Last Days Deception or
Biblical Truth
By Brannon S. Howse
© Brannon S. Howse, 2013
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What is Biblical Truth?
John 3:33
God is True
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the
truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father except through Me.
In John 8:26 Jesus Said:
He who sent Me is true;
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth.
In John
17:17 Jesus said:
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your
word is truth.
Sanctified: To be set apart for God’s
purpose.
It is our obedience to God’s Word that
sets us apart from the world system
Christians Walk in Truth
I John 2:3-5:
Now by this we know that we know Him, if
we keep His commandments. He who
says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is
not in him. But whoever keeps His word,
truly the love of God is perfected in him.
By this we know that we are in Him
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness, righteousness, and truth,
John 15:26
Christians are indwelt by the Spirit of
Truth
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth,
has come, He will guide you into all
truth;
Christians Are Not To Enter Into
Spiritual Enterprises with False
Teachers Proclaiming False
Doctrine
2 John 9-11
Whoever transgresses and does not
abide in the doctrine of Christ does
not have God. He who abides in the
doctrine of Christ has both the Father
and the Son. If anyone comes to you
and does not bring this doctrine, do
not receive him into your house nor
greet him; for he who greets him
shares in his evil deeds.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. For what fellowship
has righteousness with lawlessness?
And what communion has light with
darkness?
Where Does Non-Truth
Come From?
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and
the desires of your father you want to
do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and does not stand in the
truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from
his own resources, for he is a liar and
the father of it.
Jesus Said That False
Teachers and False
Prophets Will Greatly
Increase Before His
Return
Matthew 24:3, 4, 11, 23-24
Now as He sat on the Mount of
Olives, the disciples came to Him
privately, saying, “Tell us, when will
these things be? And what will be the
sign of Your coming, and of the end of
the age?” And Jesus answered and
said to them: “Take heed that no one
deceives you. For many will come in
My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’
6
and will deceive many. And you will
hear of wars and rumors of wars. See
that you are not troubled; for all these
things must come to pass, but the end
is not yet. For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be famines, pestilences,
and earthquakes in various places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then they will deliver you up to
tribulation and kill you, and you will be
hated by all nations for My name’s
sake. And then many will be offended,
will betray one another, and will hate
one another. Then many false
prophets will rise up and deceive
many. And because lawlessness
will abound, the love of many will grow
cold. But he who endures to the end
shall be saved. Then if anyone says to
you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or
‘There!’ do not believe it. For false
christs and false prophets will rise and
show great signs and wonders to
deceive, if possible, even the elect.
I John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour; and
as you have heard that the Antichrist
is coming, even now many antichrists
have come, by which we know that it
is the last hour.
How Can You Identify A
False Prophet or False
teacher?
1. False teachers will look and sound
like Christians.
2. False teachers will produce fruit
and doctrine that is anti-christ,
anti-biblical.
Mathew 7:15-18
Beware of false prophets, who come
to you in sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes from thornbushes
or figs from thistles?
Even so, every good tree bears good
fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor
can a bad tree bear good fruit.
3. False teachers likes titles such as
prophet, apostle, prophetess,
reverend, etc.
2 Corinthians 11:14-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into
apostles of Christ. And no wonder!
For Satan himself transforms himself
into an angel of light. Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also
transform themselves into ministers of
righteousness, whose end will be
according to their works.
4. False teachers denies the deity of
Jesus Christ.
A False Teacher
Denies The Deity of Jesus Christ
2 John 7
For many deceivers have gone out
into the world who do not confess
Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
John 5:23
He who does not honor the Son does
not honor the Father who sent Him.
I John 2:22
Who is a liar but he who denies that
Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist
who denies the Father and the Son.
5. False teachers will have a form of
godliness but deny God.
2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but
denying its power. And from such
people turn away!
6. A false teacher will proclaim a false
Jesus and a false gospel.
2 Corinthians 11:3-4
But I fear, lest somehow, as the
serpent deceived Eve by his
craftiness, so your minds may be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in
Christ. For if he who comes
preaches another Jesus whom we
have not preached, or if you receive a
different spirit which you have not
received, or a different gospel which
you have not accepted—you may well
put up with it!
