Why the Prophets Need Each Other
1 Cor 14:29
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
1 Kings 19: 14
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
The spiritual environment the prophet enters today, as in Elijah’s time, is not one of peace and harmony among the people of God: but of rebellion, witchcraft, and violence. The clear word of God and His covenant through the Lord Jesus Christ is forsaken, the prophets are attacked and slain, and our mourning for the lost demonstration of the righteousness of God through Christ to be seen among His people takes firm hold upon us.
We are driven by fear, and that not alone for our own selves should we fail to deliver the warning message: but for the multitudes we know who will turn aside to religious fables, believing the lie, rejecting the truth, to their own destruction. And we may not stop.
The prophet Elijah knew the loneliness of prophetic ministry, and it is no less true for ourselves. He knew it entailed threat upon us of our very lives, for we know we are nothing without the life of God working in us. He also experienced attack from major evil in the darkest quarters of the enemy’s arsenal: false accusation, deliberate misinterpretation, manipulation, hatred, threat of death, and trouble on every side.
We are brought through difficulties of all kinds so that we may minister to those who have need, according to our testimony of the true and wonderful power of God, which is given us according to His certain promises. And this power is maligned, despised, dismembered and finally rejected, by those who believe they are doing God a service.
What can be done for the doubtful and unbelieving in this day, whose rejection of the truth of God causes them to teeter upon the cliff edge of delusion? Shall we propel them forwards into their early destiny? Or shall we reason with them who we know will be unable to help themselves from falling forwards into that swirling lie of the enemy’s making from which there is no return, if they do not repent?
Know that for us, there is comfort in our gathering, the sure counsel of God in our unity, correction for our excesses and deviations from the simplicity which is in Christ, as we reason and admonish each other together in the Holy Ghost.
Let them who reject His counsel do as they please, for God will not violate their free will. They will have recompense who trouble us, as the Lord has promised, and this is their just reward.
This is no time to be hiding in the cave of depression, despondency and despair. We who will work, while it is still “today”, let us work: acceptably in the Lord, remembering we are brethren who have not bowed the knee to all that baal signifies in these last days.
2 Thess 1
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
1 Cor 14:29
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
1 Kings 19: 14
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
The spiritual environment the prophet enters today, as in Elijah’s time, is not one of peace and harmony among the people of God: but of rebellion, witchcraft, and violence. The clear word of God and His covenant through the Lord Jesus Christ is forsaken, the prophets are attacked and slain, and our mourning for the lost demonstration of the righteousness of God through Christ to be seen among His people takes firm hold upon us.
We are driven by fear, and that not alone for our own selves should we fail to deliver the warning message: but for the multitudes we know who will turn aside to religious fables, believing the lie, rejecting the truth, to their own destruction. And we may not stop.
The prophet Elijah knew the loneliness of prophetic ministry, and it is no less true for ourselves. He knew it entailed threat upon us of our very lives, for we know we are nothing without the life of God working in us. He also experienced attack from major evil in the darkest quarters of the enemy’s arsenal: false accusation, deliberate misinterpretation, manipulation, hatred, threat of death, and trouble on every side.
We are brought through difficulties of all kinds so that we may minister to those who have need, according to our testimony of the true and wonderful power of God, which is given us according to His certain promises. And this power is maligned, despised, dismembered and finally rejected, by those who believe they are doing God a service.
What can be done for the doubtful and unbelieving in this day, whose rejection of the truth of God causes them to teeter upon the cliff edge of delusion? Shall we propel them forwards into their early destiny? Or shall we reason with them who we know will be unable to help themselves from falling forwards into that swirling lie of the enemy’s making from which there is no return, if they do not repent?
Know that for us, there is comfort in our gathering, the sure counsel of God in our unity, correction for our excesses and deviations from the simplicity which is in Christ, as we reason and admonish each other together in the Holy Ghost.
Let them who reject His counsel do as they please, for God will not violate their free will. They will have recompense who trouble us, as the Lord has promised, and this is their just reward.
This is no time to be hiding in the cave of depression, despondency and despair. We who will work, while it is still “today”, let us work: acceptably in the Lord, remembering we are brethren who have not bowed the knee to all that baal signifies in these last days.
2 Thess 1
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
