What does true repentance look like?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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We'll start off with an email today. This one came in from one of our listeners named Janet

Adriel, and she says, does God have prophets today who tell us of future events?

That great question.

Are there prophets today?

Does God give the gift of prophecy today?

You did have in the Old Testament the office of the prophet, and it was attached to the

theocracy in Israel.

What I mean by that is the prophets in the Old Testament, like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah,

they had a very specific function in Israel, and they would prosecute the terms of God's covenant to the kings of Israel.

You know, when the nation would go astray, when the kings would go astray, you'd have a prophet. God would raise up a profit and the prophet would come and he'd bring to bear the terms of God's covenant, calling the nation, calling the king to repentance. And so, of course, we don't have the theocratic kingdom of Israel today. Israel under the old covenant was a type of the church, a manifestation

of God's kingdom on earth now. And so we don't have, and this is, I think, a really important

point to make because sometimes people think, you know, like I'm Jeremiah the prophet or I'm a prophet

like that saying, thus says the Lord and people need to listen to me. Look, if there's

someone in your church who acts like that, or if your pastor acts like that, I would say you

probably want to find a different church because we don't have Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's walking

around today because we don't have the theocratic kingdom today in the same way that we had then

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