A prophet, if they are a TRUE prophet, will always point people back to Torah. Even predicting prophets are assured they are correct and in Yehovah's word if it aligns with Torah. If a nation, people group, person, is out of alignment, you need only look to the Mount Girizim/Mount Ebal Blessings and Cursings to get a good idea of what is going to happen. Abba Yehovah told us from the beginning what He will do based upon what we will do.

I tend to agree with Tony. Every "prophet" I have thus far encountered is a false prophet. It's a mantle of pride in prophet colors that most people wear. But I think it's hubris on our part to say there are no prophets anymore. Today, prophecy is given to us in small doses -- a word here, a scripture there -- we must be willing to look at the whole picture of any given situation, compare it to what the Bible says and pray and discern. We live in the attention span of a lightning bolt world. I don't think we can handle more than small doses.

(tongue firmly in cheek) The answer can be found in the title of a Jane Austin novel. Pride and Prejudice. In all seriousness though, it takes a lot of humility to admit that you know there's a lot you don't know.

Which leads me to another thought. The Bible is frought with this idea of spiritual laziness and hubris. People want to believe what they want to believe and stay in their bubble. Story after story in Scripture tells us that people wanted to just do whatever and worship however. There were very few learned people that knew the fullness of God's Word. The prophets who did know and understand the word of יהוה were ostracized, castigated and often murdered for speaking out. It takes time and energy to study to understand. And then you run into the issue of pride from those know a little more than most. You see that in the Bible too. There were several false prophets who maybe took Scripture out of context to encourage a king to go fight a war or beat up a true prophet.

I really need to print all of these off. I have all of Dr. Jones' e-published translations. Love them!!

LoL @ Mediocrities!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 That's a thing I've incorporated into my studies. Root words and first use in the Bible. Then I'll look up all uses of that word to see how it's applied each time.

@Tim Hillis In your original post, you stated: The world rejects the message, quite often, because they see the surface of who many believers are and the lives they lead and choose to call them out as hypocrites. NOT always because they don't live perfectly by their professed faith, but because they have problems too." I think that's why we have a lot of prodigals today. Myself included. But I have to ask: WHY are we held to a higher and unobtainable standard? When we read the bible honestly and objectively, we learn that it's a generations-long story of a pretty messed up family and a dire need of redemption. It's a story of various people of whom some rejected Yehovah, and others accepted and loved Him. And even those messed up. Some, like David, egregiously (thinking of the murder of Uriah the Hittite). Others, like Judas, seemed to love and follow Yehovah for all of the wrong reasons and wound up betraying Yeshua and then commiting suicide. Oft-times people forget one of the points of Job. They only look at his testing and patience. But another angle is that Job had loss of income, partying children, severe illness, a cranky and combative wife. His own friends accused him of hypocracy. How is this different than what we have today? There is definitely a communications barrier there that needs to be overcome. We have to learn to walk this razor thin line where we get people to understand many things. 1. We're not God, we'll never be perfect, so please quit expecting us to be. 2. God will accept anyone and everyone where they are at, no matter how heinous their sin, so long as they TRULY do repent and walk away from sin. 3. God expects you to continue to learn and move forward in your walk and not stay where you're at. He expects you to get down to the business of learning and acting upon the truth of His ways. It's not okay to say God forgave me, he nailed all sin to the cross, so I don't have to do anything. In other words, works are indeed necessary. 4. Yehovah knows we will mess up in our walk. That's where mercy comes in. He will help us get up, He will dust us off, He will help put us back on that razor-thin path and tell us to keep walking.

@Tim Hillis ❣️ hee hee. I learned that at RNU ❣️