{"id":6042,"date":"2011-06-01T03:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/on-false-prophets\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:18:16","slug":"more-on-false-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/more-on-false-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"More on False Prophets","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHEN <\/strong>my spiritual director asked me to write further about “false prophets,” I pondered on how they are often defined in our day. Usually, people view “false prophets” as those who predict the future incorrectly. But when Jesus or the Apostles spoke of false prophets, they were usually speaking about those within<\/em> the Church who led others astray by either failing to speak the truth, watering it down, or preaching a different gospel altogether…<\/p>\n

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Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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WOE TO YOU<\/p>\n

There is a passage of Scripture that should cause every single believer to pause and reflect:<\/p>\n

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Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way. (Luke 6:26)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As this word echoes off the politically correct walls of our churches, we would do well to ask ourselves the question from the start: Am I myself<\/em> a false prophet?<\/p>\n

I confess that, for the first few years of this writing apostolate, I often wrestled with this question in tears,<\/em> since the Spirit has often moved me to operate in the prophetic\u00a0office of my Baptism. I simply did not want to write what the Lord was compelling me to regarding present and future things (and when I have tried to flee or jump ship, a “whale” has always spat me back upon the beach….)<\/p>\n

But here again I point to the deeper meaning of the above passage. Woe to you when all speak well of you. <\/em> There is a terrible disease in the Church and broader\u00a0society as well: that is, the almost neurotic need to be “politically correct.” While courtesy and sensitivity are good, white-washing the truth “for the sake of peace” is not. [1]<\/sup><\/a>see At All Costs<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span>