The only true knowledge any person has of God is what God Himself has revealed - the revelation of God from God.

Revelation of God from God

Through the Holy Scriptures (the Bible), God reveals (lays open, makes manifest, makes known) who He is and how we can know and have a relationship with Him.

God selected and anointed men to write down His Words. The Spirit moved on these men to produce Spirit-breathed writings. (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:20-21)

The LORD told Moses: “Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” “And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord.” (Ex 34:27; Ex 24:4)

In one case, God was the scribe writing the revelation. “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.’” (Ex 34:1)

God told Isaiah, “Take a large scroll, and write on it . . .” (Isa 8:1) And, to Jeremiah He said: “. . . Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you . . .” (Jer 36:2).  And so, all the prophets and other writers of the Holy Scriptures wrote what God told them to write.

Thus, we can open every page of the Bible to a lesson, a revelation from God.

God’s Self-Revelation

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, opens with the revelation of God and creation: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” Here, God reveals Himself as Elohiym, the Supreme God Omnipotent who created all things. (Gen 1:1; see also Gen 1:11, Gen 1:24-25; Gen 1:26-28)

Importantly, Genesis hints that God is one, yet more than one. Gen 1:2 speaks of the Spirit of God (Spirit of Elohiym) hovering over the waters at creation. Gen 1:26, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.”

The New Testament revelation is one Godhead in three distinct personalities:

For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. (1 Jn 5:7)

God revealed Himself to the children of Israel as Yahweh, the eternal, self-existing God. “Hear, O Israel: The LORD [Yahweh] our God [Elohim] is one LORD [Yahweh]” (Deut 6:4). Then, in covenant relationship with His people, He made Himself known by various Yahweh compound names.

Yahweh-Raah— “the Lord is Shepherd,”

Yahweh-Rapha— “the Lord is Healer,”

Yahweh-Yireh— “the Lord will see (to it) and provide,” and so on.

(See Ps 23:1, Ex 15:26; Gen 22:14.)

The revelation of God is seen through many other titles, types, and illustrations. God, Spirit, comes out from behind the curtain of invisibility. Ultimately, God reveals Himself and speaks through His Son Jesus Christ, who is the brightness (outshining) of His glory and the express image of His person. (Heb 1:1-3; Rev 1:1; Rev 1:8; Rev 1:18)

The Word of God Became Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. —Jn 1:1-4

And the Word 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. —Jn 1:14

God stepped out of eternity into the time-space-mass universe He created to become a human. Jesus Christ is the revelation of God in human form. Perfectly divine, perfectly human. He is the glory, magnificence, majesty, excellence, and love of God revealed.

The Purpose of God’s Revelation

The ultimate purpose of God’s revelation is that we might know Him personally, that we would worship the only true God, that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and that believing we may have life in His name. (Mt 16:16; Jn 20:31)

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