The Definition of a False Prophet (Deuteronomy 18)

Let's open to Deuteronomy chapter 18 and this is going to be the fourth lesson in our discernment series. So we're going to continue on the subject talking about the difference. Remember last week the difference between false teachers and false prophets.

So the definition I gave last week was this a false teacher deceives by distorting or misapplying the revealed Word of God, so they're twisting the scripture, but a false prophet. They'll do that too, but false prophets claim to receive new revelations from God.

So they deceive by claiming that God gave them a vision a prophecy some revelation. So they're doing both they're twisting the Bible and saying new things. Teaching new things that God never you know words that God never said.

So the most obvious example is I always try to give examples what what good is it if you teach in the hypothetical without actually Pointing to real-life examples, so the most obvious example of a false prophet in our day and age would be this guy right here.

Sorry, you have to look at him the whole time. This of course is Benny Hinn verified false prophet made Continues to make countless false prophecies and Maybe we'll talk a little bit about him, but before we read Deuteronomy 18 I just want to read what Jesus said about false prophets in the Sermon on the Mount.

You just make a note of this Matthew 7 13 through 16 Jesus said enter by the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it. So a lot of people maybe even the majority of people do end up buying into the false prophets message because they're.

They're preaching positivity and nothing but good things. Jesus says because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life and there are few who find it. He says beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

And you will know them by their Fruits, so there's always going to be almost always there's some personal scandal sexual scandal embezzlement. Conning the sick and the elderly. I mean False prophets usually you yeah, you mark them by their false prophecy, which we'll talk about.

But there's usually the personal scandals that go along with it as well so it should be easy if you have the gift of discernment or even have just a Small level of discernment to be able to spot false false prophets.

So look at what God told Moses and Deuteronomy here. We're going to get a definition because the first question is what is the definition of a false prophet? You could probably guess. Right mark. What do you think the definition is?

Well, I think if you prophesize it doesn't come true. Okay.

Right. So a false prophet would be someone who prophesies falsely, how's that for I Mean, it seems pretty obvious to me and we see that backed up here in Deuteronomy 18. So the Lord is speaking to Moses.

This is what he says Deuteronomy 18 20 through 22. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of Another God that prophet shall die.

And if you say in your heart, how shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken? I mean, how do we know if he's a false prophet? Well when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord if that thing does not happen or come to pass.

That is the thing which the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously and you shall not be Afraid of him. So that's yeah, that is the definition of a false prophet. Someone who makes prophecies that do not come to pass.

It's a false prophecy. That's what a false prophet. So it's so basic. All right, it's self-explanatory. But I'd like to play a video now, so I want you to hear a Modern-day. Well, a lot of people are calling this a true prophecy.

But this is getting a lot of attention right now. This man. His name is Brandon Biggs. He claims to have prophesied the Trump Assassination plot. So because something he said seems pretty close I'll let you listen to it and you can tell me if it if you think this is true or not.

But it seems like he may have said something close to that profit. This is his claim. He's prophesying the Trump assassination attempt four months ahead of time, but he also makes a lot of other Prophecies, so let's just listen to this and I'll get your reaction.

Afterward, he said there's going to be a new wave of patriotism coming out and that's whenever I saw Trump and I saw that I saw a red wave coming out of Michigan and then I saw Oklahoma and there was embers of people and they were all on these these they had torches all throughout Oklahoma and they were raising up these torches that looked like fire and they were bringing forth a New patriotism upon the nation and it was coming.

It was being birthed and it just kept spreading Like fire all throughout America all throughout and I saw Trump rising up and then I saw an attempt on his life. That this bullet flew by his ear and it came so close to his head that it busted his drum eardrum.

And I saw he was he fell to his knees during this time frame and he started worshiping the Lord. He got radically born again during this time frame. I'm talking people say he's saved now, but he becomes really on fire for Jesus for what I saw coming and Then I saw people Interceding when he and I see him.

I saw him winning the the presidency through great the Lord show me it would go clear into the the summer great persecution would come on him through the judges and through the Through the law and all these people trying to sue him and all this stuff.

