How to spot a FALSE prophet !!!

I want to be bold here and tell you a little truth. Any person who stands up to you and says “I am a prophet” is actually not a prophet. It does not take much to find such people, even a simple search on the internet will give you a long list of people who call themselves prophets. I know that some say that a prophet is tested by the fulfillment of the prophecies that are provided. But not all prophecy is given to be fulfilled, sometimes it is given as a warning to stop a disaster, therefore the aim would be to avoid the fulfillment of the prophecy. So I would like to think that we can identify prophets as a man or woman who gives prophecies, but refuses to be given a title of 'prophet'.

I have spent time researching ancient documents and studying the lives of prophets, and in all of those documents I did not find one of the most famous prophets mention that they were a prophet. I was amazed that I had never noticed it before, actually in cases where it is suggested to them that they are a prophet, they actually deny it! But this denial has led skeptics to claim that they were indeed not prophets, I say on the other hand, that it proves that they were a prophet. The secrets are within the personality of prophets, which can reveal to us about their denials.

“I was no prophet” Amos

“I am no more than a man” Mohammad

“I do not wish to attribute to myself such a loftly title” Nostradamus

The clue about why a prophet denies his ability is all there in the ancient scripts, and it can simply be put as humility. All prophets maintain a deep spiritual relationship with God, and to maintain and keep that relationship there must be humility. This is because the prophet understands that the prophecies being uttered, are merely being passed on, in a way a prophet can be seen as God's mailman. Quite often the life of a prophet has been a humble life, but if it has been the opposite of humble, God brings him into humility. This journey into humility is oft littered with disasters or grief, in a sense breaking a person down so that God can build him back up.

But if a broken person is humble, then why would God feel the need to re-build him? It is because a prophet must have confidence. Imagine a prophet going around and saying “it is the end of the world tomorrow” and facing people who challenge the prophecy to his face or question it, a broken man would crumble in such a situation, yet a man re-built into confidence will not waiver.

I will openly admit that it is a strange combination of personality traits to be brought together, but a prophet must be confident and humble simultaneously. Dispite the fact that prophets refuse to admit openly that they are prophets, within their own private relationship that exists in-between them and God, the prophet will know that he is a prophet.

I believe that this is the last challenge that prophets learn to overcome, how to remain humble whilst walking the path of a prophet. He knows that he is a prophet, or why else would he provide prophecies? He has confidence in what God tells him because of the strength that exists in their relationship, a relationship maintained by humility. Yet this humble relationship will give him strength to stand against the odds if it is needed.