We are without excuse today in not knowing. We now live in the internet age and we can Google about anyone's unbiblical beliefs, failed prophecies, etc. on any popular Christian teacher today. I have given you a link even to look up the failed prophecies about Mark Taylor. You can know about him in a matter of seconds by looking at the information I provided on him, and or you can simply Google about his failed prophecies. It takes seconds or minutes to know. You can Google about Colton Burpo and why his vision is not biblical. Again, it takes seconds or minutes to know about this. So I don't understand why you would say, "
I don't know about them." ?
I am glad you gave me a name that I can look up (i.e. Bill Hamon). Within a matter of seconds, I found out what he believes that is unbiblical, and I was able to see what failed prophecies he made before.
First, Hamon's teaches the “
manifest sons of God doctrine,” which teaches that a breed of super-Christians will arise and subdue the earth. This is clearly an unbiblical teaching. Manifest sons of God doctrine comes from the Latter Rain movement. Just Google why the "Latter Rain Movement" is not biblical. One problem as to why it is not biblical is because it promises revival of the church (in some kind of super breed Christian take over of nations), when in reality the Bible actually predicts that there is going to be apostasy in the church (2 Timothy 3:1-9), and it predicts that God's people in the End Times will be persecuted and killed by the anti-christ (Revelation 20:4).
Second, Bill made several failed prophecies, as well.
#1. Bill Hamon's 1997 prophecy:
Crossing into Canaan. Excerpts from an article by Dr. Bill Hamon God is decreeing in 1997 the present Joshua Generation will have their Jordan miracle, as the older Moses generation had their Red Sea miracle... God rolling back the waters of the Jordan River caused the "ites" of Canaan to have respect and fear of God's Israeli people. When they "heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until Israel had crossed over, that their spirit melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel." Josh. 5: 1 God is going to start working such supernatural miracles for his people, that the demons and the worldly people will melt with fear. A wholesome respect for God and His Church is going to start in 1997.
However, did this 1997 prophecy come to pass? No.
Has anyone seen demons and the world melting with fear at what is going on in the "Church?" No, and neither do we see the world having more respect for the Church either, in fact we see just the opposite, with tighter legislation and curtailment of rights we have enjoyed for eons being stripped away, month after month.
#2. 1999 Y2K Prophecy:
The Word of the Lord for 1999
Excerpt from the message delivered by Dr. Bill Hamon on December 31, 1998 The Church Aligned in 1999 To Arise and Shine, In God's Appointed Time.
Cindy Jacobs (of Generals of Intercession in Colorado Springs, CO) and I were talking earlier tonight. What we sense is that we're coming into the Joseph times. When Joseph saw and perceived by the Spirit what was coming to Egypt, he made proper preparation for it. There were seven years of plenty and then there were seven years of famine. We feel like the seven years of plenty will be condensed into 1999 and then the year 2000 will be like the seven years of famine. We sense that as far as Y2K is concerned, there will be some blackouts/brownouts in some areas. There will be shakeups in some areas, especially big cities. But we believe that God is going to show the prophets where, how, and what is going to happen. We feel that it is wise to make some preparation. . . .
Did this prophecy come to pass? No.
Nothing happened that was major or disastrous as a result of Y2K.
There are other failed prophecies by Bill, but these two should suffice to prove that he is not a true prophet of God.
Deuteronomy 18 talks about how if a prophet's words were not to come to pass, they were to be stoned according to the Old Covenant.
20 "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him." (Deuteronomy 18:20-22).
So if Bill was living in the Old Testament times (under the Old Covenant), he would have been stoned to death for his prophecies in failing to come to pass. Granted, we are not under the Old Covenant anymore, but a New Covenant, but the point here is that God did not take lightly to those who fail to make accurate predictions in His name. It means, they are not really speaking for God.
Source used for two paragraphs within this post:
Bill Hamon - Failed prophecies.