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Does God Keep Secrets?
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Sept 4 2026
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TORAH: Deuteronomy 29:9 - 30:20
Does God keep secrets?
It might sound like a strange question, but this week’s double Torah portion gives us an interesting answer.
In Deuteronomy 29:29 we read:
“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever…”
There are things that belong to God alone—but there are also things that He chooses to reveal. And when God reveals something, that revelation comes with responsibility.
The Things God Reveals
Throughout Scripture, we see God revealing His plans and purposes through His prophets, His Word, and the leaders of Israel.
But we also see another pattern.
Because of rebellion and disobedience, there were times when understanding was withheld and eyes were blinded.
This becomes especially important when we come to Romans 11.
Paul explains that through Israel’s disobedience, salvation has come to the Gentiles. But he does not stop there. He tells us that there is a purpose behind it.
Romans 11:11 says:
“…through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.”
That means the salvation of the nations is not disconnected from Israel.
God has brought those who were once far away near. Through the blood of Jesus, the nations have been brought into what Paul elsewhere describes as the commonwealth of Israel, and Jew and Gentile are being brought together as one new man.
Paul describes this as a mystery—something hidden for generations but now revealed.
One of God’s great secrets has been made known.
Revelation Brings Responsibility
But revelation is not simply about having more information.
With revelation comes responsibility and accountability.
Israel was called to live holy before God and to be a light to the nations.
But what about those of us from the nations who have received the mercy of God? We also have a responsibility.
Our calling is not simply to receive salvation and then forget the people through whom God brought His Word and His promises into the world.
We are called to live holy lives before God and to demonstrate His love and mercy in a way that helps draw Israel back to Him.
If salvation came to the Gentiles in order to provoke Israel to jealousy, then our lives should cause people to look at us and desire the God of Israel whom we worship.
Are we doing that?
Do our lives demonstrate the goodness, holiness, mercy, and love of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Don’t Miss the Word “Until”
Paul continues in Romans 11:25:
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery… that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”
Until.
That is an important word.
Israel’s blindness is not presented as the end of the story.
God has not finished with His people.
His restoration plan continues to unfold.
Both Israel and the nations have failed in many ways to walk fully in the calling God has given them. Yet the incredible story of Scripture is one of God’s mercy.
He remains faithful.
He continues to reveal.
He continues to restore.
And today we have the opportunity to participate in what He is doing.
Will We Participate in God’s Restoration Plan?
The question is no longer simply, “Does God keep secrets?”
Perhaps the greater question is:
What will we do with what God has revealed?
If God has revealed His heart for Israel…
If He has revealed His plan for Jew and Gentile…
If He has shown us that the salvation of the nations is connected to His purposes for Israel…
Then that revelation carries responsibility.
As believers from the nations, may we embrace our calling to demonstrate the love and mercy we have received and participate in the restoration of God’s people.
God’s redemptive plan is moving forward.
The mystery has been revealed.
Are we activated into God’s calling over our lives?
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