eat and eat and eat and still be very thin, people who are frequently emotional, and I'm telling you that I was one of these people, people who are frequently emotional, frequently upset, frequently are needy, emotionally needy, that they are agitated, it is Satan in their emotions looking to gain energy from another person, and when you call up or go to that other person for an hour or as long as it takes, and you feel good and you leave them exhausted you have taken their energy just like a tape worm takes the nutrition from the food of a physical person. And in order to do this you have to be ascended into the brow center of the counterfeit time line, and the Scripture calls you a vampire bat. You are a blood sucker. Now I don't tell you this to condemn you. I am not into condemnation, and I've already told you that I was one of those people. If you don't know what's operating in you how will you ever confess it as sin, repent, and get delivered? I tell you the truth that if you hear this message, and this is for you that you might go before the Lord and say, my goodness, Lord, I am doing that, and I never had any intention of hurting anybody, please show me the way of escape because there is a judgment for witchcraft on this kind of activity. If you are stealing someone else's energy you are subject to the judgment for witchcraft.

Look, brethren, the whole church is not in the mess that it is in for no reason. There are very few people in the church walking in victory because they don't have this knowledge. You have got to hear it, and if you are feeling condemned I have not condemned you. Your own heart is condemning you, and you should not let her do that. If you are hearing this message, and you are condemned rebuke that condemnation and cry out to Jesus telling Him that you just didn't know any better, and you are really sorry, and you want Him to put you on the right path and to help you to deal with this neediness that you have in a Godly manner which is the pursuit of the Doctrine of Christ and His righteous person within you.

We have just finished Verse 4. And King Adam shall violently crush their carnal minds and reform them into the image of Elijah, the one he is near to, and King Adam shall convince the 12 tribes of Jacob of Elijah's gospel of peace by teaching them to distinguish between Christ and Leviathan. And they shall be instructed continually to not wage war against Adam because they are going to recognize the difference because Leviathan and Satan come as an angel of light, and they tell us that they are God, and when we believe that, that Satan and Leviathan are God then we wage war against the other thought in our mind which is the true God because Satan and Leviathan have come as an angel of light was a lie. So it is essential that we can tell the difference between Christ Jesus or Adam and Satan and Leviathan in our minds. Satan does not come into our mind saying, kill, kill. She comes into our mind with subtle suggestions that will cause us to deviate from the path that the Lord Jesus Christ has laid out for us. She comes with suggestions that are not evil, but they would direct us to do something different than what the Lord Jesus Christ has directed us to do. Neither path is evil, what Jesus has told you to do or what Satan has told you to do is not evil, but one, the path that the Lord Jesus tells you to take, is the path of obedience, and the other, the path that Satan tells you to take, is disobedience. Not that there is anything wrong with that path. It is just that Jesus told you to go another way, and I remind you of the prophet that was sent to King Jeroboam, I may have the wrong name, I'm not too good on my history, and Jehovah sent a prophet to prophesy to that King because that was an evil King, and the Lord said to him, go and give your prophesy and do not go back by the same path that you went by. Go back by a different path, and the prophet delivered his prophesy and started to return on a different, but another prophet met him in the way, a prophet of God, and said to him, come and have dinner with me. But to get to that prophet's house the first prophet had to return in the same path, and the first prophet said to the second prophet, the Lord told me not to return the same way, and the second prophet said, well, I'm sure it is the Lord that wants you to have dinner with me, now would the Lord do you harm through me? And the first prophet did not believe the word of the Lord to him, but was influenced by Satan operating through the mind of a prophet of God, and the first prophet returned home the same way that he came, and the Scripture says, does anyone remember what the Scripture says? A lion met him in the way and killed him. Satan whispered nice things, and she talks through your loved ones, through your husband, through your wife, through your best friend, and her whispers are conveyed through a spirit of witchcraft which influences us subtly, and this is how we die spiritually. This is how the carnal mind overtakes our Christ mind, and we die spiritually when we, the personality, agrees with Satan's whispers in our mind. Well, it comes through our friend but enters into our mind rather than the word of the Lord which can come to us directly or can come to us through a prophet. We, the personality, must decide which voice is the voice of the Lord. And even though both paths appear harmless, the choice of the path directed by the Lord Jesus ends in life, and the choice of the path suggested by Satan, dressed as an angel of light, ends in death. There is a path where no foul flies. There is a path that seems right unto man, but the end thereof is death, and they both look good. And they are both good, but only one is righteous, and righteousness ends in life, and goodness ends in death as well as evil.

I copied that Verse on the vampire bat just in case anyone wants it as a reference because it is sort of a shocking revelation. It is Isaiah 2:20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats. The word bat is in the Scripture. We have broken Chapter 2 of Isaiah down into several categories, and we have just finished the category which is the prophecy of humanity's deliverance. This is a promise of Jehovah, not only to Israel, but to all of humanity. When I say all of humanity it is important that you understand that I do not believe that every human being ever born will be saved, but there is a spiritual root of this creation, and this spiritual root continuously produces human beings, and all human beings that die, which today is everybody, are just temporary manifestations of this spiritual root. It is intended, and it was intended, and is intended by Jehovah that a permanently formed creation will exist. This world of life and death, of continuous births and deaths, is not the creation that Jehovah devised. Jehovah thought forth a spiritual root which was taken up by Elohim who was instructed by Jehovah to produce a permanent visible creation. So from that point of view, every human being who was born of a woman is a temporary model of that permanent visible creation, and every temporary model when its purpose is fulfilled is cast aside until that day when Christ Jesus appears in a permanent expression of the creation of God which will be the perfect visible image of the righteous nature of Jehovah through the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every human being that is generated by this spiritual root can be likened to everyone of our years in our individual lifetime. What has happened to the person you were at 10 years old? What has happened to that body and what has happened to that mind? What happened to the person you were at 12 years old? What happened to the person you were at birth? All of these physical bodies and condition of mind have been swallowed up into the whole mature person that you are today. The spiritual root of this creation will eventually produce the perfect representation of Jehovah's righteous image, and every temporary expression of this spiritual substance will be swallowed up into the final mature expression of Jehovah. This was the intention, it was this principle that was being demonstrated when Jesus was transfigured. The Scripture was telling, or at least Jesus was telling His disciples about this spiritual principle, and He was saying to them, the spiritual root that produced Moses and the spiritual root that produced Elijah, that same spiritual root is in me, and that this physical body and this personality is just clay which expresses the glory of God or the ugliness of Satan depending on who is inhabiting that person. But the most exciting part of the whole message is that even if Leviathan has generated you, no matter how ugly you have been in your life time because Leviathan has lived through you, that because of the Lord Jesus Christ your nature can be changed. The Scripture says, you who were red as scarlet shall be white as snow. That is just another way of saying, you who were an expression of Satan's evil mind, you shall be an expression of the glorious mind of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall think His thoughts and do His deeds, and where He is you, too, shall be.

