You are right, they are very rare, and they have a very difficult road before them. They must say words which will cause them to suffer persecution and anger and hate.
It is never easy to tell a self righteous person that they are not righteous at all.
what pious nonsense.
and what a thing to insist upon.
don't you know, as Abiding's posts exegeted (i know you circumvent scripture when it suits you) there's no provision for this kind of thing?
God isn't sending prophets; you're not one; He hates false prophets, and he punishes people who listen to them.
He permits them continue for a time as a test of his REAL people, to see if they love Him enough to test that false prophet.
why someone would choose this trouble for themselves is beyond me. but: The Spirit clearly said...
1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
The Clear And Present Danger Of Contemplative Spirituality
By Ken Silva
Apprising Ministries
Christ Jesus Himself Is The One Who First Taught Us Sola Scriptura
Though some take exception to what I have been writing concerning corrupt
Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) no one credible writing concerning this spurious CSM masquerading as so-called
Spiritual Formation, as espoused by
Dallas Willard along with his friend
Richard Foster, is trying to say that worshiping God
in spirit and in truth isn't…well, spiritual.
The issue is: How in the Bible did God say we are to approach Him spiritually?
Pastor Bob DeWaay gets to the heart of the matter when he says:
There are ordained means in the New Testament, by which the Christian grows in the grace and knowledge of the Lord: the Word, ordinances, and prayer... If by faith we avail ourselves of God's ordained means, we are assured that Christ will thereby convey the benefits of His redemption to His people... We not only need God's ordained means, but we need to avail ourselves of them on His terms.
Gary Gilley sheds additional light upon the very grave danger at the rotten root of this spirituality of the self as well as the current rebellion in the visible church against Sola Scriptura:
I fear that [the market-driven church and the closely related "Purpose Driven Life"] will be remembered by future generations for their undermining of the authority of Scripture...the authority for what the church now believes has shifted...from the infallible Scriptures to psychological and sociological experts, opinions of the masses, trends of the moment and the philosophy of pragmatism...
The affect of all of this scriptural manipulation is to both erode the authority of God's Word and to give the appearance that what Scripture has to say isn't really important. It is only a short step from here to a Christian community that no longer has much use for the Bible.
This is precisely where the evangelicalism itself has now headed; because in order to follow Foster's quasi-Christian mysticism-lite one must first abandon Sola Scriptura. Case in point being
Rick Warren, arguably the most famous minister in the
Southern Baptist Convention-itself the largest allegedly "Protestant" denomination in the US-openly embracing apostate
Roman Catholicism as a legitimate expression of the Christian faith. Look for yourself in
SBC Protestant Pastor Rick Warren Double-Minded on the Reformation and Roman Catholicism, and he's hardly alone in this completely subjective reversal of the Reformation.
As it concerns pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism's sordid lust affair with self-centered CSM it's vital that you come to know that in reality this is simply a reimagined version of the so-called "Christian" mysticism originating with heretical hermits in the desert and which would later flower in the also antibiblical monastic traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. Carefully consider the following by Dr. John MacArthur from 1994. Keep in mind this was also three years before the birth of the extremely ecumenical
Emerging Church-the Trojan Horse of the Devil-through which Foster et al would unload corrupt Quaker mysticism along with his own brand of neo-pietism into your local evangelical churches.
Actually what MacArthur wrote below has turned out to be quite prophetic as to why we are only now beginning to pay a very heavy price in forthcoming 1 Peter 4:17 judgments for years of "what does that verse mean to you" Bible teaching. And in addition MacArthur enlightens you as to why I have so often been discussing the subject of
neo-orthodoxy:
Neo-orthodoxy is the term used to identify an existentialist variety of Christianity. Because it denies the essential objective basis of truth-the absolute truth and authority of Scripture-neo-orthodoxy must be understood as pseudo-Christianity… Thus while neo-orthodox theologians often
sound as if they affirming traditional beliefs, their actual system differs radically from the historic understanding of the Christian faith.
By denying the objectivity of truth, they relegate all theology to the realm of subjective relativism. It is a theology perfectly suited for the age in which we live. And that is precisely why it is so deadly… [Contemplative Spirituality aka] Mysticism is perfectly suited for religious existentialism; indeed, it is the inevitable consequence. The mystic disdains rational understanding and seeks truth instead through the feelings, the imagination, personal visions, inner voices, private illumination, of other purely subjective means. Objective truth becomes practically superfluous.
And so we come around here as to why men such as
Emerging Church icon
Rob Bell and his friend
Emergent Church leader
Doug Pagitt have laid spiritual landmines at the base of Sola Scriptura in an attempt to blow away this foundational pillar of the Protestant Reformation. For God's Word cuts straight across their flawed inclusive and "Progressive" postliberal delusions concerning a repainted Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood of man, and the social reform of the neighborhood where you live.
Now can you see why Sola Scriptura was, and is, the foundational principle for the Church of Jesus Christ? For it is in the Bible that God gives us the way He wants us to approach Him spiritually. In closing, I will say tragically evangelicalism, with its own reimagined version of apostate Roman Catholic mysticism, has right now foolishly placed itself right back onto the very same wrong road leading to the very same religious bondage which would finally cause God to raise up His Reformers in the first place.
The Clear And Present Danger Of Contemplative Spirituality
~
Pastor Bob DeWaay came out of the whole prophetic movement and admitted he was caught up in it and that is isn't genuine. his minstry is to help others come to grips with that and to come out and be healed.
ironic you answered my questions as I was pming them to you. 
