Unveiling of God no 28

Too Blind to see

Jun 13, 2018

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

57 Before, if any man walked in behind that veil, it was sudden death. Amen. Oh, we're going to get a lesson here in a minute (See?), if you can receive It. To walk behind them skins, even one of the priest's sons tried to do it one time and died. Don't go behind that veil. The man that walked behind... Why? There's no redemption yet in that. It was potentially; it was just potential; and anything potential's not the real thing yet (See?), just potentially. It was redemption. Sin was covered, not remitted, not remitted. "Remitted" is "divorced and put away." And so the blood of sheep and goats could not do that, so Jehovah was hid behind a veil. Now, back behind this veil where He was hid, to enter into that, a man dropped dead to try to enter there into it.

58 But since Pentecost, since the crucifixion, when that veil was rent from the top to the bottom, for that generation... Jesus was that God, veiled. And when He died at Calvary, God sent fire and lightning and ripped that veil from top to the bottom, that the whole mercy seat was in plain view. But they were too blind to see it. As Moses said here, Paul said, reading of Moses, "When Moses is read yet, that veil is still on their heart."

And remember that word heart means understanding. The veil was still over their understanding. In other words, what they saw was through the veil or their old understanding, and not what was actually there. Then he says,) Oh, brother, sister, that's what the Jews did when the veil was rent and brought God into plain view, hanging on the cross. He was in plain view, but they couldn't see It.

They were to blinded by their own traditions and creeds to what God was actually doing. The veil blinded them. They were so focused on the veil they never saw it was God who was using that veil.

In Isaiah 29:6 we read, "Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, in his dream he eats; but when he awakens his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams and behold, in the dream he drinks; but when he awakens he is faint, and his soul still is hungry: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

Now, Mount Zion represents the Rapturing process of the Bride. The Mount Zion showdown between God's Elect and all those who oppose her. So this speaks of those who come against the Bride of Christ and the process she is going through in her rapturing experience. Her Mount Zion showdown.

In fact, Br. Branham tells us that Mount Zion speaks of the third Rapture, the rapture of the Bride.

Let me read a few quotes to prove this to you. From his sermon Future home 64-0802 P:177 brother Branham tells u what the word daughter of Zion refers to the bride and Mount Zion refers to the rapture of the bride, which is the last showdown. "Listen, let's just read it. Look here. (Isaiah 4:1) And in that day seven women shall take ahold of one man saying, We'll eat our own bread,... wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach... (That's the end time where we're living now: marriage, divorce, and prostitution, and whatevermore.) In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,... the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely... them that... escaped of Israel... (How that you escaped all that damnation. See?) And it shall came to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that's a remnant in Jerusalem, shall... (Let's see.)... in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: (See?)Wherein the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion,... (Remember that's always the Bride. See?)... and shall have purified the blood of Jerusalem... (That's the remnant of the Jews plus the Bride. See?)... and in the midst thereof with the spirit of judgment,... (Fire, that's always God's judgment. When He makes His final judgment, calls you, justifies you, and brings you to redemption, then His judgment breaks forth upon you, and the Holy Ghost and Fire cleanses away the sin. Then you're His. Same thing He does to the earth when He purges it with fire.)... and by the spirit of burning. (Now look listen, are you ready?) And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assembly, a cloud of smoke by day, and a shining of... fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Then from his sermon Spoken word original seed 62-0318E P: he tells us that Mount Zion refers to the Rapture of the Bride. P:186 Then in the latter rain there will come forth a Mount Carmel, a showdown: Bible fulfilled to the letter. John the Baptist, His messenger before His face in Malachi 3, planted a former rain and was rejected by the churches, the denominations, the Pharisees and Sadducees in his day. Jesus came and had the Mount Transfiguration showdown. This forerunner of the last days will sow for the former rain. Jesus will be the showdown between denominations and creeds (which is His Word). When He comes, the showdown, the rapture of His Bride... The first was Mount Carmel; the second was Mount Transfiguration; the third will be Mount Zion. Glory.

