Bible Prophecy
FALSE PROPHETS
WILL RISE AND DECEIVE MANY
“For I am God,
and there is no other.
I am God,
and there is none like Me,
Declaring the End from the Beginning,
and from ancient times
things that are NOT yet done”
(Isaiah 46:9-10)
The Bible Warns False Prophets Would Rise
The Bible warns false Prophets would rise to deceive and lead many sometime after the birth, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Bible even specifies false prophets would one day rise with doctrines based on revelations brought by “angels” which would teach “other ways” to Heaven than the Gospel taught in the Bible …
“I marvel that you are turning away so soon
from Him who called you in the grace of Christ,
to a different gospel (way to Heaven),
which is not another;
but there are some who trouble you
and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
But even if we,
OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN,
preach any other gospel to you
than what we have preached to you,
let him be accursed.
As we have said before, so now I say again,
if anyone preaches any other gospel (way to Heaven) to you
than what you have received,
let him be accursed.”
(Galatians 1:6-9)
“Then many false Prophets will rise up and deceive many.
And because Lawlessness (sin) will abound,
the love of many (for Jesus Christ) will grow cold.”
(Matthew 24:11-12)
“Then if anyone says to you,
‘Look, here is the Christ (Messiah)!’ or ‘There!’
do not believe it.
For false christs and false Prophets will arise
and show great signs and wonders (miracles)
(we are warned the Antichrist will one day perform ‘miracles’)
so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
See, I have told you beforehand.”
(Meaning – “Listen up, this is a prophecy!”)
“Therefore if they say to you,
‘Look, He is in the desert!’
do not go out; or
‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ (a prophecy of the Antichrist)
do not believe it.
For as the lightning comes from the east
and flashes to the west,
so also will the coming of
the Son of Man be.”
(Matthew 24:23-27)
“Or an Angel from Heaven” …
When studying history, it is interesting to discover that both the prophet Mohammed and the prophet Joseph Smith (and Roman Jesuit Ignatius Loyola) founded their religions, Islam (Muslims) and the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Roman Jesuits (see further below) on revelations which both Mohammed and Joseph Smith said were given by angels! Mohammed received his revelation from an angel (whom he called Gabriel) about 600 years after this Bible prophecy was written, and Joseph Smith received his revelation from an angel (he called Maroni) about 1,800 years after this prophecy was written.
It is also interesting that both religions then began to teach a different Gospel (way to Heaven) than the Bible teaches. So, in many ways Mohammed and Joseph Smith are very similar. They both said angels gave them “new” revelations because the Jews and Christians had changed the Bible. However, discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, writings of the ancient church fathers, and many other ancient Bible texts prove the original Hebrew and Greek words (from which the Bible has been translated into many different languages and dialects) have not been changed (other than a few copyist errors which are well documented, mainly regional, and do not effect any basic doctrines).
The critical issue which now separates believing Christians from Muslims and Mormons is the “Gospel” (Gospel is the Greek word for “very good news”). The Gospel promises that all who believe with a sincere “faith” that Jesus Christ willingly and lovingly suffered and died upon the Cross for all of our sins, and that He was raised from the dead on the third day, will have complete assurance all of their sins have been paid for and they will go to Heaven.
In contrast, both Muslims and Mormons are taught a different gospel which provides their followers with no assurance they will enter into Heaven after they die, for it says all people must “earn” their way into Heaven through some final balancing of the scales between their good deeds and bad deeds.
To help decide whether or not Joseph Smith or Mohammed should be categorized as false prophets from our Bible Prophecy perspective, one can also compare the prophecies found in the Old Testament (Tanakh) which were written 400-1000 years before the birth of Christ. We can find there are over 200 specific prophecies describing Messiah which Jesus fulfilled (see the Prophecies of Jesus Christ), while no specific descriptive or detailed prophecies are found preparing the world for either Joseph Smith or Mohammed.
Now, add the Roman Catholic Church …
Roman Jesuit Ignatius Loyola named HIS angel “Mary”!!
Here, we add the Roman Church because the Jesuits have a ‘holy’ book they claim was written by an angel! Ignatius Loyola says he was visited by “Mary” (whom we’ll call an “angel”) who dictated the book to him during trance like sessions.
Their “Spiritual Exercises” book is the Roman Jesuit “Bible.” The Roman Jesuits even compare to the Islamic Koran (see below).
Excerpts from “The Jesuit Enigma,” a book by the Jesuit, Dr. E Boyd Barrett (1927):
“July 31, 1548, (Ignatius Loyola) clutched in his hand a parchment, sealed with the papal seal. It was a document fated to change the destinies of kings and princes, and to prove the foundation stone on which was built an organization (the Jesuits) more potent for good and evil than any other organization of men that the Western world has ever seen. It was the Brief, Pastoralis Officii Cura, by which Paul III gave the (Roman) Church’s approval to the “Spiritual Exercises” of Ignatius Loyola. (Pg 62)
“Thus … there was launched upon the world one of the most remarkable books ever written, a book that has made and unmade more saints and sinners than any other book save perhaps the Bible; a book that for centuries was shrouded in mystery and spoken of with superstitious awe by multitudes of the faithful; a book that Jesuits claim to have been written from the dictation of (an angel) the Blessed Virgin … (Pg 62)
“The Spiritual Exercises is of course the Koran of the Jesuits and one dare not breathe a word of criticism of it in the (Jesuit) Order. (Pg 71)
“Ignatius clearly wrote them (the Spiritual Exercises), but they were DICTATED to him by the Virgin (Mary) . . . It was not for nothing that during the whole period of their composition she (the angel whom Loyola called the Virgin Mary) frequently appeared to him” (Pg 74)
The Future False Prophet
However, the Bible does say a LOT about a yet future false Prophet who will one day rise, and has not yet been revealed to Mankind. Sometimes called the “Antichrist,” this coming False Prophet will form a One-World Religion which will include the Roman Catholic Church, Islamics, Mormons, Buddhists, Hindus, and Protestants. We will learn much about this coming False Prophet (who will rise as a very popular World Leader) and his coming One-World Religion and One-World Economy in our study concerning the Antichrist.