Truth has fallen in the streets. Those were the words echoed by Isaiah, prophesying also about the present time in which we live. Unfortunately, today, the greatest enemy of the truth is not at work outside the camp. Truth, instead, faces its heaviest assault within the hallowed walls of God’s house, and we are God’s house, the church of the living God. This enemy arises in the form of false teachers and false prophets, who will each appear for a time as one of us. And this should come as no surprise; we were warned to be aware of shepherds who are actually vicious wolves that will enter in among us, and not spare the flock, and about false prophets, who come in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Pastors who are building their own kingdom and prophets who are speaking with lying tongues have become all too commonplace. It’s almost as if those who hold fast to the truth are the strangers and heretics. How far we have fallen! Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness. It’s time for God’s people to speak up and to identify the Spirit of truth and the spirit of lies. “For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?”
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