DAY 333

ETERNALLY VALUABLE

Ezekiel 35 & 36 and 2 Peter 1

And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit…2 Peter 1:19-21

The above quote from the New Testament is fairly interesting. Here we read Peter speaking of prophecy and how it is something “more sure” and something “we would do well to pay attention to.” Now he writes earlier that they (the apostles) were eye witnesses to Jesus. And yet he makes the point that Jesus connects back to the prophecies…Jesus is part of the plan.

Know you and I have been reading prophecy and it has been hard. We have had to keep in view history and what was going on when. And we have had to sort out prophecy for the people of the day (as it were) as compared to prophecies that speak to the a longer view of the world. Today we have one of those “longer view” prophecies. In Ezekiel 36:25/26 a prophecy about how God will “put new hearts in us” by His Holy Spirit. I have written about this before, it is one of the prophecies that make up the Promise of the Father.

My main thought for today is the value of prophecy: it was valuable to the apostles and it is valuable to us.