Wednesday, 13 November 2013

The Revelatory Experience of God



Genesis 28:10

The revelation of God is the sudden appearance of the hidden knowledge of God concerning an individual’s life.
  
In Genesis 28:10, Jacob is leaving Beersheba, from Gerar probably after sojourning there for some extensive reasons that many Hebrew theologians have endeavored to dissect consequently coming up with many conclusions whose discussion I prefer to preserve for later.

 He is leaving Beersheba traveling towards Haran and if we are to remember Haran is the same place that Terah-Jacob’s great grandfather arrived, rested stayed and died.

And immediately after Terah ‘s death God called Abraham-Jacob’s grandfather out of Haran-the place where Terah Abraham’s father, arrived, rested, stayed, and died.

And now it’s pretty obvious that Jacob is exhausted and tired by the time he arrives in Haran and in order to make sure that he does not rest, stay, and die in the same place Terah died.

God suddenly appears to Jacob and gives him knowledge of plans he has for his mortal life, plans that were hidden to Jacob till this very experience.

And just like destiny should have it, the place where God appears unto Jacob in form of a dream is the kind of place whose identity is hidden to Jacob.

In fact all that Jacob knows and understands is that it’s a good place to set up for the night.

Without realizing that it was actually a good place because it was consecrated and sanctified unto God as a dwelling place when Abram set up an altar and dedicated it to the Lord and he worshiped the Lord in Genesis 12:8.

So when Jacob awakes he calls the locality the house of God by his Hebrew dialect translating “Bethel”.

From this point on, whether you believe it or not but many times than not if not all the time the instruction by God will lead to a place of revelatory experience.

Which experience ultimately exposes you to the revelation of God and by now you should actually understand that the revelation of God is the knowledge of God concerning what he promised himself to accomplish and achieve in an individual’s life-time.

Consequently whatever God promised himself to accomplish in the course of an individual’s life-time becomes God’s plan for that given individual.

As a matter of fact, the revelation of God is clear fore-running knowledge that whatever plan God has for your life is near completion, and close to coming to pass in your life.

It’s as a shout and a cry like one which was made in Matthew 25:6”At midnight there was a cry made 
,”Behold the bridegroom comes go ye out  meet him, awakening the promised one of God that the plan of God for his life is coming to pass.

It is as a siren that goes a head of a presidential entourage while giving warning for many to make way.

See my dear friends the plan of God cannot be hindered and it can’t be stopped, anyone who tries to be in its way t will be forced out of the way and even run over.

Whatever God promised him-self to do in your life he will accomplish and achieve.

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