1. False teachers will look and sound
like Christians.
2. False teachers will produce fruit
and doctrine that is anti-christ,
anti-biblical.
3. False teachers likes titles such as
prophet, apostle, prophetess,
reverend, etc.
4. False teachers denies the deity of
Jesus Christ.
5. False teachers will have a form of
godliness but deny God.
6. False teachers will proclaim a false
Jesus and a false gospel.
Should Christians Expose
False Teaching?
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal but mighty in God for pulling down
strongholds, casting down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God, bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ,
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
expose them
Would it concern you if you knew that
on her radio program Oprah has
taught the book called A Course in
Miracles written by Helen Schucman?
This book and the workbook include
such quotes as:
"A slain Christ has no meaning.“
"The recognition of God is the recognition of
yourself.“
"Do not make the pathetic error of 'clinging to
the old rugged cross'."
"My salvation comes from me."
Mormons believe the cross of Christ is
foolishness and thus you will not find
a cross in or on top of a Mormon
temple. Thus a Mormon could say
"Do not make the pathetic error of
'clinging to the old rugged cross'."
Mormons believe the blood Jesus
Christ shed on the cross is not what
saves and thus Mormons will not use
red wine or red juice for communion
but they use water. Thus a Mormon
could say "A slain Christ has no
meaning."
Mormons believe that salvation is not
found in placing your faith and trust in
Jesus Christ alone but in good works.
Thus a Mormon could say "My
salvation comes from me."
Mormons believe that God is one of
many Gods and that every good
Mormon man can become a God
himself. Thus a Mormon could say
that "The recognition of God is the
recognition of yourself."
Greg West in the Mormon LDS Examiner :
“As a Mormon, I have to consider an
unintended message throughout Beck's work,
which has culminated in this event. That
message is: "Mormons are Christian believers."
Despite nearly two centuries of
misrepresentation and religious envy by
sectarian Christianity, Beck
has achieved the visibility, prominence, and has
had the time day after day, week after week, to
speak openly and truly about his core beliefs.
Those statements of faith have disoriented and
confused those who had previously believed
the lies about Mormons.
Hallelujah! The light bulb has been switched on
after nearly two centuries! Every single member
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints believes that a person must be "born
again" and receive Jesus Christ as his Savior
and Redeemer. Our holy books teach that
salvation comes only in and through the
atonement of Christ and that there is no other
way a person can be saved…Glenn Beck's
beliefs are mainstream Mormon beliefs. Joseph
Smith, the Church's founder, was a Christian
prophet. He was an apostolic witness of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
On his September 2, 2010 television
program Beck said the following:
"America's religion. This is it gang, this is all you
need to know. There is a God, He's going to
judge us, we should be good to each other,
cause daddy's gonna be pi---- in the end if
we're not. That's it. That's called a big
principle."
On his September 2, 2010 TV program Beck
said:
"We need a Jesus or a Buddha."
“Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny” was described
on his own website, as an evening in which
"nationally-known religious figures from all
faiths will unite…".
The website continues "The audience for the
event will be overwhelmingly made up of
pastors, ministers and clergy..."
The event was also described as an
evening "that will help heal your soul.“
Glenn declared on a video on his website
that the hymn Eternal Father Strong to
Save "is the message of 8/27".
On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace Glenn
Beck said that his rally was not political and the
reason for his rally was because:
"there's nothing that we can do that will solve
the problems that we have and keep the peace
unless we solve it through God, unless we
solve it in being our highest self. Be your
higher-self."
One New Age website says:
“There are many great words to describe Who
or What your highest identity or Self truly is.
Below are just a few: Higher Self, I am
Presence, I Am That I Am…Cosmic
Consciousness, God, Christ, Holy Spirit And the
list goes on…”
On his radio program Beck said:
"I Am That I Am is the most powerful phrase in
any language as it is the name of god, never
use it in vain; use it to create who you want
to be. I AM blank."
