John 9: 1-3

(John 9: 1-3).

『And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.』

"Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" The disciples asked Jesus. Sin is the original sin of the parents or the sin of his own. His sin means sin committed before being born into this world. It means that there is a sin other than the original sin of flesh received from parents. The other original sin is the original sin made in the kingdom of God. Spirits who followed Satan because they wanted to leave God. Thus, God imprisoned sinful spirits in the flesh.

Spirits confined in the flesh are dead because they have lost their relationship with God. So was born a soul. The Bible says in Genesis (2:7).『And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.』 As the spirit died, he became a living being. God created the Garden of Eden to save the spirit of Adam born in the world, to eat the fruit of the tree of life, and to make the spirit alive to communicate with God.

As to why he became blind, Jesus said, "It is not the original sin of heaven, nor the original sin of the earth. that the works of God should be made manifest in him. What does God works? The Bible says in John 6:29: 『Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.』 Here, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent is explained in John (6:39-40).『And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.』

Here, we must realize the meaning of the word blind. We must find that God's intention is hidden behind what is literally expressed in the Bible. The law (the law of wrath) is, on the surface, that if man keeps the law, God will make man righteous. But on the other hand, it shows that all human beings under the law are sinners. Thus, if we find Christ through the law and come into Christ, we have eternal life. The Bible says in John (6:48-51).『I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.』 It means they die even if they eat manna, which symbolizes the law. The law given by God in the wilderness is not a law of salvation, but a punishment for sinners. Only the law of the Spirit is saved.

If we consider the story that was told in the Bible as the world, we cannot know the things of heaven. The Bible metaphorically describes the work of heaven through the work of the world. So if we do not understand heavenly things through earthly works, then all are blind to the Bible. When Jesus talked with a rabbi named Nicodemus "Even if I talk to you about earthly things, you do not believe, but do you believe that I speak of heavenly things?"

There is no mention of the kingdom of God in the Bible. It is said that only 40 days after Jesus' resurrection he told his disciples about the kingdom of God, and that Paul, who went up to heaven, also was not explained about the kingdom of God.

To open the eyes of a blind person is to realize the things of heaven. Thus, they realize God's will and give glory to God. The Bible says in Matthew (13: 34-35).『All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.』

The Bible speaks about the opening of the blind in Isaiah (35: 5).『Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.』The Bible says the same thing in Matthew (11: 5) and Luke (4:18). When blind people open their eyes, people know what sin is. Sin is a sin committed in the world, but it is basically a sin that leaves the God because  spirits  wants to be like God. It means sinful spirits who followed Satan before creation.

So, when the spirits in the flesh do not realize the mystery of the kingdom of God, they are called blind, and Jesus came to open the blind eyes. When the trapped spirits open their eyes, it is a glory to God to realize that they are sinful spirits in the kingdom of God and to repent and enter into Christ. Opening the blind eye is "that the works of God should be made manifest in him." In other words, what God does is to believe in the one sent by God. It is Jesus Christ sent by God. Jesus Christ draws sinners to God. Thus, they realize that they are those who have left God because they want to be like God, and realize that in order to return to God, they must repent and die with Jesus.

To open the eyes of the blind since birth, Jesus says in John (9: 6-7).『 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. 』 By the way, the day that opened the blind eye was the Sabbath. Sabbath means being released from being bound. So Christ is Lord of the Sabbath. Those who enter into Christ are released from Satan, enter into rest, and become one with God. Jesus Christ gives rest to all who are bound. Since Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath, on the Sabbath, Jesus gives rest to those who do not rest. The Pharisees questioned Jesus on the basis of the law, "Why do you work on the Sabbath?" They ask questions without knowing the meaning of the Sabbath. Jesus releases those who are trapped on the Sabbath, and the Pharisees say they should not do it on the Sabbath. The Pharisees are blind.

Jesus described the Pharisees as blind. The Pharisees did not understand the meaning of the law, and they understood it literally, so Jesus told them, "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. (Matthew 23: 24)" Even today, if we do not understand the meaning of the law (law of wrath) and speak only with what the law prescribes, we are blind to the kingdom of God. Those who are bound by the law are blind men who have nothing to do with the life of Jesus Christ. The blind are those who do not know the kingdom of God.

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