Bird of Prey is China?

Posted by on May 14, 2012 No comments

The Inter­ces­sors For the Philip­pines (IFP) does it again! Another prophetic fail­ure. This time thanks to IFP Prophet Robert Misst. See this prophetic blun­der explained by Bishop Dan Bal­ais in his blog at https://eaglechristianonline.wordpress.com/2012/05/03/worship-instead-of-warship/

Cou­pled with the prophetic warn­ings of prophet Robert Misst who spoke in the just con­cluded 23rd National Prayer Gath­er­ing (NPG) that the bird from the East (Isa­iah 46:11) will try to swoop down upon this dis­puted ter­ri­tory in the West Philip­pine Sea, the Lord strongly put in the hearts of inter­ces­sors to pray for this dan­ger loom­ing in the hori­zon. We sim­ply have no naval war­ships to repulse this bla­tant Chi­nese aggression.

I attached a map here that shows China is North West of the Philip­pines. If Isa­iah 46:11 is about China and the Philip­pines, the prophecy should have said, “Birth of Prey from the North or West or North West.” You don’t need to be a the­olo­gian to know this. North, South, East and West direc­tions are taught as early as grade school. You don’t even have to ask the map­ping experts in the Philip­pines whose web­site if you want to know is http://www.namria.gov.ph/.

By the way, the Igle­sia Ni Cristo (1914) has already claimed Isa­iah 46:11 as their pet verse as part of the Igle­sia Ni Cristo (1914) gospel. They have always explained that the bird of prey from the East (mizrach) was their founder Felix Y. Man­alo, with the East (mizrach in Hebrew) for some weird rea­son was the Philippines.

This time how­ever, Robert Misst, rec­og­nized as one of the prophets of Inter­ces­sors for the Philip­pines in the recently con­cluded 23rd National Prayer Gath­er­ing has applied the bird of prey to China.

His­tor­i­cally, this prophecy has already long been ful­filled by Medo-Persian King Cyrus. It says, “From the east...”  because Per­sia is located East of Israel. It also says, “I sum­mon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to ful­fill my pur­pose.” Because God used a pagan King to bring back Israel to their land after being held cap­tive in Baby­lon. It also says, “What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” Because God is sov­er­eign and no one will be able to thwart His plans and pur­pose. Sev­enty (70) years have passed and its time to bring back the exile to Israel, see Jere­miah 29:10. Now, think about it very care­fully. If this prophecy applies to China then it fol­lows that it is God’s will that China will be able to con­quer part, if not the entire Philip­pines because, it says, “What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” Unless they want to turn God into a liar again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Resurrection Day

Posted by on April 8, 2012 No comments

 

Matthew 28:1 says “After the Sab­bath, at dawn on the first day of the week...” The first day of the week begins at sun­set of Sat­ur­day. But “at dawn” means it was already a Sun­day. This was the third-day after the Lord was cru­ci­fied on a Fri­day. The women went to the tomb to fin­ish off what they hur­riedly left off before Sab­bath (Luke 23:56). They saw the tomb where Jesus body lay opened with all the guards gone. An angel appeared before them and told them to instruct the dis­ci­ples to meet Jesus in Galilee because He has already risen from the dead. Thus the day Jesus rose from the dead is called “the Lord’s day” (Rev 1:10).

Today’s read­ing: Matthew 28:1–10; Mark 16:1–14; Luke 24:1–49; John 20:1–23.

