Why Churches today must have the prophetic annointing

1. RAISING UP A SCHOOL AND
COMMUNITY OF PROPHETS
NIHOP SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
LESSON 1

2. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY:
-TO SEE THE SOLID BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR
THE USE OF AND NEED FOR PROPHETS
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, PAST, PRESENT,
AND FUTURE AND WHY THE NEGROS
ISLAND HOUSE OF PRAYER IS PUTTING UP
A SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
-THAT NIHOP MAY BECOME A COMMUNITY
OF PROPHETS

3. INTRODUCTION: HOW GOD RAISED
UP PROPHETS IN BIBLICAL HISTORY
1.ABRAHAM
GEN. 20:7 “NOW THEREFORE RESTORE THE MAN HIS WIFE; FOR HE
IS A PROPHET, AND HE SHALL PRAY FOR THEE, AND THOU SHALT
LIVE: AND IF THOU RESTORE HER NOT, KNOW THOU THAT THOU
SHALT SURELY DIE, THOU, AND ALL THAT ARE THINE.”
(REMEMBER, SODOM AND GOMORRAH… GEN. 18:17 “SHALL I HIDE
FROM ABRAHAM WHAT I AM ABOUT TO DO?...
PSALM 105:15 … “DO NOT TOUCH MY ANOINTED ONES, DO MY
PROPHETS NO HARM.”)

4. 2. MOSES AND AARON
EXODUS 7:1 AND THE LORD
SAID UNTO MOSES, SEE, I
HAVE MADE THEE A GOD TO
PHARAOH: AND AARON THY
BROTHER SHALL BE THY
PROPHET.

5. THE ULTIMATE INTIMACY OF A
PROPHET
DEUT. 34:10 AND THERE HAS
NOT ARISEN A PROPHET SINCE
IN ISRAEL LIKE MOSES, WHOM
THE LORD KNEW FACE TO
FACE…

6. ANALYSIS OF THIS EARLY
PROPHETIC CASES:
BOTH ABRAHAM AND MOSES WERE
CALLED CONCERNING A NATION –
THE NATION OF ISRAEL; ABRAHAM TO
ESTABLISH A NATION, MOSES TO SAVE
A NATION
POINT: THE CALLING OF THE PROPHET
IS FOR THE NATION

7. SECOND:
BOTH ABRAHAM AND MOSES
RECEIVED A DEFINITE CALL
FROM GOD (HEARD FROM
GOD), WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO
DECLARE AND PRONOUNCE
THAT CALL

8. THIS CALL WAS:
1. LIFE-CHANGING
(YOUR LIFE IS NOT YOURS
ANYMORE!!!)
A. ABRAHAM HAD TO LEAVE UR
B. MOSES HAD TO LEAVE THE
WILDERNESS AND GO BACK TO EGYPT

9. THIS CALL
2. HAD TO BE NURTURED, FOUGHT
FOR AND DEFENDED
- ABRAHAM STRUGGLED
AGAINST “TIME” (FULFILMENT)
- MOSES STOOD AGAINST A
KINGDOM IN OPEN CONFRONTATION

10. THIS CALL:
3. HAD TO BE ENFORCED, APPLIED,
IMPLEMENTED
- ABRAHAM HELD ON TO THIS WHEN HE
LOOKED FOR A WIFE FOR HIS ONLY SON ISAAC
-MOSES HAD TO FIGHT AGAINST ALL
ODDS

11. IN THE TIME OF JOSHUA
JOSHUA WAS THE PROPHETIC LEADER
“NOW AFTER THE DEATH OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE
LORD IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO
JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, MOSES' MINISTER, SAYING, MOSES
MY SERVANT IS DEAD; NOW THEREFORE ARISE, GO OVER
THIS JORDAN, THOU, AND ALL THIS PEOPLE, UNTO THE LAND
WHICH I DO GIVE TO THEM, EVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL.” “AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH THEE: I
WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE.”
JOSHUA 1:1, 2, 5

12. AFTER JOSHUA
“SINCE THE DAY THAT YOUR FATHERS
CAME FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT
UNTO THIS DAY I HAVE EVEN SENT UNTO
YOU ALL MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS,
DAILY RISING UP EARLY AND SENDING
THEM: YET THEY HEARKENED NOT UNTO
ME, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, BUT
HARDENED THEIR NECK: THEY DID WORSE
THAN THEIR FATHERS.” JER. 7:25, 26.

13. IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES:
“AND DEBORAH, A PROPHETESS, THE
WIFE OF LAPIDOTH, SHE JUDGED
ISRAEL AT THAT TIME. AND SHE
DWELT UNDER THE PALM TREE OF
DEBORAH BETWEEN RAMAH AND
BETHEL IN MOUNT EPHRAIM: AND THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME UP TO
HER FOR JUDGMENT.” JUDGES 4:1-5.

14. SO PROPHETS WERE RAISED:
1. IN THE PATRIARCHAL PERIOD – (ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB)
- THE PROPHET OPERATED IN FAMILIES AND CLANS,
POINTING TO THE NATION
2. IN THE NATION-FORMATION PERIOD – MOSES AND AARON
3. IN THE SETTLEMENT PERIOD (JOSHUA-JUDGES)
PROPHETS WERE
ALWAYS RAISED UP

15. THE LORD FORMALIZES OR
ESTABLISHES THE OFFICE OF THE
PROPHET
NUMBERS12:6 (note: Numbers is the book on the
ORGANIZATION OF ISRAEL AS A COMMUNITY)
• AND HE SAID, HEAR NOW MY
WORDS: IF THERE BE A PROPHET
AMONG YOU, I THE LORD WILL MAKE
MYSELF KNOWN UNTO HIM IN A
VISION, AND WILL SPEAK UNTO HIM
IN A DREAM.

