The Threat Within (II)
If you have followed along with us, I want to take this time to say thank you! This discussion is not an easy one and one that I do not take with quick words. I want to strain a point to you that must be taken seriously. Here at Mill House Ministries we are not in the business of attacking, and/or attempting to cut down any part of the Body of Christ over areas to which the Lord has been silent on. There are several aspects within scripture that God, in His sovereign authority, has allowed there to be differences inside the Church. A good example of this is the beat of the music that is played with worship music. No where in scripture does it tell us anything about the speed, tempo, nor the style of worship but rather the very words that are spoken should be directed to glorifying our God. There is wiggle room for us to be creative but there are still “left” and “right” borders that we need to follow.
Nevertheless, there is a strong stance that we, as Christians, must take when we discuss Bible doctrines and ultimately God’s master plan. There are areas to which we are to literally die before rejecting, one of those is Jesus Christ being the only salvation for mankind. There is no other way, no alternative, no “wiggle room” for debate, Jesus is it. I say all this to underline the importance that today’s topic is not a hit and run job on a person’s character, but a carefully thought out review of the person’s character and what they ultimately stand for as well as a review of that to God’s Word. As we continue in our study of The Threat Within, we need to fully understand what we are going up against. As we stated last week, we are not holding back punches but rather striking critically at the very heart of what is threatening the churches today. This is not new, but rather a danger warned about in 2 Peter, 2 Timothy, Jude, and other New Testament scripture. However, today I want to take a look at Jeremiah and how he had to deal with such an issue.
Go to Jeremiah chapter 27. Here we see the nation of Judah is being told that God is placing them under the rule of the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. We see that God is warning the people not to fight what God is doing, but rather bend to the will that God has ordained for the sinful nation of Judah. Jeremiah the Prophet of God, was explicitly told to pass this to the leadership (which he did), they were then told not to listen to others who might come with alternative sayings.
Jeremiah 27:5-11 “ 5 “I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight. 6 “Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him. 7 “All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant. 8 “It will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence,” declares the LORD, “until I have destroyed it by his hand. 9 “But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 “For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish. 11 “But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let remain on its land,” declares the LORD, “and they will till it and dwell in it.”’”
Through Jeremiah and the scripture, God is warning the people. God has told them what is going to happen if they do not listen and what will happen if they do. Yet, as we know people tend to be interested in only listening to those who say things they like to hear. Paul helps us understand this in 2 Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires.” We are living in a time when this is happening before our very eyes! Do we have people who are doing this today? You can sure bet on it!
We who are believers in Jesus, must be willing to give grace to those who are seeking to serve the Lord and yet might state something out of line. When one of the brethren messes up, we need to help them rather than hurt them. In essence, “Don’t shoot our own wounded.” However, those who are imposters of the faith, who declare to speak for God, we need to adamantly speak out against such false teachers and deny them the platform to spew their garbage. My passion for the Lord and serving Him is more important than the feelings of a few who might like the individuals we are to mention, but I would earnestly request you seek the Lord and His Word and pray for the false teachers so that they can come to know Christ as you and I have. But do not give them an inch to continue their doctrine of demons.
Our two individuals for this week are some who have a cult following in the millions. The first has been seen on television going back for decades. Pat Robinson has a net worth in the millions. Over the decades he has been “preaching” on television, he has made claims that God has spoken to him and said things like, Senator Mitt Romney was going to beat President Barrack Obama in 2012, he declared God had told him! He has denied the Biblical account of creation and even in January 2007, he “prophesied” that a terrorist attack like that of 2001 in New York City was going to happen. He is known for speaking for the Lord and having nothing come to past. His most recent gaff was in December when he prophesied that the Supreme Court of the United States would intervene in favor of Texas, which the Supreme Court did not even take the case. When those who are questioning if Christianity is real hear this, they summarize that these people are fools and move along. Mr. Robinson is actively hurting the cause for Christ by making statements that he is getting divine messages from God. His statements have danced around supporting forced abortion of millions of Chinese babies and he has grappled with doctrinal issues that is concerning at the least. You can talk about Jesus, you can say Bible, you can say Church, you can even tell people to support organizations that use these terms, but does it make you a Christian? Certainly not!
