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But there were also false prophets among the people,
Who were the people that Peter was referring to? Israel.
Balaam is one predominant example of a false prophet. Balaam, was a prophet for hire and had been asked to curse Israel. God would not let him do it. He figured out a way to gain a profit and potentially circumvent God's directive by giving this king the way to push God right out of Israel. He, by his instructions was able to bring about the downfall of Israel. God eventually had Balaam killed for what he did.
Did Balaam, by his words and actions, lead Israel to their destruction? You bet he did; does this excuse Israel's actions and responsibility? No way.
2 Peter 2:1 NIV But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
We just slid from prophets to teachers. In my mind the prophet carries a bit more weight, as they are generally perceived as speaking on God's behalf, but doesn't a teacher do that as well? Policemen break the laws too, and yet they represent the law of the state in which they serve. Are they to be held responsible for misrepresenting the state? You bet, just as a false teacher is held responsible by God for misrepresenting him.
I can think of many bible teachers that might be deemed false, because they are misrepresenting God by teaching people to focus on money as a demonstration of God's goodness toward you, when God's word tells us that everything in the world is working in opposition to God.
God has made it very clear that his goodness toward us is based upon his love toward us. He demonstrated that by the giving the very life of His son as the price for our redemption.
Let's take this concept of false teachers a step further.
I think that we, in the religious world, focus on false teachers within the church, but what if this is an outside influence. Islam, is a religion, and they are converting people at a rapid pace. People who convert are often saying, they want something with a strong moral structure, and Islam enforces that. There are of course liberties that a man can take that a woman can't, such as, a woman has to have her body covered in public; a man can beat his wife for no reason at all, if he so chooses, but he will attribute the beating to some breach of the Qur an, and Islamic men, in the name of Jihad (holy war) can rape Christian women with no repercussions under Sharia law.
So is Islam then covered under the blanket of false teaching? You bet. Do a little research into what they believe about Jesus, the Son of God (you won't find that description in Islam). They believe in an end time scenario just as we do. If you compare Islam to Christianity, it begins to sound like Satan copied everything God prescribes in scripture, with an evil and sinister twist, all in the name of destroying anything that looks, acts, and sounds like God or the Son. And by the way, it is all happening slowly, although I have seen a rapid acceleration, by attempting to change the opinions of people.
2 Peter 2:10 CEV The Lord is especially hard on people who disobey him and don't think of anything except their own filthy desires. They are reckless and proud and are not afraid of cursing the glorious beings in heaven.
The Amplified bible says they despise authority. The Grk word is: kataphroneo
Thayer's Definition: to contemn, despise, disdain, think little or nothing of
The King James version says they despise government . What is government, but the ruling body. Webster's defines it as control or restraint. These false teachers despise control or restraint, while at the same time making every effort to control those they influence.
I seriously doubt that there are too many of us, here in the United States, that are content with what the Obama administration is doing to us, with their medical plans and every other plan they are dishing out. In a word, most of us are despising government. If it were only that simple.
1. We have people "walking after the flesh". Fulfilling their own desires and agendas.
2. "They are false teachers" and in some cases prophets. I am telling you, keep a watchful eye on Islam (Islam fulfills one of the major themes in Revelation by providing a false prophet. His name is Isa or to gain your confidence, Jesus the son of Mary).
3. "They despise restraint". While that can apply to most anyone, the lack of restraint sounds more like a person despising God, and that is what Islam does. Don't be mislead, they believe in one supreme being too, but his name is Allah, and he has no son.
4. And though one translation says: despise government, the majority speak of "cursing glorious beings in heaven". If the government is God, and we are not talking about prayer against Satan, then we are talking about people speaking out against God. That is really much to lite a way to put it. Scripture tells us that the anti-Christ spews out abominations against God.
God made the angels and a third of them fell with Satan. Even though Michael and Gabriel are magnificent, they would tell you not to worship them. John got a taste of this when he was taken up into heaven.
What is left to despise in terms of glorious beings in heaven? God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Jews despised Jesus when they attributed his actions to the devil. They caught an earful on that one, as he called them blasphemous, and told them they were seriously close to hell's fires. The beast/anti-Christ/Mahdi/ and False prophet of Islam do just that, cursing God, his Son, and imitating God's actions in an effort to lead people away from truth; this primarily after the rapture of the active church.
Chain of events, as I see it.
