The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

meeting about rebellious Ahab. Jehovah had determined to destroy the king and was using his customary arrogance and disobedience to do so. The outcome was shared with Micaiah in a vision where he learned how the king’s demise would occur. A lying spirit would be given authority over his beloved prophets and they would convince him of a success that simply was not going to happen. When Ahab heard the word he retaliated against the prophet, proceeded with his plans, and was destroyed because of his stubbornness. 853. Midnight—A) The beginning of the hour of power in the spirit realm. B) Symbolic of a spiritual peak of maturity or ripeness that culminates in the amassing of celestial forces dispatched to change things in the earth. The angels who appeared and heralded the birth of Christ are examples of this. C) Prophetic experiences with events happening at midnight signal changes on the cosmic front of God’s creation. They indicate power shifts in His plan and typically reveal altered states of existence for the inhabitants of the earth. 854. Milcom—A) An Ammonite god. B) Also called or likened to Moloch, Mercury, Hermes, and Malcham. Zephaniah 1:5. 855. Milk—A symbol of divine nourishment, regeneration, spiritual growth, and survival. Milk, encountered prophetically, is an auspice of immortality received from the nourishment of one’s own god, according to ancient thinkers. Milk, spiritually, is the required drink of initiates that brings them into the higher virtues and knowledge of spiritual things. Human wisdom was believed to come from drinking this basic staple of human life, especially the life of infants. That is why initiates (novices and neophytes) were required to ingest it as they learned and adopted the basic tenets, rudiments, and doctrines of their faith or discipline. As a symbol of spiritual nourishment, milk was thought to manifest the purity of the group that relied on its spiritual texture for knowledge. This is why the apostle Peter exhorted Christ’s converts, in his first epistle, to desire “the sincere milk of the word [of God]” (1 Peter 2:2). 856. Milk (2)—What the Lord ordained His New Testament church to perform as the newborn’s Christian’s mother, nurturing its new converts with the sincere, pure milk of the word of the Lord. The church’s duty to the new convert is to teach them the elementary, easy-to-absorb word of the Lord, which Matthew 28:20 exhorts as essential following redemption. In using the words sincere or pure, Peter stated that every new born-again Christian has to be taught the ABCs, so to speak, of the gospel and kingdom of God. Hebrews 6:1 calls it