The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

competitive. Producers and actors alike could receive crowns, trophies, honoraria, and bonus money from the king and other public officials for successful productions. As entertainment productions, actors initially, in an effort to amuse and impress their audiences, put on dramas that mocked or commemorated the invisible doings of their gods. Over time they came to be a most seductive platform for airing public forums and depicting societal issues. Drama, from its beginning, resolved its conflicts and broadcast its views by role-playing human and political situations. In early times, such dramatizations were the presumed perspective of the celebrated deity and matters were resolved based on his or her answers. Today it is no different, as the attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives of its artists remain motivated by similar forces. What artists believe is what their drama portrays (this includes their producers and directors). These beliefs determine the stories told and the manner in which they are told. Thus, their pneuma-religio ideals become the entertainment or amusement force for their audiences, making drama a powerful conveyance, and contrivance, of popular thought. Modern drama is the chief source of social, human, and cultural attitudes, beliefs, and conduct. Its glittery and glamorous depictions of inner beliefs and ideals mold public opinion and shape its identity. This industry does much to spearhead social consciousness, shaping at will public thought, and shifting tactically popular trends. What people see, they believe, is the premise upon which it is based; not unlike the inspirations of its formative era. Early dramas generally opened with prayer to the patron deity as well as sacrifices and offerings made to it as the ritual ceremony gave way to the celebration performance. After opening activities ended, the priests of the celebrated gods were replaced with the actors of the production. In contemporary society, the New Testament church has the opportunity to do the same thing. Throughout time the prophetic has presented itself in diverse creative ways. Although the most common means of prophetic delivery is speaking, it also employs other ways of communication that go all the way back to its inception. Isaiah and Ezekiel, as well as Agabus in the New Testament, employ one of those ways, that is, by prophetic drama. See its description elsewhere. Prophets in typical worship service have been known to demonstrate theatrically the word of the Lord. 414. Dreadlocks—A long, shaggy hairstyle worn by followers of Prince Ras