Can One of God's Elect Be Deceived?
1) Direct Answer
No. The very elect cannot be deceived from the Word. God keeps His own.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Matthew 24:24: “False Christs and false prophets… shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” That “if it were possible” shows it isn’t possible.
- John 10:4-5, 27-28: “My sheep hear my voice… a stranger will they not follow… I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
- 1 John 2:20, 27: “You have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things… the anointing… is truth, and is no lie.” The Spirit in them guards them from error.
- Romans 11:7: “The election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.” The elect obtain the truth; the rest are the ones blinded.
- Ephesians 1:13; 4:30: They are “sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise… unto the day of redemption.”
- 1 Peter 1:5: They are “kept by the power of God.”
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If the elect could be deceived, then Christ’s promise would fail and the sealing of the Holy Spirit would not hold. But the Bible says they are kept.
- The elect may be tested, momentarily puzzled, or pulled at by error, but the Seed in them won’t swallow a lie. The Shepherd’s Voice draws them back to the Word.
- Many are called, but few are chosen; deception catches the called-but-not-chosen. The chosen stand with the revealed Word.
- The Bride—seen overcoming and faithful—cannot be deceived from her Husband-Word.
Short Reinforcement
You see, it’s not that deception won’t be strong; it’s that God’s keeping is stronger. The elect hear the Voice of the Word and will not follow a stranger.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-129
But to go on. These elect were not only the eternal thoughts of God which were to be expressed in flesh in their due season, but these same elect are called by another name. Romans 4:16. "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all." Romans 9:7-13, "Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, in Isaac shall...
Church Ages, part 9: The ten virgins, and the 144,000
60-1211M §87
But you see, so close, said Matthew 24 ... Matthew 24:24, read it right away, and you'll see. Jesus said that in this last days the two spirits would be so close together till it would deceive the very elected if it was possible. It'll be so close, it'll swing them Pentecostals like nobody's business. Sure. Now, Matthew 24:24. Does anybody have it? I didn't get it right there. You got it there, sister, or some of you? Matthew 24. Got it, Ben? All right, read it. For there shall arise false Christians, false Christs...
What shall I do with Jesus called Christ?
63-1124M §93
Notice, a daughter is a product of a mother and father by union. Now here's something shocking. But death (physical), physical death is the uniting of mother Eve and Satan together by disbelieving God's Word. They united and brought in the product of death. She ... the ... Death is a product of uniting Satan and Eve together. Eve had the Word. Satan's against the Word. And Look! Almost ninety-nine and ninety-nine hundredths of it, Satan admitted was right. So close, the Bible said, "In the last days would deceive t...
Hearing, recognizing, acting on the Word of God
60-0221 §59
See how it is? They do it. They're predestinated. They might impersonate, and be just as sweet and humble, just as close, like Christians, so close that it would deceive the very elect; but by their fruits you shall know them. A woman with shorts on never looked like a Christian to me. The Bible said it's a sinful and a shameful thing for a woman to cut her hair. Only one woman in the Bible ever painted her face---was Jezebel. How about men, you men that's supposed to be Christian men, and let your wives do that? w...
The Spoken Word is the original seed
62-0318 §369
Remember Moses, born for the work, had to wait on God for the extra gift for the job. (He had to go back and wait.) And for the time appointed by God a certain Pharaoh had to be on the throne. And the people had to be wanting the bread of life before God would send him back. Now, with thousands of sign-workers in this last day has created a generation of sign-seekers, that knows no more ... nothing about the true move of God in His Word in these last days. As I have said, "Give them blood and oil and fleshly demons...