100. PROPHETS & WARNING
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Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).
1. When God speaks, we have to deliver the message whether people like it or not, whether it sounds good or not, whether they're going to obey it or not.
2. Even if it may sometimes aggravate some and endanger your own safety, as it did with most prophets, you are required and obligated to warn the wicked of the prophecies of God through His prophets, and to deliver His Words of warning to them, as His faithful messengers, that you be not blamed for their destruction in their sins!
3. To warn the wicked of his wicked way is part of our job and our responsibility and one of our few excuses for being here!
4. The Lord wants us to be loud prophets that warn the people, not dumb dogs that can't even bark!
5. To be foretold is to be forewarned!
6. God always has His men of power for the hour--the good ones, who come first to beg the people to repent and to warn them of their doom, followed by the bad ones which He uses as scourges and judgements against wicked generations.
7. The blessings or cursings of God hinge on the people's reactions to the prophets of God.
8. "Let them beware who try to shut the mouths of the prophets of God!"
9. "Hear thou the words of thy father and the warnings that he gives unto thee!"
10. God often delayed His judgements which He had predicted by the prophets, until it looked like they weren't going to happen and the prophet was made to look like a fool, so that the sheep would be divided from the goats, the believers from the scoffers.
11. God often asked His prophets to do crazy things to wake people to His warnings!
12. It's my firm conviction that Mohammed and Islam were the scourge of God upon a wicked Christian world!
13. It is always the prophet's job to yell and warn, but not necessarily to do anything himself, not take part in the action or violence, whatever it is, just to warn!
14. When words and warnings fail, the chastisements and judgements begin to fall.
15. The prophets of God not only warned the people and predicted the judgements of God, but sometimes they even helped bring them about!
16. As God's mouthpiece, our duty is to let the chips fall where they may, whether it makes us or breaks us. It's not our business to question God as to what the effect of His message may be.
17. Whether they will now listen or not, some day they'll remember that we warned them of their fate.
18. That's the unpleasant job of the prophets of God: To tell the world the truth even when they don't like it and even when it sometimes costs the prophets their lives!
19. The prophets just speak the Words of God, come what may, live or die, sink or swim, rise or fall!
20. I hope we haven't lost that spirit of warning the world!
21. The prophets who told
The great dooms of old
Were derided as daft and demented!
But when each fell in its time
According to the rhyme,
The people there often repented!
22. God give us early warning, twice the warning He gives the world!
23. Our Word has become the warning comet!
24. You can misuse God's prophets just by refusing to believe (2Chron.36:16).
25. If you're a man-pleaser and you like to have "all men speak well of you," then you're not a prophet of God! (Luke 6:26)
26. God always has a voice! God always has a witness! God always has someone to tell the people the Truth!--Is it you?
27. God's prophets are His spies.--They look both ways: they look to God for information and direction, and then they look at the world to detect and tell them what's wrong.
28. The role of the Prophet of God is to practically blast the whole world!--Smashing this and slashing that, and all he's got left is God!
29. So often the world's saviors have to go down like the captain with his ship, still trying to rescue people and save others!
30. "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." (Mt.13:57)
31. The preservation of the Prophet is more important than the speed of the message. Better the message be delayed than the messenger be endangered.
32. We preach a dangerous doctrine, but like all prophets through all ages, we have to tell the truth even if it hurts!
33. It's fun to be a prophet because you really take a lot of spirit trips without ever leaving the house! God can speed His prophets into the future or the past, up or down or sideways or whatever way He wants us to go!
34. Almost every prophet is called in a time when the people have become corrupt and wicked and sinful and need purging and purifying by the Word, to be led by some shepherd back to God.
35. The more spiritual you get, like a prophet or psychic or seer, the more you come into that realm of the spirit and the more you are under its rules, where you too operate under more direct orders and are more directly led and controlled.
36. Every true good man and true prophet of God is going to have some enemies, and if he doesn't, something's wrong!
37. The only way the prophet can keep his spiritual authority is to be faithful in the Spirit.
38. It's not easy to be a vessel of the red-hot Word and power of God!
39. We're occupying the same place in the world's history that the prophets did just before the destruction of Israel. We're warning the major guilty nations of the world of their coming destruction for their disobedience to God!
