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Must
reading: THE PROPHETIC SAVANT
This was an email I received from Eric Nelson. I decided to
publish it here, and maybe on my web site if I can find the
time. Why??? Because it astounded my mind to the degree that it
rather stopped me in my tracks as I pondered it. It was this
contemplation that caused me to drop everything that I was
doing, and needed doing, to publish it.
No one has really been called until what is stated here has
taken root in them. No one but one who has been called and
experienced what is set forth in this writing, can understand
it.
I was dismayed at how the writer had such understanding of what
happens to an individual (man OR WOMAN) when they are called,
and then so enabled to communicate it so profoundly accurate.
May it be of benefit to some who read it, and may it bring some
understanding of what has happened to them. (I have added
emphasis to some statements.)
THE PROPHETIC SAVANT
by Chip Brogden
"...the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is
mad..." (Hosea 9:7).
"What then is genius? Could it be that a genius is a man
haunted by the speaking Voice [of God], laboring and striving
like one possessed to achieve ends which he only vaguely
understands?" --- A. W. Tozer
(*The use of the male pronoun in this writing is for convenience
only. We mean no partiality to our brothers, and no disrespect
to our sisters.)
The prophetic savant is a person afflicted with a
heavenly autism, making him nearly incapable of normal relations
with those around him.
Accused of being aloof, cold, and distant, he is apt to hide
himself from people, withdrawing into a world of his own. He
never seems to be all "there". Even if he forces
himself to come down to Earth for a moment, those around him may
have the sense that there is an unspoken dialogue going on
somewhere inside of him, a secret communion carried on beneath
the surface that never allows him to be fully "in the
moment".
How do we explain this?
As a prophetic savant he sees, hears, and relates to the
world differently than the rest of the population.
They have not seen what he has seen; they have not heard what he
has heard.
And so he finds very little camaraderie, very little
sympathy or understanding, no one with whom he can open his
heart and share his soul, because he no longer speaks the same
language, and
they no longer speak
his.
Of course, he may have surface-level exchanges with anyone: he
is approachable, not haughty, or high-minded. He may even be
personable and likeable. Yet there is something so other-worldly
in his demeanor that he is more often frightening that friendly,
in spite of his best efforts.
He is a
spiritual autistic
, and no matter how hard you try to know him, he is generally
unknowable, and to a certain degree, he resists all attempts to
know him.
If a prophet is anything, he is extra-terrestrial - above the
Earth. He walks the Earth with others, but he is not of the
Earth. He is from beyond; he is from above. If we trace his
history we will find that he may or may not have had a normal
childhood. He may or may not have come through extraordinary
experiences. But at some point in his life, either as a child,
or as a young adult, or as an old man, something from another
realm broke through the thin membrane between Heaven and Earth
and took hold of him
. It may have been a burning bush, or a Voice crying out to him
from beyond the veil, or a Heavenly Vision which brought him
briefly into contact with something and Someone that he could
not completely fathom.
However it happened, for one moment at least, the clouds parted
and the veil was rent, and
he saw something that is unseeable; he heard something
that is unhearable
; Heaven itself was opened up to him, and he saw into another
world.
The thing he saw and heard now burdens him like a mantle
that has been draped over his shoulders. He feels its weight,
for it is with him day and night, whether he is eating or
drinking, working or resting.
It is the impression
that everything around him is a lie
, and what he has seen and heard is the Truth, and this Truth is
not static, but it is living, growing, and increasing within him
from the day it comes to him in the form of a seed.
For a long time he struggles to find words and vocabulary to
express the inexpressible. He cannot explain why he feels the
need to try and express it, but for some inexplicable reason
something drives him to open his mouth, or take up his pen, and
make it known. Whatever it is, it will not permit him to savor
it or keep it to himself, and it seems intent on coming to the
surface and interrupting the normal course of his life. This
process can be frustrating and painful, so much so that
he may give up several
times
, content to simply walk in what he has seen and heard and leave
it at that.
But try as he might, he cannot run away from what he has seen
and heard, and he cannot deny the compulsion to bring it forth.
On the one hand he cries out for a "normal"
life
, while on the other hand he knows he cannot deny what has been
revealed to him. When he does achieve some modest success in
articulating something of Heaven he is pleased for a time,
but soon grows impatient with it, and eventually is
dissatisfied with it altogether, because it cannot do justice to
what he has seen and heard.
And so the process begins again, the continual search for words
to more perfectly express what he is trying to communicate (and
a subtle fear in the back of his mind that he may never be able
to adequately express it), which leads him to invent words which
may have never before existed, or to look for Spirit-inspired
words in some unknown tongue that can be translated into
something others can understand.
