Time has always been the greatest enemy of the false prophet. Now a new enemy has arisen, the internet. Today, the internet  allows us to save the prophecies of false prophets and refer to them in the future. This is an invaluable tool because most people have such short attention spans that a false prophet can say anything today and within a few months it is forgotten.

Here is an example. This is a prophecy given by Cindy Jacobs who fancies herself a prophet to the nations and one of God’s Intercessors. Jacobs likes to jet around the world to various conferences and church meetings giving prophecies of all the great things that God is getting ready to do in nations around the world.  Read this and then let’s see how this is working out for the people of Zimbabwe.

"The river is going to flow through Zimbabwe and I see a powerful torrent of water, a mighty rushing torrent, many fish. I see that there are strongholds in the church of division and the accuser of the brethren is active to discourage souls. An army of women with the Deborah anointing will march across the land. They will be like a net all over Zimbabwe with prayer. With a powerful anointing, the women first and men following. I see ancient thrones coming down, reconciliation between black and white, the spirit of racism which goes back further down to the tribes. I will use Zimbabwe like a jewel; she will help feed the world with beautiful produce. God will break the curse that came through civil war . . . the curse will be broken. I know nothing about Zimbabwe. The land will produce beautiful beef. New factories will be built. Zimbabwe has the ministry of reconciliation that reunites the African people. The anointing of reconciliation will be all over Zimbabwe. Do not be afraid of the change. Although it looks like you are going backwards. I have a plan for you. Satan thinks he is advancing but I will expose wickedness at high levels. Do not be afraid. Satan will try to bring war; this army will be used to stop war and bloodshed. A treaty will be written with other nations. Zimbabwe will be used like Switzerland to bring the healing of nations to break ancient things. Your nation came through trickery, but God will restore it. You will be given a piece of land, a beautiful place to pray. You will build a place to watch and pray. It will be like a compound with a place to sleep. The Annas will give their lives for intercession. Senior citizens will have places to stay and give their time to pray day and night." (Prophecy given by Cindy Jacobs in Guatemala City, Guatemala on October 30, 1998.)

Now here is the reality in Zimbabwe today:

August 6, 2007
White farmers patrol border to stem the exodus from Zimbabwe

Enoch Hungwe’s long walk to what he thought would be a better life ended in the arms of burly white South African farmers. After five days of walking from Zimbabwe, he tried to make a run for it close to the border but his exhausted body failed to respond……………

As conditions in Zimbabwe – where inflation is about 5,000 per cent and unemployment 80 per cent – reach meltdown, the daily influx into South Africa, the continent’s wealthiest country, has reached proportions described as a “human tsunami”.

No one knows exactly how many come each day, estimates vary widely from hundreds to several thousand. But one thing is certain: the authorities are completely overwhelmed. Most try to get work on local farms, others turn to crime and petty theft to survive. A handful makes it to the big cities to join an estimated three million Zimbabweans now living in South Africa.

All tell the same story of unbearable hardship back home and vow to return if deported. “I have been walking for five days. In Zimbabwe things are very bad, so I was coming here to look for work. I just want food and work,” Enoch said. Others crammed on to the back of the pickup. “We are running from hunger. We have no money to buy food, no jobs, and things are getting worse every day. Our children are crying, Zimbabwe is crying. I was praying to find a better life here,” said Goodwill Maposa, 35. ……

Today, almost nine years after her prophecy there is no evidence that any of the things she foretold about Zimbabwe have any chance of coming to pass. There is no spiritual river, no army of anointed women, no reconciliation between black and white, no new factories, no productive farms or ranches and no treaties with other nations. In fact anyone with eyes can see that Zimbabwe is still under a curse.

But false prophets like Jacobs are slick. They rarely prophesy dates and they usually give themselves an out as she has done here. “Although it looks like you are going backwards. I have a plan for you.”  With this statement she can always say, just you wait, God is still working his plan. These words allow her to defer the fulfillment of her prophecy indefinitely.

The real problem is that although 40-50% of Zimbabweans attend Christian churches, in practice their worship of God is mixed with their own pagan traditions. Ancestral worship and idolatry is rampant and rarely condemned by church leaders. The simple truth is that Zimbabwe is under the curse because they worship demons in the name of the Lord.

Ex 20:3-5
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Cindy Jacobs is no prophet of God. She speaks a vision of her own heart. She tickles the ears of her hearers who want to believe that good things are in store for their nation. She refuses to tell them the truth. If Cindy Jacobs were a true prophet of God she would have told the people of Zimbabwe that they must repent of their idolatry and false Gods. She would have warned them that unless they repent conditions would worsen which they surely have. 

Jer 23:16-17 19-20
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.  They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

Steve Lumbley 2007
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