There are texts in the Bible that states that the Lord reveals His secrets, however, how do the secrets remain a secret?
Deuteronomy 29:29; The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. [And yet the Jews(‘our children’) in the time of Jesus Christ, and today, (right-wing Israelis surely do not ‘love their neighbours, Palestinians, like themselves)including many so-called Christians, and therefore do not know nor understand the hidden things of the Lord.]
Amos 3:7; Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. [‘servants’/and today’s so-called men of God, this is not according to Acts 17:24-25; “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is NOT SERVED BY HUMAN HANDS, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.]
Psalm 25:14; The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
Jesus stated that attributing His miraculous works to the devil (Beelzebub) is a severe spiritual offense known as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which he declared to be an eternal sin that will not be forgiven. In the gospels (found in Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3: 28-30, and Luke 12:10), Jesus says that while people can be forgiven for many sins and insults – even spoken words against Himself (the Son of Man)- blaspheming against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness, neither in this age nor in the one to come. The Gospel writers explicitly note that Jesus said this because the religious leaders (the Pharisees and scribes) looked at His undeniable miracles of casting out demons and claimed, “He has an unclean spirit” or operates by the power of Satan. Before issuing this warning, Jesus argued logically that Satan would not cast out Satan, because a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. By calling clear divine goodness and the work of God’s Spirit “evil” the accusers showed a hardened state of the heart that completely rejects God’s mercy and leaves no room for repentance.
The secrets of the Lord are kept secret according to Jesus Christ through the analogy of the Parable of the Sower.
Matthew 13:11-15; He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
Mark 4:11-12; He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, “‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Isaiah 6:9-10; He said, “Go and tell this people: “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Many theologians note that parables acted as a filter. They revealed deeper truth to those with a genuine desire to learn and engage, while concealing it from the casual, critical, or hostile crowds who refused to repent. Scholars also suggest that speaking in veiled stories helped manage public expectations, preventing premature political uprisings or conflicts with authorities before Jesus’s mission was completed. However, God is always in control of everything, the revelation of deeper truths or secrets of the Lord does not have anything to do with an individual’s desire to learn or the human intellectual capacity, given the truth that the scriptures states that, ‘He makes their hearts calloused or hardened’, it is impossible for such hearts to understand the word of God. And therefore, in order to have an understanding heart, God states in Ezekiel 36:26-27; I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Similarly in Ezekiel 11:19; I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Of course the individual could try to proof God wrong, and try using their own intellectual capacity, to find out the secrets of the Lord by studying the Scriptures using their own initiative. Good luck with that.
