العديد من القساوسة يقودون الأغنام إلى الهاوية

Once I saw a movie, where a person took responsibility for someone else’s flock. The person took the sheep and went to a beautiful green piece of land, near the abyss. While the sheep were pastured, the person was reminded of other stuff he needed to do. He assumed that the sheep were fine and he didn’t have to guide and watch them the whole day. وهكذا, he left the sheep and went his way. When he returned the sheep were gone. He looked around but saw no sheep. Suddenly his face looked concerned and anxious. He walked to the edge of the cliff and looked into the abyss and what he feared became reality. All the sheep were in the abyss, ميت. في الحال, I thought about the many pastors, who are leading the sheep into the abyss instead of saving the the flock from the abyss.

How are pastors leading the sheep into the abyss according to the Bible?

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! يقول الرب. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed My people; Ye have scattered My flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: هوذا, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, يقول الرب (ارميا 23:1-2)

ويل أن تكون على رعاة إسرائيل الذين يغذيون أنفسهم! لا ينبغي أن يغذي الرعاة القطع? أيها أكل الدهون, وأنت تلبسك مع الصوف, أنت تقتلهم الذين يتم تغذيتهم: لكن أيها لا تغذي القطيع. لم يتم تعزيز المريضة, كما لم تشفي ما كان مريضا, لم يلتزم أي منهما بما تم كسره, لم أحضرتم مرة أخرى ما تم طرده, لم تسعى إلى ما فقدت; ولكن مع القوة والقسوة حكمتهم. وكانوا منتشرين, لأنه لا يوجد راعي: وأصبحوا لحمًا لجميع وحوش الحقل, عندما كانوا منتشرين. تجولت أغنامي في جميع الجبال, وعلى كل تل مرتفع: نَعَم, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them (حزقيال 34:2-6)

العقائد الباطلة, that encourage iniquities and ungodliness

There are many false pastors, who preach false doctrines that encourage pride, الانانيه, تمرد ضد الله, and approve of the lusts and desires of the flesh. They use the خطأ شنيع حب و نعمة الله and the freedom in Jesus Christ to make sin all right. Instead of being workers of the Kingdom of God and of righteousness, they are workers of the kingdom of darkness and iniquity. They encourage sin, ظلم, والفجور, which lead many Christians into spiritual bondage.

These pastors twist the words of God and make sure, that Christians keep walking in sins and iniquities and stay bound to the devil.

Through their lies and deceptions, many Christians don’t find out the truth, nor walk in the truth of God. نتيجة ل, they will never arrive at the place, where God wants them to be.

Many pastors focus on themselves and use the gospel for their own gain. They’re prideful and want to be rich and famous, liked, وارفعه الناس.

Many pastors proclaim their own wisdom and philosophies, which derive from their carnal minds.

They preach their self-made gospel and motivational and self-help sermons.

They speak positive encouraging words into the lives of the people because that’s what the people love to hear. في أثناء, they are leading the sheep into the abyss and destroying many precious souls through their deceptive lying words, vain philosophies, و مذاهب كاذبة.

They’re just like the false shepherd and الأنبياء الكذبة from the Old Covenant, who spoke after their own insights and for their own gain. They twisted the words of God, so that the words of God became pleasant to the flesh and fitted into their . They spoke lies and deceptions instead of the truth of God and led the flock astray.

Who appoints the pastors in the church?

There are several ways to become appointed to the pastor’s office. There are pastors, who are appointed by carnal people, because of their charismatic appearance, يبدو, and the way they talk. So that through their outward appearance and eloquent speech, they attract many people to the church, especially the youth and young adults.

There are pastors, who have inherited the role of a pastor from their dad, mom, uncle, aunt, أو فرد آخر من العائلة.

And there are pastors, who have studied theology and got a Ph.D., and therefore have been given authority to lead and pasture the sheep of God.

There are many more ways, through which someone can be appointed as a pastor in the church. But which pastors are appointed by God? How many pastors stand in the service of the Lord and speak His words according to His will? Instead of standing in the service of the people and speaking according to their will?

