3 Different Ways People Prophesy

Lance: Right we’re going to talk with Mercedes Sparks is here and Carl Alexander’s right there my son and we’ve been really, it wasn’t my plan to go this way. Because I was doing I do the news analysis well you know what, I think is an interesting perspective on the trends that are happening from the Middle East from the United States from the Asian perspective. Because it’s God‘s doing a political global realignment. But then I’m realizing something. I’m realizing that the Bible is 95% when it speaks prophetically speaking about this little sliver of time that we’re entering into right now. We’re really in a period of time where the best way to give you the news is to tell you prophecy because so many prophecies are being fulfilled right now. You might as well understand how the prophetic works. That’s how we ended up in this cul-de-sac of going into the Bible to understand what’s happening now. 

So, we were going through these gifts because I wanted to land on this prophetic area because there’s one gift that’s going to be poured out in greater proliferation. According to Joel the great prophet, it’s going to come to pass the last days that your sons and daughters will prophesy. There’s going to be a prophetic surge happening and the true Christian community will be a prophetic community. But Mercedes, you kept on going back to this idea that prophecy is for edification, exhortation, and comfort. So, there’s a difference between prophecy as a predictive tool which is how we look at it. Like someone prognosticating who’s going to win the World Series or who’s going to be the next president or who’s going to win…

Mercedes: I mean the modern day church is really kind of turning into fortune telling and I don’t necessarily think that that’s what prophecies.

Lance: The consumer demand makes it that way and not a few good prophets have screwed up trying to meet the demand of the audience which is why I don’t like doing that.

Mercedes: Let me ask you one I hate to prompt you with questions although sometimes I think my questions really pull out some of the best Lance material. But what about in Revelation 19. This is going to be 19:10 where John is with the angel and he starts to worship the angel. The angel says, “Hey, don’t do that. I’m your fellow servant and of your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” It says, “For the testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy”.That was another thing when I think about prophecy. Anytime somebody talks about prophecy, I think mmm it should be the testimony of Jesus. What do you think that means?

Mercedes: Well, one thing it certainly means is that that and people will say this that prophecy should glorify Christ. It should be pointing at some point to Him and not to the prophet and the spirit of prophecy which is the spirit of forthtelling and foretelling. Forthtelling means that it’s going to be speaking forth that which is the Word of God for the moment that you’re in. And foretelling which means that there’ll be things that will be predictable elements, but this is an important distinction.

There’re three levels of prophetic and this is hardly ever taught. There is the office of a prophet which will have greater authority and greater responsibility and perhaps greater scope in terms of foretelling. But like I said, a prophet has a certain Metronome. They could be prophesying to Israel. They could be prophesying to the Gentiles. They could be prophesying. There’s a limit. When you have prophets, the temptation is they want to move in an office that they’re not called. How do you know they’re in the office of a prophet? Because they say they are, and then they’re foretelling stuff it doesn’t happen but people are following along. Because they’re mesmerizing and how they engage you or they’re eccentric and suck you in.

But the office of a prophet and the prophet has a higher level authority with a higher level of gifting. Let’s put it bluntly, and therefore they might have greater faith for what they’re saying and they’re probably gone through some greater preparation for it too. Then there’s the gift of prophecy. Not everyone that has the gift of prophecy in Corinthians which we did earlier 9 gifts of the spirit. Just because you have a gift of prophecy, doesn’t mean you’re in the office of a prophet. It could be that in our charismatic adolescence. We take people with a gift, who can prophesy in the house, let’s say in the church or in a certain circle or certain circumstance. And they see themselves as an office when in fact they’re a gift. The gift of prophecy is going to operate at a different level, and then the characteristics of that gift are building you up encouraging, edifying, strengthening you, giving meaning to what you’re going through and prophesying purpose and intent as God is working it out. So, that it’s a strength a perspective that God‘s hand is in it and who the Lord is working his purposes out in certain ways.

