Bread From On High – Daily Scriptures

Apostasy- Falling Away From Truth

I Timothy 4:1-5

NOW the Spirit (Holy Spirit) speaks expressly (pointedly), that in the latter times (the times in which we now live, the last of the last days, which begin the fulfillment of Endtime Prophecies) some shall depart from the Faith (anytime Paul uses the term “the Faith,” in short he is referring to the Cross; so, we are told here that some will depart from the Cross as the means of Salvation and Victory), giving heed to seducing spirits (evil spirits, i.e., “religious spirits,” making something seem like what it isn’t), and doctrines of devils (should have been translated, “Doctrines of Demons”; the “seducing spirits” entice Believers away from the true Faith, causing them to believe “Doctrines inspired by Demon spirits”);

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy (concerns the teachers of these “Doctrines of Demons,” which pertain to anything that leads one away from the Cross); having their conscience seared with a hot iron (refers to the fact that these deceivers are not acting under delusion, but deliberately and against conscience);

3 Forbidding to marry (is an attack against the home, even against God’s original Command that a husband and wife is His Plan for society [Gen. 2:23–24]), and commanding to abstain from meats (claiming the keeping of certain man-made Laws brings about Holiness), which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the Truth. (The reason for the error—these have rejected Truth, i.e., “the Cross.”)

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused (that is if it’s used for the right purpose), if it be received with thanksgiving (proclaims the fact that every kind of food and drink may become hateful in the eyes of the all-pure God if misused, or if partaken of without any sense of gratitude to the Divine Giver):

5 For it is Sanctified (made clean) by the Word of God (realizing our Sanctification and Holiness come by our Faith in Christ and the Cross, and not by the keeping of particular rules and regulations) and prayer (a prayer of thanksgiving).

~JSM Expositors Bible