Mark 8: 22-26

(Mark 8: 22-26) And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.  And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

You must realize the meaning of the word blind. We must discover that God's hidden intention is behind what is literally expressed in the Bible. On the surface, the law is that keeping the law well will make God righteous. But on the other hand, it tells us that all humans under the law are sinners. So, through the law, we find Christ, and when we come into Christ, we have eternal life.

『 I am that bread of life.  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 』 (John 6:48-51) It means that they die even if they eat the taste that symbolizes the law. In the wilderness, God-given law is not a law to save, but a law to punish sinners. Only the law of the Holy Spirit is alive.

If you think of the story of the Bible as the story of the world, you cannot know the things of heaven. The Bible explains the work of heaven as a work of the world. So, if you do not understand the heavenly things through the works of the earth through the parables, everyone is blind to the Bible. When Jesus was talking to a rabbi named Nicodemus, he once said, "If I talk about the things of the earth, you do not believe, but will you believe the things of heaven?" There is no mention of the kingdom of God in the Bible.

The meaning that the blind man opens his eyes means to realize the things of heaven. So, they realize God's will and give God glory. In Matthew 13:34-35, "All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. "

Regarding the opening of the blind, in Isaiah 35:5, 『Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 』 It is also the story of the blind in Matthew 11:5 and Luke 4:18. When the blind man opens his eyes, he knows what sin is. There are sins committed in the world, but basically, it is a sin that all human beings leave God because they want to be like God.

It means the sinful spirits who were deceived by Satan before the creation. So, those who are trapped in the flesh say that those who do not understand the mystery of the kingdom of God are called blind people, but Jesus came to open their eyes. When the trapped spirits open their eyes, it is glorious to God to realize that they are sinful spirits in the kingdom of God, to repent and enter into Christ.

To open the eyes of the blind from birth, Jesus says in John 9:6-7. 『When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. 』
However, the day that opened the eyes of So-kyung was the Sabbath. The Sabbath day is laid in a locked state. So Christ is Lord of the Sabbath. Those who enter into Christ are released from Satan, those who enter into rest and become one with God.

 Jesus Christ gives rest to all who are bound. Since Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, he gives rest on the Sabbath to those who cannot. The Pharisees asked Jesus, "Why do you work on the Sabbath day?" It is to ask questions without knowing the meaning of the Sabbath day. Jesus releases those who are trapped on the Sabbath, and the Pharisees say that they should not do so on the Sabbath. The Pharisees were blind people

In Matthew 23:16-24, Jesus described it as blind for the Pharisees. He said to the Pharisees who do not understand the essence of the law and who literally understand the law, "Blind leaders, filter out the day and swallow camels." Even today, if you do not understand the meaning of the law and speak only with what is prescribed in the law, you are blind about the kingdom of God. Those who are bound by the provisions of the law are blind men who have nothing to do with the life of Jesus Christ. Blind people are those who do not know about the kingdom of God.

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