The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

and misrepresent the fruit of their prophecies to them. They never speak about duty or responsibility to God, or if they do, it is done to bring the spirits of condemnation and terror upon them if they are righteous, that is, when false prophecy is given to one standing in God’s righteousness. Then it is used as a weapon by Satan to destroy them because of their righteous acts and their potential threat to his kingdom. In this instance, the devil sends a false prophet to terrify and bully the saint into quitting the work or task the Lord assigned them to do. His goal thereby is to assure the godly rewards and results of their obedience are forever annulled. These prophecies promote fear, threaten judgment, and predict failure. Sometimes they are so subtle that they claim to see obstacles that are not there, or misinterpret a dream or vision to the advantage of the devil rather than to the glory of God. Immature or godless prayer sessions are very likely to bring about such words. The immaturity or disobedience of the gathering is an open channel to the spirits of opposition who can interject images and visions in the minds of sensitive or powerful people that are then interpreted according to their own way. Anyone receiving a word under these circumstances should weigh them carefully, and those that bring genuine fear and terror to the heart should be overturned with the right revelation and its correct application to the situation. False prophecies are always tied to a spiritual disobedience and are worded to undermine courage and faith in what God has assigned one to do. See Nehemiah 6:14 where Nehemiah recognized those he received from the prophetess Noadiah and the other false prophets in league with her to destroy him as a strategy. He recalled them to God as part of his prayer of justification and vindication. Jeremiah 23:21 also has an example of this tactic of the enemy in his conflict with the prophet Hanani. 500. False Prophets—A prophet who is not a member of the new creation priesthood of Jesus Christ, one who prophesies and performs prophetic functions on behalf of the devil, even if in the flesh. According to the Bible, false prophets speak in the name of another god. They prophesy from their own resources, namely their own hearts, and ordinarily are motivated by private aim and selfish ambition. They are of the Balaam order of prophetics where money for prophesying, a diviner’s fee, is the only way they will give the word of the Lord. The magnitude of the word is in direct proportion to the amount of money a hearer presents. They require gifts in advance of their words to assure the word does not predict a more valuable return to the hearer than the gift is worth.