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Revelation of Hope

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My topic tonight is Revelation’s Prophetic Movement at End-Time.

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When you look out over the world tonight, men and women are searching for certainty. They are looking for assurance.

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They are looking for some answer from beyond the sky. They’re looking for some supernatural solution to their problems. As a result of that—

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There is an explosion of interest in psychic phenomena today.

People are seeking for answers outside of themselves. This search has led them down a variety of pathways.

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Some of them are searching in the area of the occult. Books on the occult are selling in multi-millions.

It seems there are more people today claiming to have the gift of prophecy. Some of these have achieved national acclaim.

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In the 1960’s Jeane Dixon became a prominent figure in Washington social circles.

In fact her book, “The Phenomenal Jeane Dixon” by Ruth Montgomery sold a million copies in just a few years. It continues to be a best seller today.

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A book entitled The Sleeping Prophet on the life of Edgar Cayce is having a renewed popularity in America today.

Edgar Cayce’s prophecies are hugely popular in some circles and his works sell out one edition after another.

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Interest in astrology columns in newspapers is growing rapidly as well.

Two thousand newspapers throughout the United States have astrology columns.

Why? Why all this interest in astrology and the occult?

Why all this interest in prophecy? Why this interest in psychic phenomena?

Why is it that psychic hotlines with their 900 numbers are exploding in growth and the phone lines are jammed?

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It’s because people want answers. They want answers outside of themselves. Their lives have become confused.

They are looking for some way to touch the Divine. They are seeking for someway to experience the supernatural.

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That is why so called “channelers” in the new age movement are also attracting large numbers of people.

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Yet here are some ominous words from Jesus warning us against the counterfeit. Matthew 24:24—

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“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive . . .” The Bible says there will be false christs and false prophets that will show signs and wonders.



They will claim they can put you in touch with the divine. They will claim that they can give you supernatural answers. But the Bible says they are false—what? False christs and prophets. Jesus goes on in His description and He says in—

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Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

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No false prophet comes advertising that he is a “False Prophet.” No, they don’t come that way.

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Some false prophets come with their psychic incantations. Some come with their crystal balls. Some false prophets come with their tarot cards. Some come with their ouija boards. Some come with their incense and their pendants. Some false prophets come with their psychic hotlines. Not one of them says, “We are false prophets.” They all claim to be true.

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Jesus says, “Beware of false prophets.” But wait a minute. If there are false prophets, could that be because the true gift of prophecy is part of God’s true church today?

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Would the devil counterfeit something that doesn’t have any original?

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How many of you have ever seen a counterfeit $3 bill? How many of you have ever seen a counterfeit $17 bill? What about a counterfeit $101 bill?

Would any counterfeiter in the world make a counterfeit $3 or $17 or $101 bill?

Why not? Because there is no genuine. You do not counterfeit something which does not exist.

If a person wants to make a counterfeit, they would make a counterfeit of a genuine bill. Right?

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What does the Bible teach about the genuine gift of prophecy? Could it be that the reason the devil counterfeits the prophetic gift is because God has a genuine?

Does scripture teach that there will be a manifestation of the genuine gift of prophecy in the last days of earth’s history?

Or does scripture teach, as many claim, that the gift of prophecy ceased at the end of Bible times?

Or should the church today expect that spiritual gifts are operative in the church. If so, how can we tell the genuine from Satan’s counterfeits?

Let’s go directly to Ephesians 4:8—

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“Therefore He says: ‘When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.’”

So when Jesus ascended up on high He led captivity captive and gave, what does the scripture say everybody? He gave gifts unto men.

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Now, if Jesus gives us gifts, I want those gifts, don’t you?

What were these spiritual gifts that only Christ Himself could give?

Whatever gift it is, I indeed want it. Ephesians, Chapter 4 continues in describing these gifts—

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“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, So what are the gifts that Jesus gives?

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He lists 5 specific gifts that He would place in the church: some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and some teachers.

Some would be teachers. Do we need Biblical teachers in the church today? Some would be pastors. Do we need good pastors today that preach God’s word faithfully?

Some would be apostles. That is divine administrators. Do churches today need administrators that believe God’s word and are praying men of faith? Do we need them? Indeed!

What about the gift of evangelists? Those that can preach God’s word and see people come to Christ and understand His word.

Do we need that gift in the church today? Certainly.

What about this gift of prophecy? Is this a gift that God will restore to His church in the last days?

