Prophets...how long?

[YESLORDIWILL]

Deut 18:20-22, But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

So how long does the prophet get for his words to come to pass? 2000 years? How could the prophet be put to death if he is predicting events that would happen hundreds or thousands of years later?

 

[Lamb]

Well, today they don't get put to death because in Deuteronomy God gave those laws to the Israelites and we are not under those laws but instead grace. In the New Testament we ARE warned about false prophets and told to test them against scripture.

 

[psalms 91]

Remember that it is God who judges and He knows what is His word and what is not

 

[brinny]

Deut 18:20-22, But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

So how long does the prophet get for his words to come to pass? 2000 years? How could the prophet be put to death if he is predicting events that would happen hundreds or thousands of years later?

i was just listening to a Bible teacher speak on the book of Isaiah. A true prophet of God was evident apparently because they prophesied about "immediate" issues as well as far-off things to come. They established their credibility and it became clear who was a prophet of God and who wasn't. It was thought that anyone speaking foolishly as a "prophet" but was was putting their life in their hands by claiming to speak for God but wasn't.

The bottom line is that God Himself backed up His own prophets, and it was evident therefore that they He gave them the authority to speak on His behalf.

 

[Hammster]

i was just listening to a Bible teacher speak on the book of Isaiah. A true prophet of God was evident apparently because they prophesied about "immediate" issues as well as far-off things to come. They established their credibility and it became clear who was a prophet of God and who wasn't. It was thought that anyone speaking foolishly as a "prophet" but was was putting their life in their hands by claiming to speak for God but wasn't.

The bottom line is that God Himself backed up His own prophets, and it was evident therefore that they He gave them the authority to speak on His behalf.

^^^This.


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[tango]

i was just listening to a Bible teacher speak on the book of Isaiah. A true prophet of God was evident apparently because they prophesied about "immediate" issues as well as far-off things to come. They established their credibility and it became clear who was a prophet of God and who wasn't. It was thought that anyone speaking foolishly as a "prophet" but was was putting their life in their hands by claiming to speak for God but wasn't.

The bottom line is that God Himself backed up His own prophets, and it was evident therefore that they He gave them the authority to speak on His behalf.

Where OT prophets were concerned the very fact their books survived suggests they prophesied enough things that did come to pass for them to be taken seriously. The fact that, for example, Daniel prophesied a number of things that have not come to pass despite 2000+ years passing doesn't change the things he prophesied that were very real and very immediate.

We don't execute prophets for getting it wrong any more, in the NT model we can fall back on Paul's call to "let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge" (1Co 14:29) - if there was no scope for a prophet to be fallible there would be no need to judge their words. The problem comes when people pronounce one prophecy after another after another and they are all either so vague they could apply to anything or they don't come to pass, and yet they don't get reined in and told (in the nicest possible way) to button it.