Revelation Knowledge
Living from the Finished Work of Christ
Volume 1
The Two Kinds of Knowledge
Introduction
This volume is an invitation to cross a dividing line that runs through the heart of Christian experience.
On one side of that line stands sense knowledge—the knowledge that comes through the five physical senses. It is useful, necessary, and limited. It can measure symptoms, calculate resources, and report what the eyes see and the body feels. When it is allowed to govern spiritual realities, however, it becomes the greatest hindrance to a life of faith.
On the other side stands revelation knowledge—the knowledge that comes from God to the recreated human spirit through the living Word. It does not invent new truths. It unveils what the finished work of Christ has already accomplished. It opens the eyes of the heart so that the believer can see, receive, and live from realities that the senses cannot detect.
The chapters that follow trace a deliberate path across that divide.
We begin by clarifying the two kinds of knowledge and examining the limits of the five senses. We then recover the Hebrew understanding of knowledge as intimate, relational encounter rather than abstract information. From there we explore the nature of revelation itself as the uncovering of what already exists, and we identify the finished work of Christ—His cross, burial, resurrection, and seating—as the ultimate content of that revelation.
The middle chapters apply this unveiled reality to three concrete areas of life: the healing of the body, the provision of every need, and the present-tense operation of the supernatural gifts of the Spirit. In each case the same pattern emerges. Sense knowledge reports limitation. Revelation knowledge reports the completed exchange. The believer is invited to live from what has already been done.
The final chapters turn to the practical outworking of this truth in the renewing of the mind and in the daily walk of the revealed life.
This is not a book of techniques or formulas. It is a pastoral call to stop striving to obtain what Christ has already finished, and to begin receiving what the Spirit is ready to unveil. The work is complete. The covering is being lifted. The eyes of the heart are being opened.
May the journey that follows lead you into a deeper rest in the finished work of the Son, and into a clearer sight of all that is already yours in Him.
PrefaceWhy This Book Matters Now
There is a quiet crisis in the modern Church.
Many sincere believers can quote the promises of Scripture with accuracy. They know that Jesus finished the work. They have heard that by His wounds they were healed, that He became poor so they might become rich, and that the Spirit has been poured out because the Son has been exalted. Yet when the pressure of daily life arrives—when symptoms speak, when lack appears, when the supernatural seems distant—something collapses. The words that once stirred the heart suddenly feel theoretical. Faith becomes effort. Prayer becomes pleading. The life of victory remains just out of reach.
This is not primarily a crisis of sincerity or even of information. It is a crisis of knowledge.
More than a generation ago, E. W. Kenyon identified the root of the problem with unusual clarity. He taught that there are two kinds of knowledge operating in the world: sense knowledge, which comes through the five physical senses, and revelation knowledge, which comes from God to the recreated human spirit through the living Word. The greatest hindrance to the faith life, he insisted, is the continued governance of sense knowledge in matters that belong to the spirit.
This volume takes Kenyon’s foundational insight and places it in conversation with two further streams of light.
First, the concrete thought-world of Ancient Hebrew, recovered with particular care by Jeff A. Benner. In the Hebrew mind, knowledge (yadaʿ / daʿat) is not the collection of abstract facts. It is intimate, relational, experiential encounter—“the door of the eye.” Revelation is not the invention of new information; it is the uncovering (galah) of what already exists. This Hebraic lens protects us from treating revelation knowledge as merely another set of correct doctrines and restores it as living, personal sight.
Second, the finished work of Christ as the ultimate content of all true revelation. The cross, the burial, the resurrection, and the seating of the Son are not the beginning of a long process we must complete. They are the once-for-all accomplishment in which every spiritual blessing—healing, provision, and the gifts of the Spirit—has already been secured. Revelation knowledge does not make these things true. It opens the eyes of the heart to see that they are already true, so that the believer may live from them.
The pages that follow are written with a pastoral heart and a careful mind. They are intended to be accessible to the ordinary believer while remaining grounded in the text of Scripture and in the concrete character of Hebrew thought. The goal is not to produce more information. The goal is to assist the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in lifting the covering that still hides the finished work from many eyes.
If you have known the right verses yet lived beneath their power, this book is for you.
Table of Contents
Preface: Why This Book Matters Now
Chapter 1 – The Great Divide: Two Kinds of Knowledge Chapter 2 – Sense Knowledge: The Limits of the Five Senses Chapter 3 – Knowledge in the Hebrew Mind: Yada and Daʿat Chapter 4 – Revelation Knowledge: God Unveils Himself Chapter 5 – The Finished Work: The Ultimate Revelation Chapter 6 – Healing: Revelation of the Finished Work Chapter 7 – Provision and Wealth: Revelation of the Finished Work Chapter 8 – Supernatural Gifts: Revelation of the Finished Work Chapter 9 – Walking by Revelation: The Renewed Mind Chapter 10 – A Pastoral Call: Living the Revealed Life
Appendix A – Selected Old Testament Quotations Appendix B – Brief Glossary of Key Hebrew Terms Appendix C – Suggested Further Reading Bibliography
Disclaimer on Theological Perspective
This volume is written from a particular theological perspective that draws heavily on the teachings of E. W. Kenyon concerning the two kinds of knowledge, the finished work of Christ, and the present-tense realities of the new creation. It also incorporates insights from Ancient Hebrew concrete thought as articulated by Jeff A. Benner, and it places strong emphasis on the practical outworking of the finished work in the areas of healing, provision, and the gifts of the Spirit.
The author recognizes that sincere, Bible-believing Christians hold a range of views on these subjects. Differences exist regarding the nature and extent of physical healing in the atonement, the relationship between faith and material provision, the continuation and exercise of the charismatic gifts, and the precise meaning of “revelation knowledge.” These differences are real and should be treated with mutual respect and charity.
The purpose of this book is not to declare every differing view illegitimate, nor to claim that the perspective presented here is the only faithful reading of Scripture. Rather, it seeks to offer a coherent, pastoral, and textually grounded exploration of one significant stream of Christian thought—one that has brought life and freedom to many—while inviting the reader to examine the Scriptures for themselves.
Readers are encouraged to test everything against the whole counsel of God’s Word, to hold fast to what is good, and to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace with those who may reach different conclusions on secondary matters.
May the Lord grant us all the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
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