The prophet's handbook

divine record to them at prescribed periods in history. Prophetic revelations come from the pages of human lives in Adam and those in Christ. They divulge the Lord’s purposes for our existence as only He can know it. At any given stage in human, earthly, and individual histories, the Lord can open a page of a person’s book and reveal it to His prophet. This is in addition to, but aside from, the normal operation of prophetic faculties that give prophets the ability to pierce the veil of the flesh and detect what is happening in the future. Prophets do this routinely as part of their occupational duties to the Lord. Expanded Prophetic Abilities Extended prophetic information comes from the overt and direct actions of the citizens of the supernatural world. The Bible identifies these beings as the angels of the Lord. In ancient times, for example, it was accepted that a dream angel caused all prophetic dreams. The expansion of a prophet’s mantle determines the spherical range of his or her prophetic reach and aptitude. The mantle as it appears to the invisible world says whether the prophet’s supernatural faculties can operate on a local, national, international, or even stratospheric level. Many new prophets are limited in their prophecy scope and range. They can only receive tiny fragments of what a seasoned prophet can retrieve from the spirit realms of God. God purposely restricts the breadth and level of prophetic information the prophet either receives or comprehends. He does this by contracting a prophet’s prophetic orb to minimize the messenger’s access to His spirituality and thereby controlling the breadth of his prophecies. The reason the Lord does this most of the time is developmental. It helps Him refine the prophet’s skill, fine-tune his or her prophetic receptors, and qualify (and certify) the new messenger’s prophetic motivations. At other times it is punitive. When prophets have a constant track record of ignoring God or perverting His words, He shuts their lights off. Micah 3:6–7 describes it as follows: Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. The Lord can curtail or cut off entirely a prophet’s ability so that his or her prophetics have to resort to demons to operate. Micah also explains: