UNDERSTANDING OPPOSITE PROPHECIES: DOES GOD CONTRADICT HIMSELF?

Prologue …

 Does God contradict Himself?  Is it still God when apparent signals from Heaven appear to be at conflict with each other? 

 This prophetic alarm was first published in 2021 in “The Preacher” series, addressing the danger that lay before the land, and still does; the danger of the wrong ‘prophetic fulfilment’ when a season confronts a people with conflicting possibilities from God.  Once in a while, that season comes upon a people, the season of a paradoxical binary prophecy – a prophecy of apparently self-contradictory parts, a valid prophecy from the Lord despite its unusual nature of mutually opposite possibilities.

  In the past few months, from the last quarter of last year, one has been moved to announce, on occasions, as a few other voices have also done, that a short window of help has opened to the land, but which will not remain open forever.  It should last for a few more months in the present year, but probably not until the end of the year.  The implication is that a proper response to God is urgent and imperative in this season, while the kairus window lasts. 

 Again, one has been impelled to recall and proclaim this message once more, in this season, as if to say, after so long, “And the word of the Lord came unto me a second time, saying …”  May it be one old message making fresh sense.  Amen.

Welcome to the power of choice and “Understanding Opposite Prophecies.”

May 20, 2026

UNDERSTANDING OPPOSITE PROPHECIES: DOES GOD CONTRADICT HIMSELF?

1.  What is God Saying?

A few months ago, the United States of America went through what has been adjudged one of its most intense presidential elections, between President Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden.  There were prophecies on opposite sides, all claiming to have been the voice of God.  In the end, when Biden got sworn in, some of the prophets of the opposite part were compelled to offer a public apology in the ostensible belief that they had given a false prophecy.  Did they indeed give a false prophecy?

At the moment in Nigeria, there are also prophecies of an opposite nature, one category threatening irredeemable doom for the veritable abominations of the nation, and the other predicting the expiration of the present tribulations and the ushering in of a great revival.  Each category has credible prophets, so the people are sincerely confused about which of the opposite prophecies to believe.  Are we about to enter into a dispensation of life or into an inevitable season of doom?

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The Way Out of the Sore Judgments

How may these judgments be averted?  How were they averted in the Bible?  They were often averted or terminated through repentance; whole-hearted repentance, as different from ceremonial confessions from the lips.  In Jeremiah 14:19-20, the prophet prays to the Lord about his land.  Even though the calamity was to descend in the following chapter, at least the prophet gives us a pattern of what to do:

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THE BRINGERS OF THE SORE JUDGMENTS

Generally, these four sore judgments of God come upon a land when it sins grievously (Ezekiel 14:13).  The sins in question may derive from any or all the following three sources:

1.  The Sins of the Rulers

The four sore judgments, either one after the other or all at once, may come upon a land because of the sin(s) of its ruler(s).  In 2 Samuel 21:1-2, famine came upon all Israel for three consecutive years during the reign of David the thrice-anointed king and psalmist, because of the sin of Saul his bloody predecessor.  The righteousness of the present ruler was not sufficient to avert the consequences of the sin of the previous ruler.  That previous sin was to be properly atoned for, or otherwise its consequences suffered, by the present generation.  Fortunately for that land, it had a perceptive and willing ruler at the time, to do it.

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5.  Pestilence

19 Or if I SEND a pestilence into that land, and pour out MY fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness (Ezekiel 14:19-20).

What we read as “pestilence” in the King James Version is rendered in other translations as “plague,” as “epidemic,” as “deadly disease.”  Of course, this would be another source of multiple deaths, of widespread infectious and contagious deaths; death that enters a house without knocking on the door; death beyond normal control, that begets other deaths, spreading itself, like cholera, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, meningitis, bird flu, cow pox, monkeypox, bubonic, influenza, and so on; pestilence on divine assignment, ‘sent’ by the Almighty, as an expression of “MY fury.”  But, can – or should – a loving God get into such boundless “fury” with puny mortals?  Ask the Jews.

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1.  A Basket of Judgments

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1.  Transactional Priestly Hands

Priestly hands are not merely bodily extensions; they can be potent transactional tools.  Much as hands may transmit a blessing (Genesis 48:14; Deuteronomy 34:9), they can also transmit death.  Someone can contract death by the hands that come upon them.  That principle abounds in the rituals of the Old Testament worship.  It is not for nothing, therefore, that Paul warns that priestly hands should not be carelessly or “suddenly” laid on anyone – on “no man” – because transactions could be activated, even though it had not been intended (1 Timothy 5:22).  Check the following critical cases:

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Self-Forgiveness

Forgiveness of self is no less important than the forgiveness of others.  People have harmed themselves terribly because they could not forgive themselves for what they had done or what was done to them.  Meanwhile, the same people are sometimes willing to forgive others generously.  The self needs the assurance of forgiveness no less than others do.  Give first to yourself what you would give to others, or what you want others to give to you.  Sow a ‘seed’ into your own life also, as you would sow into other lives.  Forgive yourself, forget your past.

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Assurance of Forgiveness  (Forgiveness, Chap 9, Series 16)

We concede that feelings alone might not always be a true expression of the degree of penitence (on the part of the trespasser) or of forgiveness (on the part of the forgiver), although they are veritable indicators.  There are other indicators of the state of forgiveness that we can glean from the story of Joseph and the parable of the prodigal son.  The effort here is to address two questions:

• how do I know that I have forgiven?
• how do I know that I have been forgiven?

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1.  The Unlikely Armies of God

When your enemy is God, it is pointless to fight, because you will never win.  In such conflicts, the mighty God could hire such ordinary fighters as frogs, such little fellows as locusts and lice, such hellish missiles as hailstones, or fiercer regiments like the heathenish brutish Babylonians (Jeremiah 25:9; Exodus 8).   His army might be as deceptively fragile as flies and little as lice yet, even with supersonic chariots and the backing of superpower Egypt, you will never win against them.   Swift chariots do not guarantee a victory in every war, not especially when God is on the other side (Proverbs 21:31).

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Conditions in Forgiveness

Does Acts 17:30 mean that forgiveness may be given blankly; that a trespasser can be granted blanket forgiveness that is connected to no specific trespass?  Can I forgive someone, yet tell them of possible consequences if they should trespass again?

Sometimes it is necessary to specify post-forgiveness terms in a relationship, which terms, if breached, the culprit should be aware of the implications.  It is neither wisdom nor spirituality to shut the eyes to future or possible future trespasses merely based on past forgiveness.  David and Solomon might have abused the ‘clause of conditions’ in the terms of forgiveness, yet that does not make the process wrong.

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