I am asking the question:

Where are the true prophets?

For many years now, I have mulled this valid question over and over again as I see the self-appointed ‘prophets’ (actually ‘profits’) run amok throughout Christianity. In fact, I am not the only one who is asking the question. Diane over at Crossroads is asking the same question and is asking them to come forward to stand up against these false prophets. In fact, she has a great quote in her blog post

There is nothing wrong with the command of God to ’stone the false prophet!’ The problem is that the church has discerned wrongly and stoned the true prophet! That is why there are no more true prophets in our days, because as soon as they begin their ministry, we rub them out. This is the reason that so many false prophets are running around, not just because it’s the end of the age but because we have disobeyed God, His command, and killed off His prophets! We are like Herod, who in the midst of John the Baptist’s ministry, chose a wrong time to listen to his conscience instead of the Holy Spirit!

_____G.A. Jarquin

After I read Diane’s article and the quote posted in her article. I thought about three different things that has been discussed before in different articles.

The “mentality” of the prophet.

The rebuking of the prophetic movement

The “obsession” with linking themselves to past people and revivals considered to be ‘great’ as a means to self-legitimize themselves via ‘legacy’ and ‘mantles’.

The quote above is very accurate because we have stoned the true prophets for the false ones. Instead of worshiping the Messiah, we have made worship out of the ‘mysticism’ and ‘gnosticism’ mindset and environment that has been created and hyped of a prophet that is distant, aloof, hermitic, and walks in an ‘elevated state’ than everybody else (insert your spiritualized and ethereal sounding mood music here). We even aid and abet the process by creating this mystical environment that comes across as ‘off limits’ to everyone else except the ‘chosen ones of the remnant’. We worship the ground their feet walk on worshipping the aura they emit of being ‘better than us’. We even go as far as to try to write our life story vicariously around trying to get ‘inside the inner circle’ of the ’secret Spiritual society’ in order to feel more ’spiritual’, more worthy, more ‘anointed’, and more ‘entitled’ to some level of respect we really want to demand from others. We want to know the secret code, secret handshake, secret combination of the spiritual safe, secret location of the clubhouse, and the secret password to enter in, be accepted, and partake of the ‘rituals and traditions’.

Instead of worshipping the Messiah, we have worshiped the ‘marketing’ of the prophetic rally. From the ‘Christian Counterintelligence’ mindset of the ‘pre-rally’ demon exorcisms, the numerous ‘offerings’ in addition to the exuberant conference registration fees and book/tape sales, the generic ‘words’ that could apply to everyone, to the ‘Christian Culture Clique’ of offering an equivalent style to what you see in secular circles and calling it ‘taking it back from the enemy’; we have engaged in just another pep rally thinking we have opened the heavenlies only to realize when it’s too late that we are closing ourselves off from what God really wants to do.

We claim to want the power of the Messiah but quickly sell out for the ‘Magic’ of the appearance of gold dust, chicken feathers, ‘bizarre healings’ that can not be verified, and cubic zirconium gems by the “MESSYianic Magician” within our midst.

We claim to want the power of the Messsiah and the prophetic but quickly settle for the ‘Pathetic Psychics’ and their ‘pathetic realm’ of analysing future ‘trends’ and adding a Christian slant to them. We love their 20/20 hindsight accuracy rate, their claim to have prophesied a disaster ten years before that disaster happened, along with their ‘excuses’ of God holding back become someone prayed (preyed) when their words do not come true.

