Spiritual Warfare, Spirits Assigned to the Church: Falsehood, Impostors #21(2)

Spiritual Warfare, Spirits Assigned to the Church: Falsehood, Impostors #21(2). Any pastor who is listening to me, or any of your churches where some of those who watch us online gather. If you're watching this, you now know — you have been informed that this is a spirit of error, a deceiving spirit. More than anything, seek […]

Any pastor who is listening to me, or any of your churches where some of those who watch us online gather. If you're watching this, you now know — you have been informed that this is a spirit of error, a deceiving spirit. More than anything, seek God with repentance, intercede for your churches, and seek true freedom in Christ.

Because we don't want — we don't want any impostor spirit. Because of these deceiving demons, and because of not seeking God with all their heart, many believe they are healing, delivering, and prophesying by the Spirit of God. And the Lord will say to them on that day, "depart from me, I never knew you."

In short: that spirit in you, the one producing all those manifestations, was not me. In other words, we don't want to be among those. With humility, with love for the truth, and by seeking God, the enemy is being exposed.

We renounce the enemy, because we don't want him — we want the true Holy Spirit. We want the true God; we don't want any impostor. This spirit also causes many churches to be full of jokes.

Pastors are preaching and cracking jokes — jokes and pranks, jokes and pranks while they preach. Generally, it is a spirit that works alongside the Kundalini that produces those jokes and pranks. It's as if they don't take the things of God seriously — they do it in a way that seems fun, but in reality there is darkness behind it.

We want to give testimony, including regarding our own family. Today we will be covering several of these spirits, several of the main ones — but below these main ones there are many other spirits at work, some of which I'll mention today, because there are so many of them. Throughout this series, obviously, I don't believe I'll be able to mention them all, because there are so many, but I will mention the most important ones — the ones that, in my experience, having already ministered deliverance and through what the Lord has allowed me to understand over these past seven years, are among the most fundamental ones causing the great apostasy we are living in, and which are affecting the life of the whole church and everyone who seeks God, everyone who comes near to God, directly or indirectly.

One of them is Python. I'll talk about Python a little further ahead. There's another one called Kundalini.

Kundalini is a false holy spirit. It is an impostor demon that passes itself off as the Lord. This demon also operates through the practice of yoga, in some people who do meditation and supposedly feel peace through yoga, through meditation — it is a false spirit.

It also works through people who do healing with crystals and things like that. In the past this spirit operated mostly out of India and that region, but in recent times it has been operating all over the world, and unfortunately churches are full of it — heavily contaminated by this spirit.

A little further along I'll share some of what this spirit does, some of its deceptions, and some of the physical signs by which we can often tell when a person is contaminated by this spirit. This spirit is like a plague right now — it's like a plague, practically like the coronavirus: if you come into contact with it, it transfers.

If you listen to people, or receive ministry from a person who has that spirit, it transfers. It transfers — it's like a plague. Another spirit that operates alongside this one is the spirit of Babylon.

The word of God speaks of it in Revelation. It is another spirit of deception, one that also causes a person to worship falsely — it deceives people, bringing them to a point where they believe they are serving and worshiping God, when they are neither serving nor worshiping God. It is all a deception.

Well, the antichrist also operates alongside them. This is one we'll talk about more today — truly, about the antichrist and the false prophet.

But the antichrist is another spirit that also operates alongside these high-ranking demons, one that makes a person believe they are worshiping and serving God. But in reality, God does not receive their conduct or their worship, and it is essentially anti-Christ. It passes itself off as Christ, but it is an antichrist.

In other words, it is a demon like the one that bound the Pharisees. They wanted to serve God, but they were actually against God. That is what the antichrist does.

The antichrist is also a spirit of religion. It is a spirit of deception that operates in many churches. It is a spirit that makes a person believe they are serving Christ, that they are worshiping Christ, that what they do is for the Lord Jesus Christ.

But it's the opposite. Everything they do is against Christ. It is anti-Christ.

It is a deception. Lucifer is another one — another deception, another demon of deception that operates alongside the rest.

And these are some of the main ones I'll be covering today. But alongside them, obviously, each one of them, I would say, carries a spirit of false prophet. They carry a spirit of false teacher.

A spirit of false apostle. A spirit of false evangelist. A spirit of false pastoring.

Not everything they prophesy is prophesied by the Spirit of God. And it's the false prophet that we're going to talk about in a little more depth today, since the word of God itself, I believe, devotes more verses — in both the Old Testament and the New — to people walking in this spirit of false prophecy than to almost anything else.

For some reason, it's one of the most abundant. And I would say that in the end time too, there are false apostles, but there are far more false prophets than false apostles.

The spirit of the false prophet is one that abounds in great abundance in this end time. The Kundalini — one of the ways we look at this spirit of religion — today I'm not going to talk about Jezebel; Jezebel also operates alongside this group, along with Baal, but I spoke about Jezebel in depth last week, so I'm mostly going to leave her out today, even though Jezebel is also part of all this.

They are a group of about ten of the strongest demons of darkness that are responsible for causing the great apostasy we are living through. But what I'm mentioning right now plays a very important role, and the Kundalini is one of them — it causes a false revival.

