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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