Many pastors are not born again in Christ

ول الاسف, many pastors and theologians, who preach from the pulpit are not ولدت ثانية في المسيح. They might believe that Jesus Christ exists, but they are not born again in Him. They don’t walk as sons of God after the Spirit in the will of God. بدلاً من, they’re carnal and walk like the world after their flesh as sons of the devil in his will

They are still الخلق القديم. Therefore they preach carnal sermons from their carnal mind that revolve around people, بدلاً من يسوع, and focus on the flesh and the world instead of the Spirit and the Kingdom.

Through their carnal walk and words, the spirit of this world that resides in them comes over the congregation and affects the lives of Christians. نتيجة ل, Christians become lukewarm, سلبي, أنانية, rebellious against the words of God, lawless, and indifferent toward sin.

When you are a graduated theologian, the piece of paper doesn’t prove that you are a born-again believer and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Knowing someone by name doesn’t mean that you know the person. Many pastors know Jesus of the Bible, but they don’t know Him personally.

A Ph.D. or any other certificate doesn’t scare the devil. It doesn’t mean anything in the spirit world. A Ph.D. or any other certificate doesn’t give you any spiritual authority.

The only thing that counts is whether you are cleansed of all your sins and iniquities with the blood of Jesus Christ and are مختون في المسيح. This means that you’ve laid down your flesh, الذي تسكن فيه الطبيعة الخاطئة, في المسيح, and your spirit is raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit and that you have become خلق جديد (born of water and the Spirit).

The new creation has all authority in Jesus Christ

عندما تصير خليقة جديدة, you are seated in Christ in the Heavenly Places. أنت have been given all authority and power in Jesus Christ to rule over every power, قد, السيادة, and principality of darkness.

Only that will scare the devil, but not a title, دكتوراه., or any other certificate. A Ph.D. might be valuable in the natural realm, but not in the spirit realm.

Many theologians expand the kingdom of darkness

There have been a lot of famous theologians and preachers, who have had a big influence in expanding the kingdom of darkness في الكنيسة. They have deceived many Christians and persuaded them to believe and accept their lies and led them astray.

Many have combined the Bible with science. Take for example Darwin and his evolution theory. What happened on his deathbed; whether he renounced his theory or not, ليس مهما. His lie of evolution still exists and influences many lives.

Not only does the world believe this lie of evolution but also many Christians, بما في ذلك القساوسة.

Many Christians believe in evolution and combine this doctrine with the Bible. Which is an evil thing, because you cannot mix God’s truth with the lies of the world. When you mix the Bible with the lies of the world, it is no longer the truth, ولكن كذبة.

You either believe God’s Word or you believe the words of the world. You cannot believe in both.

And so many pastors are leading the sheep into the abyss by using the knowledge, حكمة, نظريات, and strategies of this world. Instead of leading the sheep by the Word and the Spirit to heaven. (اقرأ أيضا: هل يسير الكتاب المقدس والعلوم معًا?).

What is the task of a pastor in the church?

And he gave some, الرسل; وبعض, انبياء; وبعض, الانجيليين; وبعض, القساوسة والمعلمين; من أجل تكميل القديسين, لعمل الوزارة, for the edifying of the body of Christ: حتى نأتي جميعاً إلى وحدة الإيمان, ومعرفة ابن الله, إلى رجل كامل, إلى قياس قامة ملء المسيح (افسس 4:11-13)

A pastor is a shepherd and overseer of the body of Christ; الكنيسة. A pastor should guard and shepherd (tend, feed, مرشد) the flock. The task of a pastor, who is also a teacher, is to equip and perfect the saints, together with the apostles, انبياء, الانجيليين, والمعلمون, لعمل الوزارة, and the edifying of the body of Christ. So that the saints mature and know the will of God and grow up in the image of Jesus Christ and walk as sons of God (وهذا ينطبق على كل من الذكور والإناث).

