The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

which they were born. Hence, the prostitute’s head, or pimp, may be seen as the equivalent of the priests who supervised the performances of their civil and religious predecessors. 1202. Protocol—The courtesy, order, hierarchical arrangement, and rules and observance thereof, of a group’s interaction within and among its peers, associates, and colleagues. 1203. Protocratic—The founding and originating forces of creation that constitute the government and management of the planet and the administration of God in the earth. 1204. Protocratic Agents—The creatures specially created by God to govern, administrate, tend to, guard, and keep His earth. God has creatures assigned to specific areas over which they rule. Others are employed by the Lord to carry out certain tasks, as God deems necessary in the earth. Still, others are stationed in various territories in the earth to patrol and manage it. These agents consist of angels, ministering spirits, watchers, holy ones, cherubim, and seraphim, as revealed in Scriptures. Refers to the angels who showed up to announce the births of specially ordained children, govern the elements—water, fire—and such as these. 1205. Protocratic Guardians—A term that applies to the supernatural beings that govern and administrate God’s natural world from eternity. These include His angels, ministering spirits, watchers, archangels, and the holy ones (or saints as referred to in Daniel’s apocalypse in chapters 3–8). Zechariah called them the four horsemen that patrol the earth, and they also are assigned to people, nations, genealogies, and countries. The guardians oversee the routine events of the world and its various powers, elements, and forces. The watchers who judged and punished (as well as restored) Nebuchadnezzar for his pride exemplified this. 1206. Protocratics—A term coined to explain the enduring government of the Creator and the basis for His being properly identified as the Almighty God. The word is comprised of two terms, proto (for founding, originating, beginning) and cratics (for rule, government, dominance, and sovereignty). The two stems put together define clearly the role of God in His creation and the basis for His preeminence in all things. That the word helps describe the Lord’s superiority is understood by the fact that they establish the ground for His sovereignty. He is, and was, before all things, and in Him (the Christ) all things consist. The word is important to the prophetic in that it explains the host of creatures the prophet