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The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does the New Testament teach about the spiritual gift of prophecy? What is it? How does it function? Can evangelical Christians use it in their churches today? This updated, comprehensive work answers such questions and points the way to a renewed understanding of the gift of prophecy—an understanding that suggests how the body of Christ may enjoy one of the Holy Spirit’s most edifying gifts...

28:9, RSV). But false prophets who prophesy lies are ones of whom the Lord says, “I did not send them” (Jer. 29:9, RSV; cf. Ezek. 13:6). Quite often the prophet is a special kind of messenger. He is a “messenger of the covenant”—sent to remind Israel of the terms of her covenant with the Lord, calling the disobedient to repentance and warning that the penalties of disobedience will soon be applied (see, for example, 2 Chron. 24:19; Neh. 9:26, 30; Jer. 7:25; Mal. 4:4–6). Why is this important? It
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