In the Bible we read about false prophets that unlike true prophets, do not hear from God, but rather from their own mind.
They pretend to be hearing from God. Many people, even kings, approach them to hear what God put in their mouth. But all in vain. All they have to say is the opposite of God’s word.
Why are they opposing God? Because false prophets tell people what they want to hear!
And how do false prophets know what the people who come to them want to hear?
Let’s check the Bible.
King Ahab needs a good advice
in 1 Kings chapter 22 we read a story of Ahab, king of Israel, that wanted to start a war against Aram.
Before he went to the war, he had asked his prophets: “Shall I go to battle or shall I refrain”?
And the 400 prophets answered in one voice: “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.” (1 Kings 22:6)
But his friend, Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, urged him to also ask a prophet of the Lord. Unwillingly, Ahab asked for Micaiah son of Imlah, a prophet of the Lord of Israel.
Micaiah did not want to tell Ahab the true vision he had. And told him a lie, just like the rest of the false prophets. But after Ahab commanded him to tell the truth, he said to him:
“I saw all Israel Scattered on the mountains, Like sheep which have no shepherd.
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master. Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”
1 Kings 22:17
And then Micaiah explained.
This is very important, because it tells us what is the source of false prophecies:
I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left. 20 The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 The Lord said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and also prevail. Go and do so.’ 23 Now therefore, behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you.”
1 Kings 22:19-23
Deceiving Spirit. This is what it is.
False prophets make it their profession to prophesize, even though they do not hear from God. They tell the people what the people want to hear. Jeremiah said about them:
“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Jeremiah 6:13-14
Everyone is greedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.
14 “They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
False prophets today
So who are the false prophet of our days?
Who are the people that are against God and tell the people what they want to hear? Moreover, they have some kind of supernatural authority that comes from their wisdom and knowledge. Don’t we all know them?
The undisputed leader of today’s false prophet is a Jew, of course. He was born in Israel. He wrote books that became best-sellers.
Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, Bill Gates recommended his books.
His name is Yuval Noah Harari.
And here is a prophecy quoted from his book “Homo Deus”, (Harvill Secker, 2015)
Having reduced mortality from starvation, disease and violence, we will now aim to overcome old age and even death itself. Having saved people from abject misery, we will now aim to make them positively happy. And having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods, and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.
Tell people what they want to hear. An extreme enemy of God. Tell them that they are God now!
Anyone said this before???
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God
Genesis 3:5
Ran Silberman 