The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

Most false prophets today are recognized as messengers who never teach from the Bible, bring words that are decidedly occultic and New Age, and have no balanced scriptural substantiation for the things they say. (See the Lord’s words to the church of Thyatira in the book of Revelation.) False prophets follow after their own spirits and not the spirit of God. Today false prophets operate the same way, except now, added to their deception is the rejection and renunciation of the salvation and redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. False prophets, like psychics, also encourage immorality or support it as offerings to the demon spirits undergirding their work. They explain away fornication and adultery because they are presented to their seducing devils as ritual sex. They are also interested in giving prestige, money, wealth, and power in return for apostasy, reprobacy, and perversion. This is the same type of exchange the devil tempted Jesus with by bowing down and worshipping him. The last thing the false prophet will do is understand and downplay human sin and weakness. He or she will also alleviate the worshipper’s weight of responsibility to God by humanizing their hang-ups and the Savior’s character and standards as well. They go something like this, “God understands you cannot attend church because..., He knows you would obey your calling if..., the Lord is a loving Father; He is not bothered by your....” All of these words are fine as long as they do not conflict with the model for resolving human and eternal conflicts left us by the Lord. Jeremiah 23 and Ezekiel 13 give the most extensive biblical teaching on the subject of false prophets. See also Micah 3:6. Peculiarly, the term false prophets does not appear in the Bible until the New Testament. It was actually the Lord Jesus Christ who identified and labeled those who deceived people with false predictions although they did exist under the Old Covenant. While there may be many reasons for this, the one that sticks out the most is that the Light of the world, the Way, the Truth, the Life had not yet released the Creator’s truth into the world. Until Christ came as the embodiment of the living word of God, prophets were not distinguished as true and false, just as those who served the Lord God and those who did not. To illustrate, Balaam was used by God as a prophet. He knew it and the Lord knew it. Abraham was a prophet before the Lord brought His beloved nation into being. Job was considered a prophet of the Almighty, and there were others. The idea of true and false were to be dealt with later, and none of them had the spiritual capacity for discernment on God’s level. Israel had one word from the Lord, that of the Law of Moses. The other prophets were simply diviners. God had initially revealed Himself to Israel’s fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), and as Hebrews