Here’s a pos­si­ble order of appear­ance of the res­ur­rected Jesus on the same day:

  1. Mag­da­lene (Mark 16:9; John 20:11–18)
  2. The other women (Mat 28:9–10)
  3. Peter (1 Cor. 15:5; Luke 24:11–12; John 20:3–9)
  4. The two dis­ci­ples on the way to Emmaus (Mark 16:12; Luke 24:13–35)
  5. To the apos­tles minus Thomas (Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36–49; John 20:19–23)

Here’s the pos­si­ble order of appear­ance of  Jesus after res­ur­rec­tion Sun­day, in the dura­tion of 40 days (Acts 1:3):

  1. Thomas with the apos­tles, a week later (John 20:24–29)
  2. In Sea of Galilee, again to the apos­tles (John 21:1–25)
  3. To 500 dis­ci­ples (1 Cor. 15:6; Mat 28:16–20; Mark 16:15–17)
  4. Then to James, the Lord’s brother with all the apos­tles (1 Cor. 15:7)
  5. When he was taken up to heaven (Luke 24:50–52; Mark 16:19; Acts 1:6–10)

Here’s the pos­si­ble order of appear­ance of Jesus after he has been taken up to heaven

  1. To Stephen, Acts 1:6–10
  2. To Paul, 1 Cor. 15:8–9; Acts 9:1–7

For more details on the plau­si­ble har­mony account of the res­ur­rec­tion visit: http://thebereans.net/arm-resurr.shtml

What impor­tant sig­nif­i­cance of Jesus’ res­ur­rec­tion can we reflect on this Sun­day? New life: A chance to start over clean slate, a life of right­eous­ness freed from the bondage of sin. Romans 6:4 puts it, “We were there­fore buried with him through bap­tism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”

The Lord Jesus our Passover Lamb, took away our sins so we can have a new life freed from sin, as sig­ni­fied by the Feast of the Unleav­ened bread that fol­lows the Passover.

“Purge out there­fore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleav­ened. For even Christ our passover is sac­ri­ficed for us: 8 There­fore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nei­ther with the leaven of mal­ice and wicked­ness; but with the unleav­ened bread of sin­cer­ity and truth.” 1 Corinthi­ans 5:7–8

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Passion Week: Day 6/7 (Good Friday-Saturday)

Posted by on April 6, 2012 No comments

 

After sup­per, they went to Geth­se­mane and asked his dis­ci­ples to also pray so that they will not suc­cumb to temp­ta­tion, Peter, James and John stayed close to where He was, just about a stone throw away. He was so sor­row­ful that night that he said his life was in dan­ger, so He prayed that the hour should pass from him (Matthew called it “this cup,” Mat 26:39).

Today’s read­ing: Matthew 26:36 — 27:66; Mark 14:32 — 15:47; Luke 22:39 — 23:56; and John 18:1 — 19:42.

It was a sleep­less night, as Thurs­day turned into Fri­day: Judas betrayed him with a kiss, His dis­ci­ples left him and then He was bound and brought for hear­ing to Annas by men armed with clubs and swords (John 18:12–14). Then he was brought to the San­hedrin led by Caiaphas who charged him with blas­phemy after claim­ing Daniel 7:13 for him­self (Mat 26:57–68). Mean­while at the court­yard, Peter, who fol­lowed at a dis­tance (Mat 26:58), denied the Lord exactly just as Jesus had pre­dicted (Mat 26:69–75). Then he was sent to Pilate who had him flogged (Mat 27:1–2,11–26) and then sent Him to Herod. Mean­while, Judas felt guilty, returned the money and hanged him­self (Mat. 27:3–10).

Herod sent Him back again to Pilate who then sen­tenced Him to death by cru­ci­fix­ion (Mat 27:27–44). Jesus was cru­ci­fied Fri­day (called Prepa­ra­tion day) 9AM (Mark 15:25) and died at 3PM. He was buried just before the Sab­bath, (or before Fri­day sun­set) in a sealed tomb guarded by sol­diers (Mat 27:45–66).

What’s sig­nif­i­cance of the Lord’s death and suf­fer­ing can we reflect on  this Good Fri­day? Redemp­tion, the for­give­ness of our sins (Eph 1:7, Col 1:14). Redemp­tion is “buy-back” or “ran­som” from the curse of the law (Gal 3:13) and/or sin (Rom 7:23–25).

