Covet to Prophesy

“If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues” (1 Cor. 15:37-39).

Coveting is usually thought of in negative terms. “Thou shalt not covet” is one of the Ten Commandments. Colossians 3:5 says that covetousness is idolatry. The Lord commands us to not covet things that belong to our neighbor. But there is one thing He commands us to covet. He commands us to covet to prophesy.

If we covet things that belong to our neighbor, we are breaking a commandment of the Lord. But if we do not covet to prophesy, we are likewise breaking a commandment of the Lord, because Paul assures us that the things he writes are the commandments of the Lord. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy.

“But Daniel, I’m not a prophet. I can’t prophesy.”

Yes you can. The Bible says so: “For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted” (1 Cor. 14:31).

That word translated “may” is dunamai, which means “can, able to.” The word dunamai is the word from which dunamis is derived. Dunamis is the power that Yeshua promised when He said “ye shall receive power [dunamis] after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8). If the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you have received the power to prophesy. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Some Bible believers are scared of the so-called charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit. They have seen lunacy on the fringes of the “charismaniac” movement. They have heard reports about false prophecies, counterfeit signs and wonders, bogus claims of miraculous healings, etc. They have seen the Holy Ghost get blamed for all sorts of circus antics. I have seen some of this stuff myself, and it’s disappointing to see so many Christians get caught up in the craziness of “charismania” while neglecting commandments of the Torah. But I’m not going to let the phony stuff drive me away from the genuine charismatic gifts of the Spirit that are spoken of in the Bible.

Charismatic is not a bad word. It’s a Bible word. The nine gifts of the Spirit mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12 - word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discerning of spirits; faith, healing, miracles; prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues - are collectively called charismaton in Greek in 1 Corinthians 12:4. So charismatic is not a bad word. It’s related to charis, the word for “grace.” We are saved by charis and equipped for service by the charismaton.

The Book of Acts records the arrival of the dunamis, the power that equipped Yeshua’s disciples to prophesy and to exercise the charismatic gifts of the Spirit. The initial evidence of the arrival of this power took the form of a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, cloven tongues of fire on each of the disciples, and all of the disciples speaking with other tongues. Afterwards the initial evidence of receiving the power normally took the form of speaking with other tongues.

On the Day of Pentecost, some onlookers suggested that the disciples were drunk. Peter stood up and corrected that misconception:

“For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy” (Acts 2:15-18).

How did Peter know that they were witnessing the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy? Call it a word of wisdom, or a word of knowledge, or a gift of discernment if you wish. Whatever you prefer to call it, Peter somehow intuitively knew that this outpouring of the Holy Spirit was a fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy.

Peter understood that this event was the beginning of a new chapter in the history of God’s covenant people. Yeshua had spoken about this on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles when He cried out, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:37f). Then John adds: “But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Yeshua was not yet glorified” (John 7:39).

After Yeshua rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, and was thereby glorified, the power of the Holy Spirit was made available to all God’s people. In Old Testament times, the Holy Spirit only came upon certain selected individuals, usually only upon prophets, priests, and kings. But now that Yeshua was glorified, the Holy Spirit was being poured out “upon all flesh,” Peter said. The power of the Holy Spirit was no longer going to be restricted only to a special category of prophets, priests, and kings. Now this power would be given to ordinary sons and daughters, to young and old, to servants and handmaidens. This is the reason Paul was able to boldly proclaim “ye may all prophesy.” It was the beginning of a new chapter in the history of God’s people.

The Book of Acts shows the charismatic gifts of the Spirit in action. In Acts we read about one manifestation of the Spirit after another. Peter and John see a lame man begging. Peter tells the man to rise up and walk in the name of Yeshua, then seizes the man by the hand and lifts him up, and immediately the man is completely healed. How did Peter know that would happen? How did Peter know the man would not just collapse and fall down after he grabbed his hand and lifted him up? Apparently Peter had a revelation from the Spirit, just as he did when he told Ananias that he had lied to the Holy Spirit, causing Ananias to drop dead, and just as he knew Ananias’ wife was likewise going to drop dead.

We read about Philip in Samaria. The Lord tells him to leave Samaria and go to Gaza, where he sees an Ethiopian sitting in a chariot. The Spirit tells Philip to go to the chariot. Philip obeys this prompting of the Spirit and discovers that the man is reading, of all things, the Messianic prophecy in Isaiah 53, and wondering who Isaiah was writing about. Talk about an open door to share the news of Yeshua!

