Jesus is addressing the doctrine that is associated with the deep of Satan, specific teaching which captured the heart, minds, and soul of many believers. This teaching stands in stark contrast to the good teaching which resulted in deeds of “agape love, and faith and service and perseverance,” all of which were growing in that community of believers.
What Satan wants is what he has always wanted, that which belongs to the Son—both His throne and His people.
The spirit of antichrist is found operating deep within the leadership of our churches, and far too many have taken the bite. They speak with prophetic authority, as Judesays, authority which came from their dreams and visions. And they use this authority, inspired by the deep of Satan, to seduce and capture people unto themselves with all manner of instinctual religious wisdom—licentiousness really, lawlessness.
“For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” “But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, ‘In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.’ These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.”