The prophets of old correctly called it the "burden of the
Lord", for it is like a woman who must live the rest of her
life being in perpetual labor, delivering the same child over
and over again. What relief there is only comes in discharging
the burden, but that is not to say it ever really leaves: it
merely allows the prophet time to catch his breath until the
next contraction doubles him over again. The burden is with him
the rest of his life, and he never fully discharges it.
Even when he tries to be disobedient to the Heavenly Vision and
flees from the presence of the Lord he is pursued and hunted
down like some kind of a wild animal who has gotten loose,
knowing it is only a matter of time before he is captured again.
The Voice never leaves him,
the Vision never lets
him go
.
When he refuses to speak then the fire which is already kindled
only burns hotter, until he ends up doing what he has resisted
doing all along, just to relieve himself of the unbearable
tension and inward pressure. He cannot extinguish or quench the
fire no matter what he does, he can only be obedient and find
temporary relief, until the next word comes, and then off he
goes.
He may beg God to send someone else, and may protest his
inability to speak, or to write.
But he is already
ruined for anything else
, and even when he denies the Lord Who called him and returns to
his former occupation, it is all dull and lifeless, and he meets
with nothing but frustration and failure.
There is no way to
escape it
. He knows he is called to something Higher, even when he is
clinging with everything he has to something Lower.
Like a wild horse, he resists the dealings of the Lord and must
be broken before he will obey. Eventually he learns not to
resist the Lord, but to cooperate with Him. He becomes pliable
and bendable in order to survive.
His very life now is bound up with what he has seen and
heard
. He cannot be disobedient to the Heavenly Vision, and if it
means he dies, then he dies. If it means a renunciation of
everything he once believed, then he renounces it - reluctantly
at first, then cheerfully.
If it means suffering the loss of all things, then he
lets them go
.
Over time the one who has seen and heard becomes the very
essence of what he has seen and heard.
The Man becomes the Message
. He bears the Testimony in himself, and becomes one with it. He
needs no preparation to speak; indeed, preparation does nothing
to help the message he brings, and it often gets in the way. His
whole life is the preparation, and since he is the Message, it
is with him constantly. He can no more separate himself from the
Message than he can separate his head from his body. If there is
an "On/Off" switch then it was long ago turned on and
then disabled so that
it can never be turned off again
.
After many seasons of God's dealings he finally perceives that
this is what the Lord has sought for all along, not just to GIVE
him a Message,
but to MAKE him a
Message
; to gain for Himself a Messenger and capture him completely,
embossing the Message into his very being.
And so he goes about his daily business, constantly haunted by
that Voice, torn between the menial task at hand which calls for
his physical and mental exertion, and the Higher Calling which
seeks his undivided attention. He knows he should do all things,
great and small, as "unto the Lord". But he also knows
that Heaven and Earth are locked in mortal combat over him while
he stands there in the middle, torn between the two, desiring to
depart the Earth altogether and be with Christ, but knowing that
it is more profitable for his brethren if he remains. Heaven
calls him to rise up, but Earth tells him to keep his feet
firmly planted.
His heart is constantly breaking and longing to go, to ascend,
to rise up,
to stop seeing through a dark glass
, and see face to face, without the distraction of the natural,
the fleshly, the temporal, because he knows the Earth is not his
home. Yet he struggles with the fact that Earth is where he must
live and work.
This accounts for why he may sometimes seem
difficult to be around
.
As a savant he possesses insight and skill which others do not
possess. But it is a gift, not anything of himself, nothing of
which he could boast of. If you were to ask him if he considers
this to be a blessing, he would probably say it is more like a
curse, because it sets him apart from others even when he tries
his best to be hidden and to blend in. He cannot read the
Scriptures as others do, for after only a few verses the Heavens
are opened up to him again and he is lost in its depths. A
single passage may keep him occupied for months as Heaven
unfolds it to him, and he cannot tear himself away from it.
His preaching is affected, because he cannot decide in advance
what he will say, and even when he would like to bring forth
something new and exciting,
he usually ends up saying the same thing
, like, "Repent!" He often does not say what he wants
to say, and does not say it in the way he would like to say it.
If he wants to be serious, he finds himself laughing. And when
he wishes to be friendly, he finds himself screaming at the top
of his voice to a startled congregation of people, who wonder
how this fellow was ever allowed access to their inner sanctum
in the first place.
When he leaves a place he almost never sees the result of his
labor, and only eternity can reveal the true significance of
what was said. For now, it is all hidden, and he has to live
with the fact that his fruitfulness will never be measured in
terms that human beings, including himself, can see and
appreciate.
He cannot go through the motions of religion like most mortals.
