While we can know what God has made known, we do not know all that God knows. And we will never have the mind and full thoughts of the incomprehensible God… Our inability to comprehend the fullness of divine knowledge, however, does not minimize the importance of what we do know. What God has revealed now belongs to us, that we might faithfully steward and teach this revelation.

There are things that only God knows, and there are things he has made known to us.

God’s revelation (what he makes known) consists of natural and special revelation—“natural” referring to what can be known from creation and human conscience, and “special” referring to what can be known through Christ and Holy Scripture.

In Deuteronomy 29:29, Moses told the Israelites, “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

Moses spoke those words in the plains of Moab (Deut. 29:1) as the Israelites readied to enter the promised land. Once they entered the promised land, they were to take with them the words of the law and keep them. They were to live out a covenant life of true worship and obedience. The nations and neighboring peoples would bear witness to the people of God worshiping the true and living God.

The Israelites knew what God expected of them because he had revealed things to them. Moses was the mediator of many laws, but even before that work of mediation, the Lord had spoken the Ten Commandments to the nation which had gathered at the base of Mount Sinai (Exod. 19–20). These many laws were “the things that are revealed” (Deut. 29:29).

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