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DEFINITION OF A TRUE PROPHET
The following is a useful working definition of a true prophet:

Someone who hears God’s voice and reports what he hears to others.
Someone who interprets the Bible symbolically — not literally.
Someone who can distinguish between the holy and profane (i.e. good and evil).
Someone who applies the symbolic intent of the whole Bible to his/her life, and to the lives of others, so that their hearts will change from evil and impure to good and pure.
Someone who has repented for practicing the sin of religion.
Someone who sees it as his/her responsibility to instruct, comfort, encourage others to repent of the sin of religion.
A warrior who is willing to lay down his/her life in conflict with religion so that others may be delivered from slavery to religion.
Someone who sees it as his/her responsibility to destroy nations and tear down idols and high places.
Someone through whom the spirit of God speaks.

Readers should notice that we did not say that a true prophet reads the words of the Bible, interprets what he/she reads, and then reports the interpretation to others. Anyone can read words on paper, interpret them intellectually and make a verbal or written report to others. God calls those who report literal interpretations false prophets. They have missed the critical ingredient of hearing God’s voice. Here we find the key difference between false prophets and true prophets:

True prophets listen to God’s voice and and interpret the spiritual, symbolic meanings of the Bible.
False prophets only consider the literal, written words of the Bible.

This contrast explains why true prophets are not well received by religion. They are effectively teaching from different Bibles.

True prophets teach from the spiritual, word of God spoken by God’s spirit to the heart of man.
False prophets teach from the literal, written word of God after it has been manipulated and perverted by fleshly human effort (i.e. intellect, reasoning, writing and speaking) that speaks to people through their natural eyes and ears.

STUDY TIP: See this link for a Picture of a Prophet written by Leonard Ravenhill.

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