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Does prophecy in the sense of fore-telling still exist? Can men have prophetic dreams during times of trial for the Church? Is this part of what Acts 2 speaks of in reference to Joel's prophecy? Are we able to separate prophecy into two parts - fore-telling and forth-telling - and say one has expired while the other still is ongoing? What are we to make of the reports by the Scottish Covenanters (good presbyterians) like Rutherford, Alexandar Peden and John Wishart who seem to predict the future through dreams, it is said? Have you ever heard a prophecy or a credible report of one?
Does prophecy in the sense of fore-telling still exist? Can men have prophetic dreams during times of trial for the Church? Is this part of what Acts 2 speaks of in reference to Joel's prophecy? Are we able to separate prophecy into two parts - fore-telling and forth-telling - and say one has expired while the other still is ongoing? What are we to make of the reports by the Scottish Covenanters (good presbyterians) like Rutherford, Alexandar Peden and John Wishart who seem to predict the future through dreams, it is said? Have you ever heard a prophecy or a credible report of one?
“There is a revelation of some particular men, who have foretold things to come, even since the ceasing of the Canon of the Word, as John Husse [John Hus], Wickeliefe [Wycliffe], Luther, have foretold things to come and they certainly fell out, and in our nation of Scotland, M. George Wishart foretold that Cardinal Beaton should not come out alive at the Gates of the Castle of St. Andrews, but that he should die a shameful death, and he was hanged over the window that he did look out at, when he saw the man of God burnt, Knox prophesied of the hanging of the Lord of Grange, M. Ioh. Davidson uttered prophecies, known to many of the kingdome, diverse Holy and mortified preachers in England have done the like… [Samuel Rutherford. A Survey Of The Spiritual Antichrist. Opening the Secrets Of Familisme and Antinomianisme in the Antichrist Doctrine of John Saltmarsh… (London: no pub., 1648), 42. The reference to M. Ioh.