Modern Prophecy and Prophets

Dan Baxley

www.yahshuaservant.com

 A Medical Mystery 

There is a cancer within the Evangelical Churches and it is growing, it is spreading even into the foundational Churches of the Protestant Reformation, even into the Catholic Church.  This cancer is as evil as it gets but is seen, and taught, as something wonderful, exciting, and desired.  False teachers are allowed into the body of the Christ under the guise of "spirit-ism" --  calling for possession by a spirit -- falsely teaching the called out spirits as the Holy Spirit.  People shake uncontrolable, laugh like fools, tongues hanging out, babbling in nonsense, screaming, falling, rolling, going into trances, becoming drunk, and even being slain in a spirit.  They seek and seek and seek some more the filling of the Holy Spirit as a sign they had the Spirit -- what a lack of faith!

 I tell you the Holy Spirit of my Father would have nothing to do with such insanity, this cancer.  Listen, if the Holy Spirit of my heavenly Father were to possess and fill any fleshly container to the full that body of flesh would vaporize.  The Holy Spirit is given to the repentant believer, to those called, but it is only a small pinch (2 Cor 5:5), a gift, a promise of what is to come in the Kingdom -- it is our "seal", our promise (John 6:44, 6:65, Eph 1:13, Col 1:26-27, 1 Jn 4:15, John 15:26, and many more). 

The very idea that you have to pray down the spirit, to be slain by it, is preposterous and insulting to the Body of the Messiah.  If you are a real believer and part of the Body you already have the Spirit and when you study -- that is STUDY (2 tim 2:15, 2 Ti 3:16) -- the Father will come to you to teach you and sometimes the Son will come to you -- not to "fill" you up but to guide you in your study His WORDS.  

Medical science has been defeated by the disease of cancer -- still no cure.  They have managed to control certain types of cancer but the cure is still out of reach.  Our Messiah has a “body” of believers on this Earth, called by His Father (John 6:44, 6:65), and this “body” is  representative of the one true Christ, Yahshua, the one and only Savior, gateway to eternal life  (Acts 4:12).  This group, or body, since the crucifixion, has seldom been together as a physical group, down through the centuries, joined by the very Spirit of the Messiah Himself, a Spirit shared, given fully to Yahshua and partly to us -- the Holy Spirit (John 15:26, Gal 4:6). 

To be a part of the Messiah is to be part of the Father – you cannot have one without the other (John 17:21).  Salvation is found in and through no other, He is the way the only way – all others are false.  I repeat, all others are false.  Buddha is not the way, the Book of Mormon does not bring more to the table and is not an addition to what the Apostles have already told us about out Savior. The Koran (Quran) is not "scripture" anymore than the book of Mormon, neither are from our Father. The Holy Bible had already been written and finished at least 600 years before Muhammad received his visions and dictation from familiar spirits. 

Another modern writing supposed to have come from the spirit world, a familiar spirit identified as the Christ, Jesus, in this case,  "A Course In Miracles", just another writing posing as word from our Creator, as though the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are not enough. 

The Body of the Messiah is under attacked by these false writings from false messiahs, false prophets, false servants all attempting to turn the seekers away from the true source of truth, the true Word.

The original “physical body” of the Savior in the first century were eventfully attacked and the various groups dispersed.  Occasional attempts were made to join this “physical” body but Satan kept after them and the Earth actually became the refuge of the faithful.   Satan has used many forms of persecution and murder in attempts to destroy this body of believers and he has enjoyed his greatest success whenever the body has managed to come together as a collective body.  But never, never, has the physical body ever been able to come together collectively since the formation of the first called believers at the first Pentecost after the Messiah’s crucifixion.   

I a society that can be controlled by force Satan has managed to keep the believers suppressed.   Promising the Kingdoms of the World   to any that would follow him we see a new Church of professing believers suddenly appear in history, around 300-400 AD and we can go to the history books and see the bloody trail left by this brand of Christianity.  By the very evil nature of the beast religion, called Christianity, history has witnessed its blasphemy against the Book it professed to believe in as the written words of our God and our Savior.  The words of that Book testifies against that satanic order.  Any true believers in that false group have suffered much fighting with their conscience in misunderstanding what the true unity of the body really is.  

From this beast religion came a revolt fueled by the Book, that Holy Book, falling into the hands of the common people and their increasing ability to read.  One of the greatest events of all history had been the desire to learn to read just so one could read the forbidden book, the Holy Bible.  The blood spent making this happen would fill a valley.  Satan defeated by the truth and the light of the Word reluctantly changes tactics.  