 

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Passion Week: Day 5 (The Passover)

Posted by on April 5, 2012 No comments

 

The Passover or the Feast of the Unleav­ened Bread are terms used inter­change­ably by the early Jew­ish dis­ci­ples of Jesus, in Hebrew it is called Chag Ha Mat­zot. But before this feast, spe­cial prepa­ra­tions were made because the Jews, in accor­dance to the Law of Moses, needed to get rid of any trace of chametz, that is, any fer­mented or leav­ened wheat, rye, oats, bar­ley, etc. See Leviti­cus 23:5–8: “On the four­teenth day of the first month at twi­light is the Lord’s Passover. And on the fif­teenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleav­ened Bread to the Lord; seven days you must eat unleav­ened bread...” (NKJV)

Today’s read­ing: Matthew 26:17–35; Mark 14:12–31; Luke 22:7–38; and John 13:1–38.

Since the Hebrew cal­en­dar begins the new day at the set­ting of the sun (cf. Gen­e­sis 1:5), it was on this eve of the feast when they killed the Passover lamb (Mark 14:12; Luke 22:7). Two thou­sand years ago today, the Lord and his dis­ci­ples went into the City and stayed in a large upper room to cel­e­brate the Passover (we now call “the Last Sup­per”). This is where Jesus washed his dis­ci­ples feet (John 13:1–20), iden­ti­fied his betrayer (Matthew 26:21–30; Mark 14:18–26; Luke 22:17–23 and John 13:21–30) and proph­e­sied that Peter will deny him three times. (Matthew 26:31–35; Mark 14:27–31; Luke 22:31–38; John 13:31–38). Then after sup­per he bid them farewell (John 14:1–16:33).

What does Passover and Unleav­ened Bread mean to us? In order to free the Jews from slav­ery in ancient Egypt, the Angel of the Lord passed over houses of the chil­dren of Israel where the blood of the a lamb was used as a sign, their first born sons life were spared while the first born sons of the Egyp­tians died. For us it has an even greater sig­nif­i­cance: Jesus is our passover lamb, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29); the unleav­ened bread for us is the new life we have in Christ being freed from the slav­ery of sin. And because of what Jesus did, through faith in Him, we “passed from death to life” (John 5:24).

 

 

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Passion Week: Day 4 (Solemn Wednesday)

Posted by on April 4, 2012 No comments

 

Val­lot­ton Annie Val­lot­ton, Good News Bible 1976

After busy three days of the pas­sion week: Palm Sun­day, clear­ing of the Tem­ple on Mon­day, and Tuesday’s debates and end-time prophe­cies, two thou­sand years ago today, we remem­ber a rel­a­tively solemn Wednes­day as the Lord’s stayed in Simon the Leper’s house in Bethany.

Today’s read­ing: Matthew 26:6–16; Mark 14:3–11 and Luke 22:3–6.

While the Lord was hav­ing din­ner with His dis­ci­ples, a woman poured “a very expen­sive per­fume” on His head (Matthew 26:7, NIV). The extrav­a­gance of the woman solicited two dif­fer­ent reactions.

First, from the the dis­ci­ples who find it waste­ful say­ing, “this per­fume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor” (Matthew 26:28–29, NIV). They even crit­i­cized the woman, the Bible says, “they rebuked her sharply” (Mark 14:5, NIV) because the price was esti­mated to cost a year’s salary (300 dinarii).

Next is from the Lord. In her defense, Jesus said, “Why do you trou­ble the woman? For she has done good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. For in pour­ing this fra­grant oil on My body, she did it for My bur­ial. Assuredly, I say to you, wher­ever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memo­r­ial to her.” (Matthew 26:10–13, NKJV).

After this, Judas Iscar­iot betrayed the Lord to the chief priests. They promised him thirty pieces of sil­ver if he finds an oppor­tune time to have him cap­tured away from the crowd (Luke 22:6). In other words, Judas Iscar­iot sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of sil­ver (Matthew 26:14–15; Mark 14:10–11; Luke 22:3–6), totally unaware that he was about to ful­fill the prophecy in Zechariah 11:10–13, some five hun­dred years before.

When Jesus died, the Lord broke “the staff called Favor” and revoked the Old Covenant to a start a New (Zechariah 11:10 cf. Matthew 26:28; Eph­esians 2:15, see also Hebrews 9:11–17) as promised.

As we reflect this Wednes­day, let us also renew our stead­fast con­fi­dence in the Lord that as we remain true to His word, our extrav­a­gant work of ser­vice for Him will not be in vain (1 Corinthi­ans 15:68).

Impor­tant Note: Other Gospel Har­mo­niza­tion efforts place this account in Bethany six (6) days before the Passover (see John 12:1). If they are cor­rect, the fol­low­ing must be observed: This event hap­pened before the Tri­umphal Entry. The woman accord­ing to John was Mary, the sis­ter of Martha and Lazarus. The anoint­ing of Jesus began from the head (Matthew 26:7), down to his body (Mark 14:8) and then on His feet, which Mary wiped with her hair (John 12:3). The dis­ci­ple who insti­gated to rebuke Mary for her extrav­a­gant anoint­ing of Jesus was Judas Iscar­iot (John 12:4) whom Satan entered into (Luke 22:3) and it’s not really because he cared much for the poor but he was help­ing him­self with what they have (John 12:6). Simon the Leper’s house was also the res­i­dence of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, he could have been their father. And by the way, Judas Iscariot’s father was also named Simon (John 6:71).

Down­load this gospel har­mony from http://www.lifeofchrist.com/life/lifeofchrist.pdf

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Passion Week: Day 3 (Busiest Day)

Posted by on April 3, 2012 No comments

Tues­day of the Pas­sion Week was prob­a­bly the busiest day for the Lord Jesus as a Rabbi and as a Prophet. He began at the Tem­ple, teach­ing all his crit­ics to the won­der of the peo­ple. Then later in the Mount of Olives he deliv­ered sets of prophe­cies to his dis­ci­ples about the imme­di­ate future, near future and future yet unknown.

At Tem­ple he had a debate with the Priests, the Elders, the Phar­isees, the Hero­di­ans and the Sad­ducees cov­er­ing a wide array of top­ics: spir­i­tual author­ity (Mat. 21:23–46), money (Mat. 22:1–14; Mark 12:13–17), the res­ur­rec­tion (Mat. 22:23–33), the first and great­est com­mand­ment (Mat. 22:34–40), and the Mes­siah (Mat. 22:41–46). He ended his time with them with a pun­gent rebuke (Mat. 23:1–39).

As He walked away from the Tem­ple with His dis­ci­ples, He proph­e­sied about its destruc­tion (Mat. 24:2; Luke 21:5-24a). And as they sat on the Mt. of Olives, He proph­e­sied about the events lead­ing up to the end of days (Mat. 24:5–14) and the events lead­ing up to “Parou­sia” or the ful­fill­ment of Dan. 7:13 which we now call “the sec­ond com­ing” (Mat. 24:15–31). These two sets of prophe­cies were not date-specific but sign-specific and so he explained to them the kind of readi­ness they must have through dif­fer­ent para­bles: the fig tree (Mat. 24:32–35);  the ten vir­gins (Mat. 25:1–13); the tal­ents (Mat. 25:14–30); and the sheep and goats (Mat. 25:31–46).

Finally in Mat. 26:1–5, the prophecy become date-specific and imme­di­ate. He said that after two days, he will be betrayed and then crucified.

Two days from now as the major­ity of Chris­tians reflect on the aton­ing death of the Lord Jesus, the Jews will com­mem­o­rate the Pesach (the Passover). As they reflect on their free­dom from slav­ery in Egypt we will remem­ber our free­dom not just from sin and death but also from ignorance.

