Successful Insight through Prophetic Revelations:Understanding the Ministry of Prophecy

He has some higher aim in view. I cannot understand him, but I am convinced that he is destined for some lofty career.

His thoughts are not like ours. During the days I lay in the prison of Tihran, though the galling weight of the chains and the stench-filled air allowed Me but little sleep, still in those infrequent moments of slumber I felt as if something flowed from the crown of My head over My breast, even as a mighty torrent that precipitateth itself upon the earth from the summit of a lofty mountain.

Every limb of My body would, as a result, be set afire. At such moments My tongue recited what no man could bear to hear. While engulfed in tribulations I heard a most wondrous, a most sweet voice, calling above My head. Pointing with her finger unto My head, she addressed all who are in heaven and all who are on earth, saying: This is the Best-Beloved of the worlds, and yet ye comprehend not. This is the Beauty of God amongst you, and the power of His sovereignty within you, could ye but understand.

This is the Mystery of God and His Treasure, the Cause of God and His glory unto all who are in the kingdoms of Revelation and of creation, if ye be of them that perceive. Throughout history, great souls who we call prophets, messengers and manifestations of God have experienced an unrelenting desire to spiritually uplift their people. All the end time prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures make it clear that the Lord will return when the Jews are back in the land Ezekiel 37 and back in their capital city of Jerusalem Zechariah Jesus emphasized these two events in His teaching.

He pointed to the reestablishment of the state in his fig tree parable Matthew He stated point blank that when Jerusalem is no longer under Gentile control, all the end time events would take place. Jerusalem ceased to be under Gentile control on June 7, The central piece of the end time world political puzzle is now in place for the first time. What is the explanation of this event? Many have concluded that Satan will empower the False Prophet to give the image life. But Satan does not have the power to create life. Satan is a liar and a deceiver. So, again, how can the False Prophet give an image life?

The illusion can be created in several ways through the use of modern robotics or holograms. In I took my family to Disneyland. We went into a theater where we saw a man who looked exactly like Abraham Lincoln get up out of his chair in stage center, walk to the edge of the stage, grab the lapels of his jacket, and proceed to quote the Gettysburg Address. That was forty years ago. Think what could be done today with the advances that have been made in robotics and computer technology. I recently shared this hologram story at a Bible prophecy conference. When we opened up the session to questions, a man in the audience made the point that the hologram technology was nothing new.

Again, how could this be possible before the invention of laser and computer technology combined with the positioning of orbital satellites? Such technology is already greatly advanced.

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In the year when I was in London, I discovered that taxis in that city were being tracked by satellite. Semi-trucks here in America are being tracked in the same way. These chips can be read by a scanner in the event your dog or cat gets lost. It will only be a matter of time before a more advanced chip will enable your pet to be traced by satellite.

We have almost become a cashless society, with most purchases being made by credit card. The problem with the cards is that they can be lost or stolen. A good solution would be to use a laser to put your credit card number on your hand in such a way as to be capable of being read by a scanner. But I think it is very interesting that this can now be accomplished over night through natural means. In Turkey completed the construction of the massive Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates, and they in fact cut off the flow of the river in order to fill up the lake behind the dam.

This action almost resulted in a war with Iraq. The list of modern day signs given above is not an exhaustive one. They are simply some that I have pulled from the book of Revelation. There are others that are unique to our day and time that can be found in prophetic scriptures outside the book of Revelation.

Let me just mention a few. The first that comes to mind is the acceleration of life. We have witnessed the fulfillment of this prophecy in our life time. When the 20th Century began, the vast majority of people were still traveling the same way they had been since the dawn of human history — namely, walking and riding a horse.

Today we have autos, bullet trains, supersonic airplanes, and space ships. And all of this developed in only 80 years! Similarly, the growth of knowledge has been overwhelming. Technical knowledge is doubling every two years. One edition of the New York Times Sunday edition contains more information than the average person in the 19th Century was exposed to in a life time!

Through the World Wide Web, I can almost instantaneously access research resources all over the world. After the death of Muhammad, the expansion of Islam brought it into contact with the world at large, and a Muslim culture involving science , philosophy, and literature emerged, partially as a result of the Muslim acquisition of Byzantine culture.

