Thessalonians part 82

First lets look at blindness caused by disobedience is the deadness that keeps all unredeemed mankind separatered from GOD, as found in Deuteronomy 28 beginning at verse 27 through 37 where we have this statement, “The LORD shall smite you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save you. You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof. Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your ass shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them. Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in your hands. The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat it up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always: So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. The LORD shall smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone. And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.”


Next we come upon unbelief, the religious world out there spreads so many unsubstantial theories of truth in reguards to GODS' Will, Word and law, that many remain in darkness and unbelief. Because they truly do not know what is truth and what is to be believed. And would you know it it happens to be with Paul as the object of the subject, it found in Acts 9 beginning at verse 1 through verse 9 where this what it states, “Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you Me? And he said, Who are You, LORD? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and  was greatly astonished said, LORD!, what will You have me to do? The Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.” This Paul rehearses again in Galatians 1.


Perversion of the revelation of Christ is caused by disobedience and unbelief of Him. This is seen in 2Peter 1 and 1John 2. First 2Peter 1 beginning at his introduction through the end of verse 11 where we find this statement, “Peter, a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our LORD, according as His divine power having given to us all things that pertain to Life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him having called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these we might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, give all due diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.”


The next perversion is in 1John 2.