From the reformation came a sense and a desire of freedom.  The founding of the United States began the defining of what freedom should be and one of the major decisions in the forming of this “freedom process” had been the expression of religious freedom defined for one and all that would choose to be a part of the United States.  With this freedom a stick had been stuck into the turning works of Satan and his minions.  In a free society is it very difficult to incite the government to destroy a body of people for whatever reason.  Satan has been pretty successful in the use of force and the control of governments, especially those controlled by a belief system of any kind, and the destruction of believers.   

Within a free society Satan has to work a little harder.  He works as making the body sick by various means.  He manages to use blind guides and false wolves of deception to misdirect those open to reading the Book and to listening to the words of our Savior and of our Father.  Various fresh groups of believers spring up and those with open minds and the call of the Spirit desire the unity of other believers.  Satan knows this desire uses it to attack and scatter the sheep searching for the Messiah’s voice.  One of the methods being used is a cancerous disease that misleads, misdirects, and discounts the Scriptures itself.  This evil may already be present among those you study with.  It is time to wake up. 

What is this cancer?  What is this evil?  

Prophecy and prophets spouting out among the brethren all sorts of blasphemy.  We picture blasphemy as something really terrible sounding, like cursing, or such, but in this case the blasphemy may sound pleasing.  People’s lives have been turned upside down by these false prophets.  False prophets used to be someone in a leadership role attempting to emulate Prophets of old, claiming their office and using a few misplaced and misunderstood words from the New Testament as to the office, or function of the prophet within the body of the Christ.  This new position of  “Prophecy” as an act has been taken hold by the evil within a group and for the purpose of self-aggrandizement.  Someone with little of no recognition can become a self-proclaimed prophet and spout off whatever comes into their minds as a “word” from on high.  This, in effect, means they are speaking for God and for the Christ and that their words are as good as Scripture – and this, my friends, is “blasphemy”.   

Here is a simple teaching, so simple it may cause some prophets to see their error and stop the insanity.  First, when one is deceived and does not know it they can come to repent of their error and set things right.  If, on the other hand, one is aware of the deception and become a willing tool they are in danger of the fire to come.  With this warning and this understanding let us go to the Word for the truth of this matter.

Read all of the Chapters 21 - 28 of Acts and you will notice a prophet, not a false prophet but an actual prophet of the New Testament period, named Agabus.  Having just come from Judea having a pretty good sense of things in the political environment of Jerusalem, present a little drama for the believers of Caesarea gathered at the evangelists, Philip, house. Taking Paul’s belt and binding himself with it and saying that in the same manner the owner of the belt would be bound and handed over to the Gentiles by the Jews of Jerusalem.  Pretty straight forward, right?  What did Paul do?  He ignored the prophet.  But wait, if the words of the prophet are like words coming from the Living God -- being communicated to the believer -- then to refuse such words would be disobeying the word, wouldn’t it?   

Paul chose to ignore this prophets warning and as it turns out Paul ended up being taken to Rome for a greater witness.  Certainly he had been taken by the Gentiles but he was not bound by the Jews, chased to be sure, and an attempt on his life, but the literal fulfillment of the prophet Agabus’ words did not come to pass. Certainly the outcome was as stated, Paul did end up in the hands of the Gentiles.  You could conclude from the detailed account that the prophecy from Agabus was only one third correct as opposed to the prophets of old to whom you could credit with 100% accuracy.  

By Paul’s disobedience to the words of this recognized prophet, Agabus, Paul actually carried out the will of our Savior for a greater purpose.  So, was the prophet Agabus, telling a fib?  No, he was not but he was not delivering “scripture” either.  Reading the whole chapter of this recorded event you will see that while Paul was taken to the conclusion of his ministry in a way that could only have come about by being taken a prisoner of the Roman government and out of the hands of the Jews. Paul was not willingly handed over to the Gentiles by the Jews.  They did seek to kill him but it was the Roman soldiers that took him away from the Jews.

Where does this leave us concerning “prophets” in the church?  Right where it should.  The prophets of today do not have the authority of the Prophets of the Old Testament.  Prophets of today are not being spoken to by our Father directly, nor by our Savior anymore than they are speaking directly, face to face, to us.  A true prophet of the body does not become a revealer of deep secrets nor a seer of events to guide and control the church or the individual.  A true prophet is someone that has a gift of being able to decipher the political climate of the times and has a through knowledge of the Scriptures and is able to give sound advice based upon the written Word.  A prophet of the stature of Moses would be in contact with the Father directly, not just a mental connection but an actual physical as well as mental association.  After Moses a Prophet of Prophets was sent and He is the Messiah (Acts 3:22-23).  Believe me, the two Prophets of Revelation (Revelation 11) will have this direct type of communication. 

