So I wanted to talk about today what is a false prophet?

Because the Bible says in the last days false prophets will arise.

So how many of you know that there has to be real prophets that there's going to be false ones?

You wouldn't make, you wouldn't counterfeit two dollar bills that there was no such things as a two dollar bill.

So some people read the Bible like this, in the last days all the prophets will be false.

That's not what Jesus said. He said false prophets will arise.

Well, if all the prophets were false, Jesus would have said in the last days any prophet who arises will be false.

So the question is what is a false prophet?

I want to talk a little bit about that in Acts chapter 21.

Agabus, I think he's the only named prophet in the New Testament.

I could be wrong about that.

But in Acts chapter 21, Agabus prophesies about Paul.

In fact, we can read in verse 10.

As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea and coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said,

this is what the Holy Spirit says.

In this way, the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns the spell and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Now, Agabus said that the Jews would bind Paul and they would hand him over the Gentiles.

What actually happened, you can read it in verse 32 and 33, and Acts 22, verse 30.

What actually happened is that the Gentiles bound Paul and turned him over to the Jews.

Now, what's the point?

The point is that there's a difference between a bad prophetic word and a false prophet.

You can get the word wrong and not be a false prophet.

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