So we see that the personalities of men are made of the clay of the earth of the creation, and that the earth, in and of itself, is nothing but the mind that is manifesting through that earth that mind is engraving the earth into its own nature; therefore, we are changeable. We can be manifesting Satan one day, and the next day, that's just a parable because it takes years to change your nature, but we have every reason to hope that we will manifest the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. So it is the spiritual root of the creation that is being saved. That whole spiritual root is being saved. Every human being that was born of a woman is not being saved.

The first category was the prophesy of humanity's deliverance. Humanity will be delivered. The spiritual root which is producing all these births that eventually die, that spiritual root of humanity will be saved. In the Scripture, in the Old Testament, the word for humanity is Adam. There are two Hebrew words that are translated Adam. One means humanity, and one means the personal Adam. So the Scripture is really saying that Adam will be resurrected and regenerated, and every personality that he is expressing himself through shall be saved. The personality is being saved. Adam is being raised from the dead. The creation is being regenerated.

The next category of Isaiah Chapter 2 is, Jehovah Calls and Prepares the 12 Tribes of Jacob. Now this whole concept of Israel and what is so special about Israel. Does anyone remember what is so special about Israel? What does Israel have that the rest of the world did not have at least up until Jesus?

COMMENT: The root.

PASTOR VITALE: Root of what?

COMMENT: The root of righteousness?

PASTOR VITALE: Well, that's close, but it is the root of the Tree of Life. We try to stay with symbols that everyone can understand, but that's a good answer. The root of the Tree of Life was imparted to Abraham and manifested in Isaac and has been flowing in the genetic makeup of Jacob and the 12 tribes ever since. When Adam was overcome by the Serpent, Adam is the Tree of Life, in the New Testament he is Christ Jesus....the Tree of Life is not a physical tree. The Tree of Life is a spiritual Tree, and that Tree grows in men. Jesus said, I am a green Tree, did he not? He said, I am a green Tree. So we are all Trees, spiritually speaking, we are all Trees. God's creation is not an animal. God's creation is a plant. The Scripture says that there is a planting of the Lord, and the Scripture talks about first fruits. God's creation is spiritual, and that spiritual creation can be likened to a plant. So the plant of God or the planting of the Lord is growing in a garden, and, we, this physical body and the earth of our personality, are the earth that the spiritual plant is growing in. The personality is the earth. (End of Tape 1)

TAPE 2

It is the Son of God. He is the plant that is planted in the earth of the personality, but when that Son of God marries the personality we become everything that He is. So we see that the personality is nothing which is dirt, but when Christ Jesus marries us we inherit and become everything that He is. We inherit His righteousness, we inherit His wisdom, we inherit His glory, and we inherit eternal life.

The second category is, Jehovah Calls and Prepares the 12 Tribes of Jacob. So we see that Jehovah's plan of salvation is for the whole spiritual root of humanity, but that Jehovah's plan of salvation is manifested through only a segment of humanity. Jehovah has always worked with small groups throughout the Scripture, and He chose one nation to be the carriers of that salvation to the world. There is a lot of envy of the Jews in the world, and perhaps that envy arises out of a misunderstanding of their call. Of course, it is true that many, although not all Jews, many are very prosperous financially in this hour, but that is just the residual effect of the blessings that fell upon them for the season that the Tree of Life manifested through them. The same promises are to the church and to the world when the Tree of Life appears in them, but remember that Israel spent at least 5,000 years honoring the law of ordinances that was imposed upon them which was much more difficult to keep than what ever rules and regulations there are in the church today. It takes time to cleanse your family line and to cleanse your mind....to cleanse the residue of the family line that's within you, and to cleanse your mind and to restore your life from all of the curses that are upon you from worldly living or from living that is apart from the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember, the promise was given to Abraham, and the glory did not manifest until Jacob's 12 sons were manifested, and not only that, but Jacob's 12 sons were in bondage in Egypt for 430 years before they went out into the wilderness and received the manifestation of the promise that was made to Abraham. So it is true that things are speeded up in the Lord Jesus Christ. We no longer have to wait 430 years or more, because it was a lot more than 430 years, but it can easily take a whole lifetime to restore a glorious blessed lifestyle to someone depending on how deviant their lifestyle was before they came to the Lord Jesus Christ. But the blessings of the Jews is the result of the fact that Jehovah raised the Tree of Life from the dead in them through His covenant with Abraham. That is what is special about the Jews. A lot of people don't understand this. They have a concept of, well, they are the chosen people, and who are they? They lost it, and now we have it. Brethren, this is not man-to-man. The Jews were the people who were chosen to have the Tree of Life raised from the dead in them, and when Israel died because Israel, according to the Old Testament, if you can hear this, Israel is a man. He is the resurrected Adam that was living through the personalities of the 12 tribes of Jacob. Adam was raised from the dead in Israel first. Adam will be raised from the dead eventually in the whole world, in every one in whom He is not raised in will pass out of this world and die because that's what happens to everybody that doesn't have Adam raised in them. God is not murdering anybody. And when Adam is fully raised from the dead in a multitude of people, I don't know how many people it will be, they will be in heaven.

