Profile of the False Prophet

False Prophets Are Proud Arrogant

False Prophets Are Proud Arrogant describes the character of pride in the false prophet.

Just as Satan is proud and arrogant, the false prophet follows in Satan’s footsteps. Nobody is greater or more glorious than God. Yet Satan presumed to present himself as equal or superior to God. This arrogance of heart against God is easily seen in how the false prophet understands himself in comparison to other people.

He has a different Character

A key element in not spiritually falling into the spiritual traps of Satan is to focus on Jesus Christ. When you follow Jesus, you will demand that the church and leaders that you participate with are living examples of Jesus Christ in their moral character. When you cannot see that, it is better to pray, meditate on things, and probably find a better place. Sometimes we are mistaken about how we understand what is going on, but over some short period of time, there are more “reinforcements” of something being wrong that shouldn’t be ignored.

Note that every true Christian has to go through the saving process, which begins with a person’s own personal admission of their sins and guilt before God. If that is truly heart felt and sincere, then they can never be proud in the humanly common sense. Their only correct pride is in their Savior, and not in themselves. They see themselves as worthless except for their relation with their Savior, their worship of God, and service to God.

See Ch24 The power of an Example | Mirror

Proud, Pride

Mean ministers are usually arrogant, proud, and want to exalt themselves over others (Mark 12:38-40), always boasting. Their extreme tendency in controlling and manipulating others is a classic sign of them.

When a person becomes haughty, that person rarely listens to wise counsel. In their mind, their own opinion is extremely wise, even if following that counsel has bad consequences that could be avoided. God is wiser than any human. But the heart of the false prophet follows exactly the position of Satan when in Isaiah 14 Satan presumes to be equal to God or greater than God.

False prophets are usually contentious, they like to argue and cause divisions (the real root meaning of the word “heresy”). In the end analysis, they usually think more of themselves than one should. Their opinion is the important one that counts.

Rom 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.*

They overly estimate their own worth, understandings, opinions, and doctrine carrying things to make a second “law” of God that nobody can violate without reaping God’s wrath. These concepts they project onto their followers to cement their control over them.

Boasting

Psa 49:6-7 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Psa 94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

It is extremely dangerous to boast of one’s own self when a person is totally at the disposition of God. To not kneel before God causes a tremendous risk to that person. The false prophet is blind to this reality, and thinks he is the sole creator and authority in his world.

The false prophet is known for his appetite for greatness, large groups, lots of money involved, lots of people, and fame and human glory for him and his ministry.

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Trapping people in Philosophy and Vain Deceit

Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Philosophy is a love of wisdom. But there are two kinds of wisdom, the wisdom of God and earthly human wisdom. The philosopher is a person who likes to think and reason, and without acknowledging God’s superior wisdom, he puffs up his own thinking to be “above God’s wisdom” in contradiction to it. That only spoils the person by making him think he is something that he is not. This is pure deceitful vanity. He is Proud, has Pride

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