Not every prophecy is to be believed or trusted

Summary:

Not every prophecy is to be believed or trusted. 

Prophecies can be true or false. 

→ True words can be believed.

→ False words are not to be believed. 

Prophecies are to be tested first to examine if they are true or false before they can then be believed accordingly. 

It is not prudent to believe every word. 

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Things prophesied can be true or false:

Things prophesied can be described as "TRUE" or "FALSE". 

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True words can be believed or trusted:

True words may be believed, as it is written: "he-is-speaking TRUE (things), SO-THAT you also MAY-BELIEVE" (John 19:35).

True words (prophesied) can be trustworthy, as it is written: "Blessed (is) the (one) reading, and the (ones) hearing the WORDS (of this) PROPHECY" (Revelation 1:3), "THESE WORDS (ARE) TRUSTWORTHY and TRUE" (Revelation 22:6).

False words are not to be believed or trusted:

False words are NOT to be believed, as it is written: " if someone says (to) you, ‘Behold — here (is) the Christ’, ‘Behold — there (He is)’, DO NOT BE-BELIEVING (IT). FOR FALSE-christs and FALSE-prophets will-arise, and will-give signs and wonders so-as to-be-leading-astray" (Mark 13:22).

Prophecies are to be tested first before they may or may not be believed:

We are commanded to be testing prophecies, as Paul wrote: "do not be-treating PROPHECIES with-contempt, but BE-TESTING all (things)" (1 Thessalonians 5:21). 

Prophecies can be TRUE or FALSE. 

One understanding of what "testing prophecies" can mean is: 

Examining if a prophecy is TRUE or FALSE. 

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Things do not have to be believed right away, but they are to be tested first, as for example the word for "BE-TESTING [dokimazo 1381 in Greek]" (1 Thessalonians 5:21) was used in the following sentence in opposition to believing: "DO NOT BE-BELIEVING every spirit, BUT BE-TESTING [dokimazo 1381 in Greek] the spirits" (1 John 4:1). 

This testing is to determine if it is TRUE or FALSE, as it is then written: "From this, we-know the Spirit (of) TRUTH and the spirit (of) ERROR" (1 John 4:6). 

Conversely, a prophecy would have to be tested first to determine if it is TRUE or FALSE, so that it can THEN be BELIEVED or NOT BELIEVED accordingly.

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It is not prudent to believe every word:

It is written in the Proverbs: "THE SIMPLE BELIEVES EVERY WORD, BUT THE PRUDENT man considers his steps" (Proverbs 14:15 (Masoretic)). 

Here to be "SIMPLE" is contrasted to being "PRUDENT ". Elsewhere in the Proverbs it is written: "Understand PRUDENCE, SIMPLE ones" (Proverbs 8:5).

The description of being "SIMPLE" in the Proverbs is negative, for example it is written about "the GOING ASTRAY of the SIMPLE ones" (Proverbs 1:32), and how "SIMPLE ones TURN ASIDE" (Proverbs 9:16).

And so the Proverbs instruct to "LEAVE your SIMPLE ways" (Proverbs 9:6).

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