The Scripture says that the Lord Jesus said there is no marriage or giving in marriage in heaven. So when people begin to live forever they are going to stop reproducing like the animals because we reproduce like the animals. We are going to stop that kind of reproduction, it is going to cease, because the whole purpose of having children is to perpetuate the human race because people die. So when people stop dying there will be no more need to have children. So the people who enter into eternal life while they are still on this earth will stop having children, and the people who do not enter into eternal life will become fewer and fewer and fewer, and fewer children will be born and eventually there will only be being on the earth who have eternal life in Christ Jesus. What happens them, I don't know. Even Paul said that he didn't know. All he said was, well we see Jesus, we see what we can hope for, we see a glorified man, we see dominion over Satan and the whole household of darkness. Well, when we take this victory, when we win this war, when Satan doesn't exist any more, then what? I don't know, but I know it has to be wonderful. So you see, Satan will not exist any more, and Leviathan will not exist any more, but the Fiery Serpent will be converted, will become the Seraphim. The Seraphim is the redeemed serpents who surround the throne of God saying, Holy, Holy, Holy. There has to be a manifestation of the Serpent in the creation. She wasn't just a snake that popped up in the garden who wasn't supposed to be there. The Scripture clearly says, Jehovah clearly says boldly in the Scripture, I create the evil. He created the evil one. Well why would He create the evil one? Because it was Jehovah's intention to produce a visible creation, and you cannot produce a visible creation without some darkness. You cannot have a negative that will produce a picture or an image without the dark part of the negative. The Serpent is the dark part of the negative. The darkness forms the light, but according to Jehovah's plan the darkness was to be under the complete dominion and control of Adam. The Lord did not create an evil one to go forth and do evil deeds to people. He created the evil one to be trained in her place, to be the darkness that would form the light, but Jehovah never intended for the evil one to do evil deeds to the creation. The evil one was supposed to be and still is supposed to be in complete submission to Adam or to the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament who will use her for His purpose. And what is His purpose? His purpose is to bring forth a visible creation which is the perfect expression of the glory of God, and you cannot have an image without darkness.

This, brethren, is the basis of the principle of eternal judgment which we read about in Hebrew Chapter 6. The one who will be under eternal judgment is the evil one. She will be under judgment for eternity. What does that mean? She will be monitored, she will be controlled, she will be absolutely prevented from doing evil. She will exist solely for the purpose of forming the light. She is the darkness of the spiritual negative which produces the visible spiritual world. The Scripture likens her, does anyone know the animal that the Scripture likens her to? The Scripture likens her to an ox. An ox, brethren, is a gelded bull. A bull is such a wild animal that he is virtually untamable. You have to castrate him to domesticate him. An ox is a castrated bull who loses his ferocity when he is castrated, and the oxen are yoked. They are very strong, they are very powerful, and they are used to plow the fields. They become domesticated, and they serve mankind. So that primordial Serpent who has caused all of this trouble, but of course the truth is that Adam did not take the victory over her. The buck stops with Adam, and the ultimate responsibility is with Adam. He did not control the wild beast before she was castrated. She overtook him, she gored him before he could castrate her. So the primordial Serpent is a part of the creation, and she will continue to exist in a new form. She is called the Seraphim, she is called the ox. There are different aspects of herself, but I am not going to go into that right now. Praise the Lord.

So Jehovah calls and prepares the 12 tribes of Jacob to be the people who would be the first nation that Jehovah would raise Adam from the dead in. The Serpent gored Adam, she killed him, and she laid hold of the spiritual root of the creation and formed it in her own image. That's why we look like animals, and we are animals. We eat like animals, we reproduce like animals, we are animals. That's no secret, we are mammals. Because the primordial Serpent laid hold of the spiritual root of the creation, and you can only give out what you are. She wanted to be the man, and the man is the one who forms the creation, but you can only make things in your own image. Brethren, if you are an evil person you cannot bring forth a good person. If you are raising a child, and your heart is evil your children will be evil. The fruit does not fall far from the tree. You have to put goodness into your children. You have to love them, you have to be kind to them, you have to have mercy on them, you have to respect them if you want to see these qualities being reproduced in them.

Well, the Serpent could not make a righteous creation because she was evil. Neither could she make a male creation because she is spiritually female, and I remind you that a male creation is a creation of people, of beings, who are independent. Jesus Christ needs nothing from you or from me. He did not make us for His pleasure in the way the carnal mind understands pleasure. So the primordial Serpent, being female, could only make a female creation. She made a dependent creation, and this is what we are today, spiritually female, and in the image of the Serpent. We have a mind, a carnal mind, which is in the image of the Serpent which perpetuates her lifestyle, and we must die to this lifestyle to enter into the lifestyle of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Serpent's lifestyle is characterized by an animal existence which engages in an on-going perpetual series of births and deaths, of aging, of deterioration, and of corruption. The overriding characteristic of the creation in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ is perfection and continuity. There is no aging, there is no deterioration, but just eternal continuity. No births, no deaths, and none of the problems of the animal life. Praise the Lord.

So this is what is so special about the Jews. In their genetic heritage is the potential for the Tree of Life to be raised from the dead because Jehovah imparted it to Isaac through Abraham. The promise was made to Abraham and to Sarah, and even though the resurrected Adam died in Israel. Why did the resurrected Adam die in Israel? It is exactly what I've been preaching about in this message. Their carnal mind rose up and overtook the Christ mind in them. The resurrected Adam is the Christ mind. This warfare goes on continuously, the war between the two minds, and if you don't know that you have two minds or if you don't know that two minds exist, if you don't know that there is sweet and salt water in one fountain as James puts it you are going to be overcome by your carnal mind. No matter how many times the Lord Jesus Christ raises up that Christ mind in you, if you do not receive this instruction that you are a double-minded man, that you have two minds, that the two minds war against one another, and that you, the personality, are the deciding factor, it is who you agree with that you will be. If you agree with your carnal mind you will be a carnal person. If you agree with Christ Jesus, eventually, it is a process, it doesn't happen over night, you will be formed in His image. You have to know this because the whole Israel....Adam was fully resurrected in Israel. The Scripture says that they went out to battle, and that not one man was wounded let alone killed. Nobody was killed and not one man was wounded. They were a supernatural people. They were a highly spiritual people. I don't know about you, but I never heard this anywhere until the Lord showed it to me. I heard that the people of Egypt were a highly spiritual people, Egyptian mystery religion, Egyptology, I hear all about it. I hear all about the Hindus, the Indians, highly spiritual people. I have never heard anywhere that the Jews were spiritual giants, but they were. They were spiritual giants in the day that Adam lived through them. How come nobody knows this? Because the carnal mind has wiped out the knowledge of it from the face of the earth.

So Adam died in the men of Israel. Jehovah sent prophets to them, He sent warnings to them, He pleaded with them day and night, the Scriptures say. Do you think that they deliberately thumbed their nose in Jehovah's face? I don't think so. I think they were seduced. I think the same thing that happened to Adam happened to the men of Israel. The Serpent used witchcraft to blind them, you see. The New Testament says in the Book of Romans that Jehovah received the election, and the rest were blinded. As far as I know the whole church believes that Jehovah chose a few people and blinded everyone else, but that is a lie. Jehovah wanted all of Israel, Jehovah wants all of the earth, He desires that all men should be saved, but who is the one who blinds us?

