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You know it is important not to minimize this verse when God tells us he will send prophets to do a thing You need to remember Amos, Isiah, Eze ect.And God tells us something else about a true prophet a true prophet of God is 100% right 100% of the time and he/she will talking in a public Forum that the whole world will see God is coming to correct and gather all his children throughout the entire world not some little corner of the earth(Israel) like the first time and especially not in some corner church or not even a giant church This time its about the Entire world. So it will be very obvious to the World when his Sons and Daughters start prophesizingThis will not be a private little thing only a few people hear 15"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. 21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'Now we can take from this that prophet must produce good fruit Well before we can judge whether the fruit is good or not we must be able to hear and understand itWhy did God give us guidelines to judge prophesy and warn us about false prophetsif we are not to judge what they say Now as I told you before until this happens the prophets we have now are better loosely described or defined as to teach or speak a thing of truth but it still must pass the same test if it is from God it is 100% accurate and must pass the test any christian in good standing should be able to test the fruit out for accuracy another words if I am teaching(prophesying) to you a thing you should be able to check me out in scripture to see if I am telling you the truth. Lets say I tell you Murder is a sinyou or any christian that hears this can look to the law and see I am correct my fruit was goodNow there are other types of prophecy's and prophets and those that dream ect.but all must still pass the same test Example: I am one who has dreams but it is my duty as a child of God to test the prophesy against the same rules the bible lays out it must bear good fruit if for example I dream an event is going to happen it had better happen or it was not good fruit.Now not to get into the tongue argument again but if one cant understand what they are saying how can one test it?? So calling this kind of murmuring prophesy does not pass the test. I dont now what you want to call it but it is not prophesizing as it can not be tested either by the speaker or any other chrstian.All the prophets of old understood what they were saying even if they didn't understand what they were seeing. they had been tested (their fruit proven Good)
So you are saying that Acts 2:17 is still future? They are not prophesying now?