Mike,

I know that I am sending this email for a reason, and I hope God would make clear to me why. I am hoping that you can read what is below and tell me what you think. Have you ever heard of this gentleman before? I have been communicating with him for awhile and have read a lot of what he has written, which does appear to be biblical. But there is just something I can’t shake off about him. One recent email was about him telling me he had a vision about me being on the cross and that the Lord himself was removing the nail from my left hand. He wanted me to email him back to tell him what I thought the vision meant. I told him that I didn’t know what it meant and that it made me a little afraid. He emailed me back and told me it meant I had been judged. As I type, my hands are shaking. I can tell you more if you wish, but I was hoping you could just check this out to see what you think. I know the Lord has me right now where I am supposed to be. However, I just don’t know what to make of this gentleman. He says his ministry is only for those who overcome and will be in the first resurrection.
Thanks so much.  I can’t begin to imagine how busy you and Sandi are, and I so appreciate the time you take just to read my email.
Love and Blessings,

J____

Hi J____,

Please do not pay this false prophet one split- second of your time. Look at this one statement in this so called prophecy:

I did subject creation to this futility so that I could find those who would obey My word and come into My image by free choice and by perfect obedience through sufferings.

That one sentence is enough to chuck this entire ministry into the very delusion from which he is supposedly delivering you. This is all typical charismatic “adding to the words of this prophecy.”

Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [ from] the things which are written in this book.

I have never heard of this man, but I have tried his spirit by putting his prophecy up to the light of the word of God, and it is as clear as day that this is the spirit of a false prophet who has gone forth into the church world.

1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Here is the truth of God’s word concerning the subject of any of us “coming into Christ’s image by free choice.”

Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw [ Greek, ‘drag’] him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Rom 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [ have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth.
Rom 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [ it], Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

We are, as Jeremiah told Israel and as Paul here affirms, nothing more than clay in the potter’s hand. Do we have a will? Obviously we do have a will! Is it free from God’s influence? What an absolutely absurd thought! “It is God who works in us to will and to do His good pleasure.”

Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

If you will, it is God working that will. If you do what you will, it is God working in you both to will and to do His good pleasure.
I read enough of this so- called prophecy to see that this is a man who is saying “Thus saith the Lord… when the Lord hath not spoken.”

Eze 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [ mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

Be sure to take the time to read After The Counsel of His Own Will, and you will never again be shaken by any man who tells you that your will is free. The words “free will” are in the scripture, but it is the sum of God’s word that is the Truth. And the sum of God’s Word demonstrates that man’s will is wrapped up in, and is being worked by, God’s own will and purpose:

Deu 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
Deu 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Man has never had a will free from God’s influence, and he never will have a will which is not being worked by the will of God. The doctrine of free will is the man of sin sitting in the temple of God upon the throne of God claiming that he is God. Dislodging that doctrine is dislodging the man of sin from the throne of God in our hearts. He is loath to leave that throne, but it is not negotiable. He has to go.

Again

“ the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. “

Your brother in Christ.
Mike>