It is a dead, shallow thing to him because it cannot compare to
the reality of what he has already experienced. He finds it
difficult to listen to another person preach when he knows they
have not yet ascended to the heights nor plumbed the depths that
he has already navigated. And when he tries to lead them into
these heights and depths himself he is often misunderstood or
rejected altogether. So either he attends the meeting and
suffers in silence, or
stays home and suffers
in solitude; but either way, he suffers
.
His seeing is affected by a sort of "spiritual
dyslexia". While others view things from a one or two
dimensional viewpoint, he sees them through several dimensions
at once - forward, backward, reverse, upside-down, right-side
up: life and death, light and dark, Spirit and flesh, Heavenly
and Earthly - which often puts him at odds with his more
pragmatic and doctrinally-correct brethren.
He is so at one with what he has seen that
he speaks of it as having already happened, because he
has, in essence, already experienced it and lived it. It is the
Prophetic Tense,
which calls those
things that be not as though they were
. In his world, the world of the Spirit,
they exist already
. We call it "prediction" because we cannot yet see it
with our natural eyes, but he simply stands outside of Time and
views Past and Future as one unbroken and continuous Present.
His hearing is affected so that he is increasingly sensitive to
his surroundings, even though it seems as if he is not paying
attention. He is listening, but he is listening inwardly. He no
longer trusts his natural ears, because the Heavenly Voice and
the inner witness are more reliable. Thus, he is able to hear
God speaking, while the rest of the crowd says, "It
thundered!" or "It was an angel!" He is also able
to hear when God is not speaking, and does not get carried away
with the multitudes who claim to speak, see, and hear things
from God
when they have not
heard or seen anything from Heaven
. He cannot bear to listen to them.
His concentration is affected in such a way as to make
him appear obstinate and unyielding to others
. The truth is that he is actually quite flexible and pliable
before the Lord, but before man he is as solid and impenetrable
as a rock.
No amount of persuasion or argument from man will move
him - but the slightest touch from the Lord
will bring him to his
knees
. Having discovered the One Thing that is needed, he will
tenaciously and ruthlessly shun the "many things"
which crowd in to seek his attention,
for he sees everything else
as a distraction
. Indeed, he is quite willing to sacrifice the good in favor of
the holy. And when the Lord has him focused on a particular
thing he is as a beam of light fastened upon a singular point
until everything melts before it.
Even his praying is affected, for he can
no longer pray as he
wills and for what he wants
. He seemingly has no will of his own. Instead the Heavenly
Voice bids him to pray with a Heavenly perspective, and all too
often the Heavenly perspective is at odds with the Earthly
perspective. So when his brothers and sisters pray for blessing
and increase, he finds himself praying for destruction and
decrease; and when they are resisting and praying against
something, he finds himself asking God to perform the very thing
the rest of the world is against.
To the rest of the world, the autistic savant is a bit of a
retarded genius, an unfortunate mixture of idiocy and
brilliance, caught up in a world of its own. The prophetic
savant bears a similar stigma. But if you engage him at all, you
soon discover that he sees all of this as absolutely normal; the
way it is supposed to be. He no longer wishes for a normal life,
because the life he has now IS normal: he has lost his own life
in exchange for a new life. He lives in the Heavenlies while he
walks on the Earth. He does not think of himself as special, as
anything other than a regular person, but often wonders aloud
why others cannot see what he has seen when it is all so
self-evident and plain. To him, maybe; but the rest of us are
blinded by the Light he exudes without knowing it.
It will take years for anyone to catch up and understand
what this man
HAS ALREADY SEEN
!!!
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Patricia
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(11/7/03 9:49 pm)
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THE
PROPHETIC SERVANT
Larry,
Oh, the inexplicable longing I feel to be of such - crazy hey?
Patricia
Ps: Now that I've recovered my equilibrium somewhat I amend my
statement: Its not crazy at all but an answering deep crying
forth in my very soul ......... ah, since I were a little wee
one.
Edited by: Patricia
at: 11/10/03 9:51 am
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Darlene
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(11/8/03 7:09 am)
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The
Prophetic
Good...very good and so true.
Few people will be able to 'put up with' a person like this. But
they are the essence and expression of the Creator just as
surely as the ones who will touch our lives in a 'favorable'
way.
The problem lies in our not knowing His judgments and our fear
of discovering them. To see as YHVH sees is to dwell in a realm
that is above this earthly existence...for this is man's final
destination. Enoch walked with YHVH and He was not for YHVH took
Him. The word 'walked' means to carry as in burden.
Few there be that have an eternal perspective. The false church
is building her temple on the earthly, physical and natural
realm (beguiled by the serpent). Is it any wonder that YHVH must
send His doom and gloom prophets to shatter the illusion?
