things in the spirit realm about mysteries hidden in all time frames (past, present and future). Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he that is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer (1 Samuel 9:9).
Though many prophets of old had awesome dreams and visions they did not perceive the times thereof neither what it was about. They desired to see and hear the things that the heirs of salvation see and hear today; they see and hear it but did not understand it. The Old Testament saints witnessed the mighty works of God and understood that not to themselves, but to us the heirs of salvation they were ministering (1 Peter 1: 10-12). Those things were types and shadows of heavenly things and good things to come. God has veiled His wisdom in plain sight from them. The wisdom of God is revealed in that Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
God’s language
Jesus, in His ministry, used symbolic language as He taught by the parabolic method. Why is God veiling the truth? All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable he did not speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 13:34-35).
Since the fall of man God conceals truth in parables, dreams and visions which need interpretation to seal the understanding thereof to the heart. The first biblical example is where Joseph’s brothers interpreted Joseph’s dream about their sheaves bowed down to his sheaf. Jacob interpreted Joseph’s dream about the sun, moon and eleven stars that bowed