"And now we will come to revelations and visions of the Lord..." Paul to the Corinthians.
The main thing for me was that eventually the Word became alive in me, and dwelt in me richly. God is speaking to us! This was in direct contradistinction to WL's telling us that the scriptural word only meant this or that. In the LRC, if WL couldn't see anything, then the word was dead to us his acolytes. No; now I began to apprehend that it was God Himself inspiring these words of hope and revelation and light. The word became alive to me, and opened a spiritual realm beyond my dreams. God's own dream was revealed to me in those words, a world that was so real and clear and true...
Can you imagine if Peter, standing with the eleven, had said, "David's grave is with us to this day. Therefore these words are merely natural." (Acts 2:29-31) No, he said, "These words indicate Jesus the Christ." One day, like the author of Hebrews, I also saw the text and I also saw Jesus, made a little lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and honour (Heb 2:9).
To quote the narrator in Robert Frost's poem, "And that has made all the difference."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken
Basically, three things: first I began to read scholarship. Second, it was scholarship of the patristics, those who'd met with the disciples (i.e. Papias, Irenaus, etc). So it was modern investigation of the first commentaries of the NT, which arguably was itself a commentary and explication that the OT indicated and revealed to fallen man the beloved of God's heart, Jesus Christ. Third, I then began to appropriate it as if it were real. It was "name it and claim it", to some degree. I began to declare the visions of the texts as if they were real, and they simply began to open for me. The world became new -- a whole new world unfolded. A dimension beyond space and time, a dimension of spirit.