There are many churches that say there is a revival of the Holy Spirit, and they say over and over, supposedly, that it's a revival, a revival, a revival — but it is a false revival. In occult terms, they call it a Kundalini awakening. Even many in the church call it a revival because they believe they are being revived, but in reality that is not true — they are not being revived, they are dead.

When they are supposedly being revived by this spirit, it is not a true revival. Those who practice yoga, or who practice various New Age things, call it a Kundalini awakening. But in the church, those under this spirit call it a revival — yet it is a false revival.

The point is that the Kundalini seeks to cause a false revival, both in those who are not with God and in the church. Some of the ways this spirit expresses itself, or some of the members of its team — the Kundalini is a high-ranking demon. Let's say it's a general.

A general of darkness has many soldiers, and each soldier has a role — one fires a rifle, another carries a shotgun, another a cannon. The point is that the Kundalini has a great army, and within its army there are different spirits. Some of the spirits that work as soldiers alongside the Kundalini cause laughter.

That's why in many churches, when the pastor preaches, everyone starts — there are churches, and if you've watched some videos, or perhaps have been to one of those churches, you'll see people break into uncontrollable laughter, to the point of falling to the floor laughing, with everyone laughing and laughing. That is the Kundalini. It makes people believe it is the Holy Spirit, and supposedly they feel the fire of God, and supposedly, because of the Holy Spirit, everyone is laughing uncontrollably.

But that is a deception. That is not the Holy Spirit — it is the Kundalini. In many churches, one of the ways this spirit shows up is that, while people are praying, you'll see some of them begin to tremble heavily.

That trembling — they believe it is the Holy Spirit. With all due respect, I don't want to offend anyone, but many times in Pentecostal churches they believe what they feel is the Holy Spirit, and they start trembling while they pray. This is not the Holy Spirit — it is the Kundalini.

It is a false spirit. It is an impostor of the living God. The purpose of this teaching, like all the ones we are doing, is to expose these demons of religious deception that are fighting against a true revival and against the salvation of those who seek God — including our own family, and many who come to our congregations.

My desire is not to offend. If any pastor is listening to me, or if this reaches any of your churches where some of those who watch us online gather — if you're watching this, you already know, you are now informed that this is a spirit of error, a deceiving spirit.

More than anything, seek God with repentance, intercede for your churches, and seek true freedom in Christ. Because we don't want — we don't want any impostor spirit. It is because of these deceiving demons, and because of not seeking God with all one's heart, that so many believe they are healing, delivering, and prophesying by the Spirit of God.

And the Lord will say to them on that day, "depart from me, I never knew you." In short: it was not me. That spirit that was in you, producing all those manifestations, was not me.

We don't want to be among those. With humility, with love for the truth, and by seeking God, the enemy is being exposed. We renounce the enemy because we don't want him.

We want the true Holy Spirit. We want the true God. We do not want any impostor.

This spirit also causes many jokes to be made in churches. Pastors are preaching and cracking many jokes and pranks while they preach. Generally, it is a spirit working alongside the Kundalini that produces those jokes and pranks.

It's as if they don't take the things of God seriously. But they do it in a way that seems fun. In reality, though, there is darkness behind it.

This spirit also gives false tongues. There are many people who, when they say they've been baptized in the Holy Spirit — and unfortunately, because of the apostasy, many are baptized in the false holy spirit, which is the Kundalini — receive a gift of tongues. This other spirit of false tongues also operates abundantly.

Where I've encountered it most is in the Pentecostal church, when I minister to Pentecostal people. It is a spirit of false tongues. There is a spirit of false tongues, and they speak in tongues, they pray in tongues, believing that the tongue they are speaking and praying in is from God, when unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, it is the Kundalini — they have received a false baptism.

