Blindness to our Culture The hardest thing for a prophet is to see the weakness and sins of their own society, culture or denomination. If we are attached to something, we can be blinded by it. A true prophet stands apart from their culture. The late 20th century release of prophetic spirit into the world has been perhaps the greatest spiritual marvel of our times. Prophecy is an amazing phenomenon for the way it bridges two worlds at the same time. The burden of the prophetic is to bring the things of heaven to bear on the earth, to enforce the authority of the eternal over the temporal with a view to transforming the earthly to become like the heavenly. But with this burden comes a mandate. The mandate is this: before we can transform the earthly into the heavenly, we must first lose our love for the earthly. If we attempt to execute the prophetic burden upon earths affairs without first losing our love for and identity in our culture, our spiritual gift and office becomes overpowered and subverted by our culture to reaffirm its own ways. The prophetic becomes a mouthpiece for the very powers behind culture which it has been dispensed to challenge and oppose. We become culture prophets (Chris Anderson, Little Flock - Culture Prophets). If we attempt to execute the prophetic burden upon earths affairs without first losing our love for and identity in our culture, our spiritual gift and office becomes overpowered and subverted by our culture to reaffirm its own ways. The prophetic becomes a mouthpiece for the very powers behind culture which it has been dispensed to challenge and oppose. We become unable to discern between the loves of John 3:16 and I John 2:15, deceived into believing that Gods love for men and our love of culture are the same thing-- and their agendas as well. Now, as prophets of the culture, or culture prophets, we begin prophesying to the glory of our culture--- our nations and our denominations, our governments policies and our societys passing fancies, our civic customs and our religious holidays--- believing we are indeed prophesying the true mind of the Lord and the true love of the Father to the world. We think we are executing Gods will to transform the earthly into the image of the heavenly, but are only debasing heaven, lowering God to the image of the earthly (Chris Anderson Little Flock - Culture Prophets).
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:58:24 +0000
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