Jesus Used Prophecy.

Joh 14:28  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 

Joh 14:29  And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. 

Joh 14:30  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 

Joh 14:31  But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. 

Jesus said-  'And now I have told you BEFORE it come to pass, that, WHEN it is come to pass, you might believe.'

Prophecy. Predicting the future with 100 percent accuracy. Just imagine, or lacking the ability to imagine on your own, think about numerous movies with prophets in them. They may be called by different names- psychics come to mind, most likely because recently there was a show on television I liked to watch and now it's taken a turn in an odd direction I don' t like. It's a show depicting New York City police men/woman and the premise is a family of police men/women or involved in the law in some capacity. There are three generations of police related family members and of course there is crime solving, police enforcing, laws giving etc. So why have they suddenly introduced a woman with the ability to see the future, to find people in trouble supernaturally, a woman that has visions and so on? I haven't a clue, but I don't like it, and do you want to know why I don't like it? Because the Bible forbids us from involving ourselves in psychic, astrology, soothsaying, witch craft and so on. The Bible forbids it NOT because it isn't real and can't be exploited, it is real and can be used but it is used of Satan.  If any of the above mentioned things are being used by Christ followers and you are reading this… I ask you to read your Bibles.  Can we have Biblical prophets, yes, but they are not of the world involved in the worldly aspect of prophecy.  Here- read this from the word of God-

Act 16:16  And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying

A servant girl was possessed with a divining spirit and the girl's masters used her because she possessed this so called gift of divining, of soothsaying- being able to predict the future. The girl's ability to do this- to predict the futures of people was accurate enough that people paid a lot of money to meet with her and get their futures told. People treated the girl's ability as a talent, and something good. We do the same thing today, don't we? There are psychic shops in my city advertising their services. A lot of people must support them because they haven't gone anywhere in the last twenty years or so. These people may have the ability, just like this girl did, but it's not of God.  God has this to say about soothsayers and the like…

Mic 5:12  And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: 

Mic 5:13  Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. 

Isa 8:19  And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? 

Isa 8:20  To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. 

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 

Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 

1Sa_15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Gal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 

Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 

Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Act 8:9  But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 

Act 8:10  To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 

Act 8:11  And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. 

Act 8:12  But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 

Act 8:13  Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. 

Act 8:14  Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 

Act 8:15  Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 

Act 8:16  (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 

Act 8:17  Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 

Act 8:18  And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, 

Act 8:19  Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. 

Act 8:20  But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. 

Act 8:21  Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. 

Act 8:22  Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. 

Act 8:23  For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. 

Act 8:24  Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. 

Wherever there is a good thing, Satan will do his best to counterfeit it with a similar thing that is corrupted by his evil. Yes, prophecy from God is a good thing. No, prophecy from Satan is not a good thing.

Jesus prophesized of His own death, among many other things. Jesus told us that He was telling us the future so when it happened we would believe.

May God protect us from ALL who are led by evil to predict the future to seduce us to believe in them and their ways. May we always and forever only take to God's word any predictions and only believe in truth. Let us NOT be deceived by any prophecy not of God, but so close to God that we are tempted to believe. Keep us from EVIL, please, God, keep us from all evil.

Help us to trust only in our SAVIOR'S TRUTH. May the Spirit of Truth live in us, protecting us.

All through Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Savior, now and forever!!!!!!!