Having fruitlessly striven for decades, their work now blossomed to the world, with God and the angels bringing the Great and Marvelous work to completion. To sin is the miss the mark the blueprint destiny at birth. Worldly approval pales compared to this True Success. These potentials which God will surely further are impossible while in sin. God wants us to express Him, as he designed before our conception.
Blindness is the problem .
In times of mass sin and chaos, prophets arise, who function to tell the sinful masses what should be obvious but was completely hidden from them, due to sin. Because bondage is a bandage , the wise and wealthy become fools despicable, naked and blind. It is only rare strength true nobility that has independence from the masses and can take a moral stand. Wide is the path to destruction, but narrow is the gate to eternal life. Just this view indicates blindness.