While we are seeing the fingerprints of Islam's influence upon the world even now, the worst is yet to come. Islam is going to raise its ugly head even further. There will be a 10 nation Islamic confederation under the guise of global order, but there are two undertones that cannot be missed. One is the establishment of a global Caliphate; Islam is advocating this on a daily basis. The other is what some refer to as: the new world order . While masked in a cloak of economic success and free enterprise, it is a collection of powerful men, driving for a centralized, one world government where they control the people, and gain more wealth.
This should not be a new thing to anyone, while we treat these clouded governmental concepts as we do area 51 , something of a hoax, the men who have run this country have, with few exceptions, all have been associated with things like the Masons, or the Bohemian Woods. Meetings shrouded in secrecy where decisions are made there that circumvent the voice, and votes of the people. This idea of a new world order may fall under many names but the primary ideals are tied into man's lust for money and power.
Revelation speaks of the harlot riding upon the back of the beast. (Read Revelation 17 In it you find a description of the prostitute/harlot, what the true draw is, the global effect she has on the world's leaders, and shock on the world's face when they realize how they had been taken in by her.) Satan is the power and motivation behind all of this, but people will not see it. The Harlot then, is the drive for money and power under whatever guise you want to call it. (Revelation 17:5 seems to be screaming out the name and definition, calling the harlot BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ALL WHOREDOMS.
Folks, there has to be something here that God is wanting us to pay attention to. That term Babylon is used for several things, the primary aspect is the satanic spirit behind it.) One of the aspects of this meeting place in the Bohemian Woods is 20 foot tall, cement owl called Moloch - also rendered as Molech, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, or Moloc. As a god worshiped by the Phoenicians, Moloch had associations with a particular kind of propitiatory child sacrifice to which the Jews fell prey and sacrificed their own children to. The Bohemian Woods is not a singularity, this kind of retreat can be found around the world, and they have been ongoing since the collapse of the Ottoman empire.
One of the predominant players in this world of greed, power, and deceit is a Jewish man, that hates God and all he represents, named George Soros. In his attempts to control and gain wealth he has been a major player in the collapse of several national economies, and you will find his name in the headlines sporadically.
The nations rising against, and surrounding Israel, ten in particular; a possible atomic war against Israel; economic collapse; Islam taking control of nations at the same time; pure pandemonium, and the rapture of the church. Much of this will take place so quickly that many would call it simultaneous.
The Mahdi/the beast, and the anti-Christ characters of scripture.
He is a man, so do not go looking for some hideous creature; this guy will be a charismatic Muslim, and a religious leader. He will make a peace treaty with Israel that allows for them to rebuild the temple. The peace treaty will be for a seven year period, which he himself will break at 3 and half years into it.
Islam believes that the treaty will be bartered by a Jewish priest, this becomes significant when the false prophet becomes predominant. Things to note: Even though he is a religious leader, that is not his pure motive. He too is driven by control and power. Military might is his backbone, and he will use, for a time, the harlot of Revelation 17. He eventually destroys the harlot; that means that they (kings, governments, and their money) will be used and cast aside. If you look at the descriptions of the harlot you will see that wealth is a primary draw with her. Islam appears to shun wealth for spiritual status.
There is another beast/anti-Christ that comes.
I saw another beast come from the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb. It talked like a serpent.(Revelation 13:11 GW)
Again I warn you, you are not looking for something hideously ugly. He will represent himself much like Jesus, the Son of God, might have when he walked this earth.
Revelation even says he has two horns like a lamb.
Who is the lamb of God? Jesus Christ the son, the one who became the sacrificial lamb. Islam describes this man in minutia. He will be a man, a Jew, a Muslim, a Jewish high priest of Aaronic decent, that Islam calls by many names: Isa, and Jesus the son of Mary, being two of them. He will by virtue of his name, lineage, and by powerful signs deceive many into following Islam, proclaiming Allah as the only true god.
This is a hard one because I find it difficult to believe that anyone would follow after someone named Jesus in this day and age, especially if he suddenly shows up and does what this guy does. To follow someone like this demonstrates to me how little the world knows or cares about scripture.
This Jesus of Islam sets up the image of the beast, and causes it to speak. He will be the enforcer of Sharia law against any that refuse to commit to Allah, and demonstrate their allegiance by most likely wearing something that indicates such.
