Sop series spilling the secret - april 20, 2013

Spirit of Prophecy Series
Sabbath, April 20, 2013
Sabbath Afternoon, April 20, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
New Haven SDA Church

Spilling
the
Secret
Prepared by: Nathalee McKnight
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Would you
like to be a
prophet?
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Spilling the Secret

Would you
like to have a
neighbor as a
prophet? 4
Spilling the Secret

Jeremiah
The
weeping
Prophet –
40 years of
ministry 5

John the Baptist
He wore
camel hair
and
munched
on locust
6

Jonah
The
Runaway
Prophet
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Isaiah
 The prophet God
demanded to
walk stark naked
through
Jerusalem to
make a
theological point8

Debra
Debra the
Prophetess
– But she’s
a mere
woman
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Noah
 The
man
that
lived
with
the
zoo 10

Jesus
A great prophet,
He kept bad
company, hung
out with
prostitutes and
riff-raffs,
fishermen,
invalids…
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The word prophet is found over
300 times in the Old Testament
and over 100 times in the New
Testament. It comes from two
Greek words pro meaning
“before,” or “in place of” and
fayme meaning “to speak.”
Secret Spillers
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Secret Spillers
Surely the Lord does
nothing, unless He reveals
His secrets to his servants
the prophets. Amos 3:7
 Prophets are confidants or
Secret-spillers 13

Stands in Secret
A prophet is far more than a
messenger from God. The prophet
is one who stands in the presence
of God
Jer 15:19 and Jer 23:18 - one who
stands in the council)
Council in Hebrew means secret
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Brings Hope
The prophet is in participation in
the council of God, not merely a
bearer of dispatches whose
function is limited to errands
The prophet is a counsellor as well
as a messenger
(The Prophets – Volume 1 p.23)
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Who Appoints Prophets?
4 Now Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the
womb, I knew you. Before you were
born, I sanctified you. I have
appointed you a prophet to the
nations.”
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Jeremiah 1: 4 -10

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Who Appoints Prophets?
Prophets are not self-
appointed. They never brag or
show-off about the calling.
None want to fill the post. No
one can learn to be a prophet.
God appoints prophets to do
his divine work.

6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh!
Behold, I don’t know how to speak;
for I am a child.”
7 But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t
say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go
to whomever I send you, and you
must say whatever I command you.
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Jeremiah 1: 4 -10
How Do Prophets React
to the Appointment?

8 Don’t be afraid because of
them, for I am with you to rescue
you,” says Yahweh.
9 Then Yahweh stretched out his
hand, and touched my mouth.
Then Yahweh said to me,
“Behold, I have put my words in
your mouth.
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Jeremiah 1: 4 -10

10 Behold, I have today set
you over the nations and
over the kingdoms, to
uproot and to tear down, to
destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”
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Jeremiah 1: 4 -10

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How Do the Prophets React to the
Appointment
Prophets submit or protest
Abraham felt unworthy
Moses’ reaction – send any
body, just not me
Isaiah said – “Woe is me, for
I am undone. I live among
people with unclean lips”

Hosea 9:7 NIV
The days of punishment are
coming, the days of reckoning
are at hand, Let Israel know this.
Because your sins are so many
and your hostility so great, the
prophet is considered a fool, the
inspired man a maniac.
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Gerhard von Rad
“The picture we see is of a man
appointed to hear the word of
God. As a result of this divine
call he surrenders much of his
freedom-occasionally he is
completely overwhelmed by
an external compulsion:
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But paradoxically, just because he has
received this call he is able to enjoy
an entirely new kind of freedom.
Drawn into ever more and more close
converse with God, he is privy to the
divine purposes and is thereby given
the authority to enter into a unique
kind of converse with men.
Old Testament Theology, Volume II, p.76 24
Gerhard von Rad

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Abraham J. Heschel
The prophet bears scorn and
reproach (Jer 15:15). He is
stigmatized as a madman by
his contemporaries, and, by
some modern scholars, as
abnormal.”
The Prophets, Volume 1, p.17-18

Warning
Prophets usually come with
urgent warnings but we are also
warned how to treat prophets
1 Chron.16:22 NASV
"Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm."
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Matthew 23:31-34 (KJV)
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto
yourselves, that ye are the children
of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of
your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell? 27
Jesus the Prophet Warned

