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Scenario One: As a prophet, you forsee an impending calamity and you prophesy it for all to heed and hopefully avert by either prayers or actions, the whole social media will launch an attack on you, calling you a prophet of doom, fake prophet, etc. Some will even conjure that you released such damning and fearful prophecy to instil fear into the affected people's minds so as to get them to fearfully come see you.

Scenario Two: A dreadful event occurs and you never prophesied or atleast forewarned about it, the same human beings will launch an attack, bare their fang and ask why you didn't forsee such event if you were a true man of God. Many will use that event to conclude that for the fact that you didn't see the calamity before hand means you are not a real prophet.

Scenario Three: As a prophet, you forsee an impending calamity or event and you go ahead to forewarn or prophesy of it and the people directly or remotely involved will take the necessary precautions (which can be prayers or actions) and the impending calamity or event is averted, people will jump out again to label you a fake prophet because they have waited for your prophecy to occur and it didn't. Most of them may not understand that the purpose of the prophecy was not for the prophet to bask in it's occurance but to warn to act against that occurrence.

Scenario Four: This is perhaps the one that will keep the prophet as a 'true prophet' before a people like Nigerians. Here as a prophet, you prophesy it and you wish and pray for it to still occur so that everybody who sees the calamity or event will remember that you prophesied it.
But the problem with this is that it raises you before me but makes you fall out with God because the purpose of revealing it ab-initio was to guide into getting it averted and not to wish it occurs to save face and self glory before the world.




Most times when I read the kind of verbal attacks easily hauled at these men of God, I just feel pity for them.

wrong, it is rather very lucrative to be a prophet in Nigeria. they are among the richest class in Nigeria. bleep verbal attack and give me the money, i will gladly be a prophet.

The person is not yet ready to be a prophet or probably not called by God. Because if he's, he will hearken to God's voice in Ezekiel 2:6

6 And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people.

Eyeview,
Brother, from my understanding, if a prophet prophesies an event...then it had better come to pass.
Or else, that person is a false prophet...simply.


King James Version Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

We aren't supposed to speak what we think but rather what God has revealed...and it MUST come to pass...in order for that person to be a true prophet. That's why not everyone is given that gift.
This isn't weather-forecasting..where one's guess is purely probable guessing..if I can call it that.

MZLady39:
Eyeview,
Brother, from my understanding, if a prophet prophesies an event...then it had better come to pass.
Or else, that person is a false prophet...simply.


King James Version Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

We aren't supposed to speak what we think but rather what God has revealed...and it MUST come to pass...in order for that person to be a true prophet. That's why not everyone is given that gift.
This isn't weather-forecasting..where one's guess is purely probable guessing..if I can call it that.

So by your assertion, Jonah didn't hear from God and must be a false prophet since what he prophesied to Niniveh didn't come to pass.

johnydon22:
wrong, it is rather very lucrative to be a prophet in Nigeria. they are among the richest class in Nigeria. bleep verbal attack and give me the money, i will gladly be a prophet.

What is this one saying?

Nigeria has very great Prophets recognized throughout the world, but it is the wolves disguised as a shepherd who have sullied the reputation of the prophets. The latter have received no calls from God, so they become great crooks.

eyeview:
So by your assertion, Jonah didn't hear from God and must be a false prophet since what he prophesied to Niniveh didn't come to pass.

No Jonah heard God and was supposed to preach the Word he was given. He was basically giving the city of Nineveh a warning from God that they would be destroyed if they didn't repent. Jonah was absolutely a prophet of God. However, he chose not to be obedient...hence the big fish situation.
Now God can change His mind whenever He so desires...which is what He did with Nineveh.

Jonah 3:4-5, 10
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

They repented....and God didn't destroy them.

It did not make Jonah a false prophet....Jonah specifically prophesied what he was told. The people listened, changed and God changed His mind. See God is not a God of death. He doesn't delight in destroying people.

I see what you are trying to say though.

I think there were multiple lessons shown through this story that were greater than Jonah being a prophet.

Prophets, as I have learned, are told to say specific things to God's people...mainly about repenting, turning a people towards God and getting ready for the Lord's coming.