The Book of Mysteries

by Jonathan Cahn

In Hebrew, taleh means lamb. And from taleh also comes the word that means covering.

“The Word came first; the world came second. The Word was spoken, and the world followed. So the Word doesn’t follow the world . . . the world follows the Word. And what does that mean for our lives?” “We must not be led by the world, but by the Word.”

“Through a living tree came death.” “And through a dead tree,” I said, “comes life.”

Either the universe began from nothing and thus cannot exist, or it has no beginning and never began, in which case it can’t exist.” “So we can’t exist . . . but we do exist. Then what’s the answer?” “The answer can only be that which cannot be explained. . .yet explains all things . . . that which you cannot make sense of. . .and yet which makes sense of all things . . . Only that which is not of this world, not of the physical, can explain the physical. Only an uncaused cause could cause the universe to exist. And only that which exists beyond the laws of the universe could cause the laws of the universe to exist.” “Which is . . .” “God,” said the teacher.

“So the will of God is to come down and dwell with His people.”

His coming down is recorded this way: ‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.’ But in the original language it says that the Word tabernacled with us. In other words, He ‘pitched His tent among us’ just as He did at Mount Sinai. What does that mean?” “It means that every day of our lives, we can dwell in His presence.” “Yes,” he said. “It means you can dwell in the glory of God every day of your life.

A tree’s fruitfulness can never exceed its rootfulness.”

“So how do you escape the corruption of altered weights?” “Never change the truth to fit your will. Change your will to fit the truth. Never bend the Word of God to fit your life. Bend your life to fit the Word of God.

“And learn from the stars. Live to keep your life, and you’ll dwell in darkness. But live to give your life, and your life will become one of greatness, a light that shines in the darkness

“Every time you die to the self, every time you crucify the flesh, every time you surrender your will to God’s will . . . the power of God and of new life will be released, and you will bear much fruit, and your life will bring forth the life it was always meant to bear. Do this, and the purposes of God in your life will bear much fruit . . . It is the law of the zygote.”

And lakakh can also mean seize, and thus seize the lamb. So Messiah would be seized, arrested, and taken captive.

For if the altar of sacrifice opened the way that one might dwell in the holy place, then the altar of Messiah’s sacrifice has opened the way for you to dwell in the heavenlies . . . and the realms of glory.”

And as that total joining drew near, the Heavenly One was beaten and mocked and made to wear a crown of thorns . . . And then He was covered with a robe. And do you know what kind of robe it was? It was a purple robe . . . a purple robe to cover the One in whom heaven and earth, God and man, blue and red . . . become completely one . . . purple.”

In Messiah you have that power . . . to depart from this realm, from the old and the earthly, even now. Die to your old life, and you will enter the new. Die to the flesh, and you’ll live in the Spirit. Die to the earthly, and you’ll enter the heavenly. Learn the secret of living in your afterlife now.

You can’t cause God to love you anymore than you could cause God Himself.

And in Messiah’s Sunset, the past fades to black, the old life disappears, and the old creation is brought out of existence into nothingness.

“And so the power of the Sunrise is the power to bring into existence that which did not exist, to bring forth, out of nothing, a new creation, a new being, a new identity

The act of salvation is the act of the Semikhah. You’re performing a cosmic Semikhah across time and space. Perform your Semikhah, and not only once. Touch the head of the sacrifice, place your sins upon Him, your burdens, your fears, your shame, your cares, join every part of your life to the sacrifice, and the sacrifice to every part of your life . . . that the two moments and the two lives be lived as one.” The

“The Bridegroom looks at the bride and sees her as she will be. God looks at you and sees what He made you to become, and as you will become.