What is Prophecy? Truth About the Future from God

Numbers 12:6. Most of us have a vague understanding of the word prophecy, but what is prophecy? Prophecy is a truth declared about the future that was received personally from God. Some of us may have a more expanded definition of prophecy, but this narrower definition captures what is true prophecy. In Numbers 12:6 God tells Aaron and Miriam in the Wilderness, “... Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.” In this scripture, God clearly defines what is a prophet. A prophet is someone that receives a vision or is spoken to by God in a dream. Therefore, prophecy as well must be a truth, a revelation, a vision, a dream that comes directly from God. When we hear something that is declared or seems like a prophecy or a prediction about the future, we must ask ourselves an important question. Did this prophecy, this prediction, this telling, this “word from God”, come personally from God? If the answer is no, it is not a prophecy. Only God can see the future. He is the only one that directly knows and can have absolute control over the future. Prophecy can only come from God.

NUMBERS 12 BIBLE SCRIPTURE Numbers 12:6, “And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.”