God Hardens the Heartu

The word hardening means to strengthen in one's resolve. Pharaoh was already a rebellious man against the things of god before moses showed up. The part of god's plan that he had determined beforehand would be that the messiah would die for the sins of the world, and that would come by the hands of hardened jews who he gave over to their rebellion. That's judicial hardening. It's taking away the light from people who have rejected the light for so long that they can't hear it any more. We're exactly what paul says, these hardened ones haven't stumbled beyond recovery,. In my ministry I'm trying to provoke these jews to envy, so that they