Also the Kundalini, together with Lucifer, together with Jezebel, together with Python, together with the Antichrist, together with the spirit of Babylon — they give false fire, false discernment, false tongues, false doctrines, false knowledge. People think they are wise, but it is false knowledge; it is not knowledge that comes from above, it is knowledge that deceives. They also give false revelations and false dreams. A person dreams thinking the dream comes from God, but there are dreams that come from the enemy, deceiving in order to lead someone the wrong way, because if you believe the dream is from God you follow the guidance of that dream, and it is the enemy who is doing this, disturbing you, unsettling you, trying to deceive us. False miracles — the word itself warns us that in that end time there will be a false teacher, false prophets who will perform great miracles. It is mostly that the devil, who is an impostor, seeks a counterfeit for everything that is true, because there certainly is a true gift of tongues, a true gift of discernment, true healings that come from God, true deliverances. But what he does is contaminate people and give them a false power so that they perform miracles not by the Spirit of God, but by that other power. Here is where the problem lies: when miracles come by the Spirit of God, there is real spiritual progress — it is a blessing, chains are broken, we draw closer to God. When deliverance and healing come by the Spirit of God, there is a positive process taking place in the spirit, and depending on how deep the deliverance is, sometimes there is an instant, transformative change in the person; other times, if the deliverance is not as deep but still came by the Spirit of God, there is still progress being made — in one person the transformation and change is instant, in another it is gradual and progressive, but if it comes from God there is change and there is progress. But when it comes by the power of the enemy, even though some healings may suddenly appear instant — many healings ministered by the power of the Kundalini are instant — in the long run there are always more chains. Even if the healing shows itself, even if the deliverance seems real, seems true in the physical, in the spirit the person is left more chained, further from God. We do not want any miracle that comes by the power of the enemy. It is the same thing to receive a healing through the Kundalini as it is to go to a witch doctor and have the witch doctor heal you. For example, yesterday a sister shared how she took a girl to a witch doctor because the girl did not have a normal menstrual cycle, and she went to the witch doctor and they did certain things to her, and within a month she had her cycle — the healing did happen, she received what she wanted — but that healing brings chains to her daughter and to her as well. She, of course, did this while she was uninformed, while she was deceived; obviously I don't believe she would do it now, because it would be catastrophic. But the point is that a miracle, a healing, a deliverance can happen either by the Spirit of God or by false powers. Many people misinterpret the passage that says that on that day the Lord will say to many, "depart from me, you who practiced iniquity" — people who prophesied, who healed and delivered — they misinterpret this as if the Lord is going to say that to everyone who does these things, as if it were bad to heal, to deliver, or to prophesy. Healing, delivering, and prophesying are gifts of God; the Lord himself did these things, and if the Lord gives that gift to a man, then it is good. The bad thing is not doing this, because Jesus Christ did it, and Jesus Christ did nothing wrong. What is bad is when we do it by an opposing power; what is bad is when we do not do it by the power of God — that is what is bad. That is the whole purpose of this teaching: that each of you who listens would understand that we have adversaries, that we have to seek God with our whole heart so as not to be deceived, that we have to seek God to see whether the spirit operating in our church is the true Spirit or the opposing spirit — because if it is an opposing spirit, we want to root it out of the church as soon as possible. We have to repent, we have to fast, we have to pray, we have to ask God for forgiveness and seek freedom, because even if we preach beautifully, even if we see many works and many miracles, if it is not the Spirit of God operating, then we are in the wrong, and so are those who come to us. That is a false spirit, and it produces false spirituality, false deliverances, and causes people to supposedly worship — but it is false worship. They think they are worshiping God through singing, through whatever they do, through creativity — but every activity they carry out, from prayer to singing to preaching to sharing the word, everything they do, if they do it by that spirit, all of it is false. It is false worship, worship that is unacceptable to God; the Lord does not receive it. That is why he will say to many, "depart from me, I never knew you." It is not enough to serve God — we have to serve him according to his will, in obedience according to his word, and led by his Spirit. This is very important, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. This demon also gives a false love, a false joy — that is why those who practice yoga, and those in churches with these spirits, wait and say, "I feel the peace of God," and they think they feel the peace of God, but it is a false peace, an imitation. Unless the Lord grants great discernment, it is sometimes difficult to tell the true peace that comes from God, which surpasses all understanding, apart from the false peace that comes from the Kundalini, because if we are not very spiritually discerning, both feel like peace. But if we pray, if someone with authority prays, or someone with discernment does, they realize at once — that is not the Spirit of God. It is like the woman who followed Paul and the apostles when they went to pray and said, "these men proclaim the way of the Lord." She was telling fortunes, and she was saying the truth, but Paul and the other apostles could not tolerate it; they were troubled that this woman kept following them. It was not that she disliked speaking the truth — it bothered them that she said it through a spirit of divination. So the apostles turned and said, "spirit of divination, come out of her," and the woman fell to the floor and never told fortunes again, because that was a false spirit. It tells the truth — and that is another way the devil captures many people through false prophets, because they can tell you, "look, you have cancer," or "your husband, your wife, this or that," they can tell you something from your past, they can tell you something happening in your life. They are telling the truth, but the bad part is that when you receive that truth, you are also receiving the Kundalini — you are receiving many chains. So when that word, even if it is true, comes from an opposing spirit, it brings bondage. That is why we do not want anything from false prophets, even if it looks nice, even if it is true — we do not want it in any form. We reject it; we have to reject it. We want prophecy inspired by God, not by the powers of darkness. They cause a false conversion because they cause a false revival. Now, revival means to come back to life. This truly happens when there is a