COMMENT: Satan.

PASTOR VITALE: Satan, the god of this world blinds us. Paul clearly said, if you are blinded, you are blinded by the god of this world. Jehovah is no respecter of persons, and the Lord Jesus Christ who is Jehovah, the representative of Jehovah to us, is no respecter of persons. If you are blinded, you are blinded by the god of this world. Another Scripture says that if you are blinded, you are blinded by the pride of your own heart. Yes, amen. It is the will of the Lord Jesus Christ that all men should be saved, and if you are not saved, if you don't have an intense, vibrant life-giving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ it is because the god of this world manifesting through your pride is stopping you from receiving it, and if you want it and you don't have it that means your warfare is against the pride of your own heart, and to the fullest degree that you wage this warfare and confess that this is sin in your own heart that is the degree to which the Lord Jesus Christ will join with you in your warfare to overcome your own enemy which is yourself. Paul said, we oppose ourselves. We are our own worst enemies. Our old man which is the personality married to the carnal mind opposes our New Man which is our personality married to Christ Jesus. We are a double minded man. Yet there are people in the kingdom church today who preach that we are not double minded, and perhaps they are not double minded, but if you are single minded, and you are not moving in eternal life your singleness is in the Serpent. If you are not double minded, if you are single minded, and you are still aging and you are still getting sick and you still anticipate dying if the Lord Jesus does not intervene, your singleness is in the Serpent because singleness in Christ Jesus is eternal life in this flesh. God help us.

Jehovah raised the Tree of Life from the dead in the Jews. The Tree of Life, Adam was the Tree of Life, he died when the primordial gored him, and Jehovah replanted the Tree of Life in this fallen world. Jehovah penetrated the Serpent's territory, and He said, I will take back what is Mine by growing My plant in your perverted garden, and when My plant grows, when Christ Jesus grows He will destroy the weed that grows in your garden. Leviathan is the weed that grows in this garden. So Jehovah made a covenant with Abraham, took hundreds of years, and He brought forth the Tree of Life in mortal men in this world of fallen humanity. Adam prevailed for a season, but the men of Israel were seduced once again by the Serpent's witchcraft, and she raised up her carnal mind in the midst of the resurrected Adam. Israel was a nation of supernatural giants. This is what happened to Noah. He was the only one who found grace in the eyes of God, he was the only one who survived to the other side of the flood, and as soon as he got over to the other side of the flood we found out that Satan seduced him and overturned his Christ mind.

So, Jehovah had a plan. He said, this is what we will do that will help you to not be seduced. Jehovah is concerned with saving the spirit of His Son that is mixed with the earth to form the clay which we are. Now He could take His spirit back and let us turn back to the earth again, but Jehovah has decided to take the whole root of spiritual clay back. He's saving us because His Son is the energy source which has formed us. The primordial Serpent laid hold of energy that did not belong to her, the energy which was in the spirit of God, she laid hold of that energy to form this creation, and Jehovah has made a decision not to wipe us out completely, but to simply reform this clay that is in the Serpent's image back into His image. The first step was to raise the Tree of Life from the dead in this fallen world. Adam prevailed in Israel, but the carnal mind overtook the men of Israel, the pride of their own heart. What does that mean? They could not look at their sins, you see. Mortal man has a sin nature. We don't have to be going out and doing evil deeds all the day long to say that we are sinners. We are sinners because our nature is the nature of the Serpent, and the ultimate proof that we have a sin nature is if we don't do one thing that this world would consider wrong for our entire life we still die. If you have never done one thing wrong, I don't even think it is possible, for your whole life that this world would consider wrong you will still die because the Serpent can be good as well as evil, and it is only righteousness which inherits eternal life.

So, the resurrected Adam died in Israel, but the root of the Tree that died still flows in the genetic inheritance of the Jews, and not every Jew, but in the Jews who are of the line of David. This is what is special about the Jews, and because the root of the Tree lies in the genetic heritage of the descendants of David the whole nation was blessed because the whole nation had to be purified before the root of the Tree came forth in David. And they were purified by the law, and because the Hebrew nation spent so many years, approximately 5000 years, again I am not too good on my history and that may not be the right amount of years, but it was at least 5000 years of practicing the law of ordinances, of living under that heavy burden of all those animal sacrifices and all the "thou shalt nots." That is a hard way of life living under the law. The fruit of all of that obedience resulted in a lot of good things in the life of the Jewish people, and one of those good things is financial prosperity which still is evident today. So Jehovah calls and prepares the 12 tribes of Jacob. Why did He pick the Jews? Why did He pick Abraham? My personal opinion is that Jehovah went to many people before Abraham, and they all turned Him down. That's my personal opinion. Most of the people that I see Him calling today turn Him down.

So we see that the potential for the Tree of Life to be raised from the dead in humanity today flows in the genetic code of the descendants of David. They have the root of the Tree. What is happening in the church today, what does the church have? Does anybody remember? The church has the branch, the church has the branch of the Tree. The root and the branch must come together. The branch of the Tree, does anybody know what the branch of the Tree is? The branch of the Tree is the spiritual power. The Holy Spirit comes in with power, ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. The branch of the Tree is power, and the root of the Tree is?

COMMENT: The spirit or life?

PASTOR VITALE: No, righteousness. The root is the righteousness. You can have spiritual power without righteousness. That is who Satan is, that is what witchcraft is, spiritual power without righteousness, and this is why it is so common that we see people who speak in tongues and who have the gift of prophecy, who are very anointed, they cast out demons, they are anointed to heal the sick, and their moral fiber is corrupt. The Scripture says their moral fiber is moth eaten. Because in the Pentecostal church today there is power most of the time, or frequently, without righteousness. When this root of the Tree....see, it already happened in Jesus. He was a Jew. The root of the Tree of Life was in Him, and He was raised in power. He is the whole Tree of Life. He is the whole Tree of Life. And He has given himself to the earth, but the Holy Spirit is not the whole Tree of Life. The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit that is in the whole Tree of Life. Does anybody remember what the Holy Spirit is given for? I don't think you are going to remember that. Listen, when the Serpent stole the substance of the creation, she killed Adam, and she stole that substance, she stole the energy that was in Adam, and she formed the earth of herself in an unGodly configuration. And the energy that the primordial Serpent stole is through all of our being, it is woven through all of our flesh, but it is primarily flowing in our spiritual blood. There is such a thing as spiritual blood. We do have spiritual blood. I can't re-preach that whole thing right now, but we have spiritual blood, and the name of that spiritual blood is Satan. So the spirit that came from Elohim which was in Adam that was stolen by the primordial Serpent is flowing together with Satan right now. That spirit is completely overcome and apprehended by the evil one for her own purposes. We might say that the water of a river is now flowing with the ocean. How do you separate the clean waters of the river from the salt waters of the ocean? How do you tell the difference? The Holy Spirit is given to draw that energy that's in the form of the human spirit unto Himself. The Holy Spirit is given to separate the human spirit from Satan. If you have the Holy Spirit you now have two sources of water in you. You have the salt water which is Satan, and you have the sweet water which is the Holy Spirit and whatever part of the human spirit He has apprehended. Does that sound strange to you? Did not James say or does not James say that bitter and sweet water come out of the same faucet and that these things should not be? You think he was just using an allegory or a parable? No. James tells us we are double minded, and he tells us we have two sources of spiritual blood, one sweet and one bitter or salted.

