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Do You Want to Be a Prophet?

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elijah23

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Before you decide you want to be a prophet, ask yourself these questions:

Do you want your bishop to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while he has his OWN agenda?

Do you want your pastor or priest to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while he has his OWN agenda?

Do you want half your church to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while they have their OWN agendas?
 
elijah23 said:
Before you decide you want to be a prophet, ask yourself these questions:

Do you want your bishop to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while he has his OWN agenda?

Do you want your pastor or priest to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while he has his OWN agenda?

Do you want half your church to hate you because you believe in righteousness, while they have their OWN agendas?
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These characteristics were reflective of some of the OT prophets, not all. Some OT prophets received the greatest respect. The NT prophets did not seem to experience this docotomy; but the end-time prophets will likely return to this experience, as is forshadowed in Ezekiel and Jeremiah.
 
First of all love peace and respect to all,

Following Christ is meant to be a way of life not a "Religion" (a set of human rites and rituals meant to help one reach spirituality)

InI has found many things that "Christians" practice that are opposed by the bible and against the teachings of Yesuah.

For example:

What "Church" is (Ekklesia)
"Prayer" in "church" and "corporate prayer"
Having crosses, pictures of Yesuah ect.
What "slavery" is (actually more accurately a bondservant)

One love.

:study
 
Do I want to be a Prophet?

No.

It's hard enough already making friends.

Real prophets are not exalted (not while they're living anyway). They are disdained and hated and treated as scum of the earth. What Paul said about apostles seem to also be true about prophets:

"9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men.
12 When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; 13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world." (1 Corinthians 4:9,12-13 NIV1984)


So if you want to be an official spokesperson for God, you better get ready to do some suffering. It's a 'how to influence people, but not make friends' kind of thing. But that's what the prophets endured for having the privilege of being the foundation of the church.
 
I thought the Bible, God's Word, was already complete, so that there aren't any prophets any more, strictly speaking?

More precisely, what is needed is those who preach the Word.
 
farouk said:
I thought the Bible, God's Word, was already complete, so that there aren't any prophets any more, strictly speaking?
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It was interesting to discover when reading the prophets that they spoke of things already known in the law of Moses. They were literally mouth pieces for God and exhorted people to come back to the obedience of the law.

We miss this aspect of 'prophecy' in the church today because we instantly think of the 'foretelling the future' aspect of prophecy and don't understand the 'forth telling' part of it--as in forth telling the Word of God. Which, in the case of a prophet, is quite literally the very voice of God working inside the prophet and being spoken out by the prophet. Contrast that with someone who is just talking about the things of God from his own perspective and from his own mind, and which may be quite accurate. That is not prophecy.



farouk said:
More precisely, what is needed is those who preach the Word.
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That certainly is a specific office in the church. But a prophet teaches and exhorts all the requirements of God, and most importantly, via the direct inspiration and voice of God by the Holy Spirit. THAT is what the church is in dire need of today--the Word of God inhabited by the Spirit of God, not just someone talking about God. Perhaps you have sensed the difference between those two yourself. But the sufferings and abuse of the prophets life doesn't fit in well with the 'success and fortune' culture of the world today that has taken over the church. The life of a prophet is quite contrary to that. No church leaders seem willing to step up to that office.
 
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