When a Man Claims God Sent Him
Readers of this thread need to understand what is actually being claimed here. ScottA is not merely offering a personal interpretation of Revelation. He presents himself as a man sent by God, connects his own book with the “little book” of Revelation 10, and then treats those who examine his claims as unbelieving, spiritually blind, or aligned with “the accuser of the brethren.”
That is a serious matter. When someone claims to speak or act under direct authority from God, Scripture does not tell us to accept the claim without examination. It commands us to test it.
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).
Testing a claim of divine revelation is not unbelief. It is obedience to the Word of God. The more serious the claim, the more carefully it must be examined.
Paul wrote, “Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge” (1 Corinthians 14:29). A man does not become exempt from judgment because he says the Spirit sent him. His claim to speak by the Spirit is the very reason his words must be judged.
The problem in this discussion is that biblical examination is being turned into an accusation against the person doing the examining. Instead of plainly proving the claim from Scripture, the person asking for proof is accused of unbelief, blindness, and siding with Satan. That is a deceptive way of answering because it shifts attention away from the claim and places pressure on the reader to accept it without proper testing.
Scripture warns repeatedly about men who claim divine authority without being sent by God. “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied” (Jeremiah 23:21).
A man saying that God sent him does not prove that God sent him. His personal experiences, visions, impressions, or testimony cannot establish divine authority. His claim must agree with the written Word of God. Jeremiah also wrote, “Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith” (Jeremiah 23:31).
That warning applies whenever a man attaches God’s authority to his own words without clear biblical proof. No one has the right to say or imply, “God gave me this message, and those who reject me are rejecting Him,” unless God has actually spoken.
His website connects his book with the “little book” in Revelation and declares, “This is that time, and this is that book, now revealed.” That is not an ordinary statement about Bible interpretation. It is a claim that his book fulfills biblical prophecy.
The question is simple. Where does Revelation 10 identify ScottA, his ministry, or his book?
The passage says that John took the little book from the angel and ate it. John was then told, “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings” (Revelation 10:11). Nothing in that passage says that a man living centuries later would write, publish, and commercially sell the book.
Selling a Christian book is not automatically wrong. Many people write and sell books about the Bible. The serious problem begins when a man attaches divine authority and prophetic fulfillment to the book he is selling.
Micah warned about those who connected spiritual claims with personal gain: “The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us?” (Micah 3:11).
Peter also warned that false teachers would use religious language to take advantage of people: “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you” (2 Peter 2:3).
We should not pretend to know how much money anyone has made, nor should we claim to know every motive in another person’s heart. God alone knows the heart. What we can judge is the public claim and the visible conduct surrounding it.
Here is what can be seen. A commercially sold book is being presented as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. The author presents himself as sent by God. When readers demand biblical proof, they are accused of unbelief, blindness, or siding with the accuser.
Readers should not be intimidated by that kind of language. No man has the right to place himself, his interpretation, or his book beyond the judgment of Scripture.
Paul said, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). The Bereans were called noble because they “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:11).
The question remains unanswered. Where does Scripture say that ScottA was sent by God to reveal the little book of Revelation 10?
Until that claim is proved from Scripture, it should be rejected. His testimony cannot prove it. His website cannot prove it. His book cannot prove it. Accusations against those who test him cannot prove it. Scripture alone is the final authority.
