PROPHETIC

CONFRONTATION

by Jonas Clark

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PROPHETIC CONFRONTATIONS

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PROPHETIC

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very move of God, outpouring, time of

Erefreshing and relevant truth for a

particular generation has battled its own

particular demonic resistance. That also holds

true for prophetic ministry.

Apostles and prophets are both apostolic

gifts. Apostolic in the sense of being sent-ones,

foundational in calling, and given to serve the

body of Christ and equip the born-again

believer in distinct ways. One particular, yet

pervasive tactic of the enemy against

prophetic ministry is the introduction of faux

prophetic operations and unhallowed

defilement. True prophetic people have seen

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false prophets precede them. This makes the

acceptance of their ministry much more

difficult. The reason for this is because

prophetic ministry is a stalwart opponent of

Satan. To stop the prophetic ministry the

enemy must interpose a counterfeit,

something that looks and sounds like Christ's

true prophetic ministry but is not. Satan is the

master deceiver and knows ancient weapons

of seduction needed to deceive all save the

most mature and discerning.

Christ is still calling, training, activating

and sending His prophets into the world He

loves. Even as prophets are sent into the world

there remains a continuing effort by the

prince of darkness to introduce prophetic

defilement into prophetic ministry. This is

why emerging prophets need to learn from

seasoned prophets and established spiritual

leaders. These prophetic contaminants are

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deceptive cancers sent to vitiate true prophetic

ministry. Like cancer, prophetic debasement is

progressive. Sometimes prophetic defilement

is dormant or hidden and at other times

hideously apparent. Once I was with several

people praying and heard some of them

prophesy. I was uneasy in my spirit because

there was something that wasn’t quite right.

Maybe you have been in meetings like that

too. Something appeared foreign and strange. I

couldn’t seem to put my finger on it at the

time so I continued to pray. As time went by

the Holy Spirit began to talk to me ever so

softly. “There are things in their lives defiling

them. There is no longer a desire for holiness,

they have a blend, an unholy mixture." That

unholy concoction He called “prophetic

defilement.” It can be likened to that “strange

fire” the sons of Aaron brought into the

temple that ushered God’s judgment on their

lives (Leviticus 10:1). As you read this work,

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pray the Holy Spirit increases your spiritual

discernment. You may be familiar with the

spirit of Jezebel that attacks prophetic ministry

but let’s examine these less familiar and

unholy contaminates too.

SEDUCING DECEPTIONS

Satan has been diligently implementing

his strategy of prophetic defilement. For you

to be effective in prophetic ministry you must

not be seduced by his deceptions. Throughout

this essay we will unmask various demonic

assignments that introduce unholy mixtures

into the prophetic ministry. “How could it

happen?” you ask. Are there any early

warning signs? Can we protect ourselves? Are

there foreign spirits training prophetic people?

How do we discern the true from the false?

These are some of the questions we will

explore. Let's get started.

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We are in the times of “the restitution of

all things,” including prophetic ministry (Acts

3:21). There continues to be a restoration of

prophets and prophetic grace released in our

generation. Christ has not changed since his

resurrection and ascension. God is still giving

gifts to men. He continues calling, training,

activating and releasing prophets into His

Church. There was a time, not too long ago,

when the only five-fold ascension gifts

embraced within the Church were evangelists

and pastors. Many didn’t even identify the

unique ascension gift of teacher. Yes, many

believed there were evangelists, but some

taught there were not any prophets and

certainly were no apostles. Today this has

changed and many agree that there are five

distinct ascension gifts of apostles, prophets,

evangelists, pastors and teachers all called to

perfect the Saints for the work of the ministry,

for the edifying of the body of Christ

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(Ephesians 4:11-12). As a prophet you already

know that. Christ didn’t remove any ascension

gifts from His Church and all five are still vital

and functioning today. With the restoration of

all five gifts working together, we can expect

at least five things to happen:

1. There will be a greater release of true

prophets, speaking with true prophetic

utterances throughout the Church.

2. The devil will oppose prophetic

ministry by releasing deceitful spirits

into the prophetic ministry speaking

with mystical voices.

3. There will be a danger of true prophets

speaking with false prophetic

utterances. These false prophetic

operations will release defilement and

discredit true prophetic ministry.

4. There will be a strong prophetic release

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that will make a way for restoring

God’s apostolic government within

local churches.

5. There will be a separation of true

prophets from deceived prophets into

different companies leading to a

prophetic confrontation with foreign

spirits of divination such as Jezebel and

Baal.

Spiritual confrontation within prophetic

ministry is historic. Examples include Micaiah,

Elijah and Jeremiah. Micaiah contended with

King Ahab’s prophets, Elijah and Jeremiah

battled the prophets of Jezebel and Baal. The

Apostle Paul and Barnabas also confronted

Elymas the sorcerer who withstood them at

Paphos. The true will always face-off against

the false. Jeremiah's prophetic ministry is an

example of that face-off. His apostolic

assignment and prophetic confrontation took

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place because the prophetic ministers of his

day:

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Failed to address sin

•

Pursued idols

•

Concentrated on amassing personal

wealth

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Pursued power, status and prestige

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Did nothing to turn the people from

sin toward God

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Led the people of God astray

Because of neglect of God’s house and self-

centered idolatry in the land, God anointed

Jeremiah to oppose an erring prophetic

movement that was leading people astray.