How long would these gifts remain in the church and what would they be for?

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for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.”

So God would put spiritual gifts in His church. He would give His church pastors.

He would give His church administrators. He would give His church Bible teachers. He would give His church evangelists. He would give His church the gift of prophecy. He would bless His church with visions and dreams. That is what scripture says.

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Jesus gave these gifts to the church to strengthen it to accomplish its mission of proclaiming the gospel to the world.

The church needs all these gifts to challenge the enemy head on. 26

How long would these gifts remain in the church? Would they be taken away after a short period of time? The Bible tells us—

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Ephesians 4:13, 14 “Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,

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to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

So spiritual gifts would be in the church to bring that church to spiritual maturity.

To bring it to a full knowledge of Jesus until the day that Christ would come again. Why?

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that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine . . .”

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So as Jesus ascended to Heaven He said to His earthly church,

“I am going to give you gifts, I am going to place My gifts in the church.”

One of those gifts will be the gift of prophecy. The gift of prophecy and the other spiritual gifts will remain in the church until it comes to maturity.

They would remain until the church comes to spiritual completeness, until the church comes to the place where it indeed is ready for the coming of Jesus.

Would God’s church in the last days come behind in any gift?

Would God’s church in the last days have all the gifts of the spirit? Including the gift of prophecy?

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1 Corinthians 1:7 “So that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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The Bible says that the church waiting for the coming of Christ would come behind in no gift.

If you and I are looking for truth, if we’re looking for God’s true people on earth, if we’re looking for the body of Christ on earth—

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We need to find a church that is eagerly anticipating the coming of Christ.

It must be an Adventist Church – A church that longs to see Jesus come soon.

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It must be a Bible based church, a grace filled church, that preaches the blood of Christ and salvation as only through grace.

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We need to find a church that leads to obedience to the commandments, which is a Sabbath keeping church. But to that body, to that Bible-believing group of believers, we should expect and anticipate the gift of prophecy being restored. Because if it doesn’t have the gift of prophecy it would come behind in a gift. And the Bible says that the church waiting for the coming of Jesus should come behind in no gift.

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So we should anticipate that Jesus is going to give His last day church the gift of prophecy.

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Jesus promised the gift of prophecy would be revived in the last days.

Maybe that’s the reason why today in our world we are seeing an explosion of interest in astrology.

An explosion of interest in psychic phenomena. An explosion of interest in the occult. An explosion of interest in the New Age movement.

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Because there are two great dangers. The first danger is to accept the counterfeit.

Millions of people wanting a supernatural experience accept a false supernatural experience.

The second danger is to be so skeptical of all these false manifestations that we reject the genuine.

It is possible to be so cautious that you become afraid of any church that claims it has the gift of prophecy.

It is possible to turn your back on the genuine because you don’t want to accept the false. In fact, there is a question that we need to answer—

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How can we tell the difference between the true and the false?

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Some time ago a great deal of counterfeit money was being passed through the United States of America.

The US government became concerned, so they brought in men and women from all over America to Washington, D.C. for a 6 week course on how to detect counterfeit money.

They went to classes for 8-10 hours a day, for 6 weeks. How many counterfeit bills do you think they handled every single day?

Do you have any idea? They were becoming specialists in detecting counterfeit money.

They did not handle one counterfeit bill.

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They studied the genuine 5, 10, 20 and 100 dollar bills. They learned to detect counterfeit money by knowing the genuine so well that they could immediately spot a counterfeit.

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There is a way to detect the counterfeit gift of prophecy. The Bible gives us 6 tests for the genuine gift of prophecy.

And once you understand these Biblical tests, you can spot a counterfeit gift a thousand miles away. Now why is it that God gave the gift of prophecy to His children in the Bible anyway? Isaiah 59:2 says—

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“But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.”

In the Garden of Eden, God communicated with Adam and Eve face to face. But after Adam and Eve sinned, God could no longer communicate with them face to face. If He would have, they would have been immediately consumed. Sin is combustible material in the presence of the Holy God. In a sinful state, they would have been consumed by His glory. So because God longed to share His love with them, He chose an alternate method of communication. The Bible describes it this way,

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Numbers 12:6

“. . . If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.”

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God used two methods to communicate with these Biblical prophets.

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1. An angel brought them a vision or a dream. An angelic messenger descended from heaven, and the prophet might be asleep, and God would give them a dream.

