The gift of prophecy is something else and can be exercised through any believer as the Spirit wills. That does not make them a prophet and we need to make that distinction. The most formidable character of deception in the last days is not going to be something so bizarre that it can be instantly identified as being out of the bowels of Hell, but rather it is going to be couched in the most conventional, orthodox and biblical language. The persecution of the remnant church of the last days is not so much the threat that comes to us from the world, but from a religious dimension that think that they are doing God a service. It will be more difficult to discern the good than the evil.
Evil is apparent, but good is subtle.
Good has much going for it and much to commend it, but if the good is not from God and just emanates from a kind of altruistic, humanistic personality, then good will be just as destructive to the interests of God as evil. That which appears as good will keep us from the particular and perfect will of God, and it is, therefore, more deadly than evil as it is not recognized as evil, because it purports to be good. We need to hate good in that sense, to hate sentimentality and to hate that which gives a nice feeling. He 'makes nice', and which of us does not like 'nice' and to be 'made nice'. There is something that yearns for it, and therefore they have a ready market, large audiences, great responses and mass mailing lists, because we want that which is nice, good and pleasant to the ear.