Prophets are God’s messengers

generation, God has been communicating through various ways, but He mainly uses other men to communicate with mankind concerning His plans and purposes on earth.
In the book of Genesis chapter 1:26, we see God creating man on the sixth day, and on the seventh day He rested. God never rested because He was tired. He never rested because He was through with creation. He rested because He had created His rest.
Adam is the rest of God. God created the tree and out of the tree Adam manufactured sofas, wardrobes etc.
Out of the soil of the earth created by God, Adam moulded bricks to construct houses, aeroplanes, cars, phones, etc, all these came out of the ground by Adam.
Creation of things continued and this was not God doing the work hands-on, but He was and is expanding His works of creation through Adam while He is at rest.
This is to qualify Adam as the rest of God. It has been God’s desire to work through men when He wants to communicate His divine plans on earth to other men.
In Genesis Chapter 6, we see God visiting Noah and sharing with him His divine plans that He would destroy the entire mankind from the face of the whole earth because of sin.
Noah, being a righteous man, was chosen by God to be used as a vessel to preach and warn humanity from the impending danger which would befall them.
All the people who were into sin and were not of Noah’s household perished, not because they were not taught but they had taken an offence in God. How can He send another man to them instead of using other means of communication or talking to them directly?
You see, even the unrighteous also complain, in their unrighteousness, they would want God to stoop so low and talk to them. This is pride at its highest level.
It is the pleasure and desire of God to dwell in a human body and to use the body to accomplish His divine purposes among men. In the second chapter of the book of Exodus, we see God ushering a certain character, a prophet by the name Moses, a man mighty in signs, miracles and wonders. Moses was granted access of this world as an answer to the prayers of the children of Israel.
The elders of Israel fasted and cried unto God because of the severe affliction at the hands of merciless Egyptian taskmasters and God heard their voice of affliction and answered them.
Moses came as an answer. God never sent angels from heaven even though there are plenty, but He sent another man and in the man Moses lies the deliverance of the children of Israel. Not all of the Israelites accepted him as their deliverer. Some complained asking their deliverer who made him a ruler over them (Exodus 2:14). They took offence in him. God visited the children of Israel in Egypt through Moses and delivered them through him.
Many of the children of Israel could not enter the Promised Land because they were offended in Moses and God killed them. The house of Jacob was delivered from the famine through Joseph. God knew that there was going to be a famine in the land and people would die from it and He raised Joseph before his brethren to deliver them from that terrible famine. Joseph, the deliverer, suffered torment and affliction at the hands of the people whom he was sent to deliver. He was hated and sold to the Ishmaelites, was thrown into the pit, left there to die by his brethren. They took offence with him.
If it was in this generation we could have said a church pastor was expelled by other pastors from the ministry because God was using him so much other pastors took offence in him. Let it be known today that God in His manifold and infinite wisdom takes pleasure in using some men to speak and to deliver other men.
To balance the equation, God can use me to speak to you or He can speak to you to speak to me, and may we never take offence in this. In the past, Jehovah has been sending his prophets to communicate His messages to mankind. We have prophets like Jeremiah in the book of Jeremiah chapter 1:5. God sent Jeremiah to be His spokesperson. Jeremiah was not born by the will of men, He was God send. One of his assignments was to destroy men who were against the will of God.
He was a prophet of doom and destruction, a man sent by God to fight His battles. May we receive our today’s Jeremiahs, may we not take offence in them.
They are God send to our benefit. Look at the likes of Prophet Elijah. He was a man sent from the throne of eternity. A man with the power from above.
He could stop droughts, he could cause widows to eat like kings, a man who could raise the dead and who could kill when instructed by God to do so. He even called fire to come down from heaven, a man of integrity, a prophet of God. Why should people take offence in prophets? I wonder.
When God decided to pay particular attention to the needs of mankind, He put on flesh and came as a human being in the likeness of his son Jesus. He never came to us as an angel, but he became human to address human affairs. In Acts 10:38, God the Father anointed Jesus of Nazareth because He was human. He needed an anointing and power from on high in order to deal with human problems. Many Jews and their associates were offended even to this day. It’s hard for them to swallow their pride just to accept that God came in the flesh to address our issues of salvation.