How to test a prophet in the LAST DAYS - if he or she is true or a false?
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hi.. First of all, I would like to congratulate you for choosing the way of Christ.\n\nI'll try to answer your question to the best of my ability.\n\nI believe that when God speaks about All flesh\nin Joel 2:28 "And i shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."\nHe meant the believers or someone who is being prepared for the Lord's works.\n\nIf you check sub chapters before that verse, God talks about A call to repentance and the land refreshed.\nThe Lord obviously speaks about the people who repent and refreshed into the new creation in Christ (believers).\nThus, I conclude that All flesh, in Joel 2:28, means All believers\n\nThat's why it is important to always read at least a chapter or two before and after the verse.\nFor the bible works as a whole; we should avoid reading bible verses by chopping it individually. If we do that, there is a chance for us to take the verse out of the original context. \n\nAnd, yes there are still prophets appointed by God.\nand as it is true that there are true prophets, there are also false prophets/teachers.\n\nand your question is How we can tell the true from the false one, right?\n\nthere are 3 steps for us to know that a prophet is a false one or not:\n1. God says "My People perish from the lack of knowledge." It is very important for us to read the bible and pray everyday to build a sweet and intimate relationship with God. And also sharpen our knowledge about God's characters.\nWe know that Jesus has warned us about the false prophets/ messiahs in Matthew 24:24-28. So, when there are news about  messiahs that come to deliver us from sin, we knew that we have to be careful with those fake messiahs. We know in our heart that Jesus Christ is our only messiah that no one comes to the Father without going trough Him.\n\n2. From reading the bible everyday and become more and more alert and sensitive to God's voice, we knew that the true prophet sent by God will NEVER contradict the bible.\nSo, when a teacher/prophets come to you and said that he is the messiah or something like you should divorce your husband, we know immediately that this prophet is a false teachers and should be avoided.\nRemember! the bible is the ultimate guide that you should use to check whether a prophet is false or not.\n\nwhen they go against the bible, don't waste your time.\nPack your things and go.. Don't bother listening to them.\n\n3. What if the prophet looks and sounds fine for now...but in the future, he will finally shown his true self. how do you know  that he's not going to trap you in his web of lies. For we know that the devil is cunning and deceitful.\n\nWell, go and look in matthew 7: 15-20.\nIt is okay and even recommended to test those people.\nDon't accept them immediately just because they said they are prophets.\nDon't be rude to them, but keep your Spiritual alert system on all the time.\nTest the fruits and the labors. For the things that came from the Lord always bring forth peace and goodness.\n\nTake whatever good and biblical inside. but, disregard the weird teachings. Keep alert and pray all the time for the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth to you about those prophets.\n \n\nHopefully that helps,\nIn jesus name,\n\n\nAmen
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I will wait for Lord's timing, it does not matter if He comes today or tomorrow or in another thousand years. God shall come, no matter what. And Jesus will come soon to take the Church (His bride) home. That is all the answer I can give, because God's timing is better than my own.
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The bible says only the father knows when the end will be. And it gives us the signs to look for for to tell us whn the end is near. Take a look around, see what is going on in the world today, violance, hunger, wars, distruction against the church, etc. We are living the tribulation already , it has already begun. read the boobk of Revolations. Are you really prepared???
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There are some Christians who believe the sprirtual gift of phophecy is no longer operative in the Church.  But you and I know better, don't we?\n\nUnbelievers will always give thumbs down to anything that isn't documented; my guess is that they were unwilling to take your word that the prophesies were given before 9/11.\n\nYes, a prophecy regarding future events that comes true does prove the prophet/prophetess spoke correctly.\n\nPeace.
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OK, brass tacks time. You can make as many proclamations you wish about who is God. But it all comes down to the gauntlet thrust into the ring by the God of the Bible...\n\nIsaiah 41:22-23\n “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen. Let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them--or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."\n\nGod is saying, "OK, you who say you are gods and prophets, tell us what will happen in the future before it happens. If you can, then you will be one who dwells in eternity. If not, you are no god and a false prophet."\n\nBy the admission of those on this forum, the Qu'ran contains NO prophecy and Muhammad made no prophetic pronouncements.\n\nGod has in the Old Testament, Jesus fulfilled and made some of His own (such as the destruction of the temple). The studies below are just a few examples of fulfilled prophecies--there are hundreds! Some fulfilled, others still pending. So who is the One who dwells in eternity? The One who sees the beginning and the end as one? I'll let HIM tell you...\n\nIsaiah 42:9\n"Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."\n\nIsaiah 57:15\nFor thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place,With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones."
