The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

•Manifest, articulate, disseminate God’s wisdom. •Utter the Lord’s poetic prophecies. •Record and circulate God’s emerging revelations. •Instruct people in God’s righteousness. •Manifest Christ and His truth to His sheep.

•Organize and structure local church government. •Repair sin’s breaches and ravages in people’s lives. •Fortify and maintain the biblical foundations of Christ. •Collaborate with Christ’s apostles on church policy. •Uproot, pull down, and overturn destructive heresies. 543. Fundament—The underlying ground or principle of a thing. It is a principle, idea, or discipline. 544. Funeral—A death rite to celebrate and orchestrate the secure passage of a deceased one from the land of the living to the land of the dead. Funerals were exorbitant means of assuring the deceased made it to their afterlife destination successfully. Sacrifices to the spirits of the dead that would transport them and the god(s) to whom they would be delivered were the original underlying motives for funerals. Special preparations of the body then were as much for making the departed appealing to the god of the world to which they were going, as it was for cosmetic or sanitary reasons. When Jesus replied to one of those He called to His service to let the dead bury the dead, He was not merely being callous, as it would appear. He was addressing long-standing superstitions and manipulations of the death cults entrenched in society at the time. During the Lord’s earthly ministry the cults of the dead were powerful institutions that everyone patronized. They were popular because the right cultic ritual, priests, and morticians were important to assure their departed relatives received proper preparations and burials. In doing so, they felt assured their deceased relatives made the journey safely to the family’s accepted eternal resting place where the other departed ancestors had arrived. That was guaranteed by the religion they followed and the ancestral spirits they had worshipped from generation to generation. For the head of a family or elder child to shirk this responsibility was risky. They could bring harm to the dead