Revelation of God, 5of7

~ Special Revelation, 3of3 ~

7-Step Progressive Revelation  ~  The word revelation essentially means revealing.  God has, is, and will, reveal Himself to man in seven distinctive stages.  This progression occurs during three distinct major categories: General (or Natural) Revelation, Special Revelation, and Applied Revelation.  This series will focus on this unfolding seven step progression. 

Special Revelation  ~   Special Revelation refers to God intervening in man’s life on earth in ways that provide more specific information about God than can be obtained from just General Revelation. 

5—The Entire Canon of Scripture (The Written Word)  ~  The Holy Bible was completed approximately in 90 a.d.  Jesus Christ said, “Search the Old Testament Scriptures… they testify of Me” (John 5:39).  “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.  Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 15:4-6).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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Revelation of God, 4of7

~ Special Revelation, 2of3 ~

7-Step Progressive Revelation  ~  The word revelation essentially means revealing.  God has, is, and will, reveal Himself to man in seven distinctive stages.  This progression occurs during three distinct major categories: General (or Natural) Revelation, Special Revelation, and Applied Revelation.  This series will focus on this unfolding seven step progression. 

Special Revelation  ~   Special Revelation refers to God intervening in man’s life on earth in ways that provide more specific information about God than can be obtained from just General Revelation. 

4—Jesus Christ—The Living Word (The Center Point of History)  ~  “And the Word [Jesus Christ] became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). 

Jesus said, “I and My Father are one” (John 10:30).

“Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?  He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, “Show us the Father”?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?  The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.  Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves’” (John 14:9-11). 

Comment  ~  Jesus Christ is the center point of history in many ways—the most obvious being our calendars being numbered as Before Christ (b.c.) and Anno Domini (a.d.) which means “in the year of our Lord” in Medieval Latin.  An interesting side note is that Jesus Christ is also the center point of the seven steps of divine revelation that we are considering in this blog series.

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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Revelation of God, 3of7

Revelation of God, 3of7 

~ Special Revelation, 1of3 ~

7-Step Progressive Revelation  ~  The word revelation essentially means revealing.  God has, is, and will, reveal Himself to man in seven distinctive stages.  This progression occurs during three distinct major categories: General (or Natural) Revelation, Special Revelation, and Applied Revelation.  This series will focus on this unfolding seven step progression. 

Special Revelation  ~   Special Revelation refers to God intervening in man’s life on earth in ways that provide more specific information about God than can be obtained from General Revelation. 

3—God Revealing Himself on Tablets of Stone (The 10 Commandments)  ~  “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.’  So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.  And he said to the elders, ‘Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you.  If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.’  Then Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain” (Exodus 24:12-15). 

“And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God” (Exodus 31:18). 

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.’  So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water.  And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Exodus 34:27-28). 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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