Supernatural Eyesight

Seeing Through The Eyes Of The Holy Spirit

Morris Cerullo

"And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said
unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they
that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said,
LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire round about Elisha."
2 Kings 6:15-17

When the servant's eyes are opened, he sees the things that were happening in the spirit all
around him but he was completely oblivious to.

The reality of life is that the spiritual world is alive, vibrant and ever active around us as we
go about our day-to-day lives.

We just don't see it because, like the prophet's servant, our eyes have not been opened.

When his eyes were opened, the servant saw what the prophet saw all along—the hosts of
God were around them, active and prepared to defend them.

Supernatural eyesight is looking into the spirit, as the prophet Elisha did, and seeing the
spiritual reality that is hidden from natural eyes.
FACT: That supernatural eyesight is essential to the higher calling of the Christian. It is
absolutely necessary that we understand it and learn how to ignore what the physical eyes are telling
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER 1: EYES THAT SEE; EARS THAT HEAR

As the gazelle grazes on the grasses of the African plains, it keeps a watchful eye out for
predators.

The gazelle is not much bigger than your average-sized dog, and it's apparently pretty tasty,
so it is on constant vigil against the ever-present threat of its enemy.

To assist it, God gave the gazelle incredible advantages—it is lightning-quick, and can dart
off at the slightest indication of danger.
But even more amazing than speed that can sometimes dazzle even the world's fastest land
predator—the cheetah—the gazelle's most important defensive advantage is its eyes. With one eye
on either side of its head, the little animal can see nearly 360 degrees at one time—in other words,
it's impossible to sneak up from behind it.
 NB: Its ears also whirl around like a periscope, catching sounds from literally any direction,
always listening for the crack of the underbrush, the distress cry of another gazelle, or the quickened
panting of a hungry lioness creeping through the tall grass.
Despite these tremendous advantages, however, if the gazelle does not have a significant head start
on a predator, chances are slim that it will escape becoming lunch for a hungry pride of lions or a
pack of hyenas.

Each animal's eyes and ears are perfectly designed to serve its purposes—the prey's eyes and
ears are designed for defense and early warning. The predator's are designed to aid in hunting,
grabbing and killing.

As humans—in the natural—God designed us as predators. Our eyes are forward-set,

allowing us to zoom in on our prey.

But God's designs for humans go beyond the physical. He created us unlike the animals. We
are able to worship, to pray and to have a relationship with the living God. We are fundamentally
different than the animals—we are spiritual beings created that way in God's image (after all, He is
Spirit).

He has equipped our natural bodies with the eyes and ears most suited to our needs as
omnivores (meaning we eat both plants and animals).

But He has equipped our spiritual selves even more appropriately—the needs of our spiritual
man differ from our natural man.
The natural man needs to eat physical food or it will die.

The spiritual man needs to feed from the Word or it will die.

To get the physical food, the natural man must have eyes and ears designed to enable him to
hunt.

To get the spiritual food, the spiritual man must have eyes to see and ears to hear what the
Spirit is saying!

All truth is parallel. What is true in the natural has a parallel truth in the spirit—we can learn a
lot about God and His nature by learning about the natural world He created.

Many Christians silently suffer with guilt and self-condemnation for one reason: they don't
hear from God as clearly as they think they should.

Christians hear so many people, ministers and laymen alike, who talk about hearing from
God, speaking to God and receiving directions from God. And many times, when Christians don't
hear from God like they hear other people are, they begin to feel guilty, as if God has judged their
walk with Him and found it lacking—and therefore is keeping silent.
I want to tell you right now, before we get into the deep, incredible revelations God has given in the
rest of this book, that comparing yourself to other Christians is begging for trouble:

"But they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves

among themselves, are not wise."
 2 Corinthians 10:12

Deep revelation into God's Word and His nature is not reserved for the very few. God has not
chosen three or four people to understand the deep things of Him, excluding all others.
His understanding is open to all who will come to Him.

"For there is no respect of persons with God."

Romans 2:11

That's God saying He doesn't look to just a few people and give them the good things—He's
prepared to give it to all who will come to Him.

God revealed that to me in a profound way in 1962, when He asked me what I wanted out of
ministry and life.

The answer welled up from deep in my soul—that's how I know it came from God, and not
from me.

My answer to God was this: "God, give me the ability to take what you've given me, and give
it to someone else."
I understood by the Spirit of God that He had not called me to be on a high horse somewhere,
speaking down to people who could not understand without me telling them God's will.

1 Corinthians 11:1

Paul wanted the believers to be where he was—he wanted them to understand what he
understood.

When Jesus was working tremendous miracles, He told the disciples something incredible:

"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do."
John 14:12

God has designed you—as a born-again believer—to work GREATER works than Jesus
worked.

Friend, there's a fundamental understanding that will change your life if you believe you'll
work greater works than Jesus worked:

"The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what
things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."
John 5:19

Here's the understanding (you may want to take out a highlighter marker and mark this
statement): Jesus said He worked His works by seeing in the Spirit the Father working those works
first. THEN HE PROMISED YOU'D DO GREATER WORKS!
To do greater works, you must SEE GREATER WORKS IN THE SPIRIT! You must see into the
supernatural and, with the supernatural eyesight God has given you, you will see greater works and
work them in the natural.