There is no indication anywhere within the pages of the written Word that any other “prophet”, outside of the Messiah, will have such a connection.  Satan is using this misunderstood office as a medium by which to misdirect those seeking the truth. If you accept the words of a self-proclaimed prophet to be messages from our Savior then you are on the verge of rejecting the truth of the written Word and can fall into the habit of circumventing the message of the Word by which millions of true believers have lived and died and even gone to the torture stake to protect and keep.  By their actions they bore testimony to the written Word to be true and above the imaginations of men.

Wake up, grow up in the Word and the Father will come to you and the Son will come to you and lead you and teach you by their Word.  If you hear a whisper in your ear and it is not according to the Word already delivered it is false.  Prove every spirit that comes to you.  How can you do this without the Written Word?  You cannot.  Outside of the written Word you are but flopping around in a pond of muddy waters.  To participate in such activity is blasphemy and is truly a way of denying the Holy Spirit.  Yes, I know, those in favor of every voice of prophecy coming from God attempt to teach that this is really coming from the Holy Spirit.  I say to this, PROVE IT!  Outside of the written Word you cannot and this then a misapplication of the Holy Spirit’s desire to teach us.  Our student text book is the Book and through its pages the Holy Spirit will guide us and by this we will be able to faithfully expose the false words attempting to mislead us.   Our Heavenly Father is Holy and He is Spirit.  Our Messiah and Savior came in the flesh and is now in the Spirit and He too is Holy -- so, who do you suppose the Holy Spirit is? 

My Witness 

Yes, I acknowledge the office of “prophet” within the body but when examined closely you will see that this office deals not so much with reading the future but with teaching the Scriptures with the understanding of social and political climates of the age you live in.  A prophet that tells the future is not of any great use because we have already been given the future and in great detail.  Does a believer need to be told that the Messiah is going to return?  What more do you need to know?  We are called to be “witnesses” not only of our own conversion and awakening but of what is happening, what has happened. Believers from the past and down through the ages will be raised back to life and will witness to the truth of our Father and God and of the Savior as the only way to salvation.  A witness, remember, observes those things that happen in their time and is then able to recount the correctness of the Word, the truth of our Creator and of His Words to us.  Know every man is a liar but He is true by even the smallest comparison. The duty of a “witness” has been distorted over time to mean our personal acceptance of the Savior but it is more than that.  Think about it, what is a witness in court?  What would a witness be in the time of “judgment”?   

Your personal witness and your duty as a witness of your time and place will be to prove the truth of the Word not the mutterings of a self-proclaimed prophet.  You might, as I am, be a witness against such uninformed prophets.  It is amazing to me how many prophets there are with virtually no bible knowledge what-so-ever.  These “prophets”, so-called, being ignorant of the written Word must also be ignorant of the true Spirit of the Father and of the Son.  Remember, the Father is Spirit and the Son is Spirit and they are holy – they are the Holy Spirit.  

You will not find one witness among the pages of the Holy Scriptures suggesting any “prophet” being ignorant of the written word.  No, in fact, you find just the opposite.  A true prophet of the Living God is more involved than the mere declarations of the future.  You can see within the personalities of the Prophets of God as being very complicated individuals given tremendous responsibility and given massages that they themselves did not understand at the time.  We see the hand of our God in their writings.  We see the proof of the Written Word over and over again and anything that would side step the written word is not from our Father.  Not one of the Prophets ever suggested their sayings or writings ever did such a thing.  The prophecy of the Prophets of old rests upon the written Word.  On top of that, virtually all of the Prophets of Israel were mistreated.  The message they delivered was hardly ever received with gladness, some were even murdered.  Hardly any willingly chose to be a speaker for the Living God. 

Most modern prophets of today are practicing "self-aggrandizement", a type of self-righteousness and they are mostly wrong.  Even when you get one that has been able to be a seer into future events you will find that the percentage if correctness never runs over 85%.  I'm thinking that if the Creator of all things is really giving messages to any of these self-proclaimed seers something is wrong, really wrong.  The Written words of my God are always on target and continually come up at 100%.  Remember, Satan tells the truth about 85% of the time, it is that other 15% that messes things up. 

I pray you hear what I am saying and that you pray about it.  Be of good courage and be willing to stand on the written Words of our God. 

Your servant in YaHshua, Dan

email: servant@yahshuaservant.com

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