The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

divinatory prophecies. Divination operates strictly on external factors such as observances, omens, or the aid of objects, events, and organs of animals. Micah 3:11; Ezekiel 12:24, 13:6, and 21:21–24; Acts 16:16. 393. Divine—A) That which pertains to spirits, angels, or any celestial being thought to rule and control, or possess, various aspects of humanity and its spheres of life. Their spheres of territorial ownership extend to different towns, villages, nations, or countries. These signified their authority in the earth’s human and social realms where their assigned territories illustrated their presence with images erected to them by the town’s people. These beings may be patron spirits (or saints) that installed and empowered the kings and princes, tutelary powers, or ancestral deities. Divine ones were often astral deities whose powers were believed to control or influence weather, vegetation, and livestock reproduction. They were considered to be adept warriors, judges of human behavior, and executioners of divine edicts and penalties. The nature and likeness of God, His Godhead, or a godlike creature. A being without mortal features, limitations, or boundaries. Proverbs 16:10; 2 Peter 1:3–4. B) A verb that identifies the means by which patron deities (or departed ancestors elevated to sainthood venerated as deities) were inquired of and their communications received. An institution of false prophetics. 1 Samuel 28:8; Ezekiel 13:9,23; Micah 3:11. 394. Divine Appointment—No prophet or prophetic soul could consider life from any other perspective than that of the timing of God. The Bible refers to God’s time appointment repeatedly, as He underscores His sovereign authority over all the works of His hands, and world events. Prophetically, the word of the Lord is empowered by two things, God’s inscription of its performance on creation and the scheduling of His embedded events in creation. Prophecy itself is the medium by which the Creator’s inscribed events are triggered. See Prophetic Triggers. Amos 3:7 makes this point emphatically by saying the Lord God does nothing except He reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets. Once God’s revealed intentions come to the prophets, as the same prophet stated, “the Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy?” (verse 8 nkjv, emphasis added). It is upon His words, which are living and powerful, that the world turns and churns out its myriad of events from the invisible to the visible world. The key to being trusted with God’s prophetic powers is the messenger’s acute sense of the times and seasons of God. Finite instincts are deposited in such prophets to alert them to the shifting moods, trends, and sways the Almighty ignites. While the calendar