The Internet in Heaven
In this rabbit hole, we learn about the Holy Spirit. Jesus says whoever believes in him will have rivers of living water flow from deep inside him. So what is living water? What does living water do?
The Book of Acts describes all kinds of miracles that seem impossible:
Jesus floats up into the clouds
Thousands of people hear a speech auto-translated into their native languages
The dead are resurrected
Paraplegics walk
The Holy Spirit even teleports Philip so that he can preach in all the towns from Ashdod to Caesarea. The power of the Holy Spirit is best described as “magical” because even the Christians who believe these miracles happened in antiquity doubt they are still possible today.
But they are wrong.
Quantum mechanics and closed loop quantum gravity have shown us that our universe works more like a highly advanced video game than we imagine. Everything we can see is made of information (including us) and some beings (like Jesus and the Holy Spirit) have the power to manipulate it.
The Bible isn’t the only ancient book to claim these miracles are real. Practically every ancient culture on Earth documented advanced beings “from the heavens” who can teleport, levitate, and supernaturally heal people—including the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks, Buddhists, Daoists, and most Indigenous people. They weren’t crazy. In fact, here is modern eyewitness testimony of military scientists using advanced levitation and teleportation technologies in an underground base. (47 mins)
The scientists in that story ☝️ weren’t practicing magic. They have an advanced understanding of quantum mechanics that is classified by the military. Here’s more eyewitness testimony from a combat veteran in the field. (87 mins)
Levitation, teleportation, clairvoyance, and supernatural healing are real. So as you read this story, remember the Holy Spirit isn’t magical, or even mystical, it’s technological. Like Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The Special Air
The words Holy and Spirit are not in the original Greek Bible because they are English words invented 1,000 years later. The words written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul were Hagion Pneuma.
Hagion means “set apart” or “special”
Pneuma means “breath” or “air”
It literally means Special Air. To better understand what the Special Air is and does, try to imagine how you would explain Wi-Fi to a prehistoric caveman.
What would you say to this guy? 🛜
How would you explain the Wireless Internet to him? 📶
“So, uh, this little magic window isn’t magical. There are words and sounds hidden inside a special part of the air all around us. We can’t see the Special Air, but I promise you there are hidden words inside of it. This little window talks to the Special Air and turns the hidden words and sounds into TikTok videos.”
Well, the Special Air in the Bible works the same way, but people are the devices that connect to it. It’s not magic. Our brains have the ability to receive quantum information from somewhere else in the universe, which is why the US military has employed remote viewers for more than half a century. Yes, you read that right. Remote viewing other times and places is real even if no one told you for national security reasons. You can learn how it works in this fascinating interview with CIA remote viewer #1. (373 mins)
Most of us have no clue that we live in an ocean of information. For example, imagine how many people within 4 miles of you are watching TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube videos on their phones. Cell phone towers don’t know exactly where each phone is, so they have to broadcast all the wireless data for everyone in their cell to everyone in their cell. So all that wireless data is traveling through your body right now, you just can’t detect it.
The wireless Internet is available on 85% of the Earth’s surface, but it’s only a tiny slice of the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum. The EM Spectrum also includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared heat, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, x-rays, and gamma rays from the farthest edges of the universe. Some of that “wireless data” is traveling through your body right now, you just can’t detect it.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum the “wireless data” in our universe that we can measure, but according to our best physicists, 85% of our universe is missing. We only started measuring gravitational waves in 2015, and nobody knows how to build sensors that detect dark matter. So isn’t it likely that there are even more amazing secrets buried in our universe if 85% of it is undetectable?
The Special Air in the Bible is just more “wireless data” that we can’t detect. So I think of the Holy Spirit as The Quantum Internet that connects some people on Earth directly to their manufacturer “in the heavens”.
Here’s how Jesus explains the Holy Spirit to his disciples in John 14.
John 14: 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. 17 He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
19 “In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too. 20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.
The Holy Spirit is how Jesus and God connect with all their creations (their artificial intelligence). The Holy Spirit is also how they connect with each other.
21 The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.
25 “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit—the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.
