The Holy Spirit’s Gifts of Prophecy and Discernment

It depends largely on our definition of ‘prophecy’ and ‘prophet’. The biblical understanding, dating back to Old Testament days, is that a prophet was an organ of divine revelation, to whom the word of the Lord came, and who therefore spoke the very words of God (e.g. Ex. 4:12; 7:1,2; Je. 1:409; 23:16, 18, 22, 28). ................
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