How would anybody know if he has encountered a "New Testament" Prophet or not> A New Testament Prophet is not the same as a "Old Testament" Prophet.
If you notice by your OLD TESTAMENT READING, When The Old testament Prophet came on the scene. Look out, They had a message of coming Doom! from the hand of GOD!
This is how He applied it, "I will bless with this If you do this", But if you don't do what i tell you to do, i am going to do this to you" So in the day I do this to you, you are going to Know I am GOD! I am not going to kill all of you, but I am going to save SOME of you in Captivity, to be a witness.
a Remnant according to Grace.
When was the last time many have read about "Samuel, Nathan, Amos, Nahum, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elijah, Elisha, Micah, Obadiah, Micah, John the baptist, John of Patmos, Jonah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Hosea, Joel, Zechariah and Malachi. And God Had more.
Those Prophets had "If's and but's and when you do" in their messages! They were Prophets of impending DOOM! Most people did not want to see a "Prophet" of GOD come on the scene! Dooms day! "Did not i tell you" if you didn't do what i told you"!
They tell Him to go away, we want a "Prophet that tells us good things" We want the "Prosperity Prophet"! and don't call Jesus either, for He also has a lot of "If's" and buts in His Prophecies too
So How can you tell or do anyone know what a New Testament Prophet is? Is He a Prosperity or a Prophet of Impending Doom? Or is He a "fortuneteller"or clairvoyance.. Because the Letter to the Hebrews, said this;
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On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. 2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.…
