Prophetic History in CAWKI

''This section originally appeared within the "Spiritual Intelligence" section of Part II of the Manifesto, entitled The Prophetic Dimension. This section, and where it appears within Spiritual Intelligence, is indicated below, followed by the text of the section''


 * Normal Intelligence
 * Paranormal Intelligence
 * Biblical Examples of Spiritual Intelligence
 * Prophetic History in CAWKI
 * God's GPS
 * Amos 3:7 Principle
 * Ways not Works


 * Disciples that God seeks "Preach to the tree!"
 * Industrial Revolutions compared
 * The Inspiration Age (the 4th Industrial Revolution)
 * Prophetic Pictures
 * Benjamins
 * Prophetic Warnings
 * When the Stones cry out

For many centuries the prophetic has been completely absent in CAWKI (church-as-we-know-it). And in the course of the theological liberalism and demythologization of the last centuries, the prophetic dimension has been surgically operated out of the theology of many denominations. But make no mistake – prophets have always been there. They may have worked as artists, poets, musicians, or inventers, but usually far outside the church.

It is only a fairly recent occurrence that prophets have received a certain foothold on the platform in traditional Christianity. Being a relatively new development, many immature prophets – those ready before they are ready - have strained the goodwill of many churches and individuals. The devastating effects of their insensitive and sometimes plain wrong “words” spoken out of context have done great harm to the issue itself. And, since the astonishing lack of the prophetic dimension in classical Christianity has created such an immense spiritual vacuum and intense hunger for spiritual reality over the centuries, this has lead anyone who is a little bit sensitive to the voice of the spirit to be offered an immediate Gurustatus, a microphone, and a self-contained prophetic ministry. Sadly, some have accepted that, basking in the man-of-God aura that others offer. However, prophets are not elected by people; prophets are made by God. I like the way A. T. Gardiner put it: “When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions.” In other words: many of us have had compelling reasons to be throwing that prophecy-baby out of our bath water long ago (the notion that a real God with really good ideas and plans has real interest in real people like us and can communicate in real-time about real life choices that are ahead of us, ahead of time). But as we are getting in touch with the real thing, some of us might have to go down on our knees, scramble for that squalling baby, and then put it back to where it belongs; the bathtub. Let us now take a closer inside look at how spiritual intelligence works.