"Put to Shame" -2

 "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not." (John 1:10 KJV)

  "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." (Hebrews 11:3 KJV)

  Interesting enough, that thing about Ezekiel and the whole exile thing, it gets more and more closer to this picture, the more I think about it. The best way to see what I am talking about, is to look at Isaiah 53:1 and examine the word, "revealed." The Hebrew word is, 'Galah,' which is a word that speaks of to bare, strip, unveil; but it also speaks of, to evacuate a country, and to go into exile. More importantly, it is a word that has the principle idea: To make naked; "which in many passages it has the connotation of  "to shame." Editor's note: "It is ironic that God was forced to evict His people from the very land which He had promised them!" 

  I cannot begin to describe what it is that all this ties together, except to say that Jesus was downgraded quite a bit, when He stepped down from glory to become one of us; and in that state of vulnerability He became subject to humiliation and rejection, the likes of which the world had not seen in quite some time. To be more accurate and to the point, the one sin that man seems to be most unable to confess or even recognize is the one that Paul confessed to be his downfall: To Covet! 

  Have you ever wondered why Adam and Eve realized that they were naked after eating the forbidden fruit? The way that Paul explained his realization, was that the Law said, "Thou shalt not covet," which, had the Law not said what it said, he would not have known it was a thing to be reckoned with at all. And having know it was a thing, he witnessed the sin in his own life; prior to that, he had not known sin! It was not until he had studied the Law, that he had been shown the sin in his life, the sin of covetousness, which is a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another.

  Anywho; this might be more mysterious than what we can easily see; but the truth of the matter, if that is what we came to see, is that our natural reaction to change, of almost any sort, is to imagine it being towards anyone else. Is that also a form of covetousness? Simple and logical answer is, that we are to examine the heart of the matter: What makes man turn towards one another? "Do you think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?" (James 4:5 KJV) 

  There is only so much that one can know about God from God's creation...

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them: for God hath shown it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened." (Romans 1:18-21 KJV