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BORN AGAIN
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One thing that stands out in the above is that the prophets who were popular and many in numbers were false and were exposed as such and the one prophet who was suffering for his stand for the LORD was the true prophet.
Bloodbought, I'm surprised at you. But here goes. The northern kingdom early on abandoned the LORD and began to worship the calves and Baal. These 400 prophets were of course prophets of Baal. These 400 prophets were thus not prophets of the LORD, and therefore those 400 prophets of Baal were false teachers, just like the gods of Hindu and the gods of Bhuddism and the gods of Islam and the gods of Mormonism are all false teachers.
But bornagain Christians are not false teachers, eventhough every bornagain Christian is prone to, and will, make some mistakes in doctrine until Jesus come again, and that does NOT make a bornagain Christian a false teacher or false prophet. It's a mistaken Christian, and not a mistaken Hindu, now there is a false teacher if Christ be true. Why not address them out in the world and call them in.
May the LORD God of Israel bless all of us on this CBBS, I am BORN AGAIN ![[Cross]](graemlins/cross.gif)
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wparr
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The TRUE prophets of God were UNPOPULAR with the people, telling them the truth (which people STILL don't like to hear today) and telling them to repent (which people STILL don't want to do)
That's why THE JEWS killed many of God's Prophets of old, they didn't like being confronted with God's Truth.
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Bloodbought
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1 Kings 22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Jehoshaphat was a man of God being drawn into apostasy by wicked king Ahab and his four hundred false prophets. Although Jehoshaphat was a man of God he was being deceived and what he said V4 could not have been further from the truth. He was not as Ahab and he was not as Ahab’s people, but he decided to do the very thing that causes apostasy, he decided to run with the crowd and go into alliance with wicked King Ahab, how sad.
Ahab called up four hundred prophets to find out whither to fight at Ramoth-gilead. These four hundred prophets claimed to prophesy in the name of the Lord, they said, “Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.” They had the right language of true prophets, but what they prophesy was false, they were false prophets, because instead of the Lord delivering Ramoth-gilead into the hand of Ahab he was killed v 34.
Jehoshaphat being a man of God is not totally convinced by the four hundred prophets and asks for the advice of another prophet for conformation. Ahab told Jehoshaphat there was one more prophet called Micaiah that they could inquire from, but Ahab said he hated Micaiah because he prophesied evel concerning him. Micaiah took a separated stand for the Lord and vowed to speak only what the Lord said. The price Micaiah had to pay for taking a separated stand for the Lord was to be imprisoned and fed with bread of affliction and water of affliction v 27.
False prophets of our day are no different than Ahab’s four hundred false prophets. They claim to speak in the name of the Lord and they say what sounds exciting to the unsuspecting hearer. One thing that stands out in the above is that the prophets who were popular and many in numbers were false and were exposed as such and the one prophet who was suffering for his stand for the Lord was the true prophet.
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