
We should not try to coerce Jesus forcefully into the framework of Kabbalah, but we should try to understand Kabbalah in the light of the new covenant, the New Testament.
Jesus is not just another Kabbalistic master or messiah of his own generation. According to Christianity, he is THE Messiah. This means that both soul aspects, which are called Messiah Ben Joseph and Messiah Ben David in Kabbalah, are fulfilled in the one man Jesus Christ. As the Book of Genesis is telling us the story of how the savior of the world, namely Joseph, must be rejected, so we believe that this same pattern is repeating itself again in the process of the redemption of today's world.
Before we learn to understand what messianic prophecies Jesus Christ has fulfilled and why it is more realistic that there's only one Messiah according to scripture and not two, we should know what changes for us when we accept the new covenant of the forgiveness for sins.
The New Testament, as I've mentioned previously, has never abandoned the Torah. The new covenant is rather a fulfillment or 'update' of the old covenant, rather than a complete replacement. It is something very different if we would be not anymore under the law than being not under the 'condemnation' of the law anymore. Without the new covenant, the Torah would place us under a system of constant failure and punishment. Because when we are taking the Torah literally, it is telling man that everyone would be cursed who is not fulfilling all the sentences of the law (Deuteronomy 27:26). As the second creation story is adding the divine attribute of mercy to the attribute of judgment, so the New Testament is bringing us grace and forgiveness through the offering of the Messiah. This act is redeeming us from a strict chain of cause and effect, where I would be rewarded if I fulfilled the Mitzvot in an exact manner and punished if I failed to fulfill them. Although the Mitzvah is good and holy, it has not achieved its purpose to redeem man from his state after the sinfall of Adam. Rather, the Mitzvah has only shown up the inability of man to come closer to God. Would it have fulfilled its purpose, we would already exist in a redeemed world. But the New Testament makes clear that not a single man has achieved righteousness through the law, and that is why we need the blood sacrifice of the Messiah, because he died 'once and for all' for our sins (1 Peter 3:18). This sacrifice sets us into a state of wholeness rather than a state of constant lack and fear. It redeems us from a linear calculation of reward and punishment. From now on, through the consciousness that we have received, we act out of a state of divine grace and completeness rather than thinking we are in the need of constant deserving of the light. This sin offering can't be 'deserved'. It is a divine gift. But despite a gift, that brings great responsibility with it. We must learn to understand how consciousness is expanding or also restricting itself throughout the divine worlds until it reaches us mortal men. We must learn to discern how the path we're choosing affects everything else in our lifetime. That's why we should choose our path carefully.
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