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

Mind: How Did Prophecy Come to a Prophet?

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How God Communicated to and through

How the Message How the Prophet

Communicated

Came to

The Style

the Message

the Prophet

the Prophet

of Expression

• Related in own • Reading

1. Audible Voice • A spoken word,

either internal

words

• Hymn or song

• Related verbatim • Exhortation

or external

• Prediction

• Given before or at • Repeated under

the time of the

divine unction • Lamentation

• Messianic

prophecy's utterance

prediction • Enacted prophecy • Denunciation • A simple, under standable, des criptive account

• Described in

2. Mental Picture • A vision or

prophet's own words as it is

mental image

that is true to life

or apocalyptic • Coming while

being seen, or told • An impassioned

after it is seen

description and

• A spontaneous

conscious or unconsc10us

plea

prophetic word as

the vision is in

• With eyes open or

in dream or trance progress

• Recorded and read later

• Same as #1,

• A bursting forth • Spoken with

3. Immediate

unction and enthusiasm

except for

of words without

Unction

reading

premeditation

• "as the Spirit gives utterance"

• All the above

4. Ecstatic

• In trance, dream • Spoken during

the experience • Spoken after • Recorded and

Experience

or sem1-consc10us

condition

• An afflatus

read later

• A sudden over- powering while

• Deliberately

retold • Given under im mediate outburst

conscious

prophet, Jehu, Elijah, Nathan and David. The word came to the major and minor prophets who wrote Scripture as well as to noncanonical prophets who did not write Scripture. About others who had the same experience, this particular expression is not used, such as when "the prophet Gad said to David, 'Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah"' (1 Samuel 22:5).

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