False prophets and twisted scripture

The Pope is on YouTube along with a host of other delusional sooth Sayers. He was attempting to refute the claim that the “Church” is a human institution. He stated that Jesus built the Church which is an erroneous claim based on miss-translation; and that Peter was the first Pope, which Peter would have disavowed had he been alive. The Pope is in company with preachers and prophet junkies claiming to know what truth is. The prophecy of Isaiah fits all of them as it did the Pharisees:

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.

I agree with this quotation except that we are not in the “last days”:

“In a world where churches trade the furnace of biblical truth for the flicker of superficiality—where worship bows to spectacle and preaching peddles prosperity—a perilous tide rises. Self-proclaimed prophets, unshackled from Scripture yet draped in allure, multiply, drawing sincere but undiscerning believers from Christ into a labyrinth of error. Jesus warned, “False prophets shall rise and deceive many in the last days” (Matthew 24:11). As this shadow lengthens, we must wield discernment’s sword, unveiling what true prophets were made of—their divine purpose and costly calling—and piercing the hollow clamor of impostors who bear no resemblance to them.” (The Rise of MODERN PROPHETS: A Call to Discernment in a Superficial Age. https://bvthomas.com/)

The notion that we are in “the last days” (Matthew 24:11) is only true if we ignore Jesus’ statement in Matt 24:34 “this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.” The last days referred to: the last days of Israel, the end of the Sinai covenant and law of Moses, and the end of the Jewish era. Peter assigned the events witnessed on Pentecost to the prophecy of Joel, “this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel – “after this” Peter – “In the last days…” I would recommend to the author of A Call to Discernment… that he’s correct about the proliferation of bogus prophets; and he must not make the same assumptions they use to conjure their fanciful fallacies. The primary theme of all 66 books is humanity’s reconciliation to God. God accomplished everything he intended to. The final events were the destruction of the temple and city immediately after which Jesus returned in his kingdom. That is what Jesus said he would do, and when he said he would do it. We must not insert ourselves into the scripture story, we are recipients of God’s salvation through grace. God did what he set out to do, events in scripture reveal his purpose and accomplishment.  

Jesus spoke of priorities in his teaching:

Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord", will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?"  Then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers." 

Religious activity isn’t the same as doing the will of God.