We are in the spiritual season of the coming forth of the sons, or what is called in scripture “the man child.” This will be the same event as the bridegroom going into the bridal chamber to consummate the marriage (Matthew 25:1-13) – Jesus Christ and the Church becoming one entity. Before this, we must see the beast, the false prophet, and the antichrist come into power in the world. We know that the antichrist is one who has a claim to Christianity and somehow is a part of the present church. The beast will be the world leader and we can see his kingdom being established in Europe with the seven heads and ten horns (seven kingdoms and ten rulers). The false prophet will be quite likely one of our charismatic miracle-working Pentecostal ministers.
Of course, there needs to be some clarification here. Satan has infiltrated the church system. This began very early in the early church when they were under severe persecution. A bishop who was well respected was arrested by the authorities and imprisoned. At that time there were bribes being given to free the different ministers, and the churches fed the spirit of corruption in order to get their leaders freed. The church also poured a lot of gifts upon this bishop while he was in prison so that he became very rich during his incarceration. He confessed that he was a fake and that he just wanted the money, so the authorities freed him and he left the church.
In these days, we are not so fortunate. Many false teachers and prophets are among us. Most of these people do not know that they are false, but God ordained that the Church should correct them.
A false prophet or false teacher is not one who makes a mistake in his teaching or prophecy, but one who prophesies from a false spirit. I once had a brother traveling with me who showed me a file of ten or more prophecies to him saying that he was an apostle, etc. He told me that at the meeting that night a certain brother would prophesy to him exactly what he had on the papers. At the meeting he had his eyes glued on to the brother and was concentrating on him so that he should bring forth this prophecy. Suddenly the brother stopped what he was saying, turned and pointed to him, and repeated almost verbatim what was on the paper he had shown me before. There was no possibility of his having told this brother before since we came directly into the meeting while it was in progress. This is a known occult practice, and it did not surprise me, except that this man was practicing the occult without knowing it. Prophecy is very close to divination. They are both spiritual actions that involve a human being. If our hearing is impaired by uncleanness of any kind of sin, we will hear the devil and think it is God. By uncleanness, I mean desires, lusts, evil speaking, etc. In 1 Kings 22, four hundred of the Lord’s prophets were hearing from evil spirits of prophecy and only one prophet (Micaiah) was hearing from the Lord. In another instance, when Elijah went to Carmel to wait for the Lord, there were three spiritual manifestations that preceded the Lord, but he was able to discern them all that they were not God. “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27).
This does not say that it is a sin to hear other voices, but we should not follow other voices, but only the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of our prophets today give wrong prophecies and refuse to repent when things turn out to be sometimes exactly opposite. Before the election which made Nixon President, a certain well known “prophet” prophesied that Nixon would be one of the greatest presidents of the United States, and that he would bring great blessings and revival to the nation and the church. He failed and brought much disgrace and disappointment to us.
At another general election, it was prophesied by another of our highly respected prophets that God showed him a newspaper the night before the election that President Clinton would win by a landslide, and that he had a tender heart and would bring great blessings to the church and revival to the nation. He did it with a landslide, but has brought more disgrace to this nation than any other president did. This brother should repent, but instead he goes on prophesying. A false spirit is ministering to him, and this is what the church should discern.
The church, however, is so fragmented, divided and full of sin that these men are not being corrected. Instead they are being lauded as “great.” With the experience I have acquired in over half a century in the church I have seen very much of false prophecies just as I have seen it work in the world. I knew a woman, the head of a church, who could tell me where I was yesterday when the hub cap on my car fell off at high speed. When the thought flashed across my mind to go back to the place to see if I could find it, she quickly answered my mind and told me it ran off the road into the swamp. I have seen men of the devil wave their hands and knock people down to the ground, who then struggled and could not get up until they released them. I have seen a man, a bishop and gay at the same time, who stood over his wife, her tongue became heavy and she had no power to move until he released her. I have seen a gay man, the bishop of a certain large Pentecostal church, whose vision was so accurate that he could prophesy to brethren and tell them what they were doing wrong and what sin was in their lives. Many trembled before him, for he was piercing right through them with his spiritual vision.
Be not deceived by miracles, for God’s Word says that there would be devils sent forth into the earth to work miracles to deceive those who do not follow the Lord.
In closing let me say that this is the day of Preparation and God is calling to all the watchmen to trim their lamps, for we are not heading for the end but we are in the time of the end. May God richly bless you.
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