So we see that the church, or at least the Pentecostal church, has the power. They have the branch of the Tree. The root of righteousness must be grafted to the spiritual power. This, brethren, is the resurrected Adam in you or the resurrected Christ Jesus in you, and you either have to get it from a Jew who is of the line of David who has also received the Holy Spirit, or you have to get it from a man who is not a Jew who has received it from that Jew. It is called the Spirit of Christ, brethren. Now a lot of people aren't going to like this, but it is the truth. Once the Lord Jesus brings a Jew who has this root of righteousness to a knowledge of himself, and the whole Tree of Life is restored in that person, that person now goes forth with Christ Jesus in their heart and the Spirit of Christ in Christ Jesus and can impart that Spirit of Christ to people who are not born with the root of righteousness. Not only to the Gentiles but to the Jews who are not of the line of David. Only someone with the whole Tree of Life in the process of being raised in them can impart the seed which will raise the whole Tree of Life in other people. The seed for the whole Tree of Life is called the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of Christ is not the Holy Spirit. They are both the Spirit of God, but different administrations thereof. We have to get the whole thing. We have to have the purified waters which is the Holy Spirit, and we have to have the root of righteousness, and they have to be grafted together, and when they are grafted together Christ Jesus is rising from the dead in us, I don't know that He is fully raised in anybody, as they graft together.

He's rising from the dead in us, and one of the things that happens when He's rising from the dead in us is that our moral fiber is being purified. You can't be walking around healing people and casting out demons and prophesying and not paying your bills because if you are doing that I know that you have the branch of the Tree, but you don't have the root of the Tree. And I want to tell you, brethren, it is only the whole Tree of Life that produces eternal life. The branch alone does not produce eternal life, and the root alone does not produce eternal life. You have to have the whole Tree of Life growing in you for you to have hope of eternal life. There is no eternal life in the Holy Spirit alone, and if I am wrong how come everybody with the Holy Spirit is dying when their time to die comes? If this spirit which raised Christ from the dead dwells in you it shall quicken your mortal body. Well, it wasn't the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. The Holy Spirit comes from the Lord Jesus Christ. He wasn't glorified yet. The spirit that raised Christ from the dead was the Spirit of Elijah. Today He is known as the Spirit of Christ to us.

Jehovah calls and prepares the 12 tribes of Jacob to be what? To be Saviors of the world. Does that sound like blasphemy to you? The Scripture says, and Saviors shall come forth from Mt. Zion. The word Zion means parched place. Brethren, a lot of Christians get all upset when they hear talk about energy centers because they think that is New Age and Hinduism, but, brethren, we have energy centers. We have energy centers, they are real. The Bible talks about them. I remember when I first went before the Lord with this issue, and I said, Lord if this is true you have just got to witness it to me, I've just got to get a witness to this, and He instantly spoke to me and said, who is strong enough to open the seven seals? Yea, even the Lion of Judah, He is strong enough to open the seven seals. So the Bible calls them seals. The Hindus call them energy centers. Brethren, we have got them, they are in us, they are real. This Bible is a powerful spiritual book in its carnal translation. It has helped so many people. It has taken them out of drug addiction and out of alcoholism and out of adultery and out of all kinds of reprobate lifestyles. So what does that mean? It means that the Bible, the translation of the Bible that's popular today is powerful enough to translate you from evil to good. It will translate you from evil to good. The Holy Spirit will translate you from evil to good, but it does not have the power to translate you into righteousness, and the proof of that is that everybody is still dying. A righteous man doesn't die. They tried to kill a righteous man, they thought they could kill a righteous man, they crucified His physical body, but they didn't know that the righteous one inside of Him could not die. And they could not have even killed His physical body if He didn't agree to it. You can't kill a righteous man!

So the ministering of Jesus Christ that is in the church today has the power to convert us from evil to good, and now He's ready for the next step. He wants to convert us from good to righteous. There are energy centers, brethren. If you are living an unrighteous lifestyle or if you have been living an unrighteous lifestyle the changes are that your consciousness was dwelling in the first or second of the lowest energy centers, and that if the Lord Jesus Christ had mercy on you He ascended you, He caused your consciousness to ascend into the third energy center. The third energy center is where most people dwell. Paul called it the belly. He said that most of you are living out of your belly. It is a place where you have a carnal lifestyle, but it is a decent lifestyle. You can have a decent lifestyle, but if you want to move into eternal life, brethren, you have to ascend above your belly. You have to ascend to at least the heart center. Do you know why you have to at least ascend to the heart center? Does anyone remember? You have to get, at least, into the heart center, and that is no easy thing to do because Satan is fighting you every step of the way. You have to get into the heart center because the heart center has another name. It is called the aerial center. It is the airport. That is the place from which you ascend. Does not the Scripture say, we shall ascend and meet Jesus in the air and forever we shall be with the Lord? These Scriptures are wonderful, brethren, and they are fine if you want to go from evil to good, and if you are content to stay in your decent lifestyle for the rest of your life, these Scriptures are wonderful, I'm not against them, I think God for them, but if you want to ascend into eternal life you have to fine out what these wonderful Scriptures mean. How do you ascend? It is not your physical body ascending. You are ascending in consciousness, it is your mind that's ascending, because Jesus Christ is higher than any other. What does that mean? His consciousness, His mind, is higher than any other aspect of the carnal mind.

