Text: Genesis 48-49
Seeing is not all bad Our faith is based on what we see and understand in God's Word, but more wisdom and understanding awaits us in what waits to be revealed. When we walk in what God has revealed, He gives us more.
As his life draws toward a close, Israel gathers his children together and blesses them. He spoke what God revealed to him.
Don't equate inspiration with revelation. Many of the prophets spoke by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but did not have an understanding of what it meant.
With revelation, the person both speaks and understands what God is saying.
When Joseph brings his sons, Manasseh and Ephraim to his father, he positions the oldest by Israel's right hand and the youngest by his left hand. The right hand always denoted a greater blessing. Since Israel's eyesight dimmed with old age, Joseph tried to help. His father crossed his hands, putting the right one on the younger son and the left one on the oldest.
When Joseph protested, Israel told him he knew what he was doing. While the oldest would be a great nation, the youngest would be even greater. Israel had sought God and received a specific word for each of his children.
Israel continued with each son, revealing their future. His words did not make it happen. Rather, God looked down through time and revealed what each one's future held based on their choices.
God wants us to speak and pray out of revelation. In John 15, Jesus said the Holy Spirit would reveal many things to the disciples after He was gone. It is the Holy Spirit who illuminates the Scripture and gives understanding to us.
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