God’s Glory to Conceal a Matter

From a visitor to goedbericht.nl, I received an email that began as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,
With amazement I browsed your (by the way, beautiful) website—especially the part on universal reconciliation (ugh, what a loaded word) I read. Like nearly all other Dutch people, I lack the knowledge of Greek and Hebrew to determine who’s actually right.
Couldn’t God, in love, have made it all a bit clearer? That would have spared a lot of headaches.

The best answer to this question I once read in a booklet by Martin Zender (Martin Zender Goes to Hell). In response, Zender refers to Proverbs 25:2, where it says:

“The glory of Elohim is to conceal a matter, And the glory of kings is to investigate a matter.”

That God never misses His goal, that eonian does not mean endless, that the so-called hell is in fact the valley of Hinnom, that Christ’s offering does not fall short of Adam’s transgression—these are biblical truths that stand firm as a house.

But each one of them has ended up buried under a thick layer of tradition, and in most Bible translations, they are obscured, distorted, or translated away. In short, these truths remain hidden from the casual Bible reader and from those who rely on what the minister or priest says.

Yet whoever “examines whether these things may be so” (and in doing so demonstrates a love for the truth) will soon begin to see how things truly are. God does not make it impossible for a seeker to find. The truth simply does not lie on the surface. God conceals it—because He finds glory in doing so.

Just as kings (and royal children) in turn find glory in investigating these matters and uncovering what is hidden.

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