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kingdust -> RE: Anyone here a Profet/Profetess? (5/9/2008 8:57:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Ezra
BTW how did Prophet/Prophetess get garbled to Profet/Profetess? Or was that an exercise in phonetics?
They didn't have to garble anything to utter a prophecy because it always has something to do with new things which never were before.
So, only option is either believe or not, or wait and see, which is not very practical to decide ‘true or false’, realistically and timely.
It is just that they had more guts to claim what they believe was from the Lord.
That is a good quality in another time and place, but not good when a person is not in close relationship with God, being close to His heart and knows His voice, like Isaiah who had to walk around nakedness for 3 years or like Hosea who had to marry a whore, in obedience according to the voice of God they believed as His, not own or satan’s.
If you were to see a person walking around naked claiming that God said so, how would you know for sure that the person is doing the will of God, from a third person point of view?
If no such thing never happened and recorded, there is no way to refer to validate.
God said or not is one thing and believe or not is another.
You can get some interesting results if you pair up the 2 possibilities on both side- claimer and believer.
God said and I believe, God said not and I believe, God said and I don’t believe and God said not and I don’t believe.
It is a very simple method to analyze a prophecy, but in reality, it involves a tough decision making, if not impractical and unrealistic.
The reason why I said that is that either the claimer or believer faces the imagination in our heart plus the deceitful heart.
In there all kinds of voices are sounding all kinds of thoughts.
No doubt there is one true voice of God in the midst of the multitude.
Just like the old false prophets had to deal with their imaginations from own spirit, we as believers face the same giant imaginations from own giant spirit in the way to the one and only true voice of God.
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EZE 13:1 The word of the LORD came to me: [2] "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: `Hear the word of the LORD! [3] This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Christianity is neither like Islam which has the last prophet, meaning Allah is no talking no more after the last speaker, nor like LDS which added more prophecies to the sealed Bible, which was forbidden.
It is only that God removed the title of prophet and allows any believer to prophesy whenever the Spirit of God came upon whomever.
It is not that God needs to add more to His completed thoughts in the Bible or to correct any mistake He made, but that He still is doing the same thing He has been doing- talking to His people. (Mis-translation or mis-interpretation is an exception)
If one is not in close distance to hear, then, it is logical for Him to send someone to carry His messages.
If you are not convinced, consider an old prophecy of ‘I have plans for you’.
Is anything recorded in the Bible in regard to your personal planning from God?
When I got out of the Army at Ft. Knox, KY, I planed to go to Florida, but my wife who was, is closer to God than me told me that God told her to go to NY.
Surely that is not written in the Bible for me to validate.
However, when we believed and obeyed, it was like a table all set for us in NY.
It was only possible because my wife was in close contact with God, and was able to identify the voice of God and had a gut to proclaim.
She didn’t say like ‘Thus saith the Lord’, but convincingly.
That is my perspective, though.
I guess God worked on both, like He let her to heed His voice and worked on me to go with her.
In this case, my wife worked as a prophetess.
What do you think?
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