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Open Eyes & Blindness
1 Kings 6:17-18 And Elisha prayed, and said, “Elohim, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then YHWH opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. .. “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness
The Hebrew word for blindness is SANVERIM H5575 – sanvērîm. The first and only other time in the old testament this word “blindness” is used, is with the messengers making the men blind in Sodom. Gen 19:11, “And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, H5575 both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
The related Hebrew word is AVAR H5786 – ʿāvar, a warning about accepting gifts and money in Exo 23:8, “And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth H5786 the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.”
The next related Hebrew word is LUER H5787 – ʿiûēr. Is YHWH not the one who makes the mouth, who makes the deaf, the seeing and the blind, as in Exo 4:11. Also a warning never to put a stumblingblock before the blind, as in Lev 19:14.
Even though we might think blindness, especially spiritual blindness is a bad thing – Scripture prophesied and says it is better to consider yourself blind and asking to see, than thinking you can see – but then you are considered blind – words by Yeshua Himself. “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.” Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?” Yeshua said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains. John 9:39-41
Yeshua also gave sight to many blind, just as prophesied by David and Isaiah:
- Psa 146:8 The YHWH openeth the eyes of the blind: H5787 YHWH raiseth them that are bowed down: YHWH loveth the righteous
- Isa 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind H5787 shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
- Isa 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind H5787 shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- Isa 42:7 To open the blind H5787 eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
- Isa 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and H5787 look, ye blind, H5787 that ye may see.
Windows in Heaven
2 Kings 7:2 So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, “Look, if YHWH would make windows in heaven, could this thing be?”
The king’s officer doubted the prophecy and doubted YHWH, by saying YHWH could provide for them if He would make windows in Heaven.
The hebrew word for window is ARUBA H699 – ‘ărubâ, also meaning sluice or chimney.
Even though we cannot see YHWH, and we cannot see the windows of Heaven – doesn’t mean it or He isn’t there. In Noah’s day, when YHWH brought the promised destruction of the earth by water, the floodwaters came from two sources: “All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” (Genesis 7:11)
The “windows in heaven” is mentioned in the Book of Enoch, and also in the Bible. The Book of Enoch describes twelve portals or windows in heaven, through which winds, the sun, moon, and stars pass. In Scripture the phrase “windows of heaven” can refer to physical rain, manna (Exodus 16:4), blessings (Malachi 3:10) and even judgement (Isaiah 24:18).
