Sunday, January 9, 2011

"No Eye Has Seen..."

This is a resource study supporting my On Zion = Israel #2 study.

Quoting Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

"Our Sages teach: [Berachos 34b] 
The prophets all prophesied about the Era of Mashiach alone, but with regard to the World to Come, it is said, "No eye has glimpsed it, but You alone." Isaiah 64:3

This theme is the foundational theme of the whole record of the Good News of Israel and Mashiach as given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 
- as in for example Matthew 12 on plucking grain on the Sabbath.

MMS teaches that "No eye has seen..." refers to Eden and the revelation of Eden, that is to say, the "Era of the Resurrection,"  The World To Come.
In relation to this we have these references and teachings:

1 Cor. 2: 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.


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"No Eye Has Seen..." a note in maxcarlkirk's Springpad