Luke 24:44-47 “Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." (45) And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. (46) Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, (47) and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
So why would God not allow the disciples to understand before Jesus went to the cross, the truth of the necessity for Christ to suffer? The answer to that question, is that scripture reveals to us that God has decreed that His hidden mysteries are to be revealed in the earth, specifically to principalities and powers, i.e. Satan and his angels, through the church (Ephesians 3:9-10). And so, because God did not want Satan and his angels to know this truth yet, He kept it hidden from the Lord’s disciples, i.e. His church. You say, why didn’t God want Satan and his angels to know the truth about the suffering and resurrection of Christ? The reason is because, had Satan and his angels understood that truth, they would never have crucified the Lord Jesus, and the salvation of man could not have taken place (1 Corinthians 2:7-8). And so, God kept this truth hidden until after Christ was raised from the dead, and it was only then that God’s timing was right to reveal this truth to the disciples, when it was too late for Satan and his angels to do anything about it.
Michael E.B. Maher
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