Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Monday, July 11, 2011

Acts 28

The Jews were very familiar with words of Isaiah. There is no question that the Isaiah prophecied concerning the Savior and the people in the meridian of times as in the latter days. I think it is interesting that Paul, having testified of the gosple of Jesus Christ, quotes Isaiah saying -

"...Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." (New Testament | Acts 28:25 - 27)

So Paul told them -

"Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it." (New Testament | Acts 28:28)

Now, years later, here in the latter days, the same prophecy applies. Many Christians are familiar with the prophecy of Isaiah and Paul's address to the Jews in Rome. But just as the Jews in Rome, many still reject the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ for the same reason.