EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/15-2025 4:25 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Intro to 2 Peter 2:1-3a)”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 2:1-3a
Message of the verses: “1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; 3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words;”
In this evenings Spiritual Diary I will begin to quote the introduction written by John MacArthur so that we can get a good background on what we will be looking at from these verses. As I have looked at 2 Peter it seems that the middle chapter of his last epistle is really what he wants to get forward with and that is talking more about the false prophets that have infiltrated the church, and we can surely see that it did not take Satan long to put his claws into the different early churches.
“There is nothing more offensive to God than the distortion of His Word (cf. Rev. 22:18-19).” “18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.” “To falsity the facts about who God is and what He said—even promoting Satan’s lies as if they were God’s truth—is the basest form of hypocrisy. With eternity at stake, it is hard to believe that anyone would intentionally deceive other people, teaching them something that is spiritually catastrophic. Yet such atrocious arrogance is exactly what characterizes the pseudo-ministries of false teachers.
“As the father of lies (John 8:44), Satan is constantly using deception and false doctrine to attack the church-employing false teachers to infiltrate the true flock. Claiming to teach truth, these purveyors of demonic error disguise themselves as angels of light (cf. 2 Cor. 11:14).” “14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” “attempting to creep into the fold unnoticed. As a result, throughout , God has repeatedly warned believers to be on the alert against such men (and women).
“Deuteronomy 13, for example, contains an early warning from Moses against false prophets. He prescribes a severe punishment for these men, along with all those who endorse their falsehood:
1 "If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 “You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him. 5 "But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you. (Compare Deut. 18:20-22.)
20 ‘But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 "You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’ 22 "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
Lord willing we will finish this up in tomorrow evenings SD.
11/15/2025 4:54 PM
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