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(Last update: August 21, 2008) CNN is reporting that a preacher, Anthony Hopkins, was arrested near Mobile, Alabama immediately after delivering a sermon at a local church last Monday night (July 28, 2008). Pastor Jerry Porter said he used to preach with Hopkins at his church, the Williams Street Holiness Church, and knew the family. He said of Hopkins, “he was a bulls-eye prophet. If he told you something, you could pretty much bank on it.” According to the Wordnet (from Princeton University), a prophet is… an authoritative person who divines the future someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God Now I believe that there are prophets today – people who speak forth the will of God. But I do NOT believe that God uses just anyone in such an important office. I do not believe that God would use a common murderer as a prophet – do you? Nor would He use a serial rapist or one who sodomized his children, or repeatedly committed incest with his daughters. But that is what Anthony Hopkins is accused of. The CNN article (Preacher killed wife, stuffed body in freezer, police say – CNN.com) says that Hopkins is charged with murdering his wife in 2004 and stuffing her body in a freezer where she was kept since that time. Hopkin’s oldest daughter recently moved out of the house. After she moved out, she told the police that he had raped and sodomized her for the past eight years. And that Hopkins killed her mother because she had found out about his abuse. Wow! Which story should we believe? The the man that was a real prophet of God – or a rapist? Here are some additional discussion topics:
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I believe that impostors can and do operate in the realm of the supernatural.
There was a false prophet in the Bible (Acts 13:6) and in the end times, the antichrist will have his own personal false prophet (Rev 16:13). Who (Rev 19:6) “had performed the miraculous signs on his [the antichrist's] behalf.”
We read that, in Paul’s day, they were active, (2Cor11:13-15) “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”
Although their actions stain the reputation of the true prophet (in the eyes of mankind), the good news is that God knows perfectly who is true and who is false. And (again in Rev 19:6) “The two of them [antichrist & false prophet] were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur.” Where, 1000 years later, “They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” (Rev 20:10)
[...] Could it be that (unintentionally or unscrupulously) ministers use such “techniques”? Could such techniques explain how a person who was recently arrested for the murder of his wife & the incestuous rape of his daughter for nearly 10 years could be described as a “bulls-eye prophet.” (See related article here.) [...]
[...] Could it be that (unintentionally or unscrupulously) ministers use such “techniques”? Could such techniques explain how a person who was recently arrested for the murder of his wife & the incestuous rape of his daughter for nearly 10 years could be described as a “bulls-eye prophet.” (See related article here.) [...]