There is an account in the bible which tells of a king planning to go to war against his opponent. The bible describes the gaggle of prosperity prophets in the twenty-second chapter of First Kings. Please take time to read it so you will be more careful how you choose your source of information. It will also help you to understand your recent national past did not take God by surprise. Indeed, there is nothing new under the earth.
What is particularly interesting is that the prophets who told the leader he would prosper in battle were so many. There were so many of them that it was impossible to ignore them; they were on the airwaves and social media. They fell over one another trying to gain the king’s attention and win the popularity prize. One of them made a video of himself wearing horns of iron.
On the other hand, there was a single voice that told the king the truth. And what do you think the king did? He locked the sole truth-telling prophet up and gave him the bread of affliction as his daily ration. 
Consequently, no one heard his voice warning the king against going into battle. The only message permeating the entire nation was from the gaggle of prosperity prophets.
That king decided to mount a battle and who could blame him? All his prophets echoed one another in pronouncing he would prosper in the battle. However, on the inside, he believed the lone prophet who was in lockup. Ahab therefore craftily switched places with Jehoshaphat, knowing that the lone silenced prophet was usually right. He wanted to be watching the battle from the safety of his fortress while his foot soldiers suffered and died.
God Is In Control Still
Despite Ahab’s cunning and Jehoshaphat’s seeming gullibility, God still managed to right all these wrongs. Accidentally, it would seem, God caused an arrow to strike Ahab. Ahab died in battle and the soldiers were scatted just as Micaiah had prophesied. On the contrary, Jehoshaphat escaped and only because he ignored the prosperity prophets and believed the voice of God.
Whose voice do you believe? Regardless of our various locales, our recent past has exposed the gaggle of prosperity prophets in our midst. And just as they did with Ahab, they fully fooled many believers. But you do not have to be among the deceived ones, which is why this post is so critical. You see, as it was in the beginning, so it is now and so shall it be. The false prophets were there in Ahab’s time, they are here now and they will still be here in the future.
They falsely prophesied prosperity and success but God exposed their falsehood and has done it again this time. When they return with their prophecies in the future, who will you believe? Will you go on listening to false prophets or will you seek the voice of the God who is in charge? The answer should be straightforward but the gaggle of prosperity prophets is so clamorous that you may miss it. For the avoidance of doubt, you must believe the voice of God.
But unless you have trained yourself in listening to God, you may still miss it. And there is nothing to be ashamed of in saying you cannot recognize the voice of God. After all, the prophet Samuel started out not recognizing the voice of God until the third time.
Differentiating Between God And The Gaggle of Prosperity Prophets
That was when Pastor Eli recognized God wanted to talk to the youth and counseled him on a fitting response. If with similar humility, you listen for God’s voice, you will very soon know when God is speaking. That was how Jehoshaphat knew to avoid the gaggle of prosperity prophets in his day. Their word did not agree with what he knew of God.
And Jehoshaphat’s strategy is how you too will know. Say, for instance, a prophet tells you to divorce your spouse, will you believe that prophet? You would not because you may have seen somewhere in the bible that God hates divorce. The word of the prophet must align with the mind of God which we see clearly in the bible. The word of God is how you differentiate God’s voice from that of the gaggle of prosperity prophets. That in turn means you must be extremely familiar with your bible.
Are you versed in the word of God? Or are you the type of Christian that every wind of doctrine blows away? That last thought is straight out of the bible, just in case you didn’t know. We paste the entire passage here because it is so relevant to our topic. “That we should no longer be children. Tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine. By the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.” Ouch!
If you refuse to learn the voice of God, you are a spiritual child is what I see from the verse. And how does the world treat children? It manipulates them. Or to paraphrase the bible, it tosses them to and fro, carrying them about with every wind of doctrine. Another ouch!
Who Will You Believe
And how does the bible say the world manipulates? By the trickery of men and in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. What that says to me is that the gaggle of prosperity prophets deliberately told lies by deceitful plotting. There was nothing accidental or innocent in their false prophecies to the king. They plotted to deceive the king and his followers.
Thank God that Jehoshaphat knew to avoid the gaggle of prosperity prophets. He saved himself alive and so can you and that is the real reason we are writing this piece. As you know, we are severely apolitical on this blog. But you need to know that whatever you may be observing in your nation now, God is way ahead of it.
We need you to choose your source of information with great care. It is similar to that which we earlier wrote about choosing your coach with care. What is your source of information? I can tell you without fear of controversy that if it is the bible, you will not suffer defeat or loss. It does not matter how clamorous the gaggle of prosperity prophets is, you will not regret listening to God.
Maranatha!
