There will be False Christs and False Prophets.

The Gospel According to Spiritism. XXI. items: 1 to 5.

A tree is known by its fruits. The mission of the prophets. The prodigies of the false prophets. 1)- For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. (Luke, 6: 43-45) 2) - Beware of false prophets, which comes to you in sheeps clothings, but inwardly they are ravening wolves, ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. () (Matthew, 7: 15-20). 3)- Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or three; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Matthew, 24: 4,5, 11-13, 23-24 also found in Mark, 13: 5,6, 21-22).
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OF THE MISSION OF THE PROPHETS: - The gift of revealing the future is generally attributed to the prophets, so that the words prophecy and prediction have become synonyms. - in the evangelical sense the word prophet has a much wider significance. This name is given to all those sent by god with the mission to instruct mankind and to reveal both that which is hidden and the mysteries of spiritual life. - Due to the fact of these predictions having been fulfilled, the gift of predicting the future was considered to be one of the attributes of being a prophet. THE PRODIGIES OF THE FALSE PROPHETS: - False Christs and prophets will raise themselves up and will do great prodigies and things which will astonish, to the point of seducing even the chosen ones. - In theological interpretation, prodigies and miracles are exceptional phenomena outside the law of nature. - These being the exclusive work of God, beyond all doubt He can annul them if He so pleases. Nevertheless, simple good sense tells us that it is not possible that He has given those who are perverse and inferior power equal to His own, nor even less the right to undo that which He Himself has done. Jesus could never have sanctioned such a principle. If however, according to the sense attributed to these words, the spirit of evil has the power to perform prodigies such as these, and that even those who were chosen would be deceived, then the result would be that by being able to do what God does, then prodigies and miracles would not be the exclusive privilege of Gods messengers. CONSIDERATIONS AND DEDUCTIONS: It was not for less nor was at random that the Spirits of the Master in the third Revelation in The Spirits Book begin the book inspiring Allan Kardec with the question: What is God? R. God is the Supreme intelligence First cause of all things the effects., and thence continues The Spirits Book in the first chapter to develop its basic knowledge of God, with proofs of the existence of God, proofs of the infinity of God, proofs of the attributes of God, that are infinite, but that with our knowledge we can already understand and guess some, and we make syntheses that God is: Eternal, Unalterable, Immaterial, unique, All Powerful and sovereignty Just and Good.
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Studied at, Joana dArc on 03/11/1998.

After, we have to consider who we are, and we discover that we are spirits created by God, simple and ignorant in several times of the past eternity, and that God continues creating new beings, His attribute being in our eyes of being mainly, one of Creator, He is our Creator, as well as Creator of worlds for our habitation, then being the older Spirits, more advanced and well ahead of us, God creates worlds unceasingly according to the acquired spiritual degree of the spirits, with the same primitive universal fluids, within His laws, and thenceforth having certain spirits lived in several times and places, they obtained fluids close to their perisprit that gives them the predisposition of through the force of their thoughts, to maneuver some fluids to obey to prodigies which not even themselves know how to explain, thence their thinking that they are divine, Christs or Messiah and if they have not the morals to control and apply their talents on the services of their neighbour and the Gospel, they can follow their own steps of. their own philosophy. Now, let us analyze that we are according to the Spiritist Revelation in a world of tests and atonements, where evil prevails and that it is still a rude world where the physical nature prevails on the spiritual nature, the struggle of the spirit to free itself of the physical forces is necessary for its evolution and progress, thence, the need to reincarnate as many times as necessary. (The Spirits Book, question, 169). Now, due to the deficiencies of the Spirit, mainly of pride and selfishness and of the each one for himself, there are the imitations so much the materials as morals, thence Jesus to have advised that of the moral development, there will be false prophets and Christs, giving us an example, for us to know them would be by their fruits. In the physical world we have nowadays, the piracy or the imitation, there are ribbons and CD's recorded that are false, there are films for sale that are false, although they are perfect copies, there is imitation of pieces of cars, there is great heap of things thereabout false, there is false tennis, false jeans, false shirts (imitation of marks), false products, false medicines, and until, sometimes, it gives us to notice that we live in a world supposedly false; therefore, a lot of faith and be very careful. Jesus said: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free".(John, VIII: 32). Let us not deceive ourselves, with false virtues or false morals, Jesus taught that it is: according to their works, (Revelation, XX: 12, 13), and that it is not worthwhile to try to deceive God or His laws of causes and effects, because, Jesus gives an example explaining: A man was invited to a party and the owner of the party found him without the demanded garment and he was cast out into outer darkness. (Matthew, 22: 11-13) Our moral has to be worked at and deserved, each time that we disincarnate we lose the rude physical body, which deludes us and then we revalue our condition and we are faced with our reality, in the beyond that it is our true homeland and our habitat, things are different, it is thereof the importance of Jesus to have come to the world, and the importance of the spiritist doctrine which is not but the doctrine of Jesus, cultured and complemented. (John, 16: 7- 15). Let us analyze that it is by experience that we know how to distinguish what is an apple and what is an orange and what are bananas, mangos, figs, cherries, strawberries, etc. In the same way, through experience through analysis we learn how to distinguish the false of the real, a false moral of a real moral, we already have a certain intuition and experience from other lives of the past, we are not all naive, but we know that many do not know how to analyze, many do not want to have the work of thinking, to use logic or use of reason and they allow themselves to be taken in, but they can be taken by pain through the force of circumstances, and they too will have their own experience, all of us have the free will, all march for God on ones own step. The salesman that makes a Hamburger or a hot dog in the street is considered a cook, but our reason tells us that it is not well like this. A man that arrives at his home and roasts a chicken in the oven, he also is not to be considered un chef de cuisine! In the same way a person who says a moral which may be inspired to speak, cannot be considered a prophet or a correspondent of God, a Messiah, by that or it might even be for that reason that the Spirits say: Our morals, our doctrine is the one of Christ, who was and is the purest Spirit that ever came down to Earth, (The Spirits Book, question, 625) but there is a problem; we have many thereabout that say to be sent or servants of Jesus, for that the spiritist doctrine says: for us to analyze everything to the sieve of reason; and there we go

