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

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Gifts of the Spirit during the First Three Cen turies of the Christian Church (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1984). Also see Burgess, Spirit and the Church. 31. C. Peter Wagner, Praying with Power (Ventura: Regal, 1997), p. 43. 32. Joyner, Prophetic Ministry, pp. 13-14. 33. Grudem, Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament, p. 132. 34. Buckingham, "The Prophet's Calling," p. 55. Chapter 3: Mission: What Was a Prophet? 1. Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Tes tament (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1995, a reproduction of the 1890 seven-volume ed.), p. 712. 2. Cecil M. Robeck Jr., "Gift of Prophecy," p. 730. Taken from Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexan der. Copyright© 1988 by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. 3. Charles A. Briggs, Messianic Prophecy (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1988 reprint of an 1886 edition), p. 2. 4. Jacob M. Myers and Edwin D. Freed, "Is Paul Also among the Prophets?" Interpretation 20 (1966), p. 48. Original thought from H. Wheeler Robinson, "The Council of Yah weh," Journal of Theological Studies 45 (1944), pp. 151-157. 5. Ibid., p. 49. 6. Leon J. Wood, The Prophets of Israel (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), p. 63. 7. Daniel Powell Williams, The Prophetical Ministry in the Church (Penygroes, Wales: Apostolic Church, 1931), p. 11. 8. Or gazer, as suggested by DavidJ. Zucker, Israel's Prophets (New York: Paulist, 1994), p. 16. 9. Walter C. Kaiser, Back toward the Future: Hints for Interpreting Prophecy (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989), p. 74. 10. Gad in 1 Samuel 22:5; 2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Chronicles 21:9; 2 Chronicles 29:25. Iddo in 2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 13:22. Amos, one of the great writing prophets, in Amos 7:12. 11. See Isaiah 30:9-10, where the term nabi is not used, but rather roeh is translated "seer" and the term hozeh is translated "prophet." Thus nabi had no exclusive claim on speaking forth for God.

12. Since a person could be a nabi and a roeh (see 1 Samuel 7:7), and three men are called both a hozeh and a nabi, it appears that the three terms present the same ministry. The term itself suggests either a messenger making an announcement, or that the message has come to the messenger in visionary form. Also note that seers were sometimes spokespersons (see Isaiah 30:9-10, where both roeh and hozeh are used). For an excellent discussion of the subject, see Young, My Servants, "The Seer," pp. 61-66. 13. G. Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Vol. VI, p. 796. 14. Robert D. Culver, "Nabi," R. Laird Har ris, ed., Theological Wordbook of the Old Tes tament (Chicago: Moody, 1980), Vol. 2, p. 544. 15. Hobart E. Freeman gives one of the best explanations, and I follow his outline in An Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets (Chicago: Moody, 1968), pp. 37-39. His basic outline is also copied in the Theological Word book of the Old Testament, p. 544. The schol ars supporting each view are listed in those places. 16. See Kaiser, Future, p. 73. 17. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, tr., Gesenius' Hebrew and Cha/dee Lexicon to the Old Tes tament Scriptures (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), p. 528. 18. W. Sibley Towner, "On Calling People Prophets in 1970," Interpretation 24 (October 1970), p. 495. 19. Culver, "Nabi," p. 544. 20. Samuel W. Barnum, ed., "Prophet," Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible (New York: Appleton, 1867), p. 887. 21. This seven-point framework is used again in chapter 9, where it is expanded to eleven points and comparison is made between prophecy in the Old and New Testament eras. 22. C. Douglas Weaver, The Healer Prophet, William Marrion Branham: A Study of the Prophetic in American Pentecostalism (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University, 1987), p. xiii. 23. Clarence E. Macartney, from the fore word of The Unity of Isaiah by Oswald T. Allis (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 1974). This excellent book by a renowned scholar argues persuasively for the supernatural in the prophets' ministries. 24. J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Bibli cal Prophecy (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980), p. 681. 25. See also Allis, Unity, chapter 1, for his 21 illustrations of predictive prophecy and how

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