Today: [Ezekiel 24] Shouldn’t We Just Dispense with the Prophetic Altogether? In Ez. 24 we find the prophet (unwisely by modern standards) setting dates for events to come. Furthermore, the things that he sees, the people find to be very disconcerting. Ezekiel obeys God, and in obeying troubles the entire population of God’s people in captivity in Chebar. He sets a date. He predicts things that are not desirable. Should’nt we just set the prophetic aside when we experience such things? What does such a thought say about the captives at Chebar and what does it say about the church of our day that so widely rejects prophetic gifting?
