The apostle John records in his gospel Chapter 5 verse 41 that Jesus tells his disciples, “I do not receive honor from men”. Jesus also says the world hates me because I tell it of its wickedness. Evil men do not honor Jesus because he tells them their true condition. Jesus says fallen adamah/man are clothed in filthy rags and they are dead in their rebellion.
Jesus tells the Pharisees he does not receive honor from men “but I know you that you do not have the love of GOD in you. I have come in my Father’s name and you did not receive me. If another comes in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe what is true when you receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from only GOD”?
Here is the foundation for all the confusion that comes from those who call themselves “Christian”. The Pharisees were the ruling class of spiritual leaders when Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth. As Jesus was talking to the Pharisees he was “preaching to the choir”. He was telling the men recognized by everyone in the days of the second temple as being the most holy among them that their holiness was nothing. Their holiness was filthy rags because their holiness was all for show. Everything they did was to get the praise and honor and glory from men. That fault blinded them to the LIFE of CREATOR GOD and deafened them to truth.
Jesus explained to the disciples that the Pharisees would reject him as the son of GOD because he came in the name of GOD, doing only what he hears the Father tell him to do and saying only what CREATOR GOD his Father tells him to say. Jesus knew that when antichrist was revealed on earth sons and daughters will embrace the antichrist and fall into his deception and die. It is happening in our day today all around us. Confusion and deception has grown to paramount levels and people die mentally spiritually physically and emotionally as they turn from the one true CREATOR GOD and is only son begotten of womankind to worship antichrist.
The multitudes of man have itchy ears to follow the teacher that preached and teaches what we want to hear, what makes them feel good. Humankind today makes their truth narrow enough anyone can live the life of sin they choose. By their own declarations and fabricated truths in their own image humankind cand and does profess to live the sin they choose and still get the reward they envision for themselves in the end. Sons and daughters stack the deck in their favor so at the end of this life no matter how much they cheat lie, steal, fornicate, murder or which false god they worship they still win the prize and go to their eternal reward. This path and those who choose to justify their lives of sin lead to the second death and final destruction.
Satan, the serpent, promises to give those who will serve him “the most valuable object in the world”. Whatever you hold dear as highest object in the world is what Satan promises you will have if you only bow down to him and serve him. In the case of Eve in the garden, all she had to do was eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the Garden to be like god knowing good and evil. The act of eating the fruit in defiance of CREATOR GOD was the only act of worship Satan required from Even to cause the fall of man. The choice was made.