Peter goes to Lydda and finds a man named Aeneas who has been bed-ridden for eight long years. Peter says to him, “Aeneas, Yeshua the Messiah maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed,” and Aeneas immediately arises. Then Peter is called to Joppa, where a beloved woman named Tabitha has died. Peter goes into the room where Tabitha’s dead body is, kneels down and prays, then says to the corpse, “Tabitha, arise” and she sits up, alive from the dead.

In Paphos Paul encounters Elymas, a “Jewish anti-missionary” who is interfering with Paul’s work. Paul does not get chummy with this anti-missionary, like some modern-day Messianics do with today’s Jewish anti-missionaries. Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, sets his eyes on Elymas and says: “O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” After insulting him and calling him names, Paul then tells the man he is going to be blind for a season, so blind he will not even be able to see the sun. And immediately a mist and a darkness fall on the man, and he seeks someone to lead him by the hand.

In the region of Lycaonia, Paul and Barnabas see a man who is a cripple from his mother’s womb. Paul somehow perceives that the man has faith to be healed, and with a loud voice he commands the cripple to stand up. The man stands up and walks and leaps, causing the pagan bystanders to cry out, “The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men!” Of course when the pagan priest of Jupiter brings an ox with garlands upon it, intending to sacrifice it to these two human “gods,” Paul and Barnabas have to explain that they are humans, “men of like passions with you.”

In Philippi, a damsel who has been following Paul and his team of disciples tells the people, “These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation!” What the damsel says is certainly true, yet somehow Paul perceives that she has an evil spirit of divination. Paul turns and says to the spirit, “I command thee in the name of Yeshua Messiah to come out of her,” and the damsel is delivered from the demonic spirit of divination.

After spending some time with the saints in Ephesus, Paul says his good-byes. He warns the Ephesians that after he leaves, wolves will come in from the outside and false teachers will arise from within their congregation. Paul somehow knows it will happen. And by the time John writes the Book of Revelation, we see that the saints in Ephesus had already left their first love.

When Paul is forced to sail on a ship as a prisoner, he tells those in charge, “Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage.” But the centurion in charge of Paul ignores Paul’s warning, and instead listens to the captain of the ship, who believes they will be safe. They set sail and a storm comes upon them. The ship is blown off course and they get lost. Paul says to them, in effect, “See? I told you so.”

Those are just a few highlights from the Book of Acts. The Book of Acts is exciting and encouraging. But I also find it depressing and discouraging. Why? Because when I compare the first-century Body of Messiah to the 21st-century American Church, I feel like Gideon felt when he said to the angel, “O my lord, if Yahweh be with us, then why is all this befallen us? And where be all His miracles which our fathers told us of?” (Jdg. 6:13).

I look at the 21st-century American Church, and I say unto you:

Something is terribly wrong.

Look again at John’s words: “the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Yeshua was not yet glorified.”

Now ask yourself: Has Yeshua been glorified yet, or hasn’t He?

Of course He has! The outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost was proof of that. If the Holy Spirit has now been given, then you can come to Yeshua and experience the Spirit flowing up from your innermost being like rivers of living water. Yeshua’s promise is to “any man.” Paul’s promise is that “ye may all prophesy.” You no longer need to be a prophet, priest, or king to experience this; it is for all of God’s children. As Peter said, “Ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call” (Acts 2:38f).

God does not change. “For I am Yahweh, I change not” (Mal. 3:6). “Yeshua the Messiah, the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). “I AM THAT I AM” (Ex. 3:14).

The power of the Holy Spirit has not diminished nor grown weaker over the past twenty centuries. Yahweh is the great I AM, not the great I WAS, I USED TO BE, BUT NOT ANYMORE. The power of the Holy Spirit is not one iota weaker than it was in the days of the Apostles. Therefore I say unto you:

Something is terribly wrong.

Something is terribly wrong. We have been robbed. There has been a spiritual disconnect in the Body of Messiah. We have lost a connection with the Spirit, a connection that God’s people had in ancient times. With all of our worldly advances in science, industry, technology, medicine, and communication, with all of our modern-day technological marvels, we have lost the primitive power of the Holy Ghost. We can instantly receive clear messages from friends on the other side of the world via email or telephone or skype, but we struggle for years to receive clear messages from our Friend who is enthroned in our hearts. We know how to push the right buttons on our electronic devices to hear from friends on the other side of the world, but we do not know how to hear from the Holy Ghost that is dwelling right inside us.

