Posted: 2/22/2007 6:23:55 PM EDT
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False Prophets: Hollywood, Politicians and Global Warming movements are being fawned upon at unprecidented levels. Are these some signs to be considered? Thank you. |
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No, No, and No. What you're seeeing as "fawning" is marketing more than anything. Hollywood knows the only thing that keeps hollywood in the spotlight is marketing. Politicians have always been in the spotlight, but now you have entire PR firms doing nothing but trying to market "their guy". Global Warming movement.....again, marketing over science. Just like in the 70s and early 80s when the marketing groups tried to scare everyone into believing we were all heading for another ice age. |
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IMHO false Prophets exist in every generation. Generally this has little, if anything, to do with predicting future events. In the Prophetic books of the OT the "false prophets" were, most often, railed against for three things: 1. Idolatry (meaning: not only worshiping other gods but also saying that you are worshiping Jehovah but in your heart worshiping something else entirely); 2. Empty formalism, going through the motions of religion without inculcating its values; and 3. Preaching happiness, prosperity and wealth to the rulers while abandoning the poor and downtrodden. Its a truism that men will seek to bend God's will to what they want. We all are guilty of this from time to time. The danger of the "false Prophet" is that not only is he or she astray, but they take others with them. My understanding is that, in this world, good and bad things happen to good and bad people. As people of God, its our duty to show the world what we can do with both prosperity and ruin. |
So when a Presidential candidate "predicts" that he/she will be elected President on the second Tuesday in November and it doesn't happen, then he/she is a false prophet? I think your definition is too narrow. |
Ok, I see the point....when they claim they are under direct inspiration by a divine being/angel/higher power. |