Just look around our world today, and you can see that some minds are higher than other minds. Some people are astral physicists. Look at Einstein. Some people are not great intellects. Well, that doesn't make you any less of a human being. If you work with your hands for your living. If you are a custodian that's fine, that's honest work, but you have to live with the reality that your mind is not where Einstein's mind was. You are not a great intellect. Everybody is not the same intellectually. Well, neither is everybody the same spiritually. There is an ascension of mind. When you are a child, even when you are a high school student if you go on to college you are a different person by the time you get out of college. You are a different person some Junior high School to High School. You mature, you learn, you grow, you gain knowledge, you gain experience. Well, there is a spiritual ascension brethren, and there is a spiritual ascension that is higher than Einstein. There is a spiritual ascension that imparts wisdom that is greater than the greatest wisdom of this world, but it is not imparted by the laying on of hands. You must study to show yourself approved, and this study in the Doctrine of Christ results in the Mind of Christ being formed in you, and when the Mind of Christ is formed in you He must cover over your carnal mind and cut off that worldly wisdom which James calls devilish wisdom. Who is the Devil? It is your old man, the wisdom of the old man.

Jesus said you have to be like a little child. You have to cut off the wisdom of this world when it comes to spiritual things. Now a lot of people do foolish things when they come to the church. I did foolish things when I came to the Lord. I was very sick when I came to the Lord, and I was on a strict health food diet. I wouldn't touch soda. For me it was poison. Well, I was invited to a party in the church, and they were drinking soda and eating cake, and I didn't eat much sugar in those days. And I said, well if the church is doing it I guess I can do it, and I fell off the wagon of my health food diet. It never occurred to me that in this particular area of a good diet that people who had the Holy Ghost didn't have this knowledge of a good diet. I went in there thinking that they had the whole thing, but they didn't. They had the Holy Ghost, they did not have the wisdom of Christ. The Scripture clearly says that the children of darkness are wiser than the children of light in the areas of things that have to do with this world. So you don't become like a little child with knowledge that has to do with maintaining your health or with the wisdom that you need to survive in this world. You must become as a little child with regard to spiritual things. You must be willing to be taught anything that the Lord Jesus teaches you. You don't swallow it hook, line, and sinker. You pray about it. You must be willing to have an open heart. If the Lord directs you to a teacher, if you have a reason to believe that they are in God, then you listen with an open heart, and if something doesn't sit right with you, you pray about it, you put it on the shelf.

There is a lot of knowledge, a lot of spiritual knowledge, available to the church today, and they are going to have to make some changes in what they believe to go on. So there is an ascension in consciousness that is beyond the greatest intelligence and wisdom that is available to this world, and there are energy centers. The heart center is the ariel center. If we want to be caught up and, of course, we must get a true understanding of the catching up. The catching up is this consciousness, the ascension in consciousness. Your physical body is not flying away. Do you know what's happening? Do you know what's being offered to the church today? What's being offered to the church today is the potential to be the spiritual giants that Israel was in his day. We are being offered the opportunity to be powerful, spiritual giants who are undefeatable in righteousness in this world. When you get to this place you know everything that's in other men's hearts. You see the evil in other men's hearts, you see their plans, you see their plots, and you deal with it in the spirit. It never manifests in the natural. Confrontations and fights in the natural are destructive. When you are high enough to perceive the evil coming towards you, you deal with it in the spirit, and it is not destructive. And you receive the power to help people who don't even know what's operating in their own mind. Nothing will take you by surprise. You will be prepared for everything that comes your way. You will see it coming with enough advance warning to go before the Lord. If you don't know how to deal with it, go before the Lord and ask Him how to deal with it. You will be totally defensed by wisdom.

Brethren, the Holy Spirit is not a total defense. I know people who have the Holy Spirit who have been in devastating car accidents, whose houses burn down, who go into financial disaster, who get sick, and who die. The armor of God is not in the Holy Spirit. It is in the wisdom of God, and the wisdom of God is Christ Jesus, the Tree of Life raised from the dead in you, and you must choose to live out of Him and reject the wisdom of this world to benefit from His resurrection. Christ Jesus is dominion over your emotions. Spiritual ascension in Christ Jesus will even you out, you won't get hysterical any more, your emotions won't run away with you any more, and all your wounds will be healed. All of this sin manifesting in your emotions, all of the rejection, the retaliation, everything that's rising up in you as you carnal mind responds to the hurt of other men, will be covered over. Your responses will be Godly, and as the amount of sin that manifests through your thoughts diminishes, and as you sow more Godly thoughts the curses in your life will break. The problems in your life will diminish. Your needs will be met more and more in a Godly way, and the end of the whole thing is that catching up to a place where your carnal mind is covered over so completely that you will never die. And from that high place you can help people who are crying out to Jesus for help. See, the Lord has mercy on the world, brethren, but if you want His supernatural help you have to ask for it. You can't come to Him with a heart hardened with pride and expect Him to help you because, I'm telling you, He won't do it. You have to get in a right relationship with Him to partake of the glory that He is lusting to give to you. He loves you, He loves us, He loves the whole human race, He wants us all, but you must come into submission to Him to partake of the gifts that He brings you because the Lord resists the proud. He will resist you, and when He resists you He doesn't resist you like a man resists you. When the Lord resists you He doesn't hear your prayers.

He will have mercy on those who haven't heard of Him. He has a lot of mercy on people who are ignorant. I have been amazed at the amount of mercy that the Lord has had on ignorant people, but once you have been told the truth, once you have been told what is required of you, His mercy starts to harden because now it is your conscious choice to not do what you must do. I've seen Him have mercy on people in very low lifestyles that Pharisees in the church would be horrified at, dirty people, people in dirty lifestyles, the Lord having great mercy on them, and people who have lived their whole life and never experienced anything like that sometimes are shocked that the Lord will have mercy on people who have fallen so low. The Lord resists the proud. He doesn't care whether you are a leper, a physical leper or a spiritual leper, He will have mercy on you, but the proud He resists. If you have never done anything according to the definition of the world, if you have never done anything really bad according to the definition of the world, you will have trouble reaching God if you come to Him dressed in pride.

So we see that the world's definition of doing something bad does not line up with God's definition of bad. I've seen him forgive a murderer, and the Pharisee who can't get over their pride doesn't get to Him. Now isn't that shocking? It should put a big fear in a lot of you. It's the truth. Pride is the most serious sin in the Bible, and the reason God considers pride the most serious sin is because pride separates you from Him. Pride separates you from God. David was forgiven for murder and adultery because He confessed it as sin and repented, but pride separates you from God. It is the worst sin known to man. It kills you. Pride will kill you, and you will surely die in your sins if pride rules your life.