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Passion Week: Day 2 (Clearing of the Temple)

Posted by on April 2, 2012 No comments

Today is Mon­day, day 2 of the Pas­sion Week, the final week of the Lord’s min­istry lead­ing up to his resurrection.

After His tri­umphal entry to Jerusalem yes­ter­day Palm Sun­day, we read in Matthew 21, Mark 11 and Luke 19 that our Lord Jesus cleared the Tem­ple of traders.

Rab­binic sources say (see Judaism 101 — Crash Course #25 in Aish.com) that dur­ing the sec­ond tem­ple period there was a wide­spread cor­rup­tion lead­ing up to the office of the High Priest. This would prob­a­bly explain why there were many traders in the Temple.

He did the clear­ing of the Tem­ple in the evening of Sun­day (Mat. 21:12–17) and then again on a Mon­day morn­ing (Mark 11:15–19; Luke 19:45–58) earn­ing the ire of the reli­gious author­i­ties. It was an action packed day as he used whip out of cords and over­turned their tables (John 2:12–17). He was actu­ally ful­fill­ing the prophecy in Psalm 69:9 that says,

“for zeal for your house con­sumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.”

Psalm 69:4, 7, 8, 9, and 21 are Mes­sianic in nature such that although they writ­ten by King David to express his own per­sonal emo­tions such as grief, sor­row, etc. These verses fore­shad­owed future events in the life of our Lord Messiah–what David felt in his life­time par­al­leled to hap­pened to the Mes­siah, a thou­sand year later.

Psalm 69:4, 7, and 21 was ful­filled on Good Fri­day while verse 8 was ful­filled early on in his min­istry when his own broth­ers did not believe in him (John 7:3–8).

This Mon­day, we’d to remem­ber and com­mem­o­rate the prophecy in verse 9 which was ful­filled when He over­turned the tables of the money chang­ers and traders in His Father’s house. This hap­pened on Day 2 of the Pas­sion Week. It was writ­ten dur­ing the reign of David. Please read more about the Book of Psalms in bible.org/article/book-psalms.

Man can be in the house of God while his heart remains some­where else. May the Lord clear our hearts of our worldly con­cerns so that when we come to the house of God, we give Him our undi­vided atten­tion and devotion.

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Passion Week: Day 1 (Palm Sunday)

Posted by on April 1, 2012 No comments

Today is Palm Sun­day, Christ tri­umphal entry into Jerusalem. Some 2000 years ago, the Lord ful­filled  Zechariah 9:9,

“Rejoice greatly, O Daugh­ter of Zion! Shout, Daugh­ter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, right­eous and hav­ing sal­va­tion, gen­tle and rid­ing on a don­key, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

But since Israel rejected him as king few days later, Zechariah 9:10, the verse fol­low­ing, tar­ries ful­fill­ment. It says,

“I will take away the char­i­ots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the bat­tle bow will be bro­ken. He will pro­claim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.”

Writ­ten 500 years before Christ, this pas­sage belongs to “The Two Ora­cles” about the Mes­siah. The first ora­cle is about His com­ing, rejec­tion, and replace­ment by a false shep­herd. The sec­ond ora­cle is about His enthrone­ment, with Israel mourn­ing over whom they have pierced, It also describe His up and com­ing bat­tle, and the future estab­lish­ment of His rule from Jerusalem.

For today’s prophetic read­ing, see Zechariah 9:1–14:21. To know more about the struc­ture and out­line of the book of Zechariah, please visit Bible.org/article/argument-book-zechariah.

How fickle can a man really be? Today they say “Hosanna to the son of David: blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the high­est!” (Matthew 21:9) five days later they cried, “Cru­cify him!” (Mark 15:13).

May the Lord cre­ate a pure heart in all of us and renew a stead­fast spirit within us at all times, in all circumstances.

