Falling Prophets

Big news items like the Iran war and the 2020 pandemic seem to have the same effect on Christian ‘prophets’ as sherbert has on toddlers. Wound up, giddy with excitement and feverish in their analysis, they enthusiastically manufacture YouTube videos which are liked by thousands, several of whom proceed to share with me just in case I have missed them. Their predictions of national destruction, holy judgement and calls for repentance in the Church are repeated with ever increasing levels of buttock-clenching and eye-swivelling. The Rev Chris Wickland, for example, seems to be the flavour of the month, with people hanging on his every word and lapping up his prophetic utterances. This is a little surprising after he apparently did the right thing and apologised for his dud predictions and pseudo-prophetic claims, but Hey Presto! he has made a comeback, and even some of the  good folk I know are busily enjoying the benefits of his profound insight and wisdom. He is now calling himself a vicar and dresses accordingly, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of a need for greater gravitas.

As the Bible is UTTERLY SILENT on the last days’ moral decline, the wider Church’s weakness and corruption, the existence of wars and rumours of war, the proliferation of false religion, the persecution of Christians and the moral turpitude unleashed by godless governments, we can only be grateful that these wise men and women have courageously sought to plug the gaps in our knowledge and compensate for the apostles’ prophetic negligence. And as our friend, Vicar Chris, bravely apologised for false prophecy, we can rest assured that everything he now says is going to be spot on.

War in the middle east? Persecuted Christians? Instability, death and disease? We weren’t expecting any of that.

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. Jeremiah 5:13

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