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Tue, 20 May 2014 14:33

james
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Registered: April 2008
Location: Birmingham, AL

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More Thoughts on Beholding God's Glory...

"In the year that king Uzziah died I saw The LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, [is] The LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of His Glory." Isaiah 6:1-3

And down in verses 9-13 we see God causing spiritual blindness upon the people until the fulfillment of His plan was acomplished.

"And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Then said I, Lord, How long? And He answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

And The Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." Isaiah 6:9-13

So in looking at both OT and NT we can see that for God's plan of reconcillation of both Jew and Gentile there was a spiritual blindness sent upon the Jewish nation of Israel until the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled. Then in II Corinthians 4:3&4 we see the gospel hidden from the lost because the god of this world [Satan] has blinded them. I see a big difference here, with Israel it's God's will that they be blinded (obviously because of their rejection and rebellion against Him <on their part>, on His part it was all part of His sovereign plan of restoration of man unto Him through Jesus Christ, remember, He said throughout the OT that He had a remmant and He promised that in the end He would restore Israel unto Himself). But with the Gentiles (us) Satan is the blinder and it's our calling as followers of Christ to share/present/preach that glorious Gospel of Christ unto them that are lost; that they too might receive the 'light' of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ... to Behold The Glory of God.

“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”

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