The fact that people like Glenn Beck on the
right and Oprah Winfrey on the left are
proclaiming the "I AM" message is a sign that
we are living in the last days.
Jesus Himself in Luke 21:7-8:
And they asked Him, saying, Master, but when
shall these things be? and what sign will there
be when these things shall come to pass? And
he said, "Take heed that yet be not deceived:
for many will come in My name, saying, I am
Christ; and the time draweth near; go ye not
therefore after them."
Glenn Beck on his radio program
declared:
"Hell is an eternity of regret not being
able to forgive yourself."
Glenn Beck on his radio program
declared:
“People are good, they want to do the right
thing.”
Romans 3:10
There is none righteous, no, not one
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
In An Emergent Manifesto of Hope Samir
Selmanovic asks:
“Is our religion the only one that understands
the true meaning of life? Or does God place his
truth in others too?” His answer:
The gospel is not our gospel, but the gospel of
the kingdom of God, and what belongs to the
kingdom of God cannot be hijacked by
Christianity…. To put it in different terms, there
is no salvation outside of Christ, but there is
salvation outside of Christianity.
For the last two thousand years, Christianity
has granted itself a special status among
religions. An emerging generation of Christians
is simply saying, “No more special treatment.”
Source: Samir Selmanovic, “The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness,” An Emergent Manifesto of
Hope, 194-5.
Richard Ostling, “Most Improbable Dialogue,”
Christianity Today (November 2009)
“Hush-hush chats occurred between ranking LDS
authorities and nationally prominent evangelicals in
2004, 2007, and earlier in 2009, though those
familiar with the meetings won’t name names.
Participants hope for a publicly known conference
between leaders, perhaps as early as [2010].
Another prospect is a series of formal
statements on agreements and differences
along the lines of Evangelicals and Catholics
Together, though that will require LDS
officialdom’s sanction.”
According to a 2008 Pew Forum
survey:
70 percent of Americans believe that
“many religions can lead to eternal life”—
including 37 percent of white evangelicals,
the group most likely to believe that
salvation is theirs alone.”
In the article, Blessed Are the Intolerant,
Pastor Gary Gilley writes:
Last year [December 2009] Christianity Today
published a revealing article titled “Muslim
Followers of Jesus?” It debated the possibility
that Muslims could remain in the Islamic
religious community, follow Islamic customs,
participate in Muslim prayers, study the Qur’an,
follow Islamic customs, participate in
Muslim prayers, study the Qur’an, and still
see themselves as “Messianic Muslims.”
While no solid conclusion was drawn, the
author was sympathetic toward the
possibility that one could, in fact, be a
Christian Muslim.
The Last Days’ Deception is Here:
Beck has set the stage for "conservatives" to
accept a one-world religion and numerous
leaders of the religious right pulled the ropes
that raised the curtain on this ecumenical stage.
The Last Days’ Deception is Here:
A day is coming in which, the world will be in
massive economic, political, and spiritual chaos
and a leader will step on to the world stage and
this anti-Christ will call for the religions of the
world to unite and embrace spirituality. He will
declare that he is not about politics but about
bringing peace, unity, faith, hope, charity,
stability, freedom, and prosperity under the
common god of all religions. This world leader
will perform counterfeit miracles signs and
wonders and those who reject Biblical truth will
follow him [2 Thessalonians 2:9-12] and
embrace his plan for restoring honor.
The Last Days’ Deception is Here:
If I had told you five years ago that a
"conservative" radio and TV personality would
have millions of viewers, would talk about the
spiritual battle being waged in America, would
be a self-confessed member of a cult, would
quote New Age phrases, would call for
Christians and conservatives to look to the
"one god", would seek to unite all faiths and
would convince dozens of evangelical pastors
and leaders to support him in a spiritual serviceyou would say I was writing fiction and that this
would never happen.
Ecumenical Patriotism Equals
Nationalism
When Nationalism is adopted by the
church the gospel is compromised for the
sake of economic, social, and political
stability.
