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To: RJR_fan

Legitimate Christian anointed Biblical prophecy is

FAR from fortune telling and

hazardously insults Holy Spirit to assert otherwise.


125 posted on 03/12/2011 1:26:17 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix; DManA; M. Espinola; topcat54; ShadowAce; jy8z; The Theophilus; Dr. Eckleburg; Jim 0216
Legitimate Christian anointed Biblical prophecy is FAR from fortune telling and hazardously insults Holy Spirit to assert otherwise.

I am familiar with the charismatic gift of prophecy[1], a spiritual gift which, like speaking in tongues, is categorically ruled out by standard, traditional, Israel-centric dispensationalism. If you were a real dispie, you would dispense with most of the Bible, and confine the gifts of the Spirit to the "apostolic age," and the significance of Christianity to a "divine parenthesis," a place-holding operation until God can get back to what really matters to Him -- not Jesus, but a Christ-reviling socialist political entity.

Those who serve God in Spirit and in Truth should be familiar with spiritual gifts, and with the application of God's Word to everyday life. Dispensationalism denies the first skill, and denigrates the second skill. Why bother applying God's word to the tedium of every day life, when we can use it like a ouija board, as a board game, as a means of speculative entertainment for life's spectators? After all, we already know that our efforts are pointless, since God has already written off His creation.

Sorry, I have better things to do than watch life go by. I have a God to serve and a task to complete for His glory. A task so big that it will take several more centuries to consummate -- which is why God gave me children.


[1] God uses the charismatic gift of prophecy to edify, encourage, and comfort His people by providing off-the-cuff word pictures that fit the situation in a supernaturally appropriate way. If you speak in tongues, ask God for this gift, so that you can edify those around you as well as entertain yourself.
128 posted on 03/12/2011 2:31:56 PM PST by RJR_fan ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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