*FACT: Jesus never did anything except He first saw in the Spirit His Father doing them first.

NB: For Him, supernatural eyesight was the foundational principle upon which His actions were
based. He did not just wander about, working miracles because He had the power to do so. Instead,
He observed, and then He acted.

NB: The reason many Christians don't find themselves working the works of God is because they
have not first developed their supernatural eyesight, seeing the things in the Spirit that they should
do in the natural.

Many people look in the Bible, and they believe the words printed on the page are the depth
of its power.

But the depth of the power of the Word is the fact that it is ALIVE! Without supernatural
eyesight, the words are just words on a page. In fact, Jesus said as much:

"Ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe
not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are
they which testify of me."
John 5:38-39

The religious leaders to whom Jesus was speaking made a lifestyle out of knowing the words
of God's revelation to mankind.

They studied the Scriptures on a daily basis, singing the words to help them better remember
them. They treated the word with great reverence, even regulating that a boy could not touch the
scrolls that contained the words until he had reached a certain age and passed certain tests.

They took great care to copy the words from scroll to scroll so that even one letter would not
be lost in the transcribing. They counted the words, counted the letters, made sure everything was just
perfect, or they destroyed the copy upon which they had been working for months.

They wrote the words on tiny pieces of paper and wore them on their heads and their hands.

They debated and revered the word to the point that none would ever dare challenge a master
of the words.
But with all that study, with all that reading, with all that knowledge of the words that were on the
page, Jesus rebuked those diligent and zealous students of the words He Himself had inspired.

They knew the words, but they didn't have the Word abiding in their hearts.

Without the Spirit—without the supernatural eyesight—knowing the words was as useless to
them as knowing the words to a children's lullaby.
 The words themselves communicated a message—and it was the message, not the words, that
was important. That message was a message of Spirit.

Without seeing into the Spirit, they would forever be in the dark, paying attention to the
words without ever catching their message—or as the old idiom goes, they were missing the forest
because they were looking at all the trees.

Paul put it this way: "For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do
mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
Romans 8:3-8

To truly understand the spiritual things, we must have supernatural eyesight—we must see the
things in the Spirit that our spiritual eyes were designed to see.
Understand me: when I say "see in the Spirit" what I mean is "understand what the Spirit is saying."

So without understanding what the Spirit is saying, the words of the Scripture are just words
—the power comes when the Spirit brings those words to LIFE.

Isaiah saw a striking difference between the God he had read about and the
living God one day: "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the
seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he
covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the
posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King,
the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my
mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and
thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and
who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."
Isaiah 6:1-8

When the man of God saw the God he served, his perception was radically altered.

As the mighty angels shook the very foundations of the building with the force of their praises
to the living God, the prophet gained a stark realization that the holiness of the God he was serving is
absolute. He understood a new depth of the power and greatness of God. He understood by the very
vehemence of the praises of the angels that God was nobody to be trifled with.

And immediately he understood: woe is me! I have unclean lips and my people have unclean
lips—and yet I'm in the presence of the holy God of Israel!
 This vision of supernatural eyesight forever radically changed the life of Isaiah.

He saw a glimpse of the Father in His glory.

Remember, what Isaiah saw had to be only a glimpse, because the full depth of God's glory
would kill any mortal man. Exodus 33:20

Only Jesus has seen the full glory of the Father—but what Isaiah saw was enough to change
him forever.

He had a glimpse into the supernatural.

But God was not done at the call of Isaiah. He went on, and demonstrated that He knew all along
how men would blind their own eyes to His truth.

"And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their
ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
Isaiah 6:9-10

This is a clear description of the nature of man.

Because a man has eyes, he says that he can see.

Because he has ears, he says he can hear.

Because he has the Word, he says he knows God and His will.

That was why Jesus' admonition to Nicodemus seemed so harsh:

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth
where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus
answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said
unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?"
John 3:7-10
Jesus made a clear dividing line here—those who are born of flesh, who are natural men, follow the
rules and norms of the natural. Everyone knows where they're coming from and where they're
going.

Those who are born of the Spirit, however, are supernatural—they follow a living Spirit, and
nobody knows where they're coming from or where they're going.

Then Jesus admonished Nicodemus: how is it that you call yourself a teacher, a rabbi, and
you don't understand these things?

The same call goes out to the Church today: how can Christians pretend to know the truth
when they don't understand the fundamental truth of the Spirit?
 Remember, Jesus said that, as Christians, we are no longer of this world—we are aliens.
We're not called anymore to follow the directions of the world, to keep its rules of nature, to follow its
laws of physics. We are from another world and we're headed back there! That supernatural eyesight
is not something you can drum up.

It's not something you can say a few words and expect to happen.

It's not something you can pretend to have and expect it to just plop down in your lap because
of your diligence.
Supernatural eyesight is a FUNDAMENTAL BYPRODUCT of the born-again, Spirit-led life.

