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All right, well, my message tonight
is called, Do We Have Prophets Today? I'm going to read from
Acts chapter 2, verse 16 says, But this is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in
the last days, saith God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young
men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And
on my servants and on my handmaidens, I will pour out in those days
of my spirit, and they shall prophesy." Father God, Lord,
I just pray that you would be with me as I deliver this message,
God, that you would keep me from error, Father. Thank you, Lord,
for your protection on Donald Trump, God, and just pray, God,
that you would continue to protect him, Lord. that you would just
cause him to fear you, Lord, and that he would know that it
is of you that he was saved, God. And Lord, we just pray that
you would bless this country again, and bless my preaching
tonight, God. Be with it, in Jesus' name, amen. So the Bible is a book of prophecy,
from the beginning to the end. It has multitudes of prophecies,
starting in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3, verse 14, it says,
And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast
of the field, upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. This is a general
curse in one sense. We know that the seed of the
woman, being the human race, has a dislike of snakes. We kill
snakes that we don't want around our children, or that eat eggs
out of our chicken coops. I had a man out to my house to
work on our air conditioner the other day, and his wife was with
him, and they encountered a small snake that had taken up residence
under the condenser unit beside the house. It was a garter snake,
I think, nothing to fear. But the man had his wife standing
guard with a pole to whack the snake if he stuck his head out
too far. But in a prophetic sense, we know that this foretold is
Jesus Christ, who would be born of a virgin and will be the ultimate
victor over Satan, crushing his head, though he would be bruised
on the cross for our sins. Prophecy is the hallmark of God,
who alone can tell the end from the beginning. God sent prophets
to Israel to warn them of judgment and call them to repentance.
Often, the children of Israel would despise the prophets and
seek to kill them. In Jeremiah 26, it says, In the
beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
came this word from the Lord, saying, Thus saith the Lord,
Stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak unto all the
cities of Judah which come to worship in the Lord's house all
the words that I command thee to speak unto them. Diminish
not a word. If so be they will hearken, and
turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of
the evil which I purposed to do unto them, because of the
evil of their doings. And thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in
my law which I have set before you, to hearken to the words
of my servants, the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising
up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened, Then will
I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse
to all the nations of the earth.' So the priests and the prophets
and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house
of the Lord. Now it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end
of speaking, all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto
the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the
people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Why hast thou
prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall
be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an
inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah
in the house of the Lord. When the princes of Judah heard
these things, then they came up from the king's house unto
the house of the Lord, and sat down in the entry of the new
gate of the Lord's house. Then spake the priests and the
prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This
man is worthy to die, for he hath prophesied against this
city, as ye have heard with your ears. This is what the prophets
often had to contend with, being threatened with death for speaking
the word of God to the rebellious children and evil kings. To be
a prophet meant speaking boldly to people who were set against
God, trusting him to protect them from their foolish wrath.
Verse 12 says, then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all
the people saying, the Lord sent me to prophesy against this house
and against this city all the words that ye have heard. Therefore
now amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of
the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent him of the evil that
he has pronounced against you. As for me, behold, I am in your
hand. Do with me as seemeth good and
meet unto you. But know ye for certain that
if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon
yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof.
For of a truth, the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all
these words in your ears. Jeremiah submitted his life to
God's hands and to the will of the people, with a warning that
if they killed him, it wouldn't go well for them. Thankfully,
God allowed some sober men to prevail upon the people. Then
said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to
the prophets, this man is not worthy to die, for he hath spoken
to us in the name of the Lord our God. Then rose up certain
of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of
the people saying, Micah, the Morasthite, prophesied in the
days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spake to all the people of
Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be
plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain
of the house as the high places of a forest. Did Hezekiah, king
of Judah, and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear
the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of
the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure
great evil against our souls. immediately we see in the next
verse that not all the prophets escaped with their lives. It
says, And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of
the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjeth-Jerom, who prophesied
against this city and against this land according to all the
words of Jeremiah. And when Jehoiakim the king with
all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the
king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard it, he was
afraid and fled and went to Egypt. And Jehoiakim, the king, sent
men into Egypt, namely El Nathan, the son of Akbor, and certain
men with him unto Egypt. And they fetched forth Uriah
out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim, the king, who
slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the graves
of the common people. Nevertheless, the hand of Ahicham,
the son of Shaphan, was with Jeremiah, that they should not
give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. I
can't say for sure, possibly it is because this Uriah feared
and fled when he should have stood his ground that he died.
