Deuteronomy 18:20-22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

And what is the distinguishing mark to the church now? See those two sweet scriptures: Isaiah 8:20; Romans 8:14. To which I add a third: "It is the spirit that beareth witness, because the SPIRIT is truth." 1 John 5:6.

Deuteronomy 18:20-22

20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word 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.

21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.