The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

Babylon’s Chaldean system. It consisted of physics, medicine, herbology, astronomy, math, and other general studies that augmented its extensive prophetic, mystic, and magical training. New Testament prophets do not need training in these subjects to prophesy, but they do need to understand the prophetic as God ordained, as it was corrupted by darkness, and as the Lord Jesus sanctified and restored it to His church. Thus a fundamental program of study designed to teach the introductory principles of God, His word, and the Holy Spirit in relation to how they act in and upon His prophetic people is important. There is an academia to the spirit world, creation, and God’s manifestations of which the typical prophet has little or no knowledge. The lack of information on which most prophets subsist, hinders their skillful and competent execution of the office because prophetic accuracy relies on Jesus’ messengers rightly dividing and aptly applying the continuous stream of information flooding their spiritual faculties. The ability to discern good and evil, the darkness from the light, and what is Satan’s from what can only be God is crucial to prophetic truth. A solid education in these disciplines and concepts enables a strong viable prophetic career. 557. Generation—Offspring succeeding their ancestors in time, season, history, or class descending from a single line, alive at the same time. Isaiah 41:4 declares that the Almighty God calls the generations from the beginning, that is, from the beginning of the seed line that eventually brings them forth. 558. Generation Prophetics—A professional nabiim (plural of nabi—the Hebrew word for the prophet), a calling that specializes in the destiny of future generations with their words. The prophet who visited King Jeroboam at the altar of Bethel in 1 Kings 13:1–12 is one example of generation prophetics. The prophet’s message stressed the Lord’s displeasure with Jeroboam’s counter religious concoctions and promised they would be overturned by a king who would be named Josiah. The prophet, not long after this assignment, was killed on the road by a lion that mauled him to death. Whatever he may have done before this task was assigned him, the prophet’s most significant work for the Lord was to speak into existence the coming of the righteous king who would restore godly worship to the land. That word took generations to come to pass, but it did happen according to the word of the prophet. Generation prophetics then speaks directly to the posterity of the prophet’s contemporaries above all else, and the prophet’s high intuitive, interpretative, and visionary abilities serve this purpose. Jacob’s most significant prophecies fit this category in the closing chapters of Genesis (see chapter 49). He spoke prophecies over his sons that