So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)
1 John 4:1 - Tree of Life Version Loved ones, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition BELOVED, DO not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world. American Standard Version (1901) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Common English Bible Dear friends, don’t believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see if they are from God because many false prophets have gone into the world. Catholic Public Domain Version Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. |
So he said to him: “I also am a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me with the word of Adonai saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” (He lied to him.)
Then Adonai said to me: “The prophets prophesy lies in My Name! I did not send them, nor commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, divination, futility, a delusion of their heart.”
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Do not listen to the words of prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into illusion, speaking a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of Adonai.
The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”
“And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here’s the Messiah!’ or, ‘Look, there He is!’ do not believe it.
And He said, “Watch out that you are not led astray! For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He’ and ‘The time is near!’ Do not follow them.
Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, because they received the message with goodwill, searching the Scriptures each day to see whether these things were true.
I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.
to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
not to get shaken out of your mind or disturbed—either by a spirit or a word or a letter as if through us—as though the Day of the Lord has come.
Now the Ruach clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, following deceitful spirits and teachings of demons
But evil men and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
Children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that the anti-messiah is coming, even now many anti-messiahs have come—by this we know that it is the last hour.
Loved ones, I am not writing a new commandment for you, but an old commandment—one you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah coming in human flesh. This one is a deceiver and the anti-messiah.
Loved ones, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
I know all about your deeds and your toil and your patient endurance, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. You have tested those who call themselves emissaries and are not, and have found them to be liars.