Neviʾim | Prophet, Prophecy & Scripture (2024)

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What does prophecy mean in 1 Corinthians 14 1? ›

Modern Bible scholars describe this gift of prophecy in various ways. For some, it involves the God-given, Spirit-powered ability to preach an impactful message. Others understand this gift to involve suddenly receiving a revelation of information from God meant to be delivered to believers and unbelievers.

Bible prophecy or biblical prophecy comprises the passages of the Bible that are claimed to reflect communications from God to humans through prophets. Christians usually consider the biblical prophets to have received revelations from God.

A prophet teaches truth and interprets the word of God. He calls the unrighteous to repentance. He receives revelations and directions from the Lord for our benefit. He may see into the future and foretell coming events so that the world may be warned.

Some commentators suggest, that this is a reference to the promised Messiah, Immanuel, to whom the land of Judah belongs. Still others see in the name it's deeper meaning, "God with us." The Assyrians would fail to fully drown or carry off the people of Judah because God is with them.

Examples of Prophecies in Religions

For example, the prophet Isaiah declared that Jesus would be born from a virgin and that his name would be called Immanuel ("Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. . ." Isaiah 7:14).

Prophecy is a thing the whole church is able to do, and that Paul would like everyone to engage in, appropriately (1 Corinthians 11:2-16, 1 Corinthians 14:5, 24). Prophecy is a gift of some sort of speech that comes from the Spirit and is to be desired (1 Corinthians 14:1, 39)

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In the Hebrew canon the Prophets are divided into (1) the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) and (2) the Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve, or Minor, Prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi).

20: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: 20: teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you.

What no good thing will the Lord withhold from us? ›

Psalms 84:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

Now, Isaiah 8:13 makes it very clear what Isaiah means by reverence for God. It means to fear him instead of fearing men, or to dread him instead of dreading men. Isaiah says, “But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread” (Isaiah 8:13).

In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me," says the Lord. Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.

1 Corinthians 14 concludes Paul's teaching on the spiritual gifts begun in chapter 12. Between them, chapter 13 declared that Christlike love matters most of all. The gift of prophecy is better than the display of the gift of tongues in worship services unless someone with the gift of interpreting tongues is available.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an expectation or belief that can influence your behaviors, thus causing the belief to come true. If you expect everything to go wrong, you might put in less effort or fail to take steps that could turn things around, which means that expecting the worst brings out the worst.

Fulfillment of prophecy occurs as God brings blessing or consequences based on the conditions of the prophecy. God makes conditional, dual prophecies. God will do x if we meet His conditions but will do y if we don't. A conditional, dual prophecy.