Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.
“Then a spirit came forward, stood in the Lord’s presence, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
“The Lord asked him, ‘How?’ “He said, ‘I will go and become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ “Then he said, ‘You will certainly entice him and prevail. Go and do that.’
“You see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced disaster against you.”
This is what the Lord says: Don’t deceive yourselves by saying, “The Chaldeans will leave us for good,” for they will not leave.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Judah for three crimes, even four, because they have rejected the instruction of the Lord and have not kept his statutes. The lies that their ancestors followed have led them astray.
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
They saw false visions and their divinations were a lie. They claimed, “This is the Lord’s declaration,” when the Lord did not send them, yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
“‘Since they have led my people astray by saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and since when a flimsy wall is being built, they plaster it with whitewash,
Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.
Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, since it is written, He catches the wise in their craftiness;
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with every kind of miracle, both signs and wonders serving the lie,
and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.
For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie,
But as for you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing good.
But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.