Wolves, tares, and hellfire

Beware of those who pretend to be followers of Messiah who have left the truth in order to pursue their ungodly desires of the flesh.  These false teachers still claim to be followers of Yeshua and many may be self-deceived into believing they are while others know they are not but want to gain financially from Yeshua's followers just as the prophet Balaam tried to harm Ancient Israel for financial gain.

Many people are seduced by these wolves and end up falling into the same sin that held them hostage before they found Messiah and become worse off than if they had never followed Messiah Yeshua.

2 Peter 2
1  But among the people there were also false prophets, just as there will be false teachers among you. Under false pretenses they will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and thus bring on themselves swift destruction.
2  Many will follow their debaucheries; and because of them, the true Way will be maligned.
3  In their greed they will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their punishment, decreed long ago, is not idle; their destruction is not asleep!
4  For God did not spare the angels who sinned; on the contrary, he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than hell to be held for judgment.
5  And he did not spare the ancient world; on the contrary, he preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, and brought the Flood upon a world of ungodly people.
6  And he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes and ruin, as a warning to those in the future who would live ungodly lives;
7  but he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was distressed by the debauchery of those unprincipled people;
8  for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.
9  So the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and how to hold the wicked until the Day of Judgment while continuing to punish them,
10  especially those who follow their old natures in lust for filth and who despise authority. Presumptuous and self-willed, these false teachers do not tremble at insulting angelic beings;
11  whereas angels, though stronger and more powerful, do not bring before the Lord an insulting charge against them.
12  But these people, acting without thinking, like animals without reason, born to be captured and destroyed, insult things about which they have no knowledge. When they are destroyed, their destruction will be total —
13  they will be paid back harm as wages for the harm they are doing. Their idea of pleasure is carousing in broad daylight; they are spots and defects reveling in their deceptions as they share meals with you —
14  for they have eyes always on the lookout for a woman who will commit adultery, eyes that never stop sinning; and they have a heart that has exercised itself in greed; so that they seduce unstable people. What a cursed brood!
15  These people have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing harm
16  but was rebuked for his sin — a dumb beast of burden spoke out with a human voice and restrained the prophet's insanity!
17  Waterless springs they are, mists driven by a gust of wind; for them has been reserved the blackest darkness.
18  Mouthing grandiosities of nothingness, they play on the desires of the old nature, in order to seduce with debaucheries people who have just begun to escape from those whose way of life is wrong.
19  They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for a person is slave to whatever has defeated him.
20  Indeed, if they have once escaped the pollutions of the world through knowing our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah, and then have again become entangled and defeated by them, their latter condition has become worse than their former.
21  It would have been better for them not to have known the Way of righteousness than, fully knowing, to turn from the holy command delivered to them.
22  What has happened to them accords with the true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit." Yes, "The pig washed itself, only to wallow in the mud!

In the letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul said there was a time when someone fell away that their hearts would be darkened and they would become apostate - meaning they have fallen so far back into their sins that Yahweh has given them over to their worldly desires and will no longer pursue them because the apostates have chosen to follow their flesh and reject Yahweh.  Notice that it isn't only the reprobates that will be punished but those who have pleasure in the reprobate that will also be punished whether they participate in the reprobate's sins or not.

Romans 1
21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23  And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

In the parable of the wheat and tares, the tare can be distinguished from the time it is sown by those who know what to look for although if it is uprooted before maturity, it would take some of the wheat with it.

Matthew 13
24  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25  But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26  But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27  So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

The reason why tares need to be allowed to grow to maturity is so that they become obvious to even those that cannot distinguish between the wheat and tares when they are young can tell that it is a tare when it is mature.  This is why such well known heretics as Kenneth Copeland, Billy Graham, and Joel Osteen, etc. are allowed to prosper (for awhile) while showing themselves they are false believers and false teachers.   There are many less known wolves and false teachers that are destroying peoples souls while claiming they belong to Messiah - one casual search on youtube will show this to be so.  You even have false prophet schools and false healing schools springing up to seduce and deceive those who were following Messiah Yeshua and obeying Yahweh.

The wolves / false teachers and those they have deceived into following them will certainly be punished - in Yahweh's timing.  If you are following one of these wolves, you need to repent and seek Yahweh and follow Messiah Yeshua in truth and reject those who are trying to seduce you to hell right along with them.

If you are following Yeshua and know someone who is following a false teacher, you need to pray for them and try and snatch them from the hellfire they are heading towards.

Jude 1
18  How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19  These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22  And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.