Then later in PP. 192 he says, "He will be correctly dedicated to the Word as they have always been; indicated by God's Word, and a-vindicated. God will vindicate what he preaches to be the Truth as He did Elijah; for it is Elijah coming, making ready for the Mount Zion rapture. Jesus said in the last days it would be like Lot's time. His preaching will be with the Spirit and straight line of God's Word. Because so much has been called God's Truth, many will misunderstand this true messenger. (I've got wrote here p-r-o-p-h-e-c-y, prophecy.) Because so much has been called God's Truth by fakers, many true ministers will misunderstand that messenger.

Now, maybe I should take a sermon on that some day. He said, "Because so much has been called God's Truth by fakers, many true ministers will misunderstand that messenger

I am thoroughly convinced that many who claim to follow the Messenger have no clue what that Messenger's Message is. He said many of the ministers will miss it and not understand the Messenger and remember you can't live any higher than your pastor, and so if your pastor doesn't have a clue how do you expect the people who set under him to have a clue. They focus on the veil itself without seeing the God who is hid behind that veil. And therefore the veil becomes to them something that prevents them from Seeing God. Because they are focused on the veil and not on the God who uses the veil.

So in getting back to Isaiah 29 where we read concerning those who fight against Mount Zion, or those in the Bride who are destined for the Mount Zion showdown which is the Mount Zion Rapture, he says, 9 "Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

So we see their condition. They are drunkenness and staggering yet it is not from wine or the stimulation of revelation. It is from a spirit of slumber, a blindness and the shadow of death that is upon them.

10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

Notice the seers hath he covered. And who are the seers, those are the prophets, those who see. which are the prophets, and God closes the people to them that see. He hides His Message through the seer from these people.

Therefore, they are purposely blinded to the Message by God because they are not ordained to receive it.

11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Notice the condition of these people. He said it would be like a person who is dreaming that he is eating and drinking, only to wake up hungry and thirsty because it's all a delusion to them. What they are eating is actually a delusion. What they think they are drinking is actually a delusion. It is not real. And so many people think they are drinking from the fountain of Divine revelation and it is only a dream. And so they still hunger and thirst and cannot get satisfaction. They are not getting fed.

I was talking to a lovely brother who told me he had been attending a mega church in this message and the services were like attending a high school pep rally, where the people on stage would pump the people up to get them all excited and then poof, nothing.

He said I honestly tried to go expecting to get fed, but there was nothing for my soul. Why? Because it is like a night vision, a dream, the people think they are getting fed but have no clue what is being said because they are focused on the man, the veil and not the God who used the veil. And so they go to the elders in the church to get an answer and they say, sorry you won't get an answer from me, the Message is sealed. We don't know what the answer is.

12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

And so you go to another church and ask the same questions and they say, I don't know, I don't understand that myself.

13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart (their understanding) far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

So the precepts of men have taught a wrong kind of fear. They've taught a fear of man instead of a proper fear of God in which the Bible says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But they don't want the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Him, they only want to the veil to look upon.)

Yet we see in Isaiah 50 a different sort of shepherd, a different sort of ministry. To this one The Lord says, "4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: (Why? Because ) He wakens me morning by morning, he wakens mine ear to hear as one that is learned. 5  The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back from what he had to say. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. 8 He is near that vindicates me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. 9 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. 10  Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all those others that kindle their own fire, that compass themselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your own fire, and in the sparks that ye yourself have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

In other words, God has ordained some to waken every morning listening to the Word of God who will walk in the light as God is in the light, who will be led by the Spirit and able to learn, but others will not walk in the Light as God is in the Light, and so they will walk in their own light, their own fires that they've created. And won't even bother to walk in the Light of the Presence of God. So they do not follow God but the god of their own imagination. The Message of their own imagination.

God continues in Isaiah 50:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay:

Now when you use the colloquialism "turn of things upside down" means that they are taking things just the opposite of what is really there. We say, "you are twisting it, or you are putting your spin on it. And that is what God is saying here. You turn it upside down, making it just the opposite of what it actually is.

"for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? He didn't know what he is doing?

You know, when God promised us that "all things shall work together for the good of them who love him and are the called according to his purpose." And when people doubt God's Word, His promise, they go to frustration and despair and in doing so they are actually saying, "God can't do what he promised to do.". And to me that is just pathetic.

