Chi sono i falsi profeti secondo Gesù?

To read the in-depth article: https://www.vincenzolopalo.com/p/chi-... 📖 Subscribe to Substack for exclusive insights, exegetical articles, and the community: www.vincenzolopalo.com ✅ Subscribe to the YouTube channel to never miss our upcoming explorations of the original Gospel text. 📲 Join the WhatsApp channel to receive daily updates and content: https://www.tvpater.com/whatsapp-vinc... 👍 If you found this video helpful, please like it: it really helps spread the word. 🔁 And above all, share it—with those seeking serious criteria for discernment, with those who have been wounded by a community or a charismatic leader, with those who feel confused between the voice of God and their own inner feelings. 📌 Question for you (write me in the comments): What is the voice, inside you or around you, that today, more than any other, are you wondering whether it comes from God or from your heart? I don't ask for names, I don't ask for accusations. I ask for your personal discernment, shared out loud—because when one speaks, ten recognize each other. — "Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves." It's one of the most uncomfortable phrases in the Gospel, and we read it as if it were speaking of someone else. Of some distant sect. Of some American televangelist. But what if Jesus had been speaking of you? Of your favorite Catholic influencer? Of our way of saying "the Holy Spirit told me"? In this video, we open the Greek of Matthew 7:15 and then the Hebrew of Jeremiah 23, and find one of the most surgical diagnoses Scripture has ever given on religious life. The philological heart is in two words. The first is Greek: πλανάω (planáō), the verb Jesus uses in Matthew 24:24 to describe what false prophets will do "even to the elect." It doesn't simply mean "to deceive": it means to divert the path, to shift the soul from its orbit. From the same root comes πλανήτης (planḗtēs), the wandering star. The false prophet doesn't openly contradict you: he shifts you by half a degree, and after years of enthusiastic journeying, you find yourself on another spiritual continent. The same verb, in the Apocalypse, is the mark of satanic action: the Dragon is ὁ πλανῶν τὴν οἰκουμένην ὅλην, "he who misleads the whole world" (Rev 12.9). The second word is Hebrew and comes from Jeremiah 23.16: חֲזוֹן לִבָּם יְדַבֵּרוּ, לֹא מִפִּי יְהוָה — ḥăzôn libbām yədabbērû, lōʾ mippî Adonai. "They speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the Lord." Here is the most precise diagnosis: the false prophet is not a deceiver who lies knowingly. He is someone who speaks his own inner vision—often in complete subjective good faith—and passes it off as the Word of God. He feels warmth in his heart, he feels emotion, he feels "peace," and he mistakes that warmth for the voice of God. Indistinguishable from the emotional effect. Distinguishable only by objective criteria. And what is that criterion? Jesus gives it dazzlingly: ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς—"By their fruits you will know them" (Mt 7:16). Not an abstract doctrinal criterion. An existential, verifiable, merciless criterion. We will look specifically at the relational works that Paul lists in Galatians 5:20—ἔχθραι, ἔρις, διχοστασίαι, αἱρέσεις—enmities, discord, divisions, sects. For the false prophet does not leave drunkards: he leaves divided. He does not leave impure: he leaves warring among themselves. And in the final part of the video, the conversation returns to us—to today's digital Catholicism, to the communities built around the founder's personality cult, to the outward form erected as a flag of identity, and to the question each of us must ask ourselves before the Lord: do the voices I hear—my own voice, when I speak of God—come mippî Adonai, from the mouth of the Lord, or are they ḥăzôn libbām, a vision of my heart? And as always: praised be Jesus and Mary. #FalseProphets #Matthew7 #Jeremiah23 #GreekExegesis #Planao #FromTheirFruits #SpiritualDiscernment #OriginalText #BiblicalPhilology #TrueAndFalseProphets #CatholicFaith #YouTubeCatechesis #VincenzoLoPalo