"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13).

How blessed to know that the Author of the blessed Book which has changed so many hearts and lives and homes is "the Spirit of truth."

The Spirit did not, of course, reveal all truth at one time. "The Law was given by Moses;" later the prophesies were penned by men of God as they were "moved by the Holy Spirit" and still later our Lord uttered to Paul truth of a new gospel for the Gentiles that had "kept secret since the world began."

Romans 16:25 (KJV) Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my (Paul's) gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery (God's secret plan), which was kept secret since the world began,

But even our blessed Lord, while on earth, did not lead His followers and "the twelve Apostles" into all the truth which God would have His people know. "I have yet many things to say unto you," He said, "but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth" (John 16: 12,13).

But when the Spirit came upon those of Israel at Pentecost, did He immediately lead the disciples into all truth? Not yet. They still proclaimed the prophetic program, the message which our Lord had taught and committed to them concerning the King and His kingdom yet to come on earth, as was promised to Abraham's lineage, the Nation Israel (Luke 24: 45; Acts 1:2-3).

It was not until some time later that the resurrected and glorified Lord revealed God's eternal purpose and grace to and through the Apostle Paul, and the Spirit in turn caused others to understand it (Gal.2:2, 7, 9; Eph.3:1-5; 2Tim.1:9, 2Pet 3:15-16).

The culmination of the Truth of the Lord's eternal plan and purpose are revealed in the glorious message Christ, from heaven, revealed to Paul. It is the capstone of divine revelation, thus Paul says that it was given to him to "fulfil [complete] the Word of God" (Col.1:25).

Paul wrote more books of the Bible than any other writer and in them we have the fulness of divine truth as God would now have us know and understand it!