Let’s understand something vitally important right now. There are no prophets today as there are in God’s Holy Word. God is not adding to His word, changing His word, amending His word, or providing additional Divine Revelation today outside of THE BIBLE.
Anyone who is professing to be a prophet today can only, must only rely upon citing Scripture without personal interpretation, to reveal how God’s word is true and events unfolding can be discerned — ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE.
Do not ever go to, seek out, permit in your life, or attend a church wherein someone declares to have heard God speak to them, that God is talking today, that they have had something revealed to them by God regarding you, or what is to happen — using names, dates, times, and personal information. To control.
Because the ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing know how susceptible most folks are, especially most folks attending today’s churches, especially most folks as they are not born anew, for if truly born again, one of God’s people, Bible fluent, discerning, indwelt of the Holy Spirit — you will not be deceived and caught in the snare of these deceivers who are multiplying like bacteria on old raw meat left out in the searing heat.
Anyone making claims to be a “prophet” today, claiming that God is revealing things to them, is a charlatan, a liar, a FALSE prophet unless they can use the Holy Bible, without adding to it or omitting from it, its living words as they relate to an event taking place today. Period.
They cannot know, do not know, what you ought to do personally, marry, where you should go, if it’s God’s will you move, take that job, and so on. They are no better, in fact worse than soothsayers, fortune tellers, and the sorcerers serving the ruler of this world for a season, the devil. In fact, they are serving him and him alone, as well as their own interests. Liars. Deceivers. Devourers of the weak and undisciplined in the Word of God.
All they do is seek prey to pounce upon and devour.
Don’t be among the weak ones in the flock, singled out, and devoured by the false prophets of these times.
Be fed, strengthened, led, and made wise and sound in the whole Word of God. See Ephesians 6 for starters if unsure, unaware, or confused.
Such a time as this requires greater diligence, increased discernment, and trusting in the LORD and living in the Holy Bible to shield and protect from the false prophets. They prey upon the weak in the Word and are not truly sealed and secure by and in the Holy Spirit.
So many get caught in the snare and devoured.
Do not be food for the ministers of Satan, but grow strong, aware, and discerning on the living food of the whole Holy Bible.
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Manufactured Revelation: When ‘Prophets’ Use Data Harvesting
January 31, 2026
By PNW Staff
Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch
For centuries, false prophets have relied on the same basic tricks as mentalists and psychics–keen observation, confident delivery, and statements vague enough to feel personal. A wedding ring suggests relational concern. Age hints at health fears or career pressure. Emotional reactions fill in the rest. Where facts end, imagination takes over, and the listener unknowingly completes the illusion.
What has changed is not the deception–but the technology behind it.
From Cold Reading to Digital Surveillance
Before the internet, religious charlatans gathered information slowly and manually. Prayer request cards revealed illnesses, marital struggles, financial desperation, and unspoken fears. Telephone prayer lines doubled as intelligence-gathering tools, allowing “prophets” to record names, emotional vulnerabilities, and family details. Those same details were later repackaged as divine revelation, astonishing audiences who never realized they had already supplied the answers.
Social media has transformed that process into a precision operation.
Facebook posts announce divorces, miscarriages, job losses, diagnoses, and family conflict–often in real time. Instagram photographs quietly map social circles, travel habits, and aspirations. LinkedIn exposes career anxiety. Even a comment, follow, or “like” can signal political views, theology, or emotional wounds. To a deceptive spiritual operator, this is not casual information–it is a psychological profile.
The result is a new class of prophecy merchant: one who doesn’t need supernatural insight, only access to public data.
The Illusion of Divine Knowledge
This deceptive practice came into sharper public focus recently following YouTube Bible teacher Mike Winger’s detailed exposé of high-profile prophetic figure Shawn Bolz. Winger outlined multiple techniques allegedly used to create prophetic words that appear miraculous but are, in reality, constructed through data harvesting, strategic vagueness, and psychological manipulation.
One of the most troubling allegations was the systematic use of personal information–sometimes gathered directly, sometimes through assistants or online research–to craft “prophecies” tailored to individuals. These words feel intimate, specific, and unexplainable, precisely because they were engineered to be.
This is not accidental. It is not sloppy discernment. It is targeted spiritual profiling.
In many cases, vague prophetic statements are delivered publicly, allowing the recipient to supply the details themselves–a phenomenon psychologists call the Barnum Effect, where general statements feel uniquely personal. Once a person responds emotionally, additional cues are gathered in real time. The prophecy appears to deepen. The illusion strengthens. The authority of the “prophet” grows.
What looks like revelation is often rehearsal.
When Faith Becomes a Commodity
The danger here goes far beyond embarrassment or theological disagreement. False prophecies shape real-world decisions. People quit jobs, delay medical care, give away money, abandon relationships, or submit themselves to spiritual authority based on words they believe came from God.
When those words are manufactured using harvested data, the practice crosses from error into abuse.
This is spiritual manipulation disguised as intimacy with God. It monetizes vulnerability. It leverages trust. And it rewards emotional dependence on a personality rather than faithfulness to truth. The more dramatic the prophecy, the more viral the clip. The more viral the clip, the larger the platform–and the higher the financial and social payoff.
Modern prophecy culture, fueled by algorithms, rewards spectacle over substance. Correction spreads slowly. Emotional moments spread instantly. Critics are dismissed as “religious,” “bitter,” or accused of “quenching the Spirit,” while victims often stay silent, ashamed that their faith was used against them.
A Counterfeit of Biblical Prophecy
Biblical prophecy was never entertainment. It was accountable, often uncomfortable, and rooted in truth rather than affirmation. True prophets did not need background research. They did not flatter crowds. They were tested, questioned, and often rejected.
Modern prophecy merchants invert that model.
They thrive on applause, affirmation, and ambiguity. Their words are rarely falsifiable. When predictions fail, responsibility is shifted to the listener’s “lack of faith.” When words succeed, credit goes to the prophet’s “anointing.” Either way, the system protects itself.
Social media has only intensified this dynamic. When prophecy becomes content, discernment becomes collateral damage.
A Call to Discernment in a Digital Age
This moment should serve as a warning–not only about specific figures, but about a system that allows ancient deceptions to be amplified by modern tools.
The church is no longer facing merely false teaching. It is facing technologically enhanced false prophecy, where data harvesting replaces divine revelation and emotional manipulation substitutes for spiritual authority.
Discernment in this age requires more than sincerity. It requires digital literacy. It requires theological grounding. And it requires the courage to question experiences that flatter rather than transform.
The Holy Spirit does not need Instagram analytics. God does not reverse-engineer revelation from Facebook posts. And prophecy that can be replicated by a marketing team with Wi-Fi is not prophetic–it is predatory.
The Final Question
The question now confronting believers is not whether prophecy exists–but whether they are willing to test it.
If the church continues to reward charisma over character, spectacle over substance, and emotional highs over biblical truth, it will continue to produce victims instead of disciples. Faith will erode. Trust will fracture. And many will walk away not from false prophets–but from God Himself, believing He failed them.
Scripture warns that false prophets would come, not dressed as villains, but speaking familiar language, offering hope, and promising access to divine certainty.
The tools have changed. The temptation has not.
And the cost–measured in wounded faith and shattered trust–is far too high to ignore.
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