Nineteenth Century "Prophets"

In the early 1900s, there were several men and women claiming divine influence on their lives, ministries, theologies, and more. As John Alexander Dowie’s multi-million-dollar empire became exposed as a financial scheme disguised as a religious one, many copycat ministries began to emerge offering unsuspecting victims additional ways to lose their money.

It was such a problem that researchers and journalists began to investigate and publish articles exposing the long list of “Nineteenth Century Prophets”. One such researcher, Henry W. Mitchell from Melbourne, Australia, published a list of over one hundred “prophets” whose ministries made a significant impact. From Joana Southcott who influenced the House of David sect and the Latter Rain Movement to Kentucky’s George O. Barnes the “Mountain Messiah”, to Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, Mitchell’s list of “prophets” offers substantial evidence supportive of deception rather than a “move of God”; many of the people in the list cross-pollinated the religious landscape of the early 1900s leading to the Latter Rain, Charismatic Movement, and their many splinter groups and sub-sects.

Mitchell admitted that his list was not complete, but also noted that most people were unaware of how many charlatans existed in just one century. Volumes of interesting and unusual articles could be written about each one of the self-proclaimed prophets and prophetesses who claimed Divine Inspiration, and even more, could be written about the destructive theology that emerged from the false doctrines that they introduced into Christianity.

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