We continue with our review of Isaiah 29:9-22
VERSE 11 “And the vision of everything [the revelation of God’s truth through these] is become unto you [nominal Zion] as the words of a book that is SEALED.”
This includes the whole testimony from Genesis to Revelation.
“This they themselves fully admit, and therefore seldom attempt to expound the Scriptures (to discuss troubling or hard to understand doctrines, prophecy and etc.), but instead merely take an isolated passage, and from it draw some moral or social lesson pertinent to the time. Nominal Zion has discarded the teachings of the true Prophets and Seers of the church, and has taken instead the decrees of human councils and synods, while the decrees of the real Head and teachers of the church are neglected. Hence, they know not what to think of the present time, and are still more confused when they think of the future.
They are at a loss as to what is transpiring about them, why it is that a nation such as ours supposedly founded upon Christian values and principles is slowly dissolving and degrading into chaos and turmoil, and when they look to the future, they realize that if things remain on course things will only get worse. The clouds are gathering and men’s hearts are beginning to fail for fear of the approaching storm, “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written (things which they have disregarded) may be fulfilled…Upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.”
Verse 11 continued.
“Which [book–the Bible] men deliver to one that is learned (supposedly), saying, read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.
VERSE 12 “And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.”
“The prophecies of the Old and New Testaments are sealed against their learning, for they have studied only at the feet of science and sectarianism (taught in the great schools of men, seminaries and etc.), and have neglected the school of Christ and the study of its text-book, the Bible; hence their learned ones lack the true wisdom, and the true spirit, which alone will enable any to appreciate the deep things of God. (Compare 1 Cor. 2:5-14.) The unlearned, accustomed to look to earthly learning for instruction in heavenly things, and not to the testimony of Prophets and Apostles, will not even attempt to understand.”
Continued with next post.