It’s not as predictive as people want to make it nor should it be unless the person is gifted that way. And if gifted that way, it could be an indication that there’s a higher office that they’re developing into but even then, there’s a releasing into offices. You don’t start off that way, just like people may argue with this but it’s fact. Philip was a deacon when he was summoned. He was first a disciple. Then he was a deacon and then Acts 7. Then we find out in Acts like 8, 9 &10 is Philip the evangelist. Whoa. Low and behold what happened to him. He went there. The apostle Paul started out as a disciple in Antioch. He became a prophet and teacher. A prophet and teacher combined two offices and only after a period of time was he set apart in a gathering to be set apart for the work of the apostle.

So, he graduated into various offices. What I’m saying is the gift of a prophet is at a high level. The gift office of the prophet is at a high level. The gift of prophecy is at a different level, lower level but it’s for edification, edification, and comfort primarily and then there is the spirit of prophecy. Now, this one will mess you up because Paul says, all may prophesy. All may prophesy. What does that mean? When God‘s presence comes down into a group, a strong prophetic environment can have singers singing under the inspiration of the spirit. A song that is in tongues and then interpreted in English and another person tongues and interpretation and then another person begins to prophesy in a whole room.

People are prophesying edification, exhortation, comfort, and it seems as though the spirit of prophecy is moving around in a prayer group. Many prayer groups, Chuck Pierce will tell you this. He says that he’s uniquely called because he can handle intercessors. He knows they’re a bit wild and eccentric, but intercessors frequently are moving in the spirit of prophecy. And when they pray, they’re sensing and together they’re picking up on something when they’re praying with others and they’re flowing in that unfolding revelation of what they believe the father is doing. And they’re praying according to what they’re sensing and seeing. That’s a spirit of prophecy. Does it mean the group is made up of prophets?

Mercedes: I find all of this really fascinating. I do also feel like you might have to write it on the board, because I want to summarize what I’ve heard you said so far. I want to make sure that is correct. So, you have the different offices that are given in the body of Christ and I thought that was a really interesting distinction. If you sit in the office of prophet, that’s different than somebody who has the gift of prophecy. So, offices, each one of those offices would be comprised of certain spiritual gifts, correct?

Lance: Yeah, there’s the office of the prophetic office. There is the gift and then there is the spirit of prophecy. So, the whole church can at times enter into this in prophetic intuitive sense and flow of what the spirit is saying and doing. There is the gift of prophecy which we might say has this characteristic of edify to exhort and to comfort. Notice what is not on this list is predict. Predictive and I’ll add placement. This is a different type of thing. So, for instance, if someone comes along and says, Mercedes Sparks, you are called to be in business. You are called to be heading a company. You’re called to be leading and you’re going to be teaching in England and in Germany and in the Scandinavia. God‘s going to open a door in Europe.

Mercedes: I’ll receive it.

Lance: If that’s typically, if somebody is prophesying. Out of this, they’re probably out of order. Because that should be reserved for someone who has the evidence of being recognized in the office of, when you’re giving direction, when you give direction to a person’s life or correction to a person’s life, you better be operating at a high level. If you’re just walking around with a gift and an ego, you could be directing and correcting and mesmerizing making believe you’re in an office. But you’re not there. How do I know? You’re in there you have a track record and those that are recognized in the office recognize you. If you don’t have that confirmation of other recognized prophets, you could be running in social media circles anyway but not in the kingdom.

Mercedes: I just want to make sure I’m understanding. How would I then as like a lay person, as somebody who is just in the body of Christ, how can I distinguish between the difference between somebody who sits in an office of prophet versus somebody who just prophesied frequently and even self-labels themselves as I’m a prophet, or I’m apostle so and so and it’s not a business card. How can just the general sheep in the body of Christ know the difference?

Lance: It’s important to know who they run with. That’s why it’s important to know who recognizes them. The Bible says, lay hands on no man suddenly. What is that talking about? Well, in Holy Ghost, New Testament Christianity, every person in the body is connected to someone else in the body. If you’ve got a lone ranger out there like an Elijah type, probably is it’s not a New Testament prophet. Because the prophets you’ll see them in the body knit together,connected together. You always, even Paul as individualistic and stylist as he was in the fellowship at Antioch ministering with the team.