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If you need a list of some of these prophecies to confirm these stats, you can find them here...\nhttp://tinyurl.com/mbqa3\n\nHe was more than teacher and prophet... He was God incarnate.\n\nA Child is to be born as a man who will be the Mighty God.\nIsaiah 9:6\nFor unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\n\nJehovah says that He and the coming Redeemer are eternal.\nIsaiah 44:6\n"Thus says YHWH, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer [Yeshua], the YHWH of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God.'"\n\nJesus confirmed the above as well as His being the Almighty.\nRevelation 1:8\nJesus said, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”\n\nAgain, Who is the Redeemer? Who is the Savior? YHWH.\nIsaiah 49:26\n"All flesh shall know That I, YHWH, am your Savior, And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."\n\nBefore He was born, Jesus identified the trinity.\nIsaiah 48:16\n"Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord GOD and His SPIRIT Have sent ME."\n\nThree distinct personalities are seen in Jesus' baptism.\nMatthew 3:16\nWhen He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."\n\nJews sought to stone Jesus for claiming to be the eternal.\nJohn 8\n“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”\nThen the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”\nJesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”\nThen they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.\n\nJesus says that He and the Father are ONE (heis in Greek which means literally the number 1) Jews seek to stone Him for claiming to be God incarnate.\nJohn 10\n"I and My Father are one."\nThen the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.\nJesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”\nThe Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."\n\nJesus does not rebuke Thomas for calling Him God, but rather promises a blessing to those who would believe later.\nJohn 20:28\nAnd Thomas answered and said to Jesus, "My Lord and my God!"\nJesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."\n\nPaul confirms that Jesus is God.\nTitus 2:11-14\nFor the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men... looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
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You really have to get close to God in prayer. Also read and study your Bible as much as you can, and pray to God over the meanings. Never, ever take someone else's word for it that someone is a prophet! You really can find out for yourself.
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Spiritual gifts have not ceased.  The gifts of the spirit are still available today (prophecy, etc.).  Jesus says that in the last days there will be many false prophets and to watch out for them, so logically he would not tell us to watch out for the false ones if there would be no true ones.  He would rather say beware of all.
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He's a false prophet =) the Bible said there would be many!!!
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Nope, I don't think he will, for a start it's to obvious.  Nobody knows when he will be revealed, he could in fact be alive on the earth today, or maybee he has not even been born yet??  Just make sure your life is right before God, and live every day like it's your last.  God bless U!!!
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Look carefully at what Paul is telling Timothy in this passage.  He is NOT talking about something that will happen "some day in the future", but about what Timothy himself is coming up against!   In other words, what Timothy is having to deal with is something he ought to EXPECT, because 'that sort of thing is going to go on' in the last days (in which Paul & Timothy already lived).\n\nThe same sort of thing is found in 2 Peter 3, where Peter reminds his readers "scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires"(v.3)  Again, he talking about the very issues they are dealing with --false prophets and skeptics questioning whether God will indeed come and judge the world.\n\nAlong the same lines, Jesus speaks of troubles and persecution to come, in a passage frequently appealed to as a portrait of "the last days".   But note that he is telling his disiples in his own time what THEY too will experience (not just some distant future generation)\n\nMark 13:7-9  "And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.   But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them."\n-------------\nIn other words, the early church was already in "the last days".   WHY?  Because had come and changed everything.\n\nThat's why, as elsydon noted, Hebrews 1 states:\n"in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things"\n\nIn fact, Jesus resurrection and exaltation to God's right hand had inaugurated the "last days" the prophets had promised.   \n\nPeter confirms this in his Pentecost sermon:\n\nAct 2:15-17  For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. \n But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: \n"'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh"\n\nHe goes on to explain HOW this "last days" promise was being fulfilled before their very eyes:\n\nvv.32-33  This Jesus God raised up. . .  having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.\n\nOnce again, it begins with Jesus being raised to God's right hand.  THAT, and not soem special set of troubles, is the key to "the last days" when GOD carries out his ancient promises.
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I think man is fallible and only in retrospect can we tell if prophecy is true. How many prophecies have proven untrue?\n\nIt is a great day to be alive!!\n\nGood luck and God Bless!!
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oooe   That sounds exactly right, a false prophet is one who makes falcse claims  \n\nthere cant be two jesus' one must be false!
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true or false u'll know on 9 JULY
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According to Muslims Muhammad was the last Prophet , they also believe that Jesus was a great Prophet, but not the last one. \nAs an atheist I have no reason to doubt either of these beliefs, if by Prophet you mean some one sent to preach the word of God! They both certainly did that!\nWhere they got this 'word of God' from is a different matter altogether. \nAs far as I can see anyone can set themselves up as a Prophet just as well today as they could then!\nIt's really up to you if you believe any of these 'words of God ' or not, or part with your money or not. \nBut just don't try to convince me of any of it!!
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If you go to nobeliefs.com and find the link about a historical jesus, you'll get a thorough examination of why all evidence is suspect.  The summary includes arguments about hearsay, Josephus being sponsored by a bishop who advocated deceit, and an examination on the lack of contemporary evidence.\n\nA quick google search will dispel the argument concerning the calendar.\n\nSo, I guess the short answer to your question is: no, there is no true evidence to support his existence.
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By one of the gifts from God that is called, "Discerning of Spirits"\n\n1 Cor. 12.10\n\n\nAlso, we can "Test Everything", by comparing what is being said with "The Word Of Truth", "The Bible".