False Prophets

[Woody]

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Matt.24:9 "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."

Are we not living in this time of history?

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Matt.24:24 "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

[Gerr]

Yes, indeed! Not only false prophets but also false teachers teaching demonic doctrines!!!

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But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many wiull follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.....

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell.....if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness....when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly....if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly....2 Pe 2:1ff.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons....1 Tim 4:1 ESV

Yeah, that time IS here. It's here indeed!

Gerry

[Woody]

Gerry. I think this is the first time we have been in agreement.

Praise God.

[Gerr]

Gerry. I think this is the first time we have been in agreement.

Praise God.

I think your longterm memory may have become too short?

Gerry

[skyblue888]

"I saw that the mysterious signs and wonders and false reformations would increase, and spread. The reformations that were shown me were not reformations from error to truth, but from bad to worse; for those who professed a change of heart had only wrapped about them a religious garb which covered up the iniquity of a wicked heart. Some appeared to have been really converted, as to deceive God's people; but if their hearts could be seen, they would appear as black as ever." E.G. White & Her Critics, by F.D. Nichol, p.222; Present Truth, Aug.1849, pp.21,22.

The ones against whom we are warned, appearing in plural numbers in these last days are false Christs and false prophets. They come not as open enemies of the truth but as counterfeits of the real. Among those who are opposed to God's living truths are men so polite, courteous, helpful, calm and nice, that you would not ask yourself, How could such a person ever be the enemy of God? outwardly he bears all the marks of conversion. Surely from all I can see of this man he is a true child of God. But do not be deceived, That is not the test. The ministers of unrighteousness come among us as angels of light to deceive and draw back God's people. In these last days we have "miracles" of apparent conversions, worked by Satan's ministers. They may teach a message which appears to be the doctrine of Christ. It will look the same and sounds the same, but God's true people will know by His word that it is not the same because there are distinct differences.

"Genius, sympathy, even generous deeds, may become decoys of Satan to entice other souls over the precipice of ruin for this life and the life to come." Mount of Blessing, pp.94,95.

Solemn words~

sky