The circumcision of the flesh was from 1919Tishri when Abraham was 99
(Genesis 17) to
37Tishri when Cornelius was converted a period of 1955 years.
The circumcision of the heart was from 37Tishri to 1992Tishri when the 2NC was
made between Jacob and Gordon (through a heavenly promise made by Jacob the
superior mediator to the 2NC and seen by Gordon after Letter
to the Society of 1992Elul11, and before the Genesis
booklet of 1992Heshvan16, which mentions the Covenant of Keturah. The
Covenant of Keturah is also referred to in the Letter of
1992Chislev1), a second period of 1955 years.
The circumcision of the mind began from 1992Tishri onwards, after Letter to
the Society was delivered to Brooklyn on 1992Elul11.
The first circumcision gave a cleanliness of the flesh, slightly reducing sexual desire. The second gave a cleanliness of the heart, which stripped off the body of flesh i.e. conquered the fleshly pressure on the heart, with love of God, and with love of the radical new morality of the Christ. The 3rd circumcision strips of the body of flesh from the mind, by the mind conquering the flesh not through massive mental control but through an understanding of the futility of fleshly desires. The circumcision of the mind is the understanding that God's laws on morality are the minimum set of rules which prevent a society of free willed beings from destroying itself. When the mind sees why God has made the laws he has made, then it understands that there is no point in breaking them. That conquers the flesh.
Circumcision of the flesh occurs when you cut off flesh from your
reproductive organ
Circumcision of the heart occurs when you cut of fleshly desires from your heart
Circumcision of the mind occurs when you cut off fleshly plans from your mind
Circumcision of the spirit occurs when both the heart and mind are circumcised
Fleshly does not just mean extra martial sexual. It means animalistic as defined by Paul...
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,
20 idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects,
21 envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning you, the same way as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God's
kingdom (Galatians 5).
Egotism, Greed, Status seeking and loving the glory of men, will not necessarily stop you inheriting the kingdom but are nonetheless desires of the flesh. Here are some scriptures referring to the various types of circumcision...
24 But let the one bragging about himself brag about himself because of this very thing, the having of insight and the having of knowledge of me, that I am Jehovah, the One exercising loving-kindness, justice and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I do take delight, is the utterance of Jehovah.
25 Look! Days are coming, is the utterance of Jehovah, and I will hold an accounting with everyone circumcised [but still] in uncircumcision,
26 upon Egypt and upon Judah and upon Edom and upon the sons of Ammon and upon Moab and upon all those with hair clipped at the temples who are dwelling in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in
heart (Jeremiah 9).
28 For he is not a Jew who is one on the outside, nor is circumcision that which is on the outside upon the flesh.
29 But he is a Jew who is one on the inside, and [his] circumcision is that of the heart by spirit, and not by a written
code [not in those days!] The praise of that one comes, not from men, but from
God (Romans 2).
1 What, then, is the superiority of the Jew, or what is the benefit of the circumcision?
2 A great deal in every way. First of all, because they were entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of
God [Those circumcised in the flesh had the
literal law of Moses and all the scriptures . Those circumcised in the heart had
the basic moral understandings of the scriptures. Those circumcised in the
spirit have the full morality of God and the full beauty of his salvation plan
for man and the history of the heavens and man and a reasonable shot at the
future of man - all from the sacred pronouncements in the bible]
(Romans 3).
Keturah means difficult questions, challenges to the mind not to the heart. The 2NC is the covenant of Keturah of Genesis 25.
3 For we are those with the real circumcision, who are rendering sacred service
by God's spirit and have our boasting in Christ Jesus and do not have our confidence in the
flesh.
4 though I, if anyone, do have grounds for confidence also in the
flesh. If any other man thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I the more so:
5 circumcised the 8th day, out of the family stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew [born] from Hebrews; as respects law, a Pharisee;
6 as respects zeal, persecuting the congregation; as respects righteousness that is by means of law, one who proved himself blameless.
7 Yet what things were gains to me, these I have considered loss on account of the
Christ (Philippians 3).
11 By relationship with him you were also circumcised with a circumcision performed without hands by the stripping off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision that belongs to the Christ (Colossians 2).
The circumcision of the flesh was a visible, external mark distinguishing the sons of the Circumcision Covenant from those around them. This mark made them set apart for a special purpose. We find prophetic references to a marking, not of the foreskin but of the forehead, in the Old and the New Testament...
3 And as regards the glory of the God of Israel, it was taken up from over the cherubs over which it happened to be to the threshold of the house, and he began calling out to the man that was clothed with the linen, at whose hips there was the secretary's inkhorn.
4 And Jehovah went on to say to him: Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and you must put a
mark on the foreheads of the men that are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done in the midst of it.
(Ezekiel 9)
This a heavenly mark given by the angels, a circumcision of the mind of people understanding wickedness and where it ultimately leads to.
John sees further details of the fulfilment which at the time Revelation was written (more than 50 years after Cornelius was circumcised at the heart) was still in the future...
3 saying: Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until after we have marked/ sealed the slaves of our God in their foreheads [the seat of the mind. They have received the mark of the circumcision of the mind on it]. (Revelation 7)
1 And I saw, and, look! the Lamb [Gordon] standing upon the Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 [2NC Kings] having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads [The circumcision of the 2NC] . (Revelation 14)
And Paul prophesied:
16 'This is the covenant that I shall covenant toward them after those days,' says Jehovah. 'I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them'. [Their hearts will be circumcised and their minds will be circumcised, being fully able to see and understand the fatal consequences of selfish/fleshly desires put into action. They don't have an veil on their mind, and so can see clearly the necessity of the law of God] (Hebrews 10).
Or in Hebrew: Gibeath-Haaraloth (Joshua 5:3). So the minute the Jews entered into the promised land in 1473Nisan, Joshua circumcised all the children born in the wilderness after the spying revolt. This created a hill of foreskins. This hill was a prophetic hill of foreskins! For when mankind enters into the kingdom of God on earth, said kingdom will be run by foreskins, meaning those who are uncircumcised in the flesh. A hill of foreskins in the promised land, is an administration of foreskinned people in the Kingdom of God. The bible is using the foreskin as a metonym for a gentile. However these people will be circumcised in both heart and spirit.
The Jew was circumcised on the 8th day after he was born. Adam is not fully resurrected until the 8th 1,000 year day when presumably he is fully circumcised. This means that by 4008, the end of the 8th day, all of Adam is circumcised in every respect. In other words we all have everlasting life by 4008.
One can argue that the 8th day of the second presence begins on 2010Nisan4, when the 7th church of Revelation2-3, Laodicea became false. In fact the church of the 8th day is the church of the 6th day which is Philadelphia. So we would expect the great circumcision of the congregation to occur during this 8th day. The priests of Philadelphia were circumcised from 1992Tishri20 onwards.
However a circumcision is one time around. So we might expect this great kingdom circumcision to take one year. This year is the acceptable year of Isaiah 61, the time of the house being built of Haggai 1, it is the circuit of Galilee (meaning circuit), which is more or less coincident with the Time of Distress of Daniel 12. It runs from 2011Shebat to 2012Shebat.
Q: Why were the Jews not circumcised during the 40 year in the wilderness?
A: Because all the registered ones they lose their right to enter into the
promised land due to their revolt on hearing the report of the spies and so
could not be entered into the LCC, the Land and Circumcision covenant, which
gave its covenanters rights to the promised land. So those who had lost that
right were not clean to circumcise the children born in the wilderness. This did
not affect their entry into the Law of Moses at mount Sinai on 1513Sivan6. This
means that the registered ones were not God's official people during the 40
years in the wilderness. Although they were under law.