DEAR VIEWER: I AM A FORMER MEMBER OF PASTOR CAHN'S CHURCH BETH ISRAEL. I UNFORTUNATELY DEFECTED FROM HIS CHURCH BECAUSE AFTER MANY YEARS WHILE SITTING UNDER HIS TEACHINGS, I REALIZED THERE EXIST SERIOUS ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES REVOLVING AROUND HIS APOLOGETICS. THIS BLOG WHICH I CREATED NEARLY 5 YEARS AGO HAS SOUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
BELOW I AM SHARING THESE ARTICLES AND VIDEOS BECAUSE I SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT THIS SO CALLED PROPHECY BY JONATHAN CAHN IS FALSE BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED. MR. CAHN IN THIS VIDEO CLAIMS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A MODERN DAY KING CYRUS OF PERSIA REFERRED TO AS GOD'S ANOINTED IN ISAIAH 44:28-45:1. HOWEVER THOSE CLAIMS CANNOT BE VERIFIED THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD. MR. CAHN ALSO LIKENS PRESIDENT TRUMP TO THE BIBLICAL WARRIOR/KING JEHU OF SAMARIA. BUT WHAT HE FAILS TO MENTION IS THAT JEHU DEPARTED FROM THE LORD AND CONTINUED IN HIS SINS UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH 2 KINGS 10:29-36.
PART I
Preface: Now, a new star has risen, a quite unlikely one at that. The crowds
are also thronging to hear him, and his followers are convinced that
this man, their man, Donald Trump, will single-handedly make America
great again. The political system is corrupt, say his loyal supporters,
and America has become a shell of what she used to be, both nationally
and internationally. Donald Trump will save the day. Donald Trump knows how to get it
done. Donald Trump will not back down. Donald Trump is the alpha male we
need. Some even claim that God Himself has raised up Donald Trump for
such a time as this (AS JONATHAN CAHN SO BOLDY CLAIMS IN THE ABOVE VIDEO)!
Mr. Cahn brings his BOGUS MYSTERIES fully into
the social-media age: many of his fans first saw him on Facebook;
hundreds of posts and reposts of his sermons are uploaded on YouTube,
slipped into the corners of the web where esoteric religion and
conspiracy theories overlap.
Into this
mix came Mr. Cahn’s latest book, “The Paradigm,” which could be his
most polarizing, tying his bogus prophetic work to the election of Donald
Trump.
The book, published in the
months after Trump’s win, again likens America to the ancient nation of
Israel — two peoples, Mr. Cahn says, who have a unique relationship with
God. He then argues that all sorts of figures in contemporary politics
have biblical counterparts. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, for
example, are the modern-day analogues to wicked Ahab and Jezebel. Trump
is thewarrior-king Jehu, who
took control of the nation and cast idols out of the capital. “Jehu also
sought to drain the swamp,” Mr. Cahn said.
Trump,
“like his ancient predecessor,” Mr. Cahn writes in his book, was a
“flawed vessel” being used by God. “The unlikely and controversial
warrior was destined to become the new ruler of the land,” Mr. Cahn goes
on. According to Mr. Cahn: “The template would ordain that Donald Trump would become the next
president.”
Unfortunately
Mr. Cahn didn’t stop with a paradigm which shows how human actions
which separate themselves from the laws of God lead naturally down a
path which has common threads among all human beings. In what appears
to be a well-meaning effort to buttress this paradigm Mr. Cahn takes the
ancient Biblical types and attempts to show how specific actions and
dates are paralleled in their modern American political anti-types. This
takes the subject from type and anti-type into the realm of prophetic
speculation. Most
of the paradigms are based on no specific cross scriptural reference
to other passages of the Holy Text. They serve only to define whatever
point Cahn wishes to make about future events, corresponding to past
events and usually can be readily matched to the future person. You can read the rest of his thesis by going to the following link: https://christinprophecyblog.org/2018/11/a-biblical-blueprint-for-america-jehu-as-trumps-paradigm/.
