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I've been thinking a lot about prophecy recently.  A lot of it because, at least in Charismatic/Pentecostal circles, there seems to be a lot of "prophecies" and prophets wanting to sell these prophecies around.  So I've been trying to reach back in my brain to my Lee University days and remember what I learned about the markers of a prophet.  I learned a lot in classes about prophets and prophecy, but I learned a lot more by hearing actual prophets. The textbook definition of a prophet is someone who forth-tells or fore-tells the word of God.  So it's someone that brings forth God's word for a nation, a church, a situation; or someone that can tell the future; or both. Now because I've grown up in Pentecostal circles, I am extremely cautious when a "prophet" wants to start telling the future.  There was always someone trying to sell a book to predict when Jesus would come back or when God would judge America or when we would be attacked by...
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