The main mark of James Lloyd's ministry is a hatred and repudiation of the 'apostate Church' (which incidentally includes most, if not all, American churches) and America as a nation. He says that most Christians are going to hell and that America is Babylon the Great.
His evidence for this is that the true church would obey him as a prophet and follow his interpretation of scripture. Well, he is a prophet after all. (Just don't ask him to be accurate 100% of the time. We can't expect that from this great man of God.)
Jesus told us that we would be inundated in False Prophets in the days preceding His return. Christian Media Research considers the primary characteristics of False Prophets to be found in Deuteronomy chapter 13. There, the text tells us a False Prophet is one who is "a dreamer of dreams," or one who performs "a sign or a wonder" and then leads people to follow "other gods."
Why isn't accuracy in prophecy important?
This is in sharp contrast to the mainline church perspective that a False Prophet is one who fails to achieve 100% accuracy in his (or her) predictions. That descriptive passage, found in Deuteronomy 18, actually provides the Messianic characteristics of the prophet that God promised would be like unto Himself. This grave error, in the most fundamental description of what constitutes a False Prophet, has critically hampered the organized Christian church from recognizing the Antichrist power in their midst.
Well, it seems the Prophet James Lloyd has made public predictions that did not come true. That's bad for a prophet, because he is supposed to be given his message by God. Since God knows all, God would not likely get a prediction wrong.
But Lloyd cannot admit that whoever gave him that prediction was not God, now can he? Obviously mainstream churches must be to blame. Conveniently, when caught making predictions that do not come true, he looks and finds a new interpretation of what a false prophet is!
Of course, those that are familiar with my prophetic history already know that I have intensely experienced this teaching on a first hand basis with my failed prophecy of the destruction of New York (and significant portions of America) on or before July 4th 1998. While I have already written several articles relating to this episode, it has taken me over 6 months to "think on these things" and come to a fuller understanding of what the scriptures actually teach concerning the assumption of a requirement of prophetic inerrancy among those that make predictions within the constraints of Biblical Christianity.
I find it interesting that in an effort to extricate himself from his own lies in the face of the truth of the bible, that he attempts to 'contextualize' and reinterpret what the scripture plainly means. Context, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.
The context within which Deuteronomy 18 talks about false prophets is a warning to the Isrealites to avoid the occultic religions of the middle east. Who are always looking for a sign, and are easily deceived by shamans and priesthoods claiming to have secret and divine knowledge. Let's start at verse 9 (to get a little more context):
9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in [a] the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
The form of 'Prophesy' which James Lloyd practices is indeed a form of divination. He seeks hidden knowledge intended to be found only by those with 'the gift of prophecy', those anointed ones who have the correct knowledge of the true doctrines of God. God says that he detests those who practice divination. What else is Christian Media Network but a ministry of divination? In addition to claiming to be given knowledge from God, James Lloyd also proclaims that anyone who disagrees with his specially divined and interpreted knowledge is an apostate and a false prophet. How's that for accuracy?
As an individual with the gift of prophecy, I truly believe the Lord has showed me many things concerning the "hows" and "whys" of the end of the age.
Furthermore, I believe it is the departure from the truth that is found in the Bible that has generated the incredible amount of apostasy that even now seeks to overwhelm the remnant church of Jesus Christ. We cannot stand idly by and watch wolves ravage the flock with False Doctrine and financial manipulations without standing up to fight. Christian Media Research
Verses 14 through 21 go on to describe what a prophet of God is and is not:
14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. 15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
17 The LORD said to me: "What they say is good. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death."
21 You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?" 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
If Lloyd can't get this right, he can't be trusted to interpret any scripture. Verse 20 says clearly that any prophet who 'prophesies' in the Lord's name something that God has not told him to prophecy should be put to death. Verse 22 God merely reiterates that God's power and authority is not in a prophet who's prophesies fail.
How much clearer can it be? Yet Lloyd tries to reinterpret this as saying that these pasages are only speaking of the coming prophet, the Messiah. To say that God is warning that only those 'prophets' who pretend to also be the messiah are to be put to death is a bit of a stretch. It says, "if he speaks in my name anything I have not commanded him..."
Back in the original reading in Deuteronomy 18 in verse 20, immediately following the prediction of the coming of "the prophet" that will be like Moses, the text reads "But the prophet, which shall presume to speak in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." Here we see that God takes the office of this particular prophet seriously enough to prescribe death for any pretenders.
The next verse states that when a prophet speaks for the Lord, "if the thing follow not, nor come to pass," it will be clear that this is something "which the Lord hath not spoken." Once again, this is a requirement for "the prophet" that is spoken of throughout the entire passage — and that prophet is Jesus Christ, the mediator of the new covenant. It is highly inappropriate for us to lift these last two verses out of the context of the entire chapter — which speaks of the same individual for the last 8 verses of the chapter.
Plainly Lloyd does not take no for an answer. But unfortunately there can be no doubt what is meant here. His is an attempt to separate the meaning not contexualize it.
In verse 16 Moses says that the Israelites asked, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die." Moses then prophesied that God would not live among them as a pillar of fire but would live among his people as one of them. The Lord is speaking of himself becoming a man, being born among them as Jesus the Messiah, a prophet like Moses.
However Jesus was not the only prophet God raised up. Therefore to say that verse 20 only refers to Jesus or any prophet presuming to be him does not make any sense. God is defining both what a prophet is and what a false prophet is. A prophet's words come from God and a false prophet's words do not come from God. How hard is that to understand? There is no loophole here for pretenders; for those 'practising' divination.
In verse 22 God answers a question the people would ask, "How will we know?"