These absurd claims by Mr. Cahn is nothing more than prophetic speculation. He accomplishes this by applying an EISEGETICAL method for interpreting Holy Scriptures. This EISEGETICAL METHOD IS EVIDENT IN ALL OF THE BOOKS HE HAS WRITTEN. Refer to the 2 links below:
To reiterate his latest book mentioned above was
released only after Trump had taken the White House and is largely
backward-looking, giving biblical explanations to current events only
after the fact.
He also declined to weigh in on Trump’s 2020 chances for re-election. “The Bible doesn’t say one or two terms,” Mr. Cahn demurred.
He insists he has always included
disclaimers on his work and never sets exact dates. Mr. Cahn: “I always say You can’t put God in a box.” He is absolutely right. Because God does not speak with a forked tongue! Only false prophets do that. Still,
he appears to have learned from the brouhaha, growing even more
cautious about making prognostications that could fall through.
Deuteronomy 13:1-5
Worshiping Other Gods
13 [a]If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,2 and
if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let
us follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship
them,”3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him.5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord
your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land
of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
"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." (Deuteronomy 18:20-22)
The warning in the above scriptural passages is urgently needed for
today. Some of God's people are so enamored by the supernatural that
they are ready to receive anyone who demonstrates supernatural power or
divine revelation knowledge as necessarily being a true servant of God.
But the passages quoted above indicates that this attitude is UN
SCRIPTURAL & DANGEROUS.
To get the full picture we need to combine the above two passages(
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 & Deuteronomy 18: 20-22) that clearly show us
how to identify a false prophet like Jonathan Cahn.
The first passage warns us against a prophet who gives us a
supernatural sign that is fulfilled, but at the same time teaches
disobedience or disloyalty towards God. The second passage warns that a
prophet who makes some supernatural prediction that is not fulfilled is a
false prophet.
PART II
Why evangelicals are calling Trump a “modern-day Cyrus.”
It’s a typical morning segment on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, late in 2016. The controversial Access Hollywood
tapes, on which then-candidate Donald Trump can be heard boasting about
grabbing women by the genitals, have just been released.
Standing on a sunny street, reporter Chris Mitchell says, “Christians are divided about what to do on Donald Trump.”
Some want to abandon him, he says. Others want to stand
with him. But others, he says, are wondering: Does Trump have a
“biblical mandate” to become president?
Mitchell runs swiftly through the first two options,
citing both a condemnation of Trump and an endorsement by Focus on the
Family’s James Dobson. But it’s the third option — that God himself has
chosen Trump to be president — that Mitchell focuses on.
Evangelical thinker Lance Wallnau then gives Mitchell his
take: Trump is a “modern-day Cyrus,” an ancient Persian king chosen by
God to “navigate in chaos.”
Mitchell notes that some evangelicals disagree but does
not name or cite them. Instead, he cites the growing threat of China,
Russia, and Iran, before Wallnau concludes, “America’s going to have a
challenge either way. With Trump, I believe we have a Cyrus to navigate
through the storm.”
The comparison comes up frequently in the evangelical
world. Many evangelical speakers and media outlets compare Trump to
Cyrus, a historical Persian king who, in the sixth century BCE,
conquered Babylon and ended the Babylonian captivity, a period during
which Israelites had been forcibly resettled in exile. This allowed Jews
to return to the area now known as Israel and build a temple in
Jerusalem. Cyrus is referenced most prominently in the Old Testament
book of Isaiah, in which he appears as a figure of deliverance.
That comparison has become more and more explicit in the wake of Trump’s presidency. Last week,
an Israeli organization, the Mikdash Educational Center, minted a
commemorative “Temple Coin” depicting Trump and Cyrus side by side, in
honor of Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem. It was among the most brazen, public links between Trump and
Cyrus; one that takes the years of subtext running through outlets like
Christian Broadcasting Network and, quite literally, sealed the
comparison.
Monday, however, an even higher-profile figure linked
Trump and Cyrus. During his visit to Washington, DC, Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu heavily implied Trump was Cyrus’s spiritual heir.
Thanking Trump for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem, Netanyahu said,
“We remember the proclamation of the great King Cyrus the Great —
Persian King. Twenty-five hundred years ago, he proclaimed that the
Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in
Jerusalem...And we remember how a few weeks ago, President Donald J.
Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mr. President, this will
be remembered by our people throughout the ages.”
While Cyrus is not Jewish and does not worship the God of
Israel, he is nevertheless portrayed in Isaiah as an instrument of God —
an unwitting conduit through which God effects his divine plan for
history. Cyrus is, therefore, the archetype of the unlikely “vessel”:
someone God has chosen for an important historical purpose, despite not
looking like — or having the religious character of — an obvious man of
God.
For believers who subscribe to this account, Cyrus is a
perfect historical antecedent to explain Trump’s presidency: a
nonbeliever who nevertheless served as a vessel for divine interest.
For these leaders, the biblical account of Cyrus allows
them to develop a “vessel theology” around Donald Trump, one that allows
them to reconcile his personal history of womanizing and alleged sexual
assault with what they see as his divinely ordained purpose to restore a
Christian America.
“I think in some ways this is a kind of baptism of Donald
Trump,” says John Fea, a professor of evangelical history at Messiah
College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “It’s the theopolitical version of
money laundering, taking Scripture to … clean [up] your candidate.”
This framing allows for the creation of Trump as a viable
evangelical candidate regardless of his personal beliefs or actions. It
allows evangelical leaders, and to a lesser extent ordinary
evangelicals, to provide a compelling narrative for their support for
him that transcends the mere pragmatic fact that he is a Republican.
Instead of having to justify their views of Trump’s controversial past,
including reports of sexual misconduct and adultery, the evangelical
establishment can say Trump’s presidency was arranged by God, and thus
legitimize their support for him — a support that has begun to divide
ordinary evangelicals and create a kind of “schism.”
Trump has capitalized on this idea of “vessel theology”
Numerous evangelical leaders have used the Trump-as-Cyrus
comparison to explain how a leader who, while not (originally)
religious, might nevertheless figure into a divine historical plan.
In December, Christian evangelical leader Mike Evans made the comparison while praising Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, another act with deep theological connotations. Before
seeing Trump right after the announcement, Evans said, “the first word
I'm going to say to him, 'Cyrus, you're Cyrus.’” He explained that Cyrus
“was used as an instrument of God for deliverance in the Bible, and God
has used this imperfect vessel, this flawed human being like you or I,
this imperfect vessel, and he's using him in an incredible, amazing way
to fulfill his plans and purposes.”
Likewise, last year, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham used
the same rhetoric to explain how God had, in his view, brought Trump to
power: “God is in total control,” Ham told the Deseret Daily News early last year.
“He makes that very clear in the Bible where he tells us that he raises
up kings and destroys kingdoms. He even calls a pagan king, Cyrus, his
anointed, or his servant to do the things that he wants him to do.”
Trump himself seemed to bolster this particular comparison. He referenced a (fake) quote from Cyrus in March 2017 as part of a speech commemorating Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
Adhering
the Cyrus motif to an American president — and particularly using it to
justify evangelical support of the Trump presidency — is unique.
Anbara Khalidi, a former research associate at University
of Oxford’s Wadham College and an expert on American evangelical
apocalyptic narratives, says she has not come across the Cyrus narrative
in her previous study of evangelicals and politics. “I actually have
personally never heard any of the Christian evangelicals I've researched
refer to any politician as Cyrus,” she said in an email.
Often, she said, the end-times-conscious evangelical
communities she researched in the pre-Trump era were far more reticent
to make specific associations between biblical figures and present-day
ones.
Khalidi said most evangelicals tend to be “pretty
cautious” about associating individuals in history with biblical figures
or prophecies. Rather, she says, many evangelicals traditionally speak
more generally about “signs of the times” or indicators that the end,
more broadly, may be at hand, without speaking specifically about
linking modern politicians to given biblical prophecies or parallels.
However, Khalidi said, the Trump-Cyrus association has
gained traction in recent years, especially among those “who have
recognized its political expediency.” Furthermore, Trump seems to have
been encouraged to publicly embrace these associations.
Trump’s decision to move the American embassy in Israel
to Jerusalem late last year, for example, might have been seen as one
such curated response, evoking the historical association between Cyrus
and the liberation of the Jewish people as a kind of dog whistle to
evangelical voters that he’s on their side.
