“The Old Prophet said to him, ‘I too am a prophet, just like you, and an angel spoke to me by the Word of the Lord, saying, “Bring him back with you to your house.”’ But he lied to him” -1 Kings 13:18.
“One night Eli, who was now almost blind, was sleeping. Suddenly the Lord called out, ‘Samuel!’ He got up and ran to Eli. But Eli replied, ‘I didn’t call you; go back to bed’” -1 Samuel 3:2-5.
Beware of old lying Prophets and blind sleepy Priests. They will derail you. “Come into my house: Go back to sleep” are their ensnaring messages of destruction. Old lying Prophets will feed you forbidden foods to your own demise. Blind Priests will send you back into unconsciousness to take your ease and forget the Voice you have heard.
If the God of heaven has awakened you to hear His voice, do not allow old, blind, fat, stiff-necked Priests to send you back to your rest. The Lord has passed them by. “The Word of the Lord was rare in those days” – 1 Samuel 3:1, all the while that Eli was Priest. God did not speak to him or through him; he was castaway and reprobate: a hollow tree, having a form of godliness but denying its power.
Why would you, whom God is awakening, listen to the man that God is rejecting? Why would the voice of God be put to sleep in you by one who is himself asleep and God has not awakened? “I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever!” – 1 Samuel 3:14. Beware! Elis abound: old, fat, blind, stiff-necked Priests presiding over a house of God that is now branded Ichabod – the Glory has departed! Listen to them at your own peril.
Likewise, old Prophets may be nothing more than old liars. Here was a man who lived in the very place where the wicked monster, Jeroboam, set up his abominable altar. Yet God passed him by; He did not send him to judge evil, because he himself was evil. If the Lord has spoken to you, that you know. Has an angel spoken to the old Prophet? That you do not know.
“Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has supposedly seen, but he is inflated with empty notions by his fleshly mind” –Colossians 2:18. You are responsible to not allow that to happen.
“An angel spoke to me!” “I had a dream!” “I saw in the visions of the night!” They are Blind Liars.
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; they speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the Lord. I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My Name, saying ‘I have dreamed! I had a dream!’ How long will this be in the heart of these lying prophets who prophesy the deceit of their own minds, who intend to make My people forget My Name by their dreams which they tell!” – Jeremiah 23:16,25-27.
“A spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him. I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Therefore look! The Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of these your prophets; for the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you” – 2 Chronicles 18:20-22.
“Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish worthless visions; and they have not exposed your iniquity so as to restore you from captivity, but they have envisioned for you false oracles and delusions” –Lamentations 2:14. “‘Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! They have envisioned falsehood and lying divination. Therefore, because you have spoken nonsense and seen lies, I will raise My fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make lying predictions, because indeed, they have seduced My people,’ says the Lord God ” –Ezekiel 13:3-10.
“Two or three prophets should speak, and let the others pass judgment” – 1 Corinthians 14:29.
We are to judge Blind Liars. The written Word of God is our sure and certain reference point to do so. That alone is “forever settled in heaven: The sum of Your Word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments is everlasting” –Psalm 119:89,160.
Young prophets! Young Samuels! Do not allow Old lying Prophets deceive you! Do not listen to old blind Priests who have seen nothing! Do not permit Blind Liars to turn you aside from God’s Word!