Instead of worshipping the Messiah, we have worshiped the concept of ‘mantle’ and have hyped “the (insert name of good Bible character here) anointing / blessing” and how for giving some money, you can obtain the ‘blessing’. We have people who set themselves up as the official prophetic database of what is prophetic and use the name of a true Biblical prophet to describe his ‘list’. We have people who claim to possess the heritage and ‘mantle’ of some famous prophet. We have people who claim to possess a ‘double anointing’ of some famous prophet. We have people who ‘celebrate’ the anniversary of past revivals. We have people who visit famous revival sites of old trying to recreate the ‘revival’ or trying to ‘receive’ the ‘impartation’ and ‘anointing’ from those old buildings. We have people like John Crowder who claim to receive anointing from the cemetery plots of famous healing revivalists just like Benny Hinn claimed to receive anointing from the grave of Kathryn Kuhlman claiming he had the key to the gate locking the private burial garden away from the general public. In fact, with the recent death of Jill Austin, I am expecting some up and coming female ‘prophetess’ to come forth with a press release from a public relations firm and proclaim that she ‘has the mantle of Jill Austin’ therefore “you better listen to her or else”.

We expect prophets to appear to be dysfunctional, autistic, ’superheroes’, and ’spaced out’ in the physical walking around as if he is too busy to partake of life here on Earth. We expect miracles to come before them and follow after them as they act eccentric (John The Baptist mindset).

A prophet becomes a profit…..
A prophet becomes a psychic…..
A Christian becomes a celebrity…..
A ‘revivalist’ becomes royality…..

However, I believe that if we were ever to come across a real prophet, that person would behave in a ’supernaturally natural’ mode to where he comes across as a normal and natural human being but is so blessed with the supernatural anointing of God that everything he does comes across very naturally from yard work, parenting, employee, discipleship, consumer, friendships, ministry, spouse, to teaching from the Bible where his actions more than his words speaks of the wonders of God and edifies and comforts the church.

No sideshows. No freaky carnival atmospheres. No hype and sending out the press releases to proclaim yourself. No need to formulate mega fasts on a special cool looking date on the calendar,. No need to generate a ‘if my people who are called by my name….’ mega rallies around a ‘bible number’ to appear ‘of God’. The prophet of today brings forth edification to the church to advance the kingdom of God and doesn’t try to extort from the church to fatten his influence, affluence, and pocketbook. The prophet today does not have to ‘act’ holy, spiritual, and anointed. The prophet today is just being himself as the anointing flows out of him.

Where are the real prophets? I believe that they are out there. Even though the churches may have ’spiritually stoned’ many of the true prophets, I still believe that (1 Kings 18 reference) there are a select group of prophets who physically exist in the ’supernaturally natural’ realm everyday but spiritually are ‘hidden in caves’ to protect them from the ‘climate’ and ‘WILDerness’ of malicious murder that was done in an attempt to silence their voices because they chose to speak out against the mentalities acting like Jezebel that manipulate (fueled by her passive husband who has a mentality of Ahab) and control what a church defines as ‘true prophetic’.

But as the Lord did in 1 Kings 18 and 19, He today does the same thing. Where it was revealed in 1 Kings 18 that the prophets were hidden and preserved in the caves, it became revealed in 1 Kings 19:18 that

Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.

God also gives strength and perseverance to a group of people who refused to bow down to the idolatry consisting of mega prophets and celebrity pastors that had forsaken God’s covenant, torn down God’s altars and built stages to perform ‘whoreship’, and killed God’s prophets spiritually with the ’sword of a familiar spirit’ they call their ‘new revelations of the bible’.

It’s interesting to see this because as the true prophet strengthens and edifies the church, he needs a people who will become that church that will allow themselves to be strengthened to fulfill the Great Commission.

So you also have to ask this question in addition to the question of real prophets

Where are the real people of God who have refused to compromise, refused to kiss the mouths of the ‘pathetics’ that spew out junk; and refused to bow down to the self-exalting system that creates idols and icons out of a select self-appointed people who proclaim themselves as ‘anointed’ when in fact, they are actually annoying.?

When the true prophet comes forth from the cave and successfully fulfills the call God has on him and the event comes to pass, then you will see the true people of God come forth to participate in the restoration of the true church.

It is about time we start seeing some true prophets come out of their spiritual caves and when we do. Look out!!! Trouble is about to happen.