But there would be a stop to it and their things would start to break free come toward the fall. And then I saw him winning the election Through the Patriots coming out and voting and then and then and then there will be a great economy crash.

I saw they had a great economy plan a crash Worse than the the Great Depression and the Lord warned me about this. It would be a great dark time but I saw paddles coming upon America's soil like a shocking of the soil and I saw Donald Trump praying in the office of the of the Oval Office and he was Weeping before the Lord with his hands on his head like this, but he was weeping and there was ministers and people I don't know if they are senators or Congress people or whatever they I just saw them pacing and back and forth inside of the the The White House and sorry the the what is the White House?

But it's the Oval Office and they were Interceding all inside there and I could feel the presence of Lord so strong on this and then I could see that darkness that was the heaviness upon America with the with the the the financial crisis of what I saw coming it started to lift above the Trees and I saw the blue and the and the things coming back out in the green times and the good times coming back again but the Lord said it would be forth as a time of a season of a Shaking and it would be a shakening to awaken and and in this there this would Basically that he was not done with America there would be a great revival come and there's it's it's not all doom and gloom.

That's what he said. The sky is not falling. It's just a time of It's like people would say this is judgment and the Lord said do not call this judgment. It's not my judgment. It's a correction.

There's a correction coming. So there's no judgment. God is not going to judge America. You heard it. It's a correction, but don't call it a judgment. All right, so that was made I think April 8th or whenever it was four months ahead He said these words four months before The guy took the shots at Trump so that's why people are thinking maybe this guy is a true prophet because He said, you know, the bullet was gonna go right by his ear and that's that's what happened.

Therefore. It's a true prophecy. What do you think? I Think he's an evangelist. I'm not I'm not so sure that he's a pastor of a church. But I mean he does have a ministry so he may be a pastor. People are calling him.

He's he's going by the label of prophet as far as I know, so I mean it is interesting that he would say that Thing went by his ear and it okay, Mary. Right. That's a good thought actually hadn't and considered that Probably not that I'm aware of.

So Why do I not believe this is a true? prophecy well the part about President Trump's ear. He clearly said his eardrum. It went by so that his eardrum was blown out. That didn't happen. So There's a whole bunch of other things.

He said that Trump's gonna win reelection and then there's gonna be some economic collapse worse than the depression and this and that You know time will tell with that stuff. But as far as the thing about Trump It did not actually blow his eardrum out.

So that was false so therefore This is not a true prophecy because that part was wrong. See God's Prophets always got it, right? 100 everything has to be right if there's some part of it. That's false you know has to be a 100 has to be a Grade a you can't get you know, 70 is somehow good enough.

So I don't believe this is a true prophecy. There's plenty of people who say that. You know Plenty of people who prophesied that someone who's gonna shoot at Donald Trump and quite frankly, I wasn't hard to predict That would that someone would try to do it.

So I don't put any stock in this but you understand if somebody wants to believe this Then yeah, I mean they're they're all in and they'll believe this. Yes. Yeah, I doubt I doubt it'll stop. Sure now I get point out the obvious and say that when it comes to prophecy God did give a lot of prophecies, but prophecy Really surrounds the nation of Israel like biblical prophecy is not in regards to the United States.

The Bible never mentions the United States once so Israel is really the nation that you know prophecy surrounds Israel and the person prophecy Surrounds or the prime object of Bible prophecy is Christ not Donald Trump.

So I just feel like this is the big thing that's happening in the culture. So that's what people want to hear and everyone's concerned about the nation. So for him to come along and say don't worry. We're gonna go through some hard times.

But Trump will win and we're gonna come out of this and we're gonna be blessed again. America's not that's what people want to hear a lot of people. So I feel like he's taking the focus off of Christ and Israel maybe where it should be and then placing it on.

You know something else and this is just what false prophets tend to do get the focus off The the right thing and put it on the wrong thing. But back to Deuteronomy 18 any other comments on the video before we move on.

Linda. Right I Mean I agree with you. The only prophecies I'm really concerned about are the ones in the Bible. But that's because I'm not I'm not Pentecostal. I'm not charismatic if I were and I'll talk about that difference, but I agree with you.

