Greedy dogs

II Peter 2 begins, [1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
[2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
[3] And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

“He’s so familiar with it and it’s so closely associated with what he thinks is in the Bible that he won’t hear anything; that’s why they’re false teachers,” explains Richard Jordan. “These guys, in Israel’s situation, are going to be professing Israel, but they’re apostate Israel and the truth of God is going to be evil spoken of.

“That word feign, false, is an artificial kind of word that is molded. We use the word plastic. The word plastic comes from a Greek word that means to press into a mold. These people’s words are that way. They find out what you want to hear, what you want said, what will sell.

“We see it in political realms today. You go out and ask, ‘What do you want to say?’ and I’ll mold it to what you want so that I can get the position, the power, and I’ll just go do whatever I want to do.

“Through covetousness. They’re greedy for power, for control, so they take words that are designed to fit the situation.

“Verse 18 says for when they speak great swelling words of vanity. [18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
[19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

“That’s a chilling verse. Great words—oh they sound good. Wonderful oratory. But they’re words of vanity. We’ve got a great word—we say airheads. That’s really what it is. Paul talks about the vanity of your mind. If you have something that has absolutely nothing in it you have a vacuum. You open it up and it sucks stuff in. There’s these great swelling words that are just sucking in all of these false ideas. They allure through the lust of the flesh.

“It’s like I Timothy 4 says: [1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
[2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

“The path of faith is wearying to the flesh. You see, your flesh loves the performing. Makes it feel good; it satisfies. It hangs constantly to being able to do something.

“Revelation 18, you’ll see how it fits in II Peter: [11] And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
[12] The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
[13] And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

“Revelation 17 and 18 is that religious system that rules over the earth is the religious system that’s heads up in the Antichrist and false prophet.

“You look at verse 12 and the first thing in the list was gold. The last thing was souls. They’re selling the souls of men just like a merchandiser would sell his wares. This is the consistent pattern of false teachers.

Isaiah 56: [6] Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
[7] Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
[8] The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
[9] All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

[10] His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
[11] Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

“Somebody said that’s the real DD degree. You ever see a preacher with a DD after his name? That means dumb dog.

“Micah, looking toward the tribulation period, he’s looking on that fifth course of judgment on the nation Israel, Micah 3: [8] But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
[9] Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
[10] They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
[11] The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
[12] Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

“I tell you something about money. Listen, folks, one of the clearest ways you know what’s valuable to you is where you spend your money. Religious hucksters all they’re interested in is the money and they’re just as alive and well in the dispensation of grace as they will be in the tribulation.

“I Peter 4: [17] For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
[18] And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
[19] Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

“There’s a passage just like this in Hebrews 10: [26] For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
[27] But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
[28] He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
[29] Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?