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False ProphetsBecause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets , which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7:14-15) The drumbeat for serial war in the Middle East is loud and persistent: get behind Zionism, no matter what. Mis-applying Genesis 12:3, the so-called “Christian leaders” from TBN alone extort money from American believers to the tune of $100,000,000 per year! John Hagee alone extracts $15 million per year. These prophets of doom are actually advocating and facilitating the fighting of their Zionist wars by us. Never mind the lives of our sons and daughters, who go into war with a vague idea that the Jews are God's Chosen People and therefore they must have their land and their Kingdom. These false prophets, as in the false prophets of old, are very, very dangerous people. They dominate our Christian media, and they have political clout because of their voting base. Jesus promised He would return again, with His Kingdom, before his last apostle died, in that century. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. (Matthew 16:28) Verily I say unto you, This generation [geneos] shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. (Matthew 24:34) And he said unto me, These sayings [are] faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. (Rev 22:6) But, 2000 years later, Tim LaHaye, Jack VanImpe, Thomas Ice, Billy Graham, Hal Linsday and nearly all other "prophecy" experts claim that the restoration of Israel and the fulfilment of her eschatological promises are yet to occur. Clearly, we have a problem. If Jesus failed to do what He came to do, and the chorus of prophets we hear today are correct. Or, Jesusis did what He said what He would do, and what we hear today is a chorus of false doctrine. It will be demonstrated that the later is true.
For centuries, there have been countless false prophececies regarding the rise of the Antichrist, the 2nd Coming and the "end of the world." Here are a few of thousands of documented false-hits: "And so, brethren, it has been revealed to me that the world is coming to an end. Repent, repent, I say, for you have but eleven years to be washed clean in the blood of the Lamb. In mighty fire and terror the world will end in 1843." (William Miller, 1832) "AD. 1914 is the time limit set in the Scriptures for the concurrence of the war:that the war broke out and continues in all details as described, by the prophets is a complete fulfillment of the prophetic record." (H.C. Williams, 1918, " The Revelation of Jesus Christ") Augustine believed the world would end on 1000AD. The list goes on. It should distress believers that people of other faiths correctly point to clear time statements found in our Bible and use them to claim that our Inspired Word is not inspired, but fraudulent. Here are examples from a Muslim point of view:: So, according to Jesus, his second coming was supposed to be before the death of his contemporary generation. He even confirmed it saying ... ... Even Paul was waiting the second coming of Jesus during his life ... Agnostics who contest the credibility of the Word of God don't have to search far to find problems with a futurist view of the last days events: In Matt 24:34 Jesus reportedly predicts that the end of the world and all the fantastic "signs" he describes will occur within the lifetimes of the "current generation" or those currently living at the time Jesus spoke those words. If there is any doubt, it is clarified with far greater specificity in I Thessalonians 4:15-17, that this refers to those contemporaneously living. Yet that generation died off and the second coming and all the signs and wonders of the end times have not been fulfilled and, like all previous generations, is still being waited for by our current generation. (Source) Virtually no effort has been made by our false prophets to resolve these problems. Minimally, you would think that - within a sincere effort to reach them with the Gospel of our Savior - we should see some apologitics. Not only is there no sincere effort to deal with the problems, today's false prophets ignore or dismiss these appeals for reason and clarity.
" ... the Bible code clearly states the danger in modern terms- 'atomic holocaust' and 'World War' are both encoded in the Bible. And both are encoded with the same year, 2006. " (Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code II) 'End of Days' Atomic Air Strike in 2006. Two or three MiG fighters will drop bombs on nuclear facilities in Washington State, Oregon and San Francisco. This will be done by a secret alliance of China, Iran, Syria. Somehow France is involved. The attack will begin at 9 AM Pacific Time and cause massive damage that will effect the whole planet." (James Kingsley, in communication with Religious Tolerance) Even though it is evident the "prophets" prophesy falsely, those who hold to a dispensational view brazenly accuse those who question them: As we approach the end of the age a brutal war against Bible prophecy is being waged on all fronts. We expected this. The New Testament warned of an onslaught against the message of our Lord's return: "There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts [desires], saying, Where is the promise of his coming?" Peter speaks of humanity's willful ignorance of the Lord's Second Coming! 1 The end time war is directed both against the message and the messenger of Bible Prophecy (David A. Lewis, "The Eschatology Wars") Consider this: the disciples themselves were warned by Jesus not to listen to the false prophets (Matthew 24:11), and how to identify them (Matthew 24:26). If the false prophets were to arrive 2000 years in the future, why did Jesus instruct them concerning future false prophets? Moreover, if the claim is made that Jesus was really talking to us, 2000 years in the future, then we are the very false prophets he warned about! Jesus warned his Desciples not to prematurely predict the end as being at hand, because there will first be false prophets who will be making premature claims that the Messiah as come again.. They should not be deceived. Yet, Peter, James and John all proclaimed as inspired writers that the end was at hand! So, either His Disciples were the very false prophets He warned against, or they were right (and the "last days" events have already taken place.) Here is another clue that the dispensational view has the right aisle, row and seat (but the wrong stadium): John - the same John that wrote the book of Revelation, said: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (1 John 4:1-2) The false prophets we hear today maintain that Jesus is, indeed, the Son of the Living God, incarnated in the flesh. See the problem? The first-century false prophets were judaizers. They rejected the Messiah. Today's false prophets are not the false prophets of the first century! Even if we were in the "last days" and the Lord has promised to return in our lifetimes, statements like this demonstrate a very real lack of understanding of what the prophets of Israel actually said concerning these prophecies. In their arrogance, they (along with millions in their mega-churches) have access to rare and special knowledge that, were it possible, could "decieve the very elect" (Mark 13:22.)
The dominance of false prophets in Judeo-Christianity is indicative of the lack of Bible-reading in the Body of Christ today. To be a false prophet is to be an adversary and outside the will of our God: I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden [oracle] of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden [oracle]? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:25F) Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets . (Luke 6:25,26) The punishment for being a false prophet is severe indeed: If there arise among you a prophet , or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet , or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death ; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5) The punishment of death is, of course, a very real punishment. It is indicative of how our God views people who prophecies falsely to His people. Where is the outcry concerning our false prophets today?
"Prophecy-related products continue to be popular among WorldNetDaily readers, with two books on Israel's involvement in end-times predictions coming in at No. 2 and 3 on ShopNetDaily's weekly best-seller list—Dave Hunt's 'Judgment Day! Islam, Israel and the Nations' and Greg Laurie's 'Are We Living in the Last Days?' " (WorldNet Daily) What we are seeing happening around us now is not the “last days” events described in the Book of Revelation. The famine, war and pestilence we see were not detailed by the prophets as being “signs of the times” leading to the end of the world and the 2 nd coming. WHAT WE ARE SEEING AROUND US IS THE APPLICATION OF THE CURSES OF DEUTERONOMY 28! It will get worse, and as it does, millions of people will cling to what they read in a book or what a televangelist said, clinging to a false hope and a false future. It's nothing new. The Zealots had a false hope in 70AD. According to the Jewish historian Josephus, men, women and children remained in the Jerusalem temple as it burned to the ground at the hands of Titus' armies, expecting to be miraculously delivered. It didn't happen then, and it won't happen now. The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. (Isaiah 9:15-16) Not only should we not be duped by these prophets of doom, but it's past time for our leaders to confront them with their error, and the consequence of it.
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False Prophecies Damage Our Witness