Agabus

A New Testament prophet from Jerusalem who appears twice in the book of Acts, each time delivering a dramatic predictive prophecy. In Acts 11:27-28, he traveled to Antioch and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world — a prophecy fulfilled during the reign of Emperor Claudius, which prompted the Antioch church to send famine relief to Judea. Later, in Acts 21:10-11, he met Paul at Caesarea and performed a symbolic prophetic act in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, binding his own hands and feet with Paul's belt to foretell Paul's arrest in Jerusalem. Despite the warning, Paul resolved to go, demonstrating that prophecy in the early church served to prepare rather than necessarily to prevent.