 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered. You know last week, Pastor, in your Bible study, you briefly mentioned prophecy, and you were speaking about the last prophetic event that's going to take place on the prophetic calendars rapture of the church. And I started thinking about the word prophecy, and you look around us and we you see churches having prophecy conferences and prophecy series, and there's books written on prophecy. And I think there's this idea that prophecy is this hidden revelation of God. But I like what you shared, and I want to ask if you could expound a little bit about on this, is that prophecy is God's word. There's nothing hidden. I was flipping through the channels a couple of nights ago, my wife's like, what are you doing wasting your time with that? And they're having this prophetic conferences with these apostles. And these apostles had a special word, a hidden secret, that if you give, that this would be the key that's going to unlock this prophetic series in your life. And people were sending away this, and I think people have the wrong idea of what prophecy is. Could you share a little bit of what prophecy is and what it isn't? The word prophecy is normally used to describe one of two things, either the foretelling of future events. So you have books that are entire books of prophecy from Ezekiel and Jeremiah and Joel and New Testament books like Revelation. I mean, they're books that are intended to communicate future events. They're foretelling. And so God had his men, he refers to as his prophets, who would speak forth his mind. He says the Lord does nothing unless he reveals it first to his prophets. And so the prophets were those who were speaking the word of the Lord to the people in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, you have prophets, you know, the church was built on apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. So you had, especially in the early days of the church, you had those who were speaking forth future events. But the word also speaks concerning forthtelling. So one is foretelling, the other is forthtelling or speaking forth the things of the Lord to man. And so you have the prophet who would speak of future events, but you also have the one who would speak in a prophetic way of what God is saying for this moment. And so that was the way the early church was founded on the foundations of the apostles, prophets, and evangelists, etc. So what has happened is the term prophet has been hijacked, I believe, by modern-day charlatans. Some are calling themselves apostles so and so. Others are referring to themselves as the prophets so and so. When in fact the church was built on the apostles, Ephesians makes that very clear that Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone. But he built his church on the teachings and doctrine that was revealed through the apostles. And so on occasion you would see someone who would speak forth the word of God or you hear them read your New Testament and they'll be speaking of things to come. You see that in so many books that it's just pretty easy to see that. But the problem is that we have confused that ministry with that ongoing office of some sort. And so you have these people who have television programs where they're saying send me money. That is the sign of the false prophet. Paul when he was writing to Titus said that these people are chapter one are actually pilfering. They're stealing, taking advantage of God's people. They do it for the sake of money. And so anybody who charges you for a prophetic word is a charlatan. And the reason people are believing that this is coming from God is because the charlatans that are out there have taught them improperly. And the people who are giving are naively trusting those who are claiming some authority that in fact they took upon themselves and were never granted. So in the beginning of the church because the entire canon of scripture, the 27 New Testament books had yet to be accrued, God was still using people to bring prophetic words. Agabus has mentioned twice for example in the book of Acts who would speak a prophetic word. But as the word was inspired and ultimately written into what is called canon form or the 27 New Testament books as it was regarded and recognized as having authorship from the apostles and all. When those things came about the Lord ceased using prophets in the way he did at the beginning of the church. Now there's also the gift of prophecy which is an ongoing gift that is exercised in the church and still is. So the gift of prophecy can still be experienced. There's no scripture that says that God ceased to give prophetic words but everything is tested by scripture. Anything that does not align with scripture, anything that is contrary to it is to be disregarded. And the one who is speaking it is to be noted is to be pointed out as being one who's preaching a false message. I'll be speaking on this Sunday to some degree. I'll be sharing about some of that as it relates to the, you know, there have been those who have given a prophetic word that Jesus is coming all the way back into 1988. You know 88 reasons Jesus is coming in 88. Then he didn't of course and 89 reasons why Jesus is coming in 89. And then you have had others who have been 94 herald camping and there are various people who have made these pronouncements prophetically and they have proven to be false. And Deuteronomy 13 and 15, they both those chapters, they point out that you're to disregard not listen to them because they're speaking falsely. And there was even a penalty that was enacted on the false prophet in the Old Testament for lying in the name of God. And so we have a number of people that I believe are are are inclined towards the theatrical or the, you know, something that that oh isn't this amazing. Send your money and we'll send you a prayer cloth or we'll send you some seeds that you plant. You know, and the way that the seeds grow, you put one, you can have many from one seed. So will your seed faith offering grow and you'll become much more wealthy. I mean, we've had that those charlatans, they have no shame. They have no fear of God. They don't believe in the God that they profess to be preaching because they're they're forgetting that God warned them against such utterances. But they don't care because they're they're the apostle, they're the prophet. And if you put one of these people next to the writings of a true prophet of Peter or Paul or are those whom the Lord use who could speak in a prophetic way. And you put them next to these men for them to say that they are equal is ludicrous. It's sinful. It's arrogance. And it is it is it is a right thing to point them out and to say they are false. And yet I believe that a lot of people in our canceled culture today and this mentality of Oh, never say anything that hurts people's feelings. How would they have handled it to hear John the Baptist repent you vipers, you know, you brood of snakes. I mean, what an unkind thing or Jesus, you whitewashed tombs. What a what a terrible thing to hear coming from the one who is described as love incarnate, right? Truth, truth set you free. And God is a God of truth. And so these false prophets that we see today, you know, it breaks my heart. I mean, these these these people who very often cannot afford to be sending this seed, faith, money or whatever are being ripped off. People are just they are just perloining. They are just just building their their houses on the backs of the poor and and God loves the poor. And these people, they deserve every ounce of God's chastening and even punishment that may come upon. And so, Pastor, with that explanation that you gave, there's no real secret. Because I think people have this idea that there's some secret about revelation with these prophetic things. The scripture says that the secret things belong unto the Lord. Those things that are revealed belong to that to to the children and the children's children. There are secret things that belong only to him. Again, we're going to be looking at this to some degree on Sunday when Jesus only only the Father knows the exact moment he returns. So there are certain things that the Lord restricted even Jesus while he's in the flesh and the angels don't know. So anybody who's up there telling you he has secret knowledge is someone to avoid and to point out. Well, thank you, Pastor, because this one program, I'll send you the secret key to unlock your success with these secret revelations. Well, he should probably take that key for himself and leave me alone. But you mentioned those poor people that are falling for it. That's the thing that hurts you. And that's what that's what's bothering because out of the out of their hearts, they just Lord help me. They're naive and they deceive the hearts of the simple Paul said in the book of Romans chapter 16. And that's what they do. Special place in hell for them. Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not their judge, but God certainly will. I hope so. He will. Pastor, thank you so much for sharing about this. And it's unfortunate to see those people falling from that. But this is important. So important that going to a Bible teaching church that teaches what's air and what's truth. And so I want to invite you guys to come out and join us this Sunday at 8 30. Actually, Wednesday, Wednesday, come on out and join us as we celebrate time and God's word and worship. And then and then on Thursday and Friday, you're going on on a trip to go to Mexico minister to the CCA Northern Mexico pastors. Yeah. What a great time that will be to spend with those pastors. I'll be home on Sunday, though. Yes, back and come back and join us at 8 30 and 10 45 on Sunday morning. Amen. Thank you, Pastor David. Thank you guys for tuning in and we look forward to seeing you. God bless you. Amen.