The Omnipotent Power of Prophecy

The Battle of Words

Vernon Cole?Truth, Vernon Cole�Truth

• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781641141352
• eBook ISBN: 9781641141369
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

This book, THE OMNIPOTENT POWER OF PROPHECY, was chosen by God to reestablish the royal priesthood of Christ in all its power. In Matthew 10: 20, the secret of the power is revealed, wherein the Lord said, "For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you." And in 1 Corinthians 12: 6, the anointing teaches that "there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God that works all in all." The Spirit of God speaks "the word of wisdom." He speaks "the word of knowledge." Then God confirms the words with the gifts of the Spirit. Let us pray that the message in this book brings the ultimate Speaker back to our assemblies so our Father can "hasten His word to perform it" "and confirm the word with signs following."

Chapter 1

How the Father Always Works

The Father has worked the same way since creation. He imagines in His heart what He wants to exist, He speaks words that correspond to the image, and His perfect faith causes every seed-word to produce the desired harvest. “It is very good.” Our Father would want all His sons and daughters to speak His word, believe His word, and get the comparable results He achieved in the earth during the six creative days. The key is to speak His Words and not our own. He only promises, “I will hasten MY WORD to perform it” (Jeremiah 1:12). And this text is written to prove that anointed sons and daughters can have the Father speak through them as He spoke through His Son and our Savior and then work mighty signs by the authority His Word provides Him.

Code to the Power of God

We see the key to God’s great power as we combine these four scriptures:

“The Lord has prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom rules over all. Bless the Lord you His angels, that excel in strength, that do His Word, heeding the voice of His Word” (Psalm 103:19–20).

“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the Lord. As for me, this is My covenant with them, says the Lord; My Spirit that is upon You, and My words which I have put in Your mouth, shall not depart out of Your mouth, nor out of the mouths of Your offspring, nor out of the mouths of Your offspring’s children, says the Lord, from that time forward and forever” (Isaiah 59:20–21).

“For I have given to them the words which You gave Me; and they have received them” (John 17:8).

“And now, Lord, listen to their threats: and grant to Your servants, that with all boldness they may speak Your Word, which stretches out your hand to heal, working signs and wonders in the name of Your Holy Son Jesus” (Acts 4:29–30).

When we understand that the anointing is the Father speaking the Word of Truth through the mouths of anointed “sons and daughters,” we can see how these foregoing scriptures relate to the power of God. When God speaks, the glory of heaven and the angelic host perform His words.

This writing will prove that all the great miracles performed in the Old Testament and the New Testament were the manifestations of the hand of God after He spoke. As Scripture says concerning God, “I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it” (Ezekiel 36:36b). And again, “Then you shall know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, says the Lord” (Ezekiel 37:14b).

Chapter 2

The Word Comes Down from Heaven

“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud: So shall My Word be that goes out of My Mouth: it shall not return void (of fruit), but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing wherein I sent it (Isaiah 55:10a–11). God, who at various times and in different manners SPOKE to the fathers by the prophets: Has in the last days spoken to us by His Son” (Hebrews 1:1–2b).

This scripture proves that the words of the Bible were recorded after God spoke through anointed servants, who obeyed the commandment of prophecy.

God Was Always the Speaker

It is extremely important for us to note that the Father was the speaker of all the words of the prophets and God was the speaker through His Son. And we know that the sons and daughters in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost also prophesied as the Spirit gave them utterance. And the same Father is looking for sons and daughters today through whom He can speak, then “hasten His word to perform it.” The Father speaking, then working is the anointing. And it is the release of His power. This is only accomplished through the gift of prophecy, which was sent to us to empower us to fulfill the great commission.

We Too Are Called to Be Creators

When we speak the Word and get “very good” results, we are fulfilling the scripture and quotation of our Savior, who said, “If you doubt not in your heart, but believe the words you say will come to pass, you will have whatever you say.” So Jesus (Yahshua in Hebrew) was revealing the reason why His words carried the dominion of heaven in them, as He said, in essence, the Father who dwells in me speaks and then does the works. Christ is readying a labor force that will follow Him in the anointed ministry of a prophet so the Father can speak and work through anointed vessels in the power He now hopes to exude for the sake of the body of Christ.

The Word Was Restored to Man

On the day of Pentecost, the Breath of Life was restored to mankind. He is also called the “Spirit of Prophecy” (Rev. 19:10b). Prophecy has this spiritual definition: the Father speaking His Word through an anointing son or daughter. We see proof of this definition in Hebrews 1:1–2, which says, “God, who at various times and in different manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, Has in these last days spoken to us by His Son.”

Our Supreme Prophet also said, “The words I speak to you, I speak not of Myself, but the Father who sent Me gave Me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is everlasting life (to those that believe). Therefore, whatever I speak, even as the Father said the words in me, that only will I speak” (John 12:49–50). So how does the Father work? He speaks from the abundance of His heart and performs the words He speaks. This operation is the surety of restored dominion to the ones God has sent.

So the Father assigned me the writing of this book to show that all who are called, chosen, and sent can obey the same royal commandment of prophecy. And they can witness the “works and the greater works” we have seen in Christ. Before you finish this book proving the reason why the early church maintained the same power that worked through Christ, you will understand how the power can be restored. Many scriptures will be used to prove this absolute truth concerning the power. “For it is the same God who works all in all” (1 Corinthians 12:6).

Chapter 3

The Commandment of Prophecy

This commandment of prophecy has been hidden from man for about eighteen hundred years, causing a great decline of the power in the church. Disobedience to this commandment to prophesy is the main reason there are thousands of “doctrines of men” being promoted in our Christian assemblies. And God’s works are not performed through “commandments and doctrines of men [after the flesh]” (Colossians 2:22). His promise only declares, “I will hasten MY WORD to perform it” (Jeremiah 1:12). “MY WORD will not return void.”

God called prophecy a commandment every time He anointed a messenger and sent him to His beloved people, Israel. And our eternal High Priest, the supreme Prophet of the body, said often, “Follow Me.” Now no minister could ever follow Jesus (Yahshua) without the gift of prophecy conducting the ministry, which is the anointing of the Royal Priesthood.

Being a prophet is the first identity by which the Father revealed our Savior. This first identity of Christ is revealed in Deuteronomy 18:15, 18. The Father has to do the talking in order for the supernatural hand to move. “Follow me” is a command for all His anointed vessels to pray for the “gift of prophecy” to conduct any one of the fivefold ministries. And prophecy is simply understood in this: the Father speaks through a chosen vessel, and then does what He says.

There must be no change from the original office of Christ so there will be no change in the power. We must imitate Christ—the anointed Word—in every phase of the “house” that we are to complete. He was a prophet; we must prophesy. He was the truth; we must be the truth. He is the Word; we must be the word. He was the Father’s Love; we must love one another. He was life; we must be life to our generation. Christ’s ministry begins and ends by the office of a prophet, the Father speaking and then doing the works. There is no other priesthood or ministry that can claim the anointing and thus the powers of heaven.

Chapter 4

The Initial Revelation of the Identity of Jesus Christ

We first see our Father calling prophecy a commandment when He introduced the office and ministry concerning His Son and our Savior. Note the title and the commandment in these following passages of scripture:

The Lord your God will raise for you a Prophet from the midst of you, to Him shall you listen. I, the Lord, will raise up for you a Prophet, anointed as you, and will put My Words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto the people all that I shall COMMAND Him” (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18).

We see in these preceding scriptures that prophecy is confirmed as ...

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1