So, beware the lone ranger who comes in from the wilderness as an Elijah with a staff. I want to see who do they run with, who mentored them, where did they come from, who laid hand on them. Because the Bible says, don’t lay hands on someone else suddenly. Meaning, don’t put someone into an office and recognize them unless you first got discerning that they really got it. So, you have self-promoting profits and I don’t want to confuse people out there that this is all new to. I just want to say for those that have been around the block, there’s levels. It’s like somebody that’s doing good with their job isn’t necessarily a wealth management. There’rereasons why. You hear little caveats when people say, you need to buy this and buy that, but I’m not a certified wealth adviser.

Yeah, there’s certification for flying for doing surgery for wealth advising. And in the body of Christ there should be a certifying in the spirit for somebody that’s going to lay hands on you say,mary so and so moved to New Jersey started church. I’ve seen lives screwed up by somebody telling someone else what to do who didn’t have the deserting to recognize better hold that one off a little bit.

Mercedes: No, absolutely. I think it’s such a great example too like people who handle money. So, you have a person at a bank. You’re getting money. Well, we can all have money from an ATM. Then, you’ve got like a teller or a bank manager who are handling money on a regular basis dispersing it. But then, you really have the qualified wealth management advisors that like they see everything. Like, you’re right, there are levels there but we don’t necessarily have that in the prophetic and worse yet, worse yet, I’ve seen this particular phrase abuse. I don’t know if you want to comment on it but touch not the Lord’s anointed.

I’ve been in a really unhealthy churches with an unhealthy pastor who taught that from the pulpit and we come to find out very corrupt later on. And he used to teach on like Moses, when they spoke against Moses and Miriam was struck with leprosy. I see that stuff abused in the church when I think there should be a healthy skepticism. We should be asking, is the person who’s speaking to me are they operating in prophesied? Like you said who commissioned them? Who are they running? And even more a litmus test is what they’re saying coming to pass or are they having to back pedal it? Are they having to correct it and qualify it and a caveat?

I think it’s awesome when people are very bold and they go out there and they say a statement.I’m not going to necessarily judge that, but I do think when there’s a pattern of something being wrong. I really think you have to stop and question.

Lance: Yeah, every now and then my friend Kim Clement would and I’ve never really followand tracked it when he did but like if he said something like, Giuliani be president or something like that and it didn’t happen. Well, okay. That’s a myth. You could see it. The thing I am easy on prophets that have public ministries. Because they risk what teachers never risk and Kenneth Copland could be teaching something wrong or any pastor can teach them wrong and you know what they do? Peter Wyden was great. He wrote seventy books. I said, I’m afraid I might write something wrong. He goes, oh no, you just corrected in the next book. I got plenty of books like that. The next book correct, teachers are always updating what they know.

Mercedes: Sure.

Lance: If they’re not, they’re not learning anything new. I’m more worried about the guy that I haven’t changed one idea in 40 years. Well, I’m not going to follow you in your innovation seminar as for sure. But with teachers, there’s no danger. With pastors, there’s no danger. With apostles and evangelists, we kind of give them a prep. A prophet misses it. Oh, he’s a false prophet. So, I’m a little about beating up on profits because I remember with Kim, I’d say, what the who cares about Giuliani and that whatever that word was. You got to go out like Babe Ruth,man you got a gift, you got to point over that right wing fence you got to tell people what’s going to happen and then swing because they’ll forget it the moment that ball goes crack. And that was the way Kim was. You’d encourage him. He go back on there, bam, and he hit it it’s like ain’tnothing like having a William Branham in the house. Because all you got to have is one word that’s supernatural and accurate, that’s provable, that it undoes a lot of the devil’s doubt that he puts on you regarding prophecy.

Carl: Well, on the idea of doubt, I want to cite Luke 4:24 where it says in the King James Bible and he said, “Verily I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country”. So, what does that have to do with finding the qualifications of these prophets who’ve signed them on, who signed off on them, when it’s biblical that these prophets aren’t even going to be honored in their own home according to Matthew 13:57 and Luke 4:24.

