True Discernment

What really bothers me about these false prof$ts is they act as if God’s Word / God’s will has no place in determining what will happen in any major world event that may be linked to Biblical Prophecy.

It is sad the number of people who subscribe to the Elijah list and rush around giving copies to people so they all can be up to date on the “latest” prophecy!

from Herescope:

NAR Prophetess’s Inflammatory Comments on the Egypt Crisis

“Also, in looking back at the prophetic word for 2011 issued by the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders…, I read the warning we issued which said that satan would try and start another third world war.” — Cindy Jacobs[1]

“Satan is going to try and start wars such as he did when the first student volunteer movement started around the turn of the 20th century…. We must pray against the starting of a third world war, as satan wants to escalate world events for His purposes.” — Cindy Jacobs[2]

In February 1, The Elijah List, chief media outlet for the New Apostolic Reformation, issued an e-mail with the heading “Cindy Jacobs: Pray Against WWIII” which featured an “Urgent Prayer Alert from Cindy Jacobs: An Open Letter to the Arabic-Speaking Christians as well as the Church Worldwide.” Steve Shultz, publisher of The Elijah List introduced this alert by touting Jacobs as “one of those who is a hard core prophet and she is accurate in regards to the nations and world leaders!”

In this alert, which concerns the volatile situation in Egypt, Jacobs refers back to a “prophetic word for 2011” issued by the NAR’s core elite known as the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders in which they predicted that “satan would try and start another [sic] third world war.” Jacobs’ alert states:

I believe we are at that tipping point, at this moment, where the situation in Egypt could destabilize the region to such a degree that just such a scenario would take place. [emphasis in original]

Jacobs calls for an “Esther Fast” and then suggests that the Egypt crisis would be a fine time for Christians to “put aside their doctrinal and denominational differences and come together in unity to pray.” [emphasis in original] Observe how this crisis is being seized upon as a way to promote more ecumenical unity.

Jacobs who sees herself as not only the lead U.S. national apostle[3] but also a prophetess to the Nations,[4] is increasingly issuing political “prophetic” statements about American and world events, which we documented in our September 8, 2010 Herescope post.[5] At that time we observed that she was inserting herself into the political realm by making inflammatory statements like: “If the Church doesn’t fast and pray for a faster acceleration of revival and awakening, the iniquitous sin structures in the nation will tip the scale that is teetering and there will be another great depression.”[6] Also, seizing on the Gulf Oil crisis last summer, Jacobs in her prophetess role called for national prayer. This sort of ambulance chasing after every crisis is a particular strategy that she and fellow NAR false prophets and apostles are employing to gain a foothold into the Christian Right. They are tirelessly working to gain name recognition and dominance, and prayer is a useful tactic to make them seem respectable.[7]

It is against this backdrop of the characteristic hype and incendiary rhetoric of the NAR, that we offer a more scholarly observation on the biblical context of the current Egyptian crisis by Pastor Larry DeBruyn . . . .