A Little Bit discussion Prophecy

The gift of prophecy was founded long before the era of prophecy. So the old Enoch (Jude 14), in which Abraham is a prophet (Genesis 20:7), and the patriarch (Psalm 105:15). The office was established under the Mosaic economy, but even then this is not always connected to the office, was, for example, Daniel great gift, but never called the office, life in a pagan court , where it would not have noticed. And David (Matthew 13:35, 27:35). Therefore, the sacred writings of two authors, and are not classified with the prophets. Moreover, if the office is no longer to liberate the Old Testament, is also a gift and is one greatest gift of the church were the New Testament. "Prophet" (Hebrew root "to rave like a well thought out"), who as chairperson of another (Exodus 7:1 Acts), including a conversation with the authority as interpreters of God's will "Seer" is The term of the oldest (1 Sam 9:9), which means that spoke of divine communication is presented to the senses and the mind as a "prophet", his authority as the name of God

Christ was the only source of prophecy (1 Peter 1:11, 19:10 Re, also Acts 16:7 reading more ancient, "the Spirit of Jesus) and the declared will of God to men through His Spirit Office Working in the spirit of the Prophet. This is the story of the church is the story of self revelation of God in his Son of Man. The three chapters of this story, patriarchal, the Mosaic and Christian dispensations, each characterized by a different type of revelations of God through a special form is the gift of prophecy. (1) The method theophanic marks the release of a patriarchal God who are the visible appearance or theophany (2). Theopneustic method, the God of Moses, inspired by God revealed to men. (3) The manner in which theology, the Christian God is revealed not only for the treatment as before, but always inspired by the writings (the oracle of God "1PE 4:11).

During childhood, or patriarchal men work, not a miracle, unlike other first stories of miracles performed by men, there as a mark of authenticity. All miracles are wrought by God, without human intervention, divine and communication in general, the assertion that the gift of prophecy is often direct, as God in this dispensation of the extraordinary prophetic people only in it: the prophet in Typically, only 20: 7, the term "found. In the second or the release of Exodus, God has withdrawn a more direct communication with people and through the posters of men. Instead of directly miracles, Moses, Joshua, and so the agents. Thus, their communications, he sees, does not speak directly, but through Moses and his successors. Theocracy needed a new form of the prophetic gift: inspiration from God (theopneustic), people should speak and act of God is the head of the theocracy, as administrators, the gift of prophecy is now associated with the Prophet. These prophets will act accordingly, do not write, Prophet. And 'more often the second exemption. Moses acted as a legislator, Joshua, Judges, the prophet Samuel and the executive, David and Solomon as a prophet of devotion. Even if the prophets of the literature of the second half of the liberation of Moses, his first duty was to speak and act. His writing has been more, a matter of using the exemption of the New Testament as their (1 Peter 1:12).


This was also the place where the property for the liberation of Moses theopneustic than theological. Suspension of the third, or Christian, is a theological, is a revelation of God through the inspired writings. Compare 1PE 4:11; 2PE 1:16-21, which contrasts the "old days" when "holy men has spoken through the Holy Spirit" with our time if we use the word "ensure that the prophecy ', or as always translate, "confirmed the prophetic word that us]." So, now God reveals his will, but not through the theophany, as in the first distribution that does not inspire people, as in the second, but the word writing, life and stay forever (unlike partial revelations of God, contrary noncontinuance and life of the Prophet, the two exceptions of age or 1PE 1:23, 2PE 3:2, 16). The following forms is a return theophanic developments on the ground in a perfect and respect for the form, 21:3 childhood (King).