NB: But just as in the natural, it must be trained, honed and perfected through practice.
When a natural baby is born, it has trouble focusing its eyes very tightly. But as it uses its eyes more,
they become stronger, more adept, more able to focus and hone in.

When the spiritual baby is born, it can see, but it must practice to develop the eyesight in the
supernatural.

It must learn to discern the things the Spirit is saying.

The admonitions of the Book of Revelation from Jesus were not to sinners. They were to the
Church.

They were to Christians.

So when the Bible speaks of those whose "candlesticks" might be removed, it's not speaking
to those who have never accepted Jesus. It's speaking to those who have accepted Him but are not
working His works.
And remember, earlier in this chapter, you marked a paragraph that said Jesus only worked those
works He first saw His father do. Then He said you would work greater works, implying that you
would see into the Spirit realm and work the works you see your Father do.

Here's what Jesus said to the churches in Asia:

"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches..."
Revelation 2:7

He doesn't say "let everyone hear what the Spirit saith..."

He says that those WHO ARE LISTENING will hear.

This is the fundamental truth that is so difficult for many to understand.

Many listen, but they don't hear what they want to hear, so they ignore what the Spirit is
saying.
But, much as the gazelle I talked about earlier in this chapter, if a Christian only pays attention to the
sounds he likes to hear or the sights he likes to see, he will find himself being a quick snack for his
enemy.
 The gazelle may not want to hear the warning sounds that come to his ears as the grass
crackles under his enemy's feet. He may not want to see the telltale signs of an indention in the
overgrown weeds moving slowly his way.

But those things are signs that God has provided to give the gazelle a head start—to let him
use the natural defenses God has given him to overcome his enemy.

Similarly, in the spirit, many Christians do not want to hear what God has to say. When they
hear the gentle wooing of the Holy Spirit, they may not want to be stirred up. When they see the
profound revelations of God's word, they may not want to be moved out of their comfort zone and
into the realm of the living Word.

But those things are works God has provided for the supernatural endowment of our spirit
man to fulfill the purpose for which God created us in His image.
When God says He's looking for people who have ears to hear and eyes to see, He's looking for
people who will heed Him even when what He says may not have been what they wanted to hear.

Supernatural eyesight is that—it's having the power to literally change the world around you,
but engaging in that power not for the sake of the power itself, but because your Father first showed
you to do it.

Do Christians have the power to move mountains? ABSOLUTELY YES!

Do Christians have the ability to control the weather? ABSOLUTELY YES!

Do Christians have the power to force the very laws of nature and physics to obey their
commands? WITHOUT A DOUBT.

But that power comes as a result of seeing into the spirit realm and seeing what our Father is
doing—and doing as we see Him do.
This is the foundation and basis for supernatural eyesight.

FACT: supernatural eyesight is a result of the indwelling Holy Spirit working His power in
your life, teaching you, guiding you and leading you in the ways of God from time immemorial.

It's as Jesus promised: "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
John 14:26
No "how to" book can replace the living, indwelling action of the Holy Spirit. It is His place to bring
about incredible understanding of the deep things of God in your life.

CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER 2: THE UNBELIEVABLE WISDOM OF JOB
 If we talk about supernatural eyesight, we cannot overlook the amazing insight of the wisdom
of Job.

We know very little about Job's life other than what is recorded in the book that bears his
name.

We don't know where he learned about God. We don't know how he got his tremendous
understanding.

But what we do know is that Job has a tremendous understanding of God.

Job is widely believed to be a contemporary of the patriarch Abraham, meaning he lived at or

near the time of Abraham.

His book is believed to be the oldest book of the Bible, written hundreds of years before
Genesis was written.

What we do know is that Job had a tremendous grasp of both the nature and the Gospel of
God.
Many times, we use the book of Job to teach about the nature of the devil's place on earth. In the
first two chapters, we learn that the devil accuses Job, a righteous man, before God, and God allows
the devil to tempt Job.

NB: Most of us are familiar with the basic story behind Job. He was a righteous and perfect
man, according to the beginning of the book. Satan came to God and asked God to allow him to tempt
Job. In the course of tempting him, Satan killed Job's children, took away his riches and devastated
Job's health.

As Job is mourning, his wife tells him to cast aside his integrity, curse God and die.

Of course, Job—being a righteous man—refuses.

But the bulk of the book comes when three of Job's friends come for the dubious reason of
trying to comfort him.

It's really a misnomer to call the three Job's friends, given their embarrassing treatment of
him.

In fact, the Hebrew word translated "friend" in describing the three actually means
"associate."

The three associates are Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. It sounds like a law firm, but with the
way they represent Job, they would never win a case in court.

Eliphaz's name means "God of gold."

 Bildad's name means "Bel has loved." In case you're wondering, "Bel" was the god of the
Babylonians.

Zophar's name means "departing."

Eliphaz is the first of the friends to "console" Job. He starts out by telling Job that the
innocent don't suffer.

"Those who plow iniquity and sow misery reap the same."

(Job 4:8 direct translation from the Hebrew Masoretic Text) What he's really saying is: "Job,
you're in this situation because you have been unrighteous. You are reaping what you sowed. You
sowed sinfulness, and now you're reaping sinfulness."

