The Bible predicts (more than once!) that the end times will be full of FALSE ONES: false teachers, false prophets and false Christs.
“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
–2PETER 2:1
“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”
–Matthew 24:10
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
–Matthew 24:24
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
–1JOHN 4:1
And so it is.
From the many emails received and the many videos released on YouTube, one gets the distinct impression that false teachers believe the lost may be snared with little more than a pretty picture…
…or chart…
or timeline…
…or diagram…
…and a pretty story, of course.
IN FACT, in the times in which we live, one of the distinguishing marks of a false teacher appear to be the endless number of colorful charts and timelines he churns out.
And the stories SOUND good to the lost.
And the colorful charts and timelines LOOK good to the lost.
However, upon closer examination, NONE of the exacting, nonsensical pictures–or information–these false teachers offer is biblical.
THEN why do they do it?
1- These false teachers have stumbled upon a secret: add a catchy title to an eye-grabbing graphic and–voila!–the ignorant will buy your book or DVD. AND IF the lost laps up enough of this bilge, the false teachers are MUCH more likely to be seen on the speakers’ list at one of the countless, false “prophecy conferences.”
2- These false teacher have also stumbled upon ANOTHER secret: end times man is FASCINATED by colorful charts attached to unbiblical, pretty stories.
3- The FALSE ONES (workers of iniquity) labor for Satan.
And Jesus Christ called Satan the “father of lies.”
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
–John 8:44
HAS the reader ever been the recipient of a pretty chart attached to a story about the end times?
It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: May 15-17, 2020.]
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