Yeah. Right Right. Yeah, if this was a true word from God Then why couldn't you just tack it on to the Bible? He's not advocating for that as far as I know so he would say oh, I'm not trying to add to Scripture.

But logically if this is a true prophecy if it's God's Word, why why wouldn't you add it? Mark, did you have something? Well I Don't know I don't know about that. I'm sure he's making money off of it somehow, but just to get more listeners and followers.

You know because this this does tickle ears it. It caught my attention. I mean, I don't believe it, but you know this is the type of thing that people find Interesting if you do a Bible study from 2nd Samuel chapter 1 you know boring.

But there's some guy prophesied about Donald Trump. Oh, yeah, we all want to hear about that. That's just kind of the way it goes but back to Deuteronomy 18. Look at what said remember this is God speaking he says but that prophet the Hebrew word Navi translated prophet just refers to a a Spokesman so this is a prophet is a mouthpiece for God.

He says but the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name. Which I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods that prophet shall Die so this is under the theocracy of Israel.

This was so serious. You can be put to death now how many false prophets were actually put to death is another story you know the something being against the law and the people enforcing the law is Two different things so today obviously in the United States.

We're not in a theocracy, so if somebody is prophesying falsely. What can you do about it? You really can't do anything legally because we don't have we live in a country where there is religious freedom.

There's a lot of good things that come along with that. But you've got to take the good with the bad the bad is anybody can say anything with really no accountability however. If somebody prophesies falsely they should be What we'd say marked and avoided so if it's clear they made a prophecy.

God spoke to me. Said this will happen if it doesn't happen. No Christian should listen to that person and if they were involved in a church ministry. They should be removed from ministry that would be the proper way to handle it, but again do people actually do that most people don't mark.

Like. Yeah, I mean, I think it's that's a whole other topic that we're gonna. We're gonna touch on that too, so. Pretty simple. How do you know someone is a false prophet the question gets asked and answered verse 21.

And if you say in your heart, how shall we know well verse 22 is the answer when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord if the thing does not happen or come to pass then it's the thing which the Lord has not Spoken it says he's spoken presumptuously which means you know the guy is He's arrogant.

He's filled with pride this idea that he's claiming to speak for God. I have a message from God how prideful do you have to be to think you have a message from God? What God's not talking to you? I mean you have a I think some of these people really believe they have a message but you know they cook this stuff up in their own mind or they get a feeling and they really think this is God the God of the universe is speaking to me right now.

And I just think you have to be puffed up to think that your own your own thoughts are God's voice. That's my take on it, but he says The Prophet has spoken presumptuously so these people are are arrogant filled with pride they're overstepping the boundaries to say the least.

So this is often the the false prophecy in our time right now. Much of it is like this you know something about Donald Trump something about the election something about America so you know if you talk about biblical issues people aren't all that interested.

But if you know God told somebody that Trump's gonna win reelection then. Listen, I sympathize. I really there's people who think hey This is my guy, and I can't stand the thought of the other person so I get why people want to hear this but saying that this is a prophecy from God is.

Yeah, you might want to believe it, but we need to be very very careful. So we all see why false prophecy is this is a big deal. Okay, so again in the Old Testament false prophets were supposed to be Put to death now if this is the definition.

A false prophet is someone who gives false prophecies if that's the definition how come there's all these false prophets out there. I mean if they say things that are wrong. Why don't people just? Not listen to these folks anymore.

Why is that I? Believe. Right Right Right. Yeah. Yeah without question that's that's the allure you know that's why people are interested just Telling people what they want to hear, but what's the justification because they have to deal with this.

You know like Benny him he's on record with so many false prophecies. They've been proven false. How do these guys? Justify themselves. How do they justify these ministries well what they have done? They're giving a new definition, so we looked at the definition that False prophet makes false prophecies that simple well now they have a new definition.

And we're gonna look at that. But I need to sort of explain the terms because we kind of look at it one way. But there's so many people that look at it a completely In a completely different light, so let me just explain this for a moment.

Just so we know our terms the before the Pentecostal movement started in 1901 1905 around there. Most false prophecies were given by Roman Catholic mystics throughout the centuries or or in the cults there'd be false prophecies, but When the Pentecostal movement began in the early 20th century.

They taught their doctrine was that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit have now been restored and Again 1901 is probably the starting point there was the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. So they taught that Christ was about to return.

So because the end was near God was restoring the miraculous gifts of the Spirit so prophecy Healing and tongues primarily and then after a while, so they said the gifts have been restored. But after a while when Jesus didn't come he didn't come back.

They sort of changed the narrative and they said well, they weren't restored the gifts have always Continued so this is where you get the term Continuationist so if you take notes write this down a continuationist believes that the miraculous gifts of Prophecy Tongues and healing but we're focusing on prophecy tonight that prophecy has always been in the church.

So for the last 2 ,000 years, you know Peter was given prophecies John and it's just continued throughout church history. So the term is Continuationist. Are we continuationist here at Morse Corner Church?

I Mean somebody might be here, but we we believe I believe that the gifts. And I'm not saying it couldn't happen like somebody couldn't. Because I'm not denying that miracles happen. I want to be clear I'm not saying someone couldn't be healed or that even someone couldn't speak in tongues.

I mean those things are possible in this age, but as far as prophecy goes, I believe prophecy has ceased. So the other term is cessationism or a Cessationist. I believe that prophecy has ceased so when the last apostle died John After he finished Revelation after he died.

There is no more prophecy being given. Because the Bible's done now revelations the last book if there was still prophecy again. You should be able to add that to the Bible. So basically in the middle of the 20th century the majority of Christians Believed that God was no longer speaking.

There were no longer new prophecies being given. So middle of the 20th century that was probably the majority but because of the Pentecostal movement. That doctrine that says it's been ongoing it jumped from the Pentecostal churches.

It jumped into the Protestant churches and that's in the 1960s. That's what we call the charismatic movement. So now in all these different churches people in the 60s 70s. They started to believe that actually prophecy is still happening.

The gifts are still Here there's faith healers you know men like Benny Hinn can lay hands on people just like the Apostles did and heal them and they believe this stuff continues. Right right until this very day so they believe in modern-day Prophets, so that's why you can have two Christians and they look at this completely different.

Like when I started playing Brandon Biggs I mean most of you like you're just not gonna even consider that this guy is an actual prophet, right? Like that wasn't even a possibility. But if you're charismatic.

You look at it differently say well, he might be so I need to listen just to make sure okay so they're they're open to it when a lot of other Christians are not so we just have to understand that that's the.

That's the environment. We're living in so all that to say this Charismatics because it's so obvious that the leaders of their movement Benny Hinn Kenneth Copeland Joyce Meyer all these people. It's so obvious that they've made false prophecies because they're on video with the internet like it's just there for everyone to see.

They either have to admit that the leaders of their movement are a bunch of false prophets or they have to redefine the term. So they have come up with a new definition so look at Deuteronomy 20 again and.

And see what you think about this, but the product they say okay, let's read it. What's the definition? Deuteronomy 1820 but the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name. Which I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods that prophet Shall die so they say okay.

Yes Benny Hinn Brandon Biggs. Yes. They will say they have made prophecies that turned out to be not true. We admit that but they're not speaking in the name of other gods. So they're not a false prophet see you see what they do.

They're not a false prophet unless they're speaking in the name of other gods. Okay, so that changes everything. So you can make all the false prophecies you want apparently as long as you're not doing it in the name of wah a group or you know that the lady at the Republican National Convention who prayed to the The Sikh deity right anyway, that's another story, but as long as you're not doing it in the name of some foreign deity.

You're not a false prophet so you see how they get that from this verse now, what's the obvious problem with that logic? Yeah says or the word or changes everything so. Well that yeah, they do that too, I mean there's a lot of problems here, let's turn to Deuteronomy 28.

But we're gonna see if you just read through the Old Testament, you'll see that there were false prophets in Israel Who prophesied falsely in the name of Jehovah it didn't come to pass they were labeled labeled the false prophets so Biblically their new definition does not hold up, but Mary's right it's that it's that word or notice it says if the prophet presumes to speak a word in my name or Speaks in the name of another God that prophet shall die if it said and yes.