He continues by saying God doesn't put any trust in His servants, and God can't really hear us
anyway. Here's what he says:

"Call now. Is there anyone answering you?"

Job 5:1

Eliphaz does not believe God will answer Job. He does not believe in a God who's interested
and involved in the lives of His people. Trouble doesn't happen all by itself, Eliphaz says. There has
to be a cause—to him, Job must have done something to bring this evil upon himself Repent, he tells
Job, and you'll prosper. Everything will go well for you; you'll have God's favor. Indeed,

"You shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the
grass of the earth. You shall come to the grave in full vigor, like a stack of grain
comes up in its season. Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and
know it for yourself."
Job 5:25-27

To add insult to injury, he seeks to add legitimacy to his attempt to blame Job for his own
troubles by saying "we've figured this all out. Learn from me!"

How many of us would love to have a friend like that?

But how many times have we heard the gospel of Eliphaz? "Oh, so and so is having such a
tough time. I wonder what he did wrong."

Job answers Eliphaz like this: "Show me where I've done wrong, and I'll agree with you.
You're an empty bag of wind. Some friend you are! You're digging a pit for your friend."

Job's saying, hey, you're talking in generalities. You know me—you're my associate. Where
did I sin that this befell me? Show me.

Bildad adds insult to injury by reinforcing the message of Eliphaz:

 "If you were pure and upright, surely now He (God) would rise for you and
make whole the abode of your righteousness."
Job 8:6

Now, this is a fancy way of saying, "you're full of it, Job. If you were righteous as you claim,
God would jump into action and fix everything that's wrong. The fact that He's leaving you in trouble
is proof positive that you're full of sin! Stop trying to paint yourself as Mr. Righteous and repent!"

Job answers the accusation by preaching the Gospel thousands of years before the New
Testament was written:

"...how can a man be just with God? If he would argue with Him, he cannot
answer Him one of a thousand."
(9:2-3)

"Though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I seek mercy for my
judgment."
(9:15)

Job has a profound understanding of the nature of salvation! Even if I am righteous, I can't
stand before God and answer His questions! I can't stand before Him! I can't look righteous in His
sight—I have to depend on MERCY! He further says:

"If I justify myself, my mouth will condemn me; though I am perfect, He shall
declare me perverse."
(9:20)

Zophar, however, is much as the Pharisees in the New Testament. His idea of righteousness is
the same as theirs—righteousness through works and rewards in this life. In chapter 11, he says that if
Job will do away with his iniquity, everything will be all right! Notice, Zophar, just as the others,
stresses that Job can make everything right. In verse 6, he says, "Know then that God forgets some of
your iniquity for you." But, lest we think he's about to agree with Job, in verse 14, he says:

"if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away and do not let wickedness dwell in
your tents; surely then you shall lift up your face without blemish; and you will be
steadfast, and will not fear. For you shall forget your misery and shall remember it as
waters that have passed."
Job 11:14-16
Now, I don't have any intentions of offending anyone just for the purpose of offending them, but I
think someone might be offended by this statement: Zophar's statement is the gospel that's
preached by many claiming to represent Christ! They tell you that God will forgive what you've done
already—just come to the cross and say this prayer with me. But now that you've been forgiven,
you've got to put iniquity far away from you.

The emphasis is that YOU'VE got to make a move. The impetus is on you. God did His part,
now you've got to do yours. The Bible tells us that Jesus Himself will form righteousness in us
through the indwelling, but the gospel of Zophar is that you earn righteousness through your actions.
This is the gospel of Zophar, straight from the mouth of the false prophet.
 Zophar continues his theological statement by concluding that if you do everything right by
putting iniquity away from you, then you'll dwell in security—you'll know that God's on your side.

Job's answer to Zophar is simple, direct and to the point: "The tents of
robbers are at ease, and those provoking God secure."
Job 12:7

In other words, if putting iniquity away from you is all it takes to dwell in security, why are
robbers dwelling free from fear of theft? Why do those who provoke God not find themselves in the
predicament in which Job found himself?

Again, Job has an incredible and deep understanding of the nature of God. It is not for
thousands of years that Jesus preached that it rains on the just and the unjust. Yet, at the same time as
the patriarch Abraham, Job understood that God's mercy is not based upon our actions, but upon His
grace.

Job then chastises the three:

"Would you speak unrighteously for God, and speak deceitfully for Him?"
(Job 13:7)

Then he continues by saying "...as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?" (Verse 9)

The implication is clear: You guys don't know God at all, but you presume to speak for Him.
How dare you? Instead of finding out what He's really about, would you instead teach lies in His
name?

Job continues by teaching the men about the nature of God, whom they obviously have never
met:
"For now You (God) do number my steps; do

you not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You
cover over my iniquity."
Job 14:16-17

Again, Job ends by preaching the Gospel. God, you watch over me—over every step. You
know everything I do, and yet you seal my transgression up, and you cover my iniquity.

Right here, Job is trying to explain to his friends that he is not claiming righteousness of his
own, but he is claiming the righteousness that comes from surrendering your life to be governed by
God. Job describes the relationship by saying God numbers Job's steps. The mental picture is that God
is so intimately involved in Job's life that He even knows how many steps Job takes.

