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False Teachers Compared to Clouds Without
Rain
By: Benjamin Keach
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“These are
wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to
whom the mist of darkness is
reserved for ever.” 2Peter 2:17
“clouds they
are without water, carried about of winds; Jude 12.
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As
False-Teachers are compared to “Wells without Water,” so
likewise they are to “Clouds without Rain, carried with a
tempest.”
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Parallels
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I. Some
clouds seem as if they had much Water or Rain in them, though
empty: so some False-Teachers do seem very like the true and
faithful servants and ministers of Christ; they in outward show
appear devout, and talk like saints, pretending to much humility
and godliness, as if they were the very men God had appointed to
dispense his word, and heavenly truth; but alas! They are but
mere empty Clouds, being only filled with airy and unprofitable
notions. Some Clouds, as Pliny observes, are nothing else but
mere empty vapors, with the wind of delusion or false doctrine.
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II. Clouds
prevent or hinder mortals from beholding the glorious shining of
he sun, and tend greatly to darken the heavens: so
False-Teachers obstruct, in a great measure, the glorious Gospel
in its light and splendor, from shining upon the souls of men,
and tend to darken the blessed light of divine truths, in a
nation where they abound, and are countenanced.
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