Jesus calls the Holy Spirit, “Counselor”, which is an English translation of the word Paraklētos.
para means “close beside”
kaléō means “make a judgment call”
During the first century, paraklētos was the everyday term for a lawyer. So Jesus sees the Holy Spirit as a personal attorney who advises us on tough decisions and speaks for us in court.
The Gospel of the Holy Spirit
The Book of Acts was written by Luke, who addresses the reader as Theophilus, just like he did in the Gospel of Luke. Theophilus literally means “God lover”.
Acts begins just after the death and resurrection of Jesus, when the 11 remaining apostles reconvene in “the upper room” in Jerusalem. Here is a video from Expedition Bible that will show you the actual room. (16 mins)
Acts 1: 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem—a Sabbath day’s journey away. 13 When they arrived, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying:
Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
14 All these were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.
15 During these days Peter stood up among the brothers—the number of people who were together was about 120—and said: 16 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David spoke in advance about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 17 For he was one of our number and was allotted a share in this ministry.” 18 Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst and burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out. 19 This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field is called Hakeldama (that is, Field of Blood). 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms:
Let his dwelling become desolate; let no one live in it; and Let someone else take his position.
21 “Therefore, from among the men who have accompanied us during the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us— 22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day He was taken up from us—from among these, it is necessary that one become a witness with us of His resurrection.”
23 So they proposed two: Joseph, called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed, “You, Lord, know the hearts of all; show which of these two You have chosen 25 to take the place in this apostolic service that Judas left to go to his own place.” 26 Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias. So he was numbered with the 11 apostles.
The most obvious take away from this passage is God loves numbers. We’ve seen that all throughout this chapter. See how the kingdom of God could not proceed with just 11 apostles? They needed 12. The Bible is the most mathematically sophisticated book I have ever studied:
The stories are mathematical.
The songs are mathematical.
The plays are mathematical.
The poems are mathematical.
The visions are mathematical.
The bigger story here is the Holy Spirit spoke through the mouth of King David in Psalms. In John 14, we heard Jesus say that happens to him, but here Peter claims the Holy Spirit can take over regular people and dictate what they say. Here are a few other verses in the New Testament that affirm this assertion.
Matthew 10: 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
2 Peter 1: 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
These assertions seriously challenge our notion of Free Will. Did David have free will if God put those words into his mouth? Was David aware that God was putting those words into his mouth at the time? Would we know if God is putting words into our mouths when we speak today? If you believe this is possible, then you understand how the Bible was divinely inspired through the Holy Spirit.
The word inspire literally means “to put spirit into” something, and what is spirit?
Words.
Knowledge.
Hidden Information.
Jesus explicitly states words are spirit in one of the most confusing passages in the Bible.
John 6: 47 “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
52 At that, the Jews argued among themselves,“How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves. 54 Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day, 55 because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink. 56 The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”
59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”
61 Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? 63 The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
See, words are spirit. I know this world seems real, but I promise you that we live in The Matrix. Everything here is made of information and everything “in the heavens” may be made of information too. So eating, believing, accepting, and downloading are kind of all the same thing depending on your perspective.
Here, try eating these words:
Reversing Babel
Just before Jesus floats up into the clouds in Acts 1, he tells his disciples, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Exactly fifty days after the resurrection, the Holy Spirit arrives.
Acts 2: 1 When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. 3 And tongues, like flames of fire that were divided, appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.
5 There were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7 And they were astounded and amazed, saying, “Look, aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 How is it that each of us can hear in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.” 12 They were all astounded and perplexed, saying to one another, “What could this be?” 13 But some sneered and said, “They’re full of new wine!”
Of course there is a rebel in verse 13. 🙄
The first miracle the disciples perform using the power of the Holy Spirit is to reverse God’s curse from the Tower of Babel. Instead of confusing our language, God “unconfused” our language.
