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Word Witness - Epistles of Peter Series - 9

Tune: Sandys

(\'Teach me, My God,and King\')

2 Peter 1 v.19-21

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We have a more sure word

Prophecy, can be heard

Whereunto we do well if we

Take heed unto it, see

 

For it is as a light

That shines, dispelling night

Shines in a dark place till day dawn

Until the wakening morn

 

When day does dawn, night parts

Then day star in your hearts

Shall arise, light, life, you shall know

The Scriptures the way show

 

Know this, no prophecy

Be of man\'s faculty

Not private interpretation

Of man-made salvation

 

For prophecy of old

Was not by man\'s will told

Not fables, myths, messages feigned

But through it true life gained

 

How come then prophecy?

Holy people it be

Who spake, wrote, as the Spirit moved

These have enduring proved

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\'Prophecy\' can mean \'speaking God\'s message

for the present or the future\'.