Spiritual Gifts
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2.
Isaiah 8:19, 20
. “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that
mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the
dead? To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
3. False prophets speak smooth things, prophesy lies, and cry,
Peace and safety, which has ever been pleasing to unconsecrated pro-
fessors; hence the love of the peace and safety in the delusion of
spiritualism.
Jeremiah 14:14
. “Then the Lord said unto me, The
prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent them not, neither have I
commanded them, neither spake unto them. They prophesy unto you
a false vision and
divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of
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their heart.”
Chapter 23:16, 17
. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts, hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you. They make
you vain. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of the Lord. They say still unto them that despise me, the Lord
hath said, ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh
after the imagination of his own heart, no evil shall come upon you.”
Chapter 8:10, 11
. “For every one from the least even unto the greatest
is given to covetousness. From the prophet even unto the priest every
one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of
my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”
Chapter 5:30, 31
. “A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in
the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by
their means, and my people love to have it so; and what will ye do in
the end thereof?”
Isaiah 30:8-11
. “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note
it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever,
that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not
hear the law of the Lord; which say to the seers, See not; and to the
prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth
things, prophesy deceits; get you out of the way, turn aside out of the
path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
On the other hand the prophets of God have faithfully reproved
sin, and borne a testimony which has called down upon their heads the
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wrath of the self-righteous deceived.
Joel 2:28-32
, next claims our attention. “And it shall come to pass
afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons