The Litmus Test – [Proclamation #8]

This is a proclamation from YHWH about the authentification process of true prophets, who have been called into ministry by Him and in whose mouths He has put His words.

‘False messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. But be alert; I have already told you everything.’ —Mark 13:22-23.

The true prophet’s lifestyle

Thus says YHWH:

‘This is the litmus test. If your prophet does not pass the test, then they are simply not a true prophet of God.

More than 95% of what the modern church calls prophets are not and have not been commissioned by Me. You just need to watch the arrogance, extravagance and deceit with which they operate to know that it is all smoke and mirrors.

Firstly, a true prophet may have a ministry but will not have a church. Prophets are not pastors or apostles—they are prophets. Being a pastor and leading a congregation requires time that a true prophet will not have because they will be too busy with their own duties.

It is one thing to receive prophecies as a pastor, apostle, evangelist, teacher, or even a simple disciple of Christ, which I can ask you to proclaim to the larger body of Christ, but this is different from occupying the office of a prophet.

My servant David Wilkerson is an example of a called apostle who operated in the Holy Spirit’s prophetic gift at a high level. He was a vessel I used to proclaim My prophetic word, but he did not occupy the office of a prophet. Occasionally prophesying is not the same as being a prophet.

The true prophet’s spiritual life is much more intense than that of the ordinary believer in Christ, and even other ministers, because of their amplified spiritual sight, which comes built into their souls from birth; for true prophets are assigned their office before birth.

True prophets do one thing that takes up a lot of their time: ministering to Me. True prophets are in constant, consistent and persistent communion with Me. Many of them, depending on the path I have set before them, cannot do anything else during the day. They will not have the time to have a normal full-time occupation outside their ministry. They are preoccupied with Me, My voice and My instruction 24/7. They cannot lead what most people consider “normal” lives; their reality is very different from other people’s.

True prophets will often spend extended seasons in the secret place, for weeks or months at a time. They will be in solitude, away from the world—even friends and family, to be downloading, receiving, and documenting what I tell them. To be in deep prayer, worship and discipleship.

True prophets will not have time to be doing reaction videos on social media, and I will ask them not to react to people who insult or offend them. I deal with their hearts and hurt in the secret place instead, lest they defile their prophetic oil with bitterness.

Study the lives of Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Elijah; read about the things I would ask them to do in their ministries. These men did not live ordinary lives at all.

Daniel described how he often lost all energy and ability to carry out his daily activities because of spiritual encounters. He had to force himself at some point to go back to attending to the king’s affairs. It is clear from his narrative that his lifestyle was organised in such a way that he had a lot of free time for his spiritual activities, despite the fact that he was a high official in the kingdom of Babylon.

Even in the New Testament, you hear about Anna, a prophet who never left the temple but worshipped there with fasting and prayer night and day. Or John, son of Zecheriah the priest, who lived in the wilderness until the time for his ministry came.’

The true prophet’s focus on the written word

Thus says YHWH:

‘True prophets receive prophecies, warnings, and explanations of mysteries from Me at an intense rate. Their prophecies are often decades, centuries or millennia ahead of their time. I will also require them to put it down in writing.

If your favourite “prophet” does not have a place where you can read prophecies I gave them for their specific appointed audience, then this is not someone I call My prophet. If not a platform available to the general public, then at least a place in their private archives where they rigorously document My words.

This principle is the reason why about two-thirds of Scripture are books written by prophets or about prophets. If My prophets did not rigorously document their prophecies and spiritual experiences, then the Bible would not exist.

Spiritually speaking, prophecies are recorded on scrolls; they are documented and kept in heavenly archives. Once I speak it to My prophet, the prophecy has been proclaimed, and I will perform it. Once My servant puts pen to paper to record the prophecy in writing on earth (whether the public knows about it or not), the heavenly scroll has an earthly counterpart. Both the earthly and the heavenly records are written testimonies—witnesses—of what I said.

Study the book of Revelation to see this principle in effect. In chapter 1, you see John being charged with writing all that he sees onto a scroll, some of which was to be sent to churches. In the later chapters, he has visions of heavenly scrolls of end times prophecy being opened.’

