Man has tried to know his Creator through intellectual means, but this has proven impossible because God can be known only through revelation. In fact, He has always desired for us to know Him intimately and to experience His attributes, strengths, and virtues. This is why He sent us His Holy Spirit. No person has the mental ability to describe the infinite or the eternal. However, I will try to present a basic and uncomplicated description that will help you to understand Him in human terms.
Who Is God?
God is a __________________ (1), ______________ (2), and immutable being with supernatural attributes and abilities. He dwells in the dimension of eternity—the spiritual realm—and manifests in visible form in the natural dimension.
Thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity. (Isaiah 57:15)
What is Revelation?
In Greek, “revelation” is the word apokalypsis which means “laying bare, making naked…a ____________ (3) of truth, instruction concerning things before unknown.” This expression is used, mostly, to express something that exists in the spiritual realm, and it expresses “spiritual perception.” Revelation means to suddenly understand something without research or natural means of learning.
Revelation is the knowledge of God revealed to our spirits, and it is received by spiritually seeing, hearing, and perceiving. This process is referred to as “spiritual perception.” Revelation allows you to ________________ (4) understand something without the aid of the natural senses.
Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 16:17)
To receive revelation from God is to see as He sees, to hear as He hears, and to perceive as He perceives.
Revelation includes knowing things you should not know, seeing things that have yet to occur, and ____________________ (5) things without prior knowledge. It is the mind of God revealed so that mankind can exercise dominion over time, space, and matter. In the absence of progressive divine revelation, people tend to turn to formal, ______________ (6) intellectual education, much of which serves to discredit faith. Intellectual knowledge has its rightful place in society, but it is a poor substitute for spiritual knowledge.
Who Is the Source of Revealed Knowledge?
The Source of all revelation is the ______________________ (7). He is the only channel that gives us access to God’s revealed wisdom or knowledge. The Holy Spirit hears what is said in heaven and repeats it to men and women on earth. We cannot know God without the help of the Holy Spirit.
How Did the Apostle Paul Handle Natural Knowledge?
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory. (1 Corinthians 2:6–7)
Philosophy is a science based on a ___________ (8) of ____________ (9) that is obtained from the natural environment. Paul, upon his return to the church in Corinth, he emphatically expressed that he had returned in God’s power and not in human wisdom. Paul understood that human wisdom and philosophy were __________________ (10) of producing the supernatural power required to preach the gospel or to manifest God’s power.
God’s Wisdom
The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:26, 27)
The wisdom of our Lord Jesus Christ is to share His secrets through the cross.
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. (1 Corinthians 2:9)
The natural senses alone cannot perceive the revealed wisdom or knowledge of God.
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10–11)
Four Truths That Can Be Known Only Through Revelation:
- The nature of ________________ (11)
- The nature of ________________ (12)
- The origin of man
- The origin of life
These truths cannot be fully discovered through scientific, natural, psychological, psychiatric, or philosophical means. Scientists and avid students seek to use only mental processes and the systematic collection of information acquired through the natural senses. Within such limitations, they have no choice but to deny God because their workable knowledge does not allow them to accept Him. Sensory knowledge cannot explain the origin of creation or the beginning of matter, and it lacks valid answers to the great “whys” of humanity. Scientists have developed diverse theories on the ____________ (13) of life and the nature of God. They have written countless volumes on the subject, all derived from the same restrictive sources. Formal education has contributed to the destruction of the __________ (14) of millions of young people who were raised and trained to recognize and accept only that which they can see, feel, decipher, and explain with their physical senses and intellect.
The only way to know God and to relate to His supernatural and invisible realm is by faith.
God is always the One who chooses to reveal Himself to us; thus, we must ____________ (15) solely on Him. If God had not chosen to reveal Himself, we never would have known Him.
God’s Revelation Depends On:
- God’s ________ (16)
- God’s ________ (17)
God said that in the last days, __________________ (18) would increase (see Daniel 12:3–4) because it is His will to fill the earth with His glory. (See Numbers 14:21.) I believe that we are living in those last days, days in which the manifestation of His glory will be evident everywhere.
Your faith will be strongest in the area in which you have the greatest ________________ (19) knowledge from God. Likewise, your faith will be weakest where you lack revelation or have little of it.
The enemy establishes a stronghold where God’s knowledge and revelation do not exist.
What Are the Two Realms That Exist?
- The _____________(20) realm
- The ________________________(21) realm
What is the natural realm? It is the dimension that is subject to the ________________________ (22), space, and matter, a dimension that can be accessed only through the physical senses.
What is the supernatural realm? It is the dimension that operates __________ (23) natural laws. It is the spiritual realm—permanent, invisible, and eternal—located outside of time. It exercises dominion over the natural realm. The spiritual realm can be accessed only by faith.
We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:18)
What is a miracle?
I define a miracle as “the supernatural ________________________ (24) of God that interrupts the normal course of the natural life.” When God stops the clock of time and puts His finger on a situation, a miracle takes place. When He removes His finger, natural time resumes once again. He is a God of miracles. And we see this in the following examples from Scripture.
Key
| 1 | Spiritual | 2 | Eternal |
| 3 | Disclosure | 4 | Suddenly |
| 5 | Perceiving | 6 | Natural |
| 7 | Holy Spirit | 8 | Love |
| 9 | Wisdom | 10 | Incapable |
| 11 | God | 12 | Man |
| 13 | Origin | 14 | Faith |
| 15 | Depend | 16 | Time |
| 17 | Will | 18 | Knowledge |
| 19 | Revealed | 20 | Natural |
| 21 | Supernatural | 22 | Time |
| 23 | Above | 24 | Intervention |