16. WHEN DID THE LORD DIRECT THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCHOOL
OF PROPHETS?
IN THE MONARCHIAL
PERIOD (KINGS), WHEN
ISRAEL BEGAN TO ASK
FOR A HUMAN KING…

17. THE STORY…
• 1 SAMUEL 12
• SAMUEL SAID TO ALL ISRAEL, “I HAVE LISTENED TO
EVERYTHING YOU SAID TO ME AND HAVE SET A KING OVER
YOU. 2 NOW YOU HAVE A KING AS YOUR LEADER. AS FOR
ME, I AM OLD AND GRAY, AND MY SONS ARE HERE WITH
YOU. I HAVE BEEN YOUR LEADER FROM MY YOUTH UNTIL
THIS DAY. 3 HERE I STAND. TESTIFY AGAINST ME IN THE
PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND HIS ANOINTED. WHOSE OX
HAVE I TAKEN? WHOSE DONKEY HAVE I TAKEN? WHOM
HAVE I CHEATED? WHOM HAVE I OPPRESSED? FROM WHOSE
HAND HAVE I ACCEPTED A BRIBE TO MAKE ME SHUT MY
EYES? IF I HAVE DONE ANY OF THESE THINGS, I WILL MAKE
IT RIGHT.”

18. 1 SAMUEL 12
• 16 “NOW THEN, STAND STILL AND SEE THIS GREAT THING
THE LORD IS ABOUT TO DO BEFORE YOUR EYES! 17 IS IT NOT
WHEAT HARVEST NOW? I WILL CALL ON THE LORD TO SEND
THUNDER AND RAIN. AND YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT AN
EVIL THING YOU DID IN THE EYES OF THE LORD WHEN YOU
ASKED FOR A KING.”
• 18 THEN SAMUEL CALLED ON THE LORD, AND THAT SAME DAY
THE LORD SENT THUNDER AND RAIN. SO ALL THE PEOPLE
STOOD IN AWE OF THE LORD AND OF SAMUEL.
• 19 THE PEOPLE ALL SAID TO SAMUEL, “PRAY TO THE LORD YOUR
GOD FOR YOUR SERVANTS SO THAT WE WILL NOT DIE, FOR WE
HAVE ADDED TO ALL OUR OTHER SINS THE EVIL OF ASKING
FOR A KING.”

19. I SAMUEL 12
• 20 “DO NOT BE AFRAID,” SAMUEL REPLIED. “YOU HAVE DONE
ALL THIS EVIL; YET DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM THE LORD, BUT
SERVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART. 21 DO NOT TURN
AWAY AFTER USELESS IDOLS. THEY CAN DO YOU NO GOOD,
NOR CAN THEY RESCUE YOU, BECAUSE THEY ARE
USELESS. 22 FOR THE SAKE OF HIS GREAT NAME THE LORD WILL
NOT REJECT HIS PEOPLE, BECAUSE THE LORD WAS PLEASED TO
MAKE YOU HIS OWN. 23 AS FOR ME, FAR BE IT FROM ME THAT I
SHOULD SIN AGAINST THE LORD BY FAILING TO PRAY FOR YOU.
AND I WILL TEACH YOU THE WAY THAT IS GOOD AND
RIGHT. 24 BUT BE SURE TO FEAR THE LORD AND SERVE HIM
FAITHFULLY WITH ALL YOUR HEART; CONSIDER WHAT
GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE FOR YOU. 25 YET IF YOU
PERSIST IN DOING EVIL, BOTH YOU AND YOUR KING WILL
PERISH.”

20. HERE OBSERVE THE EVOLUTION
OF THE WORK OF THE PROPHET:
HE NOT ONLY SPEAKS WITH AUTHORITY TO THE PEOPLE
AND THE KING, HE NOW BECOMES AN
INTERCESSOR (V. 23)
HE BECOMES A TEACHER (V. 23)
ALSO HE BECOMES A WATCHMAN OF
THE NATION (V. 24-25)
WITH POWER OF DECLARATION (V. 25)

21. A PROPHET IS TO BE RECOGNIZED
AND RESPECTED AS SUCH
1SAMUEL 3:20
“AND ALL ISRAEL FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA KNEW
THAT SAMUEL WAS ESTABLISHED AS A PROPHET
OF THE LORD.”
1SAMUEL 9:9
(FORMERLY IN ISRAEL, WHEN A MAN WENT TO
INQUIRE OF GOD, HE SAID, "COME, LET US GO TO
THE SEER," FOR TODAY'S "PROPHET" WAS
FORMERLY CALLED A SEER.)

22. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
• THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS WERE ESTABLISHED BY THE
PROPHET SAMUEL. THE FIRST MENTION OF THE “SONS OF THE
PROPHETS”, AS ALL THE YOUNG MEN EDUCATED THAT WAY
WERE CALLED, WE FIND IT IN 1 SAMUEL 10, WHEN SAUL IS
ANOINTED AS KING.
• (1 SAMUEL 10:5) IN THE DAYS OF SAMUEL THERE WERE TWO
SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS, ONE IN RAMAH, WHERE THE
PROPHET SAMUEL LIVED, AND ONE IN KIRYAT YEARIM, WHERE
IT WAS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. LATER ON SOME MORE
SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS WERE ESTABLISHED IN BETHEL (2
KINGS 2:3), JERICHO (2 REGI 2:15),GILGAL (2 KINGS 4:38) ETC.

