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1 Timothy 4:1e
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1 Now [de] the Spirit [pneuma] speaketh [lego] expressly, [rhetos] that [hoti] in [en] the latter [husteros] times [kairos] some [tis] shall depart from [aphistemi] the faith, [pistis] giving heed [prosecho] to seducing [planos] spirits, [pneuma] and [kai] doctrines [didaskalia] of devils; [daimonion] KJV-Interlinear
1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, NASB
Humanity may be capable of technological ingenuity, however humanity is not capable of the invention of new philosophies.
There are only two sources of philosophy – God, who is the source of truth, and Satan who is the source of lies.
Everything handed down from generation to generation in human history as well as every belief that finds its way into human history, finds it origins in one of these two sources.
The Bible is the content of Gods truth. All other religions, philosophies, cults and such, have their origins in Satan.
And though people promote all of the bad things in history, it is not the people who we are engaged in battle with, it is the demon source that is ultimately behind all of the lies in the world.
Eph 6:12
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. NASB
Satan and those who were condemned along with him, are the ones who have saturated the world with the philosophies of evil. And those philosophies are many and confusing and deceiving.
To give heed, ‘prosecho,’ means to assent to, to devote oneself to, to cling to. It is more than merely listening, but a total adoption of a belief that is contrary to truth.
Apostates turn away from truth in all of its principles, and turn to the opposites of truth, embracing them totaly.
Religions are adopted in place of Christianity.
Traditional marriage is replaced with alternative arrangements.
Free enterprise, becomes government run bureaucracies.
Freedom and liberty and privacy become a matter of legislated oversight.
And the list of distorted truths goes on and on.
The philosophies of lies comes from their source, demons, who have long before you and I ever came onto the scene, planted their evil seeds into society, and then simply turned man loose with them. Mans sin nature does all of the rest.
Without truth in ones soul, then humanity has no basis for understanding truth, and therefore promotes lies, and out from lies come the problems of the world. All of them.
Jude 19
19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
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Man wanders when truth is not there to guide. The word for deceitful, or seducing, ‘planos,’ came from the planets which seemed to wander across the sky. Therefore it came to mean wanderer because of being lost or out of touch.
Without truth, then humanity is caused to wander in darkness, by demons that promote false ideas.
Only with truth, often times called light, because it requires light in order to see anything, then man can have a reference point, a standard with which to know when he is on or off track in life. And that truth comes only from the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth.
John 16:13
13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. NASB
And this communication of the Spirit comes naturally through your daily study of Bible doctrine. When you are in fellowship, then all truth is made clear and perspicuous, and all lies are revealed.
Therefore, all false teaching does not originate with teachers or professors or politicians or whomever, but in fact have their origins in the doctrines of devils, ‘daimonion.’
And this does not mean someone teaching about the subject of demons, but actual teaching that the demons themselves perform. All that Satan needs to do is find the weakest links in humanity and make his suggestions, just as he did with Eve in the Garden. Human weak links are those people who ignore truth, or are not interested in it, or reject it outright. They then are susceptible to alternative views, and are easily deceived.
And in that manner, false ideas can filter up through the human ranks and be modified, changed, altered and so forth into whatever the sin nature desires. That produces religions, cults, and all of the false ideas that exist.
Promoting false doctrines is punishable by death. Not in the legal sense, but in the spiritual sense. When anyone strays from truth, then they die to truth. There is a very good description and warning about apostasy in Deu. 13:12-18. Apostasy ruins and destroys. Nothing good ever comes out of it. And in fact, only bad to worse is the result of apostasy.
This is a sobering warning, if you read it correctly, and understand that apostasy in all of its forms, is a much worse killer than the worst cancer that you can imagine. If it is not cut out and removed from society, then society will die.
And that is exactly what human history is looking at, in the future years from our own dispensation as well as in the Tribulation.
The history of demon influence dates from the Garden, Gen. 3, to well into the Tribulation and even at the end of the millennium, when Satan is released from his thousand year prison sentence, Rev 9:2-11; 13:14; 16:14; 18:2,23; 19:20; 20:2,3,8,10.
However, through Gods mercy, true believers, those who pursue their objective study of truth, will not succumb, Ps 44:18; Heb 6:9; 10:39; Jude 24-25.
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