Even before the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Day of Pentecost, many of the ancients were able to intuitively discern things by the Spirit. In the Old Testament we see prophets and prophetesses telling kings and commoners whether they were going to live or die. We see men like Daniel telling kings the interpretations of dreams and of mysterious words written on a wall by a disembodied hand.

Long before Daniel’s time, we see Elijah suddenly appear in the pages of Scripture, seemingly out of nowhere, and announce to wicked King Ahab: “There shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” Then Elijah leaves and the three-year drought begins. Who was this mysterious man who had power to shut up the heavens? The Bible tells us nothing about his genealogy, his background, or his training before he shows up and announces “No more rain or dew until I say so!” The only thing the Bible tells us about Elijah’s background is that he was a “Tishbite,” whatever that is. Elijah goes on to do more miracles, including calling down fire from heaven a few times. Then he departs as suddenly as he appeared, carried up into heaven by a whirlwind.

Then we see Elijah’s servant Elisha pick up Elijah’s mantle that falls down from heaven. Elisha, with a double measure of Elijah’s spirit, goes on to do double the number of miracles that Elijah did. Stuff like healing bad water, poisoned soup, and a leper. Stuff like cursing some disrespectful youths who mock him, bringing the wrath of God upon them in the form of two she-bears that attack the irreverent youngsters. Stuff like blinding an enemy army, then healing their blindness and sending them back home. Elisha performed miracle after miracle. Even death could not stop Elisha from doing one last miracle. When a dead man was thrown into the tomb of Elisha, the dead man came back to life when his corpse came into contact with the bones of Elisha. Apparently Elisha was so saturated with the Spirit that even long after his death, there was still enough of the anointing on his bones to raise the dead!

Before the time of Elijah and Elisha, we see the priest Eli, who was not all that spiritual, yet he was able to bestow a blessing on Hannah that removed her barrenness and produced Samuel, who prophesied things in precise detail with amazing accuracy. Yahweh let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground, the Bible says. Samuel was never mistaken in any of his prophetic utterances, and his words were not vague nor ambiguous.

Before Eli’s and Samuel’s time, even the non-Israelite Balaam received revelation from the Spirit. Balaam was an unfaithful, greedy prophet, but his prophetic gift was genuine. “Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth.” Balaam “saw the vision of the Almighty.” Balaam said, “I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh my God.” The error, the doctrine, and the way of Balaam were perverse, but the prophetic gift was real.

Before Balaam’s time, we see Joseph in an Egyptian prison. Pharaoh’s butler and baker are in the prison and each has a dream. Joseph tells them that in three days the butler will be restored to his position, and the baker will be hanged. How did Joseph know this was the meaning of the two men’s dreams? Because three clusters of grapes equals three days, and three baskets of pastries equals three days? Okay, but how did Joseph know it was three days, and not three weeks, or three months, or three years? Apparently he had a close relationship with God that gave him discernment about the details.

Long before Joseph, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” How did Enoch know that? Apparently because he walked with God in a manner which we do not walk.

It appears that the ancients had a clearer line of communication with the Almighty than we do, even though we live in Joel’s “last days,” when the Holy Spirit is supposed to be poured out upon all flesh, causing sons and daughters to prophesy, young men to see visions, old men to dream dreams, and servants and handmaidens to prophesy. So where are the dreams and visions and prophesying? “Ye may all prophesy,” the Bible says, yet how many disciples of Yeshua actually prophesy?

“But Daniel,” you object, “Elijah and Elisha and those others you mention were prophets. They were special people. They were spiritual supermen. They weren’t like us!”

True, they were prophets, they were special, they were spiritual. But not like us? What saith the scripture? “Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are” (James 5:17).

Yes, these people were special. They were prophets. But if you think of them as being in a different category that separates them from us, you are missing the point of the last-days outpouring of the Spirit. One purpose of this outpouring is to put all of God’s children into the same category as the prophets and saints of old. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit puts us into the company of the prophets!

Most believers are familiar with the so-called “five-fold ministry.” Ephesians 4:11 says that certain people are called to be apostles, or prophets, or evangelists, or pastors, or teachers. People who occupy these offices are to perfect the saints, to help bring them to maturity, so that they can do the work of the ministry. Not everyone is called to fill the office of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher. However, you can be “a sent one” (which is what the word apostle means) in a general sense, anytime the Lord sends you someplace to do a task for Him. You can be sent someplace by the Lord without being an apostle. You can evangelize without being an evangelist. You can help guide and shepherd and mentor a younger believer without being a pastor. You can teach spiritual truths to fellow believers without being a teacher. And you can prophesy without being a prophet.

