Well, this is a big subject. 1. i would say we cant make exegese of word of god in the way to take verses out of the context. f.e the prophecie from Joel is for the volk Israel.
Second in the apostolic time the word of god was in the churches was not known in 66 books which we have today. Some churches maby had only some letters from Paul, ore Peter.
True, and who do you think was responsible to gather the 66 books together? God or satan? So then God knew before hand which and how many of the epistles would be a part of what people in the last days would refer to as the Word of God. So the 66 books we have today, still apply today, because they are God inspired, and God chose to keep those particular 66 books as a part of what would be known as the Word of God.
Third were are then the apostels from 1. Cor. 12.28?
i am right here. Tell me how can a Church set the position of a Prophet if that Church does not believe prophets exist?
4. Where were the Prophets till 1905 when pentecostal movement began?
Scriptures are clear that the spirit of prophesy would be poured out on the sons and daughters in the LAST DAYS. Therefore it only makes since that prophets would show up during the LAST DAYS, not before then.
What was in the time between. All the churches which foundet in time of reformation ( calvinist, protestant, lutheren, menonite, bretheren) must then be wrong, because they dont thought that.
Any denomination that disagrees with the teaching of Scriptures is indeed wrong, all of them.
It means not, that the Holy Spirit could and would not use believers for reveal a right word to the right time.
Those who reveal a right word at the right time, are they that have the gift of Teaching, or the Gift of knowledge, or the Gift of Tongues. Those who prophesy have the Gift of Prophesy.
But the gifts and positions as we read in Ephesians ore Corinthians are not the same today as it was during the apostolic time.
What then? They do not apply today? Using the same exact logic, one could say they should not believe the entire Bible because it was written more than a thousand years ago, and does not apply today. What is written in Ephesians and Corinthians still applies today, if it would not apply today, then God would never have allowed those epistles to be included in what the future would call His Word, we would have 63 books of the Bible and not 66. You can't pick and choose which books to believe in and which ones to discard, you either believe them all and live by them all, or you don't.
Also we should think about, what we are doing with a false prophet? According the OT he has to be killed.
That is True, under the old covenant people were stoned to death. But under the new covenant people are NOT stoned to death.
Do the so called Prophets today giving prophecies with 100% fulfillment? Sorry, but this is my understanding.
If a Prophet, prophesies something that does not come to pass, this person is a false prophet. If any Prophet teaches anything that is contrary to Scriptures is also a false prophet. But with this generation many are quick to call people false prophets because they teach something different then what they believe is the TRUTH, not that what they are teaching is contrary to Scriptures, but contrary to what they THINK is the Truth. The Word of God is TRUTH, what you and i believe can be corrupted, biased, tainted, and the such. If a person claims to be a prophet and teaches something contrary to what you believe is the Truth, that is not a good enough reason to falsely accuse as being a false prophet. But if one claims to be a Prophet and teaches things that is contrary to Scriptures, than that person is a false prophet.
Everybody who stands sunday for sunday on the pulpit is in this way a prophet who share the word of god.
A prophet is one who prophesies. Just as a Fisherman is one who fishes, and a Preacher is one who Preaches.
And the Holy Spirit uses them to speak into the heart of the people who listen.
The Holy Spirit gives out Gifts that differ one from another, all of them are Gifts of the Holy Spirit of God. If then the Holy Spirit of God gives the Gift of teaching to a person, than that person is going to be able to teach people the Word of God and speak into their hearts. Those who have the Gift of Prophesy, knows what is going to happen in the Future, not because they have LEARNED this information, or have come up with that information through their own intellect, but it is the Holy Spirit of God that has revealed to them what must come to pass. For example, i KNOW what is going to happen in the future, the anit-christ, the mark of the beast, the 144,000, the thousand year reign of Christ, the battle for the New City Jerusalem, not because of my thousands of hours of study of Scriptures, not because i studied Hebrew and Greek, not because i have read the entire Bible over 80 times in my life, i KNOW what is coming, because it was revealed to me, it was told to me. Therefore what i teach is not from me or from my own mind, what i teach is from God. And woe is me, because i have the Truth, trying to teach what God has told me, to a generation that will refuse to listen to the TRUTH, i am a prophet, living in a generation that does not believe prophets even exist, and if one says they are, they are immediately called a false prophet because they say they are a prophet. What? if a Preacher says he is a Preacher, does that make him a false preacher. If a Teacher says they are a Teacher, does that make them a false Teacher? But let a Prophet say he is a prophet and watch the stones fly.
I know, that some are thinking different in this matter. i dont want to hurt them.
You are not far from the Kingdom of God.
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