So if it said and then they would be correct. But it says or and in case you're worried about the heat does it say or in Hebrew in the original language? I looked at every major translation. That is the correct rendering or and not and so that new definition is quite frankly just made up and Besides if somebody's prophesying in the name of a false God Allah or some other deity they're not a wolf in sheep's clothing because they're not even Claiming to be Christian at that point so none of it really makes Any sense so we're gonna look at?

This prophecy Given in Jeremiah, but let me give a few more examples. Other False prophets. Who knows Pat Robertson? He's really a great example of this and you can check all this out. This is all online back in 2012 again he's prophesying about presidents instead of Donald Trump being the object of prophecy Mitt Romney was the object of now Mitt Romney's a Mormon.

I don't know why he's the object of Bible prophecy, but. Back in 2012 Pat Robertson, who's the founder of CBN Christian broadcast? Network he claimed to hear directly from God. And here's another point.

I want to make if someone predicts something a prediction is not a prophecy. So if I gave you my opinion And I predicted something as long as I'm not claiming God gave it to me. That's different. Okay, that's not a prophecy.

But as soon as you say God gave this to me God told me the Spirit told me now you're dealing with prophecy, okay? But Pat Robertson Said that the Lord told him that Mitt Romney would win the 2012 election and become president.

Did that happen. No, therefore according to the biblical definition Pat Robertson is a false Prophet of course he taught all sorts of crazy stuff, too. But when asked about it Pat Robertson said he admitted he got his signals crossed he admitted that he quote misinterpreted God's message.

But it's okay. He claimed because most of the time I get it right those are his words. So by modern care, and he still continued his ministry people still followed him so by modern charismatic Standards it seems to me as long as you're not speaking in the name of a false God and as long as you have like a passing grade, you know 70 of the time you're right.

That's good enough, but God's standard. We saw it. It's a hundred percent. Nothing can be wrong because God can't be wrong because you have two options either God's wrong, but this guy's lying. There's really no other no other option.

All right, so you're in Jeremiah 28. Let's read this this is I'm sorry Jeremiah 28. Not Deuteronomy. Thank you for catching that this is a story of Jeremiah and the false prophet Hananiah, okay, so this is a biblical story of Two prophets sort of facing off.

I think we know who the true prophet was right? Jeremiah right. Okay, so the false prophet Hananiah his message. Well, he was telling the people is what they wanted to hear. Jeremiah 28 starting in verse 1 Says and it happened in the same year at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year.

And in the fifth month the Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet who is from Gibeon Spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and of all the people. Saying thus speaks the Lord of hosts the God of Israel saying I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon within two Full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon, okay, who's giving this prophecy?

Hananiah verse 4 and I will bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon Says the Lord for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

So you see what he's saying Babylon, this is the major threat King Nebuchadnezzar. It's the king. It looked like that they they had already taken captives to Babylon and he says don't worry about it. The Lord told me that in two years Everything's gonna be resolved.

We're gonna get our people back. They're gonna return the items. Everything guy everything's gonna be fine. There's no judgment coming upon Judah. That's what he's saying and you can see that's a message that the people would like right?

This is what this is what they want to hear. So what happened with the thing about the yoke. The Lord had told the Prophet Jeremiah to wear a yoke around his neck. So you have to envision Jeremiah walking around in this this yoke which would have got everyone's attention people would have been asking about it and God told him to do that.

It was a symbolic act by wearing the yoke. Jeremiah was demonstrating that Judah and the surrounding nations Were to submit to Babylon and its king so Jeremiah was telling the people listen, we need to submit to them.

Can you imagine that you imagine today if again, there's no prophets we don't believe that but if somebody said hey We need to submit to the Chinese or something. We just need to do what they say. People would want to tar and feather the guy right and that's basically what they did with Jeremiah.

But God actually did tell him that so if you want your lives to be spared don't resist. Submit to the king of Babylon because the Lord is punishing Judah. People you need to repent. God is punishing us.

