Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Healing of the Blind

Someone asked the following question:
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" There is the account of a blind man coming to Jesus to be healed and Jesus lays hands on him. He then asked him if he can see. The man says "I see men as trees". Jesus didn't quite get it right the first time so he goes in a second time and fully heals him. Why would Almighty God need a do over? Why wouldn't he get it right the first time if he was Almighty God? It just makes no sense."
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The following is just a few thoughts that I feel Jesus may have been demonstrating allegorically in the healing of the blind man.

Hebrews 9:28
"Even so it is that Christ having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not carrying any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are waiting for and expecting Him."

It takes the two comings of the Lord to show forth his corporate coming or collective coming. The first was fulfilled in the singular man Jesus Christ, for the "testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy".....what was he prophesying about or testifying about?.....it was US he was givng testimony to!...we would be the fulfillment of his prophecy....He said in John 17 that "the glory you have given me, I have given them...and "in them is my glory achieved".

Isa. 42: 16
I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and uneven places a plain. These things have I determined to do for them, and not leave them forsaken.

"Yes, who is blind as the Lord's servant? You see many things, but you do not observe or apprehend their true meaning....Isa. 42:19

Our blind man, has been our unawakened consciousness and even when first touched or awakened, it still does not automatically see all things clearly, but must be touched yet again. There is only one spirit, one baptism, etc, but there are more than one unfolding of that One.

That is what I see Jesus doing metaphyically by touching the blind man twice.

There are many truths taught by the "twos" in the word.

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