(Ver 2.0)  Is the Word of God encoded with hidden mysteries and meanings?  Has the Word of God been spiritually encrypted so that we cannot see it naturally or understand it with our unsaved minds?  I often times observe other bloggers and other websites just to see what they are writing about.  It is amazing what many people think is important to write about and what they have determined to be the truth.  It obviously causes me to ask God a very direct question.  Why don’t people see what you have written in the Bible the same way?  How is it that we can have so many differing opinions to what it all means?  Some see one thing in a verse and others see the complete opposite from the exact same verse.  The words didn’t change, they read the same for both readers.  It looks like to me it was just a matter of what they wanted to see that determined what they got out of the verse.  It must be that someone or both of the readers were just wrong.  Every opinion cannot be RIGHT!  It just doesn’t make any sense does it?  Why can’t God get over His message so that we can all agree on at least some or most of what it says?  Do you think this is beyond God’s capability to do something like this?  Or is it just man’s inability to see and understand?  Could it be that God has purposefully encrypted the information to make it unreadable until the appointed time for Him to reveal it?  This is actually what I believe!  God has encoded information in plain sight using many very tricky techniques.  I have already blogged on many of these techniques giving you the basic concepts of how God implemented them.  If you have not read any of these blog I would suggest that you go an familiarize yourself with some of these techniques.  By understanding the concepts I believe you will better be able to understand the word of God.  However, today  I want to explore Biblical evidence for this spiritual encryption system of God.  Does the Bible indicate that there are hidden truths in it?   Concealed information?  Of course there are many verses that lead us to believe this, if you are looking for them:

Dan 2:28  But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king….

This verse in Daniel reveals to us the nature of God’s character.  It speaks to God’s methods of operation and to God’s ways of doing what He does.  If God is a revealer of secrets, like this verse says, then it would demand that secrets existed.  This is just basic logic and reasoning.  To understand that God has encoded secrets within the Bible allows Him to reveal them to the kings of earth.  That is you and I if you did not know it!  This is what the king in Daniel said as a reply to the information that was revealed to him:

Dan 2:47  The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

All it took was for God to reveal a truth and this king saw that Daniel’s God was the True Living God.  Do you realize that God can do that again if He wants to?  I believe that God is revealing the Bible in these last days to show us that He is God.  But how did God do this in Daniel’s day?  God used a man to present the information and nobody saw God, nobody could prove it came from God, nobody could verify the accuracy, nobody could go to a Bible expert to confirm it.  Isn’t that an interesting concept?  It sounds like the people that God was speaking to had to take some things by faith.  They had to believe in a God that they had never seen or experienced.  God simply used one man to reveal a secret and that changed the heart of the king.  I pray that you are understanding this concept.

Pro 25:2  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Here we have a critical confirming verse that God has hidden or concealed information for the kings of the earth to search out.  Anything that is hidden means that it is not clearly visible, it could be camouflaged to blend in with its surroundings or it could be completely covered by something else.  To hide your money in the backyard would be an example of someone who did not want it taken or stolen until they wanted to use it.  So God has a purpose in hiding information for us, the kings of the earth to find.  To search out a matter implies work, an effort of either digging into or studying the Bible with some level of physical work or mental effort.  If you just read the Bible with a shallow surface understanding of the words, you are missing the good stuff that God wanted you to find.

Not everything in the Bible is hidden, however not everything in the Bible is clearly understandable either.  We have a challenge presented to us from God to determine what is what and what it all means.  If you think it is easy, you are mistaken.  The words are very complex and intricately embedded with meaning that is not clearly seen.

Deu 30:11  For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

Here in this verse God says what I just said is not hidden from you.  It also implies that there could be other things that are hidden from us.  The verse ends in the statement that it is also not far off.  This is a relation to distance and time.   If something is a far off, it could take time to reach it.  Since this verse is not a far off, we might could conclude that there are other verses that are potentially a far off, meaning they will be revealed only at the proper time whenever we reach that point.   God has designed specific appointed times for certain events to occur.  The coming of Christ into the world was at the “fullness of time” (Gal 4:4).  This means that after the completion of the time period allotted, Christ came.  Then there is Daniel 12:4 that tells us in the time of the end that knowledge shall increase dramatically.  We can clearly see this can be taken of natural knowledge, but I firmly believe it also applies to the Knowledge of God’s Word!

