SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/19/2025 9:20 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Religious Leaders”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:8-9
Message of the verses: “8 Just as Jannes
and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of
depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make
further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and
Jambres’s folly was also.”
In order to get the context of what Paul is writing
here one needs to read from the book of Exodus, chapters eight through nine as
this is where the story of Moses dealing with Pharaoh, and the different
miracles that the Lord does in order to have Pharaoh allow the children of
Israel to leave Egypt.
Dr.
Wiersbe writes “Tradition says that the magicians were Jannes and Jambres, two
men mentioned by Paul (2 Tim. 3:8).
These men opposed Moses by imitating
what he did. When Aaron’s rod turned
into a serpent, the magicians cast their rods and they turned into
serpents. Moses turned the water into
blood, and the magicians followed with the same miracle. When Moses brought up all the frogs, the
magicians duplicated the miracle. But
when it came to the miracle of the lice, the magicians could not imitate it
(Ex. 8:16-19),
“Satan
is an imitator; what God does, Satan counterfeits. The religious leaders in the last days will
have a counterfeit faith, and their purpose is to promote a lie and resist the
truth of God’s Word. They deny the
authority of the Bible and substitute human wisdom and philosophy. In their attempt to be ‘modern,’ they deny
the reality of sin and people’s need for salvation. ‘Reprobate’ is the word Paul used to describe
them. This means ‘tested and found
counterfeit.’” Reprobate is used in the
KJV of the Bible while the NASB uses the word “depraved.”
“Jannes
and Jambres were finally exposed and made fools of by the judgments of God.
This will also happen to the leaders of false religions in the last days. When God’s judgments fall, the true character
of these counterfeits will be revealed to everyone.”
Now
if one looks at the things that were going on when Dr. Wiersbe wrote this “Be
Book” they are much different than what they are today. The term “AI” artificial intelligence is what
is going on at this time in the world, and this causes things to become to be
more advanced and I suppose that if one looks at the false miracles that are
going to happen during in the Tribulation Period then I believe that AI will be
a part of them. The world is fast coming
to a point where all of the miracles and judgments that will happen during that
seven year period seem to be able to come about with the technology that is
available at this time. Now understand
that the different “plagues” that God will bring upon the world during that
seven year period will be done by the Lord, but some false “miracles” will be
done by the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
4/19/2025 9:42 AM
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