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False Prophets and Teachers Overview (updated 1/28/2022)

This post and the other posts here are taken from my book in Spanish “False Prophets and Teachers”

Here I am just going to list each of the points, and gradually, I will make a separate post for each of these points. Note that a lot of the points here are themes that I take up regularly in my writings against false prophets. Some of those things will also appear under each point.

1Pet 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:



Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Everything Satan touches leaves “his mark” on it. This is very distinctive. It is not the will of God, although Satan tries to make it look like what God does, and look like the will of God.

Definition: False Prophet – Somebody who perverts, twists, or manipulates the message of God for his own personal purposes. In this, he does not give the message of God such as God gives and commands us to give it, but he puts his own “touch” on it slightly or greatly changing it. (David Cox)

2Pet 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.

God has to be behind every true presentation of truth and the gospel, and Satan perverts or changes it for his own purposes. What those purposes may be is not so important as that it is not God’s will.

1Pet 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you: 1Pet 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1Pet 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

One of the great overpowering elements of a true minister of God is that they feel a great compulsion to be exact and in agreement completely with what God’s Word says. Over and over again we find this great respect for authority is the core difference between a true man of God and a false prophet.

1Pet 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:



Col 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

For a true man of God, the Word of God validates or convicts his ministry and message. He falls or stands by how well he stands with and presents the Word of God, Scripture. It is as if every encounter that the man of God has with another person, he will give account to God for that encounter. He must present in action, attitude, and speech correctly what God wants him to show that person. As a minister of the Gospel, he understands that he personally is an example of Jesus Christ (1Pet 5:3 “being ensamples to the flock“;  Heb 13:7 “which have the rule over you… whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation“). No true minister of God will take any of this lightly. False prophets often give a pretense of being serious, but so often they are not really serious in obeying or uplighting this great office of spokesman for God.

Note: If something shows up as a link here, the connection may not be obvious in the title, but a section of that post will deal with the issue. Continue reading False Prophets and Teachers Overview (updated 1/28/2022) →

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FP: The Fruit of a False Prophet Obedience part 3

The Fruit of a False Prophet Obedience part 3

The Fruit of a False Prophet: Obedience part 3
Obeying God willingly
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. Part 3 of this series is simply an introduction, and begins by contrasting a man of God’s fruit (piety and holiness) with the false prophet’s fruit (sin, not doing God’s will).



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FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Willfulness part 4

The Fruit of a False Prophet Willfulness part 4

The Fruit of a False Prophet willfulness part 4
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. Part 4 of this series is simply an introduction and begins by contrasting a man of God’s fruit (piety and holiness) with the false prophet’s fruit (sin, not doing God’s will).

For an overview of this, see
False Prophets and Teachers Overview



Continue reading FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Willfulness part 4 →

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FP: Catching the False Prophet with his hand in the Cookie Jar

The Marks of a False prophet

In this post, I want to analyze some things about how the false prophet works, and how you can use this knowledge to identify a false prophet. The idea here is that there are ways to identify a false prophet, and rather than listing correct and incorrect doctrines (because he will read this list and say he is teaching the correct, and invent new false doctrines), we examine how a false prophet thinks and works his work.



For an overview of this, see
False Prophets and Teachers Overview
Continue reading FP: Catching the False Prophet with his hand in the Cookie Jar →

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Covetousness is Idolatry

Covetousness is Idolatry
By David Cox



Introduction

Covetousness is simply desiring. When desiring something highly, then a desire changes into covetousness. Usually, when we need something physically, like air or water or food, it is not considered covetousness. Covetousness involves a desire for non-essential things.

Definition of Covetousness as Idolatry

Note that the worship of something is when it is important to you to the degree that whatever pertains to that person or thing overwhelms all the other priorities in your life, you worship it. If that one thing that overwhelms and dictates how you live your life is not the one true God (Mat 4:10), then you are worshipping an idol. This can be a person (real or imaginary) as well as a thing, like money.

Mt 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.



The God of Mammon

“Mammon” or riches is very distinctly identified as a god (like “g”) that many people worship.

1Tim 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1Tim 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

The point here is that people have trust or confidence in the things or persons that provide them with provisions and advantages in this life. After a point, that thing or person becomes more and more dominant until, at some point, it becomes like their god. While friends and side jobs can provide things for you, they are not dominant. When you trust in them to the point of making way, moving everything else so that your relationship with them is 100%, then they are your god(s) or idol(s). And really, not even 100% loyalty is necessary.



Kill your desires

Col 3:5 Mortify (kill, or make so that they do not have effect on you) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

The high desire for things, the putting of high priorities on things or on how we procure things, by what means, indicates what our god really is. When prayer and working your life as God indicates is your priority, then the God of the Bible is your god.

Covetousness is when your desire for something eclipses your desire for God.  You want something more than you want Him.

It’s surprisingly easy to spot when the thing you desire is withheld: you get frustrated with God, angry and bitter. — Source



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FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8

FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. This install will look at how the false prophet disobeys the Word of God, and the true prophet seeks to always obey God’s Word.



Continue reading FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Disobedience Part 8 →

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FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6

The Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6

The Fruit of a False Prophet repentance part 6
By David Cox

Summary: This study will investigate what the fruit (life and ministry) of a false prophet. Part 6 of this series is simply an introduction and begins by contrasting a man of God’s fruit (piety and holiness) with the false prophet’s fruit (sin, not doing God’s will).

For an overview, see
False Prophets and Teachers Overview



Continue reading FP: Fruit of a False Prophet Repentance part 6 →