Sheep's clothing kind of an attack

“In the Bible we find 24 people who dreamed dreams of sufficient spiritual or prophetic importance to be recorded in the Bible," writes Bible scholar Noah Hutchings. "These 24 people dreamed 34 separate dreams (22 in the Old Testament; 12 in the New Testament).

“Some of these people were godly people and others were ungodly. It is apparent from Scripture that God did reveal great prophetic truths to these people.

"But just as God has spoken to men in dreams, so has the Devil. We read in Ecclesiastes 5:7: ‘For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.’

“We read in Jeremiah 23:27 that the prophets of Israel were misled in dreams to believe that their god was Baal. Zechariah 10:2 also speaks of diviners, spirit mediums, conjuring up false dreams.

"There is indeed a mystical relationship between dreams and the spirit world, and Daniel had the spiritual perception to determine whether a dream was of God or the Devil, and to decipher its meaning.”

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Deuteronomy 13 says, [1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, [2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them.

“When the Antichrist shows up in the tribulation, the ‘false prophet’ is going to be able to make an inanimate object speak; he’s going to give life to the image of the beast," explains Richard Jordan.

“In II Thessalonians 2, Paul talks about the coming of the Antichrist with 'lying wonders,' warning, ‘Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.’

“All of that stuff is coming through there to deceive and seduce Israel into believing a lie. 

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"Hosea 9:7 says, ‘The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.’

“That’s what’s driven them mad. Now what would the hatred be toward? Verse 8 says, ‘The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.’

“There’s a religious hatred aimed toward God’s people, the nation Israel, God’s truth, the Word of God. It says, ‘They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.’

“The prophets are snares; they’re out there trying to catch you. That’s all that stuff about the seductive program—in Mark 13 He talks about how even the elect would be seduced.

"They’re trying to seduce them out of the truth into the Lie program and it’s seducing spirits teaching doctrines of devils that produces the hatred of God’s Word and God’s plan IN God’s house.

“So you had the temple of Jerusalem, the temple of God, turned into the temple of Satan. Revelation 2 calls places associated with it ‘the synagogues of Satan.’ Baal worship never ceased in Israel; that’s the idea about them being deeply corrupted.

“That’s like in Revelation 2:24 when he talks about the depths of Satan: ‘But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.’ ”

“What John is addressing in I John is there’s these counterfeiting wolves in a sheep’s clothing kind of an attack that is part of the Antichrist. 

"I John 2: 18] Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
[19] They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

“If they aren’t spiritually alert and equipped with this doctrinal understanding on how to see through the one who is professing to be like the Most High God . . . 

"Satan is the great counterfeiter. He doesn’t simply come in and deny God’s truth; he counterfeits it and they’re literally going to see in the person of the Antichrist a counterfeit first coming of Christ, a counterfeit death, a counterfeit resurrection and counterfeit Second Advent and kingdom.”