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September 4th, 2006, 12:12 AM

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Prophecies can also be a channel of guidance. We have to take some things into consideration so that we can use them in the correct way, because otherwise we can easily get on the wrong track. Make a note of the following points:



Not the most important thing in guidance. Firstly, the most important thing in the use of prophecies is that they are not the main way guidance is given, only one of them. They have to stay on the background –not in the main role - when we are searching for guidance. Neither can they steal the place of the word of God or displace it, as might easily happen.

The main rule in use of prophecies should be that they usually only confirm what we already know - it rarely brings out anything new. It is unlikely, that God would first speak to others about our guidance. He most certainly always speaks about it first to our own hearts before telling it to us through other people's prophecies. This should always be the order.

What comes to different ministries in the church, it is good to understand that if all of the ministry is led by prophecies or new revelations, we are always led astray. Most of the heresies and false movements have their beginning in the wrong emphasis and use of prophecies. They have begun, because this gift (or perhaps an imitation of this gift) has been raised to the main role, though it should only be in a secondary role.
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September 4th, 2006, 09:59 AM

Ha! I saved my post # 666 just for this occasion!
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September 4th, 2006, 01:41 PM

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. The main rule in use of prophecies should be that they usually only confirm what we already know
How can you call them prophecies then? My dictionary tells me that prophecy can mean either a prediction of future events, which by definition we don't know (not one of which from scripture, incidentally, has ever incontrovertibly come true), or simple a divinely inspired utterance, which in your terms would have to mean something we do know. This isn't making a lot of sense to me.

p.s. good one, gopher.
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September 4th, 2006, 02:47 PM

There will always be prophecies and time and circumstance enough to fulfill most of them.
The more opaque they are the more popular they become.
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October 30th, 2006, 07:03 AM

Dare we interoperate the prophecies for ourselves. Do we allow others, such as prophets, explain them to us. What about false prophets, how do we discern. You get out of it what you perception allows you to derive from the tales. Seems the more explanation I receive from the prophesiers the more B.S. I find. Jesus
fulfilled a prophecy from the old world. Which prophecies have come to fruition and which ones are yet to come? Some say Jesus has returned already. The false prophets are left with us unworthy people and we are in the last millennium of the world as we know it.


Well played Gopher!
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October 30th, 2006, 09:42 AM

Quoting The Project Man
Dare we interoperate the prophecies for ourselves. Do we allow others, such as prophets, explain them to us. What about false prophets, how do we discern. You get out of it what you perception allows you to derive from the tales. Seems the more explanation I receive from the prophesiers the more B.S. I find. Jesus
fulfilled a prophecy from the old world. Which prophecies have come to fruition and which ones are yet to come? Some say Jesus has returned already. The false prophets are left with us unworthy people and we are in the last millennium of the world as we know it.


Well played Gopher!
Prophecies should be taken on by ourselves. They are their for our Interpation. The Bible is for our interpetaion, and that of the Prophets in the Bible. Sure we can go to Church and get the preachers perspective, and that can help us find our own, But the Mistake the Mgority of Christains make is not reading the Bible themselves and getting their own Idea, to many jump on the band wagon of evangelit who tell them how it is, and can twist the text. Jesus has not returned, we would know with out a doubt that he returned.
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