Public Universal Friend (1752–1819, preacher who claims to have died and been reborn without gender).Joanna Southcott (1750-1814, author of prophecies kept in a box to be opened in times of national crisis, claimed judgement day would happen in 2004).Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772, founder of Swedenborgianism).Eva Margareta Frölich (1650–1692) ( Millennialist, pietist author and critic of the Church of Sweden).Mary Cary (prophetess) (1621-1653, supporter of the Fifth Monarchists).Lodowicke Muggleton (1609-1698, co-founder of Muggletonianism).John Reeve (religious leader) (1608-1658, co-founder of Muggletonianism).Anne Wentworth (prophetess) (17th century, persecuted by Baptists).John Robins (prophet) (17th century, Ranter rescued from Roundhead recourse by recanting his revelations).Margareta i Kumla (17th century, claimed to have seen angels and demons fight over her soul).John Bull (prophet) and Richard Farnham (17th century, claimed to be the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation).Martha Hatfield (17th century, Puritan).Ann Bathurst (17th century, member of the Philadelphians).Justus Velsius (1510-1571, Dutch faith healer who debated against John Calvin).Saint Malachy (1094–1148, Archbishop of Armagh and author of Prophecy of the Popes).Columba (521–597, credited with spreading Christianity in Scotland).Palladius of Embrun (6th century, Bishop of Embrun).Merlin (6th century, likely invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth from older legends, first appears in the Prophetiae Merlini).Iarlaithe mac Loga (6th century, founder of the School of Tuam).Quintilla (3rd century, founder of an offshoot movement from Montanism).Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla (2nd century, founders of Montanism).Quadratus of Athens (2nd century, sometimes considered one of the seventy apostles).The following persons are considered by some Christians to be prophets, or to have had prophetic experiences. Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah ( 1 Kings 22:24).Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah ( Jeremiah 29:21).Shemaiah the Nehelamite ( Jeremiah 29:24).The false prophets of Baal ( 1 Kings 18:13–40).The false prophet of the Book of Revelation ( 16:13, 19:20, 20:10).Jezebel (Revelation) ( Revelation 2:20) (not to be confused with the Jezebel of the Old Testament).Ahab, son of Kolaiah ( Jeremiah 29:21–23).The seventy elders of Israel ( Numbers 11:25)įalse prophets and prophets of Baal.One of the sons of the prophets ( 1 Kings 20:35–42).An old prophet from Bethel ( 1 Kings 13:11).A man of God from Judah ( 1 Kings 13:1).Zechariah, father of John the Baptist ( Luke 1:67).Saul: the first king to unite Israel ( 1 Samuel 10:10).King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon ( Daniel 2:1).Joseph, fosterfather of Jesus ( Matthew 1:20).Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist ( Luke 1:41).Zechariah, son of Jehoiada ( 2 Chronicles 24:20)īiblical people with claimed prophetic experiences.Zechariah, son of Berechiah ( Zechariah 1:1).Paul the Apostle ( Acts of the Apostles 9:20).Philip the Evangelist ( Acts 8:26) Note: His four daughters also prophesied ( Acts 21:8, 9).Oded ( 2 Chronicles 15:8) Father of Azariah the prophet.Lamech (father of Noah) ( Genesis 5:28–29).Horace Vernet, Jeremiah on the ruins of Jerusalem (1844) Agabus ( Acts of the Apostles 11:27–28).Anna (Luke - Dedication of Jesus) Luke 2:36-38.The final list consists of post-biblical individuals regarded as prophets and of post-biblical individuals who are claimed to have had visionary or prophetic experience. The fourth list contains the names of those described in the Bible as prophets, but who are presented as either misusing this gift or as fraudulent. The third list consists of unnamed prophets. The second list consists of those individuals who are recorded as having had a visionary or prophetic experience, but without a history of any major or consistent prophetic calling. the purported authors of the books listed as the major prophets and minor prophets) along with the biblical reference to their office. The first list below consists of only those individuals that have been clearly defined as prophets, either by explicit statement or strong contextual implication, (e.g. It is believed that prophets are chosen and called by God. In Christianity, the figures widely recognised as prophets are those mentioned as such in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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