Isaiah 6:9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 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. 11 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, 12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13 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.
We can relate verse 9 to the Gospel of Jesus
Christ in that the Christian tells people about Him and they hear but don’t get
it, don’t understand or see the need for salvation or just regard themselves as
good people anyway without the saving work of God.
God through Isaiah is going to speak to the
people of Judah and Jerusalem and they are not going to understand or perceive
what he is saying. Keep in mind Jesus speaking in parables.
Matthew 13:13
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and
hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 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: 15
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. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and
your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily
I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those
things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye
hear, and have not heard them.
How long does this go on, Isaiah asks, and
God responds that until the kingdom is utterly destroyed. Notice how Jesus will
foretell of Jerusalem’s fall in 70AD.
Luke 19:42
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the
things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine
enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee
in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee
even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in
thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy
visitation.
However, He promises that a small portion
will remain. Notice how Paul promises such a thing for the end of human
history.
Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened
to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is
written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away
ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
He defined how the Jews were blinded to the
light of Christ.
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this
day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away in Christ. 15
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their
heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall
turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Some interpreters see the holy seed as
a reference to the Messiah to come, to the Lord Jesus Christ with hope of
restoration to fellowship with God.
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