The true prophet’s specific mandate

Thus says YHWH Elohim:

‘To those prophets who shout “prophesy,” where is the prophetic word you have ever put in writing? I hear some of you speak to Moses and Abraham in your spiritual encounters, but don’t have any documentation of your conversations?

Actually, many of you brag about not needing to write anything down because of how “anointed” you are. Who taught you that? It surely was not Me, YHWH Elohim. What are you feeding My people? What did I tell you to publish or warn My people or the world of that comes from My mouth and not your deceit or scouring through the news channels and social media?

Do you know who your appointed audience is? By that I mean a real group of people you are sent to that is not a random audience who is willing to listen to your poison.

Elvira, I sent to True Israel with the message, “Your regathering and return to the land of the promise is at hand.” I sent her to the end times Church with the message, “The tribulation is here; make yourselves ready as pure virgin brides of Christ.”

Jonah, I had sent to a specific people, with a specific message. To Daniel, I gave specific visions and a specific message for a specific time. Isaiah was the same. John the Baptist had a specific message in his mouth for the coming of the Messiah.

Does your “prophet” have a specific message? And what is their audience? Who did I send them to? If you cannot identify these, then there is a high chance I never did.

If a person’s message is just “On fire for God”, that’s fine, but every true Christian is called to do that; they do not qualify as a prophet. What is their specific mandate? For whom? Did I prepare them for that? Do they spend time ministering to Me? Have you been able to read from them the words I put in their mouths?

Some are simply prophetic; they can receive warnings, truth and teachings from Me, but do not qualify as a true prophet. Others are flat-out false, Satan’s plants, who are leading you all who listen to them and defend and support them to hell!’

A call to vigilance

Thus says YHWH:

‘Open your eyes!

True prophets are not called to sit for hours and hours and say “prophesy”. This is foolishness. I do not send out My true prophets for such nonsense.

My true prophets will have a library of written prophecies about the future that they are tasked with releasing the way that many before them did, as recorded in My written word.

True prophets have something to announce, something specific and defined. They speak it and they are done! They will say what I told them, then sit back and watch all of it come to pass. They will reveal what I gave to them, then watch and let My truth take root in you.

The true prophet’s job is to be like a TV station, or a book publisher, or a radio player that releases what comes from My mouth. All the extra you have been deceived by is just that—deception.

Today’s so-called prophets are wizards, witches and sorcerers, 98% of them. I very cautiously select and very harshly train My prophets that they will not play around with My words, dishonour Me or exalt themselves above Me.

Let he who has ears to hear, hear!

True prophets are also always sent ahead of a major event or season to prepare My people for it, asking them to repent and move closer to Me, revealing to them what is to come so they can prepare accordingly. They have a clear commission for which they were set apart, and a clear message I put in their mouths to proclaim.

I, YHWH, speak things in advance so that you will know that I AM; that it was not a foreign god who performed it apart from Me. Prophets serve as trumpets to announce such things. They do not just behave like God-loving people, who say a whole lot of things but without any true commission and objective behind them, being devoid of substance and purpose for their ministry.

True prophets will be offensive, rejected and doubted, and they have been prepared by Me for all 3. Their prophecies are often unbelievable to their current audience, which is why they are mostly mocked.

There are prophecies here at the Fruit Factory that many of you will read, but not be alive to see come to pass; it does not make My servant a false prophet. That is just the nature of true prophecy.

You have to get out of popular culture Christianity and study My nature in the Bible; only so will you be able to recognise the true prophets sent to you in these end times. They are a gift to those who know and love Me and a curse to those who love the world and are reluctant to offer their lives as living sacrifices, picking up their crosses to follow Christ.

I, YHWH Elohim, have spoken. My word shall not return to Me void.’

‘Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth or right.

For they call themselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I declared long ago; they went out from my mouth, and I made them known; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, I declared them to you from long ago, before they came to pass I announced them to you, so that you would not say, “My idol did them; my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”

You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forward I tell you new things, hidden things that you have not known. They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, so that you could not say, “I already knew them.” You have never heard; you have never known; from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would act very treacherously and that from birth you were called a rebel.’ —Isaiah 48:1-8.