Your Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy - Prophetic Gifts Today In The New Testament Church

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Chapter 2: Increased Interest in Prophecy 1. Michael G. Maudlin, "Seers in the Heart land," Christianity Today 35 (January 14, 1991), pp. 18-22. 2. Three examples: Wayne A. Grudem, "Why Christians Can Still Prophesy: Scripture Encourages Us to Seek the Gift Yet Today," Christianity Today 32/13 (September 16, 1988), pp. 29-35; C. Peter Wagner, "The Gift of Prophecy Is for Today," Church Growth (autumn 1994); Jamie Buckingham, "The Prophet's Calling," Ministries Today (Janu ary/February 1992), pp. 55-63. 3. MarkJ. Cartledge, "Charismatic Prophecy and New Testament Prophecy," Themelios 17 (October-November 1991), pp. 17-19. He also gives a good summary of recent thought. 4. See David Hill, New Testament Prophecy (Atlanta: John Knox, 1979); Graham Houston, Prophecy: A Gift for Today? (Downers Grove, Ill.: lnterVarsity, 1989); Jacobs, Voice. 5. See, for instance, Bill Hamon, Prophets and the Prophetic Movement: God's Prophetic Move Today (Shippensburg, Pa.: Destiny Image, 1990), Vol. 2. 6. A comment made by F. F. Bruce in his foreword for Clifford Hill, Prophecy Past and Present (Crowborough, East Sussex: Highland, 1989), p. xii. This excellent, scholarly book argues persuasively for modern-day prophecy. 7. See David E. Aune's fourteen-page survey of five significant treatments, Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), pp. 1-14. 8. The specific articles used are listed in the bibliography. 9. John W. Hilber, "Diversity of Old Testa ment Prophetic Phenomena and New Testament 387.

Chapter 1: God's Thoughts toward Us 1. David Watson, I Believe in the Church (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), p. 258. Ad mittedly Watson is discussing prophecy in the Church, but this general idea also applies to Old Testament prophecy. (Although definitions of prophecy appear throughout this book, chap ter 10, "Christian Prophecy," features the largest concentration of definitions by various authors.) 2. Cindy Jacobs, The Voice of God (Ven tura, Calif.: Regal, 1995), p. 90. 3. This is the first occurrence of angel in the Scripture (see Genesis 16:7), so it has special rel evance. Abraham is the only person called a prophet during this time (see Genesis 20:7, the first use in Scripture of prophet), but obviously he was not yet a prophet or else he was too involved emotionally in the situation to make a proper messenger for God. 4. Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (Byron Center, Mich.: Associated Pub lishers and Authors, 1970), Vol. II (of un abridged two-volume edition), comments on Psalm 139:17, p. 227. 5. Bruce Yocum, Prophecy: Exercising the Prophetic Gifts of the Spirit in the Church Today (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant, 1976), p. 11. 6. Dick Stark, "A Call to Prophetic Expres sion," Sunday bulletin of Faith Temple Church in Alexander City, Alabama, August 18, 1996. 7.Glenn Foster, The Purpose and Use of Prophecy (Glendale, Ariz.: Sweetwater, 1988), p. 36. 8. Kim Clement, The Sound of His Voice (Orlando: Creation House, 1993), pp. 90-91.