How Do You Personally Get Revelations When Reading?

[Open7]

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

E.g for me, first I need to understand what I’m reading, and this starts to reel in the revelation if you like, then I keep re-reading it seeking deeper understanding, this might take days, and often, that’s when the penny drops on something.

How does it work for you?

[Starise]

22 hours ago, Open7 said:

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

E.g for me, first I need to understand what I’m reading, and this starts to reel in the revelation if you like, then I keep re-reading it seeking deeper understanding, this might take days, and often, that’s when the penny drops on something.

How does it work for you?

I would be interested to see an example of this for you. I once seen the Bible as largely a book of secrets that a certain approach would open up for me. While I believe study occasionally opens those secret doors of revelation as we are told in 2 Timothy 3:16,17, I now see the Bible as a Christian maintenance book. A life instruction book. A way to see how God operates in some circumstances. A reminder to us about what God has done, what He is doing and what He promises to do. It's a collection of books that re enforce one another. In doing so these books pinpoint certain key ideas and doctrines. The book is all about how God deals with men. It is not a book of science. It's a book of things God wants to tell us all.

Re-reading a known passage might glean more info if we gradually pick up other things that solidify an idea in the Bible from other places along with the Lord's leading. We can get too carried away on repetition in much the same way some people think praying one prayer over and over will bring them closer to God. There's a point where I think we glean the value of the passage and move on. Sometimes a statement is at face value. Other times a statement has a deeper intention. Some passages are symbolic. Others are not. Mainly though if we seek the Lord's leading He will speak to us from those pages in seeing what is mean't. The unsaved person reading the bible doesn't understand what the Spirit is or what it means to be filled with it. Christians have an edge here in seeing the things the lost might miss or not understand.

You bring up a very essential part of any Bible study and a good point. Understanding what it is you're reading. Who was the scripture intended to address? Is it still valid for others today? What was the context of the scripture? What is the message in it for us? Is the meaning a way we can see a trend in the way the Lords works with others or is it a direct command to us for something? How does the passage tie into the rest of the Bible? There will still be times we don't completely understand something. God will make a statement as a statement he intends us to know but not necessarily understand. It is not abnormal to read these kinds of passages since we are told we won't know it all until one day when we are with Him and it is revealed to us.

The prophetic books especially need a lot of study with respect to how they all line up with one another. Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel and other references to prophecy are important to study all together. Many men have gotten it wrong. Many men think they have it all right. I don't claim to know all of it. I believe these are the "meat" books that a person doesn't just pick up and immediately know. They take some study and even then there are questions. Suffice it to say, the Lord is returning for all that are His on the day He designated. The day no one knows exactly. The closest we can get to it is "close".

Edited June 15, 2021 by Starise

[Riverwalker]

Like Starise said it is like being in a closed room which suddenly opens up into a bigger room, and the air is a little fresher, and the light is a little brighter and you have a Homer Simson "Doh!" moment 

and the feeling lasts for a little while until you start wondering about what's behind the next wall...and the digging begins again

Edited June 15, 2021 by Riverwalker

[johnthebaptist]

On 6/14/2021 at 12:24 PM, Open7 said:

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

E.g for me, first I need to understand what I’m reading, and this starts to reel in the revelation if you like, then I keep re-reading it seeking deeper understanding, this might take days, and often, that’s when the penny drops on something.

How does it work for you?

I've had biblical revelations that happened weeks, months, or years after I read the passage. But mostly my revelations come in my daily walk with the Lord, I think.

[Who me]

On 6/14/2021 at 8:24 PM, Open7 said:

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

 

It works by the Spirit living in you giving you a kick in the pants to say 'wake up, pay attention!'

 

There is no mechanical process that one can go through in order to have experiences of God.

 

All one can do is to follow the ten C, study scripture, pray intelligently for the needs of others and to generally seek God.

 

[Guest clancy]

You can’t get revelation personally....only the Holy Spirit can give you revelation through his word, also he talks to us through other people....God communicates with his children how “ HE” pleases.

[Selah7]

2 Timothy 2:15

15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 

Usually, when I study the Bible, when I come across a passage of scripture that I don’t understand, I’ll ask my Father about it and perhaps consult a good commentary.  Sometimes I don’t get an answer right away, but the Lord is faithful.  I may be doing chores, playing frisbee with my dog, or whatever, and suddenly, it’s as if the answer to my question just gently drops into my head and I say, “Ohhhhh!”

[Jayne]

I do get revelations all the time.  But let me clarify.

There are NO new revelations.  God has said all there is to say in the Bible.  What I mean by a "revelation" and I'm sure the OP means this, too,  is when the Holy Spirit gives me a much broader understanding of what the particular text is saying OR when there is something I need to dwell on or repent of and my text for the day is on that VERY subject.

Without the work of the Holy Spirit.....it's just ink on a page.

But - with the Holy Spirit and BY the Holy Spirit - it's the living, breathing Word of God that changes, saves, humbles, and sanctifies.

[missmuffet]

On 6/14/2021 at 12:24 PM, Open7 said:

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

E.g for me, first I need to understand what I’m reading, and this starts to reel in the revelation if you like, then I keep re-reading it seeking deeper understanding, this might take days, and often, that’s when the penny drops on something.

How does it work for you?

I study the words. If I don't understand them I go to a source human or otherwise that can explain them to me. 

[R. Hartono]

On 6/15/2021 at 2:24 AM, Open7 said:

When you read the bible and you get revelation moments, can you explain roughly the process by how it works for you?

E.g for me, first I need to understand what I’m reading, and this starts to reel in the revelation if you like, then I keep re-reading it seeking deeper understanding, this might take days, and often, that’s when the penny drops on something.

How does it work for you?

We just need to live humbly n praying n fasting like prophet Daniel, avoid sins n arrogancy n anger.