There Shall Be False Prophets Among You

Acts 20:29-31, “For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”

2nd Peter 2:1, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

The inspired Holy Scripture prophecies that FALSE PROPHETS would arise and deceive many. I love that word “privily” in 2nd Peter 2:1, which means “surreptitiously” (taking painstaking efforts to avoid detection). False prophets are very subtle, like the Devil. They have an agenda! We must continually be on guard against heresy creeping into a church.

The Apostle Paul had spent three years warning God's flock about false prophets lurking from without and within the churches. There's nothing new under the sun. In 2026, we find the same dire situation today of false prophets (grievous wolves) lurking in local churches. I spend a great deal of time extricating people's minds from the toxic theology of neo-evangelicals. The average pastor today is an incompetent theological fool, preaching Satan's fraud of “repent of your sins” to be saved, and other deadly forms of Lordship Salvation. Listen to me friend, there is no YOU in God's plan of salvation, there is only CHRIST. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith.

Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work.

Salvation is not achieving, it is receiving.

The Scripture prophecies that FALSE PROPHETS would arise and deceive many. ...

Matthew 7:15, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

Matthew 24:11, “And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”

Case in point is heretic Ray Comfort...

Evangelist Ray Comfort Corrupts Matthew 7:22-23

“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.” —Matthew 7:22-23

On page 1197 of 'THE EVIDENCE BIBLE,' Ray Comfort comments on Matthew 7:22-23...

"These are perhaps the most frightening verses in the Bible. Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law. They tell 'fibs' or 'white' lies, take things that belong to others, have a roaming eye for the opposite sex, etc. They are liars, thieves, and adulterers at heart, who will be cast from the gates of heaven into the jaws of hell."

SOURCE: THE EVIDENCE BIBLE, by Ray Comfort, pg. 1197; 2003, Bridge-Logos Publishers, Orlando, Florida

Ladies and gentleman, Ray Comfort is teaching a works-based salvation! According to what we just read by Ray, every believer who is still living in deliberate sin won't be allowed into Heaven. The inspired Word of God does NOT agree with Ray. Romans 6:1, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” I love this precious truth! The more we sin as believers, the deeper God's grace reaches, so that we can never lose God's free gift of salvation; which is obtained simply through trust in Jesus Christ (John 20:31).

The correct interpretation of Matthew 7:22-23 must include verse 21...

“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.”

What is "the will of the Father"? The answer is found in John 6:40...

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

The group in Matthew 7:21-23 were unsaved because they refused to do God's will concerning salvation. It wasn't because they still had personal sins in their life. Every believer still has sin in their life! We all sin every day. That's not to say that we have God's approval to sin, God forbid (Romans 3:31). It just means that even the best of Christian is still a dirty sinner. Ray Comfort wrests the Scripture to his own destruction (2nd Peter 3:16-17).

Such apostates are willing to follow a false gospel or a Caspar Milquetoast preacher like Joel Osteen. However, it is not someone's unwillingness to forsake personal sins that prevents that individual from being saved; but rather, it is one's love for sin. John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” Carefully notice verse 21, “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” The Bible doesn't say “he that turns from his sins,” no, it reads: “But he that doeth truth cometh to the light...”

Bible repentance unto life is a matter of changing your mind from unbelief to belief; it is acknowledging THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER and Jesus is the only SAVIOR. Getting saved DOESN'T require sorrow over sins, a desire to do better in the future, to forsake the world, become a Christ follower nor reform one's life of past sinful ways. You may do all these things and yet never be born again and still go to Hell, as did Judas Iscariot who repented of his sins (Matthew 27:3). 'YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN' (John 3:1-7).

In John 5:40 Jesus said, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.” Jesus didn't say, "Ye cannot come." He said, “Ye WILL NOT come.” The Lord will save any needy sinner immediately, irrevocably and eternally who RESTS in the Gospel (Hebrews 4:10-11).

Ray Comfort woefully perverts Matthew 7:22-23, by errantly claiming that “false prophets” are those who claim to be saved, but have not forsaken their petty sins yet. Clearly, Mr. Comfort is teaching a works-based plan of salvation (damnation). The truth is that every child of God still sins continually one way or another. We are sinning even when we fail to pray for others (1st Samuel 12:23). We are all still wretched sinners as God's redeemed saints (Romans 7:24).

Satan is a master liar and deceiver and his unrighteous (unsaved) ministers are turned into ministers of righteousness to deceive the simple (2nd Corinthians 11:13-14). There are many groups who falsely profess to be “Christian” nowadays. They are not born again Christians. It's not because they still have sin in their lives, it is because they're trusting their own self-righteousness to merit them eternal life. What groups am I writing about? Namely: Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christian Scientists, Scientologists, Reformed (Calvinist) Baptists, Lutherans, Lordship Salvationists and innumerable others.

Every proponent of Lordship Salvation claims that eternal is a free gift, provided by God's free grace, and that works are not essential to salvation; yet, they 100% contradict themselves when they mandate a changed life as part of saving faith. Forsaking one's sins is the FRUIT of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:25), and is not a prerequisite to be saved. Behavior modification has absolutely NOTHING to do with receiving God's free gift. So many people get confused and stray away from the truth of the Gospel of free grace, simply because they allow their sinful nature to corrupt the free grace of God, as did Cain in the Old Testament.

Jesus clearly taught that the reason why the group in Matthew 7:21-23 wasn't saved is because they had failed to do GOD'S WILL. John 6:40 tells us that God's will is for us to BELIEVE ON JESUS CHRIST. Ray Comfort would have us to believe that forsaking one's sins is God's will for salvation, but that is NOT what the Bible says at all. 

Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!

Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb!

Redeemed through His infinite mercy,

His child & forever I am! 

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BEWARE of false prophets! Get grounded into the truth of the inspired King James Bible and you won't be led astray by the Devil, as have billions of victims today. John 8:32, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”