FALSE PROPHETS PREFER SD

Sir,

I am not sure whether the devil has ordained Swaziland as his pulpit of deceit but judging from the number of false prophets mushrooming in this country, one is forced to conclude that the devil has anointed Swaziland as his source of false prophets.

Hardly a month goes by without one seeing new faces declaring themselves as prophets or prophetesses of some sort.
Since the emergence of these new trendy churches which go by the stylish names of ‘ministries, we have also seen a rise in the number of people claiming to be prophets. This is now worrying.

In particular, I would like to respond to a story that appeared in the Times of Swaziland on February 6, 2017- titled `No Headache For Finance Minister Until 2019 – prophet.’
I will summarise the prophecy by one Prophet Simon Fana Ngwenya of Chosen Family Church.

Ngwenya claims that God has chosen him as the country’s prophet. No surprises there.
Many have claimed as much.
Do you remember the Mthethwa guy who also claimed to be the country’s chosen prophet?

This one also said God has commanded him not to marry, only to appear in the media shortly afterwards with a woman as his wife.
Apostle Prophet Ngwenya in his good prophecy also says this country will have enough money from now until the year 2019.

Here, I can guess Ngwenya has some privy knowledge about SACU-receipts, which may be coming Swaziland’s way. I see nothing prophetic here.
The newspaper also quoted Ngwenya said: “God has told him to inform the country that no harm would ever come to Swaziland without him knowing. He said God had told him that he would reveal to him things before they happened.”
Here, Mr Ngwenya, you will be held to your own words.

If the Lord has really said this to you, very well but if you are also one of the run-of-the-mill-prophets who are busy deceiving themselves and others while getting rich in the name of the Lord, the curse of dragging the name of the Lord in mud is upon you.
The newspaper also said, “Swaziland will not be asking for much from other countries from now on. Ngwenya stressed that three years from now there will be no more poverty in the country.
He said God had told him that the country would have a lot of rain until April and that he had confirmed to him that the drought was over.
Ngwenya said the Minister of Agriculture would not have to worry about food security.

What a relief to NGOs like World Vision, UN, WFP, FAO and the Taiwanese embassy, which have become the real  to many starving Swazis!
Swazis in the south are starving because of the drought. Their crops have dried up as a result of the scorching sun. Where is this abundant rain prophet Ngwenya is talking about? Is the drought over in the areas of Lavumisa and others?
According to the newspaper, Ngwenya assured that the country would not be taken by any surprises as God had made him the country’s prophet.” Amen Mr Ngwenya. May it be so.
The prophet Jeremiah lived at a time like this, before the fall of the kingdom of Judah.

There were many false prophets who were prophesying and deceiving the people of Judah.
In particular, there was one prophet known as Hananiah who prophesied lies in the name of the Lord and made people relax.
They continued dabbling in sin, instead of repenting.

False prophets are dangerous because, while they enjoy basking under the glory of being called God’s prophets, at the same time they make the people believe lies and not to repent.
In Judah, while the prophet Jeremiah was conveying God’s true word about the pending destruction and a call to repentance from the young to the old citizen in the kingdom, false prophet Hananiah, on the other hand, was also busy prophesying lies about coming prosperity and false peace, contradicting the true Word of God by Prophet Jeremiah.

As expected, the people who were more inclined to sinful life rejected the message of prophet Jeremiah. From the king, down to the man on the street, all rejected Jeremiah’s prophesy of pending doom and a call to repentance.
They trusted the lies of prophet Hananiah’s false prophesies.

This was despite that God Jehovah had warned, in Jeremiah 23:21-22, that, “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil ways and from the evil of their doings.”

BB Nkosi
MBABANE

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