genuine revival — and soon there will be one; I have faith that there will be a great, final, worldwide revival before the coming of the Lord — and then the person comes back to life. In other words, to revive means that a person who is dead is brought back to life. This happens because, through deception, through apostasy, there are many who are dead but believe they are alive in churches because of the deception, because of these same demons that deceive so many churches. Sometimes they believe they are with God, but they are dead — they are not with the true God; these are the deceiving spirits at work. That revival means to come back to life, but in order to be revived we have to receive the truth, the true Spirit of God — through the Spirit of God we are revived, we have abundant life. But then these demons, in order to deceive, and so that the person does not keep seeking, in order to try to block a true revival, they block the conviction of sin, and they cause the person to believe — they cause a false conversion, a false repentance. If there is a false repentance and a false conversion, there is a false new birth — which is what happens in many false churches. Take the Catholic Church, for example — every denomination knows the Catholic Church is wrong, is deeply wrong. When a person goes and is baptized in the Catholic Church, they supposedly repent of their sin and then are baptized, even though the baptism is totally incomplete, in no way according to the word of God, because what they do is put a little water — I think just a drop of water — they are not submerged in water as the word commands. But the point is, I am giving an example that I think most people can understand, and that is exactly what is happening in the Catholic Church, and it happens in any church where these demons are operating. That is, the person goes, listens — in the Catholic Church they listen to the priest, in the Christian church they listen to the pastor — they supposedly repent, they get baptized, and supposedly that person was born again. But because the teaching was false, they did not receive a true word, they did not receive the true gospel, they did not receive a true word that would give them conviction of sin and understanding that the wages of sin is death. Even the baptism they perform is false, not according to what the Lord commands. Therefore the person supposedly was born again, but it was a false birth. In short, the person believes they are already right with God, and they continue their life doing their own thing, thinking they are already fine — and that is what happens with, I believe, about two billion Catholics in the world — two billion of them believe they were already born again because they were baptized, because they listened to the priest, but in reality they have not been revived; they are dead, still in deception. Through deception they believed they were seeking the truth, but through deception they received everything false — they have a false revival, a false new birth. That is why the Lord told the man who asked him what he must do to enter the kingdom again — he told Nicodemus, "you must be born again," because even though Nicodemus was a teacher of the law, someone with great knowledge, the fact was that he had not truly been born again, because he was in a false church. If we are in a false church, we must be born again. To be born again, as the Lord told him, we must be born of water and of the Spirit, because when we receive the spirit in a false church, we receive a false spirit; when we are baptized in a false church, it is a false baptism. That is why the Lord told him, if he wants to enter the kingdom of God, he must be born again of water and of the Spirit. In other words, whatever you received in the past does not give you life — you must be baptized again and receive the true Spirit of God, which happens when we truly repent, when we receive the true gospel, and are baptized. In churches, the devil has also placed false brothers. False brothers are people who come disguised as brothers and sisters, but in reality their heart is not with God — sometimes they are witches and warlocks. In fact, in almost every church, especially any church of fifty members or more, whether in person or online, the devil suddenly slips in one or two men or women who pretend to be brothers and sisters and are like Judas — their purpose is to stab, to seize an opportunity to cause harm to the true brothers and sisters, and even to the pastor. These are some of the strategies the powers of darkness use to oppose a true revival, to oppose salvation. They also cause a false faith — the person believes they have faith, once again, like Catholics, or like those who believe in Allah, or those who believe in Buddha, or all the "saints" that people out there believe in. Catholics believe in countless saints; sadly, there are so, so many people who claim to already be Christians but who, because they come from the Catholic Church, still believe in the Virgin. I know so many people who come from the Catholic Church and still — for example, someone close to me who supposedly repented of Catholicism and moved from Catholicism into a Pentecostal church — I preached to her that having idols, even of the Virgin, was sin against God. But Satan is so cunning and so shameless that shortly after I shared with her that she needed to repent of the saints, Satan went after two people close to her, and one of them had a dream in which supposedly the Lord appeared to her — but he appeared to her the way the Catholics teach it, because that image is Catholic. Many Christian churches also have images of a false Jesus — they are abominable, that is not the true Jesus Christ. They are idols the Lord detests, and some of those images and models, I've even heard and researched a bit on Google, are of homosexual men — one of the most common, most famous images supposedly used to represent Jesus, which people claim depicts Jesus, was actually a homosexual man posing as Jesus Christ. That is complete blasphemy — he posed with long hair, supposedly in the image the world has come to accept as the Lord's likeness. But according to the word of God, the Lord is not like that, because the word says in Revelation that his eyes are like a flame of fire, his feet like polished bronze, and his skin and his hair like white wool, and his face like the sun shining at its brightest. I have never seen any of the images presented as Jesus with these characteristics — but even if one did, it would still be false, because the Lord said not to make any image of anything that is in heaven, and he is in heaven. If we make an image of the Lord, we are creating an idol, and we are breaking the first commandment and many other warnings, because we are warned in many scriptures: you shall not make an image. Man's idols are of silver, of wood, of gold, of bronze — the work of a sculptor's imagination. We do not have to imagine, we do not have to create things. But then Satan appeared in a dream to this woman I had shared with, that having images of the Virgin and such things was wrong, and told her, in the dream, "so you don't love my mother, you don't love me." In other words, she was escaping idolatry, but Satan rushed in quickly to try to bind her back to it. And there you have one of the things, one of the demons I mentioned — false dreams. To deceive, they give false dreams, they give false visions. The Lord also