12 Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in THE WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to DISCERN BOTH GOOD AND EVIL. –Hebrews 5:12-15 (NKJV)–
He Himself gave some to be apostles, some PROPHETS, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. –Ephesians 4:11 (NKJV)–
If there is a PROPHET among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a VISION; I speak to him in a DREAM. –Numbers 12:6 (NKJV)– It shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall PROPHESY, Your young men shall see VISIONS, Your old men shall dream DREAMS. –Acts 2:17 (NKJV)–
Lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the REVELATIONS, a THORN IN THE FLESH was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be EXALTED above measure. –2 Corinthians 12:7 (NKJV)–
24 If all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all. 25 And thus THE SECRETS OF HIS HEART ARE REVEALED; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. 26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a REVELATION, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 LET TWO OR THREE PROPHETS SPEAK, AND LET THE OTHERS JUDGE. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. –1 Corinthians 14:24-32 (NKJV)–
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Dr. Jack Deere, Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022), “Appendix 3: Deuteronomy 18:14-22.”
Matthew Green, ed. Understanding Fivefold Ministry (Charisma House, 2005).