Reunion Groups Prayer Requests Links Chrysalis Corner Kairos Epiphanies and Apostrophes. According to the dictionary an epiphany is the revealing of someone or something, seeing what was once hidden. An apostrophe, by definition, is a punctuation mark indicating that one or more letters has been omitted to form a shortened form of one or more words. Now make the jump to the world of faith.
Epiphanies are easy.
We begin with the time from Jesus birth until His baptism, a time period in the Christian Church known as epiphany. It indicates that something has been added. What has been added is Jesus Christ, God incarnated in the form of a human being, never seen before or since in that manner. When God reveals Himself in various ways such as a burning bush, or a pillar of fire, they are a special form of epiphany called a theophany, the appearance of God to humans. Apostrophes in Scripture are a bit harder to find.