But Jesus himself lamented the tendency of the Jews to kill
the people that were sent to them by God. Matthew 23, verse
37, he says, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets
and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I
have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not. So being a prophet was a
serious business. You wouldn't think that people
would want to be prophets when you read what they went through,
but there are always unscrupulous people who would use the office
for their own purposes. Perhaps personal enrichment or
the desire to be esteemed by men, but false prophets are not
hard to find even today, when we seem to be in a time where
God has ceased speaking to his people through prophets. God
gave some guidelines for judging whether or not a prophet was
truly sent by God. Deuteronomy chapter 13 verse
1 says, If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of
dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or
wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let
us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let
us serve them. Thou shalt not hearken unto the
words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord
your God proveth you to know whether ye love the Lord your
God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk
after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death,
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way
which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou
put evil away from the midst of thee. So God says that there
may be prophets that can give you a sign that will come to
pass. But that prophet may tell you to follow some other god,
in which case it is a test. Don't follow after other gods
just because some sign or wonder comes to pass. And the prophet
that tries to turn you away from the Lord is supposed to be put
to death. Of course, I'm not advocating that we kill false
prophets. This was the civil law of Israel. But we can test
the prophets of our day with the same criteria. If a man stands
up and gives you a sign to indicate that he is a prophet, but he's
a prophet for Baal or Vishnu or Buddha, he isn't a prophet,
he's a deceiver. Deuteronomy 18 verse 15 says,
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the
midst of thee of thy brethren like unto me, this is Moses,
unto him ye shall hearken. According to all that thou desirest
of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying,
let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let
me see this great fire anymore that I die not. And the Lord
said unto me, they have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. And he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass
that whosoever will not hearken unto my words, which he shall
speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet which
shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other
gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine
heart, how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not
spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the
thing follow not, nor come to pass, That is the thing which
the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously.
Thou shalt not be afraid of him." Here we have a similar commandment
to put a false prophet to death. This time, he may not be obviously
calling for the people to go after another god. Instead, it
says he is presumptuously speaking in God's name rather than speaking
what God has commanded him. And the way to know this is that
the thing he, the way to know this is that the thing he speaks
does not come to pass. God says, don't be afraid of
that guy. Put him to death. I'm bringing this topic up tonight
because of something that my wife brought to my attention.
I had seen some thumbnails and posts online talking about this
and hadn't paid it any mind, but Christy was insisting that
I should look at it. I was trying to write my message
for tonight, and I told her I would look at it when I had time, but
then my curiosity got the better of me, and I did some Googling
to find out who this guy was that people were saying had predicted
the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. I don't know if any of you saw
this. I was able to easily locate the source of the prediction.
It was a man named Brandon Biggs, and he was speaking on a video
with Steve, Ciccolanti, who I believe is a pastor in Australia of Discover
Church. I don't know much about either
of these men. I'm just now looking at this myself. From what I've
seen, watching the video, they appear to be sincere Christians
with a charismatic theology that includes speaking in tongues,
although I did not hear them do this, and prophecies and dreams. The prophecy in question comes
fairly early in a two-hour video, I'll read what he said. He says,
I saw Trump rising up and then I saw an attempt on his life
that this bullet flew by his ear and it came so close to his
head that it busted his eardrum. And I saw he was, he fell to
his knees during this timeframe and he started worshiping the
Lord. He got radically born again during this timeframe. I'm talking,
people say he's saved now, but he becomes really on fire for
Jesus for what I saw coming. Now on its surface, this seems
to be an eerily precise prediction of what happened when that young
man tried to take Donald Trump's life. We saw the video. The bullet grazed his ear and
he just narrowly avoided death by turning his head at just the
right moment. He did drop to his knees. I pray that he does
get born again if he isn't saved. I think having this type of wake-up
call could be what he needs to get him to trust in Jesus. Maybe
he is saved and this will wake him up and get him stirred up
to follow God. Did this man Brandon Biggs really
get this vision from God? I kind of wanted to believe after
seeing the video, but I have to test this like God commanded.
