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# The Time Has Come to Turn the Bible Upside Down as It Is
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/time-to-turn-the-bible-upside-down/
- Published: 2025-07-08T11:19:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T01:04:18.000Z
- Description: Because seeing, they do not see; and hearing, they do not hear nor understand.
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-revirar-a-biblia

Jesus spoke in parables. And he said clearly why:

“Because seeing, they do not see; and hearing, they do not hear nor understand.” (Matthew 13:13)

And he also affirmed: “There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.” (Mark 4:22)

These two statements, placed side by side, reveal a disconcerting truth: God hides in order to reveal. He conceals so that we may seek. He is silent so that we may truly listen.

It is not about hiding out of malice, but about preserving the truth for those who thirst. The parable, therefore, is not a riddle, it is a mirror. Whoever looks with the heart, sees. Whoever looks with the old mind, with the old garment, stumbles.

A few days ago, after reflecting on what Jesus said, “no one puts a patch of new cloth on an old garment”, I had a conversation that illustrated this clearly.

While sharing with my sister a deep revelation about the role of the Holy Spirit, I noticed her anguish. She listened to me, but her heart struggled to fit what I was saying into the mental structure she had always had.

I told her: “The Holy Spirit is the Lord. He is the one who acts today. God is in heaven. Jesus is beside the Father. But the Spirit dwells in us.”

And she, with a certain suffering in her voice, insisted: “But… isn't it all the same thing?”

I realized at that moment that she was not trying to argue. She was suffering. Suffering from trying to keep standing a building that had begun to shake. Trying to sew the new cloth onto the old garment, and feeling that the fabric could not take it.

This conflict is more common than it seems. And it happens in many ways:

The person wants to live a spiritual faith, but keeps praying as if God were far away, up in the heavens, and not dwelling in them.

They believe in Jesus as Savior, but keep waiting for Him to come and solve everything out here, without understanding that Christ needs to be formed within us.

They read the Gospels as if they were an ethical model, but ignore the Kingdom being revealed there, not only with words, but with power.

How many times have we heard someone pray like this: “Lord, be with us in this meeting. Come and dwell here.”

But… if the Holy Spirit dwells in us, He is already here. That prayer shows that, despite believing in God, the person still lives with the mentality of the Old Covenant, as if they needed to invoke a presence that has already been given.

Another example: A person reads the Bible looking for “life lessons”, “advice” or “promises”. That is fine, there is advice, there is wisdom, there are promises. But if they read only with the mind, without the Spirit, the letter kills. It becomes a behavior manual, not a book of revelation.

No longer as an old garment sewn with patches. No longer as a heap of texts to reinforce old beliefs.

But as a living book, spiritual, deep, and coherent from beginning to end.

The Old Testament pointing to Christ in Jesus.

The New Testament revealing Christ in us.

And the whole Bible announcing: Christ is all in all.

To turn the Bible upside down is to let it turn us upside down first. It is to read not to find what we already believe, but to let fall everything we thought we knew. It is to let go of the old wineskin and accept being made new inside.

Because the new cloth has already arrived. And if we insist on sewing it onto the old garment, we will lose both.

This is what changes everything. Leaving the old patterns, surrendering completely, letting the mind be transformed, is not just a change of behavior. It is a change of dominion.

Because only where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

You stop living under the control of the world, of traditions, of pressures, of fears. You leave the darkness of the soul, leave the hell inside, and begin to experience the life of God.

And that life is good, pleasing and perfect.

Not because everything around you changes. But because you have changed inside. And now you can see, feel and live what was hidden before, but had always been there.