No one sees anything unless God allows it.tychicum; Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
(1Co 2:7-8) Satan would have found out.
How anyone can miss this is quite beyond my comprehension.
Jesus slipped through crowds, unseen, walking through their midst, the angels blinded the eyes of the sodomites who wanted to rape them when they stayed with Lot, so that they searched all night, intheir blindness, for the door to the house!
Jesus shut the understanding of the Apostles for all He was telling them until after He rose from the dead. they knew, they heard, they saw...but He did not open understanding until He was "Revealed" -"to the elect".
2Ki 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
"We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses"; but now we see darkly -but then we shall know as we are known.
We may have entertained angels unawares, there was an army of angelic host surrounding Elisha.
He shuts eyes and He opens eyes.
At this time, He sees us and we do not see Him. And at this time, He is "Hid in God" and the world has not seen Him and shall, at His revealing; and we who are born again are "Hid in God with Christ", also, in the One Spirit of regeneration to which we are joined in the New birth.
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