When heaven remained shut

My Sunday Scripture 2010.1.31

Then he began to speak to them, 'This text is being fulfilled today even while you are listening.'

And he won the approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, 'This is Joseph's son, surely?'

But he replied, 'No doubt you will quote me the saying, "Physician, heal yourself," and tell me, "We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own country." '

And he went on, 'In truth I tell you, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.

'There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land,

but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a town in Sidonia.

And in the prophet Elisha's time there were many suffering from virulent skin-diseases in Israel, but none of these was cured -- only Naaman the Syrian.'

When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged.

Saint Luke 4:21-30


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My Reading Notes:
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May be this is the most terrible thing of all. And it might be true.
Heaven is not always open. Sometimes, it is shut. All the people on earth,
except a very very few, cannot reach help.

People will got angry only by hearing this. But it is true.

Some times, there was total darkness, even the most wise man on earth had become blind. For the older generation of China, they had all experienced the Cultural Revolution. By that time, all were blind. And the heaven was shut for them. There was nowhere for light, and nothing could help. People were all blind in the mind.

But why? but why? I can not understand this. May be that was a serious lesson to learn. We should open our eyes.