Fea pointed out that among a certain subset of
evangelicals, even innocuous details seem to be evidence of prophecy.
The most famous biblical verse about Cyrus as God’s “anointed” is found
in Isaiah 45 — and Trump is the 45th president. Wallnau made this
connection explicit, telling
the Christian Broadcasting Network that God spoke to him directly to
tell him, "Isaiah 45 will be the 45th president ... Isaiah 45 is Cyrus.”
Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professor of sociology at
Clemson University who focuses on the rise of Christian nationalism,
agreed with Fea. “Christian nationalist rhetoric, defending America’s
Christian heritage” — all these, he said, were common tropes throughout
American history. “But what makes Trump interesting, a test as to the
power of this Christian nationalist rhetoric, is that regardless of
personal piety … his use of that rhetoric still resonated, and people
still voted for him.” Trump managed to capture the evangelical
imagination without being particularly evangelical — or, indeed,
personally religious — himself.
The Cyrus narrative allows evangelicals to thread a
difficult rhetorical needle. It allows them to see Trump as “their”
candidate — a candidate who will effect God’s will that America become a
truly Christian nation — without requiring Trump himself to manifest
any Christian virtues. He is, like Cyrus, anointed by God and thus has
divine legitimacy (Trump’s spiritual advisers, including evangelical
figures Robert Jeffress and Paula White, have repeatedly hammered this point), but he has no obligation to live out Christian principles in his personal life.
According to Fea, this narrative works because it allows
evangelicals to capitalize on Trump’s “strongman” persona — in practical
terms, his ability to get votes — while allowing them to justify their
support theologically and preserve their sense of Trump as a God-backed
candidate.
Someone like Ted Cruz, Fea says, may initially have been a
“purer candidate” as far as evangelicals were concerned. But when it
became clear that Trump was performing better in the Republican primary,
they shifted tactics. “They have to have some kind of biblical or
theological or Christian reason ... for their support,” he says. But
they also have to back a winner.
Fea
describes evangelicals’ pivot as somewhat pragmatic. Major evangelical
figures like the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Focus on the
Family’s James Dobson endorsed Cruz before finally endorsing Trump once
his nomination became an inevitability.
Trump’s rhetoric ties into and significantly expands on a
robust historical tradition of language and thought about God, and a
kind of “vessel theology,” in American political history.
Whitehead says the idea that God plays a divine role in
politics is nothing new. When it comes to the presidency, narratives of
divine intervention have been woven into American cultural discourse
from the beginning of what Whitehead calls America's “civil religion,”
which he describes as a fusion of political and religious imagery.
For example, after George Washington died, Whitehead
said, “stories cropped up about his religiosity, about what a great man
he was.”
“Great leaders [have been historically] identified with
how God was using them, or that God placed them there for a purpose,” he
said. For America, a relatively new nation, this Christian mythos
became a foundational element of creating a national identity.
“Colonials had closer ties to Britain than they had to each other.
Christianity became a part of that.”
Fea concurs. Throughout the early history of America, he
notes, American exceptionalism and a particular blend of Christian
nationalism — seeing America as a kind of new chosen land for God’s
intervention on a parallel with the Israel of the Old Testament — went
hand in hand. He references the ideal of the “city on a hill,” an image
from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, used by Puritan settler John Winthrop
to describe how the new American colonies would serve as a model for
Christian living.
Fea references, too, the work of early American revivalist preachers like Jonathan Edwards,
who believed the second coming of Christ was imminent in Boston during
the 18th century. Fea says the idealistic nature of America’s founding —
as a country that believes in “liberty and freedom” — has lent itself
to appropriation by Christian narratives. “It’s sort of taking these
Enlightenment ideas [of freedom and liberty],” he added. “Since day one,
they have been kind of ‘baptized' by evangelicals who say in a very
unthoughtful way, ‘America is for freedom. God is for freedom.
Therefore, God must privilege the US.’”
This sense that God has “chosen” America as a special
people, or that he acts directly in American affairs, has, Fea argues,
given us quintessentially American historical phenomena such as Manifest
Destiny, the imperialist expansion of the United States across North
America.