Our next person has been more of an immediate sensation in terms of those who claim to speak for God, and until recently we here at Mill House Ministries did not know who they were. Our next person is actively deceiving millions with their claims of speaking for the Lord. Kat Kerr is our second person today that we need to bring up. Both her and Pat Robinson have one thing in common, they both “speak” for the Lord and have gotten dozens of prophecies wrong. Kat Kerr has recently been telling people not to panic, that former President Trump will stay in office. She declared that God told her that President Biden would not be president, yet he has been serving as the President of the United States for almost two full months. Mrs. Kerr has claimed to frequently visit heaven and that God has revealed a “Golden Age” of Christianity. Others have reported she has referenced that this Golden Age was to start in 2010 to 2025. God will spread wealth to Christians and leadership roles will be given to them, that Angels will make television appearances, and that Christianity will be very popular. One only needs to read the warnings of Matthew 24 and the books of 2 Peter, 2 Timothy, and Jude to know this is 100% false. She is actually leading people to listen to demons, while wearing a pin stating “I DON’T DO DEMONS.” I have to ask myself why would you need a pin like that unless you are trying to hide from the fact you are in fact doing what you claim you are not.
Both of these individuals speak out on political matters for God and have been proven false time and time again. Yet, they still have followers. They make doctrinal statements that are questionable and prophetic statements that are directly against what the Bible says. Why do I bring this up? I state this for one purpose, these two are the easiest of the individuals we will be tackling over the next couple of weeks. We soon will be delving into others who have maligned scripture to say things that it does not. Mrs Kerr and Mr. Robinson both ironically are able to give us an easy platform to understand their destructive nonsense that they are declaring. It is easy to identify and see the total nonsense they state and next week we will start to see those who have hidden their agenda with greater deception.
However, how do we deal with such individuals who make such prophetic claims regarding being spokespersons for the Lord? We need to go back to Jeremiah and what happened next. Jeremiah 28:1-4, “1 Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, 2 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 ‘Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’S house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 4 ‘I am also going to bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
Here we see just as God said, false prophets had arrived and they declared to speak for the Lord and what they said was contrary to what God had ordained. Just like in our current day with false prophets who claim to speak for God, Jeremiah is at a point to which he has to decide what to do. For us today this can be painful, sometimes we will have to listen to what someone is saying to make sure that it is or is not Biblical. Many times I have had to listen to a person proclaim something and I politely took notes and examined what they said to the Word of God. Jeremiah does not dare come out and say “You lie” to Hananiah, but rather is observant to see what the Lord says to confirm such a statement, Jeremiah 28:5-11 “5 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD, 6 and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD confirm your words which you have prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD’S house and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place. 7 “Yet hear now this word which I am about to speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people! 8 “The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence. 9 “The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent.” 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it. 11 Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.“
I must confess if I was in Jeremiah’s shoes, I do not know if I would have been able to restrain myself. God had told Jeremiah a specific prophecy and told him to declare it to the government, and then this false prophet comes out and declares the exact opposite. Instead of getting mad, Jeremiah allows God to answer. This is vital for us to see, like Jeremiah, we need to listen and see if it is Biblical and than go our way. If identified as a false prophet, we do not need to give further time to such people for anything other than to see what others might be swept away by. We need to stay focused on what God has called to us. Now there might be some who are wondering why Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Kerr are being aligned with Hananiah? These two have directly declared prophecies that have neither come true, or are directly against what the Word of God has spoken. The days are to get darker, we are to stand against immorality and yet they advocate the opposite. We must not be fooled by those who proclaim to speak for the Lord and do not. These people are in touch with a spiritual force that is not from God but from the master of this world, Satan. The Bible clearly shows how in the end times these false prophets would be characterized. If those who are so foolish to listen and adhere to what these two are saying they, like those in Hananiah’s day, will act incorrectly with what the Lord has to say.
Yet, God is not done. He will in His own time deal with those who are stating such falsity. One must only read the rest of chapter 28 to see what happened to Hananiah. We are to live peaceful lives, we are to be representations of Jesus Christ to a lost world, declaring the Gospel message to all, we are to speak truth! No matter the subject, we need to stand on what Christ has ordained for us to stand upon, nothing else but His very Word. Today, inside the Church we have leadership behind the pulpits who are declaring to speak for God and are invalidating His very real and potent prophecy that has been declared thousands of years ago. We need not look for a political savior, but rather Jesus our savior. We need rather not look at a political system as our guardian, but rather Jesus as our guardian. Finally, we need rather not listen to modern day self proclaimed prophets, and rather read the very real Word from where all Prophecy is from, Jesus Christ.
Hold until relieved, our Blessed Hope is coming,
JL