@Quix
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Yes, today's Christians read SCRIPTURE and compare that to what is happening in the world today and see the connection(s).
Uhhhhhhh . . . WHEN . . . one is reading a Scripture and the verse kind of existentially, spiritually 'leaps out and grabs you by the spiritual noggin and says: "PAY ATTENTION KEENLY--THIS IS FOR YOU, NOW--IN THIS RESPECT IN THIS WAY, IN THIS SITUATION!" '
it is NOT the ink on the page doing that.
It is Holy Spirit active in that person's life--someone who is earnestly seeking to follow God and His will for them.
THAT is the SAME TYPE of phenomenon of Holy Spirit fostering a prophetic impression, word, statement in the person's mind/spirit. There's not a great deal of difference. The main difference is one trigger is text on a page being the catalyst, spring-board to the realization, understanding that God is actively AT THAT TIME speaking specifically to the individual about a current great concern of theirs.
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And in a case where the individual is getting similar input in the form of a prophetic "word," picture, impression etc. to share with someone else of the Body of Christ--per Paul's exhortations in I Corinthians . . . that's a different kind of trigger or initial input. But the communication from Holy Spirit is
essentially the same. I can speak from significant personal experience on such scores.
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The most dramatic experience I had of that sort involved a missionary committee Chairman . . . he had been a troublesome plague on 5 families on the mission field in Asia. God engineered me working to help that whole team . . . long story short--at a given point he had been yet again troubling the team and making challenging things worse.
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Now the couples were all seriously seeking God's will and seriously really loved each other. There were some local leadership problems related to Attachment Disorder--but the Chairman was really the repeatedly troublesome factor in the situation.
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On a long trans-Pacific phone call, I suddenly found myself with Holy Spirit rising up within me warning the Chairman--paraphrased now: "If you continue to plague this team, God will likely {actually, I think I said--
would take him out--not 'likely} take you home--out of this life--and probably within 30 days." Of course he was exceedingly indignant and responded as though he thought I was off the wall crazy.
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Within 30 days, he was dead of a brain aneurysm. His wife, the whole team and his successor knew of that prediction. His successor was GREATLY more attentive to really listening to the team from then on.
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That was one of 3-4 similar incidents in my 70 years. The others were not so declaritively specific and known by others.
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I share that cautiously . . . but with some press in my spirit because I'm convinced that there is going to be a LOT more of that ilk of thing in coming months and years.
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There was a Roman ruler in NT times who was puffed up when the crowd began to chant about him being a god and not a man. God was displeased. The ruler was evidently eaten alive by worms rather quickly, standing there on the platform.
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I think it will start with some religious leaders over proud of themselves and building their own kingdoms instead of God's
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However, it will spread to political leaders. I believe that in some cases, their whole administration, with few, if any exceptions, will fall dead instantly at the same time. Some will be with God just making it happen, period. Some will be after a Godly prophetic person has declared, warned it will happen.
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imho, believers and unbelievers alike are going to have a whole different order of magnitude type appreciation for what the "FEAR OF ALMIGHTY GOD" really means.
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Certainly God alone will be powerful enough to deal forcefully with raw evil in high places or political power.
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We shall see.
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