As good Jewish parents, Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple on the eighth day to have him circumcised. There they met an old and very devout man named Simeon.
Luke 2:26 says of Simeon: "It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ." Seeing Jesus, Simeon took him in his arms and praised God. This all happened because Simeon received revelation from God.
I encourage you to be people who read and study the Bible because the Lord continues giving revelation to this very day. Indeed, it is the expectation of Scripture that God speaks to humans in clear, revelatory experiences, just as He did to Simeon long ago.
As we read and ponder the Word of the God, the Holy Spirit gives us the subjective experiences of revelation and enables us to grasp the inner meaning of historical events and of Biblical texts.
No wonder the Vineyard statement of faith says the Bible is "our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice."
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