Category: deception-delusion-discernment
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False, Deceptive, Misleading
Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading. Lamentations 2:14 kit: Fall Days bundle by et Designs
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Justice is Perverted
The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. Habakkuk 1:4b (NIV) kist: Oct24 and Nov24 challenge minis by Connie Prince; chalkboard from Creative Fabrica; ornaments from font: Troemys Ornaments
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Consciences are Seared
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and…
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Plotted Evil
From you came one who plotted evil against the LORD, a worthless counselor. Nahum 1:11 kit: Nature’s Wonder by Gingerscraps designers
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Many Antichrists
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 paper: Sept. 2025 Digitalscrapbook.com blog train by MaryC Designs; clusters by Connie Prince and Palvinka
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Take His Office
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. Acts 1:15-16 “For it is written…
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Bad to Worse
While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3:13 kit: August 2025 MyMemories blog train mini-kits
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Fierce Wolves
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own…
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Flattering and Great Boasts
Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?” Psalm 12:2-4 kit: Homecoming collab by Gingerscraps…
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Like Unreasoning Animals
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. Jude 1:10-11 mini-kits from Oct.…
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God’s Just Sentence
Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Romans 1:32 kit: Spring Woodlands by True Heart Digitals; template: August 2024 challenge freebie by CarolW Designs (extensively modified) NOTE: This does not call for violence. The…
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Ungodly Desires
But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. Jude 1:17-19 kit: May 2023 challenge mini by Memory Mosaic, leaves:…
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Bible Study on Homosexuality
I was asked to gather verses from the Bible that speak against homosexuality. While I was at it, I decided to make it into a short Bible study on the subject. We know that God absolutely forbade homosexuality in the Old Testament (Leviticus 18:22 and others), but many people try to say that “nothing was…
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Deception$
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:10 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot…
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Disguise Themselves
deceive [dih-seev] (verb): 1. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude 2. to mislead or falsely persuade others; practice deceit For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his…
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Seeking to Destroy Him
And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words. Luke 19:47-48 quickpage: Better Days by Connie Prince related: “Hear another…
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Love of Money
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that…
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Destructive Heresies
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in…
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Hold Fast (or “The Opposite of the Free Grace Movement”)
Perhaps (like me up until recently) you haven’t realized there was such a thing as the “free grace” movement. Immediately you have to wonder about the concept, since we already know that grace IS free or it isn’t grace, right? So what’s the point? Well, their point is that they don’t feel that there can…
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Waging War
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Romans 7:22-23 mini-kit: The Holly & The Ivy by Jen Maddocks, bird overlay:…
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No Benefit
“I am against those who prophesy false dreams”—the Lord’s declaration—“telling them and leading My people astray with their falsehoods and their boasting. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people”—this is the Lord’s declaration. Jeremiah 23:32 page border by Cutie Pie Scraps, background…
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The Sign
“I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is…
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To Be Tempted
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” Matthew 4:1-3 kit: Second…
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Secretly
Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” Matthew 2:7-8 papers: Evergreen by Sekada, cluster…