But oh how we cringe at the thought of our beautiful temple
being destroyed. Oh how GOOD it seems to be in our eyes...quite
possible the only GOOD thing we have accomplished. Our religious
domains...all that feeding of the poor, all that giving
Christmas gifts (yeah right), etc. Oh how good we feel about
ourselves.
The good will die in order that the fulness be manifested. The
full expression of the Son. His righteousness comes on the wings
of TRUTH. His righteousness is established through judgment. HIs
righteousness overshadows all that we can do or be and makes
ours look like...well filthy rags!
Darlene
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rockywhy
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(11/8/03 8:26 am)
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The Prophetic
Shalom all:
Larry, brought me to tears, thank you. HalleluYah
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DEBerry
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(11/8/03 10:44 pm)
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Re:
Must reading: THE PROPHETIC SAVANT
I want to say some things about this wonderful post -- but I
cannot find the words right now. I'm still silenced and awed.
Thank you, Larry, for sharing this.
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Mobilian
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(11/9/03 4:40 pm)
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The
Prophetic Savant
This is without a doubt, one of the most profound writings I
have ever read. Surely this is the realm that our Messiah,
Yahshua walked in upon this earth. Is it any wonder that He was
hated by the masses of humanity and especially the religious
leaders of His day? My own family, even the ones who are
professing Christians, especially my own son, think I am off
into false doctrine. Only a small number are willing to walk in
this lonely realm. But once you have seen into this unseen
realm, you can never go back to being "normal." The
things of this world grow strangely dim in the Light of His
Marvelous Grace. In His service,
Sylvia West
www.kingdomoflight.org
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movedtospeak
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(11/10/03 7:51 am)
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The Prophetic Savant
Oh thank you Larry for posting this article here for us! How
beautifully expressed it is and how it creates a sense of
beckoning in me, so desirous I am to be so close to the The
Father and the Heavenly Realm!
I am so glad you put this here, I will share this with others
who I know will appreciate it as much.
Lisa
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brokenmicrowave
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(11/12/03 10:23 am)
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The Prophetic Savant
its well written.
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Tim
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(11/12/03 12:43 pm)
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WOW
THERE ARE NO WORDS!!! It took me a long time to read this
because I could not stop usually crying with tears at first and
then laughing uncontrollably to tears again at some point in
each paragraph. This guy must have planted a bug on me since
birth and recorded everything.
There was not a single thing that I did not identify with. I was
just floored! I also think some physical and emotional healing
took place.
I cannot wait for my wife to read this tonight
Tim
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JasonRStowell
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(11/12/03 11:42 pm)
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WOW
Thanks for that. Thanks
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Larry
G Meguiar
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(11/13/03 7:34 am)
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WOW
Hey Jason, glad to see you here.
Larry
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Apesis
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(11/13/03 3:43 pm)
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WOW
Completely so right on it hurt to read, with lumps in my throat
and my eyes filling up with tears, and whatever kind of thing
that went thru my whole body as i read along. The Ruach ,
surely.
I, too ,so much thankful for you bringing that one to us, Larry.
How that permeated my soul thru and thru..! that's right,, hard
to put words to express how pwerful that was.
-a
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inhissteps
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(11/21/03 5:58 pm)
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Savant
I've never been able or heard anyone else write it in words, but
the Lord has blessed you tremendously to do it. It is wonderful
to hear of others who seem to have walked the same road with me.
My family doesn't understand me, especially my husband. But my
mother is one who has walked that road also, so I have some
consolation in being able to share with her and hear her share
with me the things God reveals.
Thank you brother. I found myself crying and shaking my head
like a bobbing dog the entire time I was reading. The brokenness
that God does is worth it all as the scripture says "A
broken and contrite spirit I will not despise."
God bless brother.
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reaf1999
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(12/3/03 4:02 pm)
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INCREDIBLE
WRITING!
I too have encountered what this man is writing about, I don't
think at the same hieghth as He, but I know what He's saying.
The Bible say's when you suffer with Him you reign with
Him,(Jesus) and I think that this person has described it
perfectly. Larry if this Man has any writings on His revelations
could you please post them or e-mail me at some point. I can
give you my e-mail later if it's needed, Thankyou, reaf1999.
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Larry
G Meguiar
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(12/4/03 9:41 am)
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INCREDIBLE WRITING!
reef1999;
No, I do not know of anything else this man has written. If it
had not been sent to me via email, I would not even have this
writing. Obviously, Jah wanted this one posted here, and was why
it was sent to me.
Larry
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reaf1999
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(12/4/03 2:21 pm)
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Thanks
Yeah, obviously, well thanks anyway appreciate the respnose.
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