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Posted by Found in Him (Member # 7596) on :

Acts 28
"You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."
27For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.

How do you see this scripture?
Please explain.
thanks

Posted by bluefrog (Member # 7448) on :

Paul went to Rome and had a meeting with the Jews there. He talked about the Gentiles being a part of Christianity. Even though they got their dandur up they did better than the Jews in Jerusalem would have done. Sorta like flying a lead balloon over Rome or anywhere else for that matter.

Posted by oneinchrist (Member # 6532) on :

It appears that Paul was trying to show the non-believing Israelites that their rejection of Jesus Christ is a fullfillment of old testament prophecy.

As far as the reason for it...... I believe it fairly safe to conclude that it is not God who does not want them to be saved.......... their inablility to see the truth comes as a result of being blinded by their own pride or worldly passions.

With love in Christ, Daniel

Posted by Eden (Member # 5728) on :

FoundinHim wrote

quote:
Acts 28
"You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving."
27For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.

How do you see this scripture?
Please explain.
thanks

When Paul was a prisoner in Rome, Paul spoke the above words to the chief Jews of the house of Judah who were then living at Rome, Italy.

But generally speaking, the house of Judah was by then being accused of having the same problem as her sister the house of Israel of Samaria.

The house of Israel of Samaria had been booted off the land of Samaria for having entirely abandoned the LORD God of Israel in their thoughts and the house of Israel had turned altogether to Baal and other nonsense.

And by Paul's time, the house of Judah had also mostly forgotten the LORD God of Israel, just like her sister the house of Israel, so that they basically no longer had the ear to hear what the LORD was saying "to the churches".

Their hearts had grown calloused over time, and indifferent to the LORD, so that they could no longer understand.

Mark 14:38
Watch yourself and pray, lest you enter into temptation. For the Spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

Mark 13:36
Lest, coming suddenly, He finds you sleeping.

We need to regularly stick our eyes in the Word of God and make our spirit listen to the Spirit of God, lest the cares and riches and pleasures of this world make us forget about the LORD our God too.

If it happened to Israel, it can happen to us who are grafted into Israel.

Romans 11
20 Very well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. But be not highminded, but fear.

21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also does not spare you.

22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness IF YOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS:
otherwise you also shall be cut off.

23 And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, shall be grafted back in: for God is able to graft them back in again.

Be not highminded therefore, BUT FEAR ... otherwise you also shall be cut off again.

love, Eden