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Bible Questions and Spiritual Discussion
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| Question on prophecy | | I am having a problem reconciling in my own mind a situation. A young man was killed in a car accident and he had been prophesied over by Dennis Cramer who spoke at length about this man's future wife. He died before ever marrying. I guess I just don't see what prophesy is all about and how valid it can be in a situation like this. Would God give someone words to speak about a future that God knows is never going to occur?
| | louise1 06/22/2010 21:58 | |
No. There are so many tragic stories like this, too many to count. In the OT such "prophets" were stoned. I think the threat of stoning would make a great silence fall over the televangelist world.
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| Yeah absolutely. I believe that there are still some prophesies that occur, however, since God has given us the Bible as His main word, it is important to be very careful with those who claim to be foretellers as apposed to forthtellers. As a pastor, I am a forthtelling prophet, one who instructs through the scripture. In Deuteronomy 18:21-22, God is answering a presumed question about what prophet to follow. 21"You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' 22 "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him."
In 1 John, the Apostle warns 4:1 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 4:3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
We need totest every sipposed prophet as closely as possible. The scripture gives us clear instruction in this area. Don't fear this man. Don't distrust God becasue of him. Continue to listen and read and trust God.
| yeah, test such 'prophesies' against the word, against what you feel God has spoken to you already, test through prayer etc.
I hate that people make such specific statements and then say "thus sayeth the Lord" when usually it's just a hunch or feeling they have.
I experienced a person with a true prophetic gift (or at least that's my conclusion). He had insight to my struggles when he counseled me, the one thing he said was 'you need to forgive your dad', without me ever discussing much of anything. Well two months later my dad passed away and I'm thankful i had those two months to really work through forgiveness. I knew his words were biblical.
Of course I don't know the exact definition prophesy or gift of prophesy, so I googled and found this site: http://www.joyfulheart.com/scholar/purp-pro.htm.
It says basically prophesy is for exhortation and encouragement for the body of Christ and the individual believer, sometimes with a revelation for a certain occasion and sometimes with conviction of sin. SO i would say my experience was a glimpse of prophecy in a biblical way. It does exist and is possible to be used properly and not as a show like too many do out of greed/pride/etc. Perhaps the guy talking about the specific wife meant to encourage the man about his future wife, and because of a sinful world he died before it could happen, but I'm not defending false prophecies by saying that.
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