2019 July Training Message Nine – Prophesying Reference

Crystallization-Study of Numbers (2)

Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting

Message Nine　
Moses Desiring That All Jehovah’s People Would Be Prophets

Reading the verses in each day.

Reading the main points in the outlines.

Pray-reading the verses:

Num. 11:29 But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!

1 Cor. 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

Word of Appetizer

In Numbers 11:29 Moses exclaimed, “Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets,” what is this prophet?

Prophets are God’s spokesmen; …For example, in Exodus 3 and 4 when Moses was called by God, he told God that he was slow of speech and of a slow tongue (4:10). So God gave Aaron to Moses to be his prophet (4:1416; 7:1). Aaron did not predict for Moses; rather, he spoke for him. In the whole Bible, to prophesy is mainly to speak for God and to speak forth God; sometimes it is also to predict, … [which] is secondary. This is the proper meaning of prophesying in the Bible.

Spiritual Burden

The New Testament shows that God wants us, the saved and regenerated ones, to prophesy as prophets; Prophesying is the excelling gift produced in the growth in life through the enjoyment of Christ for the building up of the church.

If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life; we need to be revived every morning; we also need to live an overcoming life every day by fellowshipping with the Lord moment by moment, by walking according to the spirit, and by speaking the word (the Lord) in season and out of season.

Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting

The Revelation of the Truth

Our God is a speaking God.

In Numbers 11:29 Moses exclaimed, “Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!”

“A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him”.

The prophets in the Old Testament typify the Holy Spirit as the anointing ointment in the New Testament.

The New Testament shows that God wants us, the saved and regenerated ones, to prophesy as prophets.

The Experience of Life

1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

The Spirit who inspired people to be prophets has entered into us as the anointing to be our Prophet.

Practice and Application

If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life;

We need to be revived every morning; the path of the righteous is like the dawn that becomes brighter and brighter until noontime; this is according to the natural law in God’s creation, and we have to go along with it.

We also need to live an overcoming life every day by fellowshipping with the Lord moment by moment, by walking according to the spirit, and by speaking the word (the Lord) in season and out of season.

Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline

Key Verses (1)

Heb. 1:1-2 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe;

Num. 11:29 But Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!

1 Cor. 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

I. Our God is a speaking God

II. “Oh that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!”

God is a mystery, but this mystery has been revealed by God’s speaking; every create thing came out of the word of God.
The living God imparts and infuses Himself into us by speaking.
In the Old Testament, God spoke in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, in men borne by the Spirit; In the New Testament, God speaks in the Son, in the person of the Son.
A prophet is not mainly one who predicts the future but one who speaks for another, as Aaron spoke for Moses.
Prophets are God’s spokesmen; they speak for God and speak forth God; Moses desired that all the people of Israel would be prophets, those who spoke for God.
A prophet typifies Christ as the One who brings us into God’s light and revelation.

Key Verses (2)

Deut. 18:15 A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him.

1 John 2:20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.

27 And as for you, the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone teach you; but as His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

III. “A Prophet will Jehovah your God raise up for you from your midst, from among your brothers, like me; you shall listen to Him”

IV. The prophets in the Old Testament typify the Holy Spirit as the anointing ointment in the New Testament

Moses spoke concerning Jehovah God’s raising up of a Prophet (the coming Christ) like Moses for the children of Israel.
Acts 3:22 applies Deuteronomy 18:15-19 to Christ, who is God incarnated to be a man, indicating that Christ is the Prophet promised by God to His people, the children of Israel.
That the Prophet was to be from among their brothers (v. 15a) indicates that Christ as the coming Prophet would be human as well as divine; God would raise up this Prophet through the incarnation of Christ to speak the word of God.
In the New Testament the Holy Spirit has replaced the work of the prophets; the anointing of the Holy Spirit has replaced the prophets of the Old Testament.
The Holy Spirit, the anointing element, has entered into us to be our Prophet; the anointing Spirit within us is the Prophet.

Key Verses (3)

1 Cor. 14:3 But he who prophesies speaks building up and encouragement and consolation to men.

5 I desire… you would prophesy; …that the church may receive building up.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

12 …seek that you may excel for the building up of the church.

Eph. 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him,

V. The New Testament shows that God wants us, the saved and regenerated ones, to prophesy as prophets

Prophesying is the excelling gift produced in the growth in life through the enjoyment of Christ for the building up of the church.
The New Testament believers are saved by God to be kings, priests, and prophets who prophesy for God.
Speaking for God and speaking forth God are speaking by the Spirit of God; the Spirit is always ready to speak with us and through us.
To prophesy in the sense of telling for and telling forth—speaking for God and speaking forth God—requires much growth in life.
The main work of the New Testament prophets is for building up, encouraging, and consoling others.
The goal of prophesying in the church meetings is the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.
If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life; we need to be revived every morning to live an overcoming life every day.

Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week

TI Our God is a speaking God (Heb. 1:1-2a)

(Please illustrate that how God speaks in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.)

T2 The speaking God desires to have a speaking people (Acts 4:31; Col. 4:3)

(Please illustrate that everyone who has been saved and who has His life should learn to speak for Him and to speak His word.)

TI Prophets are God’s spokesmen; they speak for God and speak forth God (Exo. 7:1-2; 4:16)

(Please illustrate that a prophet is not mainly one who predicts the future but one who speaks for another, as Aaron spoke for Moses.)

T2 Moses desired that all the people of Israel would be prophets, those who spoke for God (Num. 11:29; 1 Cor. 14:31)

(Please illustrate that in both the Old and New Testaments God wants His people to speak for Him.)

TI Christ as the coming Prophet would be human as well as divine (John 1:1, 14; Acts 3:22; Deut. 18:15-19)

(Please illustrate that Christ is the Prophet promised by God to His people, the children of Israel according to acts 3:22 and Deuteronomy 18:15.)

T2 God would raise up this Prophet through the incarnation of Christ to speak the word of God—John 1:14 (Deut. 18:18; John 3:34)

(Please illustrate that to speak God’s word—is to dispense God, to speak God forth into others.)

TI The anointing of the Holy Spirit has replaced the prophets of the Old Testament (2 Cor. 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27)

(Please illustrate that the Holy Spirit, the anointing element, has entered into us to be our Prophet.)

T2 The Holy Spirit, as the anointing ointment, is the Prophet in us (2 Cor. 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27)

(Can we be a prophet to others?)

TI Whenever we come to the meeting, we must try to speak (Rev. 1:5-6; 20:4b; 1 Cor. 14:31)

(Please illustrate that the New Testament believers are saved by God to be kings, priests, and prophets who prophesy for God.)

T2 We need to know God and experience Christ (Eph. 4:15; Heb. 8:10-11; Phil. 3:7-15)

(Please illustrate that to prophesy in the sense of telling for and telling forth requires much growth in life.)

TI If we are going to prophesy, we need to live a prophesying life (Prov. 4:18; 1 John 1:6; Rom. 8:4)

(Please illustrate that what kind of life qualifies us to prophesy.)

T2 Going to the church meeting, we have something (1 Cor. 14:26)

(Please illustrate that how to prepare to prophesy in the church meetings on the Lord’s Day.)