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The prophet might be awake and God gave them visions. Their eyes would be open. They would still be breathing and they would receive this vision from God. These visions and dreams that God gave the Bible prophets were written down. The books of Daniel and Revelation are largely books of visions and dreams.

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There was a second way that God communicated with these Biblical prophets. He impressed their minds through His Holy Spirit. The apostle Paul says, in 2 Timothy 3:16

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“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God . . .”

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2 Peter 1:21

“For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” So there are two ways, a vision or dream. Or sometimes God impresses the mind with the Holy Spirit and the prophets begin to write out that impression.

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Not all of God’s prophets are Bible writers.

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For example, turn to the book of Agabus. Do you know where the book of Agabus is?

Well, you say Agabus is not a book of the Bible. You are right, it’s not.

But Agabus was a prophet, did you know that?

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Acts 11:27, 28 “And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch. Then one of them, named Agabus,

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stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar.” Was Agabus a true prophet? Yes. Did the Holy Spirit impress his mind? Yes. Did he make a prediction? Yes. Do you find the book of Agabus in the Bible? No.

Agabus’ prophecies were for a time of crisis that the church at Jerusalem was experiencing.

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What’s the difference between the Bible writers and these other true prophets?

They both were inspired by God. The prophets whose writings are included in the Bible have a message that is eternal in time and universal in scope.

The true prophets whose writings are not included in the Bible have a message from God for the church at a particular period of time.

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Probably the most famous Bible prophet that does not have a book in the Bible is John the Baptist.

If I said to you, “Turn to the book of John the Baptist,” could you turn to it in the Bible? The gospel of John was written by the disciple John.

There is no book by John the Baptist. Was John the Baptist a prophet?

Sure, he prepared the way for the coming of Jesus.

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Were there any women prophets? Definitely. In the Old Testament Deborah was a prophetess.

Hulda was a prophetess.

And in the New Testament the seven daughters of Philip were prophetesses.

A prophet or prophetess receives visions and dreams from God.

Some of them are in the Canon of scripture. There are others who are true prophets but their writings are not separate books of the Bible. They were given visions or dreams for that period of time. They were God’s gifts to the Church.

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Now what are the tests of a true prophet? How can you tell a true from a false prophet? Here are six tests that God gives us in His word.

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1. Prophetic accuracy When a prophet makes a prediction that is not conditional on the repentance of people, the true prophet is accurate 100% of the time.

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Jeremiah 28:9 “As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass,

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the prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent.” So what does God say? If the prophet’s prediction is accurate then you can know they are a true prophet. There are some cases where the prophecies were conditional.

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Jonah is a good example of a prophet who made a conditional prophecy. He told Ninevah that the city would be destroyed unless they repented. They repented so they were spared, but Jonah was still a true prophet. Isn’t that only logical? If a prophet is not 100% accurate, let’s say the prophet was only 50% accurate, does that mean God was wrong half the time? You see, false prophets can guess but only God knows.

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Take Jeane Dixon for example.

The best estimates by her most ardent followers are that she was only 60% accurate.

It is much more likely that she was at most 30% accurate. Does this mean that God was wrong 70% of the time?

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Average leading psychic accuracy 16% Some time ago a popular Christian magazine called “These Times” printed an article in which the author, Ralph Blodgett evaluated the accuracy of the psychics over a given year.

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He compared their prophecies at the beginning of the year with their supposed fulfillment at the end of the year.

He discovered this amazing fact. They were accurate only 16% of the time. I’m certainly no prophet but I think I could guess and be 16% right. In fact, today, psychics offer to help you discover if you are “psychic”. You just guess on a number of things that might happen and if you get a few right, then maybe you have psychic potential. And they will help you “develop” it (for a fee, of course! ) For a prophet to be a prophet of God, they must pass the 100% prophetic accuracy test.

God’s true prophets are accurate because God does not confuse the message. God’s true prophets are accurate not 60% of the time, not 30% of the time, not 16% of the time but all the time.

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The second test is Biblical faithfulness. A true messenger from God will lead people back to the Bible. Bible prophets don’t rise to tell you what movie star is going to be married for the fifth time.

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Do you think the great God of heaven in this enormous controversy between good and evil is going to raise up prophets to tell you what the stock market is going to do? Or to tell you who is going to marry who in the latest hot gossip sheet in Hollywood? Ladies and gentlemen, here is the Biblical faithfulness test. Now this is powerful—

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Deuteronomy 13:1-4 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’

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—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’

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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams . . .

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You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice,

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and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.”

This passage is extremely significant.

Most people think that if a prophet makes a prediction and the prediction comes to pass that the prophet must be a spokesperson for God.

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This text says, if the so-called prophet is not leading a person to the word of God, to be faithful to scripture, they are blatantly false.



Run from them, because they’ll deceive you. There is an old saying that says, “If you play with fire you may be burned.”

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3. Exalts Jesus The genuine gift of prophecy exalts Jesus Christ. Look at this clear passage of scripture.

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1 John 4:1, 2

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.” God says don’t be gullible. God says don’t be deceived. God says there are many false prophets that have gone out into the world. But the gift of prophecy leads people to Jesus. You see the genuine gift of prophecy, according to the Bible, is found in Revelation 19:10—

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“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

A genuine prophet of God testifies of Jesus. John the Baptist testified of Jesus. He said, “He must increase and I must decrease.”

A genuine gift of prophecy is “The testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 19:10). The true prophet bears witness for Jesus and of Jesus.

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Let me give you an example in the writings of Edgar Cayce. What does this supposed prophet say about Jesus? In Edgar Cayce’s writings Jesus is a cosmic master. He is not presented as the Divine Son of God. Edgar Cayce did not believe that the cross of Christ provided salvation for all mankind.

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False prophets will acknowledge that Christ exists but they deny salvation through His blood. They will say that Christ is just another one of the prophets. They do not believe He is the eternal Son of God. This clearly identifies them as false prophets. A true prophet will be 100% accurate. They will lead us back to teachings of the Bible and to Jesus as humanities only Savior.

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4. Commandment keeping The prophets of the Bible like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, were raised up at times when men and women were breaking God’s commandments. They called for obedience. They called for faithfulness. They called for a return to keeping God’s commandments. Here it is, Isaiah 8:20—

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“To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

If that so-called prophet is not leading you back to the commandments of God, if they do not lead to obedience, they are false prophets.

Notice the fifth test.

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5. Physical tests

This involves physical phenomena associated with the gift of prophecy in the Bible.

Three physical criteria distinguish the genuine gift:

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1. Prophets experience visions with their eyes open. Their eyes remain open throughout the vision. —Numbers 24:4

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2. In vision, prophets have no physical strength. —Daniel 10:8

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3. Prophets, in vision, do not breathe.

—Daniel 10:17

When a prophet goes into a vision, the physical characteristics of the vision are: the eyes are open; the prophet does not have physical strength and does not breathe.

Why doesn’t the prophet breathe? Because all scripture is inspired by God. The word inspired means “God breathed.” God is sustaining the life of the Biblical prophet.

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The sixth test is spiritual fruitage.

The genuine gift of prophecy is given to God’s church.

God doesn’t raise up a lone prophet here and another there. God places the gift of prophecy in His church to bear spiritual fruit in the life of believers and in the life of that church.

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Matthew 7:20 says, “Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

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If God has a church on earth today,

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And if God raises up a Christ-centered, cross-preaching, grace-filled, Bible-believing, Sabbath-observing, Seventh-day Adventist people, if God does that, would He restore to that group prophetic visions and dreams?

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Not to take the place of the Bible, but to get His people through the last days.

Prophetic visions and dreams that are accurate. Prophetic visions and dreams that take you back to the Bible. Prophetic visions and dreams that exalt Jesus Christ. Prophetic visions and dreams that meet the criteria of the physical tests, and have the spiritual fruitage.

Let’s look at what God says about His last day church in Revelations message to His end time people.

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Revelation 12:17 “And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring,

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who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

This verse is part of a brief history of the church from before Christ’s time to the time of the end.

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Chapter 12 predicts that the church would be persecuted during a 1260 year period and that it would flourish again at the end of time.

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And then verse 17 identifies these two characteristics of God’s last-day people:

They keep the commandments of God and they have the testimony of Jesus. John tells us very plainly:

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Revelaton 19:10

“For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

God’s last day people, God’s last divine movement on earth, God’s Bible-believing, Christ-centered,

Sabbath-keeping people, must have the gift of prophecy.

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The gift of prophecy is placed in the church! In fact, look what Corinthians says,

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1 Corinthians 12:28 “And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets . . .”

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If we believe that we have found God’s church it must have the Biblical gift of prophecy.

If it did not, it could not possibly be the true church because the Bible predicts the true church will have it. The Bible teaches that Jesus Himself would bless His last day church with the gift of prophecy.

God does have a Christ-centered, Bible-based, Sabbath-keeping, Adventist Church on earth today.

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Now here is the question.

Has God blessed the Seventh-day Adventist Church with the gift of prophecy? If He has not, then we need to keep looking for the bride of Christ in Revelation 12.

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If God has NOT restored the gift of prophecy in His last day church then He would not be faithful to His own word. God promised to restore the gift of prophecy. He promised to place it in the church waiting for the coming of the Lord. The Bible says that when Jesus ascended up on high, He gave gifts to men. One of those gifts was the gift of prophecy. The church would come behind in no gift. Faithful to His word, God Himself, placed the gift of prophecy in His last day, Sabbath-keeping, Adventist church.

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God took a young woman, the weakest of the weak, with only a third grade education, and blessed her with prophetic visions and dreams.

This young woman was very sickly but her mind and heart were open to God.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that God gave her the gift of prophecy. Her name was—

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Ellen G. White

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Ellen G. White: God gave her— 1. More than 2000 prophetic visions and dreams.

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2. Wrote over 50 books.

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3. Lectured to thousands on 3 continents.

The last years of Ellen White’s life were spent in California.

When George Wharton James was writing the history of California, in his book, “California: The Romantic and the Beautiful,” he commented on this simple, humble, Godly, spiritual woman on p. 319. George Wharton James was a historian, certainly not a Seventh-day Adventist, and he said…

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“This remarkable woman, though almost entirely self-educated, has written and published

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more books in more languages which circulate to the greater extent than any other woman in history.”

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Quite remarkable for a woman who was sick in her early years. Quite amazing for a woman who had only a third grade education.

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There are many people who have questions about the gift of prophecy. Does the prophetic gift replace the Bible? For example, do Seventh-day Adventists accept the writings of Ellen White on a par with the Bible?

Seventh-day Adventists believe in the Bible and in the Bible only as the source of every Bible doctrine. Every teaching of the Adventist Church comes directly out of the Bible.

Seventh-day Adventists also believe in the entire Bible.

We do not drop the portion of the Bible that says God will restore prophetic gifts to the church. If we are a Bible-believing people, we have to accept the entire Bible, including the part that says God will restore the gift of prophecy. Even when that prophetic message might rebuke us for some cherished sin. The only thing an honest-hearted man or woman can do before dismissing someone who claims to have the gift of prophecy, is to examine the individuals’ claims.

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Apply these prophetic tests to Ellen White:

If this person meets the Biblical tests of a messenger from the Lord, we should accept them as a genuine voice from God. If they do not, we ought to rule them out. How does Ellen White line up to those six Biblical tests? Let’s look at them.

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What about prophetic accuracy? What areas did Ellen White write in and were those areas accurate?

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Back in the 1800s when she lived and wrote people had no idea that sugar and fat contributed to coronary heart disease.

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And Ellen White wrote about a diet of whole grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. The very diet that the American Heart Association has now recommended.

This diet is also an anti-cancer diet. Scientific researchers have concluded a diet rich in fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables helps to prevent cancer.

Clive McKay of Cornell University said, “This woman is 100 years ahead of her time in the area of diet.”

Back in the 1800s, Ellen White wrote in Ministry of Healing,

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“Tobacco is a slow, insidious, but most malignant poison.” —The Ministry of Healing p. 327

When she wrote this, Doctors were recommending cigars to their patients! They also believed inhaling tobacco smoke would cleanse the lungs. That was in the 1800s. But Ellen White wrote that tobacco was a malignant poison long before any scientific evidence said otherwise. Today we know that smoking causes cancer and a host of other diseases. No researcher today would argue with Mrs. White on this point.

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Ellen White also wrote that when a baby is in the womb of its mother, the attitude of the mother has an influence on the child’s physical and mental health.

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How did Ellen White know the difference between the health fads of the day and sound science?

How did she know what to write down in an age of such confusion in the area of health?

God placed the gift of prophecy in the church, not to take the place of the Bible, but God placed it there so that His people would have better health.

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Ellen White wrote about the rise of the occult. She wrote about spiritualism, she wrote about bizarre cults rising up in the last days.

She predicted that there would be an explosion of interest in psychic phenomena, astrology, and communication with the dead. She made this prediction at a time when Americans had very little interest in such things.

These predictions have come true. They were accurate.

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What about Biblical faithfulness? What did Ellen White herself say? If you want to evaluate somebody’s writings you go to their writings. You don’t go to what some said, they said. You don’t go to some web page by their critics who have prejudged them without examining all the evidence. I certainly would not want someone criticizing me based on what someone else said. So if you asked Ellen White what she believed about the Bible, what would she say?

She wrote in the book The Great Controversy—

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“In our time there is a wide departure from their doctrines and precepts, and there is need

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of a return to the great Protestant principle—the Bible, and the Bible only, as the rule of faith and duty.”

Can you agree with that statement today? That we need to return to the Bible. The true gift of prophecy leads people back to the Bible.

Seventh-day Adventists do not believe that Ellen White’s writings in any way take the place of the Bible. They do not believe that her writings are another Bible.

They do believe that God graciously gave the church the gift of the Holy Spirit in visions and dreams to guide in these last days.

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The true gift of prophecy exalts Jesus Christ. What about Ellen White, did she exalt Jesus Christ?

Let’s see what she says herself about Jesus in Gospel Workers, p. 160, one of Ellen White’s books to Christian workers. She says—

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“Lift up Jesus, you that teach the people, lift Him up in sermon, in song, in prayer.

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Let all your powers be directed to pointing souls, confused, bewildered, lost, to ‘the Lamb of God.’”

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Ellen White’s writings are filled with an emphasis on Jesus. She points out again and again that we are saved by grace through Christ. She wrote Desire of Ages, on the life of Christ; Christ’s Object Lessons, on the parables of Christ; Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, on the teachings of Christ on the mount, and Steps to Christ, on how to know Jesus for yourself.

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Somebody said the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Rather than read the critics, get the book Desire of Ages, prayerfully read it and see if the Spirit speaks to your heart.

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The Library of Congress in the United States of America has more books than any other single place in America. There are thousands of volumes. A popular Protestant minister went to the Library of Congress. He asked the librarian at that time, “What’s your most outstanding book on the life of Christ in all of the Library of Congress.” Here is what this librarian at the Library of Congress said…

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“My preference or choice would be guided by what I wish to get from the book or books to be read, but let me put it this way:

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I would put The Desire of Ages, by Ellen G. White first for spiritual discernment and practical application.”

Ellen White fulfills this Biblical test. Her writings exalt Jesus as Lord and Savior. This leads us to the fourth test of a true prophet.

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At a time of rebellion the Biblical prophets led people back to commandment keeping.

The prophets did not manufacture something that was not in the Bible. They did not contradict the prophets who had gone before them.

Ellen White leads us back to obedience to God. She exalts the law of God and points out the significance of the seventh-day Sabbath. She urges people to study the Bible.

And as Jesus did, she says that if we love Him, we will keep His commandments.

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The modern gift of prophecy meets the test of accuracy. It meets the test of Biblical faithfulness. It exalts Jesus. It leads back to commandment keeping.

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What about the physical tests? One of the physical tests is that prophets don’t breath in vision.

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Dr. Drummond was a skeptic.

He said, “I cannot accept visions and dreams from any woman, I reject them.” “I know,” he continued, “based on Daniel the tenth chapter you are not supposed to breathe in vision. I will examine her in vision.”

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You can read the medical account of Dr. Drummond when he examined Ellen White in vision. He said, “She does not breathe. This is an unusual phenomenon.”

And Drummond himself became a believer in God’s work through visions and dreams.

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During her visions she didn’t breath and her eyes were opened.

What about spiritual fruitage? What is the spiritual fruitage? Why would the church need the gift of prophecy today?

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Ellen White wrote a book called Education, and in it she said, that Seventh-day Adventists, Bible-believing Christians, should establish schools around the world, so Adventist young people could be educated to bring the gospel to the world.

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What is the spiritual fruitage? The largest Protestant educational system in the world!

According to the church’s education department website, (http://www.adventist.org/mission_and_service/education.html.en)

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Over 1.1 million students attend over 5600 schools, colleges and universities in nearly 145 countries of the world. Adventist schools dot the globe.

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What is the spiritual fruitage? Universities, like Loma Linda University, one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world. Ellen White joined in picking out the site. She was one of the pioneers to start Loma Linda. Loma Linda’s heart team has traveled around the world doing untold good, touching the lives of tens of thousands.

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Over 13 million outpatients visit the 785 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, dispensaries, children’s facilities, airplane and medical launches operated by the church each year.

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Florida Hospital, one of the most extensive and renowned hospitals systems in the United States is well known for its blend of scientific expertise and Christian compassion.

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What is the fruitage of the writings of this gift of prophecy? Hospitals around the world. Ellen White’s writings do not deal with bizarre events and wild-eyed fanaticism. They have changed the world for the better. These are visions and dreams to guide God’s people so that church can move forward around the world. Seventh-day Adventists today have a modern mission movement that spans the globe.

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J.N. Andrews was sent out from the United States to Switzerland, because early Adventist leaders believed that we needed to reach a world for Christ. Andrews left in the late 1800’s. As a result of this missionary endeavor encouraged and fostered, by Ellen White,

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Seventh-day Adventists have established work in 202 of the 228 countries of the world listed by the United Nations. Seventh-day Adventists today have more work in more countries than any other Protestant denomination. God has blessed incredibly.

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It’s amazing to me how God is leading people to this Bible-based, Christ-centered, grace-filled movement, that is upholding God’s law.

It’s amazing to me how God is touching honest-hearted people who are looking for truth. They are seeing that God indeed has restored the gift of visions and dreams through the gift of prophecy.

God is leading people to His church in amazing ways.

Many years ago there was a young man in Africa by the name of Sekuba. (This is a well documented story.) He went to bed one night; he said—

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“O big God of the stars, O big God, I feel empty in my heart. O big God, take me to a place where I can learn your truth.”

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That night in 1953, an angel descended from heaven and visited the hut and said, “Follow me.” Sekuba began to walk.

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He traveled through the African grasslands and desert. The angel being instructed Sekuba he would guide him to the people of the book. Sekuba responded, “I cannot read a book.”

The angel replied, “You will be taught how to read.

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You will know they are the people of the book because they will have a black book. But they will also have 4 books that are really 9.”

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Sekuba continued walking. He walked at night for two weeks. He came to the edge of the jungles and found a Christian mission.

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He went in and he said, “I’m looking for the people of the book.” The man said, “We are the people of the book, we are a Christian mission!” Sekuba said, “But wait, I need to find 4 books that are really 9.” The man said, “What do you mean by that?”

That night Sekuba went to bed, and the angel appeared again and said, “Find Pastor Moyo and the Sabbath-keeping people. He will have the 4 books that are really nine.”

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Sekuba continued to walk.

He walked through the fields, through the jungle.

He came to a little Seventh-day Adventist mission. 153

And he said, “Is Pastor Moyo here?” Pastor Moyo came out.

And Sekuba said, “I’ve been guided by God to you. My whole tribe does not know anything about the big papa God of heaven, nothing about Him. “I’ve been led to you. Do you have the Book?”

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Pastor Moyo went and got his well worn black Bible and Sekuba said,

“That is the book I saw in vision, do you believe this book?”

Pastor Moyo said we believe in the Christ of this book, and the commandments of this book and the Sabbath of this book.

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Sekuba said, “Where are the 4 books that are really 9?” Pastor Moyo said, “I have those books too.”

You see, Ellen White wrote 9 volumes to the church of God’s power to change lives.

These were Testimonies of counsel on Christian living and godliness.

They were bound in 4 volumes. Pastor Moyo asked, “Are these the books you are looking for?”

And Sekuba responded, “Yes, they are. I have found God’s people.” After weeks and months of instruction, Sekuba returned to his own people a changed man bringing the gospel to that remote village.

Accepted as part of God’s family, Sekuba was baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

He went back as a missionary to his tribe and almost the whole tribe accepted Jesus and the Bible truths like you have been hearing in this lecture series.

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Ladies and gentlemen, when men and women are honest-hearted God leads them. The Bible says that in these last days, God will have a special people. He promises to give His people a special gift from Jesus called the gift of prophecy. Not to take the place of the Bible - never! Not to have the authority of the Bible - never! Not to take the place of Jesus Christ - never! But as a special gift given by God to guide and direct His people to know Jesus better, to understand the word of God better.

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Tonight thousands of honest-hearted people are saying, “Lord, thank you for leading me to understand and know God’s truth. Because God still leads.” In your heart tonight can you say, “Praise God that He still leads.” Thank you Jesus for your guidance. Thank you for leading me to your people. Thank you for guiding my life. If you too, believe He has led you, would you like to raise your hand and thank Him as we pray?

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