Matthew 23:31-34 (KJV)
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto
you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify; and some of
them shall ye scourge in your
synagogues, and persecute them
from city to city:
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Matthew 23:37 (NASB)
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills
the prophets and stones those who
are sent to her! How often I wanted
to gather your children together, the
way a hen gathers her chicks under
her wings, and you were unwilling.
38 Behold, your house is being left to
you desolate! 29

•Amos 7: 1-3 (KJV)
1Thus hath the Lord GOD
shewed unto me; and, behold,
he formed grasshoppers in the
beginning of the shooting up
of the latter growth; and, lo, it
was the latter growth after the
king's mowings.
Prophets Can Change the Mind of God
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2 And it came to pass, that when
they had made an end of eating
the grass of the land, then I said,
O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech
thee: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small.
Prophets Can Change
the Mind of God
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As read in Amos 7:2 -
When the lives of others
are at stake, the prophet
does not say, “Thy will be
done!” But rather, “Thy
will be changed.”
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3 The LORD
repented for this:
It shall not be,
saith the LORD.
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A prophet is close to God,
He can change the mind
of God. When the secret is
revealed, it is one of woe
as in Amos 3:7, Amos does
not hesitate to challenge
the intention of the Lord.
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Same thing with the
prophet Abraham. When
God cast judgment on
Sodom and Gomorrah,
Abraham asked, if you
find 50, 45, 40, 30 20, 10.
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It was God himself who invited
Abraham to the negotiating table.
The Lord was looking on the extreme
wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah
and was getting ready to judge these
two cities. But before he did, he said;
"Shall I hide from Abraham what I
am doing"? (Genesis 18:17)
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Numbers 12: 6-8
6 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.
How Did the Prophets Receive Messages?

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How Did the Prophets Receive Messages?
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is
faithful in all mine house. 8 With
him will I speak mouth to mouth,
even apparently, and not in dark
speeches; and the similitude of the
LORD shall he behold: wherefore
then were ye not afraid to speak
against my servant Moses?
Numbers 12: 6-8

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How Did the Prophets Receive
Messages?
The divine messages
were delivered by
visions, by dreams or
by divine voice.

Adventists believe that some
prophecy, such as Jonah's
prophecy regarding Nineveh
was conditional. (Jonah 3:1-5, 4)
Other Conditional Prophecies
(Jeremiah 18:7-10, 2 Kings 20:1-6,
Jeremiah 26:17-19).
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Conditional Prophecy

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Jeremiah 36: 1-6
How Did the Prophetic Gift Work?
1And it came to pass in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from
the LORD, saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a
book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken unto thee against Israel, and
against Judah, and against all the nations,
from the day I spake unto thee, from the
days of Josiah, even unto this day.

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3 It may be that the house of Judah will
hear all the evil which I purpose to do
unto them; that they may return every
man from his evil way; that I may
forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son
of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the
mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD, which he had spoken unto him,
upon a roll of a book.
Jeremiah 36: 1-6

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5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into
the house of the LORD: 6 Therefore go
thou, and read in the roll, which thou
hast written from my mouth, the
words of the LORD in the ears of the
people in the LORD's house upon the
fasting day: and also thou shalt read
them in the ears of all Judah that
come out of their cities.
Jeremiah 36: 1-6

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Jeremiah 36: 1-6
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into
the house of the LORD: 6 Therefore go
thou, and read in the roll, which thou
hast written from my mouth, the
words of the LORD in the ears of the
people in the LORD's house upon the
fasting day: and also thou shalt read
them in the ears of all Judah that come
out of their cities.

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23 And it came to pass, that when
Jehudi had read three or four
leaves, he cut it with the
penknife, and cast it into the fire
that was on the hearth, until all
the roll was consumed in the fire
that was on the hearth.
Jeremiah 36: 23

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Jeremiah 36: 27-28
27 Then the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had
burned the roll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take thee again another roll, and
write in it all the former words that
were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim
the king of Judah hath burned.

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32 Then took Jeremiah another
roll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah; who
wrote therein from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the
book which Jehoiakim king of
Judah had burned in the fire: and
there were added besides unto
them many like words.
Jeremiah 36: 32

Jeremiah tells us that when
he re-wrote his message for
king Jehoiakim he "added
besides unto them many like
words", he was not confined
to the use of only his
original words in expressing
his message. 48

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The process of inspiration
is divine but it is also
human. As Jeremiah wrote
again he remembered some
of the things God had said,
those he didn’t include first
and he added those

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Divine revelation inspired
a prophet’s thoughts.
Which he then shaped into
words that either he or an
assistant then transcribed
into the written
Word of God

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The bible prophets who
wrote, were not God’s pen;
they were rather God’s
penman. God limits
himself to the human’s
ability to communicate.

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Thus it is not the
words of the Bible
that are inspired,
but rather the
writers of the bible.

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2 Peter 1:21
For the prophecy came
not in old time by the will
of man: but holy men of
God spake as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.

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The inspiration for
the prophets of God
are different from us
being inspired today.

Enoch and Elijah– was taken to heaven
without seeing death
John the Baptist – the greatest prophet
to come from a woman’s womb
Nathan, Noah, Abraham….
None of their writings made it in the
book but no one can question their
divine authority 55
Do All Prophets Have Their
Writings Recorded in the Bible?

The Bible reveals that God's
messengers exhibited a degree of
freedom in deciding what to write and
how best to present it. Many prophets
delivered messages orally, and thus no
written account was preserved at all. In
addition, God did not see fit even to
preserve the messages of some
prophets who had written out their
messages 1 Chron. 29:29
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Vindication for Prophets
The prophet’s mission and
message are eventually
divinely vindicated, though
by then the prophet is either
martyred or has disappeared
into obscurity.

Matthew 5:12
“Rejoice, and be exceeding glad:
for great is your reward in
heaven: for so persecuted they
the prophets which were
before you.”
All the prophets have either
died or been martyred. 58
Vindication for Prophets

•The relationship manifested through
the gift of prophecy – was utterly
essential and strategic in the divine gift
of salvation.
•Two gifts the creator gave the human
race because he could no longer enjoy
face to face communication with man
Two Gifts
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1. The gift of prayer
– 24 hours a day and
2. The gift of
prophecy
Two Gifts
60

Two Gifts
God cannot talk to us
face to face, He cannot
dwell with us. Darkness
and light cannot co-habit.
We have sins in our lives,
so God’s holiness would
kill us. 61

Prophecy connects
humans with God –
God is doing
everything possible to
save us and to keep
connected to us.
Two Gifts
62

Purpose of the Gift
of Prophecy
The gift of prophet is a gift given by the
Christ for the laying of the foundation
of the church. Prophets were
foundational to the church (Eph. 2:20).
The prophet proclaims a message from
the Lord to the early believers. The
early Christians did not have the
complete Bible. 63

Some early Christians did not have
access to any of the books of the New
Testament. The New Testament
prophets “filled the gap” by
proclaiming God’s message to the
people who would not have access to it
otherwise. The last book of the New
Testament (Revelation) was not
completed until late in the first
century. So, the Lord sent prophets to
proclaim God’s Word to His people. 64
Purpose of the Gift of Prophecy

Can God give someone a message
to deliver to someone else?
Absolutely! Does God reveal
truth to someone in a
supernatural way and enable that
person to deliver that message to
others? Absolutely! But is this the
biblical gift of prophecy? No.
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Purpose of the Gift of Prophecy

Before every major chapter of
judgement, God spills the secret to
His prophets so that you and I will
have an opportunity to be saved.
salvation history, God reveals His
his secrets to the servants the
prophets
Salvation History
66

2 Peter 1:19-20
19 We have also a more sure
word of prophecy; whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a light that shineth in
a dark place, until the day
dawn, and the day star arise
in your hearts:
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2 Peter 1:19-20
20 Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
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salvation history, God raised up
a prophet to announce the
divine secret of impending
salvation event.
Here are just seven chapters of
Salvation History
Salvation History
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Genesis 6:5-14 and 22
5 And God saw that the
wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that
every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
Chapter 1 - The Flood
70

6 And it repented the
LORD that he had made
man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his
heart.
71

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth
me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the LORD.
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22 Thus did Noah;
according to all that
God commanded
him, so did he.
Genesis 6:5-14 and 22 (KJV)
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When we get to heaven we have so
many questions to ask Noah? How
did you feel proclaiming a message
that could not be proven? And how
did you feel proclaiming the same
message for 120 years? And why did
you drink and get drunk after the
flood?
NOAH
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God doesn’t look for
perfect people, but willing
people. People who will
proclaim the ‘thus saith
the Lord’, despite their
shortcomings.
NOAH
75

