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Isa.29: "10 The Lord has brought over you a deep sleep:

He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);

he has covered your heads (the seers).

11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”

13 The Lord says:

“These people come near to me with their mouth

and honor me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me.

Their worship of me

is based on merely human rules they have been taught."

Those who do not worship God in the way that He desires (John4:23-24) because their worship is based upon human doctrine, fail to be granted the spiritual perception needed to attain insight and understanding of divine knowledge.

The consequences of worshiping according to human doctrine and commands of men

(Matt.15:8-9; Col.2:22; Rom.10:2-3)...

Isa.28: "10 For it is:

Do this, do that,

a rule for this, a rule for that;

a little here, a little there.”

11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues

God will speak to this people, 12 God said to them, “Here is a place of rest; let the tired people come and rest. This is the place of peace.” But the people would not listen." (Isa.28:10-12)

(LINK: what-is-sheole-hades.html )

Those who worship outside the realm of divine truth will be unable to hear and grasp the true teachings, even when they hear them spoken. When their hearts are hardened and turned away, refusing to repent; God refuses to grant them rest and peace (Isa.59:8; Rom.3:11,17; Heb.3:10-11,18-19; Matt.7:21-23).

Jesus is the source of true peace... the peace that results from attaining and taking in the water of life (John 14:27; 4:13-14; 6:63)

John 14: "27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

Isa.41:9-10,11-12,13

Matt.11: "28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."

"yet you refuse to come to me to have life" (John 5:40)

Luke 19:41-42

Those who do not have a love of truth are deceived through false human doctrine (2Thess.2:10; Eze.13:9-10; 2Pet.2:19; 1Thess.5:3; Isa.26:16-18,19-21). Those lacking love of divine truth do not prioritize turning to God's Word and Christ, rather than to men. They are therefore refused by God and Christ to be granted spiritual sight and the ability to hear divine spirit (Rev.2:29). To those deprived of spiritual perception, Christ's parables and the deep symbolism of prophecy are unreadable (Isa.29:10-11; Matt.13:19). These are refused the peace and rest that results from spiritual insight.

Jesus spoke of this...

Matt.13: "10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;

though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;

you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;

they hardly hear with their ears,

and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their hearts

and turn, and I would heal them.’"

(Rev.22:2) -- (Link: leaves.html

Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2:27-28).

He is the one authorized to grant or deny the peace and rest which results from possessing divine spirit and truth

(Isa.22:22; Rev.3:7-8; Prov.3:1-2,3-4; Heb.4:1-2,9,6-7; Matt.13:15-16; Luke 1:79).

He is also the one to grant or deny entrance into God's Sabbath rest, and access to God's Holy City.

(LINK: https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com )

The source of divine spirit and truth is God's holy city... the garden of God... the paradise of God (meaning: garden of delights).

Third Heaven, is Paradise (2Cor.12:2,4; Rev.2:7; 22:2,14) where fine trees that yield the fine teachings of truth (Matt.13:52; 6:21; 12:35; Luke 6:43-45; John 15:16,8).

( LINK: the-third-third-heaven.html )

Not all are granted access

(Rev.22:14-15; Matt.18:3; Rev.22:19; 21:2,9-10,23-25,26-27,6-7; 22:17; 14:13).

This means that not all can derive spiritual sustenance from divine truth. This is symbolically depicted as not having access to the trees of life. Those outside the holy city have manifested their unrepentant preference for human doctrine (Rom.1:25; 1Cor.10:14).

God's Sabbath rest is a gift to the faithful (Isa.26:2-3; Mark 2:27-28; 2Sam.7:10; Eze.37:25; Heb.4:8-9; Rev.21:7)

There they find the provisions leading to lasting peace and rest.