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Posted by jjb on 4/26/2006, 5:04 pm, in reply to "Telling the future" It would make sense that even though the NT rolls several words into one (so to speak) it would follow that that one word would contain all of the meanings of the OT words it was 'replacing'. The OT naba, to bubble forth, and all of it's derivatives would be included and they had a meaning that wasn't necessarily 'foretelling'. The interpretation of the first passage you mentioned seems solid, but in the second one there is a question in my mind. At that time they may have only known one 'gift office' (pardon the anachronism) outside of the priesthood and that was the office of the prophet. She may have known from his attire that he wasn't a Levite or priest, so she assumed the only alternative for someone who was obviously hearing from God. I certainly can't prove this interpretation, but I have to consider it as an alternative. On the issue of the problems surrounding the confusion of the concepts of 'prophet', 'prophesying', etc., there's something else that has brought a lot of confusion into the Christian world. There used to be tests floating around that some churches would give to whole groups of people that would identify their 'gifts'. And boy was it messed up. It seemed to be an clear application of 'laying hands suddenly' on a novice. I met some very immature, carnal, self-centered Christians who knew next to nothing about the Word running around calling themselves 'prophets' or saying the had the gift of prophecy. Sometimes I wondered if it would end and if the church would ever recover from the pride and delusion that came from it.
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And I am blessed by it. Please continue. That small thing about the common use of the word 'prophet' in New Testament times is an eye-opener.
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