2 Corinthians 3:12-14; Blindness to the Truth of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 3:12-14 ¹²Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: ¹³And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: ¹⁴But 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. (2 Cor. 3:12-14 KJV)

It is sad that there is a blindness to the glory of the truth of salvation in Jesus Christ among the Jews. The Lord brought me to visit a lady of Jewish descent close to 90 years of age. She became a citizen of Singapore recently. She shared with me that she was taught by her parents from young that Jesus is not God. He is a good man but He is not the Son of God. Although this lady married a Christian husband and attended church, she seemed to reject the witness of the New Testament Scripture that Jesus is God.

I recall spending 3 hours in our first meeting and another 3 1/2 hours in our second meeting to share the truth explaining and reasoning from the Scriptures that Jesus is indeed God.  The Old Testament Scriptures’ central message is that the Messiah of Israel is fulfilled in the Person of Jesus Christ. I pray that the Holy Spirit will affirm the truth in her heart that she might be saved.

The Apostle Paul uses the analogy of the veil over Moses’ glowing face when he descended from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Ten Commandments to hide the glory of the presence of God to explain that the Jews seemed not to see the glory that revealed (hidden) in Jesus Christ, as the true Messiah of Israel. There is a blindness an obstinate denial that he prays can be removed so that his fellow countrymen may be saved.

We have relatives and loved ones who seemed have been veiled from understanding and receiving the truth of the gospel. May God be merciful to open their spiritual eyes. Amen.