What is the meaning of 2 Timothy 3:9? But they will not advance much further Paul reassures Timothy that counterfeit teachers have an expiration date. • Their schemes are “progressive” only in appearance; the Lord sets a hard limit (2 Timothy 2:16–18). • God “knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish” (Psalm 1:6). • Even when deception seems to flourish, Jesus warns it cannot ultimately deceive the elect (Matthew 24:24). • This promise supplies courage for believers to stand firm rather than panic or compromise. For just like Jannes and Jambres The apostle reaches back to the confrontation in Pharaoh’s court (Exodus 7:11–12). • These magicians counterfeited Moses’ miracles, yet only heightened God’s glory when their rods were swallowed. • Paul has just named them as men “who resisted Moses” and now likens modern deceivers to them (2 Timothy 3:8). • Sorcery, philosophy, or pseudo-spirituality—whatever form opposition takes—it still answers to the same sovereign God who humbled Egypt (Acts 13:8–11). Their folly will be plain to everyone What looks clever today will soon be exposed as foolish. • “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23). • Jesus affirms, “Nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed” (Luke 8:17). • Some sins “are obvious, preceding them to judgment,” while others “follow later” (1 Timothy 5:24–25); either way, exposure is unavoidable. • God’s people need not obsess over unmasking every fraud; the Lord Himself guarantees the unveiling. summary False teachers may surge for a season, but their momentum is short-lived. Like Jannes and Jambres, every counterfeit will eventually stand naked before the truth, and Christ’s church can rest assured that error never wins the final word. |
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