Articles
GOD SAID (Part 3)
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of
the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost (2 Pet. 1:19-21). And if thou say in thine heart, How shall
we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh
in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is
the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him (Deu. 18:21-22).
Moses declared the failure of the prophecy of false prophets was proof that
God had not spoken through them, but this also was proof that what the true
prophet spoke was from God. The reason modernists try to re-date all the
prophets is that they do not believe in inspiration or revelation in the sense
in which the Bible uses these words. This is the reason the modernist attacks
the book of Isaiah. The prophetic element in Isaiah is too much for
modernism to swallow. Remember that “God said” is the basis of prophecy.
If God could announce the promised seed, Christ, in Genesis 3:15, why
should one have any problem with His speaking through Isaiah and announcing
the virgin birth seven hundred years before it happened? Isaiah
7:14 is what “God said.” Do not try to avoid it, tamper with it, or change it.
Just accept it as a prophecy and the fact that all prophecy rests upon what
“God said.”
