The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

upon Himself the sins of the world. Those stripes, the apostle Peter said, are how we were made whole of our spiritual condition of sin. When seen prophetically, stripes represent broken peace, healing in the works by God’s word, and harm or punishment. See Isaiah 53. Stripes can also symbolize spiritual attack, brutality, diseases, spiritual ravaging, and spherical blight. They further stand for harsh treatment, spiritual and natural plagues, and calamity, especially public calamity and affliction. Proverbs 17:11 gives one clue to why and how this can be. 1468. Subordinate Prophet—A) One with regional or less authority; one who is in training or else moderately equipped for active or significant prophetic ministry. B) A prophet ordained to a lower strata of service or ministry because of being a novice or trainee prophet. C) A prophet who has been ordained by God to be an attending official of a senior prophet, or a subordinate prophet assigned to an apostle. D) A prophet to whom God entrusts the care and keeping of higher officers. See the prophet Elisha under Elijah. 1469. Sumer—An ancient Mesopotamian city and civilization so advanced that it is credited with introducing to humanity: writing, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and astrology, which the Babylonians later refined for their use and passed on. The value of this civilization to the prophetic is its primitive yet potent contribution to spirituality. Believing God’s fallen angels to be gods coming to earth to teach it the secrets to life and living, the Sumerians claimed a divine lineage and credited it with their becoming a highly advanced culture for their time. Various ruins and relics indicate that much of what is called modern technology today originated with them with the aid of their spiritual visitors. They became adept at herbology, which they used for medicine, ritual, and magic, and pharmacology that they used for the same reasons and for divination. A demon inspired system of rites and worship observances assured that their open heaven relationship with their deities remained uninterrupted. Their temples were auspicious buildings that served as the hub of civility. What made them important was that the Sumerians and their successors understood the importance of building a place for their god, called a temple, where the god could descend to earth to visit annually and comfortably abide when they did. Other ancient cities and towns that share Sumeria’s cultural thought include Nippur, Eridu, Kish, Akkad (biblical Accad), Ugarit, Uruk (biblical Erech), with Sumer being the seventh. They comprise the ancient world’s seven cities of antiquity supposedly founded by supernatural agents. All were considered, especially in antediluvian times, to be divine cities among which Jerusalem