Around the 2024 election in the USA the British so-called prophet gave a supposed prophetic word about the impact of the renewed presidency of Donald Trump. She said that he was not a blessing, but an instrument of judgment. She also said that large parts of the Church had elevated him into a messianic figure and failed to be appropriately concerned about his many moral defects. This caused the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders (ACPE) to take the previously unheard-of step of publicly criticizing her prophecy. In the 25 years since ACPE was formed that has never happened before. They really thought that it was urgently needed!

Several members of ACPE followed this statement with video recordings, basically repeating what was written.

ACPE describes themselves as the primary group to provide oversight and promote soundness in the prophetic. I have read hundreds of so-called prophetic messages from within the NAR, where ACPE plays a key role. Most of them have been exceptionally bad and in need of correction, something that ACPE has failed to provide. Which is not surprising, since many of these words have come from its members.

Right now their reaction cannot possibly be explained as a concern for the health of the prophetic ministry, but as a way of asserting dominance and power over a dissenting voice. I will provide an evaluation of a so-called prophetic word that caught my eye a while ago, when I was doing research for a forthcoming book. It will show how bad a prophetic word can be, without any intervention by the ACPE.

Testing “2020: Reset for a New Era” by Shara Chalmers – Synopsis

This is an evaluation of a supposed prophetic message published by The Elijah List in January 2020.[1] Steve Schultz that runs the Elijah List called it “an excellent word”. It is in fact the complete opposite. Basically, everything predicted has failed to come to pass. It is not a near miss, but a complete failure. This word was clearly not from the Lord!

I counted 40 predictions. Of these only 2 can be said to have come to pass, in some small way, but not on a level that makes justice to how the message was worded. 36 predictions failed. 2 probably did, but I am not able to evaluate them.

The clearest predictions failed so completely that it is beyond reason that anyone would believe them to be true. Instead of stadium revivals we got COVID. There has been progress in the treatment for AIDS, but no cure, and progress in 2020 was not in any way extraordinary. There is still no single natural cure for cancer. There is no discernible uptick in spectacular signs and wonders. There is still no massive revival!

Subjectively, within certain small streams of American Christianity, it may seem so, but one must remember the scale of these supposed predictions.

This message was not chosen because it is particularly bad. It was chosen at random as a word for 2020, because that was supposed to be a breakthrough year according to the most seasoned so-called prophets. In fact, this word is typical for what has gotten published on the Elijah List. I have read hundreds of supposed prophecies, and the success rate is abysmal. So have other researchers.[2]

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[1] Chalmers, Shara, “2020: Reset for a New Era,” The Elijah List, 7 January 2020, https://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=23068.

[2] I will give several more examples and provide sources to this claim in a forthcoming book.

PDF of the complete evaluation: