False Teachers/Prophets

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“Spots in your love feast! Be not deceived for there are wolves among My sheep in leadership and outside of leadership. For as the days go darker so too will those that try to deceive My fold, My flock, the sheep of My heritage. Be as gentle as doves but as wise as serpents. You will know them by their fruit. The Fruit of the Spirit, yes, but also the fruit of their lives. Look closely, look beneath the surface…judge righteously.”

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, you will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:15-20.

That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. Ephesians 4:14.

During my long intercessory prayer assignment at my former church, God started laying out His evidence for the fact that He saw the head pastor as a false prophet/teacher. I had a very hard time believing what the Lord was saying and very little experience understanding what a false prophet/teacher was. So, by the end of 2010, the Lord started giving me information about false prophets and teachers, laying out His case.

Why did I have a difficult time accepting what God was saying? Because the head pastor taught the word of God with (what I thought) diligence. Few were the times when I heard something that jumped in my face as heresy. But I received numerous scriptures pointing to how God felt. I was perplexed.

Ezekiel 34:10 Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.’

So, the Lord started proving His case to me. On August 4, 2010, I was told to go to a book in my library, “Your Sons and Daughters shall Prophesy” by Ernest B. Gentile and then to page 118. The title in the book (page 118) was “The False Prophets in Both Testaments,” with three pages of how one can tell if someone is a false prophet along with scriptures. Most of the verses on those three pages had been given to me over the years for this pastor.

Here are a few highlights to the text on pages 118-120:

“A good deal is said about the false prophets…but only a few illustrations are given of what they actually said that was wrong. What is strongly stated concerns the personal characteristics of such prophets and a clear identification of why their message was wrong. It is interesting to note that the personal characteristics of a person weigh more heavily than what the content of their message was…as a faulty message is easier for a believer to spot.”

False prophet’s personal characteristics: adulterous; corrupted; deceitful; greedy; treacherous to name a few. “Obviously people with such deficiencies would not be reliable messengers, yet amazingly people readily followed their lead”.
“…their messages were so misguided by satanic influence; personal ambition, greed, false prognostications, wrong impressions or wild imaginations…such people spoke by what they perceived as to be the Spirit of God, but their impressions were not from God at all. Rather they were self-induced or demonically inspired. Such pseudo-prophets were not easy to discern.”
4 steps define the downward course of delusion and falsehood:

Thus, God had solidified His case to me that the head pastor was considered a false prophet/teacher. Since I knew through dreams and revelation knowledge the hidden life of the pastor, the Lord’s allegation made sense. I knew the man’s personal life to be questionable.

The scripture address on the day after the Lord’s revelation about false prophets to me:

Ezekiel 12:24-25 For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it,’ says the Lord God.

As I said before in previous posts that we are to use the gift of discerning spirits or distinguishing spirits given by the Holy Spirit to decipher a wolf in sheep’s clothing. This spiritual gift of discerning spirits will give us the ability to distinguish between the truth of the Word and the deceptive doctrines propagated by demons.

We are not always given a closeup spiritual analysis of a pastor, teacher, prophet…especially those we listen to via electronic media. We can use the gift of discerning of spirits and prayer to guard our hearts against deception. We can still judge righteously by searching out the fruit in their lives and ministries as best we can. And if we are prayerful about who we listen to and are taught by, then if we get into troubled waters…God will rescue us!

The ability to decipher a wolf aka false teacher and a false teaching from the word of truth is of utmost importance in these last days. A couple of times while visiting another church, sitting and waiting for the teaching to start, the Holy Spirit pointed out who was a false teacher on the stage before he began teaching. It was truly an uncomfortable feeling and urged me to pray that this discernment was disseminated throughout the body that was listening as well.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. 1 Timothy 4:1-2.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Even so, many will follow their licentious ways, and because of these teachers[a] the way of truth will be maligned. And in their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 2 Peter 2:1-3.

In conclusion, we might think we could never be deceived. But God showed me it is not what a person says or teaches outright. It is however, the fruit of their character, their lives and ministries, in conjunction with their teaching and words of their mouth that are to be weighed. You will know them by their fruits!