SarahM, many people laid out dreams and visions in the Bible. Joseph and Pharaoh, the butler and the baker etc, Daniel and even bad spirits also shown stuff in dreams, concerning the future... God can even give the same vision and dreams to other people. If my visions REVEAL the Word of God, then who did that for me? Who can reveal scripture in dreams, visions, and even in the breaking and sharing of bread. Jesus revealed scripture even before it was written. God showed so many things to so many people. Stephan SAW GOD AND JESUS WHEN HE LOOKED INTO HEAVEN.
Now one question... Do you think God can SHOW YOU GOD AND JESUS STANDING IN HEAVEN, WHILE YOU ARE BEING STONED? Do you think God can take me to third heaven and Paradise? Do you think God can also take me places while I sit with people in my house, like He did with Ezekiel? Did God really stop doing things HE WANTS TOO, just because the Word was written, and are now finished?
You see people, this is the problem, we STOPPED BELIEVEING, that is the only reason things of God does not happen. God said.... BLESED ARE THE PURE AT HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD... Stephen DID, so can you.
1 Cor 12... Some may speak in tongues but others might interpret. And Sarah, I did say to the Lord I am not even worthy to pray to Him. U also asked Him many times to NOT visit me, for I will die in His presence. I also claim to be STILL sinner, and only His Word is more than enough to show me hw I am sinner.
But is it God's will that I has to remain this DIRTY UNWORTHY AND FOUL, or is this HIS WIll...
1 John 4:17.... Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Hebrews 10:19 and 20... Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Looks like we even have a better deal on the table than what the prophets of the old Testament had... Like Isiah, and even though Isiah said that about himself, what did God say about Isiah and th other prohets...
I will call myself what God tells me to call myself, and at teh end it is the WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, that will count...IF HE WITNESS WITH MY SPIRIT THAT I AM A CILD OF GOD, not even ISIAH has a opinion! Let alone the DEVIL or his children.