False Prophets

Sometimes I have to have a bit of a grin. Recently we had a report from somewhere that Nuclear War would start in August of this year and we all had to be ready for it. And, it seems that all over the world, people are counting down to
The End Of The World


There is no doubt this world as it is now will end at some time or another, but I wonder when the false prophets will let up on their predictions?

A Prophet is one who speaks FOR God.

That's a pretty high calling! To be chosen to speak FOR God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth! After all He is God!

Today, people throw around "prophecies" as though they are going out of fashion. Never in my life had I heard as many as I did in the pentecostal churches.

I recall an instance when, while seated at a pentecostal church, a woman stood up and began babbling in a strange language. There was nobody to interpret, we had no idea what she was on about and yet the minister bade us all to listen to these "astonishing prophetic words".

I never did find out what they were and am still wondering many years later.

Why do people give false prophecies? Why do people stand up and babble away in strange languages? Why do they babble in strange languages anyway?!
What is behind these Revival, Word of Faith, and Pentecostal Movements?

I recall when I used to visit a woman deeply involved with Pentecostalism. She is so deeply religious it isn't natural and her prime target to be "saved" was moi at that time.

Her and a friend introduced me to Pentecostalism big time. And in those churches I saw things I never thought I'd ever see in my life.

Prophecy was rife! It seemed that everyone was a prophet!

Then there were the prophets in the big cities who used to visit. One prophesised over me and told me God wasn't going to throw the baby out with the bathwater giving me visions of nightmare quality.

What does the Bible say about prophets?





For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 1:21

And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth [Famine] throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

Acts 11:27-28

And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle [Belt], and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.



1 Samuel 10:10-11
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:21-22
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.


Deuteronomy 18 and Samuel 10 tells us what will happen to these false prophets. They die.

The rest show us that a prophets words happpen!

It often astonisheds me that these people who claim to be prophets continue to try to predict the end of the world when in actual fact, Jesus stated, in their well worn Bibles, that even HE did nopt know, that only GOD knew when the end would happen.

Now I really am wondering what is truly behind this pentecostal movement because what they do seems to be contradictory to God's Word.


What do you think?