Deuteronomy 18:20-22: Difference between revisions

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Those who go beyond the word, having God speak to them directly with new revelation, become puffed up with self-deception. There is something called humility that is practiced when one adheres to the same standard that everyone else does. Isaiah 8:16, 20 says:

:''Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ...to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.<ref>David Norton, ed., The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version, Revised edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Is 8:16,20.<ref>

:''Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ...to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.<ref>David Norton, ed., The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version, Revised edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Is 8:16,20.</ref>

This standard distinguishes a believer from an unbeliever. The test of the prophet was his conformity to the word of God, he condemns sin, he comforts the brethren, and he speaks of things both in the near future (his lifetime) and later than his life. A prophet, like an apostle, not only functioned as a gift, but as an office. A prophet would declare God's will for his generation, addressing idolatry or lukewarmness. We see this personified in John the Baptist who warned and rebuked the people preparing the for the Messiah.

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 Those who go beyond the word, having God speak to them directly with new revelation, become puffed up with self-deception. There is something called humility that is practiced when one adheres to the same standard that everyone else does. Isaiah 8:16, 20 says:
-:''Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ...to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.<ref>David Norton, ed., The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version, Revised edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Is 8:16,20.<ref>
+:''Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. ...to the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.<ref>David Norton, ed., The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version, Revised edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Is 8:16,20.</ref>
 This standard distinguishes a believer from an unbeliever. The test of the prophet was his conformity to the word of God, he condemns sin, he comforts the brethren, and he speaks of things both in the near future (his lifetime) and later than his life. A prophet, like an apostle, not only functioned as a gift, but as an office. A prophet would declare God's will for his generation, addressing idolatry or lukewarmness. We see this personified in John the Baptist who warned and rebuked the people preparing the for the Messiah.