From the moment Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, various self-proclaimed "prophets" issued countless prophecies guaranteeing his reelection in 2020.
Predictably, when those prophecies failed to come to pass, these "prophets" refused to admit that they were wrong and instead spent the next four years issuing increasingly outlandish prophecies that President Joe Biden would be removed from office in the middle of his term and Trump would be reinstated.
Those prophecies likewise failed to come to pass, but throughout it all, the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, a group of "sixty seasoned prophets" within the New Apostolic Reformation, remained silent.
But suddenly the A.C.P.E. has decided speak out about the dangers of false prophecies regarding Trump ... but only those prophecies that criticize him.
Recently, the A.C.P.E. released a statement "Concerning a False Prophetic Word Targeting President Donald Trump," decrying that "several questionable national-level words were released—prophetic words that caused great confusion within the Body of Christ."
While we hear various words that seem questionable at best, we have never publicly called out a prophetic word as false in our 25-year history. However, when what is issued is so flagrantly false and carries the potential to incite violence and cause division in the name of God, we feel that we must denounce it as such as a group.
Further, there is a clear pattern of disturbing false prophecies being released by a minister who many identify as a prophet. These prophecies are being released to a global audience via social media. Since these harmful words were publicly released to a global audience, we feel they require a public response.
The A.C.P.E. did not name the "prophet" responsible for issuing the prophecies in question and every search for the quotations contained in the document only return the A.C.P.E's statement, meaning that these prophecies clearly were not widely known or disseminated. Nonetheless, the negative prophecies about Trump were apparently so troubling that the A.C.P.E. simply had to publicly speak out:
Due to the serious nature of the words being shared publicly—and how they could be used to either release a curse that one may unwittingly agree with or even inspire one to fulfill its violent rhetoric—we felt it was important to make a public statement about our views of these public proclamations.
We had hoped that there would at least be an acknowledgment that it was not wise to release these words publicly but rather to submit them to mature oversight and perhaps intercession. We are deeply concerned for the members of the Body of Christ who have been hurt, confused, and jarred by the context of the word and the dogmatic tone in which it was delivered. As a result of this grievous concern, and our deep love for this ministry and those who heard the word, the Holy Spirit directed us to issue this statement. In humility and in the fear of the Lord we do so.
In fact, due to the "serious nature" of these dangerous prophecies, several signatories even held a public livesteam to discuss them on Sunday night.
Among those who signed the document were Trump supporters Cindy Jacobs, Che Ahn, Lou Engle, Dutch Sheets, Mario Bramnick, Mark Gonzales, Herman Martir, James Goll, Chuck Pierce, and Lance Wallnau.
Of course, many of these "prophets" have issued false prophecies of their own, like Wallnau, who declared in April 2023 that there would be "some sudden deaths coming in May" to those who opposed Trump. That, of course, did not happen, but it never prompted the A.C.P.E. to issue any sort of statement denouncing Wallnau's false prophecies or his "violent rhetoric."
Right Wing Watch could provide the A.C.P.E with several dozen examples of false prophecies about Trump that have been issued over the last eight years by those associated with the organization and the New Apostolic Reformation, but it seems that the only ones of concern to them are those made by some unnamed and unknown "prophet" who dared to criticize Trump.