Lance: Alright. So, what that means is that, that verse taken in the context of it. Jesus is talking about his own ministry as the stonemason believe it or not wasn’t we always say carpenter. It’s just not the carpenters, the carpenter, but actually the word carpenter is Techtron, it means worker of stone. So, he was actually a builder. When he steps into his mess office, everyone that was familiar with him in one context couldn’t see him in the other. And it frequently happens that when God is grooming you for ministry, he puts you in a different kind of a place where people will recognize you. Here’s the point. They will recognize your gifts, talents and abilities because they’re proven in that new place. And you don’t have to work off the prejudice of the old place.

So, you see it happen you go back to a family reunion or to a high school reunion or any kind of thing. Some people the women will say, well, he really let himself go. Whatever that means. It means that they didn’t take care of themselves. Someone else is shining. What happen was you have to be transplanted sometimes for people to have no prejudice against you so that you can be proven in what you’re called to do. So, in convergence which is a great concept we work with for coaching business leaders and such. Convergence frequently involves a geographic change. So for instance, I was a pastor in Rhode Island. I pastored for a while.

Now, if you knew me in Rhode Island, you’d know me as the pastor of that small church over there. When I left that and moved to Texas at the age of 50, I was traveling. Now, I’m with the United Nations. I’m with corporations. I’m with rulers of countries. I wasn’t being measured by my Rhode Island profile because I had a new environment I was in. So people that knew me growing up in Rhode Island would say, oh yeah, I know Lance. Yeah, I knew him back when, when, When. They don’t want to talk like I’m not really who I am. God had to move me into another place where I, and by the way it was Kim Clement and Mark Cerona, that prophesied me out of Rhode Island. They said, you got to leave. Because I was in too small a pot from my what I was called to do but I was being faithful and didn’t want to leave it. They said, get out of there.

So, there is a sense in which there will be a place you’ll have to be proven and sometimes you need to be transplanted in the new soil so that you don’t have old history you’re working against and be proven. Still the idea is you’re proving something.

Mercedes: Well and even we talk about who laid hands even Jesus had John the Baptist baptized him. And then the spirit descended like a dove upon Jesus and his ministry began.

Lance: And it didn’t hurt that God himself. The father said, hey, let me get in on this.

Mercedes: Exactly.

Lance: John the Baptist, good job. That’s my son. That’s my boy. Alright, leave him alone.

Mercedes: Yeah. Well, I mean but even John says, I shouldn’t be doing this like you, you have to do it.

Lance: And Jesus said, hey man, let’s submit. I have to do everything right and so you obey the protocol. I’m submitting to you right now. Do it.

Mercedes: Yeah. So, I love the mama you put up here. Now, is there another layer or is there another page behind this.

Lance: Indeed there is and I want to cover that right now because this is where people really can be confused. There you go. All the Old Testament prophets that you have. Carl does this so much better than me. Look how nice and clear that is.

Mercedes: And handwriting.

Lance: The handwriting. The four prophetic points of view. So imagine this. I’m going to do like a little helicopter here. Bing-wing-wing, the helicopter and so the helicopter is up over the highway. The helicopter is the prophetic perspective. So the prophet is going into the spirit and looking down. But notice something the prophet could be prophesying to his own time. The era of Isaiah, what’s happening. The era of Zechariah to prophesying to them. But then it gets confusing because the prophets also would go to the second position. They’d be prophesying about what’s coming, there is a captivity. So, Jeremiah for instance, would say in his own generation. He said, this is what you to do. This is the alliance you have to make.

Well, they rejected it. So, he said, you’re going to go into captivity 70 years. He prophesied to those moments in the office of the prophet. He prophesied then, you’re going to be in Babylon 70 years. Sorry about that. Plant, build, have babies, and pray for Babylon because in their blessing, you’ll be blessed. Then, you have prophecies that come regarding the future Messiah who would be the branch, the one that’s going they’re going to call. He prophesies about the Messiah and then you’ll see him prophesying about the ultimate rule of Jerusalem at the center of all the nations and all nations coming back.

The same prophet goes up in the helicopter and sees four timelines. When I ask Kim, I said,‘Kim what’s it like when you get into that moment when you’re calling out these words in the room and so you’re getting names and stuff?’ He said, ‘It’s like I’m behind the wall and I pull myself up and get a peek. I got a peek and then I go back down on the other side and I’ve seen things and now I’m beginning to say them.’ Well, the prophet goes up and gets a peek. The challenges, I’ll give you an example of this. Well, we’ll just grab your Bible and we’ll do a quick analysis. We have in Zechariah. Let’s go to Zechariah. He’s the Old Testament prophet contemporary with Haggai, our prophet who prophesied, what Mercedes?

