“Obviously, but they are not believers!”
“They are workers of iniquity. That simply means that they violate his Torah.”
The point is, [they] THINK THEY ARE -believers. They fully expect to enter the kingdom of heaven.
“workers of iniquity” has a deeper meaning that what you’re giving it. These people did not have their sins washed away by His blood. Therefore, all of the sins they committed through their whole life now come to bare on their heads.
Paul describes these people as:
“2 Tim 3:
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.”
In their eyes they don’t see themselves as evil. It’s because they refuse to accept the truth. And they go around spreading their false doctrine and their false gospel.
I mean, in Christianity today, half believe in infant baptism the other half don’t. That right there should be a big red flag ... half of you are teaching false doctrine and always have been from the start. So the gospel you’re teaching is false.
But people don’t care. They wax worse and worse and have deceived everyone around them that baptism doesn’t matter today.
This is why Christ said:
23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
They will believe they are going to heaven right up to the point Christ closes the door in their face. That’s what He’s literally going to do.
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>> “They will believe they are going to heaven right up to the point Christ closes the door in their face” <<
Absolutely!
But when we try to wake them up, they call us “legalists,” “Judaizers,” or any other thing they can think of to soothe their impugned “faith.”
Yeshua said that we should just “shake the dust from” our sandals at their door. I’m not so inclined.
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