On False Prophetic Words

This morning I got an email from the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders issuing a statement "Concerning False Prophetic Words Targeting President Donald Trump and America." In the statement they include that "Several of the names on this document are pioneers of the modern-day prophetic movement."

First, I am glad they giving notice to the fact that prophetic words that are incorrect carry "the potential to incite violence and cause division in the name of God." Like prayers that do not reflect God's heart can be answered by demonic spirits sent out to steal, kill and destroy based on the false prayer declarations, the same is true of prophetic declarations that come from a person's own mindset instead of God's.

Although unnamed, the prophet they are calling out is an Irish lady whose prophetic center is in Glasgow, Scotland. Whatever this lady thinks she knows about Trump and America, it is a foreign knowledge of Trump and America. Prophets ALWAYS filter what God is speaking to them through their own frail humanity of limited understanding. God says something and the prophet interprets what the prophet thinks it means. Sometimes they interpret correctly, sometimes not.

This is as true for the prophets who came together under the ACPE to call out the Irish prophet as it is for any other prophet prophesying today. Just having an organization of like-minded prophets gather together, does not guarantee against prophecies that miss what God is saying.

I have been of the mind that we put the cart before the horse about prophecy. We should be teaching people not which "School of the Prophets" to follow, but how to judge EVERY prophetic word we hear separately based on what God's Word says and knowing what God's heart really is.

I can tell that the Irish lady in Glasgow is associated with prophets in other nations. They have a network called Global Prophetic Alliance and my guess is there is more than one prophet connected there disgruntled by the domination of the prophectic by American prophets. Just my guess - not based on anything else.

There are "Schools of the Prophets" even in the USA. This group disagrees with that other group and they both disagree with yet another "school" of prophets. Even though it is mentioned in scripture - although translated variously also as "a company of prophets" and "sons of the prophets" - I have never cared for the idea of schools, or sons, or companies of the prophets. Mostly based on 2 Kings 2:15-18.

Paul said we all should "Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy....the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation."

That is something entirely different from the God-commissioned role of a prophet. Not every one who is prophesying to world issues has been called by God to do so. We have to go back to BIBLE 101 to learn the difference and find our rightful place before we see a real end to prophetic chaos.

I do not believe we are going to find that in the various "Schools of the Prophets" because their alignment is with each other. The prophet that can speak to world issues has to speak accurately what God has said, not how they filter His Words through their human mindset.

It was the "sons/company/school of the prophets" who didn't have a clue what God was doing, SHAMED God's real successor prophet Elisha to send out a search party for Elijah in the hills, when Elisha clearly saw that God had taken Elijah to heaven on a chariot of fire. (2 Kings 2).

We have to judge each word given - not each person claiming to be a prophet! Good Heavens! Who has time for that? I have never even heard of the Irish woman in Glasgow before this denunciation.

What? We don't have any American prophets that could have been called out because of delivering prophetic words that demons could attempt to give devastating action to? I think we do. I'm not calling for a war among the various schools of the prophets, I'm calling for them to recognize the real issues here - the lack of understanding the parameters of prophesying that is available for all to operate in, and a God-called prophet to address what God is speaking to a nation, or to other nations.

Most of what I see are prophets who are not staying in their own lane - trying to prophecy to a faraway country without God's heart for that country.

Above all to teach people how to judge prophetic words, not prophets. As John warned, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world."