Female prophets in the Bible

The gift of prophecy God does not distinguish based on gender. Women prophets were present in the Old Testament and the New Testament. A prophet means that someone  proclaims a divine message from God. In the Old Testament, Miriam was  a prophetess (Exodus 15-20) "Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron.... Sing to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously!  The horse and its rider He has thrown into the Sea!"

So to was Deborah in the Old Testament a prophetess (Judges 4:4).  Deborah was a prophetess and judge and she led the children of Israel to peace for forty years by her prophesies she gave to Barak to go to battle against Sisera. Huldah was also a prophetess (2 Kings 22:14) (2 Chronicles 34:22). Huldah was sought out by King Josiah to authenticate the Book of Law. In the Old Testament Noadiah is also a female prophetess (Nehemiah 6:14). Herbert Lockyer in his book "All the Women of the Bible" (pg 41) describes prophets and prophetesses as being the media between God and his people Israel in the Old Testament.

In the New Testament, Anna (Luke 2:36) was referred to as a prophetess. So to did Philip the evangelist have four daughters who were prophetesses (Acts 21:3).

The gift of prophecy is one of the seven spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit.There are differences in ministries and activities, but God  works in all of these gifts (1 Corinthians 12-6). Through prophecy, the church becomes edified "But he who prophesies edifies the church"(1 14 Corinthians:3-4). In the book of Corinthians, women are instructed to cover their heads when they prophesy (1 Corinthians 11 4-6).  Timothy in asking that women remain silent in the church, was not writing about women who had been given a ministry from God" (1 Timothy 2:10). "And God has appointed these in the church, first the apostles, second prophets, third teachers" (1 Corinthians 12 28).

In the book of Joel (Joel 2:28), it is written that God will pour out his Spirit on all flesh in the last days.

Women clearly have had a long history serving God as prophetesses through the ages to the present day.

 

The Divine Light- The Holy Spirit- A brilliant source

I once had a vision and I saw a very large brilliant white source, it was far away, and I just saw the light flickering. It was too far away, that you just saw the brilliant very vast light source from a distance. To me it just radiated peace. A peace that many will have been searching for in their lives. I believe this to be the divine light-a vision of God's third attribute the Holy Spirit.   

Psalm 27 "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? 

Psalm 56 " For you have delivered me from deat  and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life."

Psalms 104 " Bless the Lord , O my soul, O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain." 

Veni Sancte Spiritus "Come, thou Holy Spirit, come! And from thy celestial home Shed a ray of light divine! "O most blessed Light divine, Shine within these hearts of thine, And our inmost being fill!

 Prayer to the Holy Spirit "O God, who has taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit."

 (Anglican book of Common Prayer) "We whom the Spirit lights gives light to the whole world."

Cape Girl-A vision of love

I closed my eyes and I had a vision and I saw a black animal. I saw this girl sitting down opposite someone else and she was drinking  a drink After that I saw something that looked like a spirit that had several eyes. I was taken a little back at first and then transport came, what looked like a whale. After I got out of the whale. I got out and I had a gift. The gift looked beautiful. I believed this to be a gift from God. I then went to a gathering and later saw the girl with a cape on and she just flew straight up. I was struck later by overwhelming love for God. Capes are used by minsters of faith.

 

The Book of Revelation-Jesus to return

I have read that not many Christians have actually read the Book of Revelation. Recently I started listening to an audio mp3 called Faith Comes by hearing which I bought online. I see now that it can be downloaded free online. I listened to the book of Revelation. It is a revelation to John, a testimony from Jesus Christ our Lord about what will come to pass at the 2nd coming. Jesus Christ will come again and the 1st resurrection will take place Revelation (20:4-6). 

I believe that I saw Jesus Christ, Our Lord God and our Saviour in heaven in a vision, his eyes that were red strikingly stood out to me and a beasts chair turned round with a figure with many eyes-who I took to be God our Creator. Sometimes I am stopped in my tracks and think of him in heaven in my vision- Jesus, his eyes drawn to them. I then think of Our Lord God being unable to come down himself right now to do his work. As Christians, we need to make sure that we are doing Christs work for him as much as we can.

Matthew 24 clearly outlines what will take place at the end of time. It doesn't take that long to read. Nobody knows when the end of the world will be, but these are the signs of the end of time. 

I saw the below ambulance once on a weekend and the whole neighbourhood seemed scared and it reminded me how Jesus will return-but on a horse in raiment.

 

The story of God's Divine Intervention in June 2014

This is the story of my Divine Intervention. This was one of the battles of my life.  I didn't know any of this information beforehand. It is only in recent weeks, this extract is a backdate. I have found out only recently about the symbolism of the rose and daises in the Christian faith. Also, I recently found out what the reddish colour garments I described could possibly mean.

This is an extract from a testimony I gave in 2014 in church.

At 41 I became unwell with an infection. I unintentionally ingested something toxic and perhaps this is what made me medically unwell with the infection. I however felt trapped in my home ashamed to go out in public and was feeling overwhelmed. This is where God intervened and I had a Divine Intervention.

Before this, my mum went to church and received a message that I should pray.  I started praying more later about three weeks before I fell medically unwell. I also I had a dream before I fell medically unwell  which I found rather odd and could not comprehend on the 5th May 2014.

“I had strange dream yesterday. I dreamt that I met God. I said am I going to die then and he said, not now. But, heaven is there for me. Really strange.I don't know what to make of it, because no-one is meant to meet God and live. I woke up feeling more at ease for the first time in a while."

I became medically unwell. I asked people to pray for me.The day I asked my mum to pray, I closed my eyes and saw a vision of people dressed in white just like they were praying. I quickly opened my eyes up as I said, I don't want to die now. I closed my eyes again and a day later I saw them again. They threw a rose down to my  room. 

When I first closed my eyes, I went up, and saw gates being opened and I went through them and then I opened my eyes again. I closed my eyes again and it started with a small multicoloured figure on the sidelines like ushering you on. It then started with people in reddish colour garments and went up to people wearing white, to more people wearing white. I then had  a vision, I saw people praising God in church, also in what looked like some stadium and like it was being watched on the television. I just was shown a lot of people, in acts of worship. I went over a field of daises and then just fell asleep. I called my mum's pastor abroad and he said I saw that as I need a Divine Intervention.

That night I had another vision. At one point, my breathing was so shallow. I was very unwell. But I saw people in white garments was doing spiritual work for me in one of God's  houses it looked like. I went again the next day and they opened a door and I saw a bright yellow light.

I was before a brilliant vast white source during this experience that was flickering which I just saw from the distance and it exuded peace. Which I took be the Holy Spirit.

My situation started to improve, the headache I developed which felt like my head was  a bit swollen receded and also the night time sweats improved and my pulse did improve. I woke though after the first day with a red purple mark on my arm. I believe that God helped me to subdue the infection.

This was the experience of my Divine Intervention. It continued though a bit further which was quite personal to me. 

 Video narration of this extract-

Please see this post on a vision I had of Jesus Christ also after this. 

https://racheltestimony.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-book-of-revelations.html