False Christs and False Prophets

Do you know how to recognize a false Christ and a false Prophet? A false Christ does not mean a false Jesus, but it means someone who has not been anointed by God, but claims they have. That’s what the word Christ means, someone who has been anointed by a higher power. A person can be anointed by God which will make that person a Christ. That’s what Jesus was. When God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, He became the Christ, the anointed one of God. A false Christ is someone who has been anointed by someone other than God. The devil has the power to anoint a person to do his will, just as Jesus was anointed by God to do His will. Just as Jesus was given the power by God to do supernatural works, a person can be anointed by the devil to do the devil’s works and yes they are given the power by the devil to also do supernatural works. It tells us this in Matthew 24:24.

A false prophet is someone who has not been ordained by God to be a prophet and consequently their prophecies do not come to pass. There are several ways to identify a false prophet from a true God ordained prophet. First of all true prophets will only prophesy what God reveals to them and the prophecies will come to pass every time because everything that God says is true and cannot fail to come to pass. Secondly, whatever a true prophet says will agree with the written scriptures because God inspired the writing of those scriptures. Whereas, false prophets would presume to speak where God has not spoken, whether it be as a prophecy or a prediction, for no other reason than to elevate their status among the people. God has always ordained a person to speak His words for Him and not to give their own prophecy or prediction or interpretation or revelation about what God wants to convey to His people. God has never sent a Prophet to interpret His Word, but to only speak His Word.

Now Jesus was a true prophet of God. Yes I know that He was more than a prophet, but He was in fact a prophet just as the prophet Moses had said that He would be. To that end the bible tells us of a prophecy that Jesus made about what would come to pass in the end times. He said: “Beware that no one deceives you, for many shall come in my name saying “I am Christ (anointed)” and they shall deceive many people. Then many false prophets and many false and deceitful christs (anointed ones) shall rise also doing great signs and wonders deceiving many people”.(Matt 24:24) As you can see, Jesus said that these false anointed ones would have the power to do great things. Because of this, one cannot accept signs and wonders by themselves, but these things must accompany the true and complete word of God as He has spoken and have written in the scriptures.

Those days which were prophesied about are being experienced now even more so than they ever were. The sad thing about it is that these false prophets and anointed ones that the bible calls christs are not aware of what they are doing because they are being deceived by satan to believe that they are serving God. What gives them away is when they make a practice of interpreting God’s Word saying that God has revealed the true meaning of His word to them.

Jesus, the announced and verified Son of God is as was stated in the following scriptures. The scriptures themselves make it very clear as to who Jesus was.

The Angel (Messenger) told Mary: “that holy child which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God”. (Luke 1:35)

When Jesus was baptized by John and the Holy Spirit from Heaven came upon Him, a voice from Heaven said: “this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased”. (Matt 3:16-17) (Mark 1:10-11) (Luke 3:22)

When Jesus took Peter, James and John up on the mountain they heard a voice from Heaven saying: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him”. (Matt 17:5) (Mark 9:7) (Luke 9:35)

Peter also testified of the occurrence on the mountain saying: “ this voice which came from Heaven we heard, when we were with Jesus on the Holy Mountain…..and we have a more sure word of prophecy that you will do well if you take heed….and should know this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation”. (2 Peter 1: 17-20) Notice what this scripture said. The voice they heard came from Heaven while Jesus was with them on the Earth. Jesus is not a ventriloquist, He could not be on Earth and have His voice come from Heaven. It was His Father’s voice, the voice of God that spoke from Heaven.

Whoever shall confess (acknowledge) me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in Heaven, but whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven. (Matt 10:32-33) If anyone fails to acknowledge Him, that He is in fact the Son of God, they are in violation of what He said.

Paul the Apostle testified of the truth saying: “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”.

Peter the Apostle testified saying to Jesus: “You are the Christ (the anointed one), the Son of the living God”. (Matt 16:16) When the Apostle Peter made this statement, Jesus didn’t say to him: “no you are wrong Peter, I’m not the Son of God, I am Jehovah God the Father who created all things”. No, Jesus didn’t deny who Peter said He was because Peter spoke the truth and Jesus knew that He was the Son of God.

Now let’s see anyone put their own interpretation to these statements and make their assertions that Jesus and God are one and the same. If you are being taught that Jesus and God are the same person it is wrong and not according to scripture. If anyone accepts this false teaching they are denying that these previous scriptures don’t mean what they say. Well they certainly do mean what they are saying, that Jehovah God the Father and Jesus are two separate persons.

