A false pastor will start out by qouting what Jesus said
but then give a hundred and one reasons why it is not to
be taken literal, in other words never mind what the Bible
says because it don’t say that.
I will tell you what it says.
Many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and decieve many.
Beware of these false preachers and read the Bible.
But how do I know that I am not doing the same thing? What guarantee do I have that I have that true humility to seek only the uncomfortable truth of God and not of myself?
In the USA there are more than 30,000 independent protestant groups, all with the same Bible, same Jesus, same God, but often interpreting certain very fundamental passages of the Bible in very different ways! Did not Christ know this and did He not give us a solution for this problem. But if there is not the humility to embrace the one true Church that Christ founded, we freely choose to follow the very dangerous path of our own (or of others) subjectivism and relativism, for all eternity!
If one has true humility, ready to lose everything before God, this person will not be delude and God will guide this docile person. But if a person is secretly attached to something else that is not God, including himself or his own glory, then he has freely chosen his delusion.
Referring precisely for our times of the great apostasy we read:
“God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” (2Thess 2:11-12).
“I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?” He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.” (Dan 12:8-10).
But of course, the first target of Satan is the One true Church, infiltrated, and attacked in every way possible especially in these last times. As I quoted to another person in this post, just as Christ was crucified and buried 2000 years ago, so too the Body of Christ will be crucified and buried in this period (CCC 675-677). Only after this will there emerge a purified Church, more beautiful than every before.