Posted on 01/13/2009 12:28:28 AM PST by unspun
Cindy Jacobs will be broadcasting an urgent prophetic word live on Tuesday, January 13 at 9:00 AM CST. Join us at generals.org tomorrow morning as we broadcast live on our front page.
Indigestion, most likely.
Thanks for the ping!
I expect that it’s going to be
soooooooooooooooooooooo interesting . . . at least for a few seconds . . .
when The Lord alters a LOT of naysayer’s understandings of
REALITY! . . . FROM GOD’S PERSPECTIVE! LOL.
Should also be interesting how much of that
enlightenment
occurs before, in the midst of and after
they have reaped from their unfitting critical judgments of the bona fide servants of the Most High.
Recently he dreamt about a nuke in "a southern state, perhaps Florida."Indigestion, most likely.
"Today, almost nine years after her prophecy there is no evidence that any of the things she foretold about Zimbabwe have any chance of coming to pass. There is no spiritual river, no army of anointed women, no reconciliation between black and white, no new factories, no productive farms or ranches and no treaties with other nations. In fact anyone with eyes can see that Zimbabwe is still under a curse."But false prophets like Jacobs are slick. They rarely prophesy dates and they usually give themselves an out as she has done here. Although it looks like you are going backwards. I have a plan for you. With this statement she can always say, just you wait, God is still working his plan. These words allow her to defer the fulfillment of her prophecy indefinitely."
If, someone stood up in one of your meetings, and proclaimed a "word from God" that the belief and practice of the church from the earliest days WRT the nature of God was wrong, how would you respond, and why?
(If you follow the link, you will find that this has happened, and many thousands in your circles were led into deep heresy.)
Should I spend a lot of time reading this, then should we join together and attack Billy Graham? Mother Theresa? Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Pope John Paul? C.S. Lewis?
Odd you should mention them. They each have their justified critics.
Lewis: Much of value, but a bit squishy (at least once) on the exclusivity of Christ. And, not a particularly high view of scripture (have you read his Reflections on the Psalms? Some "may" go back to David.)
Bonhoeffer -- a early 20th century Protestant liberal, who noone would remember now except for him doing very much the right thing and dying for it at the hands of the second most evil regime of the 20th century.
JP (I assume you mean JPII not JPI.) and Mother Theresa -- marioloters both. Hmmm. You should read the anathemas of Trent. If you're cool with them, jump the Tiber. Rome is more you home than here. And they're big on signs and wonders and new words from God.
"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."
Fascinating.
Shocking that anyone running around loose would still believe such a pile of irrational UNBiblical balderdash.
Amazing.
I'm aware of the OT prophecy of God which states the mark of a true prophet. I am also aware that this was a test of God's prophesies and not some false idea of the perfection of the prophets.
We are in a new covenant, when we are to live by the heart (Sermon on the Mount) and not the skin and the law. As Jesus referred, even the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than the greatest OT prophet -- and it is demonstrable that we have a more intimate kind of relationship with the Holy Spirit, even when we don't hear right, even when we do.
INDEED.
I’ve written at some length about all that hereon . . . partly from the excellent book:
YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHECY.
However, those offspring of the religious leaders of 2000 years ago in Jerusalem seem to still have no ears to hear nor eyes to see.
So I try and minimize my time replying to their idiocies.
Holy Spirit is well able to speak to those who truly want to hear HIM.
Cindy OBVIOUSLY made her metaphor clear within 1-3 sentences. But noooooooooooooooooooooooo some stinking pile of self-righteousness seems compelled to label such folks outrageously.
Those addicted to throwing rocks have pastors. Would they hold their own pastors or the blokes in the mirror to such a standard . . . ?
Hardly, or, if they tried, The Lord would catch them up very short relatively quickly by showing them the rank hypocrisy of their assertions and attitudes.
Fascinating psychologically.
As dreadful as 2000 years ago spiritually.
I have found that when one is exposed to very vivid dreams, ones in which one becomes immediately sentient of other persons in the spiritual domain, and in which the dream communicates definite messages not from ourselves, then one must carefully discern the dream and situation.
In some such dreams, one might be faced with an event or situation which appears to not be possible to conceive without Divine providence of the dream.
A more accurate review of such vivid dreams shows that when we describe them, we may minimally state we obviously are cognizant that such dreams are supernatural. That they are definitely spiritual, and they communicate something to us.
The next quandry is typically as to how to receive such a dream and properly understand what has happened. We know that angels exist in His creation and we know there are not only elect angels, but also deceiving spirits and fallen angels. We are also warned about deception and counterfeit ploys which emanate from some in the angelic domain, some even used to test the fellowship of believers who have matured and remain maturing in righteousness, as well as to dislodge those who are not so stout hearted and devoted to Christ.
We also know that Scripture well discusses cursings and capital punishment for false prophets, while demanding true prophets report what they have been told or the consequences fall upon their head.
