The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

when the time came, and his slaughter of Agag the Amelakite king Saul spared to completely fulfill the prophecy the Lord spoke through his mouth. 1128. Prophetic Genre—The category or knowledge, information, and substance unique to prophetic ministry characterized by the predictive, futuristic, and the spiritually consequential. 1129. Prophetic Germination—The term for the prophet’s deposit of a word that is destined to come to pass sometime in the future. The prophet Isaiah’s annunciation about the virgin who would bring forth a child is a good case. The prophecy he gave—although the events surrounding it were completely against its possible fulfillment—was uttered for one reason: to germinate the ground of creation and to ignite a foreordained manifestation though ages away in time. The prophet’s act was watered from time to time by subsequent prophets who reiterated it. The eminence of prophetic germination is its saturation of the ground or a sphere of life with what the Lord ideally ordained to happen even though for a while He will seem to be doing the contrary. The Lord’s word to Jeremiah before the deportation of his countrymen is another example. In the biblical account, the Lord spoke to His prophet to purchase a piece of land and then to bury the deed in it. The act, which was an instance of prophetic drama, had the effect of germinating the ground with the eventual performance of the word of the Lord to reverse something He was about to do that seemed to be the direct opposite of what Jeremiah had done. The act on the part of the prophet was to insure that a seed remained in Israel’s ground, germinating over time, until the word of the Lord came to pass. When it did, the prophet who suffered so brutally at the hands of those who resented and resisted the word would have a right to property otherwise owned by the king of Babylon. 1130. Prophetic Gifting—A word commonly understood as the native traits and endowments prophets receive from God to do their jobs. Prophetic gifting speaks more to the natural talents and instincts prospective prophets are born with more than their enhancement upon elevation to the prophets office. Once this happens, the gifts take a more official operational condition. They are now solid tools, weapons, and implements rather than soft talents used at the discretion of the user outside the exercise of the prophet’s mantle. More than that, prophetic gifts start out being intermittent, unreliable expressions used casually. Once the training, development, and practice needed for prophetic