Saturday, May 3, 2025

PT-1 "Opposers Of The Truth" (2 Timothy 3:8-9)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/3/2025 8:42 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                      Focus:  “Opposers of the Truth”

 

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.”

 

            This is actually the only time that these names, Jannes and Jambres are mentioned in the Bible, but we can see that these two opposed Moses.  So it is pretty safe to say that these two men were magicians who did some of the things that God did, that is copying His miracles like turning water into blood, that are seen in the book of Exodus.  There came a time that these magicians could not duplicate the miracles done through Moses and then they tried to get Pharaoh to let the people go, but it was in the plan of God that he did not let them go until the death of all first born in Egypt who did not put the blood onto their doors.  MacArthur writes “Because Jannes perhaps means ‘he who seduces’ and Jambres ‘he who takes rebellion,’ those may have been symbolic names given to these men at a later time.  Jewish tradition holds that they pretended to convert to Judaism in order to subvert Moses’ divine assignment to liberate Israel from Egypt, that they led in making and worshiping the golden calf while Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Law from God, and that they were slaughtered by the Levites along with the other idolaters (see Ex. 32).  That possibility is consistent with Paul’s warning about false leaders who corrupted the church from within.  Just as those two men opposed Moses in his teaching and leading ancient Israel, so those men in Ephesus also opposed the truth of the gospel.

 

            “If Jannes and Jambres were indeed among the Egyptians magicians, Paul may be warning that, similarly, these men in the early church also might perform magical feats.  They may have been like the ‘false Christs and false prophets [who] will arise’ in the last days, ‘and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect’ (Matt. 24:24; cf. 2 Thess. 2:9).”

 

            Paul taught many things about what will happen in the end times, and remember that the “end times” actually began with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but most of the time when we see the words “end times” it is spoken about what will happen during the tribulation period, which is actually the last seven years of Daniel’s prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27, a prophecy that I have gone over many times in writing my Spiritual Diaries, and a prophecy that is possible to begin to be happening as one looks at what is going on in the world today.  All that remains for it to begin is the Rapture of the Church which Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 15:51-58, and also in Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians 4:13-18: 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17  Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18  Therefore comfort one another with these words.” It is my belief that because the Lord used these end times events in order to cause me to come to Christ a little over 51 years ago, that that is the things that I truly enjoy in studying the Scriptures and as said I can see that the events in our world that are going on are similar to the things that will take place during the tribulation period then it is my joy to write about them in my Spiritual Diaries and then put them onto my blogs so that people who read them can look around and see that the Bible is true, and that because it is true that unbelievers will look at these events and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord and miss the awful events of the tribulation period, which is the most horrible time that will ever happen on planet earth.  In fact the Lord said if He did not return when He will return that the whole earth will be destroyed.

 

Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today:  Remember there is much evil in this world we are living in, and so tell the truth of the Gospel so salvation will come to those who accept the Lord as their Savior and Lord.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Continue to write the truth and post in onto my blogs so those who read it can grow in grace as believers and those who are not can come to Christ as Savior and Lord.

 

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