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To: Springfield Reformer
"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book." Revelation 22:18

I always assumed that prophesy was over until the last seven years, the "End Times." Until then we have the Bible and should be praying that God's will be done.

I would run like mad from anyone claiming a special gift of vision from God unless it fit the full description of the last seven years.

1,035 posted on 01/04/2016 7:11:51 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Lagmeister

I understand your sentiment. I was raised in a “fightin fundy” church for many years, and that was the template, exactly as you presented it. However, the text you quote can be abused, and is abused, when it is applied to anything other than the book to which it refers, the Revelation of Jesus Christ as recorded by the Apostle John. Not that we are free to alter God’s word anywhere it is found. Not at all. But it does not preclude God continuing to speak to His people.

For example, if you pray to God, should I marry this person, or take this job? And there is nothing against Scripture in the choices set before you, don’t you still want to know the mind of God for your specific situation? And if you believe you have an answer from God, then you have accepted the premise that God continues to speak to His people, and really we’re only quibbling about how.

So as long as anyone claiming divine insight can back it up with Scripture and the sound judgment of seasoned believers, I am not going to second-guess how God is leading that person. That’s between them and God. But if they cross that line, and start teaching as divine doctrine things that fail to pass the Scriptural smell test, that’s something they should be called on.

Peace,

SR


1,066 posted on 01/04/2016 8:34:55 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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