R.C. Sproul

And if that revolution takes place with the telescope, how much more the revolution that has taken place in our lifetimes even with the microscope microbiology.

that there are in this room as I speak enough real entities to destroy each one of us that if we could see them with the naked eye would probably strike terror into our souls.

But fortunately for us, we go along our merry way completely oblivious to the myriad micro-bodies that have the capacity to kill us.

If we could see them all, we'd probably stay in bed hiding under the covers for the rest of our lives.

But we have learned through modern science that there are realities out there beyond the scope of our ability to perceive them.

Now, why is it that we believe that germs that we can't see can be out there, but we have this bias that says you can't have supernatural heavenly beings, spirit beings like angels when the Scripture texts are full of them?

That's one of the things that I love about this story is the servant couldn't see what was really there.

until Elisha prayed and said, please, Lord, open his eyes.

Let him see.

Not let him see a hallucination.

Not let him see a vision of what's not real.

Let him see what's really out there.

And when he opened his eyes, who?

The assembled host of angels.

was vastly superior in number and power to all of those chariots and armies of the king of Syria.

And that's what God tells us is the world in which we live.

You know, a similar incident that I think is revealing takes place in the New Testament.

And it takes place, ironically, during the temptation of Jesus.

Immediately after Jesus' baptism, the Spirit drives Him into the Judean wilderness to be tempted of Satan.

And you know that how Satan comes and he suggests that maybe Jesus really isn't the Son of God, even though the last words that Jesus had heard in His ears before He goes into the wilderness was the pronouncement from heaven, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased.