The prophet's handbook

of priestly progression from its Aaronic dynasty to commoners. He further changed Israel’s holy day celebrations from what God ordained by Moses to his own. The tragedy of his treason is seen in 2 Chronicles 11:14–15. Instead of ministering to and by the Holy Spirit that preserved and sanctified them, the new demonic priests now taught and promoted worship of devils. Read the account yourself to learn how the world of the prophets under Jeroboam was much like the world today. Repeating cycles of perversion and heathenism masked as New Age revelation solidify the need for the prophet more than anything else. False teaching, perverted truth, humanism, and worldliness all crowd the consciousness of the twenty-first century church. Mirroring Jeroboam’s era, large-scale classes publicize globally the ancient gods, goddesses, religions, and sorcery that history says destroyed every nation that worshipped them. The modern media, financed by the antichrist spirit in the world, crams those very Eastern religions down our throats as they proselytize for darkness. Why Prophetics? The prophetic is the only prime choice because the Lord prepared it to stem the tide of demonism stalking our generation. What makes this so are the revelatory teachings of 1 Corinthians 14:32, Ezekiel 13:1–3, and Nehemiah 9:30. Together, these passages unmask a largely discounted reality concerning the prophet’s makeup. The distinction sets the official prophet above the prophesier. It is the spirit within the prophet—not just the Holy Spirit but the unique prophet’s spirit alluded to earlier. The prophet’s spirit makes the prophet a prophet, whether or not he or she becomes born again. The Holy Spirit in a person furthers the distinction by establishing whether or not the prophet uses his or her spirit for the kingdom of God under the dominion of Jesus Christ. Otherwise, the capacity to receive prophetic revelations and the ability to prophesy are generic to the prophet’s natural birth. See the ministry of Balaam in Numbers 23–31. He was not under Israel’s covenant, and yet he was used by God to see with his spiritual eyes what God planned for the nation he was paid to curse. The prophet says that his eyes were finally now wide open. That means that it was in the instant that the prophet came in contact with His Maker that he knew for the first time the visions he saw then were real and those he saw prior to that moment were false. The differences between the two spheres of operations—saved and unsaved— can be narrowed down to three definite things: spiritual authority, divine license, and enforcement power. If a prophet converts to Jesus Christ, his or her gifts are