23. AN EARLY PICTURE OF THE
SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
(1 SAMUEL 10)
• 10 THEN SAMUEL TOOK A FLASK OF OLIVE OIL AND POURED IT ON SAUL’S
HEAD AND KISSED HIM, SAYING, “HAS NOT THE LORD ANOINTED YOU
RULER OVER HIS INHERITANCE?[A] 2 WHEN YOU LEAVE ME TODAY, YOU
WILL MEET TWO MEN NEAR RACHEL’S TOMB, AT ZELZAH ON THE BORDER
OF BENJAMIN. THEY WILL SAY TO YOU, ‘THE DONKEYS YOU SET OUT TO
LOOK FOR HAVE BEEN FOUND. AND NOW YOUR FATHER HAS STOPPED
THINKING ABOUT THEM AND IS WORRIED ABOUT YOU. HE IS ASKING,
“WHAT SHALL I DO ABOUT MY SON?”’
• 3 “THEN YOU WILL GO ON FROM THERE UNTIL YOU REACH THE GREAT
TREE OF TABOR. THREE MEN GOING UP TO WORSHIP GOD AT BETHEL WILL
MEET YOU THERE. ONE WILL BE CARRYING THREE YOUNG GOATS,
ANOTHER THREE LOAVES OF BREAD, AND ANOTHER A SKIN OF
WINE. 4 THEY WILL GREET YOU AND OFFER YOU TWO LOAVES OF
BREAD, WHICH YOU WILL ACCEPT FROM THEM.

24. 1 SAMUEL 10
• 5 “AFTER THAT YOU WILL GO TO GIBEAH OF GOD, WHERE
THERE IS A PHILISTINE OUTPOST. AS YOU APPROACH THE
TOWN, YOU WILL MEET A PROCESSION OF
PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE WITH
LYRES, TIMBRELS, PIPES AND HARPS BEING PLAYED BEFORE
THEM, AND THEY WILL BE PROPHESYING. 6 THE SPIRITOF
THE LORD WILL COME POWERFULLY UPON YOU, AND YOU
WILL PROPHESY WITH THEM; AND YOU WILL BE
CHANGED INTO A DIFFERENT PERSON. 7 ONCE THESE SIGNS
ARE FULFILLED, DO WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS TO DO,
FOR GOD IS WITH YOU.

25. THE PURPOSE FOR THE SCHOOL
OF PROPHETS
NOTICE:
ISRAEL ASKED FOR A KING.
A HUMAN KINGDOM WITH HUMAN RULERS WILL
SOON BE ESTABLISHED (WITH CAPTAINS OVER
THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS, FIFTY’S ETC.)…
THE NEED TO HEAR FROM GOD AND FOR DIVINE
GUIDANCE WILL BE VERY MASSIVE, SO THERE WAS A
NEED TO RAISE UP MANY PROPHETS

26. FROM JEWISH SOURCES
• TO MEET THIS GROWING EVIL, GOD PROVIDED OTHER AGENCIES AS AN
AID TO PARENTS IN THE WORK OF EDUCATION. FROM THE EARLIEST
TIMES, PROPHETS HAD BEEN RECOGNIZED AS TEACHERS DIVINELY
APPOINTED. IN THE HIGHEST SENSE THE PROPHET WAS ONE WHO SPOKE
BY DIRECT INSPIRATION, COMMUNICATING TO THE PEOPLE THE MESSAGES
HE HAD RECEIVED FROM GOD. BUT THE NAME WAS GIVEN ALSO TO THOSE
WHO, THOUGH NOT SO DIRECTLY INSPIRED, WERE DIVINELY CALLED TO
INSTRUCT THE PEOPLE IN THE WORKS AND WAYS OF GOD. FOR THE
TRAINING OF SUCH A CLASS OF TEACHERS, SAMUEL, BY THE LORD’S
DIRECTION, ESTABLISHED THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS.
• THESE SCHOOLS WERE INTENDED TO SERVE AS A BARRIER AGAINST THE
WIDE-SPREADING CORRUPTION, TO PROVIDE FOR THE MENTAL AND
SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF THE YOUTH, AND TO PROMOTE THE PROSPERITY
OF THE NATION BY FURNISHING IT WITH MEN QUALIFIED TO ACT IN THE
FEAR OF GOD AS LEADERS AND COUNSELORS. TO THIS END, SAMUEL
GATHERED COMPANIES OF YOUNG MEN WHO WERE PIOUS, INTELLIGENT,
AND STUDIOUS. THESE WERE CALLED THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS…”
(EDUCATION, 45-46)

27. SAMUEL DIES….
I SAMUEL 25:1
THEN SAMUEL DIED; AND THE ISRAELITES GATHERED
TOGETHER AND LAMENTED FOR HIM, AND BURIED HIM
AT HIS HOME IN RAMAH. AND DAVID AROSE AND WENT
DOWN TO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN.[A]
HERE, DAVID WAS NOT YET KING,
BEFORE HIS DEATH, SAMUEL ALREADY ANOINTED
DAVID AS KING (I SAMUEL 16) – AFTER SAMUEL
ANOINTS DAVID, DAVID KILLS GOLIATH (CHAPTER 17)

28. IN THE TIME OF DAVID:
I CHRONCILES 25
1 DAVID, TOGETHER WITH THE COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY,
SET APART SOME OF THE SONS OF ASAPH, HEMAN AND
JEDUTHUN FOR THE MINISTRY OF PROPHESYING, ACCOMPANIED
BY HARPS, LYRES AND CYMBALS. HERE IS THE LIST OF THE
MEN WHO PERFORMED THIS SERVICE:
2 FROM THE SONS OF ASAPH:
ZAKKUR, JOSEPH, NETHANIAH AND ASARELAH. THE SONS OF
ASAPH WERE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ASAPH, WHO
PROPHESIED UNDER THE KING’S SUPERVISION.
3 AS FOR JEDUTHUN, FROM HIS SONS:
GEDALIAH, ZERI, JESHAIAH, SHIMEI,[A] HASHABIAH AND
MATTITHIAH, SIX IN ALL, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THEIR
FATHER JEDUTHUN, WHO PROPHESIED, USING THE HARP IN
THANKING AND PRAISING THE LORD.

