Ezekiel 38:2 · World English Bible
Ezekiel 38:2 Meaning Son of Man
Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
What does Ezekiel 38:2 mean?
The developing higher self is turned squarely against the marauding force that rises out of the north, and the north within is the seat of the emotions. Gog and his horde are the invaders of emotionalism, the surge of feeling that storms up from below to overrun the ordered inner land.
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The developing higher self is turned squarely against the marauding force that rises out of the north, and the north within is the seat of the emotions. Gog and his horde are the invaders of emotionalism, the surge of feeling that storms up from below to overrun the ordered inner land. To set the intelligence against them is to face this uprising directly rather than let it sweep the mind.
The whole scene is the internal battle for the mind that religion mistakes for a coming war between nations. The higher man does not flee the flood of raw emotion; he stands his ground and speaks against it, because only steady intelligence can hold the throne when feeling marches to seize it.
Gog: the marauding force of emotionalism that rises up to overrun the mind North: the seat of the human emotions, the quarter from which the invading feeling comes Face: the intelligence a person sets deliberately against what would overrun it Son of man: the developing higher self within, the mind coming into its own power
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Live Ezekiel 38:2 today
- When a wave of feeling hits you alone, hurt, dread, fury at a headline, stay sitting and name it for what it is before you act on it. Facing it is different from obeying it and different from pretending it is not there.
- In a group chat or at the dinner table, when you feel the heat rise, say the true thing in a level voice instead of the sharp thing in a loud one. You are not swallowing the feeling, you are keeping your hand on the wheel.
- Under real pressure, a deadline, a conflict, bad news, take one slow breath and ask what you actually think, not what you feel. The feeling gets heard, it just does not get to decide.
When emotion marches in, do I face it, or do I quietly hand it the keys?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Seneca
Anger must be met at the door, because once it is inside the house it gives the orders. Refusing its first demand is far easier than negotiating with it later.
Buddhism · the Dhammapada
The one who holds back rising anger the way a driver reins a chariot at speed is the real master. The horses still run, but someone is holding the reins.
Bhagavad Gita 2
When feeling floods, discernment drowns, and a person loses the thread of what they actually meant to do. Steadiness is not coldness, it is keeping the seat while the storm passes through.
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