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

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9. Clifford Hill, for instance, discusses five categories: declaration, pronouncement, com munication, announcement and apocalyptic lit erature. Prophecy, pp. 278-280. 10. Theodore Robinson, Prophecy and the Prophets, p. 4 7. 11.Towner, "Calling People Prophets," p. 505. 12. Edersheim, Bible History, p. 437. 13. Kaiser, Future, p. 76. 14. Ellison, Men Spake, p. 16. 15. See the "Foretelling" section in chapter 3. 16. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, pp. 98-100. 17. Kaiser says, "These two texts with their alternative prospects for obedience and disobe dience were directly quoted or alluded to by the sixteen writing prophets literally hundreds of times." Future, p. 36. 18. Published by the B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co., Indianapolis. 19. Published by Thomas Nelson Publish ers, Nashville. 20. Tucker, "Prophetic Speech," p. 36. 21. This story, taken from the NLT, which agrees with the NKJV and NASB, is more logical than that presented in the KJV. 22. H. McKeating, "The Prophet Jesus-II," The Expository Times 73 (1961-1962), p. 52. 23. Myers and Freed, "Among the Pro phets," p. 49. 24. For a modern evangelistic application of this concept, see Dutch Sheets, Intercessory Prayer (Ventura: Regal, 1995), chapter 13, "Actions that Speak and Words that Perform." Throughout the world Christians are prayer walking their neighborhoods, marching through the streets and literally anointing and praying for oppressive walls, etc., as a modern-day adapta tion of this ancient concept. 25. Arthur Blessitt, Arthur, a Pilgrim (Hol l yw ood: Blessitt Publishing, 1985). 26. Houston, Prophecy, p. 43. 27. D. P. Williams, Prophetical Ministry, p. 59. 28. Theodore Robinson, Prophecy and the Prophets, p. 48.

Testament and Criticism (Grand Rapids: Eerd mans, 1967). 38. Shakarian, Happiest People, pp. 19-22. Those of us who live in California have a con stant, living reminder of how this prophecy came to pass. The descendants of those pilgrims still worship in their Armenian Pentecostal churches in central and southern California. 39. Samuel W. Barnum, ed., "Prophet," Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary ofthe Bible (London: D. Appellation, 1884), p. 889. 40. G. Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Vol. VI, p. 851. 41. Paul Cain, "Hearing God," MorningStar Journal 4 (No. 1), 1994, p. 54. 42. Joseph Bryant Rotherham, The Empha sized Bible (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1959 reprint), p. 608. 43. Quoted by J. Sidlow Baxter, Explore the Book (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), p. 44. Chapter 6: Message: Various Ways of Prophetic Expression 1. Gene M. Tucker, "Prophetic Speech," Interpretation 32 (January 1978), p. 31. 2. Wood, Prophets, p. 63. 3. Tucker says: "An essential step in the analysis of the [prophetic] literature is the sep aration of these materials according to units. In this respect the most useful clues are the intro ductory and concluding formulas such as the call to hear ('Hear this word. . .') or the prophetic word formula ('The word of Yahweh came to. . .'), and the typical structures of the different genres which suggest where they began and ended." "Prophetic Speech," p. 32. 4. Edersheim, Bible History, p. 637-638. 5. Tucker, "Prophetic Speech," p. 35. 6. G. H. Livingston, "Burden," Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Vol. 1, p. 671. 7. J. Millar, "Burden," Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 1, p. 331. 8. Isaiah uses this burden form for his mes sages against the foreign nations. It occurs at 13:1 (Babylon); 14:29 (Philistia); 15:1 (Moab); 17:1 (Damascus); 19:1 (Egypt); 21:1 (Baby lon); 21:11 (Dumah); 21:13 (Arabia); 22:1 (Valley of Vision); and 23:1 (Tyre). "These messages are all minatory in nature, although occasionally there is subjoined a rose-tinted promise such as the one in Isa 19:16-25." W.C. Kaiser, "Massa," Theological Word book of the Old Testament, Vol. II, p. 602.

29. Fairbairn, Prophecy, p. 5. 30. Ellison, Men Spake, p. 14.

Chapter 7: Madness: What Compelled the False Prophet? 1. Or, "He that is" or "He is being." "I AM TI-IE ONE WHO ALWAYS IS" (NLT) or "I AM WHO I 393 •