Seeing the Unseen

Before the discovery and invention of modern investigative techniques, mankind had no idea of the physical causes of diseases. With insight, we now can peer into, understand and take ready precautions against viruses, bacteria, pathogens, etc., things that remain invisible to the so-called naked eye. Had we never discovered or invented means and protocols to "see" them, we would still be very much "in the dark".

While we have come a long way, in many respects, we remain in the dark ages of forces that "live and move on the earth". Battered and beaten by the consequences of unseen things, mankind has forged ahead in the fight to "see", understand and conquer the unseen and unknown. Unknowingly, this is in direct fulfillment of God's commission to the first man in Genesis 1:28 -- Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Bacteria, viruses and pathogens fit into the category of "living things in the earth".

On another plane, too many of us still remain largely ignorant and un-accepting of the unseen spiritual forces that 'move on the earth', and are mysteriously at the core of everything physical, much like a buried root of some kind is responsible for every fruit and vegetable we consume. With all our progress, we remain about as ignorant and un-insightful of these greatest "movers and shakers" on planet earth as our ancestors in Old Testament days! Consider the insight from this very simple data set, the number of times the following words appear in the Old vs. the New Testaments (OT, NT) of The Bible (NKJV):

Word          OT               NT

devil             0                 34

hades           0                 11

lucifer           1                   0

demon(s)     4                 78

satan          14                 40

hell              35                16

angel         105              175

heaven      405              287

Does this suggest to you that people in those days were pretty much clueless, just as many are today?

Beyond any other insightful discovery or invention of mankind, only The Bible may offer such a combination of a magnifying glass, microscope, binoculars, and telescope into this unseen, and generally un-denied world of forces that "live and move on the earth". Yet we writhe and wrestle with the consequences of their movements, much like a ship buffeted by unseen winds across the ocean!  

Because He is unseen, The Holy Spirit manifested as "a mighty roaring wind' when He re-filled earth's atmosphere on The Day of Pentecost.  His "filling presence" had been withdrawn from the earth when Adam and Eve sold themselves and the earth into satanic slavery. Jesus' death and resurrection was the price God paid to redeem (buy-back) His creation, and especially His beloved mankind, from satan's dominion and control. In this buy-back, God, in an extremely gracious move, decided to reinstate and retain man's "choice" of whether to follow and obey God, or not -- for man to 'choose his god', so to speak.  My, my, what a gamble! After Adam and Eve's flub-up, would you have taken this great risk?!

Like microscopic organisms, choice is often unseen, but it's consequences are lived and experienced.  This is the pinnacle of our problems on the earth -- people like you and me making the wrong choice, again, just like Adam and Eve, in favor of the wrong 'influencers'. The influencers are good and evil spirits, and the on-going battle they wage between each other, through us. What if we could "see" and understand these as well as mankind now sees and understands microscopic organisms?  How do you imagine such insight might impact the quality of life on earth?

Oh that we would more clearly
perceive and 'see' the unseen~