Buyer Beware!
November 3rd, 2008 by Patricia Bishop
Scripture reference following
Sound advice has been issued, counsel specified, a particular warning given to us individually.
A caution and admonition to be careful look out and watch has been given out to those who will hear, think twice and take heed.
What are we suppose to be carefully watching and looking out for?
The viewpoints, ideas, values, beliefs, trickery, dishonesty, deception, hopeless, worthless pretense of men that will blemish, ruin and destroy you.
Who are these people and how do they accomplish this?
They are talented, skillful, gifted, proficient men and women who through their institution of custom, ritual, practice, habit and beliefs deceive you by human tradition which agrees with and is in unity with the fundamental spirits of the world but does not accord with Christ the Messiah.
Why is this important to me?
It is exclusively your own personal task and responsibility to guard and protect your greatest prized possession, which is your very own God given soul. Therefore you must BEWARE!
There are many voices in the world all claiming to be right. The time has come and now is that you must take responsibility for your own eternal destination. I suggest turning off your television sets, put away your books, turn off the radio, put down the various forms of published news and take charge of your own souls eternal destination. Read Gods Word for yourself! Study to show yourself approved unto God! A workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth
Stop believing everything you see and hear. Great delusion is moving upon our land deceiving many. Gross darkness is enveloping those who through lack of knowledge or worse willingly embrace the spirit that now works in the world. Instead we must embrace The Word of God, the only Truth and hope we have.
What are the recognizable characteristics of this spirit?
Here are just a few:
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Greed
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Unnatural affections
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Self Centeredness
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Lust
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Materialistic
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Disobedience to God’s Word
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Antichrist.
Do you realize that Satan is the prince of the power of the air? This isn’t the stuff we breathe but rather consider the airwaves, the media. Satan blows the winds of deceit against Gods beloved creation, making suggestions, planting thoughts, hoping to control and dominate you, your thoughts, actions and behaviors. He holds captive those who lack knowledge of God and His Word, causing them to act in desperation upon the information that he feeds them, forcing unwise decisions to be made and receiving the reward of destruction.
How does he accomplish this?
This tool of Satan is implemented by and through the opinions and viewpoints of prestigious men and women who gain your trust through various sources of the world and not the Word of God. Hollywood has power over many, news anchors and reports, entertainment of all forms, comedians, newspapers, magazines, books, singers, musicians, political leaders, presidential candidates, economic experts, religious leaders, a vast assortment of religious doctrines/denominations, talk show hosts, pastors, teachers, televangelists, false prophets, various bible translations, a variety of religious tracts, booklets, pamphlets and this list keeps growing.
Why am I saying all of this? What point am I trying to make?
In short, get your heart ready; take all things to God in prayer. Receive no ones word for or about anything, study/learn for yourself. Become informed and know what God has said concerning everything. Satan knows what is written in God’s Word. He is determined to hinder the great harvest he knows is coming. Christians have been overwhelmed by the darkness now covering the earth, all set in motion by the fury of Satan’s activity.
Fear not. Make your calling and election sure. Take God at His Word and forget the opinions of others, do this for you. Your redemption draws nigh. I love you and don’t want you to be deceived.
Following are scripture references. I know it makes for a lot of reading but if I don’t write them out unfortunately there are those who will not take the time to look them up for themselves.
As I continue my journey with Him,
Patty Bishop
Scripture reference
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:13-22
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by (grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:2-10
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 2Peter 1:3-12
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Luke 12:15



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