[VerySadAmerican]

I agree totally. What I’m saying is there will be false prophets and I don’t know how to tell them apart. Our only hope is to be saved and in His favor.

[SkyPilot]

What I’m saying is there will be false prophets and I don’t know how to tell them apart.

A very valid point. I struggle with that also. I see people that post YouTube videos that are not of God, and are nuts.

But, I rely on discernment from the Holy Spirit. When I have it, I know it. I can see it during family reunions, or at work. Some people are totally lost and confused. The believe everything the TV box and media tell them. But most tellingly, is spiritual matters.

I am not "Catholic bashing" here - I was raised a Catholic. But I must say that anyone who is putting their trust in Jorge (aka: "Francis") is lost.

[MHGinTN]

Compare the words of any claiming to be a prophet to the Word of God as found in the Bible. To make the comparison though one must be more just acquainted with the scriptures. Many will use the Bible to prove their false religious perspectives.

Case in point is the female head of the Episcopal Church of America. He takes a passage in Acts where Paul sends a demonic spirit out of a girl who had been following him around and uses that deed to complain about Paul's patriarchal meddling and taking away the gift the girl had!

[Elsie]

What I’m saying is there will be false prophets and I don’t know how to tell them apart.

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Deut. 18:21-22 (NIV)
You may say to yourselves, 'How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?' If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously..."

 

 

 

Matthew 24:24
Jesus Himself said that “false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect” 

 

2 Peter 2:1
“there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them bringing swift destruction on themselves”

 

Isa 30:15 (NIV) 
 This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it."