Guardian

A PROPHET or prophetess is a man or woman chosen by God to speak for Him and to tell of events in the divine plan to his or her target audience. Some people were anointed into this office in the Bible times and God is still doing the same today. God in I Kg. 19:15-17 instructed Elijah to anoint Elisha, as the prophet who would succeed him. Elisha’s job was to work in Israel, the northern kingdom, to help point the people back to God. At this time, the southern kingdom was ruled by Jehoshaphat, a king devoted to God.

The term king (ruler) generally describes someone who has ultimate authority and power over his subjects. In the Old Testament, it can mean the ruler of a tribe, ruler of a city. Both Saul and David were anointed as kings over Israel (1 Samuel 10; 16:13). When an Israelite king took office, he was not only crowned, he was anointed. The coronation was the political act of establishing the king as ruler; the anointing was the religious act of making the king God’s representative to the people. A king was always anointed by a priest or prophet. This anointing ceremony was to remind the king of his great responsibility to lead his people by God’s wisdom and not his own.

Samuel said, “I am doing this because the Lord has appointed you to be the leader of his people Israel.  When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father is worried about you and is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?’ “When you get to the oak of Tabor, you will see three men coming toward you who are on their way to worship God at Bethel…”I Sam.10:1-8.

Let me make it clear here that God is aware of every person that is in one position of authority or the other. Long before the people of Israel asked for a king, other nations around them had human rulers.

When you arrive there, anoint Hazael to be king of Aram. Then anoint Jehu son of Nimshi to be king of Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to replace you as my prophet.  Anyone who escapes from Hazael will be killed by Jehu, and those who escape Jehu will be killed by Elisha!”-I kg. 19:15-18. As you can see God’s anointing can come on anybody to carry out unique assignment.

Prophet Abiara, General Evangelist, Christ Apostolic Church (CAC)

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