Sure, not Shaky

2 Peter 1:12-21
"Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased," we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

Quoted in Counterfeit Revival, Jonathan Edwards writes on the danger of pulling words of Scripture out of their context and interpreting them according to impulse:

"Some that follow impulses and impressions indulge a notion, that they do no other than follow the guidance of God's word, because the impression is made with a text of Scripture that comes to their mind. But they take that text as it is impressed on their minds, and improve it as a new revelation to all intents and purposes; while the text, as it is in the Bible, implies no such thing, and they themselves do not suppose that any such revelation was contained in it before. . . .

If such things as these are revealed by the impression of these words, it is to all intents a new revelation, not the less because certain words of Scripture are made use of in the case. Here are propositions or truths entirely new, that those words do not contain . . . wholly different from those contained in the text of Scripture. . . .

This is quite a different thing from the Spirit's enlightening the mind to understand the words of God, and know what is contained and revealed in them . . . and to see how they are applicable to our case and circumstances; which is done without any new revelation, only by enabling the mind to understand and apply a revelation already made."

And on the surety of Scripture, Edwards "implores Christians 'to be contented with the divine oracles--that hoy pure word of God, which we have in such abundance and clearness.'":

"Why should we desire to have anything added to them by impulses. . . .Why should we not rest in that standing rule that God has given to his church, which the apostles teach us [2 Peter 1:12-21] is surer than a voice from heaven?

They who leave the sure word of prophecy--which God has given light shining in a dark place--to follow such impressions and impulses, leave the guidance of the polar star to follow a Jack with a lantern."

Let us beware and seek wisdom to discern what is true and right amidst the flood of false teaching.