Therefore, at the very least, the idea that God
intervenes directly in American political affairs, and uses American
political figures as vessels to effect divine will, is deeply rooted in
centuries of Christian nationalism.
Trump’s whole team furthers the Cyrus narrative
The continued prevalence of the Cyrus narrative
throughout the campaign and the first year of Trump’s presidency speaks
to its longevity and power. But it speaks, too, to the degree to which
those around Trump — from his unofficial evangelical advisory
council to Christian supporters on CBN — are able to signal to
supporters that the evangelical agenda is receiving attention in the
White House regardless of Trump’s actions, or even regardless of whether
Trump is aware of what’s going on.
After all, Trump himself has mentioned Cyrus just once
(and made up a quote in the process). But every time those around Trump
mention Cyrus, they’re signaling to their listeners that because Trump
is nothing but a vessel for God’s will, he’s also somewhat irrelevant in
the scheme of things.
Pay no attention to the man in front of the curtain, they imply. The real work is being done by his evangelical influencers behind the scenes.
But Trump, too, is doing his share of influencing,
dog-whistling to evangelical rhetoric of an unexpected or incongruous
“divine plan.”
Within that paradigm, his somewhat incongruous anecdote
during the State of the Union address about the New Mexico couple that
adopted a homeless, heroin-addicted woman’s baby makes far more sense.
Trump says of Ryan Holets, the New Mexico police officer
who adopted the baby, that “Ryan said he felt God speak to him: ‘You
will do it — because you can.’”
Within the context of a presidential address, the
anecdote felt jarring, out of place. But as a theological nod, the
anecdote made perfect sense. The image of an unlikely individual chosen
unexpectedly by God to shoulder a difficult and divinely ordained burden
is a popular narrative within Christian, and more specifically
evangelical, discourse.
And it’s a narrative that Trump will continue to capitalize on to keep his evangelical voters close.
PART III
America's False Prophet Jonathan Cahn, To Sell Yet Another End Time Prophecy Book
By this point, you would think the mathematical odds of Jonathan Cahn
accurately prophesying something would be in his favor. Surely throwing
out random guesses about the near future would result in greater
accuracy than that which has been produced by this fake rabbi and false
prophet, but Cahn has yet to provide an oracle that has ever come true,
not even by blind luck.
The Bible is very clear as to what we should do to/with false prophets.
2when 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 (Deuteronomy 18:22)
Fans of the Cahn-man will claim that he isn’t a
prophet, but that he only “interprets” Biblical prophecy. Of course,
Cahn takes a good many Scriptures that aren’t prophetic and wrongly
applies them to modern events, thus making them prophetic. Cahn’s
horrible track record at prophecy interpretation seems not to bother his
biggest fans, who are eager to buy his next book.
Cahn’s latest book is The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Revealed.
Once again, Cahn claims to have found super-secret mysteries locked
away in the Bible, and only he has the extra-fancy decoder ring that can
unlock the codes. Never mind that this is the same schtick he’s been
trying since 2011 and hasn’t yet hit a single nail on its head. Cahn’s book pitch includes…
“Could
an ancient prophecy and a mysterious ordinance given in a Middle
Eastern desert over 3,000 years ago be determining the events of our
day? Could some of the most famous people of modern history and current
events be secretly linked to this mystery—even a modern president of the
United States? Could this ancient revelation pinpoint the events of our
times down to the year or even the day? And is there a master plan
affecting the entire world and altering the course of history?”
What Cahn is getting at in his new book is clear. According to Cahn, Donald Trump is in the Bible.
Interestingly enough, Cahn’s promotional material for The Oracle contains no reference at all to his book, The Mystery of The Shemitah, which is his most provable prophetic failure.
