Prophets were chosen by God according to his desire for the time. They were often a stumbling block to the everyday citizen— in other words, what we call the mainstream today. For example, the prophet Amos was chosen from the herdmen of Takoah. He even stressed that he was not from a prophetic school— a “son of a prophet.” Isaiah was a family man, and seemed to have a rather stable life. Jeremiah, a man from the priesthood, was apparently rather well-to-do and could purchase a field when asked to do so. Some like David did not know to what extent they were prophets. David spoke from deep within his heart, a heart that was after God’s own heart; and his psalms instructed people in the ways of God; and his psalms came to pass. “The Spirit of the LORD spoke from me, and his words were in my tongue,” he declared on his deathbed. Yet God would not enlighten David directly, nor when David sinned grievously, as in the case of Uriah the Hittite, was he instantly aware of God’s displeasure; God sent Nathan, another prophet, to confront him.

   Like many prophets, Nathan wrote no book. But some of his prophecies were written in the historical books, including one of the most key prophecies ever: that from David there would come an eternal throne. The same applies to Elijah. But his acts were also written down in the historical books. Elijah traveled many places at the command of God, whereas Jeremiah was more of a thorn in the side of the kings at Jerusalem. Elijah was unique in that God did miracles through him. Most prophets had no such power. They declared the will of God, and when they spoke it was the word of God.

   But one thing they had in common: they didn’t care who anybody was. As the mouth of God, they rebuked the lowly or the esteemed, the kings or the common people, for their sins and backsliding.

   Such was the calling of a prophet. The determination of a true prophet was that what he spoke in the name of the LORD came to pass, and that he spoke according to the law and testimony (Moses and the prophets). The last such accepted major prophet was Jachanan ben Zechariah, known as the baptizer. Like Elijah, he wrote no book, and his prophetic knowledge was only of the immediate future, of one who was soon to come. This was the deep witnesses that God had placed in his spirit. Such a compulsion, if you will, is how God moved the prophets.

   That is why the prophecies usually contained a glorious event that would come, to wit: God would speak direct to his people— not as he spoke to the prophets (through moving the spirit), but he would speak direct to his people from one that he would raise up like them. Moses openly spoke of “that prophet” who was to come, one so powerful that those who didn’t hearken unto him God would take vengeance upon them. This is indeed a great event. (See Men & Brethren)

   But for God’s prophets there was fear that they might speak rashly or falsely. They were in fear of the authorities, and the people often disregarded them. Jeremiah aptly speaks of his compulsion to proclaim what he saw coming and the failure to see it happen as he thought it would:

       O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou hast overpowered me, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long, everyone mocketh me. For whenever I speak, I cry out— yea, I proclaim: “Violence and destruction!” So for me the word of the LORD hath become a reproach and a derision all day long. But if I say “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then in mine heart there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

   Few prophets ever sought to be a prophet and more than one was not happy with being one. But they did what the LORD’s Holy Spirit compelled them to do.

   Then there was silence. There were no more prophets. We were told a famine would come. Amos was moved to proclaim this to all Israel. (See Chronological Anchors in prophecy) “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.” Indeed, the word was found true.

   For almost 2000 years Israel has not heard the words of a true prophet. By going after other means of prophecy and the philosophy it espouses some have, according to the above symbolism, gone after other gods and declared their ways live and are right. Evangelicals have adopted a lust for prophecy in the last 100 years and a strange adulation for anyone who is remotely Hebrew. It is through this portal that thousands of Messianic Jews have entered Christianity, becoming strange copies of Pentecostalism, a dubious movement steeped in the spiritualism of the late 19th century. Within this movement God speaks like a parrot in the ear, a method by which God declared to Moses he would not speak. Many messages are private, justifying the individual’s lifestyle. Others share “what the Lord told me;” and, my, what limited application it has. Messianic Jewish rabbis are allowed to call themselves nabi if a supervising board allows. The messages all these “prophets” relate strangely justify and reflect the sect of Pentecostalism, its adulation of the Jew for just the sake of being a Jew, its lust for the Jewish state regardless of what it is doing, and its need to see signs ushering in some golden millennium, an idea that started with novice spiritualists. These prophets, like the ancient false prophets, use God to justify their own imagination.

