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

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to frighten Nehemiah (Nehemiah 6:14); and Zedekiah made horns of iron and declared the consummation of the Arameans (1 Kings 22:11). 10. C. F. Keil, "Jeremiah," Keil and De litzsch Commentary, Vol. VIII, p. 357. 11. Ibid., p. 358. 12. Also note the following confirmations: 1 Kings 22:18-22; 2 Chronicles 18:22; Psalm 81:11-12; 109:17-18; Isaiah 29:9-10; 44:20; 66:3-4; Ezekiel 14:9; John 12:39-40; Romans 1:21, 25, 28. 13. H. A. Baker, Visions beyond the Veil (Springdale, Pa.: Whitaker, 1973), pp. 5-6. More than 125,000 copies of this remarkable story are in print. I am pleased that Whitaker House has republished the account. I have a dilapidated, fifty-year-old copy that I first read as a teenager; it had a remarkable effect on my life. Other page numbers from this volume fol low in the text. 14. Plaut, Torah, p. 1428. 15. Joyner, Prophetic, p. 98. 16. D. P. Williams, Prophetical Ministry, p. 26. 17. Edersheim, Bible History, pp. 287-288. Chapter 8: The Reappearance of Prophecy 1. "The seventy men who are chosen become not merely deputized administrators but also pur veyors of prophecy. While a jealous Joshua urges his master to restrict such competition, Moses rejects a narrow interpretation of prophetic privi lege." Plaut, Torah, p. 1088. 2. Clifford Hill comments: '"Being filled with the Spirit' would, in Jewish usage, be tan tamount to saying 'becoming prophets'. . . ." New Testament Prophecy, p. 96. 3. Frederick E. Greenspahn, "Why Prophecy Ceased," Journal of Biblical Literature 10811 (1989), pp. 37-49. 4. MacRae, "Prophets and Prophecy," p. 884. 5. Greenspahn, "Prophecy," p. 45. 6. See David Hill, "2. The Intertestamen tal Literature," New Testament Prophecy, pp. 21-25. For a history of this time see Charles F. Pfeiffer, Between the Testaments (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1961). 7. Aune, Prophecy, p. 103. 8. Pytches, Prophecy, pp. 17-22. 9. Ernest Best, "Prophets and Preachers," ScottishJournal o(Theology 12 (1959), p. 140. 10. Freeman, Old Testament Prophets, p. 130.

AM" or "I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE.,, The CEV says, "I am the eternal God," and in the margin sug gests, "I am the one who brings into being." Note how Revelation 4:8 (Message) capsulates this thought: "THE WAS, THE IS, THE COMING.,, 2. The Hebrew name is generally referred to as Yahweh, rather than the awkward Eng lish I AM. Appearing 6,823 times in the Hebrew Old Testament, the name is usually translated in our English versions by the capitalized LORD or GOD. The original Hebrew form was con sidered so sacred that it could not be spoken or read, so the Jews took the vowel points of the Hebrew word Adonai (English, Lord) and placed them on the sacred Tetragrammaton to remind them always to speak the substituted name Adonai rather than the original name. The old English Jehovah was a misguided attempt of the translators in A.D. 1520 to trans late the vowel points of Adonai ( e, o and a) with the four consonants J, H, V, H, thus obtaining a pronounceable JeHo VaH for the unpro nounceable name. Jewish encyclopedias, how ever, identify the name Jehovah as a hybrid word and unacceptable as an authentic rendition of God's name. Naturally Jesus and the early Church did not use this word because it did not even exist at the time. 3. Other than Jesus, Moses was the agent of more stupendous manifestations of divine power than any other person. It was a momen tous time in history, for God was founding the Hebrew nation as the medium for producing the Messiah, through whom all nations would be blessed. 4. Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Hand book (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1965, 24th ed.), p. 282. 5. Plaut, Torah, p. 1182ff. 6. That such statements should come first from a heathen soothsayer indicates God's desire for all nations to be reached with His message-an amazing sign that God would in the end make every knee bow and every tongue confess (including every false spirit and prophet). 7. The New Testament commentators had nothing good to say of Balaam; see 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 11 and Revelation 2:14. 8. G. V. Smith, "Prophecy,False," The Inter national Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 984. 9. Hananiah, for instance, prophesied that the yoke of the king of Babylon would be bro ken (Jeremiah 28); Noadiah the prophetess tried

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