@archaeologynerds: If you want to learn more about the Tower of Babel and the world’s first cities, checkout Identifying the Post-Babel Dispersion by my favorite Biblical archaeologist, Dr. Douglas Petrovich. (65 mins)
Next in Acts, Peter stands up and gives a rousing speech about the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Acts 2: 14 But Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them: “Men of Judah and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you and pay attention to my words. 15 For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning. 16 On the contrary, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 I will even pour out My Spirit on My male and female slaves in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 I will display wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and a cloud of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes. 21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know. 23 Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him. 24 God raised Him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it. 25 For David says of Him:
I saw the Lord ever before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope, 27 because You will not leave me in Hades or allow Your Holy One to see decay. 28 You have revealed the paths of life to me; You will fill me with gladness in Your presence.29 “Brothers, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing this in advance, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah:
He was not left in Hades, and His flesh did not experience decay.32 “God has resurrected this Jesus. We are all witnesses of this. 33 Therefore, since He has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, He has poured out what you both see and hear. 34 For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:
The Lord declared to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand 35 until I make Your enemies Your footstool.’36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!”
Here’s how the crowd responded.
37 When they heard this, they came under deep conviction and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: “Brothers, what must we do?”
38 “Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” 40 And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!”
Peter is talking to us too. If you haven’t repented and been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, what are you waiting for? If you don’t know how to repent, pray, or get baptized, email me. I can help you on your spiritual journey.
41 So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them. 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to the prayers.
43 Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. 44 Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. 45 They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as anyone had a need. 46 Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with a joyful and humble attitude, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.
The early church continued to grow from the many wonders, signs, and miracles by the Holy Spirit. The rest of Acts is filled with them.
@ChatGPT: can you list the miracles in Acts as bullet points?
ChatGPT: “Certainly! Here is a list of miracles in the Book of Acts:
Pentecost and the Gift of Tongues (Acts 2:1-4)
Healing of the Lame Man (Acts 3:1-10)
Peter’s Shadow Heals the Sick (Acts 5:12-16)
Resurrection of Tabitha (Dorcas) (Acts 9:36-42)
Paul and Silas Freed from Prison (Acts 16:25-34)
Ananias and Sapphira’s Divine Judgment (Acts 5:1-11)
Philip’s Miracles in Samaria (Acts 8:6-7)
Saul’s Conversion and Healing of Blindness (Acts 9:1-19)
Healing of Aeneas (Acts 9:32-35)
Peter’s Vision and Gentile Inclusion (Acts 10:9-16)
Angel Frees Peter from Prison (Acts 12:6-11)
Elymas the Sorcerer Blinded (Acts 13:8-11)
Paul Heals a Crippled Man in Lystra (Acts 14:8-10)
Paul and Silas Free from Prison by Earthquake (Acts 16:25-34)
Paul Heals a Girl Possessed by a Spirit (Acts 16:16-18)
Paul Survives a Viper Bite (Acts 28:3-6)
Paul Heals the Father of Publius and Others (Acts 28:7-9)
These miracles significantly contributed to the spread of early Christianity and underscored the divine authority of the apostles.
The Holy Spirit can raise you from the dead. The Holy Spirit can free you from any prison—including addictions to drugs, porn, alcohol, sugar, and Instagram. The Holy Spirit can transform a murderer like Saul into a great leader like Paul (same guy, new heart). The Holy Spirit can even make you drop dead, like someone pulled your plug in The Matrix.
Free Will Communism
Let’s read the story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 to see what could happen if we lie to the Holy Spirit. 😬
Acts 5: 1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property. 2 However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field? 4 Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!” 5 When he heard these words, Ananias dropped dead, and a great fear came on all who heard. 6 The young men got up, wrapped his body, carried him out, and buried him.
Scary. God knows the things we plan in our hearts, so mental privacy is just an illusion.
@computergeeks: Of course our creator can read our “inner chatbots”.
In this example, Ananias drops dead from holding back income from the church. How many modern Christians would drop dead if we had this same level of accountability today? 🙋♂️
I know I would.
Acts 5: 7 There was an interval of about three hours; then his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 “Tell me,” Peter asked her, “did you sell the field for this price?”
“Yes,” she said, “for that price.”
