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RUSSELL SANDERS
8-4-2022
TODAY’S FALSE PROPHETS
History tends to repeat itself centuries later, especially in regard to negative events. We can see this even in the bible. False prophets are seen in in the Old Testament in Israel and even in the New Testament Church. They are still around in the church today.
Jeremiah 23:21, 22, 25, 26 speaks of them and even identifies the source of their false prophecies. God said in verse 21, (KJV) “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran (with it). I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.” In verse 26 God said they had not stood in His counsel. Verse 25 says that God has heard the lies they speak in His name, claiming they received it in a dream.
Verse 26 gives the cry of God saying, “How long shall this be in the heart (human spirit) of the prophets that prophesy lies? Yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart.”
False prophets speak out of the desires of their own hearts from that which they desire or hope to see happen. When they “prophesy” words from their hearts, their own human spirits, it is not a word from God as they claim it to be. When you check it out for yourself by the bible, you find that it often contradicts what the scripture says.
One of the most common false prophesies of today speak of a great end-time revival that is coming when 2 Thessalonians 2:3 speaks of great apostacy (falling away from truth) just before the Lord’s return.
One of the greatest prophetic errors by these prophets is that everyone will be blessed financially. This does not line up with scripture. Jesus said that we would always have the poor with us. Many decree words over people not knowing if those people are living in sin without repentance. You can’t just decree something over people as a whole. These words come from their flesh speaking, not from God.
Many will prophesy healing if you send them money, and this is absolutely not from God. It is from their own selfish ambitions. Stay away from them.
Other prophets speak of being “caught up” or raptured without going through tribulation. Jesus told us in Matthew 24 what was going to happen and even the sequence in which his return would occur. Matthew 24:8-24 tells of the tribulation which the believers would suffer. It will be so severe that if the days were not shortened (to only seven years) that nobody on earth, saint, or sinner, would survive. It will be shortened, and brought to an end, so that we who are in Christ can survive. Verses 29-31 then says that immediately after the tribulation that Jesus would return, and his angels would gather all the elect (the redeemed) throughout the world in the catching away (rapture). Always stay with the scripture and pray that those that prophesy contrary to scripture see truth and repent.
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