Rayford Strange
Matt 7:15, 21, 22 & 23 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Beware of imitation, substitute spirits that are such a close resemblance of the real Spirit of Christ, but instead, they are enthusiastic spirits that purport to be the Spirit of Christ but are very cleverly disguised deceiving spirits. There’s a great company of God’s people who have been led astray by these gods of enthusiasm.
Let us look at the definition of this word:
enthusiasm
/ (ɪnˈθjuːzɪˌæzəm) /
noun
1. ardent and lively interest or eagerness
2. an object of keen interest; passion
3. archaic extravagant or unbalanced religious fervour
4. obsolete possession or inspiration by a god
Origin of enthusiasm
C17: from Late Latin enthūsiasmus, from Greek enthousiasmos, from enthousiazein to be possessed by a god, from entheos inspired, from en- ² + theos god
Truly, these gods of enthusiasm can be very inspiring so much as to cause people to jump, shout, run around and even speak in tongues. A skilled practitioner of the art of enthusiasm can preach and teach things that are antithetical to both the letter and the Spirit of the Word of God. Its spiritual sorcery.
Rev. 9:21, 22, “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their SORCERIES, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Indeed, most of these workers of iniquity are worshipers of idols of gold to which they bow and will teach and preach what will excite and titillate the mind for gain, both of money and reputation, regardless if what they preach and teach does violence to the Word of God, or not. Immediately, my thoughts turn to the likes of Tim LaHaye and those of his genera. He drew his narrative from the book of Revelation having to do with the rapture, the Antichrist and the tribulation. The Left Behind series was later made into a best selling movie. The authors of this series of books made millions of dollars not only on the books but from the movie also. What are the odds that the poor bloke that got left behind was named Rayford 😀 while his wife was raptured. Like the numbing effect of the sting of a scorpion, the minds of all who will subject themselves to this kind of teaching are spiritually so stupefied that they can scarcely discern the truth of the Word of God from an enthusiastic fable. Many Apostolic people in our day are being turned to fables, blindly running after so many false End-time prophets, now scarcely unable to discern the Word of Truth from their favorite fables which they have come to love.
2Ti 4:4 “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” Yes, fables of end-time teaching by men whose conscience have been seared with a hot iron, seeking to leave our own minds in a stupor as a sting from a scorpion. They have no spiritual ability to lift the mind of their hearers up into a spiritual realm to hear the voice of the Holy Ghost speaking to His Church. How can they? Their own minds have been so corrupted by fables as to believe them.
Meanwhile the purveyors of these fables, who enthusiastically infuse the sting of the scorpion on these poor unsuspecting souls laugh, shout and dance all the way to the bank. Yet, the minds of these unsuspecting people of God are left in a torpid condition.
May I again quote the words of Jesus here: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”
Yes, they will not come to you bearing their money thirsty fangs of a wolf. No, they quote a little Acts 2:4 and Acts 2:38 which they know will make them acceptable to the saints of God while, like a wolf, they commence to rip apart souls with the teeth of the prophetic word, cleverly falsified. Yes, they sell their lies in magazines and book and laugh at the stupidity of the saints of God who buy their stuff. The novice in the Word of God will just gush with the en-theos god, thinking that they have been fed with the Word. All of this while the false prophets gleefully make their bank deposits.
These lawless workers of iniquity who have no authority or divine mandate to pervert the Word of Truth, were of the Oneness faith evidenced by recognizing Jesus as to who He is, saying, LORD, LORD….Jehovah, Jehovah.
They went on to say to the Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? No doubt they did many wonderful works, they may have not only cast out a few devils and prophesied in His name but healed the sick and diseased….maybe even raised the dead a time or two for good measure. Notice: Jesus never refuted any of their claims of doing many wonderful works in His Name. One might think that he tacitly acknowledged their claim.
May I pause here to suggest any miracle or wonder done in the Name of the Lord that would then validate their false prophecies or any false teachings in the minds of their hearers, would be a “lying sign, a lying wonder.”
But, look what Jesus says to these workers of many wonderful works done in his name including casting out devils and prophesying in his Name: “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Shame, on these false prophets for having twisted, perverted, inflicting violence on the Word of God from out of an enthusiastic, serpentine, false-god spirit. Few of them, if any, realize the great harm they have wrought upon the once beautiful virgin, now ravaged and made to become a harlot, nothing unlike the violence inflicted upon the beautiful virgin woman in the fourth century with the Antichrist Trinity teaching. She accepted him, the false Christ of Trinity through deception and became the mother of all harlotry.
2Th 2:4 “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
This came to pass in the fourth century. The spiritual temple of God is the church. He that opposeth and exalteth himself in the temple of God, the holy place is the Antichrist Trinity, showing himself that is is God, now worshiped by the deceived believing that the Trinity god is God. The same thing is going on today believed by many that the fables taught and extolled as Truth is the Word of God. Jesus Christ alone is the Word of God. The end-time teaching of today is just another Antichrist taking his position in the temple of God exalting himself to be God, yet another Antichrist.
But, how can Jehovah, the Lord say to those workers of iniquity, “depart from me, I NEVER knew you?” How can He, who knows all things, the end from the beginning, say that he NEVER knew them?
Go back before the world was created, before the sun, moon and stars were hung in space; go back into eternity past, before there was time…when there was nothing but God alone. He who knows the end from the beginning looked through time never to acknowledge them as to who they were but just workers of iniquity having no knowledge or relationship with Him from the beginning of days to the end of days. They were unknown by Him from the beginning.
The prospects of the church of today is being systematically deceived by such an en-theos (Enthusiastic) spirit is enough to scare a sober minded person half to death.
The saints of God in this latter hour should be more watchful in prayer and in the pure Word today, more than any other time in modern history. —-God bless you all, Brother Strange
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