Opening the Gates of Heaven Perry Stone

what has been written. 6 It takes illumination to form understanding. All men have physical eyes, but the “eyes of understanding” are the ability to properly understand spiritual and biblical information that others miss or may not comprehend. In Christ’s day, people continually misunderstood His messages and teachings. He once said, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood … ,” and the entire synagogue filled with people became offended, with many eventually ceasing from following Him except His original twelve disciples (John 6:53–69). He was speaking of communing with Him in the form of the Lord’s Supper, the bread and the fruit of the vine, but the masses took His message wrong. On another occasion Christ said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). Christ’s enemies used these words to accuse Christ of threatening to destroy the temple in Jerusalem, when He was actually speaking about His own body being the temple of the Lord and of His resurrection from the dead (vv. 19–22). Christ taught that these people were “blind leaders of the blind” (Matt. 15:14), and their eyes (spiritual perception) were closed (Matt. 13:15). Through the light-giving illumination of the Holy Spirit, your spiritual eye gate can be opened to receive impartation from the light giver. The ear gate is how all information we hear is received and processed. Hearing is an odd thing: four different individuals can hear the same message preached by the