Would you follow an organization that has made false predictions / prophecies?

Ask the Jehovah Witnesses....Would you follow an organization that has made false predictions / prophecies?
Often, an answer to a Q like this mentions Jonah as being a false prophet because his warning to the Ninevites (that Nineveh would be overturned in 40 days) did not materialise. Such critics fail to take on board the lesson God taught Jonah via the gourd plant that withered overnight. The lesson was that Nineveh had more than 120,000 people who all fasted and repented at the warning - even their animals - so God responded to their genuine repentance. Anyone who is more concerned at their reputation than for such undeserved mercy does not have the mind of God.





Jonah was not an organization but the principle can be applied to religious groups today. Some groups have made categoric statements, others more coy, guarded remarks, about Armageddon being imminent. Now, that warning is a biblical one and needs to be proclaimed to every generation. But when groups set a date, and/or usher their followers up mountains or into caves, or into suicide etc, they need to be exposed as false prophets. Even groups that just string their followers along with 'any day now so devote your all to the group and prosyletising' and do so for 120+ years, need to be warned against. Unlike Jonah, they deny ever being God's prophet, or spokesman, or that they proposed time-scales, when they actually did. God humbled Jonah, who took it like a man and repented. Organizations that repent of their false predictions will not commit the further sin of lying in order to cover their tracks. There is hope for such. But false prophets will never admit to being such. Jonah was, therefore, not a false prophet, and God exercised his sovereignty in order to respond to genuine repentance, as he continues to do today. But when his Day of Judgment comes, it will be too late for the unrepentant, and the false prophets.Would you follow an organization that has made false predictions / prophecies?
No, but if you were already in such a group, chances are you would accept their explanations as to why the predicted event did not occur.





There's lots of ways to rationalize around the fact.





The favorite is to cite Jonah. Ninevah was not destroyed, ergo Jonah was a false prophet.





But since we know he was not a false prophet.......





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be careful-- all fall short--no one NOT one is perfect except Jesus.
If they are false according to what I know and believe,no I wouldn't.
no! who would?
Nope.