The Divinity of The Prophetic Calling!!!
“Then I said, ‘Woe is me! For I am ruined, because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.’ Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, ‘Listen carefully, this has touched your lips; your wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] is taken away and your sin atoned for and forgiven.’
“Then I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’ And He said, ‘Go and tell this people: Keep on listening, but do not understand; Keep on looking, but do not comprehend. Make the heart of this people insensitive, their ears dull, and their eyes dim, otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and return and be healed.’
“Then I said, ‘LORD, how long?’ And He answered, ‘Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, and houses are without people and the land is utterly desolate, the LORD has removed [His] people far away, and there are many deserted places in the midst of the land. And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, it will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned], like a massive terebrinth tree or like an oak whose stump remains when it is chopped down. (Except here, nothing will remain.) The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel]’” (Isaiah 6: 5-13, AMP).
And thirdly, “Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I consecrated (sanctified) you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Then I said, ‘Ah, LORD God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am [only] a young man.’ But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not say, ‘I am [only] a young man,’ because everywhere I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.’
“‘Do not be afraid of them [or their hostile faces], for I am with you [always] to protect you and deliver you,’ says the LORD. Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me, ‘Behold (hear Me), I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant’” (Jeremiah 1: 4-10, AMP).
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