Judging Prophets & Prophecy 76th Prophetic Memoir 2nd-Series#29

Judging Prophets & Prophecy
When the Y2K scare was on the horizon, many were proclaiming to speak prophetically about the disasters that were lurking dangerously in our nation's path. If what the masses were prophesying was true and we took their warnings seriously, what could we have lost? If we did not hoard up water, food, cash to purchase a generator for electricity and guns to protect our rations, what danger we could have found ourselves facing?

Almost any day of the week, you could find ads in the newspaper offering Y2K provisions-even land for sale to retreat to as a hiding place when the sci-fi bug was loosed upon the populous. The bottom line was that this millennium event would bring a clear differentiation between who was and who was NOT a true prophet of God.
 
In September of 1998, I went out on the limb proclaiming what the Lord had to say about the Y2K problem. The Lord spoke to me saying, "The day of Y2K will just be another day. Do not worry." This prophetic message was sent to all of our prophetic partners as well as a few hundred others. At the time I released this prophetic word, many were despondent; however, each day we saw the word unfolding in its true form.
 
If the church is ever going to gain respect in the eyes of the world, the body of Christ will have to stop chasing after and endorsing false proclamations from the "brand-name preachers." Already, we see the well-known propagators of doom-n-gloom backing off of their original predictions.
 
If the body of Christ had a global housing place for all of the prophesies that have been released to the general public, we would already know who are the true prophetic vessels of God. One man took on the task of researching and publishing a book recording all of the predictions of one "brand-name preacher." If I mentioned his name, which I will not, you would more than likely know who he is. I was amazed at this well-known preacher's ability to be 100% INACCURATE in all of his prophesies, yet he is still looked up to by the majority of doomsday seekers. Why? Because he seems to only preach bad news, and bad news sells better than good news. I am astounded at the number of Christians who continually purchase his books and CDs, not knowing that this want-to-be prophet has been married and divorced three times in the last fifteen years of his ministry. Politically, he is received as the chief Pharisee and is socially accepted as the authority on current Bible prophecy. This well-known preacher has received much honor from his own people; he obviously is not a true prophet. My point is not to speak evil against anyone; however, if we are going get the truth, we need to begin unveiling the false. The Scriptures do not lie, nor does God, so what is the problem?

"Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will NOT endure sound doctrine but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4 NKJV).
  
A Stricter Judgment
"My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment" (James 3:1 NKJV)