1 John 4:1
King James Version
4 Beloved,
believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
As we near the end times, there'll be more abominations unto GOD.
One of which are false prophets.
How can we differentiate the true one, from the false one?
Scripture tells us clearly:
Deuteronomy 13:1-3
King James Version
13 If there arise among you a prophet,
or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass,
whereof he spake unto thee, saying,
Let us go after other gods,
which thou hast not known,
and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet,
or that dreamer of dreams:
for the Lord your God proveth you,
to know whether ye love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 18:22
King James Version
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord,
if the thing follow not,
nor come to pass,
that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken,
but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:
thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Isaiah 8:19
King James Version
19 And when they shall say unto you,
Seek unto them that have familiar spirits,
and unto wizards that peep,
and that mutter:
should not a people seek unto their God?
for the living to the dead?
Isaiah 8:20
King James Version
20 To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word,
it is because there is no light in them.
Isaiah 30:8-11
King James Version
8 Now go,
write it before them in a table,
and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people,
lying children,
children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
10 Which say to the seers,
See not;
and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things,
speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way,
turn aside out of the path,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease
from before us.
Jeremiah 5:30-31
King James Version
30 A wonderful and horrible thing
is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so:
and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 14:14
King James Version
14 Then the Lord said unto me,
The prophets prophesy lies in my name:
I sent them not,
neither have I commanded them,
neither spake unto them:
they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination,
and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23:13-14
King James Version
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria;
they prophesied in Baal,
and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem
an horrible thing:
they commit adultery,
and walk in lies:
they strengthen also the hands of evildoers,
that none doth return from his wickedness;
they are all of them unto me as Sodom,
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:30-32
King James Version
30 Therefore, behold,
I am against the prophets,
saith the Lord,
that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31 Behold,
I am against the prophets,
saith the Lord,
that use their tongues,
and say, He saith.
32 Behold,
I am against them that prophesy false dreams,
saith the Lord,
and do tell them,
and cause my people to err by their lies,
and by their lightness;
yet I sent them not,
nor commanded them:
therefore they shall not profit this people at all,
saith the Lord.
Lamentations 2:14
King James Version
14 Thy prophets have seen
vain and foolish things for thee:
and they have not discovered thine iniquity,
to turn away thy captivity;
but have seen for thee
false burdens and causes of banishment.
Ezekiel 13:1-7
King James Version
13 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man,
prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy,
and say thou unto them
that prophesy out of their own hearts,
Hear ye the word of the Lord;
3 Thus saith the Lord God;
Woe unto the foolish prophets,
that follow their own spirit,
and have seen nothing!
4 O Israel,
thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps,
neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel
to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord.
6 They have seen vanity and lying divination,
saying,
The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them:
and they have made others to hope
that they would confirm the word.
7 Have ye not seen a vain vision,
and have ye not spoken a lying divination,
whereas ye say,
The Lord saith it;
albeit I have not spoken?
Matthew 7:15-20
King James Version
15 Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:21-23
King James Version
21 Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you:
depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.
Mark 13:21-23
King James Version
21 And then if any man shall say to you,
Lo, here is Christ;
or, lo, he is there;
believe him not:
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise,
and shall shew signs and wonders,
to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed:
behold,
I have foretold you all things.
Romans 16:17-18
King James Version
17 Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned;
and avoid them.
18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly;
and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
King James Version
13 For such are false apostles,
deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel;
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also
be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works.
Galatians 1:6-8
King James Version
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another;
but there be some that trouble you,
and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we,
or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we have preached unto you,
let him be accursed.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
King James Version
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy;
having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
2 Timothy 4:3-4
King James Version
3 For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Peter 2:1-3
King James Version
2 But there were false prophets also among the people,
even as there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways;
by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words
make merchandise of you:
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
1 John 4:3
King James Version
3 And every spirit that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist,
whereof ye have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.
1 John 4:5
King James Version
5 They are of the world:
therefore speak they of the world,
and the world heareth them.
1 John 4:6
King James Version
6 We are of God:
he that knoweth God heareth us;
he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.
Revelation 19:19-20
King James Version
19 And I saw the beast,
and the kings of the earth,
and their armies,
gathered together to make war
against him that sat on the horse,
and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken,
and with him the false prophet
that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them
that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive
into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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