False Prophets
Our Daily Reading today speaks of false
prophets:
Dave Hunt, founder of the Berean Call proclaimed: “Any one of the Bible’s
six marks of false prophets is sufficient identification: Through signs and wonders they lead astray after false gods: Deuteronomy
13:1-4 “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign
or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and
let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God
proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the
LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.”
Their prophecies don't come to pass: Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (KJV) “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. 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.”
They contradict God's Word: Isaiah 8:20 (KJV) “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak
not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”
They bear bad fruit: Matthew 7:18-20 (KJV) “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them.”
All men speak well of them: Luke 6:26
(KJV) “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”
They deny that Jesus, the one and only Christ, has come once and for all in the flesh: 1 John 4:3
(KJV) “And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit
of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Ezekiel 13-15
