Readers, have you ever wondered why the prophets and Jesus talked so much about FALSE PROPHETS in the Bible? Or has it ever occurred to you why God said these words to Jeremiah about false prophets? I bet many of us do not know or do not care. Do you know why? Because we are in a hurry to make money.
We believe what we want to believe. We want to sell Jesus by advertising Saul of Tarsus, as if the false teachings of Paul are the teachings of God.
Prophet Jeremiah says, “Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, the prophets say to them, `You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'" And the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.” Jeremiah 14:13-14. Here are more words from the prophet, Jeremiah 23:9-40.
9. My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words.”
10. For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might [is] not right.
11. "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD.
12. "Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery [ways]; In the darkness they shall be driven on and fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment," says the LORD.
13. "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.
14. Also, I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15. "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: `Behold, I will feed them with wormwood and make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.'"
16. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the LORD.
17. They continually say to those who despise Me, `The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"'; And [to] everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, `No evil shall come up you.'"
18. For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard [it]?
19. Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury. A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20. The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21. "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22. But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.
23. "[Am] I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God afar off?
24. Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.
25. "I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed!'
26. "How long will [this] be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
27. "who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28. "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD.
29. "[Is] not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer [that] breaks the rock in pieces?
30. "Therefore behold, I [am] against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words everyone from his neighbor.
31. "Behold, I [am] against the prophets," says the LORD, "who use their tongues and say, `He says.'
32. "Behold, I [am] against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD.
33. "So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, `What is the oracle of the LORD?' you shall then say to them, `What oracle?' I will even forsake you," says the LORD.
34. "And [as for] the prophet and the priest and the people who say, `The oracle of the LORD!' I will even punish that man and his house.
35. "Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, `What has the LORD answered?' and `What has the LORD spoken?'
36. "And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man's word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.
37. "Thus you shall say to the prophet, `What has the LORD answered you?' and `What has the LORD spoken?'
38. "But since you say, `The oracle of the LORD!' therefore thus says the LORD: `Because you say this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" and I have sent to you, saying, "Do not say, `The oracle of the LORD!'
39. `therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and [will cast you] out of My presence.
40. `And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'"
Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches [them], he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:17-19.
Jesus said He did not come to change the law or the teachings of God’s prophets. He came to comply or fulfill what the law requires of Him.
In Matthew 7:21 Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”
Saul of Tarsus says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. “Ephesians 2:8-9. Jesus said that we are saved by doing the will of Jesus’ Father. Saul contradicts Jesus and says that we are saved by faith, and not by doing the will of Jesus’ Father, or work.
Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments.” John 14:15. Saul, aka Paul abolished God’s commandments. Who is the fake prophet, Jesus or Paul? How could Jesus call Saul of Tarsus to work for Him when Paul abolished all of God’s commandments? Readers, I want you to read again Jeremiah 23:9-40.
God doesn’t trust any prophet unless the prophet teaches what God says, the words of God. Anything different comes from SATAN. Finally, Jesus said, "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. “Matthew 24:24.
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