The-Person-and-Work-of-the-Holy-Spirit-by-R.A.-Torrey
The Holy Spirit In Prophets and Apostles 251 been announced unto you through them that preached the Gospel unto you by the Holy Ghost sent forth from heaven ; which things angels desire to look into." These words make it plain that a Person in the prophets, and independent of the prophets, and that Person the Holy Spirit, revealed truth which was independent of their own thinking, which they did not altogether understand themselves, and regarding which it was necessary that they make diligent search and study. Another Person than themselves was thinking and speaking and they were seeking to comprehend what He said.
4. No prophefs utterance was of the prophet's own will, but he spoke from Q-od, and the prophet was carried along in his utterance by the Holy Spirit. We read in 2 Peter i. 21, R. V., " For no prophecy ever came by the will of man : but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost'
9 Clearly then, the prophet was simply an instrument in the hands of another, as the Spirit of God carried him along, so he spoke.
5. It was the Holy Spirit who spoke in the prophetic utterances. It was His word that was upon the prophefs tongue. We read in Heb. iii. 7, "Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith To-day if ye will hear His voice." Again we read in Heb. x. 15, 16, "Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us : for after that He had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them."