Hi there,
So just to continue to edify your work around prophecy, let me tell you a little of what the False Prophet will do, that will weaken your faith if you do not hand him over to the Devil: the False Prophet will tell you that your memories are fine, even without the prompting of the Holy Spirit. This is not ("not" - let the reader be wary) to suggest that the Holy Spirit has one specific way of saying what He has heard - the Holy Spirit has many ways to communicate the message that God has given Him, but He chooses only one, for each believer (in principle). The problem is, if your prompting from the Holy Spirit is not growing into a memory of the faith, in principle, your faith is dying.
So basically what this means is that the False Prophet does not care if your faith begins to die. There is humility in this, in as much as you are free to leave, but realistically it takes tremendous courage to hand the False Prophet over to the Devil and then leave. I can, in simple comfort, make that decision without ever approaching the False Prophet's Church, but even so, I am held to account before I am free, that I have not let the Devil encroach upon the False Church, as the False Church is provoked by the faith, to be a better Church! If I can say "the False Church has not been harmed, only the False Prophet must answer to the Devil" then I am free to go, for the False Prophet plainly knows he must grow to give the Devil an answer, at least by the end.
It is this carelessness, that the False Prophet will answer the Devil later, that is his downfall. He basically lives off the back of the True Church, that we will not, as a body, allow the Devil to come to us, when the Devil is against him (the False Prophet), not as a "god" but as a Man. And this is the snare of leaving enmity against the Devil unchecked: the mark of the Man of sin, begins to look more and more attractive. For if we are known for leaving the Devil at his wit's end and men see us as such, where is that not a sign a power, given that the Church will forbear to have heard of the restitution in that stead, before the case is dismissed. This is why Jesus said "settle with your adversary, along the way" (gospels, from memory) - the Church will forebear with the Devil, that the Church as a whole be exonerated, but for the False Prophet, who defies God to give him more time (as comes to us a test of faith, that it is not so, with us, because we do not simply work iniquity) whether he works iniquity or not, he doesn't know (if he resisted the Devil, he would know!).
In this many fall, that they have left their first love, thinking like the False Prophet that there is more time (in principle, even!) - not heeding the prompting of the Holy Spirit, to use the time, while the time is at hand, as the Holy Spirit does that not even a memory developed of faith come to fail. This is worthy of tears, that the False Church take ignorance of the way of the Holy Spirit, as to be expected, yet unanswered - as Jesus said "it will be as the days of Noah", "they not knowing the difference until it was too late" (gospels, from memory). No Church can indefinitely leave the lost, uncalled. If the False Prophet had not thought to test God in this way, he would never have fallen into envy of the Man of sin.
All this we know: that we do not put a price on it, the end is more and more known.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
So just to continue to edify your work around prophecy, let me tell you a little of what the False Prophet will do, that will weaken your faith if you do not hand him over to the Devil: the False Prophet will tell you that your memories are fine, even without the prompting of the Holy Spirit. This is not ("not" - let the reader be wary) to suggest that the Holy Spirit has one specific way of saying what He has heard - the Holy Spirit has many ways to communicate the message that God has given Him, but He chooses only one, for each believer (in principle). The problem is, if your prompting from the Holy Spirit is not growing into a memory of the faith, in principle, your faith is dying.
So basically what this means is that the False Prophet does not care if your faith begins to die. There is humility in this, in as much as you are free to leave, but realistically it takes tremendous courage to hand the False Prophet over to the Devil and then leave. I can, in simple comfort, make that decision without ever approaching the False Prophet's Church, but even so, I am held to account before I am free, that I have not let the Devil encroach upon the False Church, as the False Church is provoked by the faith, to be a better Church! If I can say "the False Church has not been harmed, only the False Prophet must answer to the Devil" then I am free to go, for the False Prophet plainly knows he must grow to give the Devil an answer, at least by the end.
It is this carelessness, that the False Prophet will answer the Devil later, that is his downfall. He basically lives off the back of the True Church, that we will not, as a body, allow the Devil to come to us, when the Devil is against him (the False Prophet), not as a "god" but as a Man. And this is the snare of leaving enmity against the Devil unchecked: the mark of the Man of sin, begins to look more and more attractive. For if we are known for leaving the Devil at his wit's end and men see us as such, where is that not a sign a power, given that the Church will forbear to have heard of the restitution in that stead, before the case is dismissed. This is why Jesus said "settle with your adversary, along the way" (gospels, from memory) - the Church will forebear with the Devil, that the Church as a whole be exonerated, but for the False Prophet, who defies God to give him more time (as comes to us a test of faith, that it is not so, with us, because we do not simply work iniquity) whether he works iniquity or not, he doesn't know (if he resisted the Devil, he would know!).
In this many fall, that they have left their first love, thinking like the False Prophet that there is more time (in principle, even!) - not heeding the prompting of the Holy Spirit, to use the time, while the time is at hand, as the Holy Spirit does that not even a memory developed of faith come to fail. This is worthy of tears, that the False Church take ignorance of the way of the Holy Spirit, as to be expected, yet unanswered - as Jesus said "it will be as the days of Noah", "they not knowing the difference until it was too late" (gospels, from memory). No Church can indefinitely leave the lost, uncalled. If the False Prophet had not thought to test God in this way, he would never have fallen into envy of the Man of sin.
All this we know: that we do not put a price on it, the end is more and more known.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
