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<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;" data-mce-mark="1">Luke 6:26:Another Negative Prophecy About Paul?</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Jesus in Luke 6:26 says:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Woe to you when <em><strong>everyone speaks well of you</strong></em>, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets. (Luke <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm">6:26</a> NIV)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Barnes' Commentary explains what this means in its context:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">When they shall praise or applaud you. The people of the world will<em><strong> not praise or applaud "my" doctrine</strong></em>; they are "opposed" to it, and therefore, <em><strong>if they speak well of "you" and of "your teachings," it is proof that you do not teach the true doctrine.</strong> </em>(See <a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm">Biblos</a>.)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">So Paul's doctrines come to mind -- virtually everyone speaks well of them. Hence, by what Jesus says, this means Paul teaches false doctrine.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Is Barnes' reading correct? It would be if the word "everyone" is correct. Gill, however, suggests "everyone" is not present, and thus this should be read as only when "bad men" praise you are you thus a false teacher. Gill says the following:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
<p style="color: #001320; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd; margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you!.... The word "<em><strong>all"</strong></em>, is left out in the <em><strong>Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic; Persic: and Ethiopic versions, and is wanting in many copies</strong></em>, though it is in the Alexandrian copy; and the meaning is, it looks ill in persons, when the men of the world, wicked men, all of them, or the greater part of them, applaud and commend them; for this can never be, if they are truly religious persons, and are faithful to their principles, and upright in their practices; and do not connive at, or comply with the errors and evil ways of wicked men; for it is no bad sign, to have the good word of good men, and therefore these must be excepted, and the passage must be limited to bad men;&nbsp;<span style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">for so did their fathers to the false prophets; they spoke well of them, and heaped favours, riches, and honours upon them, that they might prophesy unto them things;&nbsp;</span><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/1_kings/22-6.htm" style="color: #0092f2;">1 Kings 22:6</a><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">, <em><strong>smooth things and deceit</strong></em>. &nbsp;(<a href="http://bible.cc/luke/6-26.htm">Bible.cc</a>)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">I don't think Gill proved his case. Gill is saying in this variant of Luke 6:26 that it reads "men" instead of&nbsp; "all men." Even so, this variant does not change the implication that a sign you are a false teacher is that "everyone" speaks well of you ... meaning the vast majority of men speak well of you. Whether it says "men" or "everyone" does not change that<strong> the sign of evil doctrine is how popular it becomes</strong>. I would even say the more your message is designed to appeal to greater numbers -- such as a costless salvation, eternal security, predestination to evil (not your fault, but the 'sin in me' is to blame) -- is proof that you are a false teacher. And this squarely then becomes another prophetic message about Paul and Paulinism.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Indeed, even Gill agrees that it still implies "men of the world, wicked men, all of them, or the greater part of them." Only if&nbsp;<span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><em>men</em> necessarily means only "wicked men" would Gil's variant have any proof of a narrower meaning than "all men." Gill then goes on to minimize Jesus' words by reading such a limitation into Jesus' words. This step was illogical and unjustified. Gill concludes that Jesus' meaning must be limited to "bad men" because "the good word of good men" supposedly cannot possibly be what Jesus is prohibiting. &nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">But Gill's argument represents a false set of choices. There is a third option: there are also <strong>good smooth sounding words of good men who are deceived by false doctrine</strong>, and are thus false teachers, despite their sincerity, good deeds, and even signs and wonders. The choice is not so stark as between good and bad men. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">In fact, people with signs and wonders who are judged by appearances as 'good' are depicted by Jesus as potentially deceiving the very elect by the same manner as false prophets of old. Those prophets, as we shall prove below, taught a license from the Law given Moses, beginning with Balaam and down to the prophets in Micah's day. Thus, Jesus intends to warn us away from an apparently good religous leader(s) who claim to be prophets (not wicked men) whom we erroneously judge by appearance, and who gives us a popular message that God's Law is annulled. <strong>We are thereby seduced from God's truth into disobedience</strong>. So apparently good people can deceive us good people who as a result are no longer truly good in God's eyes. Jesus is not talking that only notoriously evil people will praise the false prophets.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">When we study below what Jesus meant by referring to the "false prophets" of old to whom Jesus referred, we will realize that Gill and others must realize they need to explain Luke 6:26 in such a way that our minds are not piqued to ask whether Luke 6:26 has its arrow pointed directly at Paul.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">So the true question is whether Luke 6:26 is Jesus talking again about Paul because Jesus refers to the historical examples of the false prophets who "men" spoke well about. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Who Were The False Prophets Of Old That Received the Praise of Men</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Who were prior examples of false prophets? And what group gave praise to them? It turns out that many times religious or community authorities -- whom those who judge by appearances assume are very good people -- were spoken about as promoting false prophets -- they spoke highly of them. Why did they do so? Because these self-proclaimed leaders and 'prophets' either <strong>promised peace, a repentance-free salvation, or a freedom from the Mosaic Law</strong> (Korah's Rebellion). Jamison says Jesus is "<span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">alluding to the court paid to the false prophets of old (Mic 2:11)."&nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">True indeed. So let's look at Micah 2:11 which reads:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span style="color: #001320; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><span id="en-NLT-22583" class="text Mic-2-11" style="position: relative; color: #000000; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">Suppose a prophet full of lies would say to you,</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" /><span class="indent-1" style="color: #000000; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text Mic-2-11" style="position: relative;" data-mce-mark="1">&ldquo;<em><strong>I&rsquo;ll preach to you the joys of wine and alcohol!</strong></em>&rdquo;</span></span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" /><span class="text Mic-2-11" style="position: relative; color: #000000; line-height: normal;" data-mce-mark="1">That&rsquo;s just the kind of prophet you would like! (Micah <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+2%3A11&amp;version=NLT">2:11</a> NLT)</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;Indeed, in Micah it is quite clear what people want to hear -- a righteous free life with no care for any pending evil repaid:</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></span></p>
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<p class="line" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span id="en-NLT-22575" class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">But this is what the&nbsp;<span class="small-caps" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;" data-mce-mark="1">Lord</span>&nbsp;says:</span><br /><span class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">&ldquo;<em><strong>I will reward your evil with evil</strong></em>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative;" data-mce-mark="1">you <em><strong>won&rsquo;t be able to pull your neck out of the noose</strong></em>.</span></span><br /><span class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">You will no longer walk around proudly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative;" data-mce-mark="1">for it will be a terrible time.&rdquo;</span></span></p>
<p class="line" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="indent-1" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span class="text Mic-2-3" style="position: relative;">****</span></span>&nbsp;</span></p>
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<h3 style="font-size: 1.05em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span id="en-NLT-22578" class="text Mic-2-6" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">True and False Prophets</span></h3>
<div class="poetry" style="margin-left: 1em; position: relative; padding-left: 2.6em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">
<p class="line" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">In Micah 2:6, you realize the people disliked another set of prophets who warned that God's punishment would come on them for their behavior, just like Jesus warned you can go to heaven "maimed" (by repentance) or not at all. &nbsp;So this precedes verse 11 above:</span></p>
<p class="line" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
<p class="line" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top; display: block; position: absolute; left: -4.8em;">6&nbsp;</sup>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t say such things,&rdquo;</span><br /><span class="indent-1" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative;" data-mce-mark="1">the people respond.<sup class="footnote" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">[<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+2&amp;version=NLT#fen-NLT-22578b" style="color: #b37162; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup></span></span><br /><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t prophesy like that.</span><br /><span class="indent-1" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="line-height: 0;" data-mce-mark="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="text Mic-2-6" style="position: relative;" data-mce-mark="1">Such disasters will never come our way!&rdquo;</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Thus, Jesus is warning the apostles to <em><strong>be on guard if the religious world / community speaks well of someone</strong>&nbsp;</em>-- then check if their doctrines match similarly those of the earlier false prophets, in which case Woe! &nbsp;We risk damnation if we are preaching the same gospel of the false prophets -- a lawless licentious promise of God's blessings despite our sin.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">So if you are preaching to others that God does not punish their evil, and they are safe from God's wrath if they do so, or no disaster will befall them, you are preaching as the false prophets did before you. The world will always flock and<em><strong> make prophets of those who preach God is only a God of mercy, and has no judgment</strong></em>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1">Therefore, who more than Paul is perceived by nearly everyone -- friend and foe -- to promote this mercy-only God whose "love" is never separated from us&nbsp;<span style="color: #001320; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify; background-color: #fffefd;" data-mce-mark="1"><em>no matter what</em>? Hence, Jesus's "Woe" appears as another remark prefiguring a warning to us of the archetype teacher of a lawless mercy-only teaching. It was this same doctrine which marked the earlier false prophets / apostates of the Bible.</span></span></p>
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