The instructions, that Jesus gave to Peter are still valid for every pastor.

Pastors must feed His lambs (to pasture, by extension to, fodder; reflexively, to graze:—feed, يحفظ), shepherd His sheep (to tend as shepherd of (مجازيا, supervisor):— feed (cattle), قاعدة), and to feed His sheep (to pasture, by extension to, fodder; reflexively, to graze:—feed, يحفظ (جون 21:15-18)).

To pasture and keep the sheep doesn’t mean to speak nice, لطيف, and encouraging words, while giving pats on the head. But it means to instruct, صحيح, and discipline the saints.

People reject instructions and corrections

When people hear the words reproof and corrections, they immediately think of legalism. نتيجة ل, they reject it and call it religious behavior. But according to the Bible, there is nothing wrong with correction and reproof. على العكس تماما, it only helps the believers to mature and walk in the will of the Father.

When parents raise their children without teaching them moral principles, قواعد, and values, and correcting them, but approve of their behavior and spoil, eulogize, and honor them, they become selfish, فخر, والمتمردة. The children shall do their will and not respect their parents, obey them, and do their will. They will become unguided missiles and won’t be able to function in society.

Their children shall have difficulties in obeying instructions, keeping laws, and submitting to authorities. They shall not respect other people but shall be selfish, فخر, and only do what pleases them.

It’s the same thing in many churches. When the sheep, المؤمنين, are not discipled correctly and are not corrected and disciplined, they become prideful, متمرد, and unguided missiles.

We already see this behavior in many churches. Because of the many lies that have been preached in these last decades, Christians have been driven so far away from the truth of the gospel and the Word of God, that their ears have become itchy and they only want to hear, what pleases them.

They don’t want to be instructed or corrected. They don’t want to be bothered by others, but they want to live the way, they choose to live. بسبب هذا السلوك, many live in lawlessness and walk as enemies of the cross. That is the fruit of all the lies that are preached from the pulpit.

Grievous wolves in sheep’s clothing

What has been written in the previous article, How do you recognize false prophets in the end time? also applies to the pastors; the shepherds.

There are many pastors, who look pious and upright, but their deeds, and their walk don’t line up with the words they preach and don’t correspond with the Word.

These false teachers are ferocious wolves, who enter the body of Christ and arise from among the believers, and won’t spare the flock. في البداية, they look alright, but when you spend more time with them, their true nature and works will be revealed. (اقرأ أيضا: ‘الذئاب في ملابس الأغنام التي تسبب الفوضى').

The Bible warns about false teachers

God the Father and Jesus Christ; the Word warned about false teachers. Even the apostles Paul, بيتر, إلخ. warned about false pastors; والمعلمون, who would try to enter the body of Christ and defile the body with evil, through their false doctrines.

They are blemishes and spots. And they shall deprave deviations of the true gospel and with their words. They shall encourage ungodliness and promote sin. (اقرأ أيضا: هل يسوع مروج للخطيئة?).

Many preachers will draw the disciples away from Jesus Christ. So that they become their followers instead of followers of Jesus Christ.

لأني أعرف هذا, that after My departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, لا تشفق على القطيع. ومنكم أنتم سيقومون رجال, التحدث بأشياء منحرفة, ليجذب التلاميذ وراءهم. لذلك شاهد, وتذكر, أنه لمدة ثلاث سنوات لم أتوقف عن تحذير كل ليلة ونهار بالدموع (افعال 20:29-31)

We already see this happening around us. People exalt, شرف, and worship pastors and put them on a pedestal in the church.

Many Christians believe everything the pastor says, without searching and investigating the Bible by themselves. Because they think that everything that the pastor says is the truth. And so they blindly follow the words of the pastor. Instead of searching the Scriptures and following the words of Jesus Christ.

Many wonderful promises are spoken by the mouth of the pastors, while God’s Word says something else. (اقرأ أيضا: سأعطيك ثروات هذا العالم).