Charles Spurgeon Said:
To pursue union at the expense of
truth is treason to the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Charles Spurgeon Said:
To remain in doctrinally mixed denominations is
contrary to Scriptural principles because
thereby: (1) the specific commands for
separation in such situations are disobeyed and
(2) the Gospel is compromised, if not denied,
since such is an attempt at union is only
achieved at the expense of vital Christian truth
and (3) real union is hindered. For ourselves we
cannot be associated in any way with a
movement which implies that the evangelical
faith is but one of many equally valid insights
and traditions. We believe evangelical churches
ought to be seen in fellowship with each other
and not with those who reject the authority of
Scripture and the complete work of Christ."
The American Church Should Have Learned
Its Lesson From Nazi Germany:
In early 1934 from his pulpit in Berlin Pastor
Martin Niemoller declared:
We have all of us—the whole Church and
whole community—we’ve been thrown into the
Tempter’s sieve, and he is shaking and
the wind is blowing, and it must now
become manifest whether we are wheat or
chaff! Verily, a time of sifting has come
upon us, and even the most indolent and
peaceful among us must see that the calm
of meditative Christianity is at
an end…it is now springtime for the
hopeful and expectant Christian Church—
it is testing time, and God is giving Satan a
free hand, so he may shake us up and so
that it may be seen what manner of men
we are!
Satan swings his sieve and Christianity is
thrown hither and thither; and he who is
not ready to suffer, he who called himself
a Christian only because he thereby
hoped to gain something good for his race
and his nation is blown away like chaff by
the wind of time.
The American Church Should Have Learned
Its Lesson From Nazi Germany:
Pastor Siegfried Leffler proclaimed, “In the pitchblack night of church history, Hitler become, as it
were, the wonderful transparency for our time, the
window of our age, through which light fell on the
history of Christianity. Through him we were able to
see the Savior in the history of the Germans.
The American Church Should Have Learned
Its Lesson From Nazi Germany:
Canadian pastor Oswald J. Smith of the
People's Church in Toronto, was also
impressed with Hitler. In 1936 Smith wrote:
What, you ask is the real attitude of the
German people toward Hitler? There is but one
answer. They love him. Yes, from the highest to
the lowest, children and parents, old and young
alike, they love their new leader. They trust him
to a man.
"What about your elections? I asked…” “We
don't want another party…We are satisfied with
Hitler.” And that feeling exists everywhere.
Every true Christian is for Hitler. I know, for it
was from the Christians I got most of my
information, and right or wrong, they endorse
Adolph Hitler.
Source: "Hitler's Cross" by Erwin Lutzer, pp. 109, 110
The American Church Should Have Learned Its
Lesson From Nazi Germany:
Erwin Lutzer in his book Hitler’s Cross
writes:
“Smith even believed that an evangelical
awakening was coming to Germany, with the
gospel of Christ preached in the churches.”
The American Church Should Have Learned
Its Lesson From Nazi Germany:
Erwin Lutzer writes:
Even when Hitler’s agenda finally became
clear, they were not willing to suffer for a gospel
that they had long since abandoned. They were
most interested in the miracles of a revived
Germany than in the miracles on the pages of
the New Testament. Salvation in this world was
more important than salvation in an unseen life
to come.
The Bible Predicts What We Are Seeing
Today in I Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times
some will depart from the faith, giving heed to
deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
Will You Be A Pillar of Truth?
I Timothy 3:15
but if I am delayed, I write so that you may
know how you ought to conduct yourself in the
“household”, which is the church of the living
God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Jeremiah 12:5
If you have run with the footmen, and they have
wearied you, Then how can you contend with
horses? And if in the land of peace,
In which you trusted, they wearied you,
Then how will you do in the floodplain of the
Jordan?
The late Vance Havner was correct when he
declared:
The devil is not fighting religion; he is too
smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit
Christianity so much like the real one that good
Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
As long ago as 1898, Abraham Kuyper
warned in the Stone Lectures at Princeton:
Do not forget that the fundamental contrast has
always been, is still and always will be until the
end; Christianity and Paganism, the idols and
the living God.
In I Kings 18:20-21 Elijah declared to the
Children of Israel:
"How long will you falter between two opinions?
If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow
him."