We should want to be His Hands and his feet
all are priests and kings
As a whole ,we r short on this cus we talking of old and the newness of The Holy Spirit can't move .
people can't understand
In the Old Testament because of thier continuos rebellion against his word God purposely made
Israelites deaf and blind to his word.
Until Jerusalem was left desolate
“And he said,
Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and
shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord,
how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
But
yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so
the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”
Isaiah 6:9-13 KJV
That’s why had to open thier eyes and ears or they couldn’t hear it’s a specific ot curse of the law
Jesus specifically says they fulfilled tbat prophecy
“Therefore
speak I to them in parables: because they
seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest at any time they should see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And should understand with their heart, And should be converted, and I should heal them.”
Matthew 13:13-15 KJV
when jesus began preaching the gospel to israel only he was coming after all the plan had been unfolding throughout the ot .
Part of the plan laid out meticulously in the ot prophets and law was that isreal would reject the promised messiah when he came and because of this God would send his message of salvation to the ends of the earth teaching forth to all people of all nations beginning at Jerusalem with a chosen remnant ( the apostles and early church ) they would be chosen
“Jesus answered them, Have not I
chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
John 6:70 KJV
to receive and grasp the gospel so they could do this
“And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Matthew 24:14 KJV
“until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: But
ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.”
Acts 1:2, 8-9
It’s strange to think maybe but
today we are still reading thier witness of Jesus cjrost and the gospel all throughout the world in our Bible
people convert daily in the world from that blessed and chosen witness and Unlike Israel they weren’t blinded and made deaf rether the plain witness of Christ was spread throughout the world