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

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Dan. 11:35• ³⁵And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed. (Dan. 11:35)

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Matt. 24:5‑12• ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.
⁶But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all these things must take place, but it is not yet the end.
⁷For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.
⁸But all these are the beginning of throes.
⁹Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.
¹⁰And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;
¹¹and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;
¹²and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold; (Matt. 24:5‑12)

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2 Peter 2:1• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction; (2 Peter 2:1)

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Rev. 16:14• ¹⁴for they are the spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them together to the war of that great day of God the Almighty. (Rev. 16:14)

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1-5: He foretells that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith.

6-16: And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty, he furnishes him with divers precepts, belonging thereto.

the Spirit.

John 16:13• ¹³But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming. (John 16:13)

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Acts 13:2• ²And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. (Acts 13:2)

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Acts 28:25• ²⁵And being disagreed among themselves they left; Paul having spoken one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Esaias the prophet to our fathers, (Acts 28:25)

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1 Cor. 12:11• ¹¹But all these things operates the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each in particular according as he pleases. (1 Cor. 12:11)

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1 John 2:18• ¹⁸Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comes, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour. (1 John 2:18)

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Rev. 2:7,11,17,29• ⁷He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.
¹¹He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He that overcomes shall in no wise be injured of the second death.
¹⁷He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna; and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that receives it.
²⁹He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. (Rev. 2:7,11,17,29)

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Rev. 3:6,13,22• ⁶He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
¹³He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
²²He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. (Rev. 3:6,13,22)

expressly.

Ezek. 1:3• ³the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him. (Ezek. 1:3)

the latter.

Num. 24:14• ¹⁴And now behold, I go to my people: come, I will admonish thee what this people will do to thy people at the end of days. (Num. 24:14)

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Deut. 4:30• ³⁰In thy tribulation, and when all these things shall come upon thee, at the end of days, thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice, (Deut. 4:30)

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Deut. 32:29• ²⁹Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end! (Deut. 32:29)

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Isa. 2:2• ²And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow unto it. (Isa. 2:2)

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Jer. 48:47• ⁴⁷But I will turn the captivity of Moab at the end of the days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgement of Moab. (Jer. 48:47)

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Jer. 49:39• ³⁹But it shall come to pass at the end of the days, I will turn the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 49:39)

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Ezek. 38:16• ¹⁶And thou shalt come up against my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land--it shall be at the end of days--and I will bring thee against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be hallowed in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. (Ezek. 38:16)

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Dan. 10:14• ¹⁴And I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people at the end of the days: for the vision is yet for many days. (Dan. 10:14)

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Hos. 3:5• ⁵Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall turn with fear toward Jehovah and toward his goodness, at the end of the days. (Hos. 3:5)

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Mic. 4:1• ¹But it shall come to pass in the end of days that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow unto it. (Mic. 4:1)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑9• ¹But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;
²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
⁷always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁸Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
⁹But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became. (2 Tim. 3:1‑9)

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1 Peter 1:20• ²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, (1 Peter 1:20)

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2 Peter 3:3• ³knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3)

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Jude 4,18• ⁴For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁸that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses. (Jude 4,18)

depart.

Dan. 11:35• ³⁵And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed. (Dan. 11:35)

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Matt. 24:5‑12• ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.
⁶But ye will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that ye be not disturbed; for all these things must take place, but it is not yet the end.
⁷For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.
⁸But all these are the beginning of throes.
⁹Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.
¹⁰And then will many be offended, and will deliver one another up, and hate one another;
¹¹and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;
¹²and because lawlessness shall prevail, the love of the most shall grow cold; (Matt. 24:5‑12)

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2 Thess. 2:3• ³Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition; (2 Thess. 2:3)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑5• ¹But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;
²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,
⁴traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
⁵having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:1‑5)

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2 Tim. 4:4• ⁴and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables. (2 Tim. 4:4)

seducing.

Gen. 3:3‑5,13• ³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
⁴And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;
⁵but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
¹³And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. (Gen. 3:3‑5,13)

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1 Kings 22:22‑23• ²²And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and also succeed: go forth, and do so.
²³And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah has spoken evil concerning thee. (1 Kings 22:22‑23)

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2 Chron. 18:19‑22• ¹⁹and Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
²⁰And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith?
²¹And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and also succeed: go forth, and do so.
²²And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets; and Jehovah has spoken evil concerning thee. (2 Chron. 18:19‑22)

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2 Cor. 11:3,13‑15• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
¹⁴And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
¹⁵It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:3,13‑15)

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2 Thess. 2:9‑12• ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,
¹²that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:9‑12)

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2 Tim. 3:13• ¹³But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray. (2 Tim. 3:13)

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2 Peter 2:1• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction; (2 Peter 2:1)

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Rev. 9:2‑11• ²And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.
³And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power;
⁴and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads:
⁵and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
⁶And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.
⁷And the likenesses of the locusts were like to horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men;
⁸and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,
⁹and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war;
¹⁰and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power was in their tails to hurt men five months.
¹¹They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in Greek he has for name Apollyon. (Rev. 9:2‑11)

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

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Rev. 16:14• ¹⁴for they are the spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them together to the war of that great day of God the Almighty. (Rev. 16:14)

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Rev. 18:2,23• ²And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird;
²³and light of lamp shall shine no more at all in thee, and voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery have all the nations been deceived. (Rev. 18:2,23)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; (Rev. 19:20)

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Rev. 20:2‑3,8,10• ²And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
³and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should not any more deceive the nations until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be loosed for a little time.
⁸and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
¹⁰And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are both the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages. (Rev. 20:2‑3,8,10)

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Dan. 11:35‑38• ³⁵And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed.
³⁶And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every *god, and speak monstrous things against the *God of *gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished: for that which is determined shall be done.
³⁷And he will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women; nor regard any +god: for he will magnify himself above all.
³⁸And in his place will he honour the +god of fortresses; and a +god whom his fathers knew not will he honour with gold and silver, and with precious stones and pleasant things. (Dan. 11:35‑38)

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1 Cor. 8:5‑6• ⁵For and if indeed there are those called gods, whether in heaven or on earth,
⁶yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom all things, and *we* for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and *we* by him. (1 Cor. 8:5‑6)

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1 Cor. 10:20• ²⁰But that what the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. Now I do not wish you to be in communion with demons. (1 Cor. 10:20)

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:18)

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Acts 17:18• ¹⁸But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection to them. (Acts 17:18)

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Rev. 9:20• ²⁰And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. (Rev. 9:20)

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Rev. 9• (Rev. 9)

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• According to Christianity, the eternal God had not only created the world but had revealed Himself in Christ. These apostates, bringing in doctrines of demons, would seek to deny that it was this one and only God of nature who had manifested Himself in grace. (“1 Timothy 4” by J.N. Darby)

• While the Assembly of God is still on earth, there will arise those who once made a profession of Christianity but who give up the great cardinal truths of the Christian faith concerning the Person of Christ. (“Warnings Against Religious Flesh and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons

W. Kelly Translation

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But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,