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Doctrine is not closed and sealed with a wax seal, not hidden away where one cannot find the book, not placed under lock and key to prevent access, the words are there to be read, but the ability to understand them is blocked by a closed mind.

If you were to look at a page of numbers and letters that were encrypted such that you could read the numbers and letters, but could not have any way of understanding their message, then that is how doctrine will look to the negative individual, even though the Bible is not encrypted in any way.

The Bible is clear and perspicuous and readily available to everyone, except those who really do not want to read it, or accept it, or even care for what is in it.

There are examples of sealed information, which has been revealed to us but the meaning is withheld. The seven thunders in Revelation for example, or the identity of the anti-christ. The revealing of those things is reserved for the people who will actually have to live in that future time. It is probably something like having to be there in order to see it. Otherwise everything is only guess work.

But whatever their meaning, that has nothing to do with our responsibility in learning doctrine and growing and developing in our own personal spiritual life. That is our true objective, for preparation for our future.

The terrible and dumbest thing would be to remain negative toward our greatest opportunity, now, and by our own bad decisions, closing up the entire Bible for our use now.

It is one thing for God to seal up information, which is not relevant to us anyway, but it is an entirely different thing for us to close the book on our self, and in so doing close us out of our own future.

That would be really dumb.