gives dreams and gives visions, but that is exactly why we must be humble and truly work out our salvation with fear and trembling, because we want to seek God with humility: "Lord, I don't want anything that is of the darkness. Lord, the dreams, the visions, the healing, the deliverance in the word — anything that comes from you, Lord, I receive with joy and with humility. But if it is not from you, even if it sounds nice, I don't want it." That has to be the attitude of every one of us, if we understand that not everything that appears to be of God is of God. We have to seek God with our hearts to make sure that what we receive, what we hear, is from the true God — and if it is not from him, we do not want it. False holiness — these demons lead people to be very religious, like the Pharisees, and the Lord called them whitewashed tombs. He called them whitewashed tombs, not because the Lord wanted to be rude, but because that is exactly what it is when there is a false holiness that comes through a false birth, through being in a church contaminated with all these things — outwardly there is a change. The Pharisees, even in the way they dressed and everything, were very religious outwardly; they even wore long white clothing. But the Lord said whitewashed tombs, because outwardly they looked like good people, outwardly they looked holy, but inwardly they had not been born again — they were full of serpents and every kind of evil, because they had not truly been born again, they had not truly been sanctified. So there is a demon behind that, a false holiness — that is why there are people in false churches who appear holy but are only religious, only religious. A false humility, a false calling — many people, through these demons of Kundalini, Jezebel, Baal, and Python, use a false prophet: "the Lord tells you he is going to send you to the nations," and off goes the man or the woman saying "the Lord told me" — that is already a false calling given by Satan through a false prophet. Many of us, myself included, have heard "the Lord tells you" this or that — we have to be careful. And even though, once again, it is not that everything these demons say is always a lie — there are occasions when a person may indeed have a true calling — but when the devil comes and says "the Lord tells you that you are going to be a prophet," or "you are going to be an apostle, a pastor," even though the Lord may truly have that purpose for that person, when it comes from the wrong spirit, what it comes to do is chain that person's calling, contaminate it, so that now the person is contaminated by it, and instead of serving God by the Spirit of God, they now serve by the spirit of the Kundalini, or Baal, or Python, or Jezebel. False leadership — there are many leaders in churches who are under the Kundalini, or under Python, under Jezebel, under Baal, under Lucifer. We see the spirit of Python in the Bible — the word says that Saul said to his servants, "find me a woman who has a spirit of Python, so that I may go to her and inquire through her," and his servants answered him, "here is a woman at Endor who has a spirit of Python." This spirit of Python is a spirit of divination, but it lurks a great deal in churches — the Lord gives discernment, the Lord gives the gift of knowledge, of course, and the gift of prophecy — but Python is one of the spirits that gives a counterfeit of knowledge, a counterfeit of discernment, false prophecy, that fortune-telling. In Acts 16:16-17, it happened that as we were going to prayer, a girl met us who had a spirit of divination — some versions call it a spirit of divination, other versions say a spirit of Python, because the spirit of divination and the spirit of Python are the same thing called by different names — and she brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. She kept following Paul and the rest of us, crying out, saying: "these men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation." She was telling fortunes. Interestingly, the Pharisees and the religious leaders of that time did not recognize the disciples as servants of the Lord who proclaimed the way of salvation — yet this woman with the spirit of Python did recognize it. In short, she already knew more than the Pharisees did — and things like that. There are false apostles — 2 Corinthians says: "for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ." This is also a passage, I know, that many don't look at very deeply, because there truly are people who claim to have an apostolic calling — many quite famous — who are not apostles of God. But this spirit that counterfeits the apostle does not only operate in people who already hold the title of apostle. There are many people today — the more common word I see used today to replace "apostles" is "missionaries." The Lord's true apostles were missionaries — they went from place to place healing, delivering, and carrying the word. There are many people who call themselves missionaries and are, in fact, false apostles. In reality, the Lord sent out his apostles to go preach in different places, to heal and to deliver, to bring about a true revival — but now they call it "missionary." That is, they are replacing the word "apostle" — the word "apostle" means "one who is sent," the word "apostle" means "one who is sent" — but now they call it "missionary." The majority of what is called a "missionary" is a false apostle — they are not sent by God, they do not walk in the power of God, they are not freeing souls, they are not bringing true conviction of sin. Most people interpret this word "false apostles" as referring only to people who literally hold the title of apostle, but that isn't so — many people who don't even call themselves missionaries, but who supposedly go around healing and delivering, without ordination, are false apostles too — false apostles, supposedly having the gift, wanting to do the work that the apostles did. In short, anyone who does the work of the apostles described in the Bible but who is not anointed and sent by God — the word "apostle" means "sent one" — anyone who is replacing or supposedly doing the work of the apostles but who was not sent by God is a false apostle. This includes missionaries, people who don't hold the title of apostle, or the title of missionary, or even the title of pastor, but who are doing the work of an apostle. Look at what the apostles did in the Bible, and if they are doing that same work without being sent by God, they are false apostles. False witnesses — the spirit of the false witness also operates against the church. It is one of the demons the devil used, even to bring supposed death to the Lord, and to do great harm to many of the disciples. For example, in Matthew 26:60, the word says: "but they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward." That was when they wanted to sentence the Lord to death — they brought many false witnesses and tried to accuse him falsely so he would be declared guilty. Well, Satan does the very same thing in the church — he is going to plant false witnesses, and many false witnesses can be people from the very same church. We must be humble, and each of us must truly walk in the fear of God, because the word says that the devil, in this time, would deceive, if possible, even the elect. That means that neither I, nor you, nor anyone else who has a calling, is completely exempt from the devil trying to trip us up and cause