Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 29

 You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. Ezekiel 28

Fiery stones!!! 🔥

Without being burned this being can walk back and forth.

The fiery word is an adjective that describes a state of burning strongly and brilliantly. These stones here are not the ordinary stones on earth. It is more than what we see here. These are heavenly stones set on fire. I like to describe it as unquenchable fire but the stones are not really burned. 

How many of us can walk in fire and come out alive, with no wounds and as if nothing happened? No one.

This being described by God has great freedom of movement. Can pass all his Angelic subjects that govern God's holiness and glory like the Seraphims or the fiery ones. If I can fathom this, is like ultimate toleration from God. What a wonderful privilege that is.

Yet this walking back and forth isn't enough. Fiery stones may also speak about the stars. Walking back and forth is a horizontal movement meaning Satan in all of its old glory can move back and forth but not vertically because he did not sinned yet. Not until Satan vowed in his heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God" (Isaiah 14:13).

In regards to Satan's fall (vertically), Jesus revealed this in Luke 10:18. Context-wise his disciples were happy returning to him saying to Jesus: even the demons submit to us in your name. Jesus’ first words in reply are, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (verse 18). 

In referencing Satan’s fall from heaven, Jesus most likely had in mind Isaiah 14:12, “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!” The fall of Satan that Jesus saw happened after Lucifer’s sin, before Adam and Eve’s temptation in the Garden of Eden. In his pride, Lucifer had lifted himself up, but God had cast him down out of his original place in heaven (although he retains limited access to heaven for now, according to Job 1:6). Jesus’ statement in Luke 10:18 speaks of Jesus’ pre-existence and the Lord’s defeat over the power of Satan in a general sense.🔥

AC

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