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 18:21-22 (ESV)
Dr. Michael Brown is at it again. With the marching orders from his dominionist boss, Steven Strang, Brown is again trying to rehabilitate the fake trump prophets from 2020. Just to recap - the entire Charismatic False Prophet Industrial Complex came out in unison that God told them that Donald Trump was going to win the 2020 election - period, full stop. How do we know this? Because they said so. They prophesied in direct relation to the upcoming election. There was no ambiguity to it. To try and claim in 2024 that somehow, they were just confused about the timing is ludicrously stupid and transparently fake. It is akin to when the idiot fireman Mark Taylor prophesied in 2012 that Trump was going to win the presidency and then somehow transferred it over to 2016. That guy still pretends that he "got it right" when clearly, he did not. This prophetic moving of the goalposts is entirely self-serving and painfully obvious. I say this as a backdrop because we should not lose sight that prophecy, is the claim that God has spoken to the prophet to relay a message to His people. It is not meant to be clairvoyance. The problem is Charismania, which Dr. Brown vociferously defends, has left the confines of scripture to redefine what prophecy is today. There are no scriptures that support the notion that God changed what prophecy is today from what it was in the Old Testament. The bottom line however is always the bottom line - money. The False Prophet Industrial Complex is a multi-million-dollar industry. Lying about what God has said is quite lucrative and no one defends the brand like Dr. Michael Brown. So, let us reason once more together through the above linked article where he once again tries to rehabilitate the reputations of the exposed hucksters from 2024.
"When the body of Christ is shaken by prophecies, how do we restore the integrity of the prophetic? In an exclusive interview with Charisma Media, Dr. Michael Brown discussed prophetic integrity and how we can use discernment when prophecies are inaccurate or don't come to pass. Looking specifically at the 2020 election and the multiple prophecies that were given that Donald Trump would win a second term, to now seeing him re-elected again four years later, Dr. Brown provides insight on how we can navigate these prophetic words.
One of the first things Brown points out is that there were some who were explicit in their prophecies, saying Trump would have eight consecutive years in the Oval Office. "There were those who guaranteed Biden would not be inaugurated," says Brown. "I watched them prophesy by name. I even reached out to them to try to interact without success. I watched them say after the results were given in favor of Joe Biden, I watched them say, 'No, it's going to be reversed"' they were saying the elections will be overturned that Trump really won. They were prophesying that Trump truly was the president. He was the spiritual president and the earthly president. Brown says that along with these very determined beliefs that Trump would win, some continued to prophesy that a coup would happen and Biden's time as the president would end. "So, in point of fact, when they said that he will win, they meant in 2020. When the election results were announced against him, they said the elections were stolen," Brown says." - Charisma News
How do we restore integrity to the prophetic? I know the answer to that one! Stop platforming and defending false prophets! Are you kidding me! The issue is not that the body of Christ were shaken by prophecies. It's that we were shaken by FALSE prophecies! I want to use an example Dr. Brown recently mocked. Even though he did not identify the false prophet, Goggle reveals that it was MAGA dominionist Johnny Enlow. It seems that Enlow claimed that God showed him before the 2020 election Donald Trump sitting on a throne, holding a scepter, indicating he was going to win the election. He of course lost by seven million votes. When Dr. Brown allows things like this to go unchecked, he defames God Himself. Johnny Enlow received no such vision from God. In all likelihood, he made the entire thing up. In the Old Testament he would be stoned to death and while that punishment no longer fits the culture, the benchmarks for who is a real prophet remain unchanged. The key verses are God saying how we are to judge if a so-called prophet is speaking on behalf of the Lord or on behalf of himself. The evaluation is very simple. Did the word come to pass and the resounding answer from this gaggle of snake oil salesmen was no. It does not matter how much Dr. Brown tries to provide cover. Note as well from the key verses that this is how we determine if the Lord has NOT spoken! God is very much aware that hucksters and liars will presume to speak on His behalf. Note one of the trademark tactics Dr. Brown employs here. He opens up by trying to disarm the reader into thinking he is somehow being reasonable. This is only a set up however for the actual reason for the article and that is to defend those that are false. Mind you, the criticism here is spot on. These liars not only missed by seven million votes, clearly indicating that God had never spoken to them, but then they refused to admit they were wrong and continued to lie about what God clearly did not say. As if God somehow did not know that the election would be stolen, please. Now that Brown has disarmed the reader, he launches into his real agenda:
"Another point that Brown makes is the possibility that some could have seen in the spirit the outcome for 2024, but this goes to show why prophets are not to give dates and times of when words will be fulfilled. "First Peter one tells us the Old Testament prophets, when God spoke to them about the sufferings of Jesus and the glory that would follow, God told them, 'No, no, no; this is not for you. This is for a future generation.' Any of us that have heard the Lord prophetically know that timing is very difficult, so unless you have a very specific word from God with times and dates, often something starts and then stops and then picks up later on, or you think it's going to be now, but it's five years down the line. So that's why they could have said, 'We really believe that Trump is going to be a two-term president, whether it's now or in four years"' that would have been one thing. They didn't say that," he says." - Charisma News
Ahh, so it must have been Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the candlestick! Seriously, we start to see the deflection. Instead of standing his ground for the integrity of the Lord, Brown offers up "possibilities" to explain away what he just argued! Oh, maybe they just saw the reelection in the spirit but for 2024! Their problem was in giving dates! How absurdly ridiculous! This revisionist history is dangerous and blasphemes the name of God. Brown using 1Peter also makes no sense. He admits God told the Old Testament prophets that what God was speaking was not for them, but rather for a future generation. None of the false prophets Brown is excusing said any such thing. They all said God told them specifically for 2020. Even if they did not say 2020, their false prophecies were about the election that was going on! By the way, how powerful would the prophecy had been if they had specifically said that Trump would be reelected but not until 2024! Odd that God never told one of them what was actually going to happen, isn't it? God knew obviously that Biden would crush Trump and then narrowly win in 2024 but He told none of them? Instead, we have to consider this fanciful notion that all of these idiots saw 2024 but what? They misheard God? God was speaking too low for them to hear? Was God purposefully misleading? If God was truly speaking to these charlatans, then why would He not tell them that Trump would not win until 2024? Imagine how powerful that would have been! As Brown points out however - they did not say that! Then why offer up the possibility that they just somehow missed the date? Because Dr. Brown is not trying to stand up for God. He is trying to protect the brand.
