There’s no feeling quite like stumbling across a Bible truth you hadn’t seen before.

Whether it’s a typological reading, where something in the Old Testament clearly foreshadows a later happening, or a Greek or Hebrew word that unlocks a connection by its use in multiple contexts, or any other bit of knowledge that adds to or changes what we knew before, it’s an exciting discovery to make.

Just when you thought you had a general grasp of the Bible and that there was little left to learn outside of trivia, you stumble upon a door that shows you there’s so much more exploring to do.

However… this excitement and desire to know more can easily be pointed in the wrong direction

I’m all in favor of the kind of teaching that gets people excited to dig deeper in the Bible. But purveyors of secret or hidden or at least under-discussed knowledge have their audiences on the back foot from minute one. “I bet you didn’t know that! And if you didn’t know that, guess what else you don’t know?”

To be clear, this is not a generic warning.

In recent years the internet has seen the rise of multiple strains of “hidden knowledge,” and while some of it is helpful, our guard needs to be up.

Three particular examples come to mind

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