us to make a mistake. We have to walk in the fear of God, and if we made a mistake because the devil manipulated or twisted the situation, let us be quick to repent, let us walk in humility. In Acts, it says they set up false witnesses who said, "this man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and against the law." That was an accusation against Paul — they wanted to accuse Paul so that he would be killed. False witnesses were set up against Paul too, but they were people of another religion, accusing him, manipulated by the devil, raising blasphemous slander, false testimony against Paul, trying to have him put to death. False brothers — false brothers are also souls, weapons that Satan uses to try to destroy true brothers and sisters, to try to destroy the congregation. The word says in Galatians 2:4: "and this occurred because of false brothers secretly brought in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage." In short, false brothers are people who sometimes don't even know that is what they are — many times they don't even realize they are false brothers; they are people whose hearts are not yet turned to Christ, or whose hearts are not of God, and who take delight in falsehood. Then those who stand firm in the truth, who do want to obey the truth, are the ones targeted — used, both men and women, in an attempt to bring them into bondage — that is, to say the opposite of sound teaching, so that instead of continuing to walk in freedom, the person is pushed backward and remains in bondage, because the truth sets us free, and lies bring bondage. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:26: "in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren." Being among false brothers is a danger. They cannot get us into serious trouble on their own, they cannot cause us to end up in jail, but they can make everyone think badly of us through a false accusation. If they are false, their heart is not of God, and Satan can use them to raise slander — but they do it heedlessly. Many times they even think, "no, that pastor really is false," and they are convinced in their minds that the pastor is false, or that the pastor did something he never did — but they are convinced of it in their minds, even though it's a deception, and they go and accuse him. This kind of falsehood is why having false brothers nearby is dangerous. Another gospel, another revelation, false words — Galatians 1:6-8 says: "I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." It's not that there is another gospel — it's that there are people who trouble the word of God in order to make those who genuinely seek God stumble. The spirit of the false prophet — we have so many passages that speak of it, in both the Old Testament and the New. I'll read a few, though I don't know if time will allow, because I want to use several scriptures to show some of the traits by which we identify false prophets. In 1 John 4:1, the word says: \"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.\" Here we are clearly warned — little children, test the spirits. In other words, don't believe everything the prophets tell you — we have to see whether what they're prophesying is by the Spirit of God or not. The word commands us to pay attention. In Matthew 7:15-20: \"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing.\" That is, they come disguised as sheep — they come across as very kind, \"little brother, little sister, God loves you,\" supposedly very friendly — but the passage says, \"beware of false prophets, they come to you disguised as sheep, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.\" Inwardly they are disguised, 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. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.\" By their fruits — and the fruits have nothing to do with how much they have in the bank; that is not the fruit. A man's life does not consist in how much he has — the Lord had no financial fruit; well, he had the little bag for offerings, that's what he had, but he had no house, no car, nothing, not even a donkey. So those are not the fruits. The fruits are what God gives — the power of God, praying through the truth that was spoken, that brought salvation, what those who listened received — those are the fruits. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are fruits worthy of repentance, fruits that bring salvation to those who hear, that bring true peace, that bring freedom to captives — those are the fruits the Lord displayed; he set people free. The word says: \"the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to set the captives free, to exchange the spirit of oppression for peace, for freedom.\" The Lord preached, people were healed, people were delivered, the Lord spoke the truth, he made more disciples, he fulfilled his mission, he came to redeem his people and all who believe in him, that they might have eternal life. The fruits God gives are the fruits we want to bear — the fruits the Lord speaks of, the fruits seen in signs and wonders that show the Lord is truly with us — but those fruits must be from him, not from a false spirit. Jeremiah 14:14-15: \"the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart. Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, «Sword and famine shall not be in this land» — «By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed!»'\" This is one of the traits of false prophets: they do not preach a word of repentance; they do not speak of the severity of what will come when destruction comes upon the land, and the things the Lord will truly do or permit. Instead, they say there will be no peace, or that nothing is going to happen, everything is going to be fine — that is what the prophets of that time, in Jeremiah's day, were doing. The Lord had said, through his true prophet, that famine was coming, that destruction was coming, that there would be war, that many would die. They said no, no one is going to die. So the Lord became angry and said that they speak lies, and that they themselves would die by the sword — not only would many die by the sword in that nation, but they themselves would also die, for preaching lies, for speaking falsehood. That is one of the traits of false prophets — they speak flattering words, they do not preach the truth, they do not preach repentance. Again in Jeremiah 23:21-22: \"I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.\" A true prophet is used by the Lord to turn people back from the evil way, from evil deeds, because the devil deceives the world, and so sometimes people believe they are doing what's right when they are actually deceived. The Lord uses true prophets to preach repentance, to bring conviction of sin about what is wrong — but false prophets are the opposite. Another flattering line: \"don't worry, everything is fine, keep going the way you're going\" — while the person is in sin, is deceived, is walking in it. Many of these spirits I've been mentioning, and the false prophet, will never tell the person, \"you need to repent — those tongues you have, that gift you have, is not from God; it was not the Lord who spoke to you calling you and telling you he is going to send you to all the nations, it was the devil, the spirit of the Kundalini, who sent you.\" False prophets never say that; they never say, \"it wasn't God who sent you, go away, go away.