Conceptual Bible Study - Heart of Stone vs Circumcision of the Heart

 

There are a lot of interesting concepts that run through the Bible, through multiple authors. These concepts are succinct. This could be a long post. I am going to show you some verses, and gives some context.

• I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)

• For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me  and let me heal them. ¹⁶ “But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn’t hear it.

God is love. (1 John 4:8) God's love is forever. Young people, they tend to think about marriage a lot, or things associated with marriage....like sex. How do they think about it? It is healthy to appreciate beauty. It is may be healthy to think about marriage and be curious. Given someone was thinking about using people outside of marriage, in sin, that separates someone from God. Someone with a Heart of Stone may have loved and lost....a lot....like someone in hook up culture at college, or someone who had a lot of wicked friends in high school. In the Bible, pagans near Israel were prostituting young girls in Baal Worship. These things may have developed a Heart of Stone.....like the Rolling Stones song by Kabbalist Mick Jagger.

Having Eyes to See and Ears to Hear is a major theme in the Bible. (Ezekiel 12:2)(Proverbs 20:12)(Isaiah 42:7) Have you ever heard that masturbation makes you go blind? For a young man, learning about how to look at girls, given he was lusting after girls, that separates him from God's fatherly love. He may have become blind and deaf in sin.

• Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,     circumcise your hearts,     you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire     because of the evil you have done—     burn with no one to quench it. (Jeremiah 4:4)

• But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Romans 2:29)

A man was around 30 years old. He had loved and lost. He had been in hook up culture. Life had been rough in his 20's. He became callused. Said man, he starts seeking God with all his heart and soul and strength and mind. He had been baptized. He loves The Lord Jesus Christ. One day, said man feels suddenly like a New Born child. Stimuli, like tv and movies or music, he had been hardened against, they suddenly affect him like he was a child. He felt like he was experiencing everything for the very first time. He had a circumcision of the heart.

I have highlighted some concepts for you, and given you context for them. There may be a treasure trove of understanding here for someone with God's Holy Spirit. God bless.

Angels and Demons

 

An angel was a created being with a function governing some aspect of creation. Pride may be an aspect of creation. There may have been an angel that governed it. Someone that was prideful and haughty, they may have been blind to God. Pride as in self-esteem or self-worth, that may be a good thing. Different aspects of creation may be turned or viewed differently.

Given you go to The Book of Job, Chapter 38+, God starts to highlight things God has done to Job. There may have been angels governing the things God had done.

A demon, it was born of the sins of men. It may have been tied to specific sins. Cain slew Able. This was the first murder. Something may have been birthed from that.

Demons, being birthed of men, they can possess people. In someone’s subconscious there may have been some demons. Everyone may have been in “some level of possession.” A baptism, if done right, may be an exorcism.

Angels cannot possess someone.

A fallen angel was a created being with a function. It was separated from God. It may have been performing its function in corrupt ways. There may have been angels that governed things like Philosophy and Science and Technology. There may have been corruption there.

God’s Angels are:

Micha-el
Uri-el
Gabri-el

El would be “Of God” in this context. Is some of this lost in translation? Absolutely.

“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations! (Isaiah 14:12)

I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.” (Revelations 22:16)

And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron;
They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Revelations 2:16-29)

Lucifer would be a title or a function. This function may have had something to do with God’s Judgment of Nations. Satan, a fallen angel, he was Lucifer. This has to do with “What is The Light?” Jesus Christ became Lucifer, a title or a function. Satan, he coveted man. Jesus Christ loves you. God is love.

Satan would be “The Enemy.” There may have been many Satans. A Satan may have been a demonic ruler of a principality. There was a Top Dog Satan. That was, Satan, a Fallen Angel. Did Satan, a fallen angel have an El name? Samael.

This is good theology. It is flush with scripture, and flush with a lot of historical and theological context, like being flush in construction. Writing about angels, we are getting into things “Extra Biblical.” Being flush is important.