Mercedes: Haggai?

Lance: Yeah. He prophesied the shaking of the heavens and the earth.

Mercedes: Shaking. Yeah. Yeah.

Lance: He prophesied to Zerubbabel. Go build a temple.

Mercedes: Build a temple.

Lance: Did you write the book on that. Did you write a book on that?

Mercedes: I’ll be honest with you. I do get Haggai, Zechariah, they all blend together at this point. I’m like, was he the wall? Was he the temple?

Lance: No, no.

Mercedes: I really got to go back and refresh it.

Lance: It was contemporary. So, let’s go to chapter 9, and so in chapter 9, give an example. The prophet, Zechariah, who was like 19 years old. So, they’re a young prophets Carl. 19 years old.

Mercedes: Wow.

Lance: And/or 20.

Carl: That’s middle age.

Lance: And Haggai huh?

Carl: That’s like middle age for them.

Lance: Well, Haggai was really old. He was like 70 or 80 years old. So he’d be like an really old guy.

Carl: Octogenary.

Lance: Yeah. So, anyway, the prophet starts to prophesy and he’s prophesying to his own timeline about what’s going to be happening with the Damascus and the nations around Israel.But he’s in the captivity already, but suddenly he says in verse 9. “Rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion, shout oh daughter of Jerusalem. Behold your king is coming to you he is just having salvation, riding lowly on a donkey, the coal, the fault of a donkey.” This is predicting, this is going all the way to the time of Jesus like in Matthew’s gospel. He’s going to the future where Christ is going to ride into Jerusalem. You wouldn’t know it because he’s prophesying this time and suddenly flips over to this time.

Then you turn it around then he goes on, oh wait a second. Now he’s saying in chapter 10, “Ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain. The Lord will make flashing clouds or give a shower.” Now what’s he talking about? He’s talking about the time between Christ and the millennium. He’s actually hitting that little mountain there. He’s saying, before the end times is coming an outpouring of God‘s outpouring spirit, pray. So, he goes from 2000 years ago with Christ on a donkey to right about now 2014, 2025. What are you laughing at?

Mercedes: Just how you say donkey.

Lance: Donkey.

Mercedes: Like a donkey donuts. How about this one? Go to chapter 13. He says this one, “AWaco sword against my shepherd out of nowhere.” He’s saying against my shepherd, against the man who’s my companion. Strike the shepherd and the sheep should be scattered. Boom. He’s talking about Christ. He’s talking about him 800 years before Jesus is there. He says, strike the shepherd and then it gets quoted in Matthew 26. Does not the scripture say? Strike the shepherd. Jesus is quoting. Jesus is quoting Zechariah. 800 years ago, he said this, tonight is going to happen. Boom.

So, what I’m trying to say to you is I can show you example after example of where the prophets are prophesying in different time zones. Which means a prophet could see something, but they have to know the application and the interpretation. So, they see something and here’s what confuses the church. They’re talking about something like it’s now but it’s coming in the Future and it’s coming further in the future than they thought. They could be talking. God could be speaking to them about something which is coming in the end of days and they think it’s coming now.

Rick Joyner says something interesting to me. So, that every man of God whoever came to him to tell him, Jesus revealed himself to him and said that he’s coming faster than people think, that he’s coming. He said, inevitably, they were right because they died. He said, he believes that a lot of people who see Jesus is coming faster are actually seeing. They’re seeing Jesus coming back,because it’s closer to them than it is to anyone else.

Mercedes: Yeah. Well, think about even how the disciples and Jesus followers got it wrong. They were looking at the Old Testament prophets thinking he’s coming as the conquering king. He’s coming to overthrow Rome. And we’re about to be delivered and their deliverance came in a totally different form than what they interpreted. They looked at the same prophecies and they misread them and interpret him through the lens that they wanted at that time.

