7/22/07 – 29LAW “God’s Last Day Prophet” - Part 1
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Hello!  This is Richard Vaughn

Today’s message is “God’s Last Day Prophet” - Part 1

Before we begin, let us seek God’s guidance, “Heavenly Father, as we begin this most important subject regarding God’s true last days prophet. I pray that You bless those listening today with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, so that we may understand that you sent a prophet to help guide Your people through the difficult days of the final generation on planet earth; we pray for wisdom, knowledge and understanding so that we may live in the center of Your revealed will, as we ask in Jesus Name, Amen.”
Right now, I continue to keep my pledge, to cry aloud and spare not, to lift up my voice like a trumpet and to show God’s people where they are transgressing God’s law.
The last living true prophet of God was the Apostle John, the loved disciple who wrote the Book of John, 1, 2 & 3 John, and through his hand we received the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Why have there been no true prophets of God since then? 

If God’s people do not keep His law, they will not have the guidance of a prophet. Lamentations 2:9 “Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.” Ezekiel 7:26 “Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.” 
Ezekiel 20:3, 12-16 “Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.” “Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.” So here we have the reason why the Spirit of Prophecy has been removed for so long a period from the church. God’s Sabbath was removed from the law. The gift was restored when a remnant movement repaired the breech in the law.

Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”

Thirteen Tests of a True Prophet:
1.  The true Prophet’s word will come to pass.
Deuteronomy 18:21, 22 “And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.” 

2. The true Prophet shall have visions and dreams.
Numbers 12:6 “And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.”

3. The true Prophet’s eyes are open while in vision.
Numbers 24:4, 16 “He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:” “He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:”

4. The true Prophet has no strength while in vision and is weakened considerable when the prophet comes out of vision.
	Daniel 10:8 “Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.”

5. The true Prophet has no breath while in vision.
Daniel 10:17 “For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.”

6. The true Prophet can not lie.
	Jeremiah 28:9 “The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.”

We are to believe the Lord’s prophets. 2 Chronicles 20:20 “…Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”

7. The true Prophet serves God only while false prophets serve other gods.
	Deuteronomy 13:1-4 “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.”

8. The true Prophet does not give private interpretation.
	2 Peter 1:20 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”

9. The true Prophet will prophesy in the name of the Lord; not his own.  
  	2 Peter 1:21 “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

10. The true Prophet edifies the church )instructs morally.
	1 Corinthians 14:3 “But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.”

11. The true Prophet is in harmony with God’s law and the prophets.
Isaiah 8:20 “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

12. The true Prophet will believe in the incarnation and Divinity of Jesus.
 	1 John 4:1-3 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”

13. The true Prophet is known by their fruits.
	Matthew 7:15-20 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”

Well time is up for this week. Next week we will continue this most important study on God’s Prophet of the last days, part 2. If you would like to worship with seventh day Sabbath-keepers, come to the Victory Seventh Day Adventist Church new location at the Hampton Inn Conference suite in South Hill, VA at the exit 12 interchange of Interstate 85. We meet at 10:00 am and will be meeting there until out new building has been completed.
Until next week, Jesus said in John 5:39, “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me”. Come Lord Jesus.