Is it no wonder that Jesus called Christians "sheep"? Ever watch sheep? Sheep will endlessly follow each other without question and sometimes without reason. It is a sad commentary on the age we live in that Christians will follow after anything that makes them "feel good" or "look better" or they think is "good" because it may have helped other Christians somewhere. Anything to "tickle the ears."  However, Jesus warned about false doctrines that MANY would follow and be deceived in the last days. And how many people remember that there were 12 apostles - all capable of working miracles and healing, yet He called one of them a devil!? How many remember that when the antichrist comes, he will deceive with lying signs and miracles?!  Look at how many people go running after statues that weep tears of blood --- and apparitions of Mary. They will tell you themselves how wonderful all this makes them feel and how close it brings them to God (my question is - WHICH God are they running after?)
 
When a Christian writes a book that is totally contrary to the Word of God, it is lauded - why? Because someone, somewhere KNOWS that person and says what a "wonderful" Christian they are, so of course, what they write must be spiritual - of course  - THAT person could NEVER be deceived - right? Not even if they gain a following of hundreds (or thousands perhaps?) Or they write a book and declare - OH LOTS of people have been helped by that book, so it MUST be from God, right? Well, the Mormons will tell you the SAME thing about their Book of the Mormons and their "angel of light" Moroni, yet Moroni preached a totally different gospel than what Jesus preached. I don't care how many bestseller lists the book is on, or how many TV evangelists promote it, or how many people go nuts over it and go out and buy 10 dozen copies to give to friends, if it does not line up with the Word of God, it isn't of God.
 
It does not matter if the person propagating the book is a wonderful, sweet person who dearly loves the Lord - they can be DECEIVED too. And when someone claims that they are so overcome with the Holy Spirit that they are twitching back and forth and their pastor has to rebuke them to stop disrupting the services - folks, there is nothing biblical about that. When the Holy Spirit fell on 3000 people at Pentecost, the unbelievers thought they were drunk, but the believers knew the truth--- and God did not fall on ONE person and cause that one person to disrupt an entire congregation of believers, He fell on many people at a time. We are even told that in order to keep ORDER in the church we are not even supposed to speak in tongues UNLESS there is someone to interpret - otherwise, we are to keep the message to ourselves, in order to keep ORDER in the assembly.  I don't care how lovely a "vision" looks or what it does to someone - if it goes AGAINST what scripture says, avoid it like the plague and don't promote it!
 
YES, God is still speaking and working today through signs and miracles. All you have to do is go to a Reinhard Bonnke crusade and find that out, but God does NOT speak today and contradict what He said YESTERDAY, and I guarantee you, if he spoke through a donkey today - like He did in the Bible, He would NOT contradict anything He said in the Bible. And when He gives visions and dreams today, if they do NOT line up with what He said in the Bible, they should be weeded out and ignored.  We are supposed to be able to discern what is of God and what is not. We are not to be ignorant sheep following after the latest fad or craze because it made someone feel good or look good, nor are we to assume that just because the writer says they are not seeking fame or riches, that automatically makes them "okay."
 
We were warned in the Book of Revelations that if anyone ADDED to the words of that book, the plagues of that book would be added to them - and if anyone took away from the words of that book, their part in the Book of Life would be removed. While I believe it is true that God is using ways to warn the LOST in these last days, I do not believe He is going against what He wrote in His word to do this. There is no "in-between" with God. There is no "gray" with Him. The problem is that this world is always trying to make things GRAY and make absolutes irrelevant because they do not believe in a Holy God of absolutes. This world has no absolutes - that is why children are growing up confused and uncertain. They have been taught that they evolve from oceanic soup and that there is no right and wrong and they have been taught to doubt the Word of God --- so they turn inward --- to self centeredness, to drugs, to "doing their own thing," regardless of the consequences, because they do not believe in a Holy God who will hold them accountable.
 
Rene