BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
“WHO WERE JANNES AND
JAMBRES?”
QUESTION: Were Jannes and Jambres Pharaoh’s magicians (2Tim 3:8))?
EXPLANATION:
The Bible says “v1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come.
v8 Now as JANNES AND JAMBRES withstood
Moses, so do these
also resist the truth: men of corrupt
minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
v9 But they shall proceed no further: for their
folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. v10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of
life,
purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience (2Tim 3:1, 8-10)
1. It’s Paul’s 2nd time in prison ready for
his beheading around
68AD
2. Last days warning for Timothy and the church to lookout for people in the church like Jannes and Jambres that stood against Moses. These
were NOT magicians in the courts of Pharaoh.
3. These
were men reprobate concerning the faith, resisting the truth and not
having
the doctrine of Paul.
1. Q: Why would Paul use the examples of pagan Egyptian
magicians to describe
people coming into the church? A: He wouldn’t and didn’t.
2. Was Paul’s big warning to Timothy “Watch out for the
types like ‘Madame
Blavatsky’ and ‘Alister Crowley’!” with Blavatsky and Crowley
pretending to be Christians,
lovers of God and the truth? Of course not!
3. Was Paul saying “O Timothy, watch out for that evil
Black Sabbath
music or heavy metal bands?” No, he was saying watch out for men
who look
like the real deal, sound like the real deal, but aren’t the real deal.
These
two men, Jannes and Jambres, were examples of a Fifth Column,
white-anting the
church from within the ranks.
Paul uses the example of Jannes and Jambres being two men
who were ‘closer
to home’ than the obvious evil baddies of the world or the magicians in
Pharoah’s
court.
The word “WITHSTOOD” means to greatly
oppose with firm
determination
1. Paul withstood Peter (Gal 2:11)
2. Alexander posed as man of the faith and greatly withstood Paul’s words and opposed him and vice versa (2Tim
4:14-15)
3. Azariah the priest withstood Uzziah the king (2Chron 26:17-18)
4. Pharaoh’s magicians “…could not
stand before Moses…” (Ex 9:11) but they opposed him.
1. Jannes and Jambres were men of Israel
2. Paul’s last letter
to Timothy was to warn him about openly defiant men in the church
that will
not be followers of Paul and will not have “… my
doctrine, manner of
life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience.”
(2Tim 3:10).
3. As Paul clearly
states in his letter to the Galatians, they are men who “SEEM TO
SOMEWHAT!”
They were puffed up
with self-importance! “But of these who seemed to be somewhat,
(whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no
man's
person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added
nothing
to me:” (Gal 2:6)
4. Furthermore, Paul was exposing their heretical
doctrines (1Cor 11:19;
2Pet 2:1) as “...their folly
shall be manifest unto all men…”. They were fools.
BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE BIBLE KNOWLEDGE!
“BEFORE THE COCK CROWS …. ONCE OR
TWICE?”
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