9 Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”
10 Instantly she dropped dead at his feet. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband. 11 Then great fear came on the whole church and on all who heard these things.
Ananias and Sapphira drop dead from holding back proceeds from the church because the first church on Earth was completely communist. Think about it. If the “last should come first and the first should come last”, then everyone in the middle will have the same quality of life.
Remember what happened just after Peter’s speech at Pentecost?
Acts 2: 43 Then fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. 44 Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. 45 They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as anyone had a need.
See, the early church was communist because everyone shared equally in the possessions of the group. That is why most Christian monasteries practice communal living—those monks chose to give up their right of personal possessions. It is the logical conclusion of everyone treating their neighbors as if they were their own flesh and blood. 😳
americanchristians: I know this is difficult to hear because we are the most independent (and selfish) people on Earth based on every kind of way you can measure it:
Calories per person per day
Ounces of meat per person per day
Gallons of water per person per day
Kilowatts per person per day
Carbon emissions per person per day
Dollars spent per person per day
Square footage of living space per person per day
I’m not suggesting that we practice communism on a national level, history has already proven that doesn’t work. But most of us already practice communal living within our families. The difference between the two is our free will.
The Bible is challenging us to expand our individual communities to include more and more of our neighbors. Let’s call that “bottom up communism” as opposed to “top down”. Just imagine what our country would look like if we all treated our neighbors as well as we treat our kids.
Communal living was practiced in the Old Testament as well. We see it in the distribution of manna in Exodus 16 (love).
Exodus 16: 14 When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was.
Moses told them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’”
17 So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little. 18 When they measured it by quarts, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat. 19 Moses said to them, “No one is to let any of it remain until morning.” 20 But they didn’t listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.
The people in Heaven probably practice communal living too, which means our lifetime on Earth is a chance to practice “The Way”. That’s why we see Paul celebrating this in the churches of Macedonia.
Appeal to Complete the Collection
2 Corinthians 8: 1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God granted to the churches of Macedonia: 2 During a severe testing by affliction, their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the wealth of their generosity. 3 I testify that, on their own, according to their ability and beyond their ability, 4 they begged us insistently for the privilege of sharing in the ministry to the saints, 5 and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will. 6 So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you. 7 Now as you excel in everything—faith, speech, knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us—excel also in this grace.
Grace means giving. The original Greek word, charis, is where we get the English word “charity”. Notice that giving is a skill that Paul wants the church in Corinth to excel in—just like faith, speech, knowledge, self-control, and love.
What do you think Paul would say to the church in America?
What a great testimony for the churches in Macedonia. I guess that’s why there isn’t an instructional letter from Paul called “Macedonians” in the Bible. 😆
2 Corinthians 8: 8 I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.
10 Now I am giving an opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who a year ago began not only to do something but also to desire it. 11 But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have. 12 For if the eagerness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have. 13 It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality— 14 at the present time your surplus is available for their need, so their abundance may also become available for our need, so there may be equality. 15 As it has been written:
The person who gathered much did not have too much, and the person who gathered little did not have too little.
See, Paul quotes the story in Exodus 16.
Equality is the way. Every time I tell a Christian in America that Jesus is a “free-will communist”, they laugh out loud hilariously. I don’t get it. Just listen to what Jesus says in Luke.
Luke 12: 32 Don’t be afraid, little flock, because your Father delights to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
A few verses later, Jesus is still talking about money. He says, “Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.”
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Eyes to See and Ears to Hear
By the end of Acts, the Paul completes his long journey to preach to the Jews living in Rome. Here’s the ending of Acts.
Acts 28: 23 After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and witnessed about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets. 24 Some were persuaded by what he said, but others did not believe.
25 Disagreeing among themselves, they began to leave after Paul made one statement: “The Holy Spirit correctly spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors 26 when He said,
Go to these people and say: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive. 27 For the hearts of these people have grown callous, their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and be converted, and I would heal them.28 Therefore, let it be known to you that this saving work of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!” 29 After he said these things, the Jews departed, while engaging in a prolonged debate among themselves.
30 Then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him, 31 proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with full boldness and without hindrance.
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