But Eliphaz can't stand the idea that Job has just claimed an intimacy with God. In chapter 15,
he goes on a rant: who are you to claim to know God? What do you think you know that we don't?
And this is the gist of the reason the Pharisees hated Jesus. Those who have supernatural eyesight
are a threat to those who know the words but not the Word.
 Here's what Eliphaz says:

"Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills? Have you
heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you
know that we do not know? Or understand that is not with us? ... What is man that he
should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"
Job 15:7-9,14

He's saying, just who do you think you are, Job? How can you claim to be clean? You're a
man—men can't be clean. How can you claim intimacy with God? You're just like us—you can't
know what we don't know.

He can't understand why Job would make the audacious claim that he understands God and
that God is intimately involved in Job's life.

This is astounding to all unbelievers. When they hear the voice of a prophet, they laugh and
mock, they guffaw and start ranting about how stupid people who claim to know God are.

In chapter 16, Job answers and says "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable
comforters." (Verse 2)

This is possibly the biggest understatement of the entire book of Job.

He then continues by shaming them: "I also could speak as you. If your soul were in the place
of my soul, I could bind words against you and shake with my head at you." (Verse 4)
He then says God hadn't done this to him because of his actions—Job doesn't know what His reason
is, but it's not because of his sin, which God has forgotten.

When you stop to think about Job's preaching, it is better than that of most of the fine men
and women of God who grace the pulpits of our churches today. His preaching, though preached
through a body that has been wrung and assaulted, is worthy of the finest preachers in all of history.

In chapter 18, Bildad gets to the root of what the "friends" are trying to say: "The wicked will
die; their light will be put out. They will be scared, hungry, homeless, forgotten. Surely your situation
means that you—like they—don't serve God."
This, in a nutshell, is one of the most popular teachings

out there today.

There is a principle in Hinduism called karma. The gist of it is this: when you do something,
you will reap it in a later life. If you have a terrible life right now, it's because you did something bad
in a previous life. The ultramodern idea of "instant karma" is that if you do something bad in this life,
you'll have troubles later on because of your evil deeds. We can expect the world to teach stupid stuff
like "instant karma," but this is one of the most fundamental doctrines of many churches today!

It's all over the TV set! It's all over the popular books!
 In chapter 19, Job begins to lose his patience. He says: "How long will you
torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? This ten times you have shamed
me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. And if indeed I have erred, my
error remains with me."
Job 19:2-4

What he's saying is how long will you falsely accuse me? Why are you not ashamed at what
you're doing? He later asks them why they seek to magnify themselves against him.

Again, in their actions, we see one of the most popular doctrines that is in practice today. If
many Christians see a Christian they respect saying or doing something of which they don't approve,
they secretly glory that the person they respected was caught sinning.

They tend to shake their heads at the false accusations of the friends of Job, but in their hearts,
many are guilty of the same thing—at least Job's friends were honest enough to come right out and
accuse Job. Many today are so cowardly that they accuse people in their hearts so they can feel good
about their own lives. This is what Paul was referring to when he said,

"but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves

among themselves, are not wise."
2 Corinthians 10:12

Job again concludes his response by trying to communicate that the righteousness he claims
does not stem from himself:

"For I know that my Redeemer is living, and He shall rise on the earth at the
last; and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: In my flesh I shall see God, whom I
shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold..."
Job 19:25-27

He first says he's justified by his Redeemer, who's alive.

Then he claims that, after he's dead and buried, he shall see God with his own eyes. This the earliest
reference to a belief in the resurrection that we have in the Bible.

Zophar can't stand it. In chapter 20, he says that earthly punishment is the reward of the
wicked.

He's saying the wicked live in fun and good times for a while. They're revered for a while, but
eventually, his wickedness will catch up to him, and he has to pay the piper, so to speak. In effect,
Job, this is what's happening to you, he says. He ends by saying this:

"The increase of his house shall depart (from the wicked man), flowing away
in the day of (God)'s wrath. This is the evil man's portion from God and the
inheritance of his word from God."
Job 20:28-29

The difference between what Job is saying and what the accusers who call themselves his
friends are saying is small to the natural eye. Both are apparently standing up for God and standing up
for God's holiness.
Job's "friends" are even predicting that those who don't serve God can expect misery when their evil
deeds catch up to them.

But Job's vision with supernatural eyesight sees right through the dissimulation of the
accusers and gets right to the heart of the doctrinal issues they can't seem to grasp.

Job warns the men to listen closely, afterward they can mock if they want.

"Why do the wicked live? They grow old, and become mighty in power. Their
seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are in peace, without fear, nor is God's rod upon them. His bull mates
and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. ... They lift up voice at the
timbrel and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute. They spend their days in good,
and in a moment go down to Sheol (hell). And they say to God, Depart from us, for
we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways—what is the Almighty, that we should
serve Him? And what do we profit if we entreat Him ? "
Job 21:7-15

Job is saying to Zophar, If your point is true, why do the wicked seem to never pay for their
sins in this life? Why do they prosper, make merry, reject God and die? The rich and the poor both
live and die. They're buried and the worms eat both of them.

