False Prophets Are Proud Arrogant v2

Posted on June 26, 2025 by DavidCox

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False Prophets Are Proud Arrogant describes the character of pride in the false prophet, which is the opposite of the character of Jesus.

Just as Satan is proud and arrogant, the false prophet follows in Satan’s footsteps. Nobody is greater or more glorious than God. Yet Satan presumed to present himself as equal or superior to God. This arrogance of heart against God is easily seen in how the false prophet understands himself in comparison to other people.

Version 2 – I have added more material to this post. 5/14/2025

He has a Different Character from Christ

A key element in not spiritually falling into the spiritual traps of Satan is to focus on Jesus Christ. When you follow Jesus, you will demand that the church and leaders that you participate with are living examples of Jesus Christ in their moral character. When you cannot see that, it is better to pray, meditate on things, and probably find a better place. Sometimes we are mistaken about how we understand what is going on, but over some short period of time, there are more “reinforcements” of something being wrong that shouldn’t be ignored.

Note that every true Christian has to go through the saving process, which begins with a person’s own personal admission of their sins and guilt before God. If that is truly heart felt and sincere, then they can never be proud in the humanly common sense. Their only correct pride is in their Savior, and not in themselves. They see themselves as worthless except for their relation with their Savior, their worship of God, and service to God.

See [[Ch24 The power of an Example]]

What is very important to understand is that the False Prophet has an opposite character than what Christ has. This in essence makes him an “anti-” Christ, a person who wants the authority and power of Christ over people, but to drive them away from Christ and his moral character. Subtly the false prophet does exactly that. They convince the Christian and all who follow the false prophet, who are under his “ministry” into moral character that is proud, boastful, arrogant, etc.

2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Paul reveals the spiritual weapons of our spiritual warfare. Meekness and gentleness of Christ is how the servant of God “wars.” Pride, arrogance, haughtiness, boasting, etc. are marks of how Satan does spiritual warfare. This observation will go a long ways towards keeping the believer away from the harmful influences of the false prophet. But the truth here is that either you will reject pride and boasting in your church and pastor, your spiritual leaders you listen to, or you will become proud and arrogant like they are. Those are the options. You learn as much from the methodology of what people do as you learn from the content of what they teach.

The only thing you learn from a hypocrite is hypocrisy. In other words, a hypocrite is a person has says the right words (according to the Bible), but they do not actually live by those same words as a moral guide of their lives. People, saved or unsaved, that sit under a false prophet, a hypocrite, an actor who says he is one thing when he is not, a wolf that says he is a sheep, if you accept sitting under that kind of minister and ministry, you are a hypocrite and you will find on internal moral examination of yourself that hypocrisy is part of your moral makeup. This is extremely hard to remove, or not allow it to take over more and more of your life.

The point of prevention is to cut it off as soon as you notice it, and to reject it always and even if you have to go to extremes to do so. Both in you and in your church/pastor, where you learn spiritual principles (sermons, videos of sermons or teaching, etc.), you must not allow hypocrisy. The “winking at” verses that are difficult but very clear is where this hypocrisy is detected.

1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

How many times do we see women pastors and spiritual teachers that want men to be in under their teaching and ministry? They defend themselves as great spiritual teachers yet they have to twist and turn this simple verse that everybody understands to stand on its head so as to not prohibit the very thing that they are pushing, a woman’s teaching of Scripture for men.

Matthew 23:8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Matthew 23:10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. Matthew 23:11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

How many Catholics call their religious leader “father”? The word “Pope” comes from the word father. A true man of God does not want to dominate the faith of others, but he is a spiritual helper, an elder brother to the believer he ministers. The false prophet always wants control and esteem from those under his control. The entire concept of the priesthood of every believer is not useful to the false prophet, and that key New Testament doctrine flies in the face of absolute submission to a religious leader, which is exactly Christ’s point in Matthew 23:8-11.

When we allow, permit, participate, and engage in unbiblical principles, in people and their ministries that work against what God and directly what Jesus Christ command, we do ourselves spiritual harm. When you take the attitude that you can “wink at” these inconsistencies between Christ and your spiritual minister, you will not even realize the great spiritual damage he is causing you until it is too late. That is what so many people who finally are so abused and damaged by spiritual abuse in the extreme come to reject all authority, ministers, and churches. They go from bad to worse. It is because they do not ward off problems when they are easier to deal with.

He is Proud, has a lot Pride

Mean ministers are usually arrogant, proud, and want to exalt themselves over others (Mark 12:38-40), always boasting. Their extreme tendency in controlling and manipulating others is a classic sign of them.

When a person becomes haughty, that person rarely listens to wise counsel. In their mind, their own opinion is extremely wise, even if following that counsel has bad consequences that could be avoided. God is wiser than any human. But the heart of the false prophet follows exactly the position of Satan when in Isaiah 14 Satan presumes to be equal to God or greater than God.

False prophets are usually contentious, they like to argue and cause divisions (the real root meaning of the word “heresy”). In the end analysis, they usually think more of themselves than one should. Their opinion is the important one that counts.

Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

They overly estimate their own worth, understandings, opinions, and doctrine carrying things to make a second “law” of God that nobody can violate without reaping God’s wrath. These concepts they project onto their followers to cement their control over them.