Christians and Jews became advisers and officials in Muslim courts. Christian philosophers introduced Muslim students to the works of the 4th-century- bce Greek philosopher Aristotle and to Neoplatonism , to theories about human nature , to theology, to the nature of existence, and to cosmology. Philosophical discussions about God, however, leave little or no room for prophets, and the savant displaced the prophet as the one proclaiming the will of God.

Study of Hadith and Sunnah contributed to the beginning of scholarly and scholastic activities in Islam, from which study emerged the Muslim system of duties and obligations fiqh. The fact that Muhammad was considered to be the final prophet did not end prophecy in Islam. Muhammad had designated no one to succeed himself and had left no sons. Such movements were crushed by force, which contributed to the rapid expansion of Islam. He recorded his revelations from Allah in a book.

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Considering himself to be the Christ to his generation, he set out to reform Islam by liberalizing strict orthodoxy, yet avoiding the extremes of the pro-Western movements of his time. He gained a large following among middle-class Muslims but was soon disowned by orthodox Islam. Buddhist literature contains predictions of the buddha Maitreya , who will come as a kind of saviour-messiah to inaugurate a paradisaical age on earth. The historical Buddha himself flourished c. Hindu religion has had many prophetic reformers, and the tribes of India , in their struggle for freedom, produced prophets who combined the ideas of religious freedom with the hope of political and social freedom.

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The Oraons , a tribe in Chota Nagpur , saw several prophets bhagat s appear about the turn of the 20th century. Their intent was to free their people from foreign culture and political rule, returning to the older Hindu culture and religion. Such efforts often led to armed rebellion and ended in disaster.

In ancient China , divination was commonplace. Classical Confucian tradition, however, emphasized the importance of rational process over inspiration and divination.

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Autocratic governments eliminated any such revolutionary, prophet-led movements as occurred in India, and any prophecy against the establishment was regarded as heretical. Inspired prophecy found little place in the official state religion. That situation did not rule out prophecy in folk religion, in which prophets appeared and promised their followers the good life in this world and in the next. He considered the New Testament to be authoritative for his new sect, and its rapid growth—aided by connections with other revolutionary movements—soon resulted in a genuine danger to the Manchu ruler of China.

The Taiping Rebellion was crushed by Gordon in Japanese shamanism, which was closely related to Korean shamanism, often played a role in political disturbances and still does. In many nonliterate cultures , especially those of Africa , shamans, seers, and prophets are quite common. The same distinction between technical divination and charismatic prophecy is to be found in those cultures as in the ancient Middle East. When it is possible to trace the history of prophetic activity in Africa, scholars usually find that it arises in times of confrontations with foreign cultures and with the advent of new religions.

A sharp distinction between the diviner and the prophet cannot always be maintained, for diviners sometimes appear as prophets. Some prophets, avowing a call, deny any training in prophecy.

Dr Michael L Mosley (Author of Successful Insight Through Prophetic Revelations)

Ecstatic prophets have played an important role not only in chiliastic and messianic movements but also in those movements opposing imperialism and European colonization of Africa. Their goal was and is a return to the old African culture and religion. Eschatological motifs have often been used in the prophetic preaching of tribal and national movements aspiring for freedom. Many of those prophets took up Christian ideas. Nxele, a 19th-century prophet of the South African Xhosas, preached the return of the dead on a certain day, and his successor, Mlandsheni, claimed to be the reincarnation of Nxele.

He and others like him were healers and miracle workers. Some of the prophetic founders of reform movements, which often were more political than religious, became messianic figures. Other prophets started out as Christian converts but came to a strong awareness that God had destined them to separate from their churches and lead syncretistic movements fusions of various sources , all of which incorporate aspects of old African religion and, often, allow polygamy. In all those movements, syncretistic or not, there are also many prophetesses.

Prophets also have been found among American Indians. He preached the end of Spanish tyranny and a restoration of Indian sovereignty. At the height of the movement, several massacres took place, along with the burning of various church buildings. We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles.

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