Are there prophets today?

[tonychanyt]

I think so. Joel 2:

28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Alluding to Joel, Peter confirmed it in Acts 2:

17 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Paul encouraged it in 1 Corinthians 14:

1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.

He elaborated in 1 Thessalonians 5:

19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22reject every kind of evil.

There were prophets after the cross, Acts 11:

27 During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

John spoke of two future prophets in Revelation 11:

10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

How do we tell whether a person is a prophet or not?

Deuteronomy 18:

22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

1 Thessalonians 5:

18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything.

If someone claims to be a prophet, then test him. Check his words against the Bible's.

 

[Blade]

"If someone claims to be a prophet, then test him."

Just how are you going to do that? Thinking maybe other prophets test and even then not like everything they say is fulfilled the next day. There are prophets but not like in the OT where if one was talking you best listen! Today its like it was with Paul "the person that wares this belt". They cannot tell you what to do. Again not like the OT where "Since when did the Spirit of the LORD leave me to speak to you?”. Today ever believer has the spirit of God.. some full some not.. ooh that will go over good

 

[tonychanyt]

"If someone claims to be a prophet, then test him."

Just how are you going to do that?

Ellicott explained:

take care! put everything to the test.” That the warning was needed, or would be needed soon, is shown by 2Thessalonians 2:2. It is couched in general terms (all things), but, of course, has special reference to all things purporting to be manifestations of the Spirit. And how were these revelations to be tested? If they were not in accordance

(1) with the original tradition (2Thessalonians 2:2),
(2) with the supernatural inspirations of the other prophets who sat as judges (1Corinthians 14:29),
(3) with enlightened common sense (1John 4:1), they could not be “good.”

Basically, check it with reasoning alongside the Bible.

 

[tturt]

"Despise not prophesyings."
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." I Thess 5

To prove all things we need to:
-check it against Scripture (Acts 17:11),
-ask The Holy Spirit and hear His voice for ourselves, He can confirm (Matt 18:16; Acts 9;9-19 especially v 10-12; II Cor 13:1)
-fasting and praying, (Judges 20:26-27)
-spiritual discernment, (Gal 2:9)
-does it point to Yeshua, (Rev 19:10)
-receive G_dly counsel (Prov 11:14).

 

[Adventist Dissident]

Troy Black looks promising. He is a YouTuber check him out there. He is very general with his prophecies though.

 

[tonychanyt]

Troy Black looks promising. He is a YouTuber check him out there. He is very general with his prophecies though.

Can you provide some highlights?

 

[Lost Witness]

"If someone claims to be a prophet, then test him."

There are prophets but not like in the OT

Have come to understand there's a difference between functioning in prophecy and it being your calling.

There are most certainly prophets as was recorded in the OT..
The Two Witnesses for example.