"Plain and Simple"

 "For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood." (Hebrews 7:14 KJV)

  "God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure. And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ - everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and is making everything work out according to his plan." (Ephesians 1:9-11 NLT)

 So, here it is, if it might have been mysterious before, it is obvious now: God is in control, and He is the one that makes the rules! Even though things may not seem to be the way that they should, God's ways are His, even though they might not always make sense. 

 Thinking about all the different ways that the Jewish leaders were given signs of who Jesus was, they still worked hard to turn everything He did into something that was wrong or against what they should have clearly accepted. All the Scriptures they had studied, most of which they might have known by heart, they completely refused to see the connection.

 That is really not something we shouldn't understand, because when we harden our hearts to anyone, even something good they might do, will be considered as something they used to offend us. As it was, even when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, they were totally offended by what was done; so much so, they actually plotted to kill Jesus, and Lazarus too! 

 I have seen this type of anger in many different settings; most of which are caused without evaluating the truth, because the heart is so hard, the truth really doesn't want to be known. We can see it in the Bible, all the way back to Cain and Abel. What did Abel do to offend his brother? Nothing that should have made him mad, except him doing what pleased the LORD! 

 The Scriptures are always right...

""The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?"" (Jeremiah 17:9 NLT)