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FACILITATORS—WELLS WITHOUT WATER

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Dean Gotcher


2 Peter 2:1-22

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.  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.  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.

 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and "Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; and delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.

Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.

Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.  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.  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.  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.  2 Peter 2:1-22

Luke 17:29-32

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.  Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.  In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.  Remember Lot's wife.  Luke 17:29-32

It is written (in the Word of God):

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.  (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:6-9)

And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or lo, he is there; believe him not: for false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.  (Mark 13:21-22)


It is written (according to the hearts and minds of fallen man):

"Higher Order Thinking Skills" (dialectic 'reasoning') is essential if man is to make Christ adaptable to all life styles, and all life styles adaptable to Him—"Thee art thou and Thou art thee" (gnostic "oneness.").  The Word of God can only be humanized (contemporized) by being defined according to the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the times—according to the thoughts and actions of contemporary man.  Since hope, faith, and grace are common elements of mankind, human relationship must be built upon them, with hope, faith, and grace being based upon man himself, according to his "natural inclinations" and his "human nature."  Thus, since saints and sinners all have hope, "The hope of the Gospel, Jesus Christ" must be filtered through "The Gospel of Hope," the hope of pleasure, to synthesize the Lord with the world (unity and peace), with man, united as one, participating in the praxis of collectively repenting of and forgiving one another for their social misdeeds ("repression" and "alienation" one another according to their unchanging "doctrines") of the past.  Since the Word of God is hard to understand (for those not walking in the Spirit), intellectuals must therefore "I feel" and "I think" themselves into consensus upon what it means, forming a "new" doctrine of 'changingness' (to keep God and His word up with the 'changing' times) based upon the opinions of men, thereafter defining the Word of God according to them.  Anyone who dares question the doctrine of God and His Word seeking consensus with men's opinions and men's opinions with it must be rejected.  This is the pathway of dialectic 'reasoning,' the pathway of the "new" world order, the pathway which leads to death.


It is written (according to the Word of God):

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.  And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.  Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.  (Matthew 23:8-10)

            Let God be true, but every man a liar. (Romans 3:4)

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