False teaching In the Last Days

  

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 11:15 The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, And strike it in the seven streams, And make men cross over dry-shod

Isaiah continues his description of “in that day,” (The Messianic age) and this isn’t good news for the “tongue of the sea of Egypt,” or “the River,” and its “seven streams.”

 

What can we make of this?

 

Better theologians have wrestled with these pictures than yours truly! But I will share my take and hope it will be helpful. First of all the “tongue of the sea of Egypt.”   

 

If you look at a map of the Exodus, you can see that the geography around the Red Sea looks like a tongue, and personally, I don’t think the use of that description is an accident. Egypt is referred to in several places as a personification of sin and certainly a place of demonic influence. And the “tongue” of Egypt is meant to call our attention to the lies and false teaching that is related to the devil and his demons whose mantra has always been, “Did God really say?”

 

Isa 19:3a speaks to this false teaching aspect of Egypt, where the Lord tells Isaiah “The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I will destroy their counsel,

 

This false teaching will be overwhelming in the Last Days of the Messianic period. 1Ti 4:1 tells us: “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,”

 

But even as false teaching will increase, the end is in sight for the devil and his henchmen:

 

Re 20:10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

 

Let this passage in Isaiah serve as a warning to beware of false teaching. It will intensify in the last days. The good news is the source of all false teaching, (the devil) will be utterly destroyed, and in the meantime, with the help of the Holy Spirit ,let us  remain steadfast in the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Let our mantra be: YES, GOD REALLY DID SAY!”

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.