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So what is the purpose of prophecy in the New Testament? How does it apply to us today?

It's time for the line of fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael

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I have taught on the subject of prophecy and prophets in the Bible for many years, going back to the early 1980s.

And I have written a commentary on Jeremiah.

I'm writing a commentary, it's on the back burner now because of other projects,

but writing a commentary on Isaiah.

I've had a great interest in prophetic literature over the decades and have often carried a burden a burning heart to see repentance a burden to see America revived lest we perish a burden that many of you also carry that is a prophetic kind of burden. In other words, you read the

words of the prophets and you feel that same pain and you pray and you groan and you want to

raise your voice and shout to the world. I know many of you feel that same way. So the subject

of prophecy in the Bible has been of interest to me for many years and is something

that I carry in my own heart in terms of how I relate to this world. Not only so, but personal

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