Prophetic pastors are gifted people who can interpret the bible, foresee what the future has in store and deliver a certain message from God or warn people against something. For example a calamity about to unfold if people do not change their ways. While a prophecy is the power of foretelling future happening or it can be defined as a statement made by a prophet saying what will happen in the future. What these prophets say are definite and not mere facts.
Most people assume that prophecy is connected to judgment so we tend to become uncomfortable when we hear prophetically preaching. Other people are ready to change their ways of living by repenting and living righteously. That is why you will see that in churches and crusades many will want to surrender their old ways and turn to Christ.
A church should have prophetical pastors so that they can be able to interpret what is written in the bible, guide them in ways of the Lord and warn them against God impending punishment if they do not change their ways.
These days people are more aware of them and are not afraid to expose them. But one of the common characteristics about these false prophetic pastors is that they attack and insult those who expose them and they do not stop what they are doing proving to people that what they are doing is right when it actually it is not.
These false prophetic pastors extort money from their congregation in form of tithe and offering who innocently give out without knowing. They also claim to have certain powers such as healing the sick, making the blind to see or even helping a barren woman to get a child only on the condition that they will bring an offering in terms of monetary value.
In some nations this discovery of false prophetic pastors using the authority they have to exploit people has been taken seriously. Like in many African nations these false prophets are reported to the police and their churches closed down. Some of them are even jailed for many years for this act.
Since most nations have granted their citizens the freedom of worship it has become very easy for these false prophetic to penetrate into the minds of people. People believe in them to the extent of showering them with monetary gifts such as luxurious houses cars and expensive clothing. What they say is taken as the truth and that they are definitely in the right path.
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