29. 1 CHRONICLES 25
4 AS FOR HEMAN, FROM HIS SONS:
BUKKIAH, MATTANIAH, UZZIEL, SHUBAEL AND JERIMOTH;
HANANIAH, HANANI, ELIATHAH, GIDDALTI AND ROMAMTI-EZER;
JOSHBEKASHAH, MALLOTHI, HOTHIR AND MAHAZIOTH. 5 (ALL
THESE WERE SONS OF HEMAN THE KING’S SEER. THEY WERE
GIVEN HIM THROUGH THE PROMISES OF GOD TO EXALT HIM.
GOD GAVE HEMAN FOURTEEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS.)
6 ALL THESE MEN WERE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THEIR
FATHER FOR THE MUSIC OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, WITH
CYMBALS, LYRES AND HARPS, FOR THE MINISTRY AT THE HOUSE
OF GOD.
ASAPH, JEDUTHUN AND HEMAN WERE UNDER THE SUPERVISION
OF THE KING. 7 ALONG WITH THEIR RELATIVES — ALL OF THEM
TRAINED AND SKILLED IN MUSIC FOR THE LORD THEY NUMBERED
288.

30. SEEING THE MIND OF GOD IN THE
PLAN FOR THE BUILDING OF THE
TEMPLE (I CHRONICLE 22-27)
CHAPTER 22 – PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEMPLE
CHAPTER 23 – THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES
- PRIESTS – 30 YRS OLD (V. 3)
- GATEKEEPERS (V. 5)
- MUSICIANS (V.5B)
DIVISION OF THE LEVITES – TWENTY YEARS OLD
- COURTYARDS, SIDEROOMS, SACRED THINGS (V. 28-
29)
- SINGERS TO SING DAY AND NIGHT (V, 30)

31. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
TEMPLE: (I CHRON. 22)
CHAPTER 24 – THE DIVISION OF THE PRIESTS
(MAIN WORK: SACRIFICES, INTERCESSION)
CHAPTER 25 – THE SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
(MAIN: PROPHESYING)
CHAPTER 26 – THE GATEKEEPERS (MAIN WORK:
DEFENSE)
CHAPTER 27 – THE DIVISION OF THE ARMY (MAIN
WORK: FIGHTING)

32. THE RESTORATION OF THE
FALLEN TENT OF DAVID (AMOS 9)
11 “IN THAT DAY
“I WILL RESTORE DAVID’S FALLEN SHELTER (HOUSE, TENT, TABERNACLE)—
I WILL REPAIR ITS BROKEN WALLS
AND RESTORE ITS RUINS—
AND WILL REBUILD IT AS IT USED TO BE,
12 SO THAT THEY MAY POSSESS THE REMNANT OF EDOM
AND ALL THE NATIONS THAT BEAR MY NAME,[E]”
DECLARES THE LORD, WHO WILL DO THESE THINGS.
13 “THE DAYS ARE COMING,” DECLARES THE LORD,
“WHEN THE REAPER WILL BE OVERTAKEN BY THE PLOWMAN
AND THE PLANTER BY THE ONE TREADING GRAPES.
NEW WINE WILL DRIP FROM THE MOUNTAINS
AND FLOW FROM ALL THE HILLS,
14 AND I WILL BRING MY PEOPLE ISRAEL BACK FROM EXILE.[F]
“THEY WILL REBUILD THE RUINED CITIES AND LIVE IN THEM.
THEY WILL PLANT VINEYARDS AND DRINK THEIR WINE;
THEY WILL MAKE GARDENS AND EAT THEIR FRUIT.
15 I WILL PLANT ISRAEL IN THEIR OWN LAND,
NEVER AGAIN TO BE UPROOTED
FROM THE LAND I HAVE GIVEN THEM,”
SAYS THE LORD YOUR GOD.

33. IN THE PERIOD OF THE KINGS
(POST SOLOMON ERA)
SAMUEL’S SCHOOL OF
PROPHETS WANED…
ELIJAH AND ELISHA REBUILT
THE SCHOOL, AND
CONTINUED WITH IT

34. ELIJAH REBUILD’S SAMUEL
SCHOOL PF PROPHETS
• THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS, ESTABLISHED BY
SAMUEL, HAD FALLEN INTO DECAY DURING THE YEARS OF
ISRAEL’S APOSTASY. ELIJAH RE-ESTABLISHED THESE SCHOOLS,
MAKING PROVISION FOR YOUNG MEN TO GAIN AN EDUCATION
THAT WOULD LEAD THEM TO MAGNIFY THE LAW AND MAKE IT
HONORABLE. THREE OF THESE SCHOOLS, ONE AT GILGAL, ONE
AT BETHEL, AND ONE AT JERICHO, ARE MENTIONED IN THE
RECORD.…
• THE HEART OF ELIJAH WAS CHEERED AS HE SAW WHAT WAS
BEING ACCOMPLISHED BY MEANS OF THESE SCHOOLS. THE
WORK OF REFORMATION WAS NOT COMPLETE, BUT HE COULD
SEE THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM A VERIFICATION OF THE
WORD OF THE LORD, “YET I HAVE LEFT ME SEVEN THOUSAND
IN ISRAEL, ALL THE KNEES WHICH HAVE NOT BOWED UNTO
BAAL.”

