(OPINION) Charisma – Over the past few weeks, some leaders have been criticized on social media for having the nerve to hold prophetic voices accountable for falsely predicting COVID would suddenly lift around Passover 2020 and for insisting that Trump would win reelection. (Some are still insisting on this even though President Biden has been inaugurated.) Instead of apologizing, some prophetic leaders have tried to get off the hook by making the following statements:
— “Trump really won, but the election was stolen!”
— “Trump was inaugurated in heaven!”
— “There are still four more years left; anything can happen, so I am not apologizing now.”
— “Trump will be set in around March or April after massive voter fraud is exposed.”
— “The prophets said Trump would be elected a second term, but they never said it would be two consecutive terms. He will be president in 2024!”
You get the picture. In my opinion, these kinds of excuses make things worse. It would have been much better for these prophetic voices to simply admit they missed it instead of digging in their heels and trying to convince people that they were right.
Furthermore, some people are saying that it is unfair that the prophets are being picked on and that the other ministry gifts should be scrutinized. One man told me, on social media, that I was maligning the prophets and should have corrected them in private. My friend, Dr. Michael Brown, informed me that he is getting a lot of hate mail for calling for prophetic accountability.
Jeremiah Johnson reportedly received so much vitriolic pushback that his website crashed after apologizing for falsely prophesying a Trump presidential victory. So again, I ask the question, “Is it wrong to hold prophetic voices accountable?” First of all, it is always within the bounds of protocol to bring public correction to any person who teaches, prophesies or preaches something misleading to the people of God, especially if it was done on a public platform. READ MORE