Lance: Yeah, that’s why I worry about too much. I helped to popularize Donald Trump as a modern Cyrus which is the reason why we got two books with him. The only two books I wrote really were involving him. But my fear is that people are going to overly focus on Donald Trump because Donald Trump is not the focus of prophecy. It’s God‘s, it’s the rising of sheep and goat nations in the last days. It’s the tension of, Donald Trump was created by a political movement and a social movement and a prayer movement. And whether it’s him at the helm or not, there’s going to, there’s a movement that’s there. But when we’re looking at predictive stuff for the future, there are times when God is not revealing what’s happening. And people, you guys got tobe careful. You put pressure on prophets that tempt them like the devil tempts them.

Here’s how you do it there was a prophet Elijah. I remember I had Kim Clement come to my church. When you have close friends like that and something happens that they didn’t see they almost they get defensive about it, because he could see so much. And I remember we had a major, we had a key leader that was no longer in our church. And as a friend of mine and he left and I said I, didn’t you, you came to the house so many times and none of us even saw what was coming. How can we have missed this? Will us focus on the prophetic? And I was taken to this verse in Elijah where Elisha was had the widow woman who had the son. No, it’s a woman who had a son, and the son had, he told she was going to get pregnant and have a child, and she had the child. Well, the child died.

She was coming to Elisha to get a miracle and Elisha said, this woman is coming to me and clearly she’s upset but the Lord had hidden it from me. God doesn’t always reveal everything to his people. And I asked, the Lord myself because I had to steward the church through the experience and I said, I think I have a right to know what’s going on in the church. I’m a pastor about what’s coming. At least I have an intuition about what’s coming. The lord said, we’ll study Elisha and I went back and I looked at it and Elisha said, ‘The Lord had hidden it from me. He’s veiled it from me. Even though I have a gift, I can’t penetrate the future’. She comes in says, ‘The one you prophesied is dead. And didn’t I tell you, don’t deceive your servant?’

Meaning, this, this was such a sensitive issue to her. She didn’t want to have hope defer. She didn’t want to lose her hope. She said, ‘I’d rather you wouldn’t done this than have this happen.’And he says, ‘I will go.’ He goes and the Bible says, he stretches his hands out on the child and he breathes life into it, and resurrection life and the child sneezes like 7 times. And I believe the lord gave a revelation that. He said, ‘There are certain things I don’t show you because your faith and your life will grow more by your experiencing the experience than preempting the experience with knowledge.’

So, there are things which happen where the lord chooses that he’s going to do a greater miracle through your walking it out with him and identifying with it. Because when you have foreknowledge in a sense it prepares you, so that you’re emotionally detached because you seensomething. But if you didn’t see it, then you’re walk through it. And if you’re walking through it, you’re stretched out on it. I think I learned something about churches and about people by being stretched out on it and bringing life back into the people. Because they were devastated and confused with the loss of a leader.

Mercedes: I love all of that, Lance. I think that that’s a very powerful revelation to say that sometimes the lord conceals a thing. I think you’re 100% right that there’s a pressure that’s been put on modern day prophets almost like a pez dispenser. Like when they show up in a meeting and it’s like you’re supposed to know social security numbers, phone numbers.

Lance: Oh no, as adolescent. Matter of fact, it’s goofy. It’s like we’re reducing this thing to a carnival show. Stand in front of me and I’ll guess your weight.

Mercedes: Yeah and like.

Lance: But then you believe God‘s real.

Mercedes: Exactly.

Lance: If you don’t believe God‘s real folks before that. I’m sorry, go ahead.

Mercedes: That’s okay. Like we talked about in the last episode though like why is a prophetic peer? Obviously, the prophetic is a testimony of Jesus and the prophetic should be done for edification and building up and for comfort. And it’s we’ve kind of changed it into something that I don’t think that it is. One of the concerns that I have Lance is that at this point we are a lot like the Corinthian church. It’s almost like a carnival where like you said, like you got to guess the weight. Like it’s a sideshow act, and what I’ve always believed is that God‘s written word always supersedes the spoken word. And I almost think people are more hungry to pursue the prophetic word than they are to pursue his written word.

Lance: Right.

