This one will make some mad , others sad, but a few glad. You’ve been been warned.
Modern day prophets are a dime a dozen. Whoever has the best social media platforms, biggest personalities, social ads, and so forth is guaranteed to capture the biggest audience. It reminds me of Jeremiah's day. Unfortunately, most people in the Charismatic world, including its big name leaders are gravely biblically-illiterate and malnurished in authentic Christian doctrine and fellowship, which makes them prime audience for the Emmas, the Cindys, the Dutches, the Bickles, the Elijah list followers, the avid Sid Roth viewers etc. and those obsessed with hype and the spectacular. Praise God for all the good any of them have done, but I’m not a fan of their erratic and hit or miss “prophecies.” They do much harm to the body of Christ.
In fact, this is one of the reasons I stopped writing for a popular Christian magazine after nearly 12 years of being a featured blogger. It cost me a significant writing platform, a following, and some book sales, but I became nauseated with their version of Reader’s Digest, gossip columns, and their obsession with the “prophetic”.
As an example of the damage these hyper-prophetic personalities can do, Cindy Jacobs went to the Philippines in 2004 and 2010. She prophesied that one of the prominent Pentecostal leaders there would be the next president of the Philippines. He lost the presidency twice in a big way. I am sorry to tell everyone that the Charismatic “prophetic” movement has done great damage on a national level - especially here in our own back yard.
The truth is the “prophetic” movement has gone way off the rails and needs to undergo a huge reformation. Heck, most believers don’t even know what a true prophet and true prophecy is. The false prophets have emerged, but the real ones are submerged and hiding. They are the Micaiahs who suffer internal conflict and great pressure to sound like everyone else, but refuse to conform. Instead they say, “ As the Lord lives, I will only speak what the Lord says (1 Kings 22:14).”
Bert Farias' books are forerunners to personal holiness, the move of God and the return of the Lord. They also combat the departure from the faith and the turning away from the truth we are seeing in our day. His recent five-book bundle, written under a fresh anointing, is a forerunner of what the Lord is doing in His church today. His newest releases, Turning Your Trials Into Gold, is a powerful testimony of how God raised up Bert and his wife Carolyn from a sick bed and near death. And then the one just published that affects all of us, Unveiling The Mystery of Death.
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