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How to Identify False Prophets

Posted by on March 21, 2012 No comments

 

Jere­miah by Michael Angelo at Sis­tine Chapel

Then and now, the iden­ti­fy­ing marks of a false prophet remain the same. The Bible tells us that they are deluded, inac­cu­rate and oppor­tunis­tic plagiarists.

1.  False prophets are DELUDED. While some prophets have delib­er­ately lied to the peo­ple, I believe there are those who remain sin­cere but with such wild imag­i­na­tions they really think they are God’s prophets. But no mat­ter how sin­cere they are, they still lie to us.

“Son of man, proph­esy against the prophets of Israel who are now proph­esy­ing. Say to those who proph­esy OUT OF THEIR OWN IMAGINATIONS: ‘Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Sov­er­eign LORD says: Woe to the fool­ish prophets who fol­low their own spirit and have seen noth­ing! Your prophets, O Israel, are like jack­als among ruins. Ezk. 13:2–4

But I said, “Ah, Sov­er­eign LORD, the prophets keep telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suf­fer famine. Indeed, I will give you last­ing peace in this place.’ “Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are proph­esy­ing lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spo­ken to them. They are proph­esy­ing to you false visions, div­ina­tions, idol­a­tries and the DELUSIONS OF THEIR OWN MINDS. Jer. 14:13–14

This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not lis­ten to what the prophets are proph­esy­ing to you;
they fill you with false hopes. They SPEAK VISIONS FROM THEIR OWN MINDS not from the mouth of the LORD... How long will this con­tinue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who proph­esy the DELUSION OF THEIR OWN MINDS? Jer. 23:16, 26

2. False prophets give false hopes.  False hope is a dan­ger­ous lie. When Judah fell to Baby­lon and many of the chil­dren of Israel were already exiled, Hanana­iah proph­e­sied falsely imply­ing if they fight back they will win against mighty Neb­uchad­nez­zar (Jer. 28). They tried but reaped the fury of Neb­uchad­nez­zar instead who then besieged their city in years, destroyed their beloved Tem­ple, and exiled the remain­ing res­i­dents. They were given false security. In Jer. 36:9, King Jehoiakim defied Jeremiah’s warn­ings and even declared a national fast, he was later killed by Neb­uchad­nez­zar for fight­ing back (2Ki 24:1). Recall the failed Jubilee of Jubilees and New Dis­pen­sa­tion prophe­cies that were fol­lowed by calami­ties that struck the Philippines.

There­fore, this is what the LORD says about the prophets who are proph­esy­ing in my name: I DID NOT SEND THEM, yet they are say­ing, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will per­ish by sword and famine.  And the peo­ple they are proph­esy­ing to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daugh­ters. I WILL POUR OUT ON THEM THE CALAMITY THEY DESERVE. Jer. 14:15–16

This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not lis­ten to what the prophets are proph­esy­ing to you;
they fill you with FALSE HOPES. They speak visions from their own minds not from the mouth of the LORD. Jer. 23:16

3. False prophets are pla­gia­rists. Pla­gia­rism is the unau­tho­rized use of another person’s thoughts or ideas, usu­ally in lit­er­a­ture. When you don’t cite or give credit to the author where you bor­row the ideas from and the words you use resem­ble his thoughts, you are pla­gia­riz­ing his work. False prophets are pla­gia­riz­ing too. You will hear them today quot­ing Bible verses as if they’re fresh rev­e­la­tion intended directly to you, to your church, or to your nation.  They bor­row words from ancient prophets. Sure they cite Scrip­ture ref­er­ences but they get the credit of being a prophet for repack­ag­ing them.