Let’s take a look.

Mine heart within me is broken

because of the prophets; all my bones

shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a

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man whom wine hath overcome, because

of the Lord, and because of the words of

his holiness. (Jeremiah 23:9)

Jeremiah, speaking by the Spirit of God

said, “My heart is broken because of the

prophets.” Notice he didn’t say false prophets.

The word prophet means prophetic voice. In

other words, Jeremiah’s heart was broken

because of the false prophetic operations of

these wayward prophets. We can see the

anointing of the Spirit on him as he shakes

under the power of God. He looked like a

"drunken man.” This shaking is an indication

of the powerful anointing that engulfed him.

He had the Word of the Lord in his mouth

and was made ready to address the prophets in

the land. A prophetic showdown was about to

take place. Prophetic ministry can’t avoid

spiritual confrontations with worldliness,

carnal Christianity and faux prophetic

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operations. This is part of prophetic ministry.

Scripture says God seeks for a voice that "calls

for justice and pleads for truth” (Isaiah 59:4).

Prophetic ministers answer that call.

Prophets are the ministry gifts

called to war against principalities

and powers in the heavens. To win

those battles, however, requires

spiritual confrontations with

opposing spirits even within

prophetic circles.

ROOTING OUT

Let’s review Jeremiah’s confrontation with

sullied prophets. Remember, this is the same

prophet that God called to root out, pull

down, destroy and throw down (Jeremiah

1:10). Let’s see that calling in action because

you may face the same battles.

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The Spirit of God said “the land was full of

adulterers.” An adulterer is an unfaithful

spouse. Serving God in spirit and truth is

serving Him from a pure heart. One becomes a

spiritual adulterer by putting something,

someone or something foreign between them

and God, even their ministries.

For the land is full of adulterers; for

because of swearing the land mourneth;

the pleasant places of the wilderness are

dried up, and their course is evil, and their

force is not right. (Jeremiah 23:10)

Abandoning God for something or

someone else is committing spiritual adultery.

God said these adulterers were evil and their

acts erring. As their corruption continued

without interruption the nation became full of

adulterers, the land mourned and the people

lacked true spiritual revelation of God. "What

brought about this corruption?” you ask. It

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happened because the people became

apathetic, self-centered, and idolatrous.

HARD HEAVENS

During Jeremiah’s confrontation the

heavens were brazen because the prophets and

priests led people away from God. The

consequences for the nation was grave, the

heavens became as brass. Spiritual climates are

affected by the actions of prophets, priests and

inhabitants of the land. Sin, rebellion and

idolatry will harden spiritual climates.

Scripture says,

And thy heaven that is over thy head

shall be brass.... (Deuteronomy 28:23).

You are probably familiar with the list of

blessings in the book of Deuteronomy

including blessing and prosperity but this

verse makes it clear the heavens turn as brass

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for the disobedient. As a prophet you

understand spiritual climates. Those who have

ministered in various meetings notice big

differences in spiritual climates. Some

churches are wonderful to preach in having

open heavens, while others are hard as stones

with closed heavens. A brazen heaven is a

spiritual climate that must be plowed through

strong intercession, confronting sin and living

right. Hard heavens are the result of:

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Sin

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Rebellion

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Demonic influence

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Strong territorial spirits

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Evil principalities and powers

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Practicing idolatry

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Backsliding

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Worldliness

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Upholding deceitful doctrines of devils

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Legalism, self-righteousness and

hypocrisy

Hard heavens have little, if any,

revelation. When you pray hard heavens feel

like your prayers hit the ceiling and fall back

into your lap. When you prophesy the words

come out of your mouth and seem to fall to

the ground. Not only are the heavens

hardened because of sin and idolatry but

spiritual strength and maturity is hindered

too.

... the earth under you shall be as iron.

(Deuteronomy 28:23)

When the earth is like iron nothing grows.

The land was defiled because of the fruit of sin

and the ministry of deceived prophets. Where

there is no growth there is can be no spiritual

maturity in the people. Prophets are the

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ministry gifts called to war against

principalities and powers in the heavens. To

win those battles, however, requires spiritual

confrontations with opposing spirits even

within prophetic circles.

Every nation, including North America

must beware the fruits of idolatry and sin

caused by rebellion.

When prayer was removed from our

public schools June 25th, 1962, for example,

the alternative was lawlessness. Whenever

one rejects what comes from God, they have

to live with the opposite. If they don’t want

the Prince of Peace, they get the prince of

calamity. The same holds true in prophetic

ministry. If true prophets don’t guard the

prophetic ministry, the Church will suffer

under the whoredoms of Jezebel and the

merchandising prophets of Baalim.

