Hello Topher. I joined this forum in 2003 and have posted my experiences on numerous occasions. I don't have the opportunity to restate all that at the moment so we'll just have to leave it as a 'non-answer' then. Sorry about that.
I have decades of experience with the prophetic. I have been taught by people with combined experience of centuries in the prophetic, including the man who is considered by most to be the father of the modern prophetic. I train and equip people in it, including Prophets. I've written books & manuals on it.
There. That is my personal experience summed up. I don't see how something like that is so hard to share.
Given your insistence on calling a large number of people "false" it is a valid thing to ask. In other words, what is your fruit that people should listen to you?
There is much in scripture about false prophets being dangerous. In the scripture in question
Matthew 7:15 they are described as wolves in sheep's clothing that we are to beware of. Dangerous and cunning predators. The unmasking of a dangerous predator is clearly a cause for rejoicing. That's where I'm coming from, I hope you understand me better now. I don't see from this passage that the Lord is merely describing them as being mistaken, they're dangerous.
1 Cor 13:6 - [love] does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth
You are rejoicing in iniquity. Is it good when false things are exposed? Yes. Do we rejoice in that? No. Why, because God loves those people too and wants them to come to repentance. One might argue that you are "rejoicing" in the truth. But the principles of love are not adversarial, but they should be harmonious... they should all be working together at the same time, not one here and another there.
Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes. But with all due respect it sounds like you're clutching at straws.
No straws at all here. I have seen this first hand.
Take the guy in this video for example. If you watch the first video, he seems to thrive on the criticism of those who don't believe in him (like us). He gives them lip service, but he comes across as being obsessed with those folks and clearly considers them to be less enlightened than him (a dangerous view no doubt). He is indirectly/passive aggressively very condescending to them.
Now, the approach you are taking feeds directly into this. You are giving him what he - and his supporters - wants. In turn he keeps making videos which feeds your outrage and the cycle continues with everyone feeling justified in their views and nothing changing. THE WHOLE CYCLE NEEDS TO STOP.
False prophets are not Christians. The Apostle Paul describes them as evil men and impostors, The Lord Jesus said he never knew them.
I'm talking about self appointed leaders with a consistent record of giving false prophecies, teaching false doctrines, introducing destructive heresies, running scams, protecting other wolves rather than the sheep even being sexually dangerous to women.
I am well aware of such things happening and it is horrible. But I am very, very careful to call one a false prophet, a false prophet
intentionally deceives, divides and manipulates. It goes beyond just being in error. There are a few I know to be false prophets for certain. And I can say that not just because of what they put out publicly, but because I have inside information that they knowingly and intentionally mislead in their prophecies and public statements people to sell books and gain supporters, that they have been confronted on this behavior and not repented and one even has been kicked out of the church he started because of it (then lied to his followers about that).
But, even with the guy in this video... I basically disagree with everything he said, some of it is very alarming, but I'm not going to call him a false prophet. I don't know his heart and intentions. He could be (is) in pride, mistaken, or have poor teachers, yet still sincerely love the Lord.
Further, the best way to combat what is false is not to run around yelling "false" from the rooftops and rejoicing at the destruction of another. The best way to combat what is false is to continually demonstrate what is true.
