We live in an age of the church, where there are all kinds of speculations about the end times. There are speculations about who is prophetic and who is apostolic. There are speculations about Israel, a new temple, and red heifers. The writing of books regarding those speculations are endless. The number of podcasts and youtube videos of everyone’s thoughts on these issues is staggering. And everyone’s thoughts are mixed with some level of partial truth.
The thing that is scary is that many people are not grounded in the Word, and are easily swayed by speculative teaching. We are told in Ephesians that there is a fullness and maturity in Christ that we need to attain to, “attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming”.
1 Timothy 1:5-7 “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith. Some people have strayed from these things and have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions”.
Confident assertions!!! Confident assertions are presented as something that is true. Someone might say that “God showed me this” when they are making these assertions. It might be a book, it might be a video, it might be a podcast, it might be on CBN or the Victory Channel and it might come from the pulpit on Sunday morning.
All these assertions are mixed with some level of truth, maybe even a some scripture reference. And a lot of it is pleasing to our ear. We must grow to maturity in Christ, to the fullness of Christ. We must have the mind of Christ; we must judge all things by the scriptures.
Millions of prophetic websites, teaching videos and books are a very poor replacement for the scriptures. They are not enough! They will not give you the depth that meditation on the scriptures will give you. If we fail to know the scriptures, and to know God, we will be swayed by every wind of doctrine that comes our way.
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That of the flesh pleases rhe flesh. An assertation of flesh feeds pride and self-centeredness which never lines up with God’s Word. When one does not allow the Holy Spirit to teach The Word then man teaches it and deception follows.