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FALSE APOSTLES AND NICOLAITANS

February 10, 2022 David R Maas

Deceivers within the seven congregations were encouraging believers to compromise with the idolatrous rites of pagan society.

One of the chief concerns in the seven letters to the churches of Asia is with deceivers that work within the congregations. While several groups and one individual are named, the net effect of all their efforts is to cause believers to “commit fornication and to eat food offered to idols.” In short, to induce idolatry and compromise with the surrounding society.

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Deceivers, Olivet Discourse

WARS AND RUMORS

August 7, 2021March 7, 2022 David R Maas

The Discourse opens with warnings about coming deceivers who propagate false expectations about the end – Mark 13:5-13.

Jesus began his Olivet Discourse with an ominous warning about coming deceivers, men who will claim his authority and spread rumors about calamities, thereby “deceiving many.” This warning is repeated at pivotal points in the discourse. For example, prior to the coming of the Son of Man, “many false prophets will arise and deceive many,” including the employment of signs and wonders.

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Deceivers, Last Days

The Last Hour

February 3, 2021March 23, 2023 David R Maas

In his first epistle, John declares it is the last hour, a period elsewhere called the “last days.” As evidence of this, he points to the false teachers that are disrupting his churches. They are products of the “spirit of antichrist” that is active already in the world. And these deceivers are forerunners of the final “Antichrist”.

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Deceivers, False Gospel

PROCLAIMING ANOTHER GOSPEL

December 27, 2020 David R Maas

SYNOPSIS: The Judaizing opponents of Paul preached a different message and a different Christ than the one they received from the Apostle – Galatians 1:6-12.

The second paragraph marks the start of the body of this letter and an extended section that does not end until well into chapter 4. It can be summarized as a lengthy admonition to the Galatian assemblies concerning the direction they were contemplating, with serious warnings about how it would lead, inevitably, to their apostasy.

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