The false messiahs, false prophets and contemporary pharisees

Monday, 06 April 2009 11:42

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Two thousand years ago, INRI CRISTO warned about the appearance of false christs and false prophets, who came and multiplied themselves, carrying with them crowds of followers, the contemporary pharisees. It’s interesting to observe that they take shelter right on the first false prophet of the Christian age, Paul.

Paul himself confessed his condition in I Corinthians c.15 v.9: “For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of GOD”. He also declared his condition of liar in Romans c.3 v.7: “But if through my falsehood GOD’s truthfulness abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?” Paul ministered a gospel parallel to the one left by Christ and at the same time, paradoxically, he declares accursed any Gospel besides the one Christ left (Galatians c.1 v.7). Behold why INRI CRISTO said two thousand years ago:

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits… Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my FATHER in heaven. On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?’ Then I will declare to them, I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers” (Matthew c.7 v.15-23).

“Every plant that my heavenly FATHER has not planted will be uprooted. Let the pharisees; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew c.15 v.13-14).

“But woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them” (Matthew c.23 v.13)

“Woe to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like the whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness” (Mathew c.23 v.27-28).

However, Paul was a useful instrument of the Divine Providence, for besides being the first false prophet and, therefore, the example for the others, he inserted the seed of tares on Earth, thus making easier INRI CRISTO’s mission of separating the tares from wheat, in other words, discern between the pharisees and the elect, heirs of the Kingdom of heaven.