False Prophets

Repost: Jun 22, 2006

Current mood:contemplative

I was posed a question not too long ago. A friend once asked me if I thought that people who preached one life but lived another were false prophets.
What she really wanted to know was did their words mean anything even if they did not live by them. I had asked that question too becuase I was questioning someone close to me in my life at the time.
Now that I think about this topic of false prophets, I realize some truths in life. False prophets do exist. They are the people who are strictly out to play with the people's mind. They make the wheels of Babylon turn and they profit from this. Just in Mexico, I encountered a guy who was bragging and talking loud about shopping at a Louis Vuitton store for the second time in Cancun and he has also shopped at one in Rome and London. As it turned out, he was a bishop of a very well known "mega-church". Now I would like to think that he is not spending the tithes and offerings of this church all over the world. But let's be real...Half his church - I am willing to bet that more than half of his church probably have never even left the states...but I degress....

But there is another group. And I believe that God really speaks through these people...but the message is before their time. The words are real and they come from God, however the messenger is human. They too fall down. We all are sinners - let's be real. This does not make them any worse than any other person. Jah simply puts the word in their mouth and for some reason or another...they, themselves are not digesting it.
Often times in Christianity you find masses of the people diefying their pastors and not really realizing that they too are human and not the Creator. They make their fall from grace a mighty big one and we have to realize that the pastor is just the message giver. Yes, of course they should live the life! But they will sin too and we should never put them on the same level as God. They are but human...
Also in the Rasta lifestyle, we find sistren and brethren among us who diefy Bob Marley. Bob was just a man and if anyone knows...he was not always a great one. Bob had many sins and he does not wholly equate Rastafari nor does Rastafari equate him. This is not to defame Bob - for I love him too...but for the messages that he gave. The lessons he taught and forever continues to teach. Just because he was who he was, it does not make his message any less promising. His message was from the Creator.
So in these days when we have so many false prophets, we have to be smart enough to know people's true intentions. Open your eyes and open you minds to hear what is really being said to you. What path is your brother or sister leading you down? Watch who you listen to. Empathize, understand and be patient with someone who speaks of the light but has not yet really seen the light.
There are false prophets and these days they are popping up all over the place...especially in the United States...now chew on that for a moment....