OUR FATHER WHOSE PLAN TO SAVE US WAS FORETOLD BY HIS PROPHETS

After telling the crowd people the parable of the  sower, the disciples of Jesus were curious as to why He was using parables instead of  speaking plainly. They thought it was counter-productive to have a captive audience but then tell them indecipherable stories. Mathew chapter 13 verses 10 - 17 captures Jesus response to this query;

10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:

‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,

And seeing you will see and not perceive;

15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.

Their ears are hard of hearing,

And their eyes they have closed,

Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,

Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,

So that I should heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes for they seme, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

In responding to the disciples' question, the Lord referred to a prophecy in Isaiah chapter 6 verses 9 - 10 which foretold that the peoples' hearts would be dull and their eyes closed and ears shut and would not understand lest they comprehend what was available for them and they turn and be redeemed.

The plan was for Israel to reject the messiah and if Jesus taught too clearly, they might have understood and repented and this would have short-circuited the salvation process. 

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