A spirit of revelation is like the treasure a man found buried in a field. He reburies the treasure, then goes and buys the field. (Jesus describes such action and treasure in his parable.) The interesting thing is how the nan wants to hide it from anyone else who might grab the treasure, or drive up the price of that field. The church councils of the Roman Empire drove up the price of buying the field, because they could not grab the treasure. Those who received a spirit of revelation were told the treasure could not be used with any attribution to it of authority. The councils drove down the value of it. They drove up the price of owning it, by claiming it had no authority above the doctrinal decisions of their councils. Still today this lingers in church doctrines. But whatever! If you find the revelation of God, go buy that field and own it, no matter what they say. It is beyond price.
