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There are certain things that are difficult to write about, and some that will not be understood. Jesus said in Matt 13:35"I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." Very few have any idea what this means.
this is not their fault and it does not make anyone who knows ant better than another.
I want to explain this coming out the gate. I could sit here and write about what it means all day. But if you don't have "ears to hear, and eyes to see." You will not understand no matter how clear I explain it. this is a fact.
This solemn injunction was never used by mere human lips. No mortal man could demand the attention to which this emphatic command lays claim None but the Lord ever used these words. They are (unlike many other examples) translated literally, but they mean: He whose ears are opened, let them surly hear, or let him take heed to give the most earnest attention!
The fourteen are not divided into two sevens, but into six ans eight (two fours and two threes).
Six being the number of man, He spoke the words six times as "the Son of Man' on earth: and eight being the number of resurrection) (also spiritual completeness), He spoke the words eight times as the Risen Lord from heaven.
Though the occasions were fourteen (7 x 2) on which the words were used, the actual numbers of times the words are written down by the Holy Spirit is sixteen )4 x 4), two being in the parallel passages in the Gospels.
These fourteen are occasions are connected with different parts of one great subject, which is dispensational in its character: and this figure being used only of this one subjest, points us to the significant fact that it requires the Divinely opened ear to understand the great dispensational change which was about to take place.
It had been foretold in Isa 6:9 that it should come about in consequence of the ears being closed to the Devinne announcement: and seven times this solemn infliction of judicial blindness is written down in the Scriptures of truth.
When the great change was announced in consequence and fulfilment of this! then fourteen did the Lord Himself emphasize the important fact that only the opened ear would be able to understand it; implying that it referred to secret things, and that only those to whom that secret was revealed would be able to understand it or receive it.
The fourteen occurrences are next in there order:
1. Elijah and John the Baptist (Matt 11:15)
2. The parable of the sower (Matt 13:9; Mark 4:9; Luke 8:8)
3. The candlestick (Mark 4:21-23)
4. The parable of the tares (Matt 13:43)
5. The two dispensations (Mark 7:16)
6. The tower; the king and the salt: or, the great supper and its lessons (Luke 14:16-35)
7-13. The epistles to the seven churches (Rev 2.,:3
14. The beast from the sea (Rev 13::9)
1 Cor:2 14, for the natural man not only cannot receive them, but he cannot even learn them, or get to know them, not having the necessary spiritual capacity.
Those who can not understand them are protected from what our Father knows would do them of no good. As we all have certain talents. And these Carry a great deal of responsibility which is very difficult to bare.
I mentioned 16, but they are notb parrables Matt 11:15
Matt 19:12- "He that is able to receive it, let him receive it"
To those who can. You are blessed. However, you are aware of the great trust that goes with it.
Many will be able to understand when the Father is ready to allow it. Yet, even the many add up to a very few. I pray there are some here who can. God bless!
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