   Elements of the Messianic movement stemming from Pentecostalism’s “familiarity” attitude, casual prophecy, revelation, and easy regard for God, have only “Jewified” the error. The Lord whom we have sought has been degraded. They call him Yeshua to accentuate the Jewishness of the whole movement, but in this and a few Jewish rituals is the only difference found from the “holy roller” mindset of “Brother Jesus” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” One site uses Yeshua to sell underwear. Another proclaims it is adulating “David’s greatest son,” thinking, I should suppose, they are attracting Jews by the “Jewishness” of the comment. Yet it is written in Mark’s Gospel that “Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.”

   It will be better for Chorazin and Bethsaida and Capernaum in the day of judgment, and for that entire generation, for they not knowing who Jesus was rejoiced that the Messiah would be the Lord, than it will be for those who say he is the Messiah and, calling him just Yeshua, use his name to sell this year’s line of mogen David boxers.

     Indeed, if there be so many prophets today, where are they? If they all have the Spirit of God speaking through them, why are they ignorant of the words of the LORD? Why will none declare it openly as “thus saith the LORD” for all mankind and take the risk?

   Through Jeremiah, God warned Israel that everybody was speaking in his name only to justify the vanity of their hearts and the outlook of being God’s chosen no matter what they did. All were saying they had “the burden of the word of the LORD.” Yet the LORD declared the burden was their own words.  Each prophesied of peace and surety in the ways they delighted and took for granted.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?  . . .I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. . . .I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.”

   So common was it that everybody was declaring themselves to have the word of the LORD that he set a standard for declaring the true word of God, a standard which cannot be violated. “And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken? And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken? But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;  Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.”

   As then, just 20 years before destruction, so is society today. Just as then, instead of inquiring to the true prophets (Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?) people today say they each have the word of the LORD: But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD . . . and each fools himself in his own imagination with interpretations and extrapolations to justify what he wants to see.

   It is for the true prophets to carry the burden of the word of the LORD and to declare it faithfully, not each to haphazardly justify his own deceit. Thus a prophet declares “thus saith the LORD.” Only one of the heritage of the Hebrews, yet another reluctant one, is yet raised up to declare the “burden of the word of the LORD” in the proper manner. There is no new gospel involved; no new requirements. God is gracious enough to warn of impending rebuke and destruction, plus also to remind us of how he is to be regarded. God will turn Israel, and they shall know that it is Jesus who is the Lord-- not their “homeboy” justifying their carnal and vain desires.

   Nabion does not expect to be a popular site because it carries the book of ben Kathryn. But its proclamation must be faithfully made. The message such as the book carries has only been found to come before terrible upheaval. The Jew must know that a prophet is speaking in the name of the LORD again. They can ignore it, or they can repent and prepare to teach that Jesus --Saviour-- is the Lord, and that he is not to be used for increasing profits. He is the everlasting father. And he will be regarded in such a manner here.

   Thousands of Messianic Jews are skeptical of Pentecostalism and modern apocalypticism but are surrounded by it continually. Even more thousands of Jews are interested in Jesus as the Messiah, but are put off by the ignoble way that the great Messiah they have long taught to expect is regarded. Yet He is the Lord whom we have awaited. They are awaiting a future according to all the rampant “burden of the word of the LORD” crowd preaching only recent “observing of times.” Your faith cannot be in a prophet. It must be in God. But when you read and dismiss what you have read herein, when it does come to pass you will remember God gave warning. In this way your faith will not be shaken. You will know God lives and he declared beforehand it should happen. It is for this reason prophets are raised up again.

Nabion is the web site of the modern prophets of Israel. No true prophet, in any historical Biblical sense, was raised up except from among Israel. It is the responsibility of Jews to be the witnesses unto the nations. No true prophet is allowed a following, nor allowed to make disciples. They are not usually leaders, but the servants of the LORD. This website is placed up to present the word that is now being given, for it seems that God indeed shall do a wonder upon the Earth and restore the glory of Israel. There is no glory for Israel but the name and presence of God, and this is the glory of the whole cosmos.