The Number Of False Prophets Will Increase

While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age? Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error]. For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray. Matthew 24:3-5

Ask yourself this question: how many people right now say that they are Christians when they really aren’t? How many wolfs in sheep’s clothing are there in the world right now attempting to cause people to trust in themselves and our powers to please our Father, Matthew 7:15? Or how many preachers are preaching that we need to trust, accept, and believe through our own free will?  How many are teaching us that we need to first choose, on our own, to live right? 

So many people use the name of Jesus, while they mainly claim that we have the power, on our own, to accept or deny, when the Truth is that it is all Jesus causing us to do everything, John 15:5. Without Jesus we can do nothing! These false prophets have a form of godliness, but they deny that it is all Christ within us doing everything, 2 Timothy 3:5. They will talk about how we have to love, but they will not teach the glorious Truth that Jesus ever lives within us and because He does, we love as He loves, John 17:26. From the pulpit they will proclaim that we must have faith to please our Father and yet they fail to mention in the sermon that we cannot help but to have faith because Jesus ever lives to Author and Finish our faith, Hebrews 12:2. They will talk about how they accepted Jesus, they will even give a date when they did, when the Truth is that we were chosen by our Father, Matthew 22:14. The glorious Truth is that we did not first choose Jesus, He first chose us. He chose us even with all of our faults and shortcomings and He will never change His mind about having us, Romans 11:29. We only came to Jesus because we were empowered and enlightened by our Father to come to Him, John 6:44.

So we don’t necessarily look for people specifically saying that they are Jesus, even though many will say this. We also look at the false prophets who want to place all of the burden of righteousness on ourselves and not on Jesus, Who is our Shepherd, our Head, our Vine, our Master, our Potter, and our Lord. The anti-christ will not appear to the world to be anti-Jesus. He is the anti-christ. That means that he is anti our Father’s power causing everything to happen through us.