Isaiah 6:10
10 Make the heart [leb] of this people [`am] fat, [shaman] and make their ears ['ozen]
heavy, [kabad] and shut [sha`a`] their eyes; [`ayin] lest
they see [ra'ah] with their eyes, [`ayin] and hear [shama`] with
their ears, ['ozen] and understand [biyn] with their heart, [lebab]
and convert, [shuwb] and be healed. [rapha'] KJV-Interlinear
10
"Render the hearts of this people insensitive,, Their ears dull, And their
eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, Hear with their ears,, Understand with
their hearts, And return and be healed." NASB
Long ago we studied
(Ephesians) the scar tissue of the soul. Look at your Charts on the soul online.
The soul of the unbeliever and the soul of the negative believer will be
similar in that their continued negative attitude toward God and their
spiritual lives will generate a scar tissue over the soul. And as the soul
becomes more and more callous, then the person becomes more and more
insensitive toward others and life, and truth.
This is our current verse,
verse ten. The eyes do not see the spiritual side of life even though they see
the physical things in life. The ears do not hear the spiritual side of life
even though they hear the physical things in life. The soul becomes deadened
slowly.
The real danger to the
life of an indifferent person is in their becoming convinced that their beliefs
are the truth, and that the Bible isn't as good, or isn't good enough for their
life, or is inadequate for their particular life style.
'Lest they see and hear
...,' from their own understanding.
When Gods counsel is
rejected or modified to the convenience of the individual, then the individuals
beliefs become their primary focus in life. People decide that they can
accomplish all things on their own. People come to the belief that they can
solve problems on their own. People become convinced that they can make their
own way through life.
Ultimately, habitually
negative people think they can heal themselves.
They look to philosophy
for interpretation. The look to religion for access to a higher existence. They
look to government for life's solutions. They look to technology for
conveniences. All of these things being external to the soul.
In short, people no
longer need God, all they need is a bit more time and a bit more money, to
solve or accomplish whatever it is they want. That becomes the focus in life
and that becomes ultimately the trap that blinds and destroys.
2 Thess. 2:10
10 and with all the
deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the
love of the truth so as to be saved. NASB
2 Thess. 2:11-12
11 And for this reason
God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is
false,
12 in order that they all
may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
NASB
Habitually negative
people choose of their own free will to chase after the lies of life. God
allows them to do just that.
Lest they see and hear,
is a reference to the arrogance approach and attempts to resolve life's secrets,
apart from the truth of God.
A long time ago, humanity
tried to build a tower all the way up to heaven. God sent them confusion in the form of
languages in order to preserve humanity.
Everyone was pursuing the same thing and no one was looking to God or
truth.
God uses many forms of
separation in order to protect humanity.
Separations such as in individuals, families, nations, geographical
regions, continents, oceans, languages, cultures and so forth. When man tries to make everything one thing,
then the danger to humanity becomes very real, because no human or group of
humans can escape the sin nature and no human and no group of humans can run the
world with fairness, righteousness or justice.
That will of course be in
part, the downfall of humanity in the Tribulation as currency, languages,
national entity identities, and such all become of one mind or state. That direction is trending even now during
our current dispensation, laying the framework for what is to come. This continues in our current day under the pretext
of progressivism, or liberalism, or social justice philosophies.
And just as in times
past, people brought this problem onto themselves, so too, in our future, these
spiritually negative attitudes will bring about the arrogance syndrome of
accomplishment without God, as humanity can see all around, the evidences of
God, can hear the many arguments of truth in public opinions, but reject truth
in preference for their own delusional ideas.
Lest they see and hear,
emphasizes that humanity cannot see or hear truth, nor rise to the level of
God, by means of their own effort or ability.
Sin cannot achieve perfection, but it keeps trying.
All that the sin nature
will accomplish is to make the soul fat on its own values and the heaviness of
the lies of life will weight their souls down such that no truth can
enter. And this, all, is due to an
attitude of arrogance and rejection of truth.
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