My people perish for lack of knowledge
“The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.”
1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
The apostle Paul prophesied: in the latter times some shall depart from the FAITH, giving heed to seducing spirits, & doctrines of the devil.
To seduce means, to lead away, to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty, to lead astray by persuasion or false promise, to attract, to lure:
the living bible translation of this verse say “some in the church will turn always from Christ” this is known as Apostasy Webster define apostasy as Abandonment of a previous loyalty, defection.
I believe this is the reason why so many leader, Minister, Pastor & Churches have abandoned the Faith.
In the Bible talk about this spirit
“Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye
have not known;”
Deuteronomy 13:13 KJV
Belial, which means worthlessness, tries to lead men & women astray to follow something that is worthless. Do you know idols are worthless
It’s interesting to note that the word idol is the Hebrew word eliyl which mean “good for nothing” vain or vanity no value - spirit of idolatry
This kind os spirit makes people selfish & greedy
David’s men became servant of belial, David had to rebuke them for being greedy& unwilling to share with those less fortunate than them
“But all the evil men and troublemakers among David’s followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.” David replied, “No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the Lord has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.”
1 Samuel 30:22-23 NIV
Lord help us against this spirit, make me a strong wall of protection and my home a locked fortress against this spirit in the name of Jesus
