Scriptures on faith: The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, Colossians 1:26

The doctrine of the kingdom of God is fundamentally a doctrine of mysteries: "The mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord's people." Colossians 1:26
This is so because spiritual gifts are infused virtues such as wisdom, the gift of knowledge, and discernment. These virtues that are perfect because the qualities of God are perfections, they are access to a special type of knowledge that belongs to the plane of the invisible.
Prophetic knowledge is a true mystery, Jesus explains this truth in various ways: "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables", Luke 8:10; "I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then you will believe if I speak of heavenly things?", John 3:12

As Jesus teaches in the Christian faith, we can understand the earthly things with reason, but we need the wisdom of God to understand the heavenly things: "No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again", John 3:3.
Prophetic knowledge in addition to wisdom needs the third eye that is the fruit of contemplative activity, the worship of wisdom: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.", Matthew 6:22-23.
Among those who live according to the flesh, the ability to see into the future ( a form of prophetic knowledge) is an extremely rare ability, and they generally hide it for fear of being discovered, sometimes they consciously perceive ebbs of time ( for example Benjamín Solari Parravicini), the spiritual gifts work in a more complex way. To give an example of this, it is very likely that the prophecies of Nostradamus are in fact the prophecies of Catherine de Médicis (the true seer) and that Nostradamus has been a simple pseudonym to avoid the persecution of the inquisition.
This is why the mysteries of heavenly things must be accepted with a poverty of heart as Jesus explained. We must avoid pride and ask God for wisdom.
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