The spirit of slumber?

This is a KJV Bible study guide. Romans 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. [God gave it to them]. (The word “slumber” definition in the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Greek word # 2659;a pricking, piercing, severe sorrow, extreme grief, insensibility or torpor of mind, such as extreme grief easily produces, hence a "spirit of stupor", which renders their souls torpid and thus so insensible that they are not affected at all by the offer made them of salvation through the Messiah). Slumber (the spirit of slumber) (KJV dictionary) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Stupor (Oxford dictionary) a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility. Torpid (Oxford dictionary) mentally or physically inactive; lethargic. Paul is telling us that the reason that the rest of the world is blind to the truth is because it is written in the Scripture. This word "slumber" in the Greek, would better be translated "stupor". In the Greek it is "Katanuxis". God placed the spirit of stupor on all those that are not part of the elect. They are not asleep but they are in a stupor, and they just don't know what is going on, and they will not in this earth age.Down through all generations, even to this final generation, those eyes will not see, and their ears will not hear and understand the Word of God. Why? Because God told us that this would happen way back in Isaiah 29:10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath He covered.God even gave this prophesy to Moses in Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.The "heart to perceive", is the mind to understand. By the hardening of the heart of those that would not believe, God caused that whole generation of Moses’ day to die in the wilderness and not go into the promise land. Why? Because of their unbelief! The only ones to enter into the promised land were the young, and the two that did have faith in God's ability to give Israel the victory; those two were Joshua and Caleb.What God is telling us then in Romans 11:8 is that even when it looks like the whole population has sunk into this stupor, and hardness of heart; God has reserved His elect to Himself, and they will be protected and know the truth in their mind and, by the way, not be deceived. This applies to every generation, to Moses time, Isaiah's generation, to Paul's age, and also to us in this final generation.Just as Moses roamed the wilderness for an entire generation of forty years, and when the generation of the stupor died off; then all the youth that had matured, entered that promise land in victory. There is a generation that will spiritually die off, and fall to the point of this spiritual stupor. Then upon the arrival of the Antichrist [Satan] and his locust army of fallen angels, every last one to them will be deceived and worship the Antichrist in ignorance, thinking him to be the true Christ.They will do this in their ignorant stupor, because they willingly listened to their false prophets, religious leaders and religious seers, as they spouted off their traditions of men. God's elect that He has set aside will not be in that stupor, for they will know the Antichrist for who He is. The elect are prepared because God has opened their minds. God has given His elect a mind that will see what is going on before them, and hear the word and be able to discern between truth and deception. Upon the return of Jesus Christ they, His elect, will be ready to enter the Millennium age as victors, and not in shame.Matthew 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (The ten virgins represent Christians of even today. Let’s see what the wise ones did compared to what the foolish ones did. Remember that the first step to wisdom is to revere and obey the Lord; not some man [ see Proverbs 1:7]).Matthew 25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: (A Christian is to reflect the light [truth] of God’s word. The oil used here is Olive oil in English or Elahyon in the Greek language, anointing oil. The oil represents God's anointing, or the Word of God (Truth, John 17:17). Since they had no oil in their lamps, the lamps could not be lit to give off light; they had “no” truth, they didn’t know the truth; they were biblically illiterate. Light equals truth from God’s word. Where do you get that truth/oil? From studying God’s word on your own as we are commanded to do in 2 Timothy 2:15. If all you do is listen to what someone else tells you is in the Bible, you are setting yourself up to be deceived; it is that simple).See these verses: Isaiah 6:9-10; Jeremiah 6:10, 16-19 [many don't want to hear God's word]; Hosea 4:6; Matthew 13:9-15; Luke 8:10-18, 23:34 (don't know what they are doing); John 3:19-20; Romans 11:7-8; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Ephesians 4:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (God sends strong delusion on some) 2 Timothy 4:3-4; 2 Peter 3:3-5 (some are willingly ignorant, deliberately unbelieving; they have free will to make that choice). Some have eyes and see not, some have ears and hear not (they lack the ability to perceive and understand God's truths for one reason or another): Jeremiah 5:21; Matthew 13:9-15, 43; Mark 4:9, 23, 7:16; Luke 8:8-12. What eyes and ears are being talked about here? Flesh eyes and ears? No, spiritual eyes and ears are what are being talked about; that which we perceive and understand God's truths with. This is quite apparent throughout all scripture. I wonder why?Where does wisdom and the ability to understand come from? How do we get it? These are some of the many verses that tell us: 1 Chronicles 22:12; Psalm 111:10, 119:34, 73, 104, 125, 130, 144, 169; Proverbs 1:5, 7, 2:1-11, 3:3-5, 4:7; James 1:5.