When we think about prophets, prophesying, and prophecy there was in Bible times assuredly a foretelling of future events (a prediction of something to come). Some prophets such as Moses, Elijah, Elisha, Paul, Peter were given the power to perform powerful miracles as well. So, there was also what we refer to as in the technical sense the primary meaning of a forth-telling of the revealing of the divine will and purpose, as well as sharing the inspired moral teaching, or an expression of a divine command or judgment. The word prophet originally had the primary meaning of one who proclaimed the Word of God and the secondary meaning of foretelling future events. As prophets, however, were commonly viewed as public instructors on the Word of God, the term (Heb. navi, Gr. prophetes) came to denote all who were teachers of God’s Word. In a basic sense, all of God’s servants are his spokesmen (prophets), who convey God’s message to humanity.

Actually, there were prophets after John died in 100 A.D. and there are prophets today in the forth-telling, the secondary sense, of proclaiming the inspired, inerrant Word of God but not in the primary sense of foretelling the future. They are sounding the warning from God, to startle the complacent to an awareness of sins, for those with a receptive heart, to those willing to listen, to awaken those in a spiritual stupor so that they can gather their moral senses. But there are no prophets in the same sense as was the case in Bible times with Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah, Isaiah, and so on. However, there are some proclaiming the prophecies of the prophets of the Bible, as it relates to the last days (from 33 A.D. to the return of Christ) and helping us get through these difficult times.

These prophets, proclaimers of God’s Word are informing us what we should be looking for in the latter parts of these last days, and what comes afterward. These true proclaimers of God’s Word are not giving us new revelation but rather are revealing the revelation that we have, which expose the backsliding that is currently going on within Christianity and its 41,000 denominations. Edward D. Andrews has been vigorously pointing to God’s Word for decades, helping the right hearted Christians to uphold it, to rightly apply it in their daily lives, and always seeking out unbelievers with a receptive heart as well. Andrews and others like John Macarthur, F. David Farnell, Thomas Marshall, Gary Habermas, and other faithful few are doing the work that Christ has assigned, who refuse to be backsliders among the apostate religious leaders that we have today.

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