The Vision

Revelation 2:13 says, “I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold firmly to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.” What was it about this place that Jesus called “where Satan’s throne is”? The location of this church was in Pergamum (v.12) which was one of the greatest cultural centers of the time and they had a large library that rivaled the famous library of Alexandria. What do libraries have? Knowledge, which is acquired by mankind through the senses. We have five senses; seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling. These five conduits to the brain are what has taught our brain everything that it knows. Hosea 4:6 tells us “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.” The word knowledge here is not referring to head knowledge acquired by our five senses, but revealed knowledge that comes from God. Romans 8:7 says “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” Keep this in mind as we go back to the beginning in Genesis 3:5, which says “For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” The word, ‘knowing’, here is carnal knowledge acquired by the human senses, not revelation from God. Matthew 7:21-24 says, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness. Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” The words, ‘never knew you’, should get our attention. Knowing someone is relational.

Hebrews 8:8-12 says “ For in finding fault with the people, He says, ‘Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will bring about a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,  Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care about them’, says the Lord. ‘For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days’, declares the Lord: ‘I will put My laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  And they will not teach, each one his fellow citizen, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and their sins I will no longer remember.” The word ‘know’ here refers to intimacy. When we are born again our spirit is recreated, not our mind. The revealed knowledge that comes from our intimacy with God through His Word renews our minds to align with the new creation, and this takes time.

Ezekiel the prophet tells us in Ezekiel 36:26-27,  “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.”  So, how is it that we will know the Lord? By His Spirit, which is the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. John 14:16 says “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever;” On a side note, ‘Forever’ is different from eternity. ‘Eternity’ is infinite or unending time while ‘forever’ is time based and relates to until Jesus returns 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 says “ Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.  For we know in part and prophesy in part;  but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.” We see from this that the gifts of the Spirit will be done away with when the perfect comes, which is Jesus. So going back to John 14:16 the word for ‘Helper’ is from the Greek word ‘Paraclete’ meaning ‘called alongside’ in John 14:26, it explains it a little further, saying “ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.” It is the Holy Spirit who will teach us all things. You can try in your own talents and ability to gain revelation from the Word. (I tried that for months on end with no results until I saw and understood Romans 8:7.) This is the reason we have churches today filled with (carnal) knowledge, but no power. They teach wonderful worldly facts about the bible but impart no revelation. It is only as we slowly read the Word and meditate on it that the Holy Spirit gives us understanding and application of the Word of God. Here is a good example of how the process works by looking at Samuel’s life. 1 Samuel 3:7 says “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor had the word of the Lord yet been revealed to him.” We see three things from this verse; 1) We need to learn to hear the voice of God (through His Word), 2) We need to get to know God relationally, 3) When we get #1 and #2, God will begin to reveal His Word to us.

That is what Daily Revelation Harvest is all about: to assist us with hearing God’s voice through His Word. To receive revelation for the purpose of applying the Word of God to our lives. Allow the Holy Spirit to lead us as Sons and Daughters of the most High God. 

“Only by the Spirit can we understand what is spiritual.”

Smith Wigglesworth

“It is not knowledge of the Scriptures. I may have a vast knowledge of the Word. That isn’t it. It is the Word that is built into me and becomes a part of me that counts.”

E. W. Kenyon