Monday, September 10, 2012
How it seems to work
You already know this but I want to tell you again.
1) Acts chapter 8:26 the ethopian eunich is approached by Philip and learns the truth
2) Acts chapter 9:3 Saul is approached by Annanias and learns the truth
3) Acts chapter 10:22 Peter is sent to Cornelius to teach him the truth
In all three occasions people educated people about the truth, but Jehovah always sent an angel or in the case of Acts chapter 9, He sent Jesus, the Arch-Angel to maneuver the setting so that the teaching and desciple making could take place. You too were led to the truth by an angel, but you were trained by a human. It is not by coincidence that your call just happened to be in one place and that you just happened to be there and that you just happened to talk to them about the truth. There are no concidences like this in the truth. You just have to do your job and plant seeds. Jehovah makes it grow. 1cor3:7 And that's a fact.
In the 3rd year Cyrus, the King of Persia, in the approximate year of 618-536BCE, Daniel 12:8 was recorded which says that only those with insight would understand the words of the Bible. Insight as it is used in this setting, has nothing to do with intelligence or a special ability to understand more than that of others. Daniel 12:8-10 says, "Now as for me, I heard, but I could not understand; so that I said: “O my lord, what will be the final part of these things?” 9 And he went on to say: “Go, Daniel, because the words are made secret and sealed up until the time of [the] end. 10 Many will cleanse themselves and whiten themselves and will be refined. And the wicked ones will certainly act wickedly, and no wicked ones at all will understand; but the ones having insight will understand." Daniel certainly was a good man in the eyes of God. He was well known as a prophet and evangelizer in Babylon. He was well educated in law and was in good standing with Jehovah. Yet in verse 8 of chapter 12 of the book of Daniel it says in part, "Now as for me, I heard, but I could not understand."
In this instance, the Hebrew word translated into engish word "insight" is found at Psalms 52:3 where it says, "As for God, he has looked down from heaven itself upon the sons of men, To see whether there exists anyone having insight, anyone seeking Jehovah". When there is a noun followed by a comma, the word after the comma usually describes, enhances or shares an understanding of the noun preceding the comma. This happens often in the scriptures although this does not mean that this is the only meaning for the word insight. But this does seem to be an appropriate application. The book, "Insight on the Scriptures" vol.1 by Jehovah's Witnesses has further scriptural application.
Other scriptures showing how the word insight is used:
Psalms 14:2, As for Jehovah, he has looked down from heaven itself upon the sons of men, To see whether there exists anyone having insight, anyone seeking Jehovah.
Psalms 32:8 “I shall make you have insight and instruct you in the way you should go. I will give advice with my eye upon you."
And at the time when this scripture was written by Paul in Corinth around the year 56ce (of our common era), he made this statement:
Romans 3:11 "there is no one that has any insight, there is no one that seeks for God."
It appears that those having insight, those seeking for Jehovah, often without their even knowing it, are appealing to the Holy Spirit for assistance in searching for understanding of the Truth. 1 Corinthians 2:10 says in part: 10 "For it is to us God has revealed them through his spirit, for the spirit searches into all things, even the deep things of God." Enjoy your gardening so that the angel flying in mid heaven (Rev. 14:6) can find someone (your bible study) with insight and strike again.
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