See [prima dona]

He is Boastful

Psalms 49:6-7 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms 94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

It is extremely dangerous to boast of one’s own self when a person is totally at the disposition of God. To not kneel before God causes a tremendous risk to that person. The false prophet is blind to this reality, and thinks he is the sole creator and authority in his world.

The false prophet is known for his appetite for greatness, large groups, lots of money involved, lots of people, and fame and human glory for him and his ministry.

Psalms 49:6-7 KJV 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Psalms 94:4 KJV How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

It is extremely dangerous to boast of one’s own self when a person is totally at the disposition of God. To not kneel before God causes a tremendous risk to that person. The false prophet is blind to this reality, and thinks he is the sole creator and authority in his world.

Colossians 2:8 KJV Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

See [[ch31 The 3Bs of Success]]

Trapping people in Philosophy and Vain Deceit

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Note that every true Christian has to go through the saving process, which begins with a person’s own personal admission of their sins and guilt before God. If that is truly heart felt and sincere, then they can never be proud in the humanly common sense. Their only correct pride is in their Savior, and not in themselves. They see themselves as worthless except for their relation with their Savior, their worship of God, and service to God. Mean ministers are usually arrogant, proud, and want to exalt themselves over others (Mark 12:38-40), always boasting. Their extreme tendency in controlling and manipulating others is a classic sign of them.

When person becomes haughty, that person rarely listens to wise counsel. In their mind, their own opinion is extremely wise even if following that counsel has bad consequences that could be avoided. God is wiser than any human. But the heart of the false prophet follows exactly the position of Satan when in Isaiah 14 Satan presumes to be equal to God or greater than God.

False prophets are usually contentious, they like to argue and cause divisions (the real root meaning of the word “heresy”). In the end analysis, they usually think more of themselves than one should. They opinion is the important one that counts.

Romans 12:3 KJV For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

They overly estimate their own worth, understandings, opinions, and doctrine carrying things to make a second “law” of God that nobody can violate without reaping God’s wrath. These concepts they project onto their followers to cement their control over them.

A False Prophet feigns Brokenness, or Completely Abandons it

1 John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Jesus Christ coming in the flesh represents brokenness. This is the exact opposite of haughtiness, pride, arrogance. The two are poles apart. Jesus being fully God, humbled himself instead of coming as a king, he came as a man, a human. He came to be mistreated and ultimately killed on the cross, because this brokenness is the only way anybody is going to be saved and enter the presence of God.

But we (Christians) need to understand that Jesus is the door, and those who wish to enter heaven have to enter through that same door, the door of repentance and brokenness, of meekness and humility. It is a marvelous wonder to see Jesus in this fashion. Without it happening, we would have no clue about this aspect of God.

Christ Emptying Himself

Philippians 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

We should make an observation here about “receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior.” How exactly is this, or what does it mean to receive Jesus, how do you do this? At once this is receiving his death and resurrection as applying to your personal sins to remove the wrath of God over those sins. But receiving Jesus needs to be expanded more than that. When you are saved, you cannot be saved without confessing your own sins and repenting (includes abandoning them) of your sins, your way, your moral way of living your life.

This is like a precursor to being saved, to receiving Jesus Christ as Savior. But we cannot exist with our soul as a spiritual vacuum. The replacement to our sinful way is Jesus, our moral pattern. When we receive Jesus as our Savior, we need to understand that we are implicitly imposing the moral character of God into our moral character to replace our defective character. That is the very heart of salvation. That is the very essence of the fight for sanctification, to live in Christlikeness. The Holy Spirit’s task in our life is to make us holy as God is holy.

When you see an arrogant, boastful, proud minister, a person who presumes to tell you how to live your life, this is an anomaly that you should seriously meditate on. If he is not like Christ himself, meek and gentle, then how can he help me be more like Christ? Satan uses magic. By means of some “trick,” something that should need work is done “magically.” The false prophet presents his ministry as a way to heaven, as a way to pleasing God, but without going through the hard work and sacrifice, the spiritual change, necessary to achieve those goals.

He presents spiritual activity as a trick to spirituality and divine approval. The Pharisees of Christ’s day likewise emphasized such things in the law, both what God outlined in the Old Testament and their many times multiplied additions by the Jewish traditions. But Jesus did not accept any of that.

See [[Doct025 Jesus is our Moral Pattern]]

Christians need to see big, bright red warning lights when they see their spiritual leaders and teachers not following the moral pattern of Christ. Being God, Christ humbled himself. Being holy and having the wrath of God towards all sin, Jesus became sin to save me. That attitude is just not seen in the false prophet. This is mercy and compassion on the poor, miserable, and suffering. The Pharisees had mercy and compassion on themselves and those rich people who financially backed them. But what economic gain, what advantage is there to having mercy on widows, orphans, on those who are on the lowest rungs of society? None. If the false prophet does something for some downtrodden person, he publicizes it widely. Benny Hinn promised the mother of a boy he supposedly healed in one of his services that he would pay for the boys schooling and college expenses. He never followed through. But that promise was in one of his services, and was recorded on TV. These are promises that never come through to reality.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Proverbs 25:14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

So there are very definite signs that a discerning, vigilant Christian can see to indicate that a minister and his ministry are the work of Satan, a false prophet.

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