So how does one discern between false prophecy from true revelation from God?
We can take our cue from those whom we know were veritable in the past and how God provided for them and how they functioned. The Hebrews were no strangers to the issues of how to discern spiritual and supernatural events from those which were actual Prophecy. Consider in Deuteronomy 13, the consequence of a Prophet or dreamer of dreams who tells us something that does come to pass, but then tells us to worship other gods other than those of our fathers, i.e. Abraham.
The role of the Prophet in the Hebrew nation was extremely high because the King could not be established without first being pronounced by God through His Prophet at the time.
Human nature is no different today as it was several millennium ago regarding political intrigue. There was plenty of worldly incentive for some to claim falsely they were prophets, and even incentive in the angelic domain to mislead the Hebrew nation to accept deception en lieu of veritable communication from God.
Another test upon prophecy was to test to make sure it was compliant with the past revealed Word of God, because the Word of God doesn’t change. It is veritable.
So one simple test of supernaturally revealed communication, is to consider it, as we do everything else in the spiritual Christian life, by remaining in fellowship with God through faith in Christ. We consider it in light of what He has already provided to us. We understand it through faith in Him and by recalling Bible doctrine based upon the veracity of His Word.
This is why it is incredibly important to study Scripture, understand Bible doctrine, and in-breathe what the Word of God provides us into our soul, our thinking, where God the Holy Spirit makes it understood by our human spirit and by our soul.
Remember that in this Church Age, God the Son is sitting in Session at the right hand of the Father. He doesn’t return until His bride is complete. Until a believer has matured in his learning, through faith in Christ, by the work of God the Holy Spirit, most lessons will not be supernaturally revealed, unless we happened to not be at the right place at the right time. Having something supernaturally revealed by mechanisms other than those He provides to believers in this Church Age, might not be complementary as some might think, but rather a reaction to yearning to have their ears tickled.
First, place emphasis on remaining in fellowship with God through faith in Christ in all things at all times, always praying. Keep yur accounts short, returning to Him and confessing known and unknown sins frequently.
Secondly, study His Word, and let God the Holy Spirit do all the work in your thinking, mind, and heart, so that when faced with a spiritual testing, one has the problem solving devices which God provides His believers frm the sanctification processes of the Holy Spirit. That means we are thinking in terms of Bible doctrine continuously, through faith in Him. Not arrogantly, not piously, not legalistically, not flippantly, but by His Word inculcated in our souls and hearts to respond by His Will in all things.
If a person clams to be a prophet, then they will have dedicated an overwhelming amount of dedication to the Word of God, because it is veritable. If they do not, then be cautious of simply a supernatural experience with either demonic involvment, or possibly something purely independent of God’s Will. Most evil we experience doesn;t require demonic involvement, because man is plenty capable of thinking, acting, deciding independently of God in a fallen state without any help. In fact, even the Adversary is unable to keep man from sinning, so don’t leap too quickly for modern prophecy.
In many such reports, one might be able to conclude such experiences have supernatural involvement or are from a spiritual domain, but then again, the entire Christian life for the believer, a family member in His body, is to grow in the spiritual life by His Work. That means, we should be able to first evaluate any and every spiritual experience, not by how we might be titillated or how it might tickle our thinking, but by how we might be able to glorify the Son.
Everything God the Holy Spirit does for the believer in this Church Age glorifies the Son. For this reason, any report of the supernatural, must be perceived through His Word in how it glorifies Him. If it glorifies something other than Him, an imperative question should be why it wouldn’t glorify Him.
BTW, if exposed to something unknown and it serves His purpose in using His believers, He is quite able to make what is necessary to be known, immediately known to the believer. He doesn’t need our help. He doesn’t need a drawn out, supernatural wild ride in order to sanctify His believers who walk in fellowship with Him. He already has mechanisms through our faith in Him and study of Him in this age to sanctify our thinking.
If somebody is placing lots of faith in supernatural predictions, first place faith in Him and study His Word. If the believer hasn’t mastered the doctrines of the Bible, which have been very well studied for the past 2000 to 5000 years, then that believer might find more eternal rewards and crowns are awaiting him by getting back into fellowship with God and thinking all things through faith in Him, preparing himself through faith alone in Christ alone to be able to interpret any situation by what He provides in His Word.
Even if one receives Divine Revelation, it is even more glorified when understood through the light of His Word and even moreso glorified when His Word also disproves deception by a simple believer by faith alone in Christ alone.
All it takes is a "You are" or "She is." Feel free to copy/paste from this reply if you'd like.
Straightforward answers to simple questions.
Esecially those who claim to be speaking God's word in the latter days.
You are clearly the liar since you do not have a website or TV show and do not ask for donations. /s
EXCELLENT POINTS,
WELL PUT.
I don’t think of a single quibble.
Thanks much.
No. Cindy’s not a liar.
I doubt you are.
Deal with it.
Nit-picking
is not holding to a Biblical standard.
Of course.
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