My skeptical side immediately told me that this could have
just been a lucky guess. Half of the country hates Donald
Trump, and it's not really a stretch to believe that someone hated
him enough to attempt to kill him. Presidential assassinations
are nothing new. If you're going to kill a presidential
candidate with Secret Service protection, you're going to have
to do it with a gun and from a distance. If you want to ensure
that the man dies, you're going to aim for his head. And if you
miss, the bullet is going to whiz past his ear. But still,
the prediction was so specific. Couldn't it be true prophecy?
He did say that Trump's eardrum was going to bust, which doesn't
appear to be the case. And the bullet actually hit his
ear, not just pass by it. But are these details really
important in the big picture? I don't know. We could set them
aside. What about Brandon Biggs' historical record of prophecies?
If he is a prophet, then he must have a list of prophecies somewhere
that came true. I can't find one. Although admittedly,
I haven't had enough time to deeply research the man. But
I have found others refuting his prophetic ministry. I'll
read a bit from this article on Protestia.com. There is a
video going around of a man prophesying in great detail about the assassination
attempt on Trump's life. But this is not something we
should marvel at. Instead, this whole video is nonsense. So who
is this prophet? Brandon Biggs has a YouTube channel
where he spends much of his time recounting visions and prophetic
dreams the Lord is giving him, sharing hundreds of prophecies
that he believes he is being shown. most involving the destruction
of the United States and upcoming doom and pestilence. These include
the Lord showing him an upcoming massive EMP attack on America
from Oriental people using missiles from the USSR to take out half
the Midwest, that Italy will have a massive volcano eruption
that will cause major devastation, that there will soon be another
plague that will kill 350 million people, that there will be a
major earthquake that results in helicopters having to fly
in food for hundreds of cities across America because all the
bridges will collapse across the country. He's described in
vivid detail the upcoming start of World War III, regaling his
audience of all the details of how that will begin, and notably,
has previously falsely prophesied a major crash of the economy
in 2013, urging everyone to buy rations and supplies, which resulted
in anyone who believed him suffering financial hardships In fact,
he had to personally call up everyone he falsely prophesied
to and say sorry, and was subsequently forbidden by one pastor from
ever prophesying in their church again. He also falsely prophesied
around this time that silver would go up to $100 an ounce
and that the Iraqi dinar would skyrocket, also urging everyone
to invest in it, even though it tanked and they again all
lost their shirts. Furthermore, 28-second sound clips are fun,
but let's look at the whole conversation to see what else he's saying.
Immediately prior to the prophecy, Biggs says that the upcoming
Passover will accelerate politics, war, etc., and there will be
record-breaking temperatures, including the largest tornadoes
we have ever seen in history, 150 mph microburst winds lasting
into the fall season. We'll be looking for these. As
it pertains to prophecies about assassination attempts on the
president, the bar is really low. The prediction that someone
might try to take out one of the most hated men in America,
one who gets compared to Hitler on a regular basis and has the
entire forces of the mainstream media against him, driving the
narrative that he must be stopped at all costs, is basically par
for the course. Notably, this quote from Tucker
Carlson in 2023 is also obviously prophetic. If you begin with
criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, Now
you go to indictment and none of them work. What's next? Graph
it out, man. We're speeding towards assassination,
obviously. They have decided, Permanent
Washington, both parties have decided that there's something
about Trump that's so threatening to them, they just can't have
him." So he made some other predictions
in the video, and also since the assassination attempt happened.
