I would like to hear your view of false prophets.?

Question

A user called "The End Is Near" made a statement in my last question of "Beware of false prophets." I am particularly interested in his view, but his email was not open.

Answer 1

Hey brother.
From what we are seeing in the word a false prophet is one that dresses in sheep's clothing but in essence is a ravenous wolf.
Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Ravenous carrying with it the literal meaning " to extortionate"
I looked this word up and it shows someone who is grossly excessive, exorbitant, immoderate.

False prophets are out for their own gain at the cost of the flock of God. These are men and women who seek after themselves and would use the name of the Lord and the church to carry out their evil ambitious desires.
They wear the clothing of the sheep in order to blend in but like the verse says, inwardly they are wolves. I have yet to see sheep and wolves hanging out in a mutual way. The wolf always is after the sheep to eat them.

There is an intersting cross reference to a wolf in John 10:12
brother.
'He who is a hireling and not the shepherd, whose own sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

Thats the end result of the false prophet, he is one who snatches and scatters the sheep.

Acts 20:29
I know that after my departure fieice wolves will come in among you and not sparing the flock

Brother Paul warned the church. He did not care for his own life but he was very concerned for the future of the church, which was a treasure to him as well as to God.

We see references throughout the whole bible of false prophets
Jeremiah 14:14
Matthew 24:11; 24
Mark 13:22
Luke 6:26
Acts 13:6; 2
2 Peter 2:1
1 John 4:1
Rev 16:13; 19:20

The untimate false prophet.
Rev 16:13
And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon an dout of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits as frogs

Notice, it is out of the MOUTHS of these ones that the unclean things proceed.

There should rise up in our being brother.. such a need to be inoculated with the Word of God, as the pure antidote against all the false teachings and things that proceed out of the mouths of men and women who are false. We need to be guarded with the words of Christ dwelling in us richly. Unless we labour day by day to be constituted inwardly with the pure word, we are then open to all that is untrue out there.


Good Question
Your sister
sandy

Answer 2

The term prophet carries two meanings presented in scripture.

Primarily defined as "a person who speak the truth of God to the people of Israel"

Secondly defined as "one who predicts things to come"

Sadly the latter is the first assumption of most critics when the term prophet is used.

The New Testament, in context, uses the "truth speaking"

With that as a foundation: False prophet is a person who teaches something contrary to the Word of God.

Regardless of how you feel about the Bible. The idea is a person who speak about the Bible is held to a standard to speak the truth AND to do so in Love.

Just my thoughts

God Bless

Answer 3

Whether or not someone is a false prophet is based soley on the opinion of the person judging him. If you are of one religion, the prophets of other religions are false. So too are your own prophets false to people of other religions. And, since your own prophets were probably chosen for you by your parents, you can see why some people have a problem believing in any of them at all.

Answer 4

There shall be false prophets in the last days according to the words of Christ and I believe Mohammad was one of those. Jesus said, you shall know them by their fruits. Do we have prophets today? Yes. And you have to inspect their fruits and to try the spirits to judge if they are of God or not. If they do not line up in word and deed. they are false....

Answer 5

False prophet is a label given to a person who is viewed as illegitimately claiming charismatic authority within a religious group. The individual may be seen as one who falsely claims the gift of prophecy, or who uses that gift for demagogy or evil ends.

Answer 6

According to what the New Testament says, a false prophet is anyone preaching other than what the apostles and Jesus taught. (That means almost all denominations are false.) And you are not to add to or take from the Bible. Bibles based on the Authorized version are acceptable. (Meaning King James--not the new King James or modern language.)

Answer 7

False prophets always mix the truth with lies, that's what makes them believable.

Answer 8

“But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts. For there are some vain talkers and deceivers, not Christians, but Christ-betrayers, bearing about the name of Christ in deceit, and 'corrupting the word' of the Gospel; while they intermix the poison of their deceit with their persuasive talk, as if they mingled aconite with sweet wine, that so he who drinks, being deceived in his taste by the very great sweetness of the draught, may incautiously meet with his death. If any man follows him that makes a schism in the Church, he shall not inherit the kingdom of God. If any one walks according to a strange opinion, he agrees not with the passion [of Christ.].” St. Ignatius of Antioch ("Epistle To The Ephesians," c. 105 A.D.)

Answer 9

A false prophet is one who claims to come in the Name of the Lord but is nothing more than but ravenous wolves in sheeps clothing. They will mislead the people and cause destruction in the church. They are play actors...having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof. THey are decietful. They are not of God...but of our adversary satan....attempting to infiltrate the Body of Christ and weaken it.

Answer 10

A false prophet has self-serving motives. A real one doesn't. It is really that simple.