{"id":50,"date":"2013-07-19T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2017-01-27T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T18:20:04","slug":"why-cant-they-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Why Can’t They See?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Can\u2019t They See?<\/strong>
\nSomeone recently asked me a question that I have heard often concerning the signs of apostasy and the approaching Antichrist kingdom. She asked, \u201cWhy is it that I can see these things, but other Christians don\u2019t seem to see them?\u201d Christ provided an answer in Matthew\u2019s gospel.
\n\u201cAnd in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: \u2018Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.\u2019\u201d Matthew 13:14-15 (NKJV) <\/p>\n

The Greek text implies that the heart is spiritually obese, presumably from ingesting the fruit of the world system. The heart is the core of the soul. As the heart goes, so go the ear and eyes. Hearts that have lost the desire for God\u2019s truth govern ears and eyes that do not desire to hear or read the same. God\u2019s word calls people with such hearts \u201csleepers\u201d. <\/p>\n

The desire to \u201csee\u201d and \u201chear\u201d is predicated on the heart\u2019s sense of what is important and what is ignorable information. True Christians are guided by the Holy Spirit that inspires their hearts to feed on God\u2019s truth. The fact is, they \u201csee\u201d and \u201chear\u201d because they desire to \u201csee\u201d and \u201chear\u201d. Mere \u201cprofessing\u201d Christians often do not have this deep desire. It is more important to them to gather mundane information by the brain load. Most of it is information they can do without, or that does absolutely nothing to enhance life, or make them more productive for God. A great deal of it flows from the internet and television. It embeds in their minds an ungodly philosophical world view. They certainly do not crave information about the last days. In fact, they either ignore or avoid altogether any references to the topic. Attempting to impart necessary information to them about the last days spoils the warm and fuzzy glow of glow of false security. They have decided to whistle past the graveyard, to \u201csleep\u201d through the last days and hope they will be exempt from the mayhem.<\/p>\n

I would hazard to guess that, based on my experience with and knowledge of, \u201cprofessing\u201d Christians, that probably ninety percent in our nation never study God\u2019s word. Instead, they will accept verbatim heretical information from religious television, books (including fiction), and even songs. This means that they are dependent on someone else for nearly all the information they need to navigate life, be productive for God, to mature in faith, and to attain everlasting life. I should point out that they will go to great lengths to get information they want. But the information that they need has to practically be forced upon them. Even then, they refuse it. <\/p>\n

No wonder we have so many divisions of Christianity. Imagine handing compasses to a large number of people and sending them on a long and dangerous journey. Instead of using their compasses, ninety percent of them ask various individuals how to reach the destination. As a result, some want to go one way, and others want to go a different way. Eventually, the group is splintered into many factions, each insisting that their directions are correct. Of course, only the ones who use their compasses are likely to arrive safe and sound at the right place. Likewise, why become a follower of an individual if you have the Holy Spirit and a Bible? However, the spiritual state of their souls is the same factor that prevents them from hearing or accepting the truth that could awaken them to error. I could ask, \u201cDo you know that you are deceived?\u201d But they might reply, \u201cHow can I if I\u2019m deceived?\u201d <\/p>\n

The fact is that if one does not feed on God\u2019s word, he or she is totally qualified for deception infection, and most are already carriers. Of course, it is something that \u201csleepers\u201d do not wish to be informed about. Their \u201cwake me when it\u2019s over\u201d response to God\u2019s prophetic revelation has morphed professing Christianity into a concoction of new age doctrine and psychobabble, meshed with a wide range of heresies and unbiblical practices. This new \u201cChristianity\u201d has been cleverly woven into a large number of churches in America. Further, the unbiblical mixture seems to be snowballing as it goes along, picking up more unbiblical ideas, concepts, and practices from the cult and even occult. The influence is to the extent that the generation coming into leadership does not recognize true Christianity. It is as heresy to them. Most pastors are accepting it because it increases attendance of the Sunday morning meeting. The vast number of hirelings that have taken over pastorates are even promoting it as God\u2019s \u201cnew way of doing church\u201d. As a result, there are few churches where truth is preached and few people that even care. In my opinion, the great majority of people converting to Christianity are ascribing to false Christianity. If they could be convinced of true Christianity, those churches would either empty or altars would be filled with repentant sinners.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, Christians that \u201csee\u201d and \u201chear\u201d recognize the deception and apostasy flowing in and spreading out like a great and evil tsunami. If you can still \u201csee\u201d and \u201chear\u201d, be thankful that your heart has not grown calloused and dull. Rejoice in the fact that God can still warn you. Do not be discouraged when you realize that you are outside the mainstream of this rancid, last days, pseudo-Christianity. Take courage in His word that declares, \u201cI will never leave you or forsake you.\u201d One day when the darkness finally engulfs everything, the Antichrist kingdom is fully set in place, and the horrific events prophesied in God\u2019s word begin to occur, you will be glad that you stood tall and faced the storm. On that day, you will be a \u201ctree of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that He might be glorified.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Can\u2019t They See? Someone recently asked me a question that I have heard often concerning the signs of apostasy and the approaching Antichrist kingdom. She asked, \u201cWhy is it that I can see these things, but other Christians don\u2019t seem to see them?\u201d Christ provided an answer in Matthew\u2019s gospel. \u201cAnd in them the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}