Eliphaz answers and asks a simple question: how can a man be useful to God? Does God even
care that you're righteous, Job? You've been wicked. Surely you robbed; surely you stole. Maybe you
withheld water from the needy. Maybe you sent a widow away. You did something. In fact, he says in
verse 12, you do whatever you want because you believe God is far away and He doesn't see what you
do.

At this point, the accusation of the "friends" toward Job are getting more pointed and
personal. At every juncture, Job has claimed righteousness, and now they're dispensing with all the
politeness and directly accusing him. In verse 18, Eliphaz claims that the wicked are cut down and
fire eats his wealth—he pays his price in this life, and that's exactly what's happening to you, Job! Fire
ate your wealth, therefore you must be wicked.

He says, hey, repent, come to intimately know God, and he will restore your health and
wealth! Indeed, he gets right to the crux of his point in chapter 22, verse 25:

"Yea, the Almighty shall be your gold and silver, a tower to you (Remember,
Eliphaz's name means 'God of gold'). For then you will delight over the Almighty, and
you will lift up your face to God. You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear
you; and you shall pay your vows. You shall also decide a thing, and it will stand for
you; and light shall shine on your ways."
Job 22:25-28

But Job—using the supernatural eyesight he has gleaned through a tremendous relationship
with God—sees right through it.

In chapter 23, verses 11 to 12, he says, "my foot has held fast in His steps. I have not departed
the command of His lips. I treasured His words more than riches."
 Then, in Chapter 24, verse 19, he reiterates that Sheol (hell) is for the unrighteous. His
understanding (and again the first time this belief is elucidated in the Bible) is that the sinner's reward
is after death—even though they prosper on this earth.

The wisdom of Job is profound in this regard.

Many people read the book of Job and see only the most cursory details of the book—the
conversation between God, who is pleased with Job's faithfulness and the devil, who wishes to
tempt Job. But the deeper teaching of this incredible book is that Job is a man of incredible depth in
the understanding of the nature of God. He has supernatural eyesight—he sees into the spirit realm
and understands the deep things of God.

In chapter 25, Bildad repeats his question: how can a man be justified with God? How can a
man born of a woman be pure? Even the moon and the stars are not pure in His eyes, Bildad says.
In chapter 26, Job finally says he's had enough. He lays it out for them in a
way hopefully even they can't misconstrue: "The departed spirits writhe from beneath
the waters—Sheol is naked before (God); the pit has no covering."
(verse 5)

"As God lives, He has taken away my judgment. As long as the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
my lips won't speak wickedness; my tongue won't lie... I won't retract my integrity because it comes
from God, not from me!" (paraphrase of Ch. 27, vv 5-6)

He continues by saying let my enemy become like the world, because he has no hope when he
dies.

In verse 19, he says "The wicked lies down, but he is not gathered!"

This is fascinating, because in the patriarch narratives, we always learn that the patriarchs,
when they die, are "gathered to their fathers." In the New Testament, Jesus states that the patriarchs
are not dead, because God is the God of the living. Job here says that the wicked die, but they are not
gathered as the patriarchs were—their reward is after they die!

Who is Job, and where did he come up with such profound wisdom? The Bible does not tell
us.

But the fact is, Job lived at a time at least four hundred years before Moses ever set pen to
paper to compose the first five books of the Bible. With no written revelation to guide him, Job came
to his profound understanding of God and the coming Messiah without the Scriptures that tell us what
He's all about.

There have been many suggestions made by various people throughout the ages as to where
Job came up with such profound insight into the Gospel thousands of years before John the Baptist
and the advent of Jesus Christ.

Some have suggested that, because "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handiwork" (Psalms 19:1), that God declared His Word to Job through a message literally
written in the stars.
 That very well could be the answer. Or it could be something else. Job was, after all, only a
very few generations removed from Noah, the man God chose to spare on the ark during the flood that
killed everyone else.

It could be that Job's family passed down the understanding of the Gospel to him, being so
few generations removed from the righteous Noah.

Whatever its source, we can tell some very profound things from Job's answers to the
accusers who called themselves his friends:

•Job had a very personal relationship with God—a relationship that both stemmed from his
understanding of God (his supernatural eyesight) and also engendered his supernatural
eyesight

•Job held no illusions that he was sin-free; instead, he understood that his righteousness was
based upon God's mercy—another insight that was thousands of years before its time.

As we continue learning the keys to supernatural eyesight, the wisdom of Job reminds us that
there is a singular relationship between the eyesight into the spiritual things of God and the
relationship that results from it.
Supernatural eyesight comes from a relationship with God—and supernatural eyesight that comes
from that relationship will draw you ever more deeply into the presence of God.

One leads to the other, and one cannot survive in your life without the other.

If you see into the spirit, you'll be consumed with a desire to delve even deeper, to know
more. The more you know, the more you'll want to know and, just as Job, you'll find yourself
knowing more and more, the revelation literally unpeeling layer by layer as you deepen your
relationship with God.

