SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/14/2021 3:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2
“The Definition of a False Prophet?
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 7:15
Message of the
verse: “15
"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
I want to begin this last SD under
this particular topic of describing what a false prophet is by looking at
Matthew 24:24 “"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will
show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.” These are the words of Jesus as He is talking
in what is called the “Olivet Discourse” and we have stated that chapters 24-25
are Lord is actually talking about what will happen during the tribulation
period where the “greatest” of the false prophets will reign in the person of
the Antichrist. Let us now look at Jude 4
“For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand
marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and
deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
In the days when Jesus was on the
earth the classic examples of false prophets were the scribes and the Pharisees
as they truly were false shepherds.
MacArthur writes “In the name of leading and caring for God’s people
they instead led them further and further from His ways. Poising as God’s spokesmen they used the
people to feather their own ecclesiastical nets, and cared nothing for the
people or for God. They were rapaciously
self-seeking and self-serving. When
Jesus completely unmasked their deceit and hypocrisy (Matt. 23) it is no wonder
they crucified Him.”
There
was a reason that the scribes and the Pharisees desired to have Jesus crucified
and that is because He was speaking the truth and while doing that He was
showing that what they were doing was totally against the Word of God. The following is what Jesus said to them
found in John 8:43-47 “43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is
because you cannot hear My word. 44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the
desires of your father. He
was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because
there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 “But because I speak the truth,
you do not believe Me. 46 "Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If
I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 “He who is of God hears the words
of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.’”
We
have a few more verses to look at and then we will be done. “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience”
(Eph. 5:6). “See to it that no one takes
you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition
of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than
according to Christ.”In these two verses Paul is warning those churches to keep
alert and understand the truth so that you don’t fall prey to the false
prophets or shepherds. 2/14/2021 4:01 PM
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