\" Instead, they keep endorsing the wrongdoing rather than bringing conviction to the person, because true prophets are guided by God so that the person repents of that wrong conduct, of what they're doing outside of God's guidance — but false prophets instead endorse it, and people keep walking that path, unable to repent because there is no one to tell them, no one to correct them. Once again, in Jeremiah 23:31-32: \"Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, who use their tongues and say, 'He says.' Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness, yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.\" False prophets are useless — with their dreams, their visions, and their words they lead people astray. That is why we have to be careful — instead of the person continuing to advance in the fear of God, in the knowledge of the truth, they get led astray, made lukewarm — even though I know the person keeps walking in lies, in deception, in falsehood — they are useless before the Lord. Zechariah 10:2: \"the idols speak delusion; the diviners envision lies, and tell false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are in trouble because there is no shepherd.\" False prophets comfort with deceptive words — they comfort the person, and the person likes being comforted with words. But the devil knows this — that most people are very emotional. Zechariah 10:2, and I'll repeat it once more: \"the idols speak delusion; the diviners envision lies, and tell false dreams; they comfort in vain.\" They comfort a person with fantasies. The person comes to church weighed down, and instead of being told the real problem and being helped to root it out through faith, through prayer, through seeking God, so that the person can be truly healed and set free, they hear, \"little brother, little sister, everything is going to be fine, don't worry, it's just a trial from God, go on\" — and so it continues, while the devil practically keeps devouring them, through deceptive, comforting words that bring no fruit. If you come here with a problem the devil is oppressing you with — whether health, finances, or your children — and instead of being told what the real problem is and what the true solution is, which requires repentance, fasting, and prayer, and ministry from someone anointed by God — that is the real solution. If I don't tell you this, and instead I say, \"you know, little brother, little sister, it's fine, let the devil keep devouring you and don't do anything about it,\" and I, as a servant of God, instead of also helping you by praying for you, giving you a step to take so you can be free, so you can be healed — if I do nothing, say \"it's fine, just pray for yourself and seek God\" — that is not our solution. Those are deceptive words, comforting words, but words that bear no fruit; there is no real change — it is a deception. Romans 16:17-18: \"Now I plead with you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.\" Once again, the spirits of false prophecy and false pastoring — and that unfortunately includes people who may have a genuine calling but who are still in apostasy; they too need to be set free, they too need to be born again, they too need to repent and receive the truth. Flattering words, like \"there's no power of God\" — like there's no power of God to confront the real problem — they're already afraid to confront the devil, because there is real revelation and real things happen when we confront the devil; we are at war, it is a war, and they are afraid, and they don't have the power of God. Well then, how do they think they're helping the sheep with flattering words, with smooth, flattering words? \"Little brother, everything is going to be fine, have faith, have faith that everything is going to be fine\" — those are just our own illusions. Everything will be fine if we know the truth. Everything will be fine if we take up our spiritual weapons. Everything will be fine if we submit to God and resist the devil, because the Lord is faithful and merciful, and he does not fail to provide a way out, a breakthrough — but we have to know the truth, we have to resist the devil, submitted to God, until he flees from us. And while he flees, many times he does not leave right away — we have to be in prayer, in fasting, in obedience to the word of God. So when we submit to God and resist him in prayer and rebuke his works and stand firm, seeking God, then the righteous judge will bring justice, and the devil will run — and then things will indeed be well. But while the sheep should indeed pray for themselves, the pastor is sent to watch over the sheep. If the pastor of God is truly a disciple, if he truly carries the anointing, the pastor's prayers are extremely, extremely important. This does not mean you shouldn't pray for yourself, but the pastor also has to pray for you — it has to be the combination of both kinds of prayer for there to be true victory. False teachers — 2 Peter 2:1: \"but there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.\" The word tells us plainly there will also be false teachers — the word itself gives us understanding that there would be false teachers, false prophets, false pastors, false apostles. In short, we have to stay awake — we do not want to be led by the false, we do not want to be taught by the false. Another characteristic of false prophets, in Luke 6:26: \"Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.\" I believe we should pay attention to this word — the Lord says, woe to you. In other words, if I supposedly am a prophet of God and everyone speaks well of me, in effect he is saying, woe to you. In short, if everyone speaks well of you, it's because you are not speaking the truth. If everyone speaks well of you, it's because you are not being a true prophet of God, because when you speak the truth, because of the devil's deception, and because people have grown thin-skinned, they get angry with you, they don't like you, they reject you, they criticize you, everyone pulls away from you — woe to you if everyone speaks well of you. The prophets you see who are very famous, whom the world receives easily, are not preaching the truth — they are false prophets. If you see that they have a great many followers, that is a clear sign that, most likely, almost certainly, something is not right. \"Woe to you, woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.\" In short, when the world speaks well of a prophet, it is because that prophet is not preaching the truth, because if the prophet preaches, \"what you are doing has gone into apostasy in your life, there is much you need to repent of, you are in the wrong\" — but he speaks to those already in the church — when the prophet tells them that, everyone already turns their back on him, everyone already gets angry with him, everyone already gets offended, because they want to be told, \"you're fine, keep going, you're doing great, don't worry, you've already got a ticket to heaven, just keep going the way you are, you're fine.\" That's what people want to hear — and that is practically what false prophets say. False prophets do not bring people conviction of sin; false prophets do not tell people, do not look, guided by God, at what is wrong in the person's life and expose it — so the person is content with them. The false ones say, \"God tells you he's going to give you three houses and four cars,\" or the person, the person wants to hear sweet little words, pleasant little words. 