The difference between the uniqueness of the prophecy of THE BIBLE and the many gifts of prophecy that God pours out on his people through the Holy Spirit over time.
The Prophetic Ministry
The entire Bible is a prophetic word that was said and written by many prophets who were moved by the Holy Spirit.
This is what we call the prophecy of the "divine revelation", and this revelation continued until God's proclamation through the Holy Word was completed.
Then we read the Apostle John saying, inspired by the Spirit, that the prophecy of revelation has ended, and no one can add to it or subtract from it:
For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; (Revelation 22: 18)
The Bible is also full of many prophets that God used in many forms, but not including the writing of the revelation of the bible.
Like the seventy men who were chosen by Moses to help him carry the responsibility in the midst of the people, and the Lord took from the Spirit that was upon Moses and placed on them, and they began to “prophesy,” that is, they utter words from the Lord with a special grace from the Holy Spirit. And when Moses saw this, he also cried out with guidance from the Spirit
"Then the Lord came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and placed the same upon the seventy elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they never did so again. But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those listed, but who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet they prophesied in the camp. And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, one of his choice men, answered and said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!” 29 Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the Lord ’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”
(Numbers 11: 25-29)
When the prophet Samuel established the schools of the prophets, they were many prophets, as you will read later, and the Holy Spirit had power over them to prophesy, even when the messengers of Saul entered them to search for David, so the Holy Spirit descended on them and made them prophesy, and this matter was repeated three times until Saul came himself, and the strange thing When Saul entered among them, he also prophesied! These prophets did not participate in writing the "Holy Word", but they spoke the word of God for many other purposes.
When the Apostle Peter saw what happened on the day of Pentecost, of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples, and that they began to speak in tongues, and to pronounce the greatness of God, i.e. they utter words inspired by the Holy Spirit, i.e. they prophesy, these were his words explaining what happened:
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy" (Acts 2 : 17)
The book of Acts of the Apostles is full of prophets who used to live with the Church every day in order to tell what is on the heart of the Lord to His people with a kind of guidance, and sometimes warning. (acts 21 : 11)
It is also written in the Book of Acts that Philip the evangelist had four daughters who were prophesying! (21 : 8)
We will explain successively the difference between the prophecy of revelation of the Holy Bible, and the many gifts of prophecy given to the people of the Lord in abundance especially in this last days, in order to fill our souls with enlightenment and revelation at a time when the world is plunged into darkness.
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