"Prophets" SIMPLIFIED

And many false prophets shall rise,

 and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:11

"In the common use of the word, a “prophet”

---is one that foretells;

---but the word sometimes means simply a “teacher”.

 

True and false prophets may be known.

 

The prophets of God are

---teachers of purity,

---reprovers of sin,

---and faithful in warning the people of coming dangers.

The duties of those whom God calls to speak in his great name are clearly expressed by the sacred writers.

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:1
I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

2 Timothy 4:1-2

False prophets

---do not reprove the people for their sins, and

---do not warn them of coming danger;

---but they proclaim peace to the sinner.

Their teachings lead from God and His word, and are such as please the unconverted mind.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn, away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them. Jeremiah 14:13-14
And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies; .... Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar. Ezekiel 13:910

 

---the sinners in Zion,

---and those out of Zion,

are kept back by the false teachers these times. 

Many of them even dare to teach that the moral code of the ten commandments is abrogated.

And as the result of such a course and such teaching, we see in the professed church of Jesus Christ that iniquity abounds."     

A.T.Jones