Don't you know that all sons must first be tried and tested? But when you don't think God who promised can't deliver on His promise, you are making the Word of God, the promise of God of nun effect by your own unbelief. And right there you are showing God you are an unbeliever, and not a believer. And what you are doing is proving you are an unbeliever, and by saying God can't do what He promised to do you are calling God a liar.

And then God says to Isaiah 29: 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Now, I look at that promise of God and say that is for me. I live in Lebanon. Perhaps not right in the city but just outside of it. That is the city of my Postal code. That is the city that delivers my mail. That is the city where my phone number comes from. And you know, I have read this promise of God for more than 30 years and every time I have read it, I think it is no surprise to me that this little church is located right outside of Lebanon and our mailing address is located right here in Lebanon, and my phone number is a Lebanon phone number. And he promised that out of Lebanon the words of the book would be heard by the those who had been deaf, and the eyes of those who had been blind would begin to see out from obscurity and out from the darkness they had been in.

And I have hundreds of letters and emails from all over the world showing me the fulfillment of that Scripture because men from all over the world have written to me and told me they were once blind to what the message is and now they see. Hundreds and thousands from all over the world. I have thousands of emails testifying how God has opened the eyes of believers all over the world. So I know the fulfillment of that Scripture. I saw it, I claimed it and God brought it to pass.

Now, you may say, "oh come on preacher, you're taking this scripture and claiming it for yourself?" And my answer is "yes I am and why not", it fits doesn't it. And we are told by a vindicated prophet to claim every promise in the Bible as ours. And that is what I've done. And we all know that scriptures has compound meaning, so it may also mean something for someone else, but for me, I read it for myself and this church, and I claimed it, and God has brought it to pass.

And brother Branham told us how to know whether something is from God or not. He said "first God must reveal it to your heart, then he must reveal it in the Word, then the thing must come to pass, then you know whether it was of God or not".

Now, others might see these promises in the Bible and are afraid to step into the promise, But "I know what I heard, and I recognized what I heard, and I acted upon the Word of God".

Just like Moses had to step into the Red Sea before the water could open, and Elijah had to walk into the Jordan River before the River would open. And you must recognize the promise for you in this word and then step into it before God will make it come to pass. And then when it comes to pass that is the interpretation of the Word of God.

17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

You see, a believer believes. And he must step into what he believes before God will confirm his belief. Therefore he must have child like faith. and that is all I claim to have is child like faith. I happen to believe God's Word the way he wrote it. And I find when the opportunity arises, and I see that opportunity in His Word, I step into it right then and claim it, then it becomes mine. And so must you.

Don't think you are going to get out of here without being tested. All sons are to be tried and tested. And the thing of it is, you shouldn't worry about the test, because he has also said he would not test us above that which we could take. So our victory is in Christ, therefore just get in Christ and all things are possible to them that believe.

The Apostle Paul said, Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

and the Apostle John said, 1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

And Paul again said, 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, in getting back to brother Branham's sermon we pick up at paragraph 59 Could it be possible that the Gentiles has hit the same thing? (Oh, God.) When they've had the church ages of the Son of God, but when now the veil of this denominations and things, this veil of tradition that we've got since Pentecost, when the church traditions has been rent, the things that the people said, "Days of miracles is past," and these things, and God has took the veil off of it and brought It in plain view, and they're ready to crucify It again. Just exactly right.

And let's face it, we know that they could not crucify God because he is Spirit, so they took the veil that God hid himself in and crucified it in the alpha. And they've done that same thing in this hour as well. They've taken the veil God used in this hour, William Branham and crucified it as well. And that crucifixion came via character assassination. And they are still doing it to sons of God in this hour.

For the past 20 years as I have gone overseas to echo this great revelation of Jesus Christ and the relationship God had with His first born son, and now with sons, and God confirmed that same echo of His Message with signs and wonders and His own personal presence in the form or three horizontal rainbows just exactly as he confirmed His Message through William Branham with three horizontal rainbows, and the brothers who've received that revelation and have stepped into it have all gone through the same crucifixion and character assassination as did our prophet, showing they have become Isaiah 53. Men of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Despised and rejected, yet within their bosom is the same God life and the same mercy seat that was in Christ Jesus as he died upon the cross.

