Matthew 5:12

"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in upward-vision: for so they persecuted the before-staters who were before you."

Taking a stand on these principles of Jesus' teaching can be tough.  The rewards can seem long in coming.  But Jesus affirms good cause for immediate rejoicing: upward-vision is enriched.  The Etymological New Testament consistently translates OURANOS, "heaven", from its two literal components: UP and to SEE, as "upward-vision."  

In a similar way, the word prophet is a two part word in Greek.  The ENT always translates as "before-stater", those who state or speak beforehand.  Warnings, consolations, encouragement, or visions of the future: these are all part of what a "before-stater" may see and speak of.  May our sense of the highest, upward vision in Anointing be clear: these principles of "The Sermon on the Mount" are worth building a life and a new world upon.