The Holy Spirit puts the prophetic anointing on all of God’s children, so that “ye may all prophesy,” even if you are not a prophet, priest, or king. Ordinary sons and daughters, young and old, servants and handmaidens can now prophesy. The fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy in Acts 2 was the start of a new chapter in the history of God’s people. And we are still living in that same chapter, still in the “last days,” the days in which ye may all prophesy. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy.

“But Daniel,” you object, “the Lord would never use me to prophesy. I’m not spiritual enough to prophesy or to speak in tongues or to experience any supernatural gifts of the Spirit. I’m too carnal.”

If we are honest, most of us have probably felt this way about ourselves at different times. If you feel that way about yourself, I have two questions for you:

Q: Which New Testament book gives the most instruction about the use of the spiritual gifts?

A: 1 Corinthians. Corinthians. The people to whom Paul said, “You come behind in no gift,” which means they were not lacking any of the charismatic gifts of the Spirit.

Q: Were the Corinthian believers super-spiritual, mature believers, or were they carnal and immature?

A: “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” (1 Cor. 3:1-3).

Think about this! It was to these immature babes in Christ, these believers who constantly bickered with each other, these carnal-minded Corinthians who were even tolerating incestuous fornication in their midst (see 5:1), it was to these immature, carnal people that Paul said the following:

• you come behind in no gift

• covet earnestly the best gifts

• covet to prophesy

• ye may all prophesy

• I would that ye all spake with tongues

• when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation.

Yes, the Corinthians were out of order, using the gifts in a disorderly fashion. Yet Paul did not say to them, “Stop with all this charismatic nonsense! Get rid of those manifestations and spontaneous utterances! Use a fixed liturgy instead, and just say the same prayers and blessings over and over again every Sabbath.”

There’s nothing wrong with a certain amount of fixed liturgy. At our congregation, we open the Sabbath service by reciting the Shema, we close with the Aaronic benediction, and we pray the “Our Father” prayer together during the service (all of these things taken directly from the Scriptures). A certain amount of fixed liturgy is fine, but it should not be a substitute for spontaneous prayer and praise.

Paul told the Corinthians to do things decently and in order, but he never discouraged them from exercising the charismatic gifts. On the contrary, he urged them to covet the gifts! “Covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.” “I would that ye all spake with tongues.”

If our heavenly Father was willing to give supernatural manifestations of the Spirit to those immature, carnal Corinthians, how much more willing is He to give manifestations of the Spirit to us?

I do not claim to be a seasoned expert when it comes to experiencing manifestations of the Spirit. I am not one of those glassy-eyed prophets who walk around in a perpetual trance all the time, speaking in a spooky tone of voice. I’ve met some spooks like that, but I’m not like that. In many ways I am just an ordinary guy who has experienced a few extraordinary manifestations of the Spirit over the past 40-plus years. However, I do not experience such things every day. (Except for praying in tongues, which is something I do every day.)

I am thankful for the wonderful manifestations of the Spirit I have experienced and personally witnessed over the years, but I wonder why such things are so few and so far between. Why do we not see more manifestations than we do? The Holy Spirit has not changed or weakened, so what is the problem?

One big part of the problem is the misconception that a person has to be a fully-mature, spiritual super-saint before he can experience any manifestations of the Spirit. The moving of the Spirit among the carnal Corinthians should dispel that false notion.

Another part of the problem is our low expectations. We do not expect manifestations of the Spirit, and when they do happen, we either miss them, or, if we do realize what is happening, we are unprepared for them. Let me share with you a few such examples from my own life.

One time the Spirit revealed to me that a man and a woman I knew were committing adultery with each other. In the natural, I had absolutely no reason to even suspect such a thing. I barely knew these people. So I thought the idea was just the devil trying to plant dirty thoughts in my mind. I rebuked the devil and dismissed the idea from my mind. But some weeks later I found out that they had indeed been having an adulterous affair. They both ended up divorcing their spouses.

I’m not sure why the Spirit revealed that to me, or what I was supposed to do with that revelation, but if I had been more spiritually perceptive, I probably would have known what I was supposed to do.

Another time the Spirit revealed to me that a young lady was telling me a lie. I had asked her about a friend of hers, another girl who was usually with her. “Oh, she got in a bad car accident,” the girl told me. “She’s in the hospital. Her face is going to be scarred for life.”

I knew I should have felt terribly sorry about this news, but I couldn’t. I was puzzled. I thought to myself, Why don’t I feel any sympathy for this girl in the hospital? A few days later I saw the girl. She had not been in a car accident and had not been in the hospital. The story was a lie.

