BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS

CBS News reported this evening; “Rapture prediction fails, doomsday averted. If you're reading this, Family Radio Network owner Harold Camping's much-ballyhooed prediction that the world would end on May 21, 2011 did not come true.” Many major News outlet reported yesterday of Harold Camping’s second failed bizarre prediction of the End of the World. Amazing, literally no one has ever heard of Harold Camping in the Christian world let alone the secular world but still almost all the News agencies thought it “relevant news” to air Camping’s strange ramblings.
As you read through the Web, you’ll find hundreds of agnostics dancing with excitement to the tune of humiliating faith off the back of uneducated men like Camping. Why did the News agencies take $billions of dollars of air time to report another weird prediction of Harold Camping knowing the media doesn’t believe? Was it to warn or inform the world? Or was it to use an opportunity to lampoon the Christian faith? The Bible even charges us that there would come those who would use occasions like this to proclaim to each other, “Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4).
Rather than waste my time repudiating Harold Camping and his Heretical notions, allow me to set the record straight for the two billion Christians who believe in the Bible and some form of prophecy. Without belaboring your time with the Biblical Thesis about Eschatology, please accept my simplistic few words to state my case. First and foremost, NO man, not a Jew, Christian, Priest, Reverend, Clergy, Prophet, Apostle, Preacher or Pope can usurp the Authority of the Bible and contradict the Bible. “No prophecy of the Scriptures are of any private interpretation” (2 Pet 1:20).
Second, we are admonished not to receive anyone, not a prophet, worker of miracles or whoever that offers us a word or prophecy that is contrary from the Bible (Duet 13). Moses went on to say that God will use such deceivers to “prove us” whether we believe the [Bible] or superstitions. Jesus even thought “many false prophets will rise up and deceive many” (Matt 24:11). It is not to say that there are real and true prophets today, but NO true man of God will ever usurp his “prophecy” above the Bible and declare his word equal to the Bible or God.
Jesus said, “But of that day and hour no one knows , not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Matt 24:36-37). Very simple and straight forward. No one really means no one. Not even Harold Camping. Don’t allow angry men like Camping who has a grudge against the church or the News Media who are propagators of everything against Jesus to manipulate your faith or confidence in God or the Bible. Jesus warned us that this would come and these such events would take place – all in the name of trying to “shake your faith.”
By Dr Tim McClure