LISTEN TO THE PROPHETS ON THE EARTH TODAY

God, our creator has declared that he is the same yesterday, today and forever unchanging. Have you ever asked yourself this question? If God, our loving heavenly father, the creator of us all would send prophets to his people during the Old Testament days and during the New Testament days, why would God not send us prophets in modern times? Is it because we no longer need direction from God? Is it because we are so much more educated and sophisticated, that we no longer need prophets to guide us and bring us God’s word and will? Is it because we have an abundance of ministers, religious leaders and televangelists and our prayers will carry the day? Is it because God is mad at us and does not want to send us prophets to let us know his future plans for us? Is it because the orthodox religions of the day have determined there will be no more prophets? Or has God really sent us prophets and we just don’t know they have been here or that they are here today? Remember even the message of Christ and Christ himself was not recognized as the real thing, by most of the people during his mortality. Does a prophet have to be dead for centuries before he is recognized by the people? Without question if we take the Old Testament and New Testament and attempted to prove it by total accuracy, we would have a difficult time. We would find an “I” that had not been dotted and a “T” that had not been crossed-probably several of them. Even the four gospels differ in actual accounts of the mortal life of Christ and his ministry. Also the pioneer Christian standard bearer, the Apostle Paul, who is revered today was looked upon by many with a jaundiced eye in his day. If the argument of secular knowledge then leaves us in a political standoff regarding true or false prophets, is there a scriptural or spiritual standard we can follow? For those of us who accept Jesus Christ and his gospel doctrine and declarations, then we will use the standard Christ has given us for separating the true prophets from the false prophets. Let us continue then and reason together by the Saviors’ standard.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7: 15-20

Has anyone in modern times delivered a religious message, declaring that he has seen and talked with God as Moses did? Has anyone in modern times declared that he has seen and talked with Jesus Christ? Has anyone declared that he has visited with apostles of old, Peter, James and John? Has anyone declared that he has visited with John the Baptist, with John’s head totally restored? Has anyone declared that he was visited by an angel and the angel told him that God had commanded him to deliver up some plates to be translated that would reveal that Christ had visited the early inhabitants of the American continent and was seen by many people of that day? (Some of my sheep are not of this fold) That the translation of these plates were abridged and combined from centuries of recordings and preserved for our time? Has anyone declared that God told him that the church of Jesus Christ had been corrupted and no longer existed on the earth and was to be restored complete with all the ordinances, keys and priesthood powers of the early church?

As a matter of fact, there is someone who has delivered that message declaring all of the above and more. That person is Joseph Smith Jr., the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fastest growing Christian faith in America, if not in the world today.

Could it really be a fact there have been and still are prophets on the earth that most of the world is not aware of. Could it be that these prophets have brought and are still bringing messages from God that could solve many of the problems and social issues of our times? Using the standard of Jesus Christ for discovering this truth our next post will begin to explore these questions in depth.