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

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II.James D. G. Dunn, "New Wine in Old Wine-Skins: VI. Prophet," The Expository Times 85 (1973), p. 6. 12. I like "The Chronometrical Principle" of Kevin J. Conner and Ken Malmin, Inter preting the Scriptures (Portland: BT Publishing, 1976), pp. 153-162. They feel that God has divided and arranged time into a series of suc cessive ages, times and seasons. Our interpreta tion of a given Bible text, therefore, should take into consideration the given time frame. 13. Freeman says: "John is designated by Christ as the greatest of the prophets inasmuch as he forms the connecting link between the OId Testament prophets who foretold the Messiah and the appearance of the Messiah Himself." Old Testament Prophets, p. 131. 14. T. W. Manson, The Sayings of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979 reprint), p. 70. 15. F. F. Bruce, The Hard Sayings of Jesus (DownersGrove, Ill: InterVarsity, 1983), p. 114. 16. W. Harold Mare says, "That this mira cle working function was thought to be impor tant in a prophet and, particularly, of Christ as prophet is evidenced in Luke 24:19 where the two traveling to Emmaus speak of Christ as a 'prophet mighty in deed and word."' Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society 9:3 (1966), p. 144. 17. The last three thoughts suggested by H. A. Guy, New Testament Prophecy: Its Ori gin and Significance (London: Epworth, 1947), one of the early pioneer scholars in this subject. He concludes: "In his words and his works, as portrayed in the Gospels,Jesusappears as a true prophet. He shared many of the characteristics of the Old Testament prophets and seers, but transcended them all" (p. 143). 18. F. F. Bruce, The Gospel of]ohn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983), p. 72. 19. Dunn, "New Wine," p. 6. 20. See Kevin J. Conner's detailed compar ison between Moses and Christ, Church in the New Testament, p. 160ff. 21. George Eldon Ladd, A Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), p. 343. 22. Dunn, "New Wine," p. 5. 23. George T. Montague, The Holy Spirit: Growth of a Biblical Tradition (New York: Paulist, 1976), p. 399ff. 24. Fairbairn, Prophecy, p. 11.

Chapter 9: Comparing Prophecy in Both Testaments 1. "In the LXX [Septuagint] nabi is always translated prophetes; there is not a single instance of any other word." Theological Dic tionary of the New Testament, VI, p. 812. 2. Clifford Hill, Prophecy, p. 242. 3. For instance, this opinion: "The Old Tes tament makes no obvious attempt to distin guish the activities of the early prophets from those of the writing prophets, and in fact the same titles are given to both groups." R. R. Wilson, "Early Israelite Prophecy," Interpre tation 32 (1978), p. 7. This can also be said in evaluating Old versus New Testament prophets. 4. See David Hill's insights, New Testament Prophecy, chapter 1. 5.See Buckingham, "The Prophet's Call ing," pp. 55-63. Three leaders of today's "pro phetic movement" give their views on the office of a prophet. 6.Glenn Foster, The Purpose and Use of Prophecy, p. 42. The illustration of the scaf folding also comes from his book, p. 44. 7. Fairbairn, Prophecy, p. 30. 8. Edersheim, Bible History, p. 438. 9. Clement, The Sound of His Voice, p. 57. 10. Michael Green develops this thought admirably in chapter 2, "The Spirit in the Old Testament," of I Believe in the Holy Spirit (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980 reprint). 11. Yocum, Prophecy, pp. 34-35. 12. David Hill, "Christian Prophets as Teachers or Instructors in the Church," J. Panagopoulos, ed., Prophetic Vocation in the New Testament and Today (Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1977), p. 128. 13. Emil Brunner, The Misunderstanding of the Church (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1953), p. 20. 14. Howells, Prophecy, chapter 2, p. 5. 15. Graham Cooke, Developing Your Prophetic Gifting (Kent, Sussex, U.K.: Sover eign World, 1994), p. 141. 16. Kaiser, Future, pp. 77-78. He adds: "And there are Amos 1-2, the entire prophecies of Jonah, Nahum, Obadiah, and many other sections in the prophets." 17. Cooke, Prophetic Gifting, p. 141. 18. Theological Dictionary of the New Tes tament, Vol. VI, p. 849. 19. Joyner, Prophetic, pp. 55-56. 20.Alex Buchanan, Explaining Prophecy (Chichester, West Sussex: Sovereign World, 1991), p. 38. 395.