- TO PROPHESY MEANS, “TO SPEAK FORTH”.
- A PROPHET IS A SPOKESMAN; ONE WHO SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER.
- NORMALLY, THEREFORE, THE PROPHET IS A HUMAN VESSEL, BUT IN GENERAL, THE ONE WHO IS GIVING HIM OR HER THE INFORMATION IS A DEITY.
- FOR TRUE PROPHECY, AND IN THE CASE OF THE EARLY PROPHECIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD WAS THE SOURCE OF THE PROPHETIC INSPIRATION.
- IN OTHER WORDS, IT WAS GOD WHO WAS BRINGING A MESSAGE THROUGH THE PROPHET, WHO WAS THE VESSEL.
- THE HEATHEN NATIONS, THOSE WHO WERE NOT THE PEOPLE OF GOD, COPIED THIS.
- AS WE KNOW, SATAN HAS IMITATED EVERYTHING THAT GOD HAS; EVERY SPIRITUAL GIFT IN THE BIBLE HAS AN IMITATION FROM THE SATANIC KINGDOM.
- THE HEATHEN NATIONS LIKE THE MESOPOTAMIANS, BABYLONIANS, CANAANITES AND EGYPTIANS, ALSO HAD THEIR SYSTEM OF PROPHESYING.
- WE ARE TOLD IN JEREMIAH 23 HOW SOME PROPHETS PROPHESIED BY BAAL, A CANAANITE DEITY.
- THE SAME APPLIES TODAY IN AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION.
- WE HAVE PEOPLE PROPHESYING BY FETISH MEANS.
- THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED.
- FALSE PROPHETS ARE STILL PROPHESYING BY FALSE DEITIES.