This entire scenario is horror to me and should be to you too, because of all the misrepresentations that God has had to endure, this is the worst. Jews, those that claim to have been looking for the conquering Messiah, will fall for this person's deception, throwing logic and reason entirely out the window.
A Mormon man said to me, doesn't scripture tell us that God is the happy god? While there is a passage that indicates that God has laughed at some point, he is coming back to this earth to judge it, and he is coming in rage and fury. At three and half years into the peace treaty with Israel the Mahdi breaks the treaty and Jews will be slaughtered. Only a handful will remain. The false prophet of scripture, this Jesus of Islam, will begin systematically killing those who refuse Allah.
Scripture says that nations will be flattened by earthquakes; the sky will go dark; celestial objects will strike the earth, and 100 pound hailstones will fall. (Try reading Revelation chapters 8, 9, 16) Yet people will still make it through, many cursing God as they go.
Jesus, the Son of God, the King of Ages, will come, plant his feet on the Mount of Olives, and split that mount in two. He will come with an army and there will be a great slaughter in the valley of Megiddo. (Some call that the battle of Armageddon).
For those of you who mock, saying I do not believe in your God, beside that I am homosexual and no harm to anyone. Trust me on this, Islam despises you as well. Islam will give you a choice, worship Allah or die. If you are homosexual you will be killed with no options for Allah does not tolerate that kind of behavior, and violent death is what the Qur'an prescribes for homosexuals.
One last thing you might take note of. If, and I believe that this is the way, the rapture of God's church takes place, there will of course be a lot of people suddenly gone. Oh sure, you can blame it on aliens, but the thing to pay attention to is how quickly all these horrid things will suddenly fall into place. They are falling into place as you read this, assuming that we are not already gone.
While the Mahdi is making a treaty with Israel there will be two prophets from God standing in the streets of Jerusalem proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ, the risen one. New life in him will still be available, and I would suggest that you grow a backbone and take advantage of that.
No, there will be no opportunity for a rapture rescue, you are now going to have to take a strong stand against Islam's Allah, and you will probably lose your head over it. Scripture tells us in Isaiah 13 that they (Islam) will smash your children's heads against the stones in front of you.
DO NOT ACCEPT ALLAH AS GOD. I am telling you, you can do this. The same Holy Spirit that has walked this earth, for all these years, compelling you to come to Christ while you had the chance at grace, will still be here, and scripture tells us that he will give you the strength to stand and the words to say.
Do not be afraid. I know that is easy for me to say now for I am not facing violent death, nor having to watch my children held before me, screaming daddy, as I am pressured into giving into the worship of a false god, accepting some indicator, a mark that I have given in, and giving up my last chance in the hands of the merciful God, who created me, and sent his only Son to die that I could live.
Take his hand, close your eyes, saying no to Allah, and yes to the one who loved you from the beginning of time, Jesus the Christ.
This all started with the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trials and surely a bigger one is coming. I have been facing a hard, but minor one at work.
Lot, live among these same people that wanted to take the angels and have sex with them; try telling me that was not difficult. Times will be difficult, that is a by product of broken people and the earth we live on. As long you have someone around you they have the potential to act out in their flesh, and the flesh is always selfish.
The point in this is that God has not removed us from the daily grind, therefore there has to be something more.
We look forward in hope toward our snatching away. 2 Peter is a very strong argument for this concept.
Yes, I am painfully aware that believers, all over the, not so free world, are being tortured and killed on a daily basis. If God knows how to deliver the righteous then how about them? I do not have the answer to that, and the reality that Christians suffer brutal things for their faith has been with us for as long as there has been Christianity.
Paul, while his name was Saul, had to have stood among those crowds of pharisees as they taunted Jesus, declared his works to be of the devil, and attempted to kill him. After Jesus death, Saul the pharisee made it his goal to remove the "pollution" of Christianity from the earth. God stopped him, and made it clear that what he was doing, he was doing to Jesus. Look this up in Acts 9:4.
Paul later told us that we will suffer for our faith.
God has given you the privilege not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him. (Philippians 1:29 GW)
What should I make of this? God's gave us a hope, and false teaches have tried to strip that away.
Always cling to hope and faith in His word.
As for the suffering, at least make sure it is only for your stand as a believer.
We broken humans will have ample opportunity to demonstrate how broken we are. Know that God has you in his hand, and do not make your brokenness a lifestyle.
If I did not say it before, let me say it now, I love you and God loves you even more.
Much catching up to do, Caio
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