True, and he might mean Strange Brew instead.
If your teachers teach of a coming revival and the Bible says the end times will be marked by Apostasy, guess who is correct. Logically your Revival will be the Apostasy, the putting in place of strange fire for the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Ask yourself this, if God, as the Word says, never changes yet starts doing a "New Work in the Spirit" in you in these last days of this age, who changed in the last 2000 years? God, or your interpretation of the Word? If the new requirement is to learn prophecy by practice, yet the Word says a prophet is a false prophet if they speak one wrong word, why now are you allowed to be rambling and not concise? Is God rambling and imprecise? In all accounts of Prophecy in the Bible, precision and being direct to the point is the rule.God never uses religions buzz words, he speaks simply and plainly and always to a point.
A second indication for you to focus on is that in the Written Word a prophet is confronted by God Himself and is told what to say. They do not just wing it by rhyme and urges of the heart.
Jer. 23:16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own [fn]imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
Quick check here, did you get this prophecy from the mouth of the LORD, (ie. did it come in words for you to repeat, did God tell you exactly what to say, or did you make it up on the fly from the urges of your own heart on the spot?
Jer 23:28 "The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?" declares the LORD.
Here the supremacy of the Word over Prophecy is given as grain to straw in value.
Jer 23:29 "Is not My word like fire?" declares the LORD, "and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
Here the strength of the Written Word is established over prophecy as a hammer that shatters rock.
Jer 23:30-31 "Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who steal My words from each other.
"Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who use their tongues and declare, 'The Lord declares.'
Problem indicated, Bridge out ahead! Course correction suggested, suspect mirror time and Bible time is warranted...
Enviest thou for my sake? - (Compare Mark 9:38 ff) The other members of the Seventy had been with Moses (compare Numbers 6:16, Numbers 6:24-25) when the gift of prophecy was bestowed on them. They received “of the spirit that was upon him,” and exercised their office visibly through and for him. Eldad and Medad prophesying in the camp seemed to Joshua to be acting independently, and so establishing a separate center of authority.
Excellent post and good catch on strange fire.
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 10:48:44 AM by Jedediah
We are and must be the living matter and substance of the kingdom of God and this must remain active in a constant manner ! \o/ for your discernment . . .
Let Me be all that matters in your life for it is in this place dreams turn into reality , visions begin to walk before your very eyes , as your words put My creation into motion for “truly” as Elijah stopped the rain and waited for the clouds return in faith , “truly” I shall do greater exploits through my children that become My AMOS ( A Matter Of Substance ) for Me and My Kingdoms expansion for my time is near and you are the tent pegs that I expand through .
So “speak” My Kingdom into existence for I AM The Substance as I AM The Matter and Formula to all things eternal in and through Me alone “ God Almighty “ .
Numbers 24:3-9 (New International Version) 3 and he uttered his oracle: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one whose eye sees clearly,
4 the oracle of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty,
who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:
5 “How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel!
6 “Like valleys they spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.
7 Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. “Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.
8 “God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; with their arrows they pierce them.
9 Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse them? “May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!”
Hebrews 11:1 (Amplified version )
1NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].
Hebrews 11:1 (King James Version)
Hebrews 11 1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
True, and he might mean Strange Brew instead.