How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

salon in Gaza. One of the great dangers that have existed for centuries in the Christian church is the abuse of spiritual gifts. Church history is replete with individuals who claimed to be prophets and led people astray with some alleged prophetic inspiration or warning. In my book Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled , book number 7, I wrote: It was in the late sixteenth century. Along the rivers and lakes in Austria and Germany, they were building arks. They were mostly simply farmers using hammer, nails, and hewn trees, building large boats to protect their families from another “global flood,” similar to the flood of Noah’s day. The people were following the prophetic instructions of an astrologer and selfacclaimed prophet, Johann Stoffler. According to the irrefutable calculations of Stoffler, another massive flood was about to strike all of Europe, and the only survivors of this deadly deluge were those following his instruction to prepare arks for the saving of their families. The date arrived and went without any storms, floods, or destruction. In retrospect, if the commoners had possessed Bibles and could have read God’s promise to Noah every time they saw a rainbow draping the sky, they would have known that God made a covenant never to destroy the earth by water again (Gen. 9:13–16). People began looking for answers, and another astronomer entered the scene, another alleged prophet from Vienna, Austria, named Georg Tannenstetter, and disproved the calculation of Stoffler and declared no flood would come. Oh well, so much for the houseboats.2 If an individual has been gifted to hear from the Lord, then he or she must guard against using this gift in the wrong manner or even participating in merchandising of the gift for personal gain, which is forbidden in Scripture:

And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way