We are on Verse 5. May the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their ungodly lifestyle and live the lifestyle of Jehovah's spirit. This is the offer, this is the call, and it is the will of God. When it comes forth in that there is a particular tense of a verb that comes forth saying, may this happen or let this happen to you, when it comes forth like that it is the will of the Father coming forth. It is a creative word that's saying, let this happen, let this come to pass. You are not being asked, He's not saying, will you? He's saying, may this happen in your life. It is a creative pronouncement.

May the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their ungodly lifestyle and live in the lifestyle of Jehovah's spirit. So we see that the physical 12 tribes are called....I think I didn't make this point clear earlier, it is only the descendants of David that have the root of the Tree of Life, but all of the rest of tribes of Jacob have the branch. Spiritual power was imparted to the whole 12 tribes, but the root of the Tree is in the descendants of the David. So all of physical Israel are called to be a part of this Tree of Life, and we will see as we go on that the glory is eventually imparted to all of humanity through the physical 12 tribes of Israel, and today it is coming through the church. I don't know how true it is, but a lot of people say, and the Lord has not told me directly, and at this point I have no problem with it, that the 10 tribes of Israel who disappeared, well some people think they disappeared, are manifesting today as the Western World, as the Nations of Europe, that they are the 10 tribes that were swallowed up by the Assyrian Empire or the Persian Empire. I am not too good with history, you have to forgive me. I think the Medes or the Persians that swallowed up Israel, but I could be mistaken. It was Babylon that attacked Judah, and the Medes and the Persians which swallowed up Israel. Now, Judah retained itself as a sovereign state and eventually became a vassal state, but Judah survived, but the other 10 tribes of Israel that were attacked by the Media-Persian Empire experienced something very similar to what Tibet is experiencing today. The Medes and the Persians sent in other nationals into the area, into the land where the tribes of Israel dwelled, and they simply changed the whole nature of the population, and they just wiped out the whole nature of Israel and transplanted other people in those lands. So if it is true that the European nations are the descendants of the 10 tribes of Israel that were captured by the Media-Persians then we see that a large part of the church is the remnant of Israel. Isn't that interesting? But in any event, the offer is ultimately towards all of humanity.

May the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their ungodly lifestyle and live the lifestyle of Jehovah's spirit. See, contrary to the message in the church today you cannot go on with God unless He receives you. It is not the decision of the fallen man to decide whether or not he will follow God or receive the Holy Spirit or have Christ formed in him. It is mortal man's place to humble himself before God and say, Lord will you receive me, will you receive me. The Lord Jesus Christ, today in the form of the Holy Spirit, decides whether or not He receives you. I've seen altar calls, I've seen lots of people go up and answer altar calls, and even though they think that the Lord has received them, that they have been reconciled to the Lord Jesus Christ, in a few months or in a short period of time they just fall away. Their reconciliation was not received or confirmed by the Lord Jesus. Brethren, man and the church is moving in a high spirit of pride, moving in a high spirit of pride. We do not choose the Lord. He is the One that has to receive us, and if you have heard our studies on election we must prefer Him. It is up to us to prefer Him, and when we prefer Him over our carnal mind we start waving Him down. And when He sees us trying to flag Him down then He chooses us. He chooses everybody who flags Him down. He chooses everybody who flags Him down. He sees you waving to Him. He's way up higher than we are, you see, but if you think that all you have to do is say, I choose you Jesus, the chances are excellent that He will not receive you. Why? Is He a respecter of persons? No, He won't even hear you or see you. You have to flag Him down, you have to really mean it, you have to really be crying out to Him, and then He chooses you.

May the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their ungodly lifestyle and live the lifestyle of Jehovah's spirit. That is just one sentence, but it involves a whole process of death. There are several Scriptures which say, for example, precious is the death of His saints. Well, what in the world does that mean? Does the Lord really want us to die? I don't think the Lord honors death. There is a teaching in the earth today, teaching in this country today that is honoring death and making it a good thing. It is basically the teaching of a philosophy called Theosophy. There is a philosophy penetrating all elements of our society today which says " there is no death, you just translate from one state to another, and when this physical body dies you wake up on the other side, and you meet all the friends that died before you; therefore, death is a good thing, and you should seek it out." Death is our enemy, brethren. The Lord does not want us to die. He wants us to live because the work that He's doing is in the flesh. All judgment is in the flesh that we should learn to live after the Spirit. The work is in the flesh, brethren. The work is not after we die.

The Spirit of Christ completed their nature, nailed it to the brow center, saved their personality, and provided an endless storehouse of food and spiritual weapons, and the nailed nature of King Adam, the eagle mind of their personality defended them against their enemies, and there were no borders around their spiritual bodies. So we see in Verse 5 that the Lord calls them. He says, may the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their ungodly lifestyle and live the lifestyle of Jehovah's spirit. In order to bring that to pass the Spirit of Christ completed their nature. The Spirit of Christ completed their nature. What does that mean? The Spirit of Christ completed their nature. Our nature or our personality is the nature of the Serpent. We are incomplete, and that is why the Scripture says, we are completed in Him. Because we are incomplete. The Serpent is the partial tree. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is designed to be joined to and one with the Tree of Life. There is supposed to be one tree just as a peach pit is one with the flesh of the fruit around it. So the Spirit of Christ completed their nature.

I think I am going to have to check that out. I am going to have to look at that in the Hebrew again, it is not really the Spirit of Christ that completes our nature. It is Christ Jesus who joins with our spiritual virginity. We have a spiritual virginity. We have a potential to become spiritual, and to become spiritual that part of us which is our spiritual virginity must be joined either to Christ Jesus or, in the Serpent's household, she joins to herself. There is a union that produces spirituality. In the book of Revelation it talks about the virgins that follow Jesus where ever He goes. This virginity must not be joined to anyone other than Christ Jesus. Of course, we have had a lot of teaching on how....actually who is our spiritual virginity?

COMMENT: Personality?

PASTOR VITALE: Well, it is a particular part of the personality.

COMMENT: The Fiery Serpent?

