I’m not typically a “heresy hunter” and that’s not even my goal with this article either, but I have observed with increasing prevalence that Kabbalah is a growing thing in “mystical” Christian circles, whether those that are more Charismatic leaning, those focused on “Getting back to Jewish roots”, or those who are trying to take a more merge-science-and-spirituality approach with energy and frequencies. And when we look at what some of the well-known modern-day teachers and leaders are teaching, it confuses people even further because some are very specifically telling people TO follow things found in Kabbalah. I know it has become a trendy thing these days to teach on this stuff because it’s “Jewish Mysticism” and therefore people wrongly assume it has some relation to Christianity.
It doesn’t.
Kabbalah, Metatron’s Cube (also known as the Merkabah, which just means chariot), the Kabbalistic Tree and its Sephirot, and the view of the world that it presents all have NOTHING to do with the Gospel of the One True Lord Jesus Christ.
The Kabbalistic worldview has a totally different version of Creation where God the Father (Elohim) is actually a created being by another God-being called Ein Sof who works together with the two primary parts of the Kabbalah tree to create Elohim—which isn’t actually even in agreement with Genesis 1:1, where in the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. In Kabbalah, the work of Creation was purely a result of wisdom and will, not the act of a loving Father who wants His love to find expression. Unsurprisingly, pure will is what we see as Lucifer’s mode of operation in Isaiah 14:12-14 where it says:
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
If we delve into the Kabbalistic cosmic view, we see that elevating himself above the Most High is actually part of what Lucifer tries to do in this religion, which is a separate and different religion from Christianity entirely. It is this very act of trying to transcend God that caused Him to be cast down to begin with, and it was his unrighteous commerce (Ezekiel 26:16) that caused Lucifer to be filled with sin to begin with—commerce that he engaged in as an act of will because he wanted to do what he wanted to do, not because he didn’t know any better.
In Kabbalah, the first Adam wasn’t actually a living man but a spiritual entity known as Adam Ketur or AK, not Adam the human who lived in Eden. No, according to Kabbalah it was the second Adam who was the one who was in the garden and caused a shattering by imbalancing the Kabbalah tree. You see, in Kabbalah, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are actually the same tree, not two different trees, and the second Adam was a living man who imbalanced creation. In Christianity, the First Adam became a living soul and the Second (and Last) Adam, Jesus the Christ, became a lifegiving spirit, making us into new creations in Him so that we could become his brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven, the Most High God. And this is NOT what Kabbalah teaches at all. In Kabbalism, our job is to ascend the Sephirot of the Kabbalah Tree through knowledge and enlightenment of Kabbalah (can you say “Gnosticism”?), gradually working our way up through the mysteries until we reach full ascension and enlightenment. As we do this, we gradually repair all of the things that, according to Kabbalah, the second Adam broke. In other words, according to Kabbalah, Jesus is the one responsible for all of the problems as opposed to Christianity where Jesus is literally THE solution.
And that doesn’t even get into the half of the ways that Kabbalah twists the Gospel message. Did I mention that the Kabbalah narrative actually makes the serpent a victim of the second Adam unbalancing creation and the serpent is part of the solution to the problem? Lucifer, as a quintessential narcissist, literally is writing an alternate cosmology here where he is the victim, Jesus is the problem, and we have to enter into his religious system and work really hard in order to fix things, as though earning, striving, and trying is anything other than another version of the legalistic rules of the Old Testament that were always doomed to fail. 2 Corinthians 3 tells us that the former glory of the Law was, in fact, glorious, but that it brought death and in its place Jesus brought us a better glory that brings Life. It tells us in John 1:17 that “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” Only Jesus has the grace and truth that we need, not a Jewish Religious Occult Magic system known as Kabbalah.
People.
Literally distance yourself from this stuff. It removes Jesus entirely from the equation, God is a created being, the solution to things is to work really hard at Kabbalah to “restore balance” which Jesus never taught even once (nor did anyone else in the Bible), and it literally writes out any need for the cross or God reconciling Himself to us in Christ.
We are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of the Godhead Himself, so should not be attempting to “ascend” into the heavens in Metatron’s cube while chanting the name YAHWEH (Yod-He-Vav-He). Sure, it’s one of the MANY names of God, but let’s not start performing magic rituals with it (that’s literally what occultists do—use Metatron’s cube while chanting the YHVH as an occult means to ascend the heavens through the Kabbalah tree). Don’t ascend in Metatron’s cube as though you need some other vessel than your own God-given spirit to encounter Him, and don’t use the Sephirot or the Kabbalah tree diagram as some sort of divine wisdom source. It is literally a template for Jewish occult magic that will bring you and those you teach it to into bondage, not freedom.