When I first heard the story, I had absolutely no reason to suspect it was a lie, but my spirit knew it was not true, even if my mind did not know. If I had been more spiritually perceptive, I would have known that the girl who told me the story had a lying spirit.

Another time the Spirit revealed a stranger’s name to me. I was walking home from Hebrew class in Israel one day when an elderly Orthodox Jew asked me for directions. The address he needed to go to was across the street from where I lived, just a block or so away, so I told him I’d take him there. We were conversing in Hebrew and he asked me where I was from. I told him America, and then we started speaking in English, because he was from America too. As we were chatting, something inside me said, “His name is Samuel.”

I had never before seen the man and had no reason to think his name was Samuel. He was not carrying anything with his name on it or anything like that. I asked him, “What’s your name?”

He looked at me and said, “Samuel.”

I was stunned. If I had been more in tune with the Spirit, I would not have asked him his name; I would have told him his name. Then when he asked me how I knew his name, I would have told him that the God of Israel revealed it to me, to give him assurance that what I wanted to tell him about Yeshua of Nazareth was true. But because of my spiritual dullness and my low expectations, I was unprepared and blindsided by the revelation, and was too stunned to say anything about Yeshua.

I believe that a big part of our problem is that we do not have any anticipation or expectation that the Spirit will do things like this for us, so we miss out on opportunities. Even when we unexpectedly stumble onto a manifestation of the Spirit, we miss the opportunity because we are unprepared. We are not watching to see what the Father is doing, like a son of God should do. “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do” (John 5:19). We are like a fisherman who doesn’t expect to catch much of anything, then suddenly he hooks a very big fish, but in the excitement of the moment he does not manage to get the net under the fish, and the fish pulls itself off the hook and gets away. Then all the fisherman can do is tell people, “You should have seen the one that got away!” Like I tell people about Samuel, the one that got away.

Another part of our problem is a fear of fanaticism. But fanaticism can take many forms. You do not need to be a noisy Pentecostal to be a fanatic. Some quiet people fanatically resist the Holy Spirit by rejecting all outward manifestations. We need to avoid all forms of fanaticism. But as someone once said, the Holy Spirit is not the cause of fanaticism, it is the cure for fanaticism.

People who let their fear of fanaticism distance them from the power of the Holy Spirit need to seriously consider Yeshua’s words: “If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” (Luke 11:11-13).

Some people think that if you ask God to give you the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you might be opening the door for demonic spirits to operate in your life. But Yeshua’s words debunk that false notion. If a child of God asks the heavenly Father for the Holy Spirit, the heavenly Father will not give him a demonic spirit in response to his request. To suggest this, as some fearful Christians do, is an insult to the Lord. It shows an extraordinary lack of trust in the heavenly Father.

Another part of our problem, in regards to prophesying, is a misconception of what it means to prophesy. Some people think that prophesying means predicting the future. Prophesying sometimes might include predictions of the future, but a prophetic utterance does not need to include prediction of the future. The verb to prophesy simply means to speak under divine inspiration, by divine influence. In other words, to be inspired and stirred by the Holy Spirit to say something that the Lord wants you to say, at the time and in the place and in the manner He wants it said. I believe it’s very likely that many people have prophesied without realizing they were prophesying.

If you look up the Hebrew verb nav’a in Hebrew lexicons, you will see that the verb to prophesy includes the idea of something boiling and churning, something agitating, something bubbling up and over, like a pot of water boiling over. This definition sounds very similar to Yeshua’s statement about the Spirit flowing out of the belly like rivers of living water.

The Bible says “he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort” (1 Cor. 14:3). The purpose of prophesying is not to promote your pet doctrines. Prophesying to promote one’s pet doctrines arises from fleshly agitation. It is prophesying in the flesh. True Spirit-led prophesying will edify, exhort, and comfort, the Bible says.

If you are in an assembly with the brethren, and during the service you feel a word churning and boiling deep down inside your spirit, and if it is a word that will edify, exhort, or comfort the people, it’s very possible that the Lord wants you to prophesy. If you believe that the Holy Spirit is prompting you to speak, then at the appropriate time and in an appropriate manner, you may prophesy. And in case you are wondering, yes, women may prophesy in the assembly, provided they are wearing a head covering per 1 Corinthians 11.

For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted” (1 Cor. 14:31).

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Image (Top): The Prophet Daniel, by Daniel Botkin from his Portraits of Prophets Gallery. See all of Dan’s art on his art website: DanielBotkin.com.