35. THE CURRICULUM OF THE FIRST
SCHOOL/S OF PROPHETS:
1. THE TORAH !! (ALSO CALLED THE LAW
OF MOSES)
2. SACRED HISTORY
3. AND SACRED MUSIC (SAUL MET THE
INTERNS OF THE SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
PLAYING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS)

36. 1 SAMUEL 10
• 5 “AFTER THAT YOU WILL GO TO GIBEAH OF GOD, WHERE
THERE IS A PHILISTINE OUTPOST. AS YOU APPROACH THE
TOWN, YOU WILL MEET A PROCESSION OF
PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE WITH
LYRES, TIMBRELS, PIPES AND HARPS BEING PLAYED BEFORE
THEM, AND THEY WILL BE PROPHESYING. 6 THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD WILL COME POWERFULLY UPON YOU, AND YOU
WILL PROPHESY WITH THEM; AND YOU WILL BE
CHANGED INTO A DIFFERENT PERSON. 7 ONCE THESE SIGNS
ARE FULFILLED, DO WHATEVER YOUR HAND FINDS TO DO,
FOR GOD IS WITH YOU.

37. MUSIC AND PROPHESYING
• MOREOVER, DAVID AND THE COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY SET
APART FOR THE SERVICE SOME OF THE SONS OF ASAPH AND
OF HEMAN AND OF JEDUTHUN, WHO WERE TO PROPHESY
WITH LYRES, HARPS AND CYMBALS; AND THE NUMBER OF
THOSE WHO PERFORMED THEIR SERVICE WAS: AS FOR
JEDUTHUN, FROM HIS SONS: GEDALIAH, ZERI, JESHAIAH,
SHIMEI, HASHABIAH AND MATTITHIAH, SIX IN ALL, UNDER THE
SUPERVISION OF THEIR FATHER JEDUTHUN, WHO PROPHESIED,
USING THE HARP IN THANKING AND PRAISING THE LORD.
• (1 CHRONICLES 25:1-3, NIV)

38. HOW THEY EXPLAINED THE MUSIC
CURRICULUM:
• “THE ART OF SACRED MELODY WAS DILIGENTLY
CULTIVATED. NO FRIVOLOUS WALTZ WAS HEARD, NOR
FLIPPANT SONG THAT SHOULD EXTOL MAN AND DIVERT THE
ATTENTION FROM GOD; BUT SACRED, SOLEMN PSALMS OF
PRAISE TO THE CREATOR, EXALTING HIS NAME AND
RECOUNTING HIS WONDROUS WORKS. THUS MUSIC WAS MADE
TO SERVE A HOLY PURPOSE, TO LIFT THE THOUGHTS TO THAT
WHICH WAS PURE AND NOBLE AND ELEVATING, AND TO
AWAKEN IN THE SOUL DEVOTION AND GRATITUDE TO GOD.”

39. MUSIC IN THE NEW TESTAMENT:
• LET THE MESSAGE OF CHRIST DWELL AMONG YOU RICHLY
AS YOU TEACH AND ADMONISH ONE ANOTHER WITH ALL
WISDOM THROUGH PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SONGS FROM
THE SPIRIT, SINGING TO GOD WITH GRATITUDE IN YOUR
HEARTS. (COLOSSIANS 3:16, NIV)

40. "After singing a hymn, they went out to
the Mount of Olives.“ Matthew 26:30
This was the LAST PASSOVER at which Yeshua told his disciples to
remember him and his sacrifice with bread and wine.
In ancient Passover services, as recorded in the Mishnah, the meal ended
with singing the so-called "Second Hallel" (Psalms 115–118). Then came
the Fourth Cup, following by the "Blessing of the Song" (a kind of reprise
of previous hymns sung during the Seder) (Mishnah, Pesachim).
The phrase translated "singing a hymn" in Matthew 26:30 is one word in
Greek: humneo. It means to hymn, sing praise, celebrate or worship with
hymns. Thus, v. 30 says, "after they hymned" or "after hymning"
(Grk,humnesantes) they left the upper room where the meal was enjoyed.
TEHILAH – NEW SONG

41. ACTS 16
22 THE CROWD JOINED IN THE ATTACK AGAINST PAUL AND SILAS, AND THE
MAGISTRATES ORDERED THEM TO BE STRIPPED AND BEATEN WITH RODS. 23 AFTER THEY
HAD BEEN SEVERELY FLOGGED, THEY WERE THROWN INTO PRISON, AND THE
JAILER WAS COMMANDED TO GUARD THEM CAREFULLY. 24 WHEN HE RECEIVED THESE
ORDERS, HE PUT THEM IN THE INNER CELL AND FASTENED THEIR FEET IN THE STOCKS.
25 ABOUT MIDNIGHT PAUL AND SILAS WERE PRAYING AND SINGING
HYMNS TO GOD, AND THE OTHER PRISONERS WERE LISTENING TO
THEM. 26 SUDDENLY THERE WAS SUCH A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE THAT
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PRISON WERE SHAKEN. AT ONCE ALL THE
PRISON DOORS FLEW OPEN, AND EVERYONE’S CHAINS CAME LOOSE. 27 THE JAILER WOKE
UP, AND WHEN HE SAW THE PRISON DOORS OPEN, HE DREW HIS SWORD AND WAS
ABOUT TO KILL HIMSELF BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THE PRISONERS HAD ESCAPED. 28 BUT
PAUL SHOUTED, “DON’T HARM YOURSELF! WE ARE ALL HERE!”
29 THE JAILER CALLED FOR LIGHTS, RUSHED IN AND FELL TREMBLING BEFORE PAUL AND
SILAS.30 HE THEN BROUGHT THEM OUT AND ASKED, “SIRS, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE
SAVED?”
31 THEY REPLIED, “BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS, AND YOU WILL BE SAVED—YOU AND
YOUR HOUSEHOLD.”