Mercedes: So I just like first and foremost we have to have that foundation of the word of Godthat is what’s underlying and what we’re believing in before we go out and we seek out what is so and so saying about it, what is this person saying about it.

Lance: Yeah, you’re absolutely right now what’s that final verse you got there about let the prophet speak and let two judge. Because this is where it actually ought to go.

Mercedes: It’s going to be first Corinthians 14:29. “Let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge.”

Lance: Alright let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge. This has been for me where I think we ought to, what verse is that? Chapter is that?

Mercedes: First Corinthians 14:29.

Lance: 14:29. Okay. “Let 2 or 3 prophets speak and let the others judge”. Now here and then for all can prophesy one by one that all may learn and be encouraged. So, you see verse thirty-one talks about the spirit of prophecy that is over a whole people where all can prophesy and yet it’s distinct from prophet speaking which is the office of a prophet. So, the spirit of prophecy is where this the anointing is in a room and many people can prophesy. Doesn’t mean they’re prophets. Then 2 or 3 prophets speak and let the other judge. Here’s a big problem we got with the era we’re in now with internet prophecy. Myself included potentially, Hank Kahneman all of us. And that is that a prophet is looking at a camera and prophesying. If they don’t have two or three other prophets that are watching what they’re saying and calling them, contenting, and saying, I just want to say, I heard that, loved it. When you said this, I just got to check in my spirit and that’s why you better pray about that.

If you don’t have another, if the Bible says you need to have prophets judging prophets, it means prophets can miss it. Therefore, back to your opening question. Touch not my anointing. Does not mean a prophet can’t miss it and a prophet can’t be corrected. That’s a People are applying that adolescently I might add. Don’t touch the prophet the prophets of man of God. Hey, unless you’re prophesying with 2 or 3 when you give those words and they’re equal stature with you and they’re endorsing what you’re saying, your prophecy is falling into that pes dispenser category. We got to clean up. What we need is we need to have 2 or 3 judging it including if you’re going to deliver it this way. I got people that can come back and challenge me on it, like critics automatically. But I mean, I’ve got prophets that believe I’m prophetic that will come back and say, what about this? What about this? Have you heard that?

And so far, I can say that by having that openness to letting yourself be judged, I’ve never once turned to a critic and said, be careful, God will kill you because you touch the anointed and there’s a price you pay. Let me tell you something. You touch the person God sends to correct you when you’re prophetically wrong and you might be the one getting the anointed spang.Because prophets can be corrected. I’ll tell you what, I’m very sympathetic to prophets like I said because they’re the only ones that get hung out to dry when they miss it. I admire them for that. That’s why I protect and defend them. Where we get ourselves in trouble, is we fly solo and there’s no 2 or 3.

Mercedes: Bingo. I think that that’s probably the biggest problem we have today. In American Christianity, it’s celebrity Christianity and everyone becomes so isolated. And God didn’t intend the church to be like that. Like where we started in the last episode we talked about one will get this gift and one will get that gift and this person’s going to get this gift, because we’re designed to function as a body. We’re designed to function as a corporate body. So, when you have an evangelist that’s isolated or a prophet that’s isolated. And you’re right when you don’t remain humble and allow people that you trust and love and know that the spirit of God‘s inside of them to speak into your life, you have to be careful. I mean, that’s that pride, right. Pride comes before the fall like that type of a verse.

Lance: It is and then also disunity. There’s a lot of, what’s that?

Carl: Oh, Pride Month happens before autumn. Yes.

Lance: And Pride Month happens before autumn.

Carl: Pride before the fall.

Lance: President Biden has had his fall.

Mercedes: Oh, Carl these dad level jokes just.

Lance: I know.

Mercedes: Is that a gift? That’s its own gift.

Lance: Again, dad jokes is something which kicks in I guess after 30. It starts to work on. Anyway, I’m going to stop right here because I have to comb my hair. It says it’s acting up on me and we’ve gone long enough on the subject. But give us your questions. Go in your comments. Make sure you like and subscribe. We appreciate all of you and keep communicating with us because we read all the comments. We all do and thank you very much Carl. Thank you very much Mercedes. And thank you very much to all of you and we’ll be back again on the next episode.

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