Contributed by Glen Noronha

A: Revelation is an act of revealing or communicating divine truth or something that is revealed by God to humans. Revelation requires a revealer. It involves making known what is unknown or secret. Humankind is finite and God is infinite, we cannot know or fellowship with God unless he reveals himself to us. There are basically two types of revelation, namely universal revelation and personal revelation.
General revelation is God's communication of himself to all persons at all times and in all places. God has given us an objective, valid, rational revelation of himself in nature, history, and human personality. It is there for anyone who wants to observe it as the following verse indicates.

¹ The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
² Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
³ There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.
⁴ Their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.   (NIV Psalm 19:1-4)

Even when discussing the revelation that comes through nature, Paul says, " ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them (humankind), because God has made it plain to them.  ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (NIV Romans 1:18-19).

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