Difference between revisions of "AY Honors/Spirit of Prophecy/Answer Key"
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Revision as of 18:39, 12 May 2015
1. What is the prophetic gift?
The gift of prophecy as demonstrated by those who are given the gift of Prophecy. Prophecy is the gift from God to see before something happens what is to come to pass.
2. What are the main characteristics of a true prophet?
3. How can you make sure that a prophecy is true?
Isaiah 8:20 "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them." That which is true will not contradict the Bible in any manner. Feelings, emotions and the like do not make it so if it is of God it will be new light but it will not be old doctrine of God in His Word. The Fountain of Life.
4. How can a false prophet be identified?
Isaiah 8:20 To the Law of God and to the testimony that comes from their mouth and they say it is from God and if God be not glorified and self abased then they are not a true prophet there is only one other kind of prophet and that is a false prophet. most talk smooth things and do not give God the glory due him.
When a person talks of self and what self wants and self desires then they can not be a true prophet and one who prophecies without God telling him to prophecy is not a true prophet. If what they say contradicts God's word they are not a true prophet.
