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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

David Wright

Prophetic Movement at End Time

Well, we're continuing this morning with our series Revelation and the prophetic movement and in time and I tell you I can get excited about this topic So I hope you had a good breakfast I'm gonna try and go quick, but sometimes I get in trouble for going quick So I don't know it's a lose-lose, but we're gonna do our best here this morning in talking about prophecy.

A lot of people are asking a lot of questions today.

Sometimes people look up at the stars and they try and think, what are the stars trying to tell me about what I should do?

Now that's not so much biblical, but that's what some people do.

There's an explosion of interest in psychic phenomenon today.

You don't have to drive too far from where we are this morning to see palm reading and all kinds of things that are trying to help people with this burning question, what does the future hold?

Books on the occult are selling in multi millions.

And I probably don't have to tell you that either.

Gift of Prophecy, there's a book by Jean Dixon.

I believe she's since passed away, I'm not sure.

And this is a pretty old book but just in the last 7 years or so it sold another 2000000 copies.

But this idea that the gift of prophecy and all that kind of thing is intriguing to folks and they want to know the future and so they go to places like that.

Edgar Cayce, he's another 1 and this is somewhat old too, but people are asking those questions about the future.

2000 US newspapers have astrology columns.

This idea, I go grab the paper and I look and I see what is in the planets and the stars How are they lining up for me today?

Well, I'm not gonna do such-and-such That's what people are doing.

I mean, they wouldn't be in the newspaper if people weren't reading them.

If everybody ignored him, I mean that's prime space, but they keep reading them, so they, we keep reading them, so they keep praying them.

Psychics, lucky numbers, hotlines, people are spending absurd amounts of money.

It's really ridiculous when you stop and think what people spend, yet in God's word we find right here in Amos 3 verse 7, surely the Lord, God does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants, the prophets." That's a promise that we have that God uses this method of prophecy throughout Scripture to tell people of what's impending so that they have some idea of what to expect.

And he's not just telling the future of random things secular things things happening in Hollywood that doesn't really make the list for God he's talking about spiritual things and how his people can be spiritually prepared for what's coming Jesus warns us against the counterfeit as well.

We read in Matthew 24 24 for false Christ and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive.

So beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

So we know that God has given His church the gift of prophecy, but we also know there's going to be false prophets.

And that's what we're going to look at today.

But we want to certainly beware of false prophets.

There's all kinds of things on the internet, and these are just a few that you peruse.

I don't recommend that you go to these types of things, but you type something in, you can find all kinds of things, different seminars you can go to, and all the rest.

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We've talked about the dangers that and how the devil can use that But if people are not aware of that if they don't have that safeguard that hedge of protection called God's truth in his word They could fall for this kind of thing and it's all about the sensational false prophet they don't carry a card like this www I'm a deceiver calm it'd be easier to spot them if they did but that's not what their card looks like And so you have crystal balls and all kinds of things trying to communicate with the netherworld or the other side and all those types of things.

Ephesians 4 verse 8 says, therefore he says when he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.

And what are some of those gifts that he left to us, to his church?

Some evangelists and some pastors and some teachers.

So here we have the list of the gifts of the Spirit, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.

That's what he's giving to his church as he's leaving.

Now he could say, I already came, all the prophecies that predicted my coming are done and so we're just going to have Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers but no he includes prophets for his time of church at the end.

For the equipping of the Saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

Notice prophets aren't there to quelch our curiosity if we can say it that way.

They're not there to predict random things, but they're there to do works of ministry for the edifying or building up the body or church of Jesus Christ.

That's the reason God gives the gift of prophecy.

And so any prophet that is trying to do anything other than these things here, we can already say or start to assume, yeah this doesn't sound like a true prophet does that make sense?

Jesus gave these gifts to the church to strengthen it to accomplish its mission of proclaiming the gospel to the world.

So how long would these gifts remain in the church you may be thinking?

Well Ephesians 4 13 and 14 says till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that We should no longer be children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine and there's plenty of winds of doctrine out there and So we have this idea until we're perfected in Christ until everyone comes under 1 unity in Christ and I believe that's not fully gonna happen until he comes.

Until that happens we still have these gifts in the church and that would be today.

1st Corinthians 1 verse 7, so that you come short in no gift eagerly Waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is not going to have us lacking in any of the gifts He wants us to have all the gifts.

I Mean after all the gifts were his idea The gifts he has given to the church to Use to build up to edify the body.

I Mean, that's what we like when we give a gift and maybe I'm speaking from a guy's perspective We like practical gifts right something they can use but we feel good when they say oh, I like this new thing You got me.

It's so helpful as opposed to taking a gift and saying oh thank you very much and you open a drawer and you stuff it in there and you close it right God wants us to use all of the gifts because he's given them to his church he doesn't want us to fall short So we have some characteristics of God's end-time church that we've been looking at Anticipating the second coming of Christ.

We've talked about that over the last few weeks.

It's bible-based It's grace filled and it's Christ centered wouldn't you agree with me on all those?

Also, it's law abiding and Sabbath keeping it's not my law.

It's God's law It's what he does to to help protect me and it's what I do to help honor Him.

It's a beautiful thing, and The Sabbath is right there in the heart of the law.

We meet God in the Sabbath that we can't do in any of the other Commandments, it's that abiding.

It's that spending time In the Sabbath, so that's another characteristic that we've looked at.

It's guided by that's what we're looking at today the gift of prophecy And you might say oh, I don't know about this We're gonna keep going Jesus promised the gift of prophecy would be revived in the last days.

I can accept the counterfeit, which we've been talking about for the last 3 weeks but the other dangers I could reject the genuine sometimes we have a phrase for that right throwing out the baby with the bathwater I don't want to throw out 1 of my babies to you if Jesus has given us a precious gift and it's a genuine gift I don't want to throw that out because that would probably be an equal tragedy don't you agree especially if it's the gift of prophecy helping us to see more clearly the events that will take place that have to do with us spiritually and in time.

So how can we tell the difference between the true and the false?

We've talked about this as well, counterfeit money and all that kind of thing.

There was a time in our history here, not that long ago, maybe even that's still ongoing, probably I would assume, but counterfeiters were getting to be very big.

And so they started having these conventions in Washington, D.C., or these meetings where all these bankers would come together and they would spend, I think, 3 weeks.

And do you know how many counterfeits they'd look at?

They wouldn't look at 1 counterfeit they would only examine the genuine.

But they would look at all the little details that you and I miss.

And so after 3 weeks, boy, you better believe, if you try and put off a little counterfeit bill, they would spot it like that.

If you know it genuine well, you can spot a counterfeit.

When you go on vacation, the puppy dies and somebody tries to replace it Or the goldfish dies or the parakeet dies or whatever dies.

That's not the 1 Well looks good enough to you Well, maybe you didn't have the same relationship with fluffy as they did.

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