1 Timothy 4:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Expressly

Ezekiel 1:3

The latter

Depart

2 Timothy 4:4

Seducing

General references

Bible References

Expressly

The word of Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi. It was in Babylon by the Chebar River. The power of Jehovah came upon him.

The latter

Now I am going to my people. Come along and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.

When you are in trouble (distress) and all these things happen to you in the latter days, turn to Jehovah your God and obey his voice.

They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened.

In the last days the mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established as the highest of the mountains and exalted above the hills. All the nations will stream to it.

In the future, however, I will make good things happen to Moab. It will be prosperous again,' says Jehovah. As of now the judgement of Moab.'

Afterward, I will return the captives of Elam,' declares Jehovah.

You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.'

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the future for the vision is yet for many days.

Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Jehovah their God. David their king will come with trembling to Jehovah and to his goodness in the last days.

It will happen in the last days! The mountain of the house of Jehovah will be established above the top of the mountains. It will be exalted above the hills. Peoples will flow to it.

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

Jesus was known before the foundation of the world. He was made known at the end times for your sake.

Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Depart

Some of them who are wise (have insight) will fall. This will refine them, and purify them, and make them clean, even to the time of the end, because it is yet for the time appointed.

Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.

Do not let anyone deceive you about this in any way. That day will not come unless apostasy (a falling away from truth) takes place first, and the man of lawlessness (sin), the man of destruction, is revealed. (2 Timothy 4:3)

Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.

They will turn their ears away from the truth, and turn aside to myths (fiction).

Seducing

However, God did say: 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it, or you will die.'

How will you deceive him? Jehovah asked. The spirit replied: I will make all of Ahab's prophets tell lies. Jehovah said: Go and deceive him. You will succeed.

Jehovah asked: Who will deceive Ahab so that he will go and get killed at Ramoth? Some of the angels said one thing, and others said something else,

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds will be lead away from the simplicity and the purity (cleanness) that is toward Christ.

The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

But evil men and impostors will become worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

There arose false prophets among the people. There will be false teachers among you! They will privately bring in destructive heresies (contrary doctrines), denying even the Master who bought them. They bring swift destruction on themselves.

He opened the bottomless pit. Smoke came out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. The smoke from the pit darkened the sun and the air.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles he had power to do in the sight of the beast. He says to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast that had the wound by a sword and yet lives.

They are demonic spirits, working signs, which go to the kings of the earth, of the whole world. They gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

He cried out with a strong voice: Babylon the Great has fallen, she has fallen! She has become the habitation of demons, and a haunt for every unclean spirit. She is a prison for every unclean and hateful bird.

The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent that is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

General references

Should a man who has a discharge spit on anyone who is clean, the person he spits on must wash his clothes and his body. He will be unclean until evening.

A truthful witness saves lives. A deceitful witness speaks lies.

Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

The Spirit said to Philip: Go near, and climb on this chariot.