The second crucifixion doesn't have to be a literal cross we are nailed to, because brother Branham said "you can kill a man without using a knife or bullets, you can speak against him to kill his influence and you might as well shot him with a bullet." Why? Because they are blind to the revelation of Jesus Christ. They are blind to the relationship between God and His sons.

in the next paragraph brother Branham says, 60 The unveiled God, plain view, they should've seen Him standing there. Yet He was too common; He was an ordinary Man. They couldn't see It. See, there stood a Man. "Well," they said, "this guy, what school did He come from?" But remember, when that spear struck His body, that Spirit left Him, the temple of sacrifice blocks turned over, and the lightning whipped down through the temple and rent the veil. What was it? There was their God hanging on Calvary, and they were too blind to see it. Brought Him in open view, and still they don't see It. They're blinded. God, veiled in a human being...

Now, notice they were blinded to the God hidden in the veil then and so are they today. But the Elect will know the two spirits and will not be deceived. They will not be blinded. And we know deception is a form of blindness.

Watch how the Apostle Paul shows us that the deception comes as the light goes out. Even children understand that shadows hide what could be in the shadow. So Shadows lead to uncertainty which leads to deception.

As children we used to play hide and go seek, and it was most fun at night time, because we could hide in the shadows and the person looking for us would walk right past us if we remained in the shadow and did not move or speak.

Now, there are 19 Scriptures that speak of "The shadow of Death." Therefore we see a comparison between darkness and death, Light and Life. And of course we could take an entire sermon showing you that the Scripture speaks of Light and Life and the need for light in order for life. And Scripture tells us where there is light the shadows shall flee away.

Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

But here are the scriptures speaking of the shadow of Death.

Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Matthew 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Psalms 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Psalms 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

Psalms 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Job 38:17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Job 34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Job 28:3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Job 24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Job 10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Now, in James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

So there is no darkness nor shadows in God. What you see is what you get. Therefore if God is hidden it is because he is veiled, so the veil is what hides.

The next few scriptures speaks of a shadow as something that can not last. Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Job 8:9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:

But in Matthew Jesus warns us that we must discern light from darkness. But he shows us what sets the elect apart from those who are not elect is that The elect cannot be deceived. All others will be deceived.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The problem is that most believers will not exercise their senses to discern Good from evil. And how do you do that? By giving it the Word test.

1John 4:1-6 1  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2  Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

From his sermon Sign of His coming 62-0407 P:63 brother Branham said, "How can you tell, Brother Branham, what's right or wrong? Give them the Word test. That'll tell whether they're right or wrong or not. Stay right with that Word; see what happens. See? Just throw the Word down there and see where they're at. "Oh, well, you see that..." Oh, then get right away right then. See? Yeah. Just stay right with that Word. So why, if they'd give Micaiah the Word test, he proved out he was a percent with it. Now, they say, "Wait a minute (See?); God gave it to us." That's right. God gave us the promise of the Holy Ghost. Peter said on the day of Pentecost, you know, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The promise is to every generation." See? That's us. That means us. But it's conditions. You just can't get it any way. You've got to follow instructions. That's exactly.

Spoken word original seed 62-0318M P:151 Look what kind of revivals they're having: great revivals, have had. Looks good, doesn't it? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, now you've got us on a limb." That's where I wanted you. How you going to know what's right and wrong? Give it the Word test. That's the way to tell whether it's right or wrong. That's it; just give it the Word test. See what it says about the Word. Any spirit, see what it says about the Word. If it denies the Word, it's not of God. See? No matter what it is, if it denies the Word, it's not of God. Look, give it the Word test and see what happens.

Matthew 16:3 3  And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Luke 12:56 56  Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

1John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Malachi 3:16-18 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Ezekiel 44:23-24 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; (how can they stand in judgment?

Because they stand with what he has already said.) and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

But the non elect are never able to discern the two spirits, and as a result become deceived themselves, and thus persecute True Seed of God.

Galatians 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

2 Timothy 3:7-8, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

2Peter 2:1-3 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, (in your midst) who privately shall bring in alongside of true doctrine destructive heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

2 John1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come (present tense) in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

I believe we could go on and on and show you more on his the blindness and darkness of the heart leads to delusion and deception, and perhaps one day we shall show this to you, but since this is a Wednesday night and I think we shall just close in prayer at this time.

Let's just bow our head in prayer.