His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
There are portions of the Word of God so far above us that it is impossible to fully grasp and therefore to adequately teach.
How could anyone honestly claim to know the name that no one but the Lord knows? We make such a mess of things when we refuse to be content to trust God with what He has not revealed.
It is true that God has hidden a wealth of understanding in His world, and it is “the glory of kings to search out the matter.” Yet it is folly to try to declare what God has left to Himself.
Barnes writes, “This cannot here mean that no one could read the name, but the idea is, that no one but himself could fully understand its import. It involved a depth of meaning, and a degree of sacredness, and a relation to the Father, which he alone could apprehend in its true import.”
Gill says, “The incarnate God may be intended, which is a secret and wonderful name, and contains in it, without controversy, a great mystery, which cannot be comprehended by finite minds. And without a divine revelation the name itself could not be known; or it could not be known that God had a Son, and that Christ is he.”
It is significant that Revelation 2:17 says,
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Concerning this, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown writes, “The same is said of the ‘new name’ of believers. In this, as in all other respects, the disciple is made like his Lord. The Lord’s own ‘new name’ is to be theirs.”
I have discovered as a believer that there are some things no one can know except the believer himself and the Lord. No one can know with certainty whether another soul is saved. That is a secret between the Lord and the individual. None of us fully understands the divine relationship between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. But one thing is certain: those who do not know Christ as Saviour cannot know this relationship at all.
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Faith’s Hidden Certainty: The Mystery of Assurance
✨ The Bible reminds us that some things are known only to the believer and the Lord (Revelation 19:12; 2:17). Assurance of salvation is one of those sacred mysteries—deeply personal, unseen by man, but certain in Christ.
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