42. HOW THE SCHOOL OF PROPHETS
WAS FINANCED
• THE SCHOOLS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-
SUPPORT
• “THE PUPILS OF THESE SCHOOLS SUSTAINED THEMSELVES BY
THEIR OWN LABOR IN TILLING THE SOIL OR IN SOME
MECHANICAL EMPLOYMENT. IN ISRAEL THIS WAS NOT
THOUGHT STRANGE OR DEGRADING; INDEED, IT WAS
REGARDED AS A SIN TO ALLOW CHILDREN TO GROW UP IN
IGNORANCE OF USEFUL LABOR. EVERY YOUTH, WHETHER HIS
PARENTS WERE RICH OR POOR, WAS TAUGHT SOME TRADE.
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS TO BE EDUCATED FOR HOLY OFFICE, A
KNOWLEDGE OF PRACTICAL LIFE WAS REGARDED AS
ESSENTIAL TO THE GREATEST USEFULNESS. MANY, ALSO, OF
THE TEACHERS SUPPORTED THEMSELVES BY MANUAL LABOR“.

43. THE DISCIPLINES OF THE SCHOOL
OF PROPHETS:
1. DEVOTION TO GOD
2. HOW TO PRAY
“IT HAPPENED THAT WHILE JESUS WAS PRAYING IN A
CERTAIN PLACE, AFTER HE HAD FINISHED, ONE OF HIS
DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, "LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY
JUST AS JOHN ALSO TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES." (LUKE
11:1-2)
3. HOW TO APPROACH THEIR CREATOR
4. HOW TO EXERCISE FAITH IN HIM
5. HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND OBEY THE TEACHINGS
OF HIS SPIRIT.

44. DURING THE TIME OF JESUS:
NO MORE SCHOOL OF THE PROPHETS BY THE TIME OF JESUS
THE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE REFERS TO THE TIME BETWEEN THE OLD
TESTAMENT AND NEW TESTAMENTS, DURING WHICH GOD DID NOT
SPEAK TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
THE 400 YEARS OF SILENCE BEGAN WITH THE WARNING THAT
CLOSED THE OLD TESTAMENT: “BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO SEND YOU
ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND
TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD. HE WILL RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE
FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN AND THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO
THEIR FATHERS, SO THAT I WILL NOT COME AND SMITE THE LAND
WITH A CURSE" (MALACHI 4:5-6) AND ENDED WITH THE COMING OF
JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE MESSIAH’S FORERUNNER.

45. SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO THE
PROPHETS? (EPHESIANS 4:11-16)
“11 SO CHRIST HIMSELF GAVE THE APOSTLES, THE PROPHETS, THE
EVANGELISTS, THE PASTORS AND TEACHERS, 12 TO EQUIP HIS PEOPLE FOR
WORKS OF SERVICE, SO THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST MAY BE BUILT
UP13 UNTIL WE ALL REACH UNITY IN THE FAITH AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE SON OF GOD AND BECOME MATURE, ATTAINING TO THE WHOLE
MEASURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST.
14 THEN WE WILL NO LONGER BE INFANTS, TOSSED BACK AND FORTH BY
THE WAVES, AND BLOWN HERE AND THERE BY EVERY WIND OF
TEACHING AND BY THE CUNNING AND CRAFTINESS OF PEOPLE IN THEIR
DECEITFUL SCHEMING. 15 INSTEAD, SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE
WILL GROW TO BECOME IN EVERY RESPECT THE MATURE BODY OF HIM
WHO IS THE HEAD, THAT IS, CHRIST. 16 FROM HIM THE WHOLE BODY,
JOINED AND HELD TOGETHER BY EVERY SUPPORTING LIGAMENT,
GROWS AND BUILDS ITSELF UP IN LOVE, AS EACH PART DOES ITS WORK.”

46. I CORINTHIANS 12
27 NOW YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND EACH ONE OF
YOU IS A PART OF IT.
28 AND GOD HAS PLACED IN THE CHURCH FIRST OF ALL
APOSTLES, SECOND PROPHETS, THIRD TEACHERS, THEN
MIRACLES, THEN GIFTS OF HEALING, OF HELPING, OF
GUIDANCE, AND OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF TONGUES.
29 ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL
TEACHERS? DO ALL WORK MIRACLES?
30 DO ALL HAVE GIFTS OF HEALING? DO ALL SPEAK IN
TONGUES[D]? DO ALL INTERPRET? 31 NOW EAGERLY
DESIRE THE GREATER GIFTS.

47. PROPHETS IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT
• ANNA.
• ELIZABETH.
• JESUS.
• JOHN THE BAPTIST.
• JOSEPH.
• MARY.
• SIMEON.
• ZECHARIAH.