Isaiah worded it like this:

"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand

doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little:"
Isaiah 28:9-10

CHAPTER THREE
WHAT WAS THE SECRET OF NOAH, ABRAHAM, JACOB AND
CHAPTER 3:

JOSEPH?
 "And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every
imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil all the day long. ... The earth
also was corrupt before God. And the earth was filled with violence. And God looked
upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way on the
earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth
is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
Genesis 6:5, 11-13, (Direct translation from Hebrew)

From that time to this, the wickedness of mankind has not again reached such a level where it
threatened to corrupt the very earth. The sinners who were inhabiting the earth had more than

900 years of life each in which to think up new ways to sin.

The oldest man recorded in the Bible was Methusaleh, who lived 969 years. But that's just the
oldest man recorded. Methusaleh died the year of the flood; who knows how long he might have lived
if the flood had not come? Since the Bible only goes into great detail about the men in the line of
Noah, it's possible that people who were not in that line lived even longer than Methusaleh and we
just don't know about it because it's not recorded for our benefit.

In any case, we know that many of the men had at least 900 years to dream up new and
devious ways to disobey the words of God.

As God looked over the earth, the Bible says He "repented" that he made man. But that word
is difficult to translate into English. The actual Hebrew word, “\hn” means to be sigh or breathe
heavily, as in to be brought to great sorrow.
The wickedness of mankind, which God had created—unlike any of the animals—with the ability to
either worship or sin, brought Him to great sorrow.

As God is planning to destroy the earth—meaning specifically the inhabitants of it—he finds
one man who is righteous.

The Bible says this:

"And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah. These are the generations of
Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family—Noah walked
with God."
Genesis 6:8-9

Noah was righteous—because, like Job, he had "found grace" in the eyes of God.

In the second chapter, we discussed Job, who maintained that he was righteous not by his own
virtue, but by virtue of a redeemer who would forgive his sins and raise him up in the last day.

Here we also see that Noah was a man depending on grace, not the righteousness that comes
by works.

But not only was he full of grace, he "walked with God."

 In other words, Noah spent time with God. He did not just pray a prayer every once in awhile.
He did not claim to be a servant of God and then just go on about the rest of his life following his own
desires.

Noah was a man whose life revolved around God.

Many people see a phrase like "walking with God" and they envision some super-spiritual
person with their heads in the clouds...
But walking with God is as simple as doing what Noah later demonstrates: it's simply spending time
with God, listening to Him and obeying what He says.

NB: One of the keys to spiritual eyesight is understanding that God is the source of our very
lives; our walk with Him must be based not on some super-spiritual, pie-in-the-sky mumbo-jumbo.
Instead, our walk must be based on a very real, very down-to-earth concept: He talks, we listen and
obey.

As God speaks to Noah, some very profound insights into Noah's relationship with God come
to light:

•God reveals to Noah His plan

•God reveals why He's doing what He's doing

•God gives him instructions

•Noah obeys without question

Pay close attention, because this is of utmost importance.

First, God reveals His plan to the righteous man:

"And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before Me...And behold,
1 will destroy them along with the earth ... And behold, I, even I, am bringing a flood
of waters on the earth in order to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from
under the heavens. Everything which is on the earth shall die."
Genesis 6:13, 17

The Bible tells us a profound truth in Amos:

"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his
servants the prophets."

Amos 3:7
 A prophet is simply someone who is inspired by God.

Certainly Noah, then, could be counted as a prophet.

God reveals His plan to the prophet, and then God explains WHY He's doing it:

"for the earth is filled with violence through them."

Genesis 6:13
Noah had God-given insight (you might say spiritual eyesight) into the root cause of the
problem: the earth was filled with violence through the actions of the sinful men who inhabited it.
Once God had given His prophet the insight into the root cause of the problem and God's plan to take
care of the problem, He instructs the prophet on what to do:

"Make an ark of Cyprus timbers for yourself. You shall make rooms in the
ark; and you shall cover it with asphalt inside and out."
Genesis 6:14

God gives the prophet specific instructions—not vague concepts, but specific instructions.
And the prophet, demonstrating the nature that the Bible says is righteous, immediately goes about to
do what the Lord has instructed him to do:

"And Noah did so, according to all that God commanded him, so he did."
Genesis 6:22

After Noah obeys God, God explains to him why He's chosen Noah:

"And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I
have seen you righteous before me in this generation."
Genesis 7:1

Noah had attained a place that many others have sought for and have not found. In Matthew,
Jesus speaks about the place most find:

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to
me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name
have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will 1
profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
Matthew 7:21-23

There are many who do the works that accompany righteousness.

But the works do not make one righteous.

The works follow righteousness. When someone is righteous, God knows them. Jesus claimed
to those working works without righteousness, "I don't know you."

But those who live righteousness will do the works that are a natural fruit of righteousness.
 That's why God tells Noah, "I have seen you righteous."

When someone is righteous, God sees them and knows them. When someone works the
works without the righteousness that comes by grace and faith, God does not honor those works.

And in Noah's case, God testified that Noah was both righteous and accepted in the eyes of
God.

That's important, because Noah was the single man on the entire face of the earth that God
found righteous enough to rescue from the coining destruction.

