This Is How False Teachers Operate

[David]

I want to post this video as an example of how false teachers operate. I am not posting it just because what happens in the video is strange. What I want people to notice is how something that is not taught anywhere in Scripture can be made to look spiritual, and then what happens when somebody finally challenges it.

In the video, Kevin tells a teenage boy to eat a page from the book of Proverbs. He tells him, “When you eat this, the power of God is going to go inside of you.” While the boy is trying to swallow the paper, Kevin keeps telling him that the power of God is coming upon him. He calls it a “life-changing anointing,” talks about wisdom coming upon him, and even tells him that he sees him having houses before other people have houses.
Now forget all the music, applause, excitement and talk about anointing for a minute. The question is very simple: Where is that in the Bible?

Where does Scripture say that eating a piece of paper from the Bible puts the power of God inside you?

It does not.

Yes, Ezekiel was commanded by God to eat a scroll in Ezekiel 3:1-3, and John was commanded to eat the little book in Revelation 10:9-10. But read the passages. Those were specific things God commanded those men to do in a specific prophetic setting. Neither passage teaches Christians to tear a page out of Proverbs and eat it to receive power, wisdom, anointing, houses, or anything else.

Jesus said in Acts 1:8, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” The power of God is not in the paper and ink of your Bible. Swallowing a page does not put the Holy Spirit into somebody.

But here is the part I really want people to notice.

When Kevin is later challenged over what he did, does he simply open the Bible and show where God teaches it?

No.

Instead, he starts talking about people misunderstanding him, not following proper “protocol,” (Is he talking about the false teacher protocol?), damaging trust in his ministry, offending people who believe in what God is doing through him, and dishonoring his ministry. Then he says, “You may not celebrate my style of ministry, but that is no reason to classify me as a false Christian minister.”

But nobody was asking about his style.

That is the trick.

The question was whether what he did was biblical. Instead of proving it from Scripture, the subject gets changed. Now the problem is supposedly that people do not understand him, do not honor him, do not understand his ministry, or just do not like his style.

That happens a lot with false teaching. When you press the person on the actual Scripture, suddenly the discussion moves somewhere else.

But God's Word does not tell us to judge a teaching by how long somebody has been in ministry, how many people follow him, how sincere he appears, or how strongly he claims that God is using him.

The Bible says: “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
1 John 4:1

That means we test the claim.

The Bereans did exactly that. Acts 17:11 says they “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” That is what we are supposed to do. Somebody says God said something, we go to the Bible. Somebody claims a special anointing, we go to the Bible. Somebody says the Holy Spirit told him something, we go to the Bible.

The question is always the same: Is it actually there?

Paul also warned us that deception does not always look evil. He said, “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” and warned that his ministers can appear as “the ministers of righteousness” (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

That is why examples like this are worth looking at. False teaching can use all the right Christian words. It can talk about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, power, anointing, blessing, prophecy and ministry. It can happen in a church building with music playing and people applauding.

None of that proves it came from God.

We expose false teaching because Scripture tells us to test what is being taught. Paul said, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).

This video gives us a good example of why that matters. Watch what is claimed, watch how spiritual language is used, and then watch what happens when somebody asks for biblical support. That is where false teaching usually starts falling apart. So when somebody claims something came from God, keep asking the same question:

Where is it written?