Let me point out something that is relevant to this issue. In Exodus 7:1 Jehovah God made the statement that He had made Moses a god to Pharoah for the purpose of being able to perform signs and wonders in the presence of Pharoah. By the same token Jehovah God the Father had given His Son Jesus all power in Heaven and Earth for the same purpose of proving His commission of being sent by God. Now this was in a way making Jesus a god, but He couldn’t have had this power unless God the Father gave it to Him and this didn’t make Him and the Father the same person.

Any person who presents this false doctrine is a false teacher who has not been sent by God to teach in the church and those of you who choose to accept this will pay a price for denying the Son of God and the Word of our Heavenly Father as well as the words of the Lord’s Apostles.

The above words highlighted in RED are scripture right out of the bible. The word of the day is for every one of you to repent and believe the true gospel of salvation. Believe what the bible says and verify every word that man teaches by using God’s inspired scripture.

God ordains Prophets, Preachers and Teachers to speak His Word in the church, not to interpret what His words mean. The scripture itself says that man should not presume to put their own interpretation on His Word.

We all need to chose this day who we will believe;

Will it be

God’s Word or man’s word.

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Let Us Reason Together

With regard to the Holy Bible, I am sure that we all want the same thing, to gain an accurate and complete understanding of bible scriptures in the hope that we can know the truth of all things and to get to know our God. And with this understanding we can be able to worship God in Spirit and Truth just as Jesus said that we should.

Too often we have the tendency to take just one certain scripture, just one verse or even just one chapter and base our belief on our understanding of what it has said. Keeping in mind that what we have learned about anything in the bible is what our belief is based upon. But our belief, if it’s going to be accurate about anything, must be based upon the totality of what is said about any bible subject and not just what one certain scripture states about it. It should be important to all of us to be certain that everything mentioned in the bible is taken under consideration and analyzed to be certain beyond a shadow of doubt that what we have accepted is what God wants us to know and understand.

There will also be other things which we may not be able to accept beyond a shadow of doubt and just as in a Court of Law, we may have to consider what is known as a preponderance of the evidence in order to obtain the most accurate understanding of any certain thing that shapes our belief. What that means is that by weighing the evidence, we should accept as the truth, the amount of evidence, or scriptures, or sayings that provide the most which leans closer to the truth as we can get.

Now I hope that what I am saying doesn’t appear to be so clinical about bible scripture and how we should determine what we arrive at concerning what we should believe. If we are to have a truthful and honest relationship with God, then what other way do we have to foster that relationship other than using the means available to us, which is the bible and God’s written word, to build that relationship?

Should we depend upon our feelings about what is true? Or can we depend upon some sort of spiritual revelation to base our belief on? Maybe we should base our beliefs on what we are taught by a self professed man of God? All of these things could be misleading and could position us even farther away from what the truth really is. The only real solid evidence that we have which can be depended upon is the Holy scriptures which have been written by those who God inspired to write them down for us.

We must depend completely upon the scriptures to disclose the truth and accuracy of any belief we are to adopt. Our opinions, our revelations, our feelings and what we have been previously taught by anyone outside of those identified in scripture should not be relied upon.

Let’s just look at a few examples about what we have accepted as our belief and see if bible scripture supports what we believe.

Take for instance the transgression that was committed in the Garden of Eden. There are many teachings about exactly what that transgression really was. The scripture says that the man Adam committed the first sin when he disobeyed God and ate the fruit of the forbidden tree that God planted in the Garden. That is pretty straight forward and can easily be believed and accepted as one fact that can be adopted as something we can believe. Then along comes a teaching that the eating of the fruit of that forbidden tree was actually a sexual act that occurred between Adam, the Serpent and the woman Eve.

If we examine the scriptures closely, especially Genesis 2:15-17 we can see that the forbidden tree was in the Garden and was subject to Adam to partake of before the woman Eve and any animals including the serpent were put in the Garden. Because Adam was alone in the Garden, God formed the animals and put them in the Garden to keep Adam company, When this didn’t work, then God made the woman and put her in the Garden. All of this occurred after the fact that Adam and the forbidden tree were in the Garden and he had the opportunity to partake of the fruit of that tree before God put anyone else in the Garden. So how could the first sin have been of a sexual nature before the Woman Eve was ever put in there with Adam? According to scripture it could not have been.

Now just to be realistic, it has nothing to do with our salvation as to what to believe about what the original act of disobedience was, whether it was the eating of some kind of fruit or anything else. What is important is whether we chose to believe what the scripture says or not. If we begin to doubt what the scripture says in any one point, it might lead us to disbelieve something that is important to our salvation. So wouldn’t it be best for us to believe what the scripture says throughout the bible and not accept some man’s interpretation of what the scripture means in the event that he might be wrong?