Even the so-called Star of David (which is a dumbed-down version of Metatron’s cube when drawn in 2 dimensions) is honestly pretty suspicious, and not because of antisemitism, but because it is literally NOT an ancient Hebrew thing from King David’s time. I’m going to quote the online Britannica entry to read because it explains quite clearly what is actually going on. Note how frequently it refers to magic and Jewish mystics (who practiced Jewish magic) in this entry, and keep in mind when you read it that a hexagram is used for ritual magic. It only became the image on the flag of the current-day nation state of Israel after the Rothschild family (one among other known Illuminati-bloodline families) pushed for the current-day nation-state to be created. Britannica states:
“Star of David, Hebrew Magen David (“Shield of David”), Magen also spelled Mogen, Jewish symbol composed of two overlaid equilateral triangles that form a six-pointed star. It appears on synagogues, Jewish tombstones, and the flag of the State of Israel. The symbol—which historically was not limited to use by Jews—originated in antiquity, when, side by side with the five-pointed star, it served as a magical sign or as a decoration. In the Middle Ages the Star of David appeared with greater frequency among Jews but did not assume any special religious significance; it is found as well on some medieval cathedrals. The term Magen David, which in Jewish liturgy signifies God as the protector (shield) of David, gained currency among medieval Jewish mystics, who attached magical powers to King David’s shield just as earlier (non-Jewish) magical traditions had referred to the five-pointed star as the “seal of Solomon.” Kabbalists popularized the use of the symbol as a protection against evil spirits. The Jewish community of Prague was the first to use the Star of David as its official symbol, and from the 17th century on the six-pointed star became the official seal of many Jewish communities and a general sign of Judaism, though it has no biblical or Talmudic authority. The star was almost universally adopted by Jews in the 19th-century as a striking and simple emblem of Judaism in imitation of the cross of Christianity. The yellow badge that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi-occupied Europe invested the Star of David with a symbolism indicating martyrdom and heroism.”
I hope this helps someone because this stuff is becoming worryingly prevalent and the publicly available facts about how evil Kabbalah is just don’t match what people seem to be teaching. And while sure, some want to claim that Jesus was a master Kabbalist himself, even if Jesus had been taught all of these “special sacred mysteries” which have largely only ever been used to form occult groups such as the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Theophostic society, and others, literally nothing Jesus did or taught says “Go follow Kabbalah.” If that has been the solution, Jesus wouldn’t have needed to die on the cross for us, as us, with us. He would have just taught his disciples to ascend the tree through Metatron’s cube, gather together all of the shattered pieces of divinity, and work with the serpent to fix creation. But He didn’t teach anything close to that—not even once. He DID say that we have been given power to TRAMPLE serpents and scorpions, not work with them to restore creation.
Here’s where this makes things awkward, even for me personally, because there are people I know who teach this stuff, and it doesn’t make it less-harmful just because people are well-known. If you see Christian ministers teaching this stuff, I encourage you to start challenging them on it. Be respectful, but ask them how they can merge the cosmology of Kabbalah with the cosmology of Jesus. Ask them to explain how the Second Adam, Jesus, is supposedly responsible for the shattering that the second Adam in Kabbalah is responsible for. Ask them to explain how the serpent is actually a helper in restoring all things and is a victim of Adam, and how that fits into the Biblical narrative. Regardless of who makes a claim, we have to start doing some homework. If we are going to start accepting a teaching as true that has its backing in an occult religious system like Kabbalah, then we have to do some research and understand what we are aligning ourselves with and deciding to come into agreement with before we decide to just go along with it because it’s what all the popular kids are doing.
Fortunately for us, Dan Duval has done a really good job of encapsulating a wide body of knowledge and understanding about Kabbalah and what it really is in his teaching series “Exposing Kabbalah.” It is free on Youtube and also is available through multiple podcast apps. Yes, it takes time to listen to, and even more time if you do some due diligence and look at some of the source documents Daniel talks about, but if this is something you are encountering in teachings you listen to and from teachers you follow, you owe it to yourself to find out the truth.
God wants us to operate in freedom and life, and at the end of the day that’s what this message is about—uncovering a pitfall that can become easy to fall into. I have friends who like to run after every “special” conference, spiritual mystery, and secret things that makes them feel different, special, valuable, and worthy, and teaching Kabbalah mysteries helps fill that hole for a time—but it doesn’t bring the wholeness that deepening our relationship and fellowship with the Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit will do, and our true identity will only be realized in Him. That is where we need to spend our time and energy and that is where we will truly grow deeper—as we engage the mystery of the ages that the Father has already revealed to us in Christ Jesus.
