SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/24/2016 10:10 PM
My Worship Time Focus: From the Deception of sham prophets PT-1
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 13:2-6
Message of the verses: “2 “It will come about in that day,"
declares the LORD of hosts, "that I will cut off the names of the idols
from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove
the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 "And if anyone still
prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ’You shall not live, for
you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD’; and his father and mother who
gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. 4 “Also it will
come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision
when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive; 5
but he will say, ’I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man
sold me as a slave in my youth.’ 6 “And one will say to him, ’What are these
wounds between your arms?’ Then he will say, ’Those with which I was wounded in
the house of my friends.’”
We have a
little quiz here to ask you. Can you
name the two besetting sins of Israel?
Idol worship and false prophets is the answer to this short quiz. An
example of the false prophets is from the story of Elijah dealing with the
false prophets of Jezebel and the Lord killed all of those who were false
prophets on Mount Carmel. However most
of the time in the history of Israel the true prophets were the ones who got
killed by the false prophets, showing when you live a righteous life it steps
on the toes of those who want to sin and so the false prophets killed the true
prophets.
There will
come a day when the Antichrist will have his own false prophet as seen in the
13th chapter of Revelation, and they will rule the world up until
the time when Jesus Christ returns to planet earth as seen in Revelation 19,
and then they will be put alive in the lake of fire.
Verse two
tells us what the Lord is going to do when He returns from heaven as He will “cut
off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be
remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the
land.” We can see from this verse that
the unclean spirit is who gives the false messages to the false prophets.
I want to
look at 1 Corinthians 10:20 “No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to
become sharers in demons.” When the
Gentiles were sacrificing to their gods they were actually sacrificing to
demons who controlled the false gods.
Paul writes
to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4 and verse one “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will
fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines
of demons.” The later times speaks of
everything after the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave.
When Jesus
returns from heaven He will get rid of all demons, idols, Satan, the false prophet
and any other false prophet so they will not be there to temp the people.
John
MacArthur writes “You say, "Well, I thought Israel was...I thought Israel
was cleansed of demons. I thought after the captivity they didn't get into
false religion. I thought they didn't have any more idolatry." Well, in a
sense that's true. Ever since the Babylonian captivity, Israel has never gone
into idolatry as they knew it in the past, worshiping false images. But they have their own kind of
idolatry. And in the end time they're going to have more of that stuff
then they ever had in the past. Let me show you something that will help you to
see that. In Matthew chapter 12 and verse 43, I want you to see a little
parable Jesus gives. "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he
walks through dry places seeking rest and finds none." Okay? When the
unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places seeking rest
and finds none. And he says, "I will return into my house...that is I'll
go back to the man that I came out of...and when he is come he finds it empty,
swept and garnished. Then goes he and takes with himself seven other spirits
more wicked than himself. They enter in and dwell there. And the last state of
the man is worse than the first, even so shall it be also unto this wicked
generation."
“Jesus says
to Israel, you're that man. And there was a time in the Babylonian captivity
when God came along and God chased that demon out of you and God cleaned up
that demon of idolatry, as it were that spirit of uncleanness. But the day is
going to come because of your rebellion and because of your antichrist attitude
when he's coming back with seven of his friends and it's going to be worse then
than it was in the beginning. And Israel has not yet seen the terror of
judgment that they're going to see in the Tribulation. They've never seen
anything like it yet. Worse than Auswich (?tape is bad), worse than anything in
Germany, worse than anything they've ever endured at the hands of the Arabs,
terrible judgments that are going to come in the battle of Armageddon when the
demons come back seven times worse than they were there the first time. They're
going to hook up with false systems, they're going to buy the line of
Antichrist, and demon infestation is going to come. But then it says in
Zechariah that the Lord is going to come and He's going to clean that all out.
And they won't even remember it. All the demons are going to be exterminated.
Read the Revelation 20 chapter and you'll see it.”
We will finish this section in our next SD.
10/24/2016 10:44 PM
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