48. NEW TESTAMENT PROPHETS
(ACTS 11)
26 … AND THE DISCIPLES WERE FIRST CALLED CHRSTIANS IN
ANTIOCH
27 DURING THIS TIME SOME PROPHETS CAME DOWN FROM
JERUSALEM TO ANTIOCH.28 ONE OF THEM, NAMED
AGABUS, STOOD UP AND THROUGH THE SPIRIT PREDICTED
THAT A SEVERE FAMINE WOULD SPREAD OVER THE ENTIRE
ROMAN WORLD. (THIS HAPPENED DURING THE REIGN OF
CLAUDIUS.)
29 THE DISCIPLES, AS EACH ONE WAS ABLE, DECIDED TO
PROVIDE HELP FOR THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS LIVING IN
JUDEA. 30 THIS THEY DID, SENDING THEIR GIFT TO THE ELDERS BY
BARNABAS AND SAUL.

49. ACTS 13
1 NOW IN THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH THERE WERE
PROPHETS AND TEACHERS: BARNABAS, SIMEON
CALLED NIGER, LUCIUS OF CYRENE, MANAEN (WHO
HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP WITH HEROD THE
TETRARCH) AND SAUL.
2 WHILE THEY WERE WORSHIPING THE LORD AND
FASTING, THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID, “SET APART FOR
ME BARNABAS AND SAUL FOR THE WORK TO
WHICH I HAVE CALLED THEM.” 3 SO AFTER THEY
HAD FASTED AND PRAYED, THEY PLACED THEIR
HANDS ON THEM AND SENT THEM OFF.

50. ACTS 15
(THE DELIBERATION OF THE
COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM)
30 SO THE MEN WERE SENT OFF AND WENT DOWN TO ANTIOCH, WHERE
THEY GATHERED THE CHURCH TOGETHER AND DELIVERED THE LETTER.
31 THE PEOPLE READ IT AND WERE GLAD FOR ITS ENCOURAGING
MESSAGE.
32 JUDAS AND SILAS, WHO THEMSELVES WERE PROPHETS, SAID MUCH TO
ENCOURAGE AND STRENGTHEN THE BELIEVERS.
33 AFTER SPENDING SOME TIME THERE, THEY WERE SENT OFF BY THE
BELIEVERS WITH THE BLESSING OF PEACE TO RETURN TO THOSE WHO
HAD SENT THEM. [34] [D]
35 BUT PAUL AND BARNABAS REMAINED IN ANTIOCH, WHERE THEY AND
MANY OTHERS TAUGHT AND PREACHED THE WORD OF THE LORD.

51. ACTS 21
• 7 WE CONTINUED OUR VOYAGE FROM TYRE AND LANDED AT
PTOLEMAIS, WHERE WE GREETED THE BROTHERS AND
SISTERS AND STAYED WITH THEM FOR A DAY. 8 LEAVING THE
NEXT DAY, WE REACHED CAESAREA AND STAYED AT THE
HOUSE OF PHILIP THE EVANGELIST, ONE OF THE
SEVEN. 9 HE HAD FOUR UNMARRIED DAUGHTERS
WHO PROPHESIED.
• 10 AFTER WE HAD BEEN THERE A NUMBER OF DAYS, A PROPHET
NAMED AGABUS CAME DOWN FROM JUDEA. 11 COMING OVER
TO US, HE TOOK PAUL’S BELT, TIED HIS OWN HANDS AND FEET
WITH IT AND SAID, “THE HOLY SPIRIT SAYS, ‘IN THIS WAY THE
JEWISH LEADERS IN JERUSALEM WILL BIND THE OWNER OF THIS
BELT AND WILL HAND HIM OVER TO THE GENTILES.’”

52. I CORINTHIANS 14:
THE CHURCH AS THE
PROPHETIC COMMUNITY (SCHOOL OF PROPHETS)
26 WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY, BROTHERS AND SISTERS? WHEN YOU
COME TOGETHER, EACH OF YOU HAS A HYMN, OR A WORD OF
INSTRUCTION, A REVELATION, A TONGUE OR AN
INTERPRETATION. EVERYTHING MUST BE DONE SO THAT THE CHURCH
MAY BE BUILT UP.
27 IF ANYONE SPEAKS IN A TONGUE, TWO—OR AT THE MOST THREE—
SHOULD SPEAK, ONE AT A TIME, AND SOMEONE MUST INTERPRET. 28 IF
THERE IS NO INTERPRETER, THE SPEAKER SHOULD KEEP QUIET IN THE
CHURCH AND SPEAK TO HIMSELF AND TO GOD.
29 TWO OR THREE PROPHETS SHOULD SPEAK, AND THE OTHERS SHOULD
WEIGH CAREFULLY WHAT IS SAID. 30 AND IF A REVELATION COMES TO
SOMEONE WHO IS SITTING DOWN, THE FIRST SPEAKER SHOULD
STOP. 31 FOR YOU CAN ALL PROPHESY IN TURN SO THAT EVERYONE MAY
BE INSTRUCTED AND ENCOURAGED. 32 THE SPIRITS OF PROPHETS ARE
SUBJECT TO THE CONTROL OF PROPHETS. 33 FOR GOD IS NOT A GOD OF
DISORDER BUT OF PEACE—AS IN ALL THE CONGREGATIONS OF THE
LORD’S PEOPLE.

