Biblical Keys for Discerning True and False Prophets/Seeing the truth/Receive the prophets

FAIR Answers—back to home page

[[{{{L}}}|{{{H}}}]]

Receive the prophets and their followers for what they are, not requiring them to be something else

Of True	Of False
2 Peter꞉1 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.	Matthew 15꞉13-14 Every plant which my Father hath not planted shall be rooted up…they be blind leaders of the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
2 Peter 1꞉19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place.	Jude 1꞉12 …clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
Acts 14꞉15 We also are men of like passions with you.	John 9꞉34 Thou wast altogether born in sin, and does thou teach us? And they cast him out.
Jeremiah 17꞉5-13 The man that trusteth in the Lord… shall be as a tree planted by the waters…and shall not see when heat cometh…neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Also 1 Cor 3:4-7. D&C 3.	Jeremiah 17꞉5 Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord…he shall not see when good cometh. Romans 2꞉21 Romans 2꞉24 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? ..For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.
John 8꞉46 If I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me	1 John 4꞉5 They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and the world heareth them.
Romans 14꞉4 Who are thou to judge another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or faileth. Yea,…God is able to make him stand.	Jeremiah 38꞉4 This man seeketh not the welfare of the people, but the hurt.
2 Timothy 2꞉20 In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and Earth; some to honour, and some to dishonour.	Numbers 16꞉3 All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye [that is Moses] above the congregation of the LORD [that is, Korah and various famous men]? (Compare also, “We are Abraham’s seed…” “We are of Paul, or Apollos…” and “For many shall come in my name… and shall deceive many…”)
1 John 2꞉10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.	1 John 2꞉11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not where he goes because darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 Kings 22꞉8 I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.