The lure of the cults

 People are seduced and lured into cults due to their co-dependency and need of feeling "wanted" and need to feel like they "belong".  This is how cults and cult leaders gain a following.  The seduction of mormonism is because of their belief in family and togetherness - a lure to those who have grown up in dysfunctional families or have been rejected by those they loved.


Many cults gain a following because of the seduction of the followers by the cult leader.  Often times this seduction is sexual with a strong male cult leader seducing female followers and often times the seduction is for a "cause" or a belief system.  This is how hitler gained a following - first because of nationalism and a 'strong Germany' to "Make Germany Great Again" and to "strengthen the economy" after world war one. https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671


Sexual seduction and the moral causes - communism - and the desire to find a place safe from a nuclear war (which he told the members of his people's temple cult would happen on july 15, 1967) is how Jim Jones gained a following that led to  mass murder - suicide of 918 of its members  in Guyana in 1978.

Numerous times in the Old Testament, Ancient Israel followed after ba-al and listened to the false prophet "cult leaders" that tickled their ears with smooth lies and things that made them "feel good".  It is the same today with people flocking to cults and following after false teachers that make them "feel good" about their selves.

The same lure of false teachers and the music they use to seduce followers is what leads people to follow the deceptive and satanic teachings of Hillsong, Bethel-Redding, ihop / nar, the word faith movement, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, etc.  They are told by these wolves that they "deserve a better life" and "God wants them rich", etc. than to obey what Yahweh says in Scripture.  These people, like Ancient Israel, love the seducing smooth sounding words of the false prophets and refuse to listen to what Yahweh clearly says in His Word.  Like Ancient Israel, these self-deluded people refuse to believe their false teachers are the wolves that Messiah Yeshua and the apostle Paul both warned about.  They think their false prophets are Yahweh's prophets because that is what that wolf pretends to be.

Isaiah 30
9  That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10  Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

2 Timothy 4
3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4  And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5  But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Matthew 7:15  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 24:11  And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Acts 20
28  Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 
30  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31  Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

2 Corinthians 11
13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

In the end times, Scripture said people would be narcissists and narcissists and this leads to the narcissist  - codependent cycle where people want to be accepted (co-dependent) and they feed the narcissist with flattery and praise (narcissistic supply) to gain acceptance.  This is a VERY toxic situation and most people, unfortunately, are players in this dynamic the closer we near to Messiah Yeshua's return.  These people will keep studying and learning but never understand the truth - they are self deluded and love the lies they accept.

2 Timothy 3
1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

This seduction and lure of false prophets is why Yeshua says we are to be willing to leave those who do not obey Him and we are to take up our cross and follow Him no matter the cost.

Matthew10
34  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

If you realize you are in a narcissist - codependent relationship or fellowship, you need to repent of whichever role you were in and turn to Messiah Yeshua and follow HIM and HIM ALONE.  Your "friends" and family are not worth spending eternity in hell because you chose them over obeying Yahweh and following Yeshua.  MANY who claim to be His followers will be rejected by Yeshua because they REFUSED to obey - either because they were deceived by a wolf they CHOSE to follow that said they did not have to obey or because they CHOSE their friends and family over Yeshua.

1 John 3:4  Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Matthew 7
21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. ^G458

 Strong's number G458 iniquity (transliterated as anomia)   :
anomia
1) the condition of without law
     a) because ignorant of it
     b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness 

Nobody knows how much time they have left.  The rapture is very close and, even so, you may be taken from this earth before then.  The time to repent is now because you do not know what the next few seconds hold.  You definitely do not want to believe you are a Christian and have Yeshua tell you "Get out of my site you evildoer" because you CHOSE to follow a false teacher and did what they said instead of follow Messiah Yeshua and Obey what the Father, Yahweh, said to do.