This book is the revelation about salvation in Christ.

That's what it's about.

God didn't write it as a bunch of sort of an almanac of spiritual cliches.

God didn't write this to be a whole lot of little religious curiosities. This is a guidebook to bring you to Christ which is to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If you randomly open your Bible multiple times each time you'll randomly open your Bible multiple times, each time you'll likely land on a portion by a different author,

writing in a different period of history to a different audience and in a different style. So how could the whole Bible be telling a single story?

And what is that story? And what do you need to learn from it? That's John MacArthur's

focus today as he continues a series that

answers the question, is the Bible reliable? So with a lesson now here is

John MacArthur. Now in Special Revelation, how did God reveal himself? Well I'm just going to

review quickly I told you first of all in Theophony from Fino and Theos

which means a visible form of God. Secondly, through prophecy. Now what do we mean by that?

prophecy just means speaking forth, telling forth, announcing, proclaiming,

God spoke through human instruments.

That's prophecy.

So you have Theophony and prophecy and

Thirdly miracles.

God revealed himself in special revelation in terms of miracles.

And these three areas, Theophony, prophecy, and miracle make up the

totality of God's special revelation, and then God took all that he wanted of that information

and put it in the word of God. And so this Bible is a composite of

Theophony, prophecy, and miracle, and in it God is revealed. Now that gives to

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