Did they want to hear that message? No Jeremiah's message was true. It was from God, but it was negative. So the people didn't want it. Hananiah was telling them what they wanted to hear. So all the people were following Hananiah basically he was saying God God just loves you so much that everything's gonna be fine.

Don't worry about it. Okay, let's keep reading skip down to verse 9 but as for the prophet who prophesies of peace when the word of the prophet comes to pass the prophet will be known as One whom the Lord has truly sent.

And then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it and Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people saying thus says the Lord even so I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within the space of two full years and the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet had broken The yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah saying go and tell Hananiah. Saying thus says the Lord you have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron.

Verse 14 for thus says the Lord of hosts the God of Israel I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet here now Hananiah the Lord has not sent you. But you make this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the Lord behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth.

This year you shall die. Because you have taught rebellion against the Lord. So it was verse 17 Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month. So you see what happened. Hananiah prophesied good things.

That's what everyone wanted. They listened to him, but Those things didn't come to pass. Hananiah was a a biblical example of a false prophet and then Jeremiah Gives us his own prophecy. Oh, by the way, you're gonna die this year.

And did it happen? Yes, it did but it's just like With the prophets of today. Why did they listen because it's all about the message. This is what people want to hear. They want to hear positivity. No Judgment, everything's gonna be great.

Jesus said in Luke 6 26 Beware when all men speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophet. One thing I'd say about a verse like that if there's Maybe a Christian but certainly a pastor a preacher if a preacher is just beloved by the world.

Like if if the if the unbelievers in society think that this preacher is great and they want him on their TV program. That's a bad sign. Okay, if the world loves you you're doing something wrong. Let me just read that again.

This is Jesus Luke 6 26 Beware when all men speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Okay, so what's the conclusion? What's the takeaway? Why should we care about this? Because false prophets just like false teachers they mishandle the scripture.

So there's tons of these people on YouTube on the internet on TV and they're telling people what they want to hear. So naturally the largest most popular ministries not always but I don't know 9 out of 10 times 8 out of 10 times the most popular ministries.

Again going back to Luke 6 26, that's a red flag if everyone if everyone loves the message then. You got it. You got a wonder. So most of the popular ministries are going to be led by people who mishandled the scriptures so in any society and certainly right now in the United States the number of Christians being misled it's just astronomical.

And one one other thing false prophets Jesus said in the end of days Matthew 24 24 and 25 in the last days there's going to be an increase, you know wars rumors of wars pestilence disease. There's gonna be an increase of all that but there's also going to be an increase of false prophets Jesus said in Matthew 24 24 and 25 for false Christ and false prophets will rise and Show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect Jesus says see I've told you Beforehand.

So as we get closer to the end and my friends, this is what I'm seeing. Everyone is seeking after signs and wonders. Increase number of false prophet. I I really believe that we are approaching Christ whether it's 10 years 20.

I don't know. It could be a long ways away. I doubt it because all the signs would point to. Exactly what Jesus is talking about. But remember he said I have told you beforehand. So in conclusion false prop the biggest problem with false prophets.

They always get people's eyes off of the the right thing Jesus the gospel Salvation and they may mention it in passing once in a while. But the focus is on whatever you want to hear. So if Donald Trump is the big thing and the talk of the town then they're gonna prophesy about Trump America or whatever the next big thing is.

So they mishandle the scriptures they take the focus off of Jesus and the gospel and put it on. You know, they're good at knowing what people want to hear and that's what they do. So you need to be aware.

Let's pray Father I just thank you that Your word gives us your word and your spirit gives us the discernment that we need This message that Jesus gave that if it would be possible Even the very elect would be deceived Lord based on that word.

It sure sounds like the elect cannot be deceived and I thank you for that. That you through your word and spirit will protect your people but still there's a lot of folks being misled and some people who even think they're true believers, but they're not because they're Sitting under the ministry of a false prophet preaching a false gospel Lord give us opportunities to speak to these people use a message like this to either convince somebody to wake them up or to Encourage somebody here to maybe talk to someone they know but Lord.

We do pray for those who are deceived and may your truth may your word the true prophecy Especially about Jesus and salvation and his return may that take the preeminence and we ask it all in Jesus name Amen.