53. EPHESIANS 2:20
• 14 FOR HE HIMSELF IS OUR PEACE, WHO HAS MADE THE TWO GROUPS
ONE AND HAS DESTROYED THE BARRIER, THE DIVIDING WALL OF
HOSTILITY, 15 BY SETTING ASIDE IN HIS FLESH THE LAW WITH ITS
COMMANDS AND REGULATIONS. HIS PURPOSE WAS TO CREATE IN
HIMSELF ONE NEW HUMANITY OUT OF THE TWO, THUS MAKING
PEACE, 16 AND IN ONE BODY TO RECONCILE BOTH OF THEM TO GOD
THROUGH THE CROSS, BY WHICH HE PUT TO DEATH THEIR
HOSTILITY. 17 HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE
FAR AWAY AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR. 18 FOR THROUGH
HIM WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER BY ONE SPIRIT.
• 19 CONSEQUENTLY, YOU ARE NO LONGER FOREIGNERS AND
STRANGERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH GOD’S PEOPLE AND ALSO
MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD, 20 BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE
APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, WITH CHRIST JESUS HIMSELF AS THE CHIEF
CORNERSTONE. 21 IN HIM THE WHOLE BUILDING IS JOINED TOGETHER
AND RISES TO BECOME A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD. 22 AND IN HIM
YOU TOO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER TO BECOME A DWELLING IN
WHICH GOD LIVES BY HIS SPIRIT.
• QUESTION: WHO ARE THE PROPHETS REFERRED TO IN V. 20?

54. VERY INTERESTING PASSAGE:
EPHESIANS 3:5
“1 FOR THIS REASON I, PAUL, THE PRISONER OF CHRIST JESUS FOR THE SAKE
OF YOU GENTILES—
2 SURELY YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOD’S GRACE
THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME FOR YOU, 3 THAT IS, THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN
TO ME BY REVELATION, AS I HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN BRIEFLY.
4 IN READING THIS, THEN, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND MY
INSIGHT INTO THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST,
5 WHICH WAS NOT MADE KNOWN TO PEOPLE IN OTHER GENERATIONS AS IT
HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED BY THE SPIRIT TO GOD’S HOLY APOSTLES AND
PROPHETS.
6 THIS MYSTERY IS THAT THROUGH THE GOSPEL THE GENTILES ARE
HEIRS TOGETHER WITH ISRAEL, MEMBERS TOGETHER OF ONE BODY, AND
SHARERS TOGETHER IN THE PROMISE IN CHRIST JESUS.”
QUESTION: WHO ARE THE PROPHETS REFERRED TO IN V. 5 – THE OLD
TESTAMENT OR NEW TESTAMENT PROPHETS?

55. FINALLY, IN REVELATION
(REVELATION 11)
• 11 I WAS GIVEN A REED LIKE A MEASURING ROD AND WAS TOLD, “GO
AND MEASURE THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND THE ALTAR, WITH ITS
WORSHIPERS. 2 BUT EXCLUDE THE OUTER COURT; DO NOT MEASURE
IT, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE GENTILES. THEY WILL
TRAMPLE ON THE HOLY CITY FOR 42 MONTHS. 3 AND I WILL APPOINT
MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY WILL PROPHESY FOR 1,260
DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH.” 4 THEY ARE “THE TWO OLIVE
TREES” AND THE TWO LAMPSTANDS, AND “THEY STAND BEFORE THE
LORD OF THE EARTH.”[A] 5 IF ANYONE TRIES TO HARM THEM, FIRE
COMES FROM THEIR MOUTHS AND DEVOURS THEIR ENEMIES. THIS IS
HOW ANYONE WHO WANTS TO HARM THEM MUST DIE.6 THEY HAVE
POWER TO SHUT UP THE HEAVENS SO THAT IT WILL NOT RAIN
DURING THE TIME THEY ARE PROPHESYING; AND THEY HAVE POWER
TO TURN THE WATERS INTO BLOODAND TO STRIKE THE EARTH WITH
EVERY KIND OF PLAGUE AS OFTEN AS THEY WANT.

56. CONCLUSION:
1. GOD’S REVEALED WORK FROM ABRAHAM TO REVELATION
ALWAYS REQUIRED THE USE AND INVOLVEMENT OF
PROPHETS
2. A PROPHET BELONGS TO OR WORKS IN A COMMUNITY
(EVEN JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE GREATEST OF THE
PROPHETS HAD A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES…
LUKE 11:1 “LORD TEACH US TO PRAY AS JOHN
TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES TO PRAY…” WHICH IS MOST
LIKELY THAT JOHN HAD A SCHOOL OF PROPHETS)
3. THE OFFICE OF THE PROPHET, THE GIFT OF PROPHESYING,
AND THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY ARE ALL CURRENT GIFTS OF THE
LORD – THEY HAVE NOT CEASED

57. THE JOEL 2:28 PROMISED
OUTPOURING
28 “AND AFTERWARD,
I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL PEOPLE.
YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL PROPHESY,
YOUR OLD MEN WILL DREAM DREAMS,
YOUR YOUNG MEN WILL SEE VISIONS.
29 EVEN ON MY SERVANTS, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN,
I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT IN THOSE DAYS.
30 I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS
AND ON THE EARTH,
BLOOD AND FIRE AND BILLOWS OF SMOKE.
31 THE SUN WILL BE TURNED TO DARKNESS
AND THE MOON TO BLOOD
BEFORE THE COMING OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD.
32 AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS
ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED;
FOR ON MOUNT ZION AND IN JERUSALEM
THERE WILL BE DELIVERANCE,
AS THE LORD HAS SAID,
EVEN AMONG THE SURVIVORS
WHOM THE LORD CALLS.[C]

58. LET US ASK THE LORD TO ESTABLISH
HIS SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY OF
PROPHETS IN OUR MIDST: