{"id":62127,"date":"2023-02-05T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62127"},"modified":"2023-02-05T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T21:15:17","slug":"conflicting-prophecies-on-nigeria-understanding-gods-voice-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=62127","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Conflicting\u2019 prophecies on Nigeria: Understanding God\u2019s voice 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: The Preacher<\/strong><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Prophetic Seasons<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every prophecy is not for every person; every prophecy is not for every season.\u00a0 A prophecy could be right and potent, but if it should miss its season, it loses validity and potency while retaining authenticity.\u00a0 That a prophecy is authentic does not mean that it is still valid.\u00a0 That a passport is genuine does not mean that it might not have expired.\u00a0 Expired drugs could be dangerous, so are some prophecies, applied indiscriminately without regard to their season.\u00a0 We can learn from expired prophecies, but not so safe to put all our weight on them. Unfortunately, not always do we take time to check expiry dates when we pick up essential items.<\/p>\n

Prophecies often have a timeframe within which they could be activated or forfeited.\u00a0 For example, God told Prophet Samuel to go to Jesse\u2019s house and anoint one of his sons as king of Israel in potential replacement of King Saul.\u00a0 If Samuel waited until 50 years before he went to that address, authentic as the message was, he would not have found whom God had meant.\u00a0 Did God lie then?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It would have been that the prophet missed the time. (1 Samuel 16:1-3).<\/p>\n

Eli was a descendant high priest.\u00a0 To his ancestors, God promised a perpetual priesthood (Numbers 18:8-9).\u00a0 However, when Eli and his sons began to live lives that contravened the implicit terms of that apparently perpetual promise, God changed His mind (1 Samuel 2:30).\u00a0 Prophecy A was the Promise \u2013 You shall be my priests forever.\u00a0 Prophecy B was the cancelation of the Promise \u2013 \u201cbe it far from me.\u201d Anyone standing in Season B to claim Promise A would have been acting out of context; but it happens at times, especially when people are deaf to or deliberately ignore prophetic updates.\u00a0 Not that God changes, but the human actors do, and they are crucial in the fulfilment of certain prophecies.<\/p>\n

To apply Prophecy A of Season A to Season B could be presumptuous.\u00a0 Imagine someone proclaiming in Season B, \u201cI was there when God promised a perpetual priesthood to Eli\u2019s family.\u00a0 God does not lie.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter whatever happens.\u00a0 Eli and his sons are priests forever unto God.\u201d\u00a0 Such a proclamation would not be a lie, but it would not be the truth.\u00a0 It is not false prophecy emanating from a false spirit or a deliberate intent to deceive; it is wrong prophecy emanating from ignorance, from sincere human error.\u00a0 False prophets sometimes predict correctly, which does not make them prophets from God; but prophets of God also sometimes make wrong proclamations, as when Samuel wrongly announced Eliab as king designate, which did not make Samuel a false prophet or a messenger of Satan (1 Samuel 16:6-7).\u00a0 He was wrong, but he was not false.<\/p>\n

When a people are not current with God; when they do not stay tuned in to His channel, the tendency is there to feed their hungry people with the worms from yesterday\u2019s manna that had truly fallen from God (Exodus 16:20).\u00a0 True prophets might sometimes give wrong prophecies without having lost their call (1 Samuel 16:6-7), and false prophet even when they are right would still be messengers of hell (Acts 16:16-17; Revelation 13:13-14; 16:13-14), and smart folks pretending to be divine would give fake prophecies, even if they appeared true (Jeremiah 23:25-26).\u00a0 True prophets, wrong prophets, false prophets, fake prophets.<\/p>\n

Back to Eli\u2019s household and their prophetic seasons.\u00a0 Prophecy A was what God said in the past about that household, it was not what God was saying in the present about the same people.\u00a0 A few years back, for example, God was so displeased with priests in Nigeria that there were strong denunciations and prophetic outcries against them from prophets within and prophets without the country, and judgment loomed.\u00a0\u00a0 That sparked many calls to repentance and prayers of confession to the point of making it almost a ridiculous ritual in certain prayer circles.\u00a0\u00a0 Revival has not yet come to the nation; there are still very corrupt priests in the land, but God\u2019s message to the nation in this season (as distinct from His message to specific individuals in the nation) is not warnings about imminent judgment demanding national repentance but calls to strategic prayer and watchfulness, which should birth the new nation of a man-child being threatened and besieged by the desperate Red Dragon (Revelation 12:1-3).<\/p>\n

The New Testament presents us with one more example.\u00a0 Once upon a time, Jesus sent out His disciples with a COMMANDMENT to \u201ctake NOTHING for their journey\u201d (Mark 6:8).\u00a0 Note: it was a commandment. Sometime later, however, the same Jesus called the same disciples, reminded them first of \u201cWHEN\u201d in the past they had been commanded to take nothing with them, then He proceeded to say to them, \u201cBut now\u2026\u201d\u00a0 In that new season, they were being permitted to take everything they could take, plus all that they had been refused in the past (Luke 22:35-36).\u00a0\u00a0 A preacher with his palace in the past might have insisted that because Prophecy A had been so clear and so strong a commandment, there couldn\u2019t be Prophecy B.\u00a0 He might have said, \u201cI heard the voice of God clearly then.\u00a0 He said, \u2018Take nothing as you go.\u2019\u00a0 It was a commandment.\u00a0 Therefore, any other voice saying something else now cannot be the same Lord.\u00a0 It is the devil.\u201d\u00a0 Such a past-tense preacher would not be lying, but his proclamations would not be valid.\u00a0 It is expired prophecy.\u00a0 Followers of such a legalistic voice would pine away and die for nothing along their journey, while thinking ignorantly that they were making a huge sacrifice for the Kingdom of God.\u00a0 \u201cTake nothing\u201d was a valid prophecy for yesterday, but not for today.\u00a0 That it came from a very credible prophet then, does not mean that applying it today is appropriate.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, fulfilment to a valid prophecy might not be as prompt as seems apparent in the proclamation.\u00a0 A prophetic \u201cnow\u201d could linger for ages, making observers to think that the prophecy had failed.\u00a0 For example, whereas God announced what looked like a prompt termination of Eli\u2019s priesthood (1 Samuel 2:30), that family continued in the priesthood in the face of everyone who had heard the prophecy and had expected its fulfilment \u2018now-now,\u2019 as they would say in Nigeria.\u00a0 Fulfilment of that \u2018prompt\u2019 prophecy came in phases, over at least 150 years, up to the time of King Solomon when Abiathar became the contemporary casualty of the old curse (1 Kings 2:26-27).\u00a0 With Eli\u2019s successors still in the priesthood, observers of prophecy at that time might have mocked the prophet who had announced the termination of that priesthood.\u00a0 Did God lie?\u00a0 Or was it the observers who were wrong in their interpretation of the seasons and the process of fulfilment of that prophecy?<\/p>\n

It is not enough to identify a prophecy as the authentic word of God.\u00a0 We should also be able to discern the season for which it is meant.\u00a0 Prophecies also have their \u201ctimes\u201d and \u201cseasons\u201d (Acts 1:6-7).<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Prophetic Stations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some crisis in the fulfilment of prophecy comes not only from prophecy missing its season but also from prophecy missing its station.\u00a0 If prophecy specific to Mr A were enforced on Mrs B, one would get fulfilment and other disappointment.\u00a0 If prophecy meant for me were announced as if it had been meant for all, there would be widespread disappointment, not because the prophecy was false or fake, but because it had been sent to a \u2018wrong address.\u2019\u00a0 If one does not listen well, it is possible for handlers of prophecy sometimes to give national interpretation to a personal prophecy, making it seem as if the prophet had lied, whereas the interpreters were to blame.\u00a0 It is the stormy crisis of prophets fleeing to Tarshish with a message meant for Nineveh (Jonah 1:1-4).<\/p>\n

God sent Samuel to Jesse\u2019s house (1 Samuel 16:1-5).\u00a0 Let us suppose that Mr Jesse thereupon went about to other men in his city, saying, \u201cGod is about to anoint a son in our city as new king.\u00a0 I heard the prophet myself.\u00a0 All fathers should therefore prepare their sons for the selection.\u201d\u00a0 Undiscerning disciples of such a handler, who stood up their sons to wait, would have waited forever for Prophet Samuel until their sons died on standing.\u00a0 It would have had nothing to do with the Lord or His prophet, but everything to do with the handlers of the message.\u00a0 God is not obligated to fulfil what He did not promise, not matter how loudly anyone claims it.<\/p>\n

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