The following is excerpted from an article I wrote in November 1997 to illustrate how a prophetic word often means far more to the person or people who recieve it than to those who overhear, because like an iceberg that is only 1/9th visible above the water, there’s always more to the story. In this article, I outlined the available background information on a relatively familiar city in the New Testament, then consider a prophetic word given the church in that city. In the present context, the same factors are of interest in a consideration of story, where depth of meaning is compounded when one appreciates the rest of the story. Read on…
The Rest of the Story
by Brother Maynard | Feb 22, 2005 | Articles, Scripture Considered, The Sojourn | 1 comment
That was fun in a very Paul Harvey way! I loved that story, and not I didn’t guess it.
Is the word, “Oracle” basically the same meaning here as what? “Prophetic Word”? I find that very interesting. Did John use that word? Why or why not?