Spiritual truths must be obeyed into our lives, they cannot realistically be thought in. Since those outside and many/most inside refuse to actually obey His full words, then they have resorted to intelligence, alone. Just like the Pharisees are they. The great Apostasy will be full of these; it is filling up now.
Each obedience opens up a well-spring of truth, that cannot be gotten any other way. I have heard it said and I agree that we all have a lot to unlearn. Will you?
Yes, I do! The Lord started working on our beliefs early on in our marriage. We almost got into a cult, accidentally, by a false teacher. After that we felt that we needed to be a lot more careful. We started feeling uneasy about the pre-trib rapture in the 1980s. We started listening to Marvin Rosenthal. He challenged our core beliefs about that stuff. We read a lot, studied a lot, began to realize how difficult it was to make a case for the Pre-trib rapture without leaning on commentaries to carry it through, and we felt that God would not make something so important so difficult to understand. Then, as things in the Gulf started going to the pits and the threat of world-wide muslim takeover became more believable, we began to see that the ME (middle east) is the KEY to end time prophecies. We’d been saying that, ourselves, to some extent, then Walid’s teaching removed the scales. Having lived in Turkey, it was staring right at us, and though we’d sensed that Turkey and the other muslim countries were all in the end-time plot, we’d not figured out the part that the Caliphate was the 7th beast. We’d been thinking it was Hitler/Germany for so long that we were still thinking they’d make an alliance with the 8th beast to become part of the Antichrist alliance. Germany apologized for the Holocaust. Turkey never did, and they were in cahoots with Hitler. To me, Walid makes very good points.