False Prophets?

Question

Bibles down. Pop quiz time. No peeking.

Question 1: The bible states that there will be false prophets in connection with Armageddon. Which part of the bible mentions this? Bonus points for Chapter and Verse (without referencing the bible or some website).

Question 2: How are you to identify these "false prophets"?

Question 3: Who are false prophets? Are they the nutballs on the street corners shouting "The End is Nigh", are they cult leaders, or are they people within the religious community -like televangelists?

I'm just curious.

Answer 1

Question 1: To understand it all start with the verses below. It's not in one book or one verse, it's all over the place. There are a lot of websites all have different views. You could Google yourself and they will all pop up. It's hard to firgue which translation you will go with.

Question 2: There are different thoughts on where he will come from.
Question 3: The false prophet will be someone saying they are also like Christ.

I'm no expert. I'm still learning what's all going on. Good luck with your curiosity.

This should get your started: information on the Antichrist and Jesus Christ. What JC promises and what it expected of the false prophet.

Bible gateway.com, http://www.biblegateway.com/ offers you many different translations. I personally like the Amplified Bible ( offers different words in a given sentence).

1 Corinthian 15:50-58
Ezekiel 38:18-22
Ezekiel 39:1-5
EZEKIEL 39:17-21
Daniel 2:31-45
Daniel 7:7, 9-14, 21 & 22
Daniel 2:44 & 45
Daniel 8:8,9
Daniel 8:21-27
Daniel 9
Daniel 11:2-4
Daniel 11:15,21
Isaiah 30:25
Luke 18:8
Luke 21:8-36
I James 2:18-19, 22
I James 4:2-3
II James 7
James 5:1-8
John 14: 1-3
1 John 2:18-19
1 John 2:22-23
1 John 4:2-3
2 John 1:7
Mark 13: 5-37
Matthew 8:20; 9:6; 10:23
Matthew 24:14-15
Matthew 24:4-31
Proverbs 6:19
Thessalonians 4:13-18
II Thessalonians 2
I Timothy 4:1
II Timothy 2:15
II Timothy 3:1
Revelation 4 & 5
Revelation 11:2
Revelation 11:11-17
Revelation 13
Revelation 17:1-5
Revelation 17:9,10
Revelation 17:12
Revelation 17:15-21
Revelation 18:8,9,19
Revelation 18:18,19
Revelation 18:3
Revelation 18:9-11
Revelation 18:23
Revelation 19:11-21
Revelation 21

If you want more information after this a cool place to start. http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US

Plus even the Dollar Tree has each book of the Bible on CD. No joke. If you want to hear it instead of looking it up on the web.

Answer 2

The Gospels and Revelation mention false prophets. Jesus said that some will come saying that they are Him but not to believe because He will return the same way He left.
Revelation talks about the false prophet who will deceive many into worshiping the beast.
Exact verses shamefully I can not tell you without looking

Answer 3

1: Not with Armageddon. That's a battle. But about the end of the world, they are mentioned in Matthew once and in revaltions I think.

2: If a prophesy they make does not come true. (That does NOT mean that if they make a true one they are not false.)

3: No idea. I don't think it's mentioned, but I may be wrong...

Answer 4

Revelations refers to events in Rome that took place between 45 and 70 a.d. There is a lot of confusion because (a) people do not understand Roman naming traditions (b) Kabbalistic numerology uses Aramaic spellings rather than latin ones - forget Hebrew, Judeans spoke various dialects of Aramaic, usually heavily influenced by Egyptian while Galileeans (from where Jesus is alleged to have come) spoke a form of Greek.
The Beast whose number is 666 is the Emperor Domitian, not Lucius Domitus (Nero.) as is often claimed. Though Nero had a novel way of dealing with Chritian trouble makers who demanded they die on the cross (he had them daubed in oil, lashed to poles and torched to light the apprtoach to his palace for guests arriving at a banquet) he was not a fanatical persecutor of Christians. His descendant Domitian did try to exterminate the Christian faith in Rome and was altogether a nasty piece of work.

So false prophets are, I guess, those who tell us we have anything to fear from that nonsense.
There have been two Armageddons (it means the batlle of Maged, a small village near The Sea of Galilee) one in which a Jewish uprising was crushed by the Romans and one in WW1, 1917 I think, in which T.E. Lawrence )Lawrence of Arabia) and his Arab geurillas defeated the Turks.

The Bible is fine as a book of faith if people need that kind of thing in their lives, but as a book of history it is a non starter. I once described it as "the big black book of lies" but I was unfair. There is only one passage in the bible that is not true. It starts at "in the beginning" and ends at "Amen." Its comments like that of course that prompt Chritians to write and tell me they hope I get aids and die. Which is very Christian of them I must say.

Greenteeth, probably the funniest blog on the web
http://www.greenteeth.blog.co.uk/main

Answer 5

I have a comment...

I'm not sure how the false prophets are connected to Armageddon.

I think you're confused...

Answer 6

The false prophets are the ones that say one thing and do another

Answer 7

I don't know, but I'd shut up about Mormons in some of your other comments on other questions. You have no idea what you're talking about. They have no "planet ownership" program. So if you're so "religious," why do you have to spread lies about other faiths? Get a life.

Answer 8

1. in matt. i dk exactly where
2. test them
3. maybe