God spoke through Jesus, through Paul, through John, through Moses, through a donkey...
I'm not entirely sure what to think as a whole. Here are some of my random thoughts as they come.
I believe that Prophesy is not a lost gift but it is not what it was once. It is not needed in the same way, but God can and will use it at the proper time(s).
I have personally experienced a move from God on my life that was unlike anything I can describe fully in words. Before I couldn't get anything out of the Bible. During that time God opened the Bible to me in a way that I can only liken to a data dump. I walked out of Church one Sunday not being able to hold an intelligent conversation about God other than a handful of clichés that I could rattle off, and back in a couple of Sundays later and my Pastor was so blown away at what I was sharing with him from that mornings personal Bible Study that he stopped me and had me share it with the congregation once services started.
The only way that I can describe it is that it was like I was sitting in God's presence (not that I could see or even hear anything) and just feel and experience God. For almost two weeks this went on, I could almost tangibly feel Him like a weight on my shoulders like a 20 pound coat. All this time I had no Bible. My wife would not let me buy one because she had gotten one for me for my upcoming birthday.
I never spoke in tongues, I just spoke to God. He didn't answer me audibly but the way He did when He did was so much louder and sure than you with your voice.
Shortly after I got that Bible, that intensity level faded some but for the next 4 months there was a "lesser" version of it 24/7. I would wake up singing praise songs that my wife said I had been at for a while. Without my alarm clock I would wake up between 2:30 and 3:00am every morning and run down stairs and read my Bible before I had to leave for work by 8:00. That level faded and tapered off to what I still walk in today over five years later. Much more subdued, more of the prompting and leading you would expect from a normal Christian's walk, but there is ever the faded presence of God just outside of my sight and grasp.
Lots of details left out but all that to say that I know first hand and believe that God moves today.
But I am also a skeptic, not of the gifts, but people's claims of the gifts. I have personally witnessed phony healings, tongues, and prophesy ultimately used to fleece the local flock. (All this inside the walls of a Southern Baptist church). Tongues are the easiest sign gift to counterfeit, just start babbling a dare anyone to say that you and God aren't communicating. But that doesn't mean that the gift of tongues doesn't operate. Benny Hinn "prophesied" and told his audience in the late 90s that Jesus Christ in the flesh told him that He would appear on stage on one of the stops of his current tour and if you didn't want to miss Him then you better attend all of them. Of course Jesus didn't show up. His ministry never suffered a dent!?!?! He preaches to this day on TV and radio. Go figure. That doesn't mean that prophesy is obsolete.
The first video, before the prophesy of the general warning to seek God and pray and repent is what the Bible is telling us that we should be doing right now anyway. But the Bible is full of instances where God sent a prophet to tell His people to do what they already knew they should be doing.
The second and third videos with specific prophesies and especially the explanation of the economy... That is very plausible and is also the source of fear currently by secular people who don't know God. It is in line with what the type of thing that the Bible teaches can happen.
Outside of any of this I myself have taught that we are nearing the last days. Israel being re-established as a Sovereign Nation was foretold in Scripture and is the first of the end times prophesies that had yet remained to be fulfilled. We don't know how much time would pass between it and the end, but we know that the season is around the corner if not upon us.
Conclusion? Prepare your hearts and prepare your houses. Not only this prophesy (which is yet to be found as true or false) but the Bible instructs us to do so. Be vigilant and expectantly await His return.
With what has personally happened in my life with God and the "super natural" visitation for lack of better words, I am no where near where I was or should be. I have been in a sort of "desert" experience for over a year. Depression like I'd never known before was ultimately responsible for me losing my job of 14 years, my wife lost hers 2 weeks later and we at the time were 3 months pregnant. We are losing our home and having to move back west in with family as soon as my wife and beautiful son (who will be 3 weeks old tomorrow) can travel next month.
Oddly enough there has been and is a peace about the whole thing, it is going to be ok. My faith in God has not been shaken even though everything around me is looking grim by the worlds standards, God has closed doors all around me but then opened one corridor with a place to stay, a job, and close to family which we haven't been for 14 years. I will be making 1/3 of the salary that I left behind but I won't have any rent. Before we even move there is good indication that it will be enough.
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. I am seeing it first hand but this is nothing compared to what is coming one day, soon maybe. I say get your house in order, get your family in order and get your heart in order. Not necessarily in that order.
It's right whether we find out that this prophesy is valid or not. It does speak of things that are dangerously and realistically possible that is discernible just by looking. And the Bible warns us that something more terrible than anything ever before is in front of us still and it is closer than it has ever been.
