Distinguishing True Prophets from False Prophets in These Evil Modern Times

As I have previously published, I get a lot of attacks and criticisms these days from American Christians who demand that I stop exposing the real Donald Trump, whom they believe is "the anointed one" who is going to save America, and presumably the world. I get far more comments and emails, however, from readers who are suffering the same thing among their families and friends, because they won't bow down and worship Trump. Here is one: "I am getting so much flack from my family for being convicted to not vote for him. I feel like because I’m a millennial people think I’m being an entitled brat. I need prayer to remain strong in my conviction these last few weeks before the 'election.' Between abortion, government trafficking kids, and the abomination that is our medical system and our war machine, it seems we are under God’s judgement. IMO America is cooked." I received another kind of criticism this week, one I have seen too often before, and it is an appeal to authority, claiming that "Christian Prophets" have confirmed that Donald Trump is God's chosen one to usher in the "Great Awakening." This is what Mindy Finkea wrote when she contacted me from the Health Impact News contact form: "Just so you know, I am a Christian also and because I listen to the Prophets in the last 4 years, God is saying through them that He is using Donald Trump to usher in the Great Awakening and He IS annointed by God to do this. President Trump is being used by God. No, he's not perfect, none of us are, but God uses who is willing to be used by Him. I no longer wish to receive your emails since you are against God's will for this man. Thank you. Mindy Finklea" I doubt that Mindy knows Trump personally to even be able to make these claims, just as she apparently doesn't know much about me, and apparently has never bothered to read the About Us link, nor MANY of my articles, where I clearly tell the public that I am NOT a Christian, and do not belong to any religious group. So everyone who emails me trying to convince me to join your side with the Zionist Donald Trump because they are "also a Christian", you already made a false statement that is not true in the very first words of your email, because I AM NOT ONE OF YOU. I recently hired someone local to repair some fencing, and one day he brought a friend with him to help. He was wearing a MAGA Trump hat, and when he was introduced to me, he said: "I'm the pastor of [name of church]." My reply was: "That's OK. I won't hold it against you." His smile quickly turned to confusion, as I informed him that there is only one person referred to as "pastor" (shepherd) in the New Testament, and that his name is Jesus Christ. I also told him that there were only two kinds of people in the world, those serving Satan and the world system, and those serving Jesus in the Kingdom of God, to which he agreed. I then rebuked him and told him to start wearing a hat that promoted Jesus, instead of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein associate Donald Trump. (He was about half my age, and was at least respectful towards me.) But what about these Christians who claim to be "prophets" and are trying to use their appeal to authority to convince people that Trump is God's chosen man? What I am going to do in the rest of this article is trace the history of the term "prophet" in the Bible, starting in the Old Testament through the end of the New Testament, and how we can discern who the true prophets are today, and who the false prophets are.