The prophet's handbook

wealth. Education equips a community to afford what it needs to buy to survive. Communication addresses the basic need to transmit thoughts and understand others. A uniform way of transmitting thoughts, feelings, and ideas creates a communication system. An organized means of assimilating the community’s logic, wisdom, skill sets, and abilities form the basis of a viable education system. Since education must be communicated, the two pair to form a comprehensive outreach sphere. These seven features are found in every society and are jointly administrated by their respective heavenly and earthly principal agents and by the prophets. It does not matter how crude, primitive, or sophisticated the system, these all prosper within a thriving civilization. Prophets are made aware of their principalities early in their training. God sees to it that they know and can recognize the spiritual forces that truly govern and control our world. Take as a case in point the watcher over Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom in the book of Daniel. Zechariah 3:1–9 gives an example of this in action, as do Ezekiel 9:1–11 and 2 Chronicles 20:20. Spend time as a study group or class identifying human activities and provisions that coincide with the functions and influences described in the seven spheres. Functional Divisions of the Prophet’s Office Based on the recognition of God’s creation spheres, and consistent with this premise, the prophet’s office is divided into similar spheres that reflect these invisible powers and distinguish prophetic personalities and anointings as assigned by the Lord. Interestingly, since they track with the seven spheres of creation, by studying them you can identify a prophet’s distinct prophetic concentration. Prophetic divisions benefit the particular area of prophetic treatment dispensed through the Lord’s various prophetic mantles. No matter how versatile, prophets generally concentrate themselves into discrete areas of the human experience. Thus, prophetic assignments are the footprints of creation’s spheres and are supported by Scripture. For instance, take Daniel’s ministry. It is easy to see that the sphere of prophetics his mantle concentrated on was government. Other examples are Ezekiel and Isaiah, who seem to have served the sphere of the ecclesiastical. Amos fits the category of agriculture, or in our terms, the