“There­fore,” declares the LORD , “I am against the PROPHETS WHO STEAL FROM ONE ANOTHER WORDS sup­pos­edly from me.  Yes,” declares the LORD , “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The LORD declares.’  Indeed, I am against those who proph­esy false dreams,” declares the LORD. “They tell them and LEAD MY PEOPLE ASTRAY with their reck­less lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not ben­e­fit these peo­ple in the least,” declares the LORD.  Jer. 23:30–32

Eagle Chris­t­ian online (last accessed March 21, 2012) says, “Prophets Sadhu Sun­dar Sel­varaj, Vin­cent Selk­vaku­mar, Neville John­son and Robert Misst released sim­i­lar and com­ple­men­tary prophetic words.” They must have been exchang­ing notes.

4. False prophets are oppor­tunists. They take advan­tage of the people’s vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties and take from them mate­ri­ally. I don’t really know how much free­bies they get but in con­fer­ences they always ask you to fast (they called the peo­ple to fast like Nin­eveh and then asked them to fast for Yom Kip­pur, now they are ask­ing peo­ple to fast like Daniel) but when you look at them they look like fat­tened calves. Micah 3:5 says false prophets in Israel flat­ter those whom they can ben­e­fit from.  It’s like a host-parasite sym­bio­sis: the peo­ple sim­ply can’t wait to hear from them again. They are being led astray, yet they love it. Recall Pen­te­costal Penance, an exam­ple of error that directly under­mines the Gospel.

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead my peo­ple astray, IF ONE FEEDS THEM, THEY PROCLAIM ‘PEACE’; if he does not, they pre­pare to wage war against him. Mic. 3:5

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doc­trine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great num­ber of teach­ers to say WHAT THEIR ITCHING EARS WANT TO HEAR. 2Tim. 4:3

The prophets proph­esy lies, the priests rule by their own author­ity, and MY PEOPLE LOVE IT THIS WAY. But what will you do in the end? Jer. 5:31

5. False prophets are inac­cu­rate. I believe true prophets have 100% accu­racy in their pre­dic­tions. Phonies on the other hand, will get it once or twice to get you hooked. They know you will be giv­ing them them the ben­e­fit the doubt when they fail in their suc­ceed­ing pre­dic­tions. MacArthur in “Charis­matic Chaos” shared some of their ratio­nal­iza­tion, “I fig­ure, if I hit two-thirds of it, I’m doing pretty good.” They seem to be happy with their guess work. It bears resem­blance to div­ina­tion or Manghuhula, many of them thrive in Quiapo.

But a prophet who pre­sumes to speak in my name any­thing I have not com­manded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death. 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. Do not be afraid of him. Deut. 18:20–22

I don’t think it can be any clearer than that. If what he pro­claims does not take place or come true, that is a mes­sage the Lord has not spo­ken. Recall the failed New Dis­pen­sa­tion prophe­cies yet despite its fail­ures, the peo­ple behind Eagle Chris­t­ian online (last accessed March 21, 2012) con­tinue to believe they are now liv­ing in it.

The Lord com­manded the chil­dren Israel “Do not lis­ten to them” (Jer. 23:16). The mood here is imper­a­tive there­fore lis­ten­ing to false prophets is a sin.

 

 

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Jeremiah 5:31 Ministry

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“The prophets proph­esy lies,
The priests rule by their own author­ity,
And my peo­ple love it this way.
But what will you do in the end?“
Jere­miah 5:31 (NIV)

Although the text above refers to the South­ern King­dom, Judah, there can be no deny­ing that this is still hap­pen­ing today, which is a fright­en­ing thought but not really sur­pris­ing. You may won­der, “How can churches get swayed by those claim­ing to be prophets but in real­ity are phonies?”

I believe this hap­pens when the elders of the church are caught sleep­ing on the job. As over­seers of the flocks, they were given respon­si­bil­i­ties to shep­herd yet some­times out of con­ve­nience they just do noth­ing about it, like, why bother, right? No! Elders are sup­posed to “HOLD FIRMLY to the trust­wor­thy mes­sage as it has been taught, SO THAT he can encour­age oth­ers by sound doc­trine and REFUTE THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT.” (Titus 1:6,7,9)

But what if our lead­ers who are sup­posed to be our the first line of defense against wolves in sheep’s cloth­ing become the first ones to give into the seduc­tive and decep­tive mes­sages, should the peo­ple of God sim­ply fol­low and suffer?

