What Biblical prophets look like today?

            The Bible is full of people like Moses who supposedly had long chats with Yahweh or Paul who had a vision of Christ. There are also plenty who had visions like Ezekiel or were visited by an angel like Abraham. I have at times wondered what the claims of these prophets would look like today.

            Would they resemble Harold Camping? Who could forget that the world was supposed to end back in 2012? Jim Bakker? As I write this, he is still on TV selling meals for the apocalypse. Would the prophets be like this retired firefighter who claims that God has spoken to him about his plans to lift Donald Trump up and fight the evil that resides in the US? Would they look like anti-LGBT Bryan Fischer?

            As I look at modern day prophets, I wonder to what extent they believe what they say and to what extent they are scammers or grifters. This is a question I cannot really resolve. Sure, most people dismiss them as crackpots, but still they have a platform, a microphone and they impact our national discourse.

            It is the outsized role that these modern-day prophets have on our national policy discourse that has motivated me to want to start a blog. They have a right to believe what they want, but they do not have the right to force their beliefs on any of us.