NIGHT OF THE LYING TONGUES

By Akin Ojumu

‘Tis the night of the phonies. From now till the clock strikes 12 midnight to usher in the New Year, expect an avalanche of specious soothsaying, spurious prophecies, shambolic prognostications, and fraudulent divinations about the coming year. 

Deuteronomy 18:9-12

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who…practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord.”

Pretend prophets, who are nothing more than sorcerers, charmers, mediums, and necromancers, are about to take their eyes off their Crystal Balls, Ouija Boards, and Tarot Cards, crawl out of the woodwork, to prognosticate about alignments, breakthroughs, gear forward, shiftings, falling rains, flooded streets, road accidents, plane crashes, fortunes made, election wins, election losses, and some dignitaries somewhere dying in the coming year. Duh!

Even with their notorious track record of being widely off the mark, these fortune tellers continue to capture the imagination of simple-minded folks who, having traded their sense of reason, succumb to fascinating fantasies and fantastic fairy tales. Rather than being encumbered with sound mental judgment, these consumers of hocus-pocus conjuring choose instead to surrender themselves to wishy-washy wishful thinking.

You can chalk it all up to the human penchant to want to know the unknowable. The fault is encoded in our genes. Constrained by the limitations of the space-time continuum, the human race cannot see beyond the hic et nunc. The walls of our temporal box constitute a barrier that blocks our view into what’s beyond the veil. 

As you’d expect, this fate is not one that humankind is willing to take lying down. At every turn we resist, and in every way we rebel. In defiance of the natural limitations to know tomorrow, we deploy all sorts of gimmickry and employ all manners of antics to overcome the earthly confinement. 

First, we tried eating our way out of the box when Eve took the forbidden fruit at the cunning insistence of none other than Lucifer himself, the persona non grata-in chief in Shekinah Glory. Then, we attempted climbing our way out of it when we erected a Tower in Babel whose top reached unto heaven. 

When all that blew up in our faces and forever shattered our destiny, we hired the services of a myriad of psychics, mystics, seers, diviners, clairvoyants, you name it, to tell us what the future holds. Surprise, surprise, many of them turn out to be charlatans, impostors, and dupes looking to make a quick buck out of us dumdums. And the ones that aren’t fake sell our souls to Satan.

Curiosity about the mysterious. Desire for knowledge about mythical things. They are like the pull of a powerful magnet that we can’t seem to be able to resist. There’s something about the unknown that catches man’s fancy. Our inordinate fascination with the esoteric often drives us to do unthinkable things. Because of our innate deficiencies in discerning enigmas, we easily fall at the feet of anyone who appears to possess supernatural ability to divine the secret things of this world to which the natural mind is blind.

What is it really about the future that fascinates us so much? Why do we keep climbing to the top of the Towers of Babel to peep through the window of space-time into dimensions unknown? The answer, in my mind, goes back to before time, and the Prophet Isaiah tells us why.

Isaiah 14:12-14

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God. I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’”

Man is afflicted with the very same disease that came upon Lucifer. It is the disease that caused him to want to be God, and even greater than God. In reaching for the forbidden fruit and taking a bite of it, Satan infected mankind with a sickness of the soul, which is rebellion against their Maker. What drives man to want to know that which God has not given the ability to know is a mutiny buried in his soul against the wishes of the Creator of the universe. 

Man wants to wrest control of their lives from the hand of the Almighty God who is in control of all lives. Humankind is hellbent on establishing their throne over their own situation and, in the process, usurp the Throne of the King of kings who determines all situations.

Every time man runs to a diviner to tell him what tomorrow holds, he is basically giving the One who holds tomorrow in His hands the middle finger. Whenever man seeks out a conjurer of mystery to tell him whether his life will be enough, he tells the El-Shaddai – The God, who is more than enough – that He is not enough.

It’s another New Year’s Eve. Across the various religious houses of horror, Watchnight (Crossover) Services are going to be held tonight. You are going to be razzle-dazzled by the prophetic abracadabra of the general overseers, bishops, false prophets and false apostles. These phonies will inundate you with “prophecies” for 2026. 

As is customary, you are going to hear bombastic proclamations. The tellers of tall tales are going to bamboozle you with fantabulous fables of how the Lord spoke to them directly outside of the Bible concerning events that would unfold in the New Year.  Drumbeats of “Daddy asked me to tell you…” nonsense, “Thus says the Lord…” rubbish, “Here’s the word of the Lord…” drivel, or some variations of this type of esoteric gobbledygook, are going to pour out of the altars of liars.

Now, before you head off to the Crossover Service tonight, hear me and hear me good. These people are lying to you. Every single word that proceeds out of their mouth is a lie. With a high degree of confidence, I can tell you that the LORD God of the Bible did not tell these impostors anything. To the extent that a “daddy” or a “lord” spoke to them at all, I can assure you that the “daddy” and “lord” they heard is nothing but a lying spirit or, perhaps, the high-pressure hissing sound of the flatulence projecting out of their rear end. 

Jeremiah 23:16-17

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord. They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”

Ezekiel 13:1-10

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the Lord!’ Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the Lord. They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the Lord,’ when the Lord has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the Lord,’ although I have not spoken?” Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God. My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord God. Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash.”

Quit being a fool. Stop falling for the scam. It’s an abominable thing to subscribe to the fortune-telling and divination of these people. The only good you are going to get from these liars is the ruination of your soul. Don’t say you weren’t warned.