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4. See Wood, Prophets, chapter 2; Cecil M. Robeck Jr., "I. Prophetic Speech in the Ancient World," pp. 728-730, 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. Also see Young, My Servants, chapter 1 and appendix: "Extra-Biblical 'Prophecy' in the Ancient World." 5. Those who speak contrary to Scripture remain in the darkness of deep spiritual night. When they turn from their own ways to the Word of God, spiritual morning will break. 6.Edward J. Young, who was a leading Hebrew expert, says in his classic book My Ser vants the Prophets (p. 21): "Nine superstitions are enumerated, practices which for one reason or another the Canaanites employed. At the head of the list stands februation, or the custom of pass ing one's son and daughter through the fire." After looking at several commentaries on this (I have found the �ord februation nowhere else), it appears that most feel it refers to child sacrifice through burning. But an interesting comment from The Torah: A Modern Commentary Uew ish) says: "The Talmud offers two explanations. One is that the children were made to walk between two fires as a symbol of their dedication to the god." Hence it could be "sons and daugh ters," as in Deuteronomy 12:31, and imply that they would come out the other side. The other explanation, according to The Torah, "is that the children were tossed back and forth over a fire till they were burned"(p. 883). 2 Kings 23:10 says "that no man might make his son or his daugh ter pass through the fire for Molech" (emphasis added). The Torah concludes its discussion of Molech worship in Leviticus with this statement: "All we can say with certainty is that these laws forbid the devotion of children to a pagan cult. How barbarous the form of devotion was is uncer tain" (p. 884). Gunther Plaut, The Torah (New York: Jewish Publication Society, 1981). Most evangelical commentators would probably say that it was child sacrifice by fire, although I find The Torah's explanation a good one. 7. Various scholars believe this, but perhaps Young gives the best explanation (My Servants, pp. 20-35). 8. Joyner, Prophetic Ministry, p. 23. 9. Theodore H. Robinson, Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel (London: Duck worth, 1936), p. 29.

it is most feasible to accept the supernatural ele ment in these prophecies. 26. David du Plessis as told to Bob Slosser, A Man Called Mr. Pentecost (Plainfield, N.J.: Logos, 1977), pp. 1-2. 27. Ibid., pp. 5-6. 28. Jack H yw el-Davies, The Life of Smith Wigglesworth (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Vine/Servant, 1988), p. 155. 29. R. P. Spittler, "Du Plessis, David Johannes," pp. 253-254. Dictionary of Pente costal and Charismatic Movements by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Copyright© 1988 by Stanley M. Burgess, Gary B. McGee and Patrick H. Alexander. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. 30. Freeman, Old Testament Prophets, p. 24. 31. Bernhard Duhm, Israels Propheten, quoted by Klaus Baltzer, Harvard Theological Review 61 (1968), p. 567. 32. Wood, Prophets, p. 9. 33. Kevin J. Conner, The Church in the New Testament (Portland: BT Publishing, 1989), pp. 55-56. Chapter 4: Makeup: Traits That Charac terized a Prophet 1. Young, My Servants, p. 205. 2. Actually, on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18), "The quiet and dignified attitude of Elijah, the true prophet of God . . . is in vivid contrast to the orgiastic and ecstatic activities attributed to these prophets of Baal." A. A. MacRae, "Prophets and Prophecy," Merrill C. Tenney, gen. ed., Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975), Vol. 4, p. 891. 3. There are ostensibly five divination pas sages in Scripture: Genesis 44:5, 15 (when Joseph pretended to use divination); 1 Samuel 28 (when Saul attempted to reach Samuel through a medium); 2 Samuel 5:24 (the shak ing of leaves as God's hosts pass before David); Isaiah 8:19 (an exhortation not to consult medi ums and spiritists!); and Ezekiel 21:21 (when the king of Babylon used divination). Two favorite references to show prophecy as an out of-control ecstasy would be 1 Samuel 10:10-12 and 19:20-24; Saul is the very poorest example of Hebrew prophecy, however, and this kind of behavior is not portrayed elsewhere as norma tive for Israel. • 390