Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are
of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1
B E W A R E
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
He's pretending to be good, but
he definitely doesn't want the best for the sheep he's deceiving.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 22:23-31
Beware of
false prophets,
which come
to you in
sheep's clothing,
but inwardly
they are
ravening
wolves.
Matthew 7:15
Take heed therefore
unto yourselves, and
to all the flock, over
the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the
church of God, which
He hath purchased
with His own blood.
For I know this, that
after my departing
shall grievous wolves
enter in among you,
not sparing the flock.
Also of your own
selves shall men
arise, speaking
perverse things, to
draw away disciples
after them.
Acts 20:28-30
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo,
here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and
shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 24:23-24
For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 24:11-13
And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ;
or, lo, he is there; believe him not: For false Christs and
false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and
wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Mark 13:21-22
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as
there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly
introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign
Lord who bought them-- bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of
truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit
you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has
long been hanging over them, and their destruction
has not been sleeping.
2 Peter 2:1-3 (NIV)
Note: if you run into a password prompt, it is tnanmer in reverse
"One night while I was sleeping in a prison cell, God gave me another dream, a dramatic vision in which He showed me a picture of the church, the body of Christ. In the dream, the people of the church appeared as cattle being herded along in a line. I was horrified when I saw the sight, for these cattle had no skin! They were a bleeding, raw mass of flesh.
"As I viewed the pitiful scene, I sensed God speaking to me. 'This is what My leaders have done to My church -- they have skinned them! They are being herded toward destruction by the shepherds; they are hurting and bleeding.'" Jim Bakker
James Bakker, Page 71.