MANY RELIGIOUS PROFESSIONALS ARE ENDORSING JONATHAN CAHN'S PRODUCTS STRICTLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF BOOSTING THEIR TELEVISION RATINGS AND TO ATTRACT GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS TO SEND THEM MORE MONEY IN THE FORM OF TITHES/OFFERINGS. THEY ARE: PAT ROBERTSON OF THE 700 CLUB, SID ROTH FROM IT'S SUPERNATURAL, JOSEPH FARAH FROM WORLD NET DAILY, CONVICTED FELON JIM BAKER & HIS CIRCUS TALK SHOW, KENNETH COPELAND FROM WORD OF FAITH CULT, BENNY HINN THE MAN OF SIN WHO JUST A FEW YEARS AGO WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA WITH PROSPERITY PIMP PAULA WHITE HAVING A ROMANTIC FLING IN ROME WHILE PRETENDING THEY WERE PATRONS OF THE ARTS FOR THE VATICAN( BENNY HINN WAS STILL LEGALLY MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE AT THE TIME), CHARISMA MAGAZINE WHICH CONSTANTLY WRITES ARTICLES PROMOTING SO CALLED APOSTLES FROM THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION CHRISTIAN CULT WHO CLAIM THEY ARE RIVALS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FOUNDATIONAL APOSTLES ETC, JUST TO NAME A FEW. SOME OF THESE SHADY CHARACTERS HAVE GONE AS FAR AS PROCLAIMING JONATHAN CAHN AS AMERICA'S PROPHET.
EVEN MORE SUBTLE THAN THE ONE WHO SEDUCES SOULS IN A FLASHY WAY FOR SELF GAIN ARE THOSE WHO WRITE BOOKS THAT BECOME ASTOUNDINGLY THE BEST SELLERS AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY. THEY USE LITTLE SCRIPTURE, AND WHEN THEY DO, MANY TIMES IT IS USED OUT OF CONTEXT IN THE FORM OF EISEGESIS IN ORDER TO PERPETUATE THEIR OWN AGENDA, AND IT IS NOT ALIGNED WITH THE WHOLE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. DOES THIS NOT QUALIFY FOR MAKING MERCHANDISE OF GOD'S PEOPLE? (2 PETER 2:1-3,14).
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn was recently asked how many false prophecies he had
given in his book The Harbinger. That may well be an accurate number,
rabbi. Cahn is also a sensationalist and why the body of Christ gives
this man any credence is beyond me. He predicted a shaking in the
economy before 2015. There was a shaking all right as he began quivering
when another of his prophecies failed to come true. Bible prophecies
have a 100% accuracy rate. Cahn’s accuracy rate is about 0% which
should tell you something. Yet his followers remain loyal to him proving
indeed that there’s very little discernment in his flock. Jesus would
put it another way. If the blind lead the blind both will fall into a
ditch. And his people love to have it so. He puts on a good
nickel-and-dime show and Jim Bakker puts him on whenever his ratings
drop. Maybe Jonathan Cahn and Jim Bakker should read Matthew 23:8. Call no one on earth rabbi. DONALD STAMPS IN THE LIFE STUDY BIBLE PAGE 1,995 WRITES: "THE FALSE PROPHETS/TEACHERS WILL COMMERCIALIZE THE GOSPEL, BEING EXPERTS IN GREED AND IN GETTING MONEY FROM BELIEVERS TO ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES AND AFFLUENT LIFESTYLES. BELIEVERS MUST BE AWARE THAT ONE OF THE CHIEF METHODS OF FALSE MINISTERS IS TO USE FEIGNED WORDS TO TELL IMPRESSIVE STORIES THAT ARE NOT TRUE , OR TO GIVE EXAGGERATED STATISTICS IN ORDER TO INSPIRE GOD'S PEOPLE TO GIVE MONEY. THEY GLORIFY THEMSELVES AND ENHANCE THEIR MINISTRIES WITH THESE FABRICATED STORIES (cf 2nd Corinthians 2:17). THUS, THE UNWARY AND SINCERE CHILD OF GOD BECOMES AN OBJECT OF EXPLOITATION. BECAUSE THESE MINISTERS DEFILE GOD'S TRUTH AND PEOPLE WITH GREED AND DECEIT, THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO ETERNAL DOOM AND DESTRUCTION". 2 Corinthians 2:17 "You see, we are not like the many hucksters who preach for personal profit. We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ's authority, knowing that God is watching us".
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