Here's the LLM Question of the Day for 8-30-2010...What are the names of the 3 Jews that were blinded in the Bible?

Here are the choices:

. Ham, Lot, Baalim
. Isaiah, Ezekiel, Mordecai
. Samson, Zedekiah, BarJesus
. Manasseh, Hezekiah, Jonathan

And now...

The Answer to yesterday's The LLM Question of the Day (8-29-2010):

Question was: Is there a Christian Sabbath; a specific day to observe?

Answer: By trusting and resting in the perfect redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ we learn that, under grace, the believer has rest, but NO Sabbath; as Israel, under the law, had the Sabbath but NO rest. The LORD Jesus Christ is the believer’s Sabbath. The Sabbath was a covenant between Jehovah and Israel. (Exodus 31:14-16). There can be no universal Sabbath with such variations of time; especially with Israel cast away. (Romans 11:15). Christian, member of the Body of Christ, Child of the Living God, “let no man judge you with respect to the Sabbath.” (Colossians 2:16). 8-)

Now keep in mind everyone, I wouldn't just for the sake of having you hunt for who was blinded. Tomorrow's daily message will deal with WHY they were blinded.

Please read Judges 13:1-7; Judges 13:24-25; Judges 16:20-22; Judges 16:28-31; Jeremiah 52:1-11; Acts 13:1-15.

In this lesson we read concerning three blind Jews, “Samson,” “Zedekiah” and “Barjesus.”

One of the most fascinating and yet pathetic stories in the Bible is the birth, life and death of Samson. He judged Israel for twenty years. He had a wonderful beginning, although like all of Adam’s children, he was conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity.

As in the births of Isaac, Benjamin, Jo­seph, Samuel, John the Baptist, and others, God undertook for a barren woman, and Sam­son was the promised son of his parents, born by special favor of God.

In Judges 13:1, we read of the wonderful opportunity, challenge, and task for Samson. He was a Nazarite. His long hair was the symbol of his mighty power from God, as told in Judges 13:24-25; Judges 14:19; Judges 15:15.

Now take a good look at Judges 14:6, “The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him”. But something awful happened to Samson. Then note Judges 11:20, “Samson wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” Then the Gentiles, the great enemies of Samson’s God, dis­graced Samson and God’s nation. After his hair was cut off his power was gone. He failed in his God-given duty to the Gentiles. They put out his eyes, mocked him, and used him as a beast.

But later something happened to both Sam­son and the Gentiles. This we will note after we read about blind Zedekiah, and blind Bar-Jesus.

Like Judge Samson, all of Israel’s kings, be­ginning with Jeroboam, were idolaters, not one good one in several hundred years. In 2 King 17:18 we read, “Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.”

Then note some time later, in 2 Kings 23:26-27, that because of the terrible sins of Judah’s King Manasseh, God also cast off Judah (with Benjamin) about 600 B. C.

Israel and Judah had dishonored and pro­faned the name of God in the presence of the Gentiles. Israel and Judah were cast off, po­litically, and “the times of the Gentiles,” began, polit­ically, with a blind Jew, Zedekiah.

The king of Babylon, the heathen, had his men put out the eyes of Zedekiah, the king (2 Kings 25:5-7; Jeremiah 52:1-11). From the day of Zedekiah’s blindness, polit­ically, Israel has been the tail, not the head, in fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28:13; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:44. The times of the Gentiles, politically, be­gan with a blind Jew, and blind Israel. (Isaiah 6:9-10).

About twelve years after Israel had rejected Jesus, their Messiah in incarnation, (Acts 5:29-30; Acts 13:23; Matthew 21:42; John 1:11), they rejected Him in resurrection, and the Apostle Paul said, “we turn to the Gentiles.” (Acts 13:46). This was at the time God blinded a Jew, with a good name “Bar-jesus.”

God sent blindness on Israel and the times of the Gentiles spiritually, began about the middle of the first Christian century (Romans 11:6-9, Romans 11:25-26). Also read Acts 13:5-15.

The Jew, “Bar-jesus” (whose name means: “the child of Jehovah­Saviour”) tried to keep the seeking Gentile, Paul (Paulus), from hearing the Word of God from Saul (the Apostle Paul). Paul believed Saul when God blinded “the child of Jehovah Saviour;” (Bar-jesus) and Saul the Apostle became Paul. “Bar-jesus” spoke of, or relates to, Is­rael, God’s child. (Romans 11:5-11).

Samson, with his hair growing again (Judges 16:22), although blind, speaks of Israel today, still spiritually blind, but growing rapidly eco­nomically and politically. What happened to the Philistines when Samson took down their pillars? Read it in Judges 16:25-31.

This will happen to the pillars of Gentile civilization when the Nation of Israel shall be thrust into the Great Tribulation, Then Israel’s Deliverer, the LORD Jesus Christ, will come. (Luke 21:24-33; Ro­mans 11:26). God again will make Israel the head (Romans 11:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:2-12).

Read Isaiah 62:1-4, Ezekiel 37, and Ezekiel 38.

So There You Have it!

Spread this message to everyone you know, far and wide. The time is short

Grace be to you and peace, from God: our Father, and The LORD Jesus Christ.

In The LORD Jesus Christ,
The Lion and Lamb Ministry

David Picos, D.D. 8-)
Minister and Ambassador for Christ in the Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-20)

Would it not be fair to say that Saul of Tarsus was blinded as well? Of course his blindness was removed and with it he was enlightened to the greatest information ever passed to a man (speaking from my dispensational point of view). Of course this may be splitting hairs as he was given a gentile name as he lost his old identity and gained a new identity. Just a thought.

TRUE! Saul the Pharisee was blinded, and the 1st member of the Body of Christ, Paul the Apostle, was given GREAT Sight. Excellent point you brought up.

Hey david i cant find your email,but please romans 13 i believe ,the one about obeying governments,i mean God could never order use to follow evil governments,please what is going on,i love God but some stuff in the bible realy makes me wonder who wrote it,clear this up for many who need to know the truth.and thanks for your awesome site ,whitch is much needed.