God raised up a people, a
terrible set of stiff-necked
people. A people who would
be responsible for the
gospel, and spreading the
light to the world.
Chapter 2 - The Choosen
76

Abraham
77
Gal 3:6-9 MKJV Even as Abraham believed
God, and it was counted to him for
righteousness. (v.7) Therefore know that
those of faith, these are the sons of
Abraham. (v.8) And the Scripture, foreseeing
that God would justify the nations through
faith, preached the gospel before to
Abraham, saying, "In you shall all nations be
blessed." (v.9) So then those of faith are
blessed with faithful Abraham.

Chapter 3 - The Exodus
Exodus 3: 9-10
9 Now therefore, behold, the
cry of the children of Israel is
come unto me: and I have
also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them. 78

Moses
79
10 Come now therefore, and I
will send thee unto Pharaoh,
that thou mayest bring forth
my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 3: 10

Chapter 4 - The Exile
80
16 Restrain your voice from
weeping. Your eyes from
shedding tears; For there is
reward for your labor
Declares the Lord They shall
return from the enemy's land
Jer. 31:16-17

Jeremiah et al
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And there is hope for your
future declares the Lord,
The children shall return
to their country.
Jer. 31:16-17

Et al
For 3 centuries God sends
prophet after prophet, begging,
beseeching… His choosen
people to come back … they
were copying pagan neighbors,
worshipping false gods…
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Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi

“But you must return to
your God; maintain love
and justice, and wait for
your God always”
84
Hosea 12:6, NIV).

Matthew 24:15
When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of
desolation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, stand in
the holy place, (whoso
readeth, let him understand:)
Chapter 5- The Return
85

Daniel et Al
Daniel connects the Old and
New Testaments. Through
Daniel, God revealed the exact
date month and year of Messiah
death (Christ) and events
leading to His return.
86

 Daniel was a contemporary of Ezekiel and
Jeremiah all three being in Jerusalem
when Daniel and his friend were taken
captive to Babylon. In 605 B.C. Daniel,
was a young man probably about 14 to 15
years of age.
 Jeremiah was was about 36 years of age.
 Ezekiel was 22-years old in 605 B.C.
87
Daniel et Al

Chapter 6 - The Coming
of the Messiah – 1
88
Luke 1:17 (KJV)
17 And he shall go before him in the
spirit and power of Elias, to turn the
hearts of the fathers to the children,
and the disobedient to the wisdom
of the just; to make ready a people
prepared for the Lord.

John the Baptist
89
As a prophet, John the Baptist was a
novelty in Israel at this time. For nearly
400 years God had not spoken through
the prophets (see Isaiah 29:10).
Suddenly, from the Judean wilderness a
voice began to cry out, “Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is near” (Matt. 3:2).
Some listened, confessed sins,
repented and got baptized.

Chapter 7 - The Coming Part 2
Revelation 1:1-3 (KJV)
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto him, to
shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass;
and he sent and signified it by
his angel unto his servant John:
90

Revelation 1:1-3 (KJV)
John the Revelator
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2 Who bare record of the word of God,
and of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
and of all things that he saw.
3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they
that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are
written therein: for the time is at hand.

Females - Prophetesses
Some argue that God
doesn’t choose females
to lead but the bible
identifies a number of
female leaders and
prophetesses: 92

Three were married -
Deborah - Judges 4:4
Huldah - 2 Kings 22:14-20
Isaiah's wife - Isaiah 8:3
One was a widow -
Anna - Luke 2:36
93

Four were virgins at the time -
Philip's daughters Acts 21:8-9
Marital status not mentioned -
Miriam - Exodus 15:20-21
Noadiah - Nehemiah 6:14 NLT
94

God’s prophetic
office/gift is not
limited by gender, it’s
trans-gender
95

Here is
another
female God
called to
Spill the
Secret 96

We have learnt, that it is
consistent that before every
major event, God would raise
up a prophet.
Why was Ellen G. White
raised up?
What secret must she spill?
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Join me
later for
more…
“What
About the
Critics?” 98

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