Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (ESV Strong's)
But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Truth Matters to God
God gives the nation of Israel about false teachers. False teaching can be found in every age of God’s working with His people. Sometimes the prophet is bluntly and blatantly false. Sometimes the prophet is deceptive and cunning in their false teaching. There are examples throughout the Bible of these false trumpets who sound an uncertain sound, not the truth of God. In the above passage we see what God intends for the nation to do with these false teachers in Moses day. Today we are to avoid false teachers and not give them an audience:
2 John 1:8-11 (ESV Strong's)
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
We are to not entertain false teaching whether they come via our churches, our radio stations, our songs, our televisions or our email inbox. False teaching is to be shunned, shutdown and stopped. God is truth and anything that does not reflect His truth is to be destroyed from our midst.
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