Have you ever read a verse and thought HOW DID WE MISS THIS???"
Consider Luke 21.
How could we have overlooked this signs-of-the-end-time warning?
-as many others did likewise including the men on the radio, internet, and book writers?
Luke 21:8 J.B. Phillips New Testament
“Be careful that you are not deceived,” he replied.
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ Never follow men like that...... "
.....Luke 21:8 (NIV)
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.
Luke 21:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
And he said, Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is at hand: go ye not after them.
And in the Numeric ASV: and He said see you be not led astray, for many shall come in my name saying "I am He"; and "the season is near", GO NOT AFTER THEM.
Christ-confessing ministers saying the time is at hand, the season is near, ARE right now, leading many astray.
The FIRST warning Jesus gave regarding the end times was the SIGN that many would lead astray, ---> and that it would be those saying "the TIME is at hand".
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......
- NO predicted earthquakes hit, and the ones that came were missed.
- NO special "anointing of the manchild" came in September or October.
- NO Comet Elenin disasters or even becoming visible
- NO appearing of Planet X
- NO, the New Madrid did not split open and isolate an ark-shaped refuge in which the "anointed" people
could take the abandoned property of fleeing residents..
- NO, the 11-11-11 Hoover Dam terrorist destruction missed (via a YouTube prophet)
- and even the Great Pumpkin did not arrive for Halloween as Linus, the cartoon series character in "Peanuts' hoped for every year ....
But a pattern of failed dates, dreams, and disasters are exactly what we are told would be an end-time sign!
Did He really mean it and does it apply to the date-setting prophecy teacher?
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......
If they predict dates, confirmed by dreams or whatever they are leading us astray, no disciple in the New Testament dangled dates and disasters as a lure for followers.
Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, ---> It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.
We need to repent of the lust to know and/or have special end-time knowledge...
We too can fall into a "working of error", a strong delusion.... because no man is exempt from deception.
The truth here is Jesus does not want us following date-setting people no matter how much Christ they confess and teach.
The second truth is He does not want our minds and spirits POLLUTED by fear. Beware of constant mind-control and manipulation by pointing us toward their particular vision or philosophy, by those seeking a following. Fear using carrot-and-stick dates that constantly move forward is a tactic that keeps people following the "doom-date" setters.
Call him apostle, pastor, watchman, or rabbi and we lean on and follow his revelation, there is idolatry and our mind will be veiled. -especially when God told us ahead of time, "they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"
Christ-confessing ministers saying the time is at hand, the season is near, ARE right now, leading many astray.
The FIRST warning Jesus gave regarding the end times was the SIGN that many would lead astray, ---> and that it would be those saying "the TIME is at hand".
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......
- NO predicted earthquakes hit, and the ones that came were missed.
- NO special "anointing of the manchild" came in September or October.
- NO Comet Elenin disasters or even becoming visible
- NO appearing of Planet X
- NO, the New Madrid did not split open and isolate an ark-shaped refuge in which the "anointed" people
could take the abandoned property of fleeing residents..
- NO, the 11-11-11 Hoover Dam terrorist destruction missed (via a YouTube prophet)
- and even the Great Pumpkin did not arrive for Halloween as Linus, the cartoon series character in "Peanuts' hoped for every year ....
But a pattern of failed dates, dreams, and disasters are exactly what we are told would be an end-time sign!
Did He really mean it and does it apply to the date-setting prophecy teacher?
“There will be many coming in my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is very near now.’ ---> Never follow men like that......
If they predict dates, confirmed by dreams or whatever they are leading us astray, no disciple in the New Testament dangled dates and disasters as a lure for followers.
Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, ---> It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.
We need to repent of the lust to know and/or have special end-time knowledge...
We too can fall into a "working of error", a strong delusion.... because no man is exempt from deception.
The truth here is Jesus does not want us following date-setting people no matter how much Christ they confess and teach.
The second truth is He does not want our minds and spirits POLLUTED by fear. Beware of constant mind-control and manipulation by pointing us toward their particular vision or philosophy, by those seeking a following. Fear using carrot-and-stick dates that constantly move forward is a tactic that keeps people following the "doom-date" setters.
Call him apostle, pastor, watchman, or rabbi and we lean on and follow his revelation, there is idolatry and our mind will be veiled. -especially when God told us ahead of time, "they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"
The Lord, by His grace, has granted us repentance and deliverance from the error that had us bound. The hidden "leaven" in our manna of the Word.
We can now rest in His promises concerning end time events:
Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge
No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;