Watchout For WOLVES: Keys To Discerning Authentic Ministries & Evaluating Doctrinal Trends

pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was… . But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 13 This end time context will see people itching for the strange and the unusual (2 Tim. 4:3-4). Or could we say the spectacular. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 It is not usually the basic foods properly prepared that cause you grief. It is more often the exotic things that become dangerous. This end time context will witness the devil unleashing his full fury on the Church (Rev. 12:9; 13:14). Satan knows a lot about the decl ared words of God. He knows that if God’s word is true, his days are numbered and the closer we get to Christ’s return, the closer he is to his complete demise. He is like a rat trapped in a corner that is now becoming violent and lashing out at anything and everything to try to preserve whatever life it has left.

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