Don’t think for a moment that this exon­er­ates the entire flock sim­ply because they’re just fol­low­ers. As in the case of Judah in the time of Jere­miah, they were also held respon­si­ble. Jere­miah 5:31 says, “my peo­ple love it this way.” They felt no sense of account­abil­ity and respon­si­bil­ity because they loved it that way.

Maybe today it’s out of con­ve­nience since don’t have to mem­o­rize Bible verses (Joshua 1:8), they don’t have to dili­gently study the Scrip­tures (2 Tim­o­thy 2:15), and they don’t feel the need to con­tend for the faith (Jude 1:3), all that they ever need to do is just wait for the next ora­cle, and blindly fol­low orders.

This is why there is grow­ing need for Chris­tians who have knack for dis­cern­ing spir­its (1 Corinthi­ans 12:10 cf.  1 John 4:1) because many phonies have risen up to take advan­tage of God’s peo­ple (Matthew 24:24b.) and mind you, even now they are being con­di­tioned that the com­ing prophets, a whole lot of them, are genuine!

“In these recent years, begin­ning with our Jubilee sea­son, the Lord has given us tremen­dous grace and priv­i­lege to con­nect with a new breed of prophets who do not only proph­esy but also expe­ri­ence being taken to heaven and sit with the divine prophetic coun­cils in heaven.” Dan Bal­ais leader of Inter­ces­sors for the Philip­pines and CLSF, Eagle Chris­t­ian online, last accessed March 14, 2012. (Empha­sis mine.)

I do hope there will be many more of those who will be con­cerned and give a lit­tle bit more effort to sound the alarm, “the wolves are com­ing!” or “the wolves are already in the fold!” It’s not going to be fun doing it alone. When Jere­miah was given charge to speak to God’s peo­ple, he was fore­warned that his audi­ence will be a “hard nut to crack.” I mean, he was told to get ready because when he speaks to them, their faces will show sign of unbe­lief. Surely enough they did not believe him, they even tried to kill him (Jer. 26:8) but he pressed on anyway.

“Thou there­fore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I com­mand thee: BE NOT DISMAYED AT THEIR FACES, lest I con­found thee before them.”  Jere­miah 1:17 (KJV)

Some­times I envy Ces­sa­tion­ist Chris­tians. Since they believe prophe­cies have already ceased, any­one who claims to be a prophet today is auto­mat­i­cally cat­e­go­rized as a false prophet. But what about their Non-Cessationist brethren? Should they be left behind in the fold already infil­trated with wolves? They should at least try to inform them right?

Jere­miah 5:31 Min­istry wel­comes Ces­sa­tion­ists and Non-Cessationists alike to serve one another, to exchange infor­ma­tion, to share any­thing related to prophetic activ­i­ties and diverse prophe­cies cir­cu­lat­ing all over the globe espe­cially in the Philippines.

Rappler.com reported recently that 5 Fil­ipinos open a Face­book account per minute. Face­book there­fore appears to be the right medium where the ulti­mate aim of this Min­istry can be real­ized: to raise aware­ness, to help edu­cate, to share prayer con­cerns through exchange of any infor­ma­tion of any­thing related to Bib­li­cal and Extra-Biblical prophecies.

We need to chal­lenge the grow­ing apa­thy and lack of con­cerns among fel­low believ­ers amidst the rise of poten­tially dan­ger­ous pre­tenders rav­aging the Bible-believing Churches who are caught unaware of the Devil’s schemes. This is inter­ven­tion, if you con­sider your­self a brother’s keeper then this min­istry is for you.

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