PASTOR VITALE: Yes, the Fiery Serpent within us is our spiritual potential, and if she joins with Christ Jesus we become spiritual in Christ Jesus, but if our spiritual virginity, the Fiery Serpent, begins to engage in spiritual activity of herself she ascends in the Serpent's time line, and we are engaging in the practice of witchcraft. And sometimes it is very hard to tell, especially for people in the church who do not really have this instruction. It is just really hard to tell, and I know that when I was being raised up in a deliverance church we were warned against "kitchen prophecy," and at the time I was very immature, and I was even offended by it saying, well why can't I practice prophecy in my friend's house? Because when you are spiritually immature you really need someone trying the spirit on your prophecies because false prophecy is very common among unpracticed people that have a gift. False prophecy just comes out of your carnal mind. Your carnal mind wants to prophesy. I had all of the false gifts when I started out. I needed a lot of deliverance from witchcraft. I had false tongues, I had false prophecy, I had false interpretation, I had the whole gamut of false gifts, and I did not know that I was doing anything wrong. So you need someone who is an elder, someone who has some experience with spiritual things to tell you that that is not the Holy Spirit prophesying through you. Then you have to repent and give it up. You have to stop exercising it and hope and pray for the true gift.

So it is really Christ Jesus who completes us. The Fiery Serpent is our nature, and when she is joined to Christ Jesus we have a righteous nature. When she is joined to herself, first she joins to herself and then to Leviathan, we have the Serpent's nature. So the promise....this is one of the ways that Jehovah is going to bring His prophecy to pass. Well, it is not even a prophecy, it is a creative word. Well, I guess that is a prophecy too. May the household of Jacob's 12 tribes die to their unGodly lifestyle. Well, how is this going to happen? First, Christ Jesus is going to be formed in us, and then He is going to apprehend the Fiery Serpent. Before He can marry the Fiery Serpent, before He can marry our spiritual virginity, what does He have to do to the Fiery Serpent? Does anyone remember?

COMMENT: He has to boil Satan.

PASTOR VITALE: No. What configuration is the Fiery Serpent in when she is by herself before she is married to Christ Jesus?

COMMENT: She is in a circle.

PASTOR VITALE: She is in a circle. Why is she in a circle?

COMMENT: Because she is eating her own tail.

PASTOR VITALE: She is consuming her own tail, she is engaged in spiritual masturbation, she is satisfying herself, she is married to herself. So when Christ Jesus comes to marry us this marriage is in several stages, and when He gets up to this stage where Christ Jesus is to join with our spiritual virginity that is really the first true stage. He has to have a battle with the Fiery Serpent because she doesn't want Him. The Fiery Serpent is a member of the Serpent's household. She is Leviathan's seed in every human being, and there are Scriptures that indicate that she will fight violently to keep Christ Jesus from joining with her. Now is this sounds strange to you I suggest to you that this truth is present throughout all human reproduction. If you study human reproduction you find out that it is so difficult for the male body to manufacture sperm, that there has to be special cells raised up in the male body to protect the sperm as the body manufactures it because there are other elements in the man's body that will kill the sperm. Then when the sperm enters into the female body the conditions in the female body try to kill the sperm. I've seen a documentary on reproduction that says that it is an absolute miracle that any woman conceives, and then once an egg is fertilized there are all kinds of cells and aspects of the woman's body that tries to kill the fertilized egg. On top of that, of all the fetuses that are spontaneously aborted, that means that something within the body causes the fetus to be aborted, there is a much higher percentage of males that are spontaneously aborted by the body. With regard to the infant rate, there are many more males that die than females.

So we see that this is all a type of how hard it is for Christ Jesus to apprehend the Fiery Serpent who is our spiritual virginity. She is a poisonous Fiery Serpent that's snapping at Him and trying to destroy Him. She is not saying, welcome Lord Jesus, I want to marry you. She is our fallen nature. The Fiery Serpent is our fallen nature.

In Verse 7 this is not the Spirit of Christ, this is Christ Jesus. Christ Jesus completes our nature. He must battle with the Fiery Serpent. He must defeat her, He must pull her tail out of her mouth, and for a season when we experience this, when Christ Jesus puts an end to our spiritual masturbation, we go through a wilderness experience where we feel unsatisfied. We go through a period when we come out of the world, when we leave the unGodly things of the world that we used to do to satisfy ourselves. When we leave that behind us, we go through a wilderness experience where we could be very unhappy and very unsatisfied because Christ Jesus is not yet matured enough in us to satisfy us to the point where we feel content. Nobody ever preached that to me. I just thank God for all this information because I was very unhappy for a very long time after I received the Holy Spirit, and there was nobody there to explain this to me. I thought that there was just something awfully wrong with me that I was so unhappy with my life, but the truth is that I have a deep spiritual hunger, I am a deeply spiritual person, and it takes a lot of Christ Jesus to satisfy me. It takes this glorious Word to satisfy me. That is why I am preaching this Word. I thank God for the privilege for preaching this Word because it keeps me alive. It keeps me sane. I thank God that He's given me this work to do. It is the food that keeps me alive. I have a voracious spiritual appetite.

So there is a wilderness experience from the time that you experience your Fiery Serpent being broken apart, when her tail is pulled out of her mouth, until you mature to the point that you can spend enough time with Christ Jesus to have Him satisfy you. It is not easy, it may take hours and hours and hours a day of this Word or your personal experiences with Christ Jesus to satisfy you spiritually, but at the beginning you can't bear it. Now isn't that a "catch 22" condition to be in? That you need something desperately to satisfy yourself, but you can't bear it. Situations like that exist in the world. Sometimes you see that in marriages, that people need each other desperately, but as soon as they get together they fight all the time. I had to build up to the place where I could be in this word for hours and hours and hours, and now I am more satisfied than I've ever been at any time in my life. But at the beginning I could not take more than a couple of hours of this word. It would burn me. I couldn't bear it. I would be attacked in my mind, and if I would depart from the word then I would find myself back in the world again feeling miserable and unsatisfied and empty. So it was a piercing through for me. I had a piercing through before I even had this revelation that you had to pierce through to the heart center. I didn't know what I pierced through to, but I just knew that I would sit down and study for these messages, and I would be attacked in my mind and my emotions so badly that I would have to call for prayer two, three, sometimes four times during a six-hour study session, and thank God I had people to pray for me in those days. Then when I pierced through, now everything is turned upside down. If I am not studying in this Word that is when I have the anxiety and the discontent. I am content in this Word. I could stay in it for hours and hours and hours, and a lot of people look at me, and they say, how could you work all those hours, there is someth