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Matthew 24:23-26
Then if anyone says to you,‘ Look, here is the Christ!’ or‘ There he is!’ do not believe him.For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.Remember, I have told you ahead of time.So then, if someone says to you,‘ Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or‘ Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe him.
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2 Timothy 3 6-2 Timothy 3 7
For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,as it is written,“ God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”And David says,“ Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
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Romans 9:31-33
but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but( as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,just as it is written,“ Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
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Proverbs 14:6
The scorner seeks wisdom but finds none, but understanding is easy for a discerning person.
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Matthew 12:30
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
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Matthew 11:25-27
At that time Jesus said,“ I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
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Daniel 12:4
“ But you, Daniel, close up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will dash about, and knowledge will increase.”
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Ezekiel 20:31
When you present your sacrifices– when you make your sons pass through the fire– you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!
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Ezekiel 20:3
“ Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them:‘ This is what the sovereign LORD says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the sovereign LORD.’
