If God Revealed Himself, I’d Believe

IF God Revealed Himself, I’d Believe

I do not know how many times I have heard people say something along the line, “If God would reveal Himself, I’d believe. Sadly, the history of the human race proves otherwise.

Gen 3:8  And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 

God walked with Adam and Eve daily and still they fell for the lie of the devil and the promise of Godhood. If you or I would have been there, we would have done the same.

Gen 6:9  These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. 

Then God revealed Himself to Noah and definitely by the Flood and it was not long before people forgot. Even a rainbow did not help people to remember God.

Gen 11:8  So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 

9  Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 

God revealed Himself at the tower of Babel and scattered mankind by language. Yet, mankind went astray. He revealed Himself through the lives of many people and they forgot.

Deu 4:34  Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Then God revealed Himself through Moses, the plagues, the Passover and the Exodus. What happens? Moses does not back fast enough for the people and revert to pagan idol worship and fornication. Indeed, led by Aaron, the brother of Moses and there for all that transpired.

Throughout the wilderness journey God revealed His power and provision and yet, the people complained and God had to punish them. Indeed, they only survived through the intervention of Moses as we only survive as Christians through the intercession of Christ as satan accuses us every day.

John 4:48  Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. 

Then Jesus came in the flesh as the God-Man redeemer with many signs and wonders proving who He was and yet, the religious elite would not believe asking for more signs and wonders. Healing the sick, raising the dead and such was not enough. All of this out in the open. Paul told Agrippa that all he said was verifiable because nothing was done in a corner or as we would say nothing done in secret and shady.

Act 4:30  By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. 

31  And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. 

The Apostles also performed signs and wonders. People lives were changed. Indeed, three thousand in one day at Pentecost. The elite could not figure how the Apostles could stand before them with such wisdom as most were unlearned fishermen, but had to acknowledge that they had been with Jesus. The sinners believed, but not the self-righteous.

The miracle of the swift growth of the Church and people willing to die for the Gospel revealed the Godhead. The Holy Ghost still leads us into truth and Christ still calls people unto Him even in turbulent and perilous times.

Prophecy after prophecy is fulfilled, but people still mock and scorn.

Rev 6:14  And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 

16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 

17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? 

Even when God roll back the scroll and reveals Himself, they will hide in fear, but not repent and ask for mercy.