The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

when one does not have a prophet’s spirit. This is particularly true when the Lord says it is quite easy for official prophets to follow their own spirit and prophesy vain visions and imaginations. How much more so is it for the one who never wants to disappoint himself? People seek God’s prophets when they really want to hear God’s mind and heart on their matters. Those that refuse this important revelatory institution in favor of their own opinions and conclusions seek their own advice under the guise of spiritual revelation. See Ezekiel 14:1–12. Also see Ezekiel 13:1–6 for God’s reaction to the prophets of Israel who prophesy out of their own hearts. He condemned their auto-prophetics because they did not follow His Holy Spirit but their own spirits with which they thought to bring the word of the Lord. In His rebuke of such prophets, the Lord enlightens us on His problem with such prophet’s activities. Aside from likening them to foxes (deceivers, schemers, and subverters), the Lord describes their negative impact. The prophets of their own hearts and spirits had not “gone up into the gaps,” according to the Lord’s indictment against them in Ezekiel 13:5. That is, they had not attended to the breaches in the protection walls of the land. They had not made up the hedge of defense on the country’s wall, referring to the Lord’s divine wall of protection. See Job 1:10. Vain visions, lying divinations, subjective prophecies, and unconfirmed words from the Lord that have no hope of coming to pass are God’s charges against these messengers. They court God’s opposition and set themselves up as His enemies. Ezekiel 13:9 depicts their punishment; they are immediately banished from the Lord’s general assemblies. Once exiled, the condemned prophets’ names are omitted from the writings of the Lord’s covenanted ones. Lastly, such prophets are precluded from ever entering the land of God’s people again. Their divine indictment is bluntly announced—they seduced God’s people with words of peace when there was no peace ordained for them. Israel had sinned, they had defected from Jehovah and turned to pagan deities. Lying prophetics, we learn from Ezekiel 13:13, ignite a cosmic war that manifests brutal weather and destructive hailstones indicative of the Lord’s judgment against sin, idolatry, and divinatory prophetics (see definition). They are sent by God to destroy the land in retribution for its apostasy and rejection of His reign. 137. Aven—Nothingness, ruins. The biblical word for idols in general. See Beth Aven. 138. Avesta—The sacred writings of the Zoroastrian religions.