Mark 13:21
Greek Text— Mark 13:21Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.
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“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.
Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
They will tell you, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Don’t go away or follow after them,
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” He lied to him.
When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.
Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.
Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.
The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”