2 Peter 2:17-19: \"These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.\" I know this word \"bondage\" I have used many times — those of you who join the church online, you've been hearing it repeated many times, in the past and especially in recent times. Certainly, I know it is hard to hear about bondage, but I want you to hear it, because when you understand there is bondage, when you recognize there is bondage in your own life, it will be much easier for you to seek true freedom. But if you don't understand that there truly is bondage — if you don't understand that whoever allows themselves to be dominated by something, by a false doctrine, by any deceiving spirit, becomes a slave — it's not me saying this, it is the word of God: there is bondage. In the church, in the fear of God, I say this because of things like this — that when we speak the truth, they hate us, but they love the false prophets — when we speak the truth, they hate us. The church today is enslaved. The church today, throughout the whole world, is in bondage. That is exactly why a great and true revival is needed before the coming of the Lord. Right now there is so much darkness in the church, so much deception. Hearts are still not fervent, they are not on fire for God. There is much passivity, there are many lies, there are false spirits at work that must be rooted out — we must, all together, pull them out of the church. These demons, these deceiving spirits, catch again those who are in error, who are just barely escaping through flattering words, through false prophecy — that is exactly what it means that they \"allure through unbridled natural instincts those who have barely begun to separate themselves from those who live in error.\" A person barely escapes error, and along comes a false prophet, \"the Lord tells you,\" and starts telling them little things — and once again, they've caught them and dragged them back. Matthew 24:24-25: \"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.\" We are warned — the Lord says, see, I have told you beforehand, they will perform great signs and wonders. Once again, performing signs and wonders is not itself bad, because the Lord did it, and the Lord is not bad — the disciples, the apostles, they all performed signs and wonders, and they were not bad. The bad part is when those signs and wonders come by a false spirit. This passage, like the other one that says there will be many false ones, that there will be many miracles and things, that they will do this and that, and will say to the Lord, and he will say \"depart from me\" — it is not because they performed miracles; performing a miracle is not bad, as long as the miracle comes from God. Healing the sick is not bad — I don't believe there's anything wrong when a person guided by God, filled with the Spirit of God, heals you of cancer, of a tumor, of HIV, of pain, or whatever it may be. That is not something bad. What is bad is when that healing comes by the power of witchcraft — if it's a sorcerer who heals you, then something is wrong; if it's a witch who heals you, something is wrong — because even though the body may be healed, the soul becomes even more enslaved, and the healing of the soul, the salvation of the soul, is more important than physical healing. What that change accomplishes is that a false prophet supposedly heals the body, but in exchange puts a much bigger chain on the soul, making salvation that much harder. We do not want false healings, we do not want false deliverances — it is better for the body to die and the soul to be saved than for the body to be healed and the soul to perish. The word warns us that there will be many — it doesn't say there will be few — there will be many false prophets, and they will perform great signs and wonders. That doesn't mean we reject signs and wonders — every true disciple of the Lord performs signs and wonders, but not everyone who performs signs and wonders is a disciple of God. That is the difference. Every true disciple of God performs signs and wonders because the Spirit of God is in him and the Lord uses him, and the Lord performs miracles and healings through his disciples. But once again, not everyone who performs healings, miracles, and wonders is a disciple — some are disciples of the devil, not of Jesus Christ. So we must seek a church that walks in fire, that walks in the power of God — but equally important is seeking God so that the Lord confirms it: \"is it your Spirit, Lord, that is operating in this church?\" If we have both of those things — a church that walks in the power of God, or a church that has healings and miracles, and we also have the confirmation that it is the Spirit of God operating — then we have found a treasure so valuable, so hard to find in the times we live in, because we are in the great apostasy. There is much darkness that looks like light, but unfortunately, in this present time, many churches — many pastors and ministers — are what the Lord told the Pharisees: whitewashed tombs. Churches today are whitewashed tombs — outwardly very beautiful, very grand, full of luxury, very pretty — but inwardly, in the spirit, full of the spirit of death; the serpent is there, full of every kind of thing, a den of demons in the spirit. And to conclude, Matthew 24:10-13: \"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.\" This is the time we are living in right now — this word was prophesied thousands of years ago. Matthew 24:10-13 speaks about the end time — this passage tells us that when we know summer is near, that is one of the indications that the Lord's coming is near. For those who have understanding, the Lord is showing that his coming is very near, and this word has, in reality, already been fulfilled — this word we are living out right now. I don't know if you've noticed, but there have never in all of history been so many prophets as there are right now. The passage says here \"a great number\" — there will be many. Never in history have we seen so many prophets as now — you can practically go on any social media platform and find a hundred prophets in two minutes; prophets everywhere, women and men, prophets on every side. There will be many false prophets — practically everyone — well, not literally everyone, but such a huge number, it's incredible how many people believe themselves to be prophets. That in itself is a sign that this is the end time. When he prophesied that word, he was saying it would be one of the evidences that he is coming soon — and that word, that word we are living out right now, this very moment, we are living it out. There are so many false prophets out there — they will deceive many. The truth will set you free. I know that because of words like these, because we serve the true God, we are not very well received — but we do it because we love him, because we love people's souls. Because rather than make someone feel good for a moment, we want their souls to understand, and to turn away from sin. We want them to have life, and to have it abundantly. And out of love for God, and out of love for you, those of us who truly serve God speak the truth — we would rather be rejected, hated, criticized, slandered, if it means some will be saved, than to speak flattering words, lying words, smooth words that make a person feel good for the moment but bring no fruit. It is my desire that this teaching has been edifying for all of you.

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