Isa 48:6  Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

This verse in Isaiah speaks about a point in time and how God had showed them “new things”.  These “new things” were said to be hidden secrets and yet even after God showed them to the people it says they still did not understand them.  Did you know that is my greatest challenge I face on my blog.  How do I speak about new things that I found in the Bible and get anyone to understand them?   It is much harder than you might think.  People have a natural tendency to reject anything new or different, even if it came from God.  Why do you think Paul and the other apostles were in prison and beaten and persecuted to the extent that they were?  It was because they were teaching something totally new.  Even though it came from the same source as what the Jewish leaders read daily in their temples, the message was new and different, so they concluded that it must have been wrong.  Isn’t that what they thought?  The Jewish leaders of their day were clearly right in their minds, but completely wrong in their hearts.  That is a dangerous position to take and many Christians do it every day.  To think that God cannot send you another man with a new message from the Bible is clearly a rejection of God and His message.  You cannot reject one without rejecting the other.

Mat 10:26  Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

This verse has vast implications written all over it.  Being that this is God speaking, I take this statement very seriously.  To me it would seem to indicate that God will reveal the things that He has hidden to us before He returns for us.  However, you can take it to mean that God will also reveal them after He has returned and taken us up to heaven.  That is one of the tricky methods that God has used to make things not easily understandable.  To not reveal all of the information in one location that you need to know to make the determination of exactly when this will occur.  We can be assured that it will occur, but when is something we will have to find in the Bible.

Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

Using this verse it would seem to indicate that Jesus was speaking about a time that is before His impending return.  This verse in Colossians you can see that there is a term that relates to “now” as being the proper time.  Now would not be later, would it?   God seems to tell us that they mysteries which have been hidden for a very long time is now been given to the “saints” to understand.  Did you know if you are a Christian, that you are one of these saints?  Some churches like to vote to make people “saints” and if they satisfy their definition of a “saint” then you become one by their transformation of a title.  However, God’s system is quite different than man’s system.  If you are born again and saved, you qualify to be a saint.  Therefore, you are the one that this hidden information is to be revealed to.

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our⁷ glory:

Here again in the verse in 1 Corinthians, we can clearly see that these hidden things are now being revealed to the church.   God had a hidden plan from before the world began and this plan is now being revealed in the time of the church.  This plan is called the hidden wisdom of God.  This sounds like some very important stuff to know.  If we could understand the wisdom of God, we would not make as many mistakes and could potentially derive great benefit from this information.  It starts with gaining knowledge, but then it hinges on understanding these facts that you learn.  Finally, wisdom is the ability to correctly apply what you have learned so that you make right choices and decisions.

2Co 4:3  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

So the Gospel is still hidden to those who refuse to believe the truth.  This implies that the spiritual encryption system that God has implemented is still in effect until we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.  This also could mean this is why there are so many denominations in the world today.  The church is in varying stages of spiritual growth and development and not everyone sees these hidden things at the same time.

Mat 11:25  At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Jesus again speaking in a prayer to His Father, informs us of some other factors of who this information is still hidden from.  Jesus clearly says that those in the world that exalt themselves and their wisdom will never know the secrets of the Kingdom of God.  These are two distinct words that you should go lookup the definitions to.  These are key factors why many people in the earth do not understand the Bible.  The word “prudent”, means to “act piously” and to be wise in your own eyes.  That sounds like they put on a show of how great they are.  This can apply to Christians as well as to unsaved people in the world.  Jesus did not qualify the statement, He only said that they would be revealed to those that have become like little children.  Children are not usually arrogant are they?  Children are usually hungry for knowledge and want to learn.  Children are usually those that look to their parents for everything that they need.  They are not self-sufficient, or able to care for themselves.  So the opposite to small children would be those that think they know everything.  Those who think they can take care of themselves.  Those who think they need no advice or guidance.  These are those that are wise in their own minds and thus are unable to comprehend the wisdom of God.  I would suggest that you figure out where you fit in these verses that I have given you today.  Since I am not your judge, I cannot judge you.  I do not know where you are at.  Only you can judge yourself or wait until God passes judgment.  I hope you enjoyed this lesson on God’s spiritual encryption of the Bible.   God Bless!

If you would like to continue reading about the methods that God has used to encode information into the Bible, please go to “Hiding the Truth in Plain Sight Part 1“.