The warnings for the Church Today

Many pastors and teachers are carnal and walk after the flesh. They don’t have any awareness or insights into the spirit realm and the Kingdom of God. But as long as people stay carnal and walk after the flesh, they will be enslaved and influenced by the spirit of this world.

And so the spirit of this world, the spirit of the antichrist rules in many people’s lives.

What does the Bible say about pastors, المعلمين الكاذبة, and people in the end of times?

• They shall speak unholy and arrogant words of vanity
• Their profane and vain babblings will increase ungodliness
• Their word will eat as does a canker
• They beguile and lure through the lusts of the flesh, من خلال الكثير من العبث
• While they promise the believers liberty, they are the servants of corruption
• They shall subtly introduce destructive heresies
• They shall deny the Lord Jesus Christ; the Word and they shall bring upon themselves swift destruction
• They shall walk in shame, and many shall follow their shameful ways
• Because they are pernicious and walk in shameful ways, the way of truth will be maligned
• They shall be greedy, and they shall exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Yes they shall treat you as merchandise (and get as much money from you, لأنفسهم, قدر الإمكان)
• They’ve eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls
• They left the straight road, and have gone astray. They have entered the road of Balaam, الذي أحب أجرة الإثم

In the end times, the people will be:

• Lovers of self (نرجسي, self-focused)
• Lovers of money (impelled by greed), طمع
• Boastful (bragging), a cause for pride
• Arrogant, متغطرس, فخور, appearing above others
• Revilers, blasphemers, scurrilous, أي. calumnious (against men), أو (خصوصاً) impious (against God), حديدي
• Disobedient to parents
• Ungrateful, unthankful
• Unholy and profane, شرير
• Unloving (devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane), hard-hearted towards kindred: بدون عاطفة طبيعية
• Truce breakers, irreconcilable, without libation, truce less, عنيد
• Malicious gossip,
• False accusers, a traducer; خصوصاً, الشيطان, شيطان, slanderer
• Incontinent, عاجز, without self-control (intemperate, immoral)
• Fierce, brutal, savage
• Despiser of those that are good, haters of good
• Traitors, (in the sense of giving forward into another’s (the enemy’s) hands) a surrender, betrayer
  heady, reckless
• High-minded, conceited, inflated with self-conceit, lifted with pride, فخور
• Lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of God
• Having a form of (الخارج) التقوي, دِين, but denying the power thereof (for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith)
• They’ll worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually dwarfed women weighed down by the burden of their sins, easily swayed by various impulses, always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• They oppose the truth
• They’re men of corrupt minds
• Reprobate (unqualified and worthless (as teachers)) concerning the faith
• Their folly (meaningless nonsense) shall be manifest unto all men
• They indulge in the corrupt passions of the sinful nature
• They despise authority

(2 تيموثي 2:16,17, 2 تيموثي 3, 2 بيتر 2:10. These are not the only chapters, that warn about false doctrines, القساوسه, teachers etc. There are many more scriptures, that warns about pastors, والمعلمين الكذبة, false doctrines in the end times)

Be aware of pastors, who are leading the sheep into the abyss!

Be aware of such pastors, الدعاة, والمعلمون, who are carnal and live like the world and tolerate and accept everything, بما في ذلك الخطيئة. القساوسة, who do the works of the flesh and walk in unrighteousness in sin.

You have to be careful for pastors, who do the works of the flesh and approve of those things, والتي هي مكروه عند الله, عيسى, والروح القدس. Because these pastors are leading the sheep into the abyss.

Stay faithful to the Word. Stay in His Word and keep His instructions. Only the Word reveals the truth and discerns fake from real.

But if you don’t read and study the bible and don’t stay in the Word, you will be misled and seduced.

على مر السنين, many false teachings have entered the body of Jesus Christ and caused many churches to become like the world. كثير الكنائس تجلس في الظلام instead of the light and have no or little power.

The devil has taken his place and built his throne in many churches. وهكذا the church is being prepared to receive the antichrist.

"كونوا ملح الأرض."’