THEOLOGY

Jacob’s blessing obtained by deception, Star-stealing, and Barakiel

The article is divided into three parts

Part A: What’s the origin of being ‘stuck in life’?

The Legend of the Jews says that Esau ben Isaac was born with a mark of a serpent, a symbol of wickedness. Now, in the Biblical narrative of Genesis, Jacob ben Isaac, his younger twin-brother, obtains: (i) The birthright from him through a form of barter trade (ii) The paternal blessing from his father, Isaac, through deception.

• From Esau’s perspective of (ii), Jacob ‘stole’ what should have been his. Yet, Jacob was destined for blessing before the twins were born. So this only shows that God works through the free choices, both good and bad.

Part B: So you’re making progress, and everything begins going down

We saw that Jacob definitely didn’t steal a destiny that didn’t belong to him! This brings us to star-stealing (and its branch, unrighteous destiny-swapping). A person’s star is said to symbolize divine destiny, spiritual rank, or future greatness. As examples, there’s the star of empathy, star of leadership, etc. Consequently, the devil is known as the destiny thief, as Jesus said in John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.”

The right panel picture shows the Biblical Gabriel in a typical drawing, whereas the left panel shows Gabriel in the Supernatural series. Now, the analogy of star-stealing was given in the series (when applied to angels). That is, taking the angel’s power source is called taking the angel’s grace — It instantly makes them lose their immortality, wings, and supernatural abilities.

There are four degrees of demonic activity: Diabolical Infestation, Diabolical Oppression, Diabolical Obsession, and Diabolical Possession. Star-stealing is a type of demonic oppression that takes place in the spirit world; however, the concept of a person’s star is derived from the Star of Bethlehem — an astronomical phenomenon (in the real world) which guided the Magi to Jesus.

How is it done by destiny hijackers (who are lightly ☹ known as energy vampires)? Some say it’s just by obtaining your name, or by shaking of hands, or by laying hands on forehead/head, or by buying you gifts, or by giving you food. Then, it has come to be believed that when people go to dark witchdoctors to ‘clean their stars’, this is also exactly where their stars can be stolen!

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Why is it done? What’s the end-game? There is a strange freedom in realizing that most people aren’t watching you (or thinking about you) nearly as much as you think they are. But, sometimes, yes they are, and for eschatological reasons too! For example, the anti-Christ would require deception to cover-up the withered arm/struck right eye, and it could be through stolen stars.

Can your star be recovered, once stolen/manipulated? Yes.

Part C: We end with Jacob once again

Jacob’s ladder at Bethel: One of the multiple encounters of Jacob with angels

Jacob had many encounters with angels! Now, whereas the encounter at Bethel which involved Jacob’s ladder was a passive experience (while sleeping), the encounter at Peniel/Penuel was an active one — He would come to wrestle with an angel from night until dawn.

Some said it was the angel of Esau/Esau’s guardian angel, or another angel like Michael. But it could even have been Barakiel. Barakiel’s name means Blessing of God — its Hebrew roots are barakh (to bless); that’s why some other languages like Swahili have the term ‘Baraka’ meaning blessing.

With two other angels (Uriel and Rubiel), Barakiel is said to be invoked to bring success in games of chance — even though we know that when angels aid people, they do not usually override human choices.

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