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I think it's important to maintain the distinction between revelation and illumination. In the latter, the Holy Spirit calls the written (revealed) word of God to a believer's mind and illuminates it, applying it to that believer's heart and situation. This is His work with the Word upon the elect ("those who have ears to hear"). Just as the Apostle Paul wrote, Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. But a natural man (that is, the unregenerate) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised (1st Corinthians 1:12-14, NASB - emphasis and words in parenthesis mine). Even then the Apostle warned us "not to exceeed what is written (1st Corinthians 4:6)" lest we become boastful on behalf of one with a "revelation." Revelation has ceased (Hebrews 1:1-2). But the illumination of the revealed (written) word of God most certainly continues today. We can use words like "promptings" or "urging" and any number of different things to describe it, but it always points to Christ by means of the written Word. -Robin
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