marching, rubbing shoulders each other, helping each other, and understanding that we influence and are influenced. (The Spirits Book, Questions, 459 to 472). Thence we need to walk with God and with Jesus Christ our Master, and have faith in God and in Jesus, because only little by little have we enough progress to walk by our own feet, each one has his light force, in his acquired spiritual degree, and Conscience, which is the real and spiritual balance and of experience in physical world, it dominates our inclinations and dictate the law of God, what is summarized in saying that the laws of God are recorded in our conscience. But according to the evolution, progress and age of the Spirit, here is the supreme degree of the conscience, in the same way that we do not expect from a child the conscience of an adult's responsibility, also God doesn't demand or expects from the conscience of a young spirit the same He would expect from a matured or a pure Spirit, Thence the conscience or being mature of each one are according his acquired degree or lived or even in agreement with the age of the spirit, conscience is archive of the Spirit that through times in its hundreds or thousands of experiences, there is engraving in his perisprit and spiritual essence, that notion, that to spirits already advanced there is no temptation to dominate them, while spirits still with weak conscience may we say so fall easily to temptation prey, what means that the Spirit is still prone to the physical needs or the spiritual inferiorities. But, that passing the rows of fire of that learning come out strong and unshaken, no more prone to be false prophets, I do not say that it is from the day to the night that it happens to them, but it is a process of creation of the Conscience that only to God belongs to mold and to create.. Therefore, a Spirit incarnated or not, conscientiously matured, does not follow the deceptions of the flesh or physical deceptions, but he leans on God to do His Will, and seeks to serve Him feeling the right and the wrong conscientiously, even dying if necessary, for what he feels to be just, or the truth if so inclined. Yes, the conscience is powerful in a person, but we all ought to be cautious, because we are still in incomplete Evolution, and that, therefore, our conscience is not the bearer of the infinite truth that only to God belongs. And, concluding, that the illusion of the material world with the coalition of the conscience makes the mistake that many have in thinking them to be the correspondents of the Master and without them wanting in that mistake, they are sometimes the false prophets or false masters, unconsciously. But, God doesn't condemn them for that, because God knows that if it is not in an incarnation it will be in another that they will see their mistake and then their conscience will be readjusted to the eternal spiritual truths of God, who knows they will not come to serve God in another existence; in the truths of God and not in men's lies. Because God loves all His Children and helps their vocations, be them material or spiritual, because God knows that from the matter the Spirit comes out triumphant and He rejoices when the Spirit becomes emancipated, allegory of Jesus in: "the prodigal son" (Luke, 15: 11-32), and seek in God their satisfactions and happiness, needs or happiness, because we know according to the spiritist doctrine that the spirit does not retrograde, but moves forward unceasingly to God. It is not of the spiritist doctrine the thought that false prophets go to hell, in the spiritist doctrine they will suffer their mistakes until they rectify themselves and be readjusted, been sorry or contemplated move forward strong, with such virtues, such as kindness, tolerance, understanding, careful in speaking, they do not raise perjuries, they do not steal, they do not slander, they do not envy, and their eyes are turned to God and in God they live; even though incarnated, their Heaven already deserved or promised is already with them, and no longer they cry for themselves, but for their neighbour, they are no more egoistic for themselves, but serve to the neighbor's needs as if they were theirs. Oh, kind souls and so being formed that God has , be well come, do come to the world in spirit or incarnated to help us, you who are rehabilitated, you are not false prophets, but agents of the virtues of God, that He placed into you, come and do of this world, a world regenerator and no more a false one, but real, because you who already learned the laws of God and have them written in the heart you are the heirs of this Earth and with your irradiation, accompanied of Jesus' irradiation the Earth will be a happy world and no more will be said: happiness is not of this world" (The Gospel according to Spiritism, V: 20)., but that the hour of our regeneration and happiness has come, as well as of the world. (A Gnese, chapter, XVIII.)

God is with us, as formerly today and always

Extract from the book convite ao Espiritismo, by Antnio Martinho Fernandes.