Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” (Revelation 21:5 ESV)
Know-It-All
At my elementary school was a student who almost got jumped up a grade, and who had an opinion on nearly every subject. He was smart, knew it, and was somewhat arrogant about it.
He was a know-it-all. We all took note the day he no longer seemed to know it all. The day he was wrong.
Christians have a source of knowledge that is always correct. However, we interpreters are no so reliable. We might sometimes act like WE are always right, but WE are not. God’s Word IS.
When God’s Word was brought by God’s people through the Roman Empire that brought truth. Not truth about which horse to purchase, or who would be appointed pro-consul, or the precise distance between two towns. But truth about reality. Truth about God. Truth about salvation.
And in a world of know-it-alls (just like today) I expect that was unusual.
Those times when the bringers presented true truth as their own, it probably had little effect on the world.
But when the bringers presented the truth as God’s truth… it turned the world upside down.
Because truth is truth.
Not because we know it… but because God tells it.