Noah's three sons were rescued, but according to Genesis 7:1, they were rescued not because
of their own righteousness, but because of Noah's.

Remember, all of this stemmed from one simple sentence: "Noah walked with God."

The key to Noah's spiritual eyesight, the key to his righteousness, the key to his very survival, came
from the fact that he constructed his entire life around the will of God.

He walked with God in such a profound manner that God found him alone righteous in his
generation.

But the New Testament sheds even more light on Noah's understanding of the things of God.

When Peter is instructing the Church in his second letter, he states this:

"And (God) spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness..."
2 Peter 2:5

Not only was Noah a righteous man in his generation, a man who walked with God, who
received revelation knowledge from God and acted on that knowledge, according to the Apostle Peter,
Noah also PREACHED the righteousness of God to his generation.

This is SUPERNATURAL EYESIGHT in action!

Remember, Noah was a man who had "found grace" in the eyes of God, and that, according to
the Bible, made him righteous.

So the righteousness that he was preaching was likely the same righteousness he was
practicing! This shows us a principle of God's Word that is always demonstrated: God does not bring
destruction without first sending a prophet—a speaker for the righteousness of God to warn the
generation in danger and to preach the righteousness of God. Noah, when the flood was over,
demonstrated again his keen understanding of God's nature and the reality that his righteousness came
through the grace of God: he built an altar to God to thank Him for His salvation.
 The result of his supernatural eyesight was that Noah was able to perceive things around him
that others likely would not perceive.

"And Noah, a man of the ground, began and planted a vineyard. And he
drank from the wine, and was drunk. And he uncovered himself inside his tent. And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two
brothers outside. And Shem and Japheth took a garment and put it on both their
shoulders. And they went backwards and covered the nakedness of their father, their
faces backward. And they did not see the nakedness of their father. And Noah awoke
from his wine. And he came to know what his younger son had done to him."
Genesis 9:20-24

Through his supernatural understanding, Noah was able to discern that his son had sinned in folly.

Noah's secret was that he, through his diligence and submission to God, was able to see into
the supernatural and understand both the nature of God and hear His voice.

After the flood, God told Noah and his offspring to go, fill the earth and replenish it. Noah's
offspring did not obey, however—the entire world was gathered near the place called Babel (later
Babylon, in modern-day Iraq).

Not only did they not obey God's commandment, the Bible says they schemed out ways to
avoid obeying it. When the population of Babel became too great, the men of the city decided to build
a tower for an express purpose:

"And they said, 'Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose
top will reach into the heavens, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be
scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. '"
Genesis 11:4

Their goal was to fashion a way in which they could ignore the commandment of God and
stay in one geographic region of the planet.

Of course, we all know the story. God confounded their language, and they scattered anyway.
Only a very few generations later, a man in the same region of Babel in a city named
Ur had a family and moved to Haran (in modern-day Syria). The man, Terah, had a
son named Abram. Genesis 12:1-3

The Bible says that many are called, but few are chosen.

Abram was called, but it was up to him to obey—God delivered a commandment to him, and
then explained to him the benefits if he chose to obey God.

The Bible shows us that, almost immediately, Abram's life was changed—he became a man
who heard and obeyed God, a man of integrity.

He became a man of God, a man who follows where God leads.

 In fact, as soon as he began following God, Abram began to exhibit one of the key attributes
of those who have supernatural eyesight: he became a natural leader.

This is often overlooked, and yet it is one of the most important attributes of someone who is
a believer: those who become followers of God become leaders of men.

They become leaders not because they know how to command, but because they lead by
example. Remember in the first chapter, I explained how Jesus never did a work except He first saw
His Father do it. God's kind of leadership is that He leads by example.

He doesn't ask us to do anything He hasn't first done.

So when the people of God become followers of Him and begin to see with supernatural eyesight into
His nature and His mysteries, they become leaders by example as they follow His lead.

In fact, Abram immediately demonstrates this kind of leadership after God calls him out of
Haran:

"And Abram went out, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with
him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And
Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that
they had gathered, and the persons they had gained in Haran. And they went out to
go into the land of Canaan."

Genesis 12:4-5
CHAPTER 3: WHAT WAS THE SECRET OF NOAH, ABRAHAM, JACOB AND JOSEPH? Abram follows God's lead, and
Lot follows Abram.

Immediately, the characteristics of leadership were on Abram because he had obeyed God
and gained a new insight—a supernatural eyesight. Abram led because he was following God.

It's important to remember, though, that seeing and hearing the things of God is just like
natural eyesight—you must continue looking and listening to develop your hearing and sight. A baby
can see, but can't discern between the sights.

Abram, who had been the son of an idol worshiper, was radically changed by his encounter
with God, and he wasn't about to let that experience stagnate and sit in his life.

How many times do Christians have an experience with God and let that experience drive
them for the rest of then-lives, never seeking a deeper revelation, never seeking a deeper relationship.
They are content instead to feed off of yesterday's manna, glorying in experiences of the past.

But Abram seemed to understand that God is a God of today—that today is when He wants us to seek
Him, to pray, meditate and worship.