in a follow-up video with Steve Cicillante, including another
assassination attempt on Trump, this time by a woman. He's predicting
a market crash after Trump gets elected, and the giant earthquake
mentioned in that article that he says will be centered on the
New Madrid Fault, which has worried geologists since the great earthquakes
that were recorded in 1811 and 1812. So I believe, at this time,
that Mr. Biggs is not a true prophet in
any real sense, If he has made prophetic statements that did
not come to pass, the Bible is clear that he is a false prophet
and not to be feared. His message that Christians need
to be ready and wake up because time is short is true, but we
all got that notice from God in the scriptures. But I think
we need to keep an open mind when someone claims to be a prophet
as we read at the beginning of this message in Acts that there
will be an outpouring of the Spirit in the last days. Again,
it said, but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will
pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants and
on my handmaidens, I will pour out in those days of my spirit,
and they shall prophesy. Peter applied the prophecy to
what was occurring at Pentecost. But we know that oftentimes prophecies
in the Bible have more than one fulfillment. I believe that we
are in the end times now, and we will see this prophecy fulfilled
literally again. We know some people who have
claimed to dream dreams that have not come to pass. I'm not
afraid of their dreams, and you shouldn't be afraid of them either.
But I know that God still operates in the affairs of men, and I
believe God can give people dreams even today. But I'd be very careful
about calling myself a prophet if I thought God had delivered
something to me in a dream. 1 Corinthians 13 verse 8 says,
Charity never faileth. But whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they
shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which
is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done
away. I believe that these gifts of the Spirit that operated in
the early church, tongues and prophecy, they ceased. And outside
of special circumstances that God may still use these things
in, we do not have these gifts operating in our churches in
a genuine capacity. I think the charismatic movement
is promoting a counterfeit Holy Spirit movement that God did
not ordain. That doesn't mean we should not hear someone when
they claim to have a prophecy, because I do believe it will
return, but we have to test the spirits. In Luke 7, verse 19,
it says, Calling unto him, two of his
disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should
come, or look we for another? When the men were come unto him,
they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art
thou he that should come, or look we for another? And in that
same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of
evil spirits, and unto many that were blind he gave sight. Then
Jesus answering said unto them, go your way and tell John what
things ye have seen and heard, how that the blind see, the lame
walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,
to the poor the gospel is preached. And blessed is he whosoever shall
not be offended in me. And when the messengers of John
were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John,
what went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the
wind? But what went ye out for to see?
A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously
appareled and live delicately are in kings' courts. But what
went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you,
and much more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare
thy way before thee. For I say unto you, among those
that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than
John the Baptist, but he that is least in the kingdom of God
is greater than he." Jesus says that the least in the kingdom
of God is greater than the greatest prophet, and we are told to seek
first the kingdom of God, not to seek signs and prophecies.
Let's be busy doing what we know we should be doing, knowing that
the time is short, not because a prophet told us this, but because
the Bible, which has proven itself already through prophecy, has
told us this, and we can see the signs of the soon return
of Jesus already beginning to occur. Father God, Lord, I thank you,
God, for your word that you preserved for us, God, that we can know
the things that are to come on this world. We know that the
time is short, God, and I pray, Father, you would help us, Lord,
to be busy about your business, Lord, And God, I do pray, Father,
that we would have ears to hear, Lord, when you are speaking to
us, God, and help us to have discernment, Lord, to know when
you are not speaking to us. I wanna thank you so much for
this church, and thank you for this opportunity to speak. In
Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Do Prophets Exist Today?
Did a prophet foresee the attempt on Donald Trump's life?
| Sermon ID | 71824259372830 |
| Duration | 23:28 |
| Date | |
| Category | Current Events |
| Bible Text | Acts 2:16-18; Deuteronomy 18:15-22 |
| Language | English |
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