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AVOIDING SLIPPERY WAYS

God revealed to Jeremiah that His house

was full of wicked prophets, priests and

corrupted ministers. Surely this grieved the

man of God. Scripture says,

For both prophet and priest are

profane; yea, in my house have I found

their wickedness, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah

23:11)

The word "profane” means soiled,

polluted, defiled and corrupted. These

prophets and priests crossed God’s holy

threshold and entered the dark side. A

threshold is the divider between two rooms.

When you walk through a doorway there is a

metal or wooden threshold on the floor that

separates one side of the room from the other.

There is a spiritual threshold that is a

separation between the Holy and the unholy.

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When one is profaned, they have stepped

across the threshold of holiness and entered

the realm of the wicked. This Scripture

teaches that some prophets morally

abandoned holy operations and crossed the

boundary from holy living into prophetic

defilement. Both prophets and priests were

living in sin, but they didn’t quit the ministry.

Their sullied lives hindered God’s plan for

them and the Church; and released spiritual

divination into the land. This is the

environment in which the spirit of Jezebel and

false prophets flourish. This is the spiritual

climate into which God sent Jeremiah. As a

prophet, you may face the same.

From studying this, we discover two

different prophetic operations. First, we see

that Jeremiah was very different from the

other prophets in the land.

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A true prophet of God will not

allow people to go astray. Even if

their heart is not open to God's

representative, he will speak to

them without compromise and out

of a right spirit.

Jeremiah managed to live a holy life

whereas the others fell into sin and idolatry.

Second, we discover there were true prophetic

operations and false prophetic operations in

the land. It’s interesting that God never

addresses the erring as false prophets instead

He focuses on their prophetic operations. The

true prophetic operation released blessing and

the false corruption. Jehovah didn’t turn his

back on His Church. He prophesied to the

corrupted ministers.

Wherefore their way will be to them

as slippery ways in the darkness: they will

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be driven on, and fall therein: for I will

bring evil on them, even the year of their

visitation, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 23:12)

God pronounced that these prophets

would have “slippery ways” and lack true

spiritual discernment because of their

corrupted lifestyles. They had no spiritual

insight because they were walking in darkness

having defiled themselves. Spiritual darkness

opened the way for foolishness.

And I have seen folly in the

prophets.... (Jeremiah 23:13).

“Folly” is acting rash, stupid, foolish,

senseless and lacking common sense. These

prophets sounded spiritual, looked the part,

had the prophetic buzzwords, yet were void of

biblical soundness, stability and discretion.

They acted foolishly and lacked spiritual and

emotional balance in their lives. Their idolatry

produced amoral behavior that caused them to

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lose true spiritual discernment and right

prophetic operations. The problem was the

average person didn’t know these prophets

were not speaking the truth. This can happen

today if prophets get caught up in the glitz and

glamour of celebrity Christianity. Satan waits

for opportunities to entice both prophet and

priest by seductions for public attention,

admiration from men and the deception of

earthly riches. Others are deceived because

they seek the supernatural rather than Christ

our Savior.

ANOTHER SPIRIT

God revealed the finale of their

contaminated state, they prophesied by

another spirit. He told Jeremiah,

... they prophesy by Baal and caused

my people to go astray. (Jeremiah 23:13)

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“If they were prophesying by another

spirit why didn’t the people turn away from

these ministers?” you ask. It's because many

good people don't know the Word of God well

enough to tell the difference. If the delivery or

mannerisms of the minister appear spiritual,

they let their guard down and don’t judge the

biblical accuracy of the message. We have this

problem in the Church today and it’s getting

worse every day.

Because of God’s love for people, he sent

Jeremiah to deal with deceived prophets. Can

you imagine Jeremiah telling these prophets

they were prophesying by a foreign spirit?

Could you do that? Baal is the spirit of

divination. A true prophet of God will not

allow people to go astray. Even if their heart is

not open to God’s representative, he will speak

to them without compromise and out of a

right spirit. True prophets are not trying to

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win the fancy of men rather they are actively

pursuing the approval of God. Jeremiah was

one of God’s faithful prophets sent to confront

corrupted voices who were ministering to

God’s people by another spirit. This foreign

spirit was leading people astray and defiling

the land.

Should you prophesy just because you

can? Presumption is one of Satan’s traps.

Scripture teaches that God’s prophets need to

be granted permission to prophesy. If they

don’t receive permission and prophesy

anyway they are guilty of sin.

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Document Outline

- Prophetic Confrontation

- 1 Prophetic Confrontation

- Seducing Deceptions

- Rooting Out

- Hard Heavens

- Avoiding Slippery Ways

- Another Spirit

Table of Contents

Prophetic Confrontation

1 Prophetic Confrontation

Seducing Deceptions

Rooting Out

Hard Heavens

Avoiding Slippery Ways

Another Spirit