40. One-by-one the prophets of God have exploded through the ages. Some were heeded and others ignored, but the blessings or cursings of God hinged on the people's reactions to them.
41. A prophet not only has to preach faith and love and religion, he also has to point out the mistakes of the kings.
42. The Prophets of God had to condemn both sides for their sins. Every one of them blasted Israel, but then they turned around and blasted Israel's enemies too, and told them what God was going to do to them for fighting against Israel. There was hardly anybody they could be in favour of except God Himself, because everybody was such a mess!
43. A prophet is one who tells the Truth. Each one of you is a prophet of the Truth, a prophet of God. When you tell forth the Truth of God you are a prophet of God, a prophet of the Truth.
44. Although the prophets of God are only on God's side, once in awhile it so happens that some nation's leader is also on God's side or against him, and the prophets of God have to tell the people which man is the best for the job.
45. No prophet in any age is supposed to judge the effects of the message. It's not your business to decide to give the message or not, depending on whether or not it's going to have a good effect or not, or whether the people can take it or not. They've never been able to take it, they've always killed their prophets and they've always disobeyed, and very few listened and very few obeyed.
46. World events and the course of History are influenced by the prophets of God, and world events and the course of History hang upon what kings do with the message of the prophets.
47. Lord, all we can do is voice Thy Truth and try to show the people what has happened and why, give the Word, that's our job, to expose the facts and the Truth, and then keep right on going on our way, Lord, Thy way, and not worrying about it, not trying to fight it, not trying to refute every lie or deny every charge, or waste Thy time and our time fighting against them, Lord. But just to go ahead and win the territory that You want us to win for Thee.
48. In our job as messengers, it is our business to carry messages. God has a message for every people for every hour. That message is always Salvation, but it has particular emphasis during particular stages of a people's history, an individual's history, a church's history, a nation's history.
49. God gives every person, every church, every nation, every people its opportunity and chance, and there's a particular message which is suitable for each peculiar stage in the development or growth or progress or regress of that individual, church or nation.
50. Who's really in control, as far as God's concerned?--You little prophets of God are the ones that really control God's whole history! The great wheels of history are turning on you little infinitesimal seemingly insignificant pivots!--What you do and how you do it, how you obey the Lord and what you tell the people.
51. The Prophets of God have to have the faith of God to proclaim the Words of God, and they suffer the same persecution as God in Christ. But, praise God, they get the rewards of God!
52. God does not rule through the people, He normally rules through one man, an appointed Elder or an appointed Bishop or an appointed Apostle or an appointed Prophet or an appointed Judge or an appointed King, but never through the people. God selects the leaders and He places them over the people and the people have nothing whatsoever to do with the government or the ruling of the nation but to follow God's appointed rulers.
53. We are the prophets of this age. We are the true prophets who are conserving and preserving the oracles of God, the Word of God and still receiving and hearing from the Lord, whereas the rest of the church is deaf, dumb and blind!
54. I am a Prophet of God and I merely tell the people what is on my heart, and whether it's pleasing or going to be popular or in good taste or according to the rules of composition and all the rest is not really of any interest to me whatsoever.
55. It's our duty as God's prophets to expose the evil, the hypocritical, the Scribes and the Pharisees just like Jesus and the Apostles did and tell the people the truth so they can beware and have their eyes open and look out for these things and these signs we have foretold.
(See also No.9; 69; 79; 161; 295; 319; 358; 544; 545; 610; 655; 707; 837; 911; 955; 989; 1337; 1539; Childcare Handbook III.)
56. 2CH 20:20b Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.
57. PSA 105:15 Touch not Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm.
58. ISA 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
59. JER 1:10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
60. AMO 3:7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.
61. AMO 7:14,15 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit: And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.
62. MAT 13:57b But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
63. JOH 16:4a But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.
(See also JER.1:1-10.)
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