Tal Brooke

Constitutional limitations on governmental power, by implication, are a warning against the rapacious state becoming a tyranny.

Adding to the witches' brew of the classic pitfalls of lust, greed, pride, and all the rest, there was another monster on the horizon--mounting spiritual deception from both within and without the church. Paul warned Timothy, "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils" (1 Tim 4:1).