DEFENDING ELBERNARD WHILE GOD’S HONOUR BLEEDS _ WHEN SENTIMENT REPLACES SCRIPTURE.

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A WARNING TO THOSE EMPATHISE FALSE PROPHETS:

DEFENDING ELBERNARD WHILE GOD’S HONOUR BLEEDS _ WHEN SENTIMENT REPLACES SCRIPTURE.

I am not ordinarily given to replying to comments beneath my posts. Silence, at times, is the most charitable response. However, this present matter touches something far more sacred than personal opinion—it touches the integrity of God Himself. When divine truth is obscured by sentimental loyalty, silence becomes complicity.

What many have labelled “judgmental” in my recent post reveals, instead, a deeper problem: the weaponization of unholy sympathy and unscriptural compassion. There is a kind of mercy that Scripture never blesses—a mercy that shields error, baptizes falsehood, and calls it love.
Let us ask the uncomfortable but necessary question:
When a man speaks falsely in the name of God, whom do you defend—God or the man?
Because make no mistake: whichever you defend becomes the object of your worship.

THE DIVIDING LINE: GOD’S EXCLUSIVE CLAIM TO OMNISCIENCE

Scripture is unambiguous. In Isaiah, God places His own deity on trial before the nations and the false gods:
“Declare the things that are to come afterwards, that we may know that you are gods.”

—Isaiah 41:23
“I am God, and there is no other… declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, things not yet done.”

—Isaiah 46:9–10
This is not poetic exaggeration. This is God’s self-exclusive claim.
The ability to foretell the future with precision, accuracy, and exact fulfilment is presented by God Himself as the decisive proof of true divinity.
Why?

Because God alone is:
Omniscient — He knows all things, including every contingency.
Omnipresent — He is everywhere, at all times, orchestrating history.
Omnipotent — He possesses unlimited power to ensure His word comes to pass.
Satan and demons possess none of these attributes. They are not all-knowing. They are not everywhere. They can not do all things.

At best, they work with fragments of information, manipulating probabilities—yet even then, God interrupts their schemes at will.
“I watch over My word to perform it.” —Jeremiah 1:12
“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent.” —Numbers 23:19

This is the moral and metaphysical backbone of prophecy.
To allow error in “Thus says the LORD” is to fracture God’s self-revelation.

“BUT THE PROPHET IS HUMAN” — A HALF-TRUTH THAT BECOMES A LIE

Yes, prophets are human—but Scripture is precise about where their humanity applies.
A prophet may err morally (as David did).

A prophet may struggle personally (as Elijah did).
But a prophet does not err when declaring the word of the LORD.
“Holy men of God spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
—2 Peter 1:20–21

Note the force of the text.
Prophecy is not private interpretation.
It is not trial-and-error inspiration.
It is divine carriage.
Joseph did not misinterpret Pharaoh’s dreams.

Daniel did not “approximate” Nebuchadnezzar’s visions.
And none of the canonical prophets ever issued a failed “Thus says the LORD” and retained prophetic legitimacy.
To argue otherwise is not humility—it is theological vandalism.

DISCERNMENT IS NOT JUDGMENT—IT IS OBEDIENCE

Some object, “Do not judge.”
But Scripture itself commands:
“Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.”
—1 Corinthians 14:29
Prophecy is to be judged, weighed, tested—not protected by sentiment.
Jesus’ warning about judging (Matthew 7) concerns hypocritical moral condemnation, not doctrinal or prophetic discernment.

To conflate the two is either ignorance or evasion.
When I say a failed prophecy exposes a false prophet, I am not attacking a man—I am defending God’s integrity.
Because if God can lie, misspeak, or miscalculate, then:

Scripture is unreliable
Faith is irrational
Hope is an illusion
Salvation itself becomes uncertain
But Scripture declares the opposite:
“Not one word has failed of all His good promises.” —Joshua 21:45

THE IRONY OF FALSE LOYALTY

History is sobering.
Israel consistently:
Honoured false prophets
Protected them
Silenced their critics
Persecuted the true prophets
Jesus Himself draws the line:
“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.”
—Luke 6:26
Universal approval is not a badge of faithfulness—it is often the mark of deception.
So I say this gently but firmly:
Defending failed prophecy is not love. It is rebellion dressed as compassion.
This moment is a separating line—between:
Scripture and sentiment
God’s honour and human loyalty
Wheat and Chaff

A FINAL CAUTION

You can not claim to defend God while excusing what God Himself condemns.
You can not claim reverence for prophecy while dismantling its biblical standard.
You can not enthrone a man’s reputation without dethroning God’s truth.
Choose carefully.
In the end, the issue is not Elbernard.
The issue is this:
Will we stand with God’s Word—or with men who speak falsely in His name?
And Scripture has already told us where that road leads.

CENTRE FOR BIBLICAL-HISTORICAL DEFENCE. President, Rev. Emmanuel Boachie. COUNTRY DIRECTOR, Awesome Bible College and HEADPASTOR, Souls’ Pasture Church Ghana Kumasi ACHIASE off Barekese Road. +233247216666/+233240375959