Beware of false prophets

Gn 15,1-12.17-18; Ps 104; Mt 7,15-20
26 JUNE

False prophets have been the ruin of the ancient people of the Lord and are also the ruin of the new. A false prophet produces more damage in a single day than a thousand people opposed to Christ every day for a thousand years of hard and bitter fighting against the Gospel. Pagans have never destroyed the Church, indeed they have made her strong and invincible. For Christians their bloodshed for Christ was the seed of other Christians. Instead the Church was always lacerated and is lacerated by her false prophets, that is, by the false prophets that arose and are arising from her bosom. Today are the false Christian prophets not tearing the Church faith, morality, truth, theology, Scripture, Gospel, Revelation, Tradition, Magisterium, sacraments and ordained ministers? Is there only one truth or one principle on which the Church stands that has remained firmly in its place? Paul can also cry out that there is no other Gospel or that it produces salvation if preserved in its purity of origin. He can also cry it out, but who listens to him? Today, the empire is the realm of false prophecy. The more one is a false prophet and the more the world applauds and praises.

I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by (the) grace (of Christ) for a different gospel  (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach (to you) a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed! Am I now currying favor with human beings or God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ (Gal 1,6-12). Now I am reminding you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God (that is) with me. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed (1Cor 15,1-11).

Can we look out today from false prophets? There is only one way and it is expensive. We must be cemented in all ten Commandments of the Ancient Law, without ever leaving them. We must dwell in the Beatitudes and in all the Sermon on the Mount without ever looking either to the right or to the left. If we dwell in the Word, the Holy Spirit puts around our person his armour or his wall of fire that no false prophet might cross. Instead, if we go out a little or much of this enclosure protected and guarded by the Holy Spirit, we will be assaulted by the army of false prophets and dragged into falsehood, lie and deception. We will destroy the Church.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or  igs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them.

If we are out of the Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, the rule of the tree and the fruits no longer applies. This rule is applied from grace, never from vice, never from sin and never from disobedience. With sin in our heart, we become blind in mind and spirit. We see nothing. We will no longer distinguish a camel from a midge, let alone distinguishing a true from a false prophet. It is daily history.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that the Holy Spirit protects us with his wall of fire.