-What is a false prophet?

Matthew 24:11; Deuteronomy 13:1-5; 18:21,22; 1Kings 18:19-22; Jeremiah 14:14; 23:25-28; 28:9; 2Peter chapter 2.

Revelation 2:2 "I know your works and your labor and your patience and how you can not bear them which are evil and you have tried them which say they are apostles and are not and have found them liars." Jeremiah 29:26 "...for every man that is mad, and makes himself a prophet, you should put him in prison and in the stocks.

A lying spirit, the evil energies or attitudes resident in the mass mind can influence what is said and what is done, depending upon how any particular individual is aligned:.1Kings 22:20-23; Isaiah 19:4,14. Why? Proverbs 16:7. The dark side can pump the attitudes we have, making them worse, but it's all under God's control and for ultimately a good purpose and that is to awaken to the reason why one is on Earth in the first place:.2Timothy 1:9.

Jeremiah 14:14 ".....The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them. They prophesy unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of naught and the deceit of their heart." 

Jeremiah 4:9,10 "And it shall come to pass at that day says the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish and the heart of the princes and the priests shall be astonished and the prophets shall wonder. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Surely you have greatly deceived this people....."

Micah 3:11 "The heads thereof judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire and the prophets thereof divine for money. Yet will they lean upon the Lord and say, Is not the Lord among us? None evil can come upon us."

Jeremiah 23:1,11,16,17 "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, says the Lord...For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the Lord...Thus says the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you. They make you vain. They speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord...They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord has said, You shall have peace and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination.(original means 'to think and live in a manner that eventually takes its toll on you'; a way that is 'at odds with God's way of love', the natural way we live, living based upon the externals of life).of his own heart.(selfishly concerned, lacking deeds of love and compassion and not interested in a relationship with God), no evil will come upon you.(as long as you keep up your church attendance, tithing, etc.)."

And such was the false prophet Elymas in the time of the apostles in the early New Testament era.

Deuteronomy 13:1-5 "If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and gives you 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 you have not known and let us serve them. You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God proves you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and you shall serve him and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God....".If they don't speak a message that enables more of Christ to affect your heart, a message that lifts you up, frees you from guilt, inspires confidence in you and encourages you in your relationship with God, get out!

Deuteronomy 18:21,22 "And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which God has not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of God, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which God has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him."

Paul warns about the danger of an alternate gospel alienating one from God. Also, Peter talks about it:.2Peter 2:1-3; Ephesians 5:6. Also:.Ezekiel 13:1-7; Isaiah 10:1,2; 2Timothy 4:3,4. 

The Creator ensures that whatever He inspires someone to say does indeed come to pass:.Acts 11:28.

-What is a false or true minister or a false prophet?

-How are we to."try the spirits".as it says in 1John 4:1?

The word 'try' here means to 'test, examine' in order to find out if they are true to highest expectations:.Matthew 7:16 "You shall know them by their fruits...". So, be alert to what people may really be by being alert to what they are doing which shows what they are inside of them. One does this through use of his spiritual lenses. Spiritual vision becomes clearer the more one studies the Bible, the Creator's word interspersed with prayer, meditation and contemplation:.Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith.we understand....." 1Peter 1:8; 1Corinthians 13:12;.Psalms 36:9 "For with you is the fountain of life. In your light shall we see light.".Those of ordinary consciousness, influenced of the dark side part of the mass mind by varying.degrees at different times, can be noticed by their lack of light, kindness, givingness, helpfulness, happiness, etc.

Some people are too.gullible, ready at the drop of a hat to take on any half baked information some self made authority may have concocted, gullible like these people in Nigeria:.Malachi 3:18 "...discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.".If they had read their Bible and known this, they wouldn't have been so stupid.

Those in higher consciousness levels are clearly able to discern and some are able to just know:.Psalms 21:8. Most people just don't know that they are the knower.

Matthew 7:13,14 "...wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be which go in thereat. ...narrow is the way which leads unto life and few there be that find it."

One way on the road into high and even higher consciousness states is to ask yourself if the attitude of yourself or another is predominately loving?.Matthew 25:44,45 "Then they will also answer Him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto you? Then He answered them saying, verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me."

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