For another example is the teaching that Jesus was sent to be a “Kinsman Redeemer” for all of mankind. This teaching explains that Jesus was a Kinsman to all of mankind simply because He was a man of flesh like we are and that, according to some bible teachers, was the only requirement that was necessary to become a Kinsman Redeemer, being a flesh man.

To begin with, Jesus was not originally sent by God to redeem all of mankind. It’s stated in Matthew 15:24 that Jesus said that He was not sent to redeem all of mankind, but was sent only for the Nation of Israel. Why is this? Because the Nation of Israel was God’s elect people. God said in Deuteronomy 7:6-8 that the Nation of Israel was chosen by Him to be a special people in His sight above all the people on the Earth. Even when Jesus sent His Apostles out, He told them not to go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, but to the house of Israel. (Matt 10:5)

So Jesus was a kinsman redeemer to the Israelites because through His Mother Mary, He was a blood relative to the Israelites which He had to be in order for Him to be a kinsman redeemer. Throughout the bible it says that a kinsman is a blood relative.

For some scriptural verification of this, let’s look at what is said in the book of Numbers. In the Book of Numbers, Chapter five we find that a kinsman was another Israelite and specifically another member of a certain tribe of Israel. The same stands true for what is spoken of in the book of Numbers Chapter 27 and in the Book of Ruth. Then in the Book of Romans Chapter nine, Paul spoke specifically of his kinsmen being the Israelites. All of these examples speak of a kinsman as being a blood relative in the eyes of those who lived back at that time. When the angel spoke to Joseph before Jesus was born he was told that Jesus was the one to come to save “his people” from their sins. His people, that He was sent to redeem from their sins were the Israelites according to His own words. Thus saith the scriptures, no matter what man believes.

Once again, as I said before, whether we believe that Jesus was a kinsman redeemer for all of mankind or just for the Israelites is not going to affect our salvation in any way, but why would we disregard what the scripture actually shows us in favor of what any man teaches?

The last thing I want to cover is the non-scriptural teaching that Jesus and God are the same person. This is one of those cases where there are many scriptures and references in the bible that can be used to both verify that Jesus could have been God in the flesh and/or to disprove that Jesus and God the Father are one and the same. There are many scriptures and statements that were made by Jesus that have been used by those on both sides of the argument, but we are going to look at only those that cannot be misinterpreted and should be taken literally as the truth.

What we should do the utmost to consider is what Jesus said about who He was and not what some other person has misinterpreted the scriptures to state as the fact. Jesus came to Earth speaking the words that His Father in Heaven gave Him to speak. What could be closer to the truth as that?

In John 3: 16-17, it is recorded that Jesus said: God sent His only begotten Son and all who would believe in Him would be saved. Jesus didn’t say that God Himself came into the World in a flesh body and that He was actually God. Jesus made it clear throughout the scriptures that God the Father had sent Him. Nowhere in the scriptures did Jesus say that he sent Himself. Jesus made it very clear that the Father was in Heaven and Jesus himself was on Earth. Two separate individuals, a Father and a Son.

Did Jesus ever say that He personally was the Son of God? In John 10:33-36, Jesus made it clear to the Jews that were questioning Him that He was the Son of God. Shouldn’t we take His word for it? The Author of the book of Mark starts off his writing by stating that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. Should we conclude that he made a mistake because he didn’t say that Jesus was actually God in the flesh? In John 1:49-50 when Nathanael first met Jesus, he said that he knew Jesus was the Son of God. Did Jesus rebuke him and tell him that he was wrong? No He didn’t because Jesus knew that what Nathanael said was true. Well that should be enough, as we could go on and on throughout the scriptures and not convince some.

I said before after the other examples of misinterpretation of the scriptures that the importance of how we believe in those cases don’t matter in themselves a whole lot. Although that does not stand true for the third example that we looked at. In this case our salvation just might be in jeopardy because belief in the Gospel of our salvation is determined by our belief in Jesus being the Son of God. If we adopt some man’s teaching that Jesus was not the Son of God, but was actually God the Father Himself who made a flesh body for Himself to dwell in on the Earth, it is certainly putting our salvation in jeopardy. Our salvation is dependent upon believing that God sent His Son to the Earth and as Jesus stated, HE is the Son of God.

Be careful about picking and choosing which scripture you choose to believe. Don’t you think that it would be best to believe what every scripture actually says and not accept some man’s private interpretation that could do you harm in the end?

Quoting 2 Peter 1:20 thru 2 Peter 2:1:

Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. And there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord (Jesus) that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

There are many false teachers of the bible in the World today and most of them deny that Jesus was actually the Son of God in favor of their belief that Jesus was actually God in the flesh.

 

Chose this day who you will believe, God’s Word or Reverend __________’s private interpretation which the scripture says that no man should make.

 

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