“It got me thinking about when evil is hidden by outward beauty, or kindness in good deeds, or even just lots of smiles (i.e. Joel Osteen), how few people discern. I hear so often that so-and-so cannot possibly be a false teacher because she is so kind…nice…joyful.”
(Elizabeth Prata – The End Time) On old TV show The Twilight Zone one of the most famous episodes was The Masks (1964). In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, a dying millionaire father calls his brutish, oafish, vain, greedy family to his side one last time before he dies. They arrive by train from Boston, giddy at the notion of inheriting millions but not caring their dad was dying. Dressed to the nines and looking lovely, the family gathers to the father’s side.
He said that he has a special evening prepared. He said that a tradition during Mardi Gras is to wear a mask as many people did during that celebration holiday. The dying dad had special masks made ‘by an old Cajun’ for each of his children and spouses, and instructs the brutish, oafish, greedy, and vain family members to put them on. They decline at first, but he insightfully says that the only reason they traveled all this way to see him is not because they cared about him but they wanted the inheritance. If they do not wear them, or if they take them off before midnight, they get nothing except train fare back to Boston. So they do it.
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18.