Topic: False prophets and deception

Question

Matthew 24:24: “And there shall rise false prophets, and false christs, and false prophets, and will show great signs and wonders.” How shall we recognize them?

Answer

“There shall rise…” In that now you’re coming on down into another age. See? “…raise false christs and false prophets.” A false christ is a false anointed, because Christ is the Anointed. How many knows that the Christ means “the anointed One”? There will be false anointed ones, and they’ll call the...

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Matthew 24:26 (next) speaks of a “certain chamber” and “in the desert places.” What does this mean?

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It means that there will be antichrists, anti-anointings, so forth. And what is anti? Anti is “against.” It’ll be these same creatures against the Word. “And they’ll be in the desert and the secret chambers.” Then He said, “Don’t go after it. Stay away from it.” See? Now the fourth question:

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Was Paul describing infidels when he wrote of people 'having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof'?

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Let’s look at the great Saint Paul. When he stood there with his eyes of faith, looked across the seas of time, he said, “In the last days it shall come to pass.” How in the last days they’d be heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: go out on Sunday afternoon and play golf in...

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What does the existence of a counterfeit prove?

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The devil has just got a…The devil has a pattern of everything God has real. The Babylon was made a pattern of heaven, all the natural. See? Just exactly. There is a real genuine Christian, filled with the Holy Ghost; there’s a whole lot of hypocrites that just act like it. See, see? But that really...

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Is communism the antichrist?

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Notice, how from the beginning Satan has been so close. Now, a lot of people say today, “Oh, Brother Branham, don’t you think that communism is awful?” Yes, it’s awful. But that’s not the antichrist. No, sir. Jesus said the antichrist would be so close like the real, it would deceive the very elect...

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Is Russia the antichrist?

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Now some of them said, “Oh, Russia’s the antichrist.” Never! Russia is not the antichrist. The antichrist is going to be so religious it’ll fool the very Elect if possible. Remember, God takes His man, but never His Spirit. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. Now, there they are. Suit you...

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Is the antichrist spirit Communism?

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And, watch, it’s moving right out today in a terrible force. Oh, it behooves you, my brother, sister, to consider what you’re listening at, and don’t you never underestimate Satan’s power for deceiving. Don’t you never underestimate him. He’s smooth as he can be. And the antichrist spirit isn’t Comm...

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What do the devil's counterfeits show about the things of God?

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Course we know the devil has patterns and types of everything that God has. Everything that Satan has is secondarily that he patterned off of God. Every bogus thing has—has something original to be made off of. If there was no real dollar, the bogus dollar would be the original in the first. And as...

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What kind of spirit is the antichrist spirit?

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Here’s what it is, the antichrist spirit is not the communistic spirit. The antichrist spirit is a religious spirit. I have delivered my soul; that’s what God was wanting me to, right there. Amen. Father, we thank Thee. Now, I—I am Your servant, and I believe with all of my heart as sure as I believ...

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What does the account of Jannes and Jambres withstanding Moses show about true and false signs?

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Moses, upon his signs…He went and performed them one time before Israel, and they went a forty year journey following him. Is that right? Yes, sir. Performed it one time…Healed his hand of leprosy, made stick—cane he had, walking stick become a serpent, and back to a stick. They believed. And when t...