Here’s what we are experiencing in the world today with blind and deceived people. It’s a serious problem.

“That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand. Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, but never understand; you will look and look,
but never perceive.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts,
and turn back—and I would heal them.” Matthew 13: 13-15 (CSB).