How can you identify a real prophet?

On November 20, Sylvia Browne died at the age of 77. She had predicted to Larry King that she would die at the age of 88. Browne was a fairly well-known psychic. She said she discovered she had the gift for telling the future when she was three years old. She told the parents of Shawn Hornbeck in 2002 that he was dead. Shawn was found alive in 2006. She also told the mother of Amanda Berry in 2004 that she was dead. Amanda, of course, was rescued just this year from the sick pervert who had held her captive for a decade.

Browne explained away those goofs by saying that even the best psychics don't get it right every time. Oops! She goofed again:

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."

True prophets are right every time!

I daresay I could have made as many accurate "predictions" as she did -- all one has to do is use some common sense along with common experience and a little bit of knowledge of human nature. Watch a few episodes of "The Mentalist" and you'll see what I mean.

"Renowned psychic was hit, miss with predictions." The Dallas Morning News; November 22, 2013 ; p. 8B.