{"id":2206,"date":"2007-04-19T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/prophetic-office"},"modified":"2007-04-19T14:40:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:40:45","slug":"prophetic-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/19\/prophetic-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophetic Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

David, the man after God’s heart, many of the psalmists and prophets received this distinction. The
\nnature of the prophetic office brought it about that those administering it were deeply initiated into
\nsecrets of the Lord. <\/p>\n

Although we must be careful not to confound the two processes of revelation
\nreligion, through rashly making the prophets’ message the product of their religious experience
\nand simple, yet the experience could not help being contributory to the performance of their
\nofficial task. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They had to receive before they could communicate, and in order to receive it was in
\ncases necessary for them to enter into the secret of their Sender. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Surely,” says Amos, “the Lord
\nJehovah will do nothing except he reveal his secret to his servants, the prophets” (3:7). The prophets
\nbelong to the circle of divine acquaintance. <\/p>\n

Where something important is about to happen, it
\nseem like a breach of intimacy<\/strong> to keep them uninformed or unprepared. Thus a fine flower of
\nreligion is seen to blossom forth from the heart of prophecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After all it was God who stood before
\nprophets unveiled in His purpose, and to have the feel of the purpose was to have the feel of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David, the man after God’s heart, many of the psalmists and prophets received this distinction. The nature of the prophetic office brought it about that those administering it were deeply initiated into secrets of the Lord. Although we must be careful not to confound the two processes of revelation religion, through rashly making the prophets’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}