Deuteronomy 18:18-22
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Lessons
- A prophet is one who carries God’s words in their mouth
(Deuteronomy 18:18) - Those words are a firesome burden shut up in their bones (Jeremiah 20:9, every single one of the prophetic books)
- The 2 general types of prophecies are:
a. Predictive (Acts 21:11)
b. Illuminative. (2 Chronicles 28:8-11)
- The test of a prophet is seeing if what they say is true or comes true (Deuteronomy 18:21,22, 1 Samuel 3:19-20, 9:6)
Even if what they say is comes to pass we evaluate them by what they teach and we hold to the way and God of Scripture and will not go beyond it (Deuteronomy 13:1-4, 1 Corinthians 4:6)