Eleven Commands-False Prophets and Religions

1.     Do not hear or follow any religious leader who seeks to lead you away from God and His Word (Deut. 13:1-3).

2.     Walk after God, fear Him, keep His commandments, obey His voice, serve Him, and cleave to Him (Deut. 13:4).

3.     Put the false prophet or dreamer to death if he has tried to turn you away from the Lord (Deut. 13:5).

4.     Put away all evil.

5.     Even if your closest relatives or friends try to turn you from the Lord, do not give in to them, hear them, pity them, spare them, or conceal them from punishment of death.

6.     Kill them by your own hand being upon them first, and then the hands of the people. Stone them until they die, because they tried to lead you astray from the Lord (Deut. 13:9-10).

7.     All Israel shall hear, and fear, and not do any more wickedness like that (Deut. 13:11).

8.     Destroy every city and all the inhabitants that permit any to live among them who try to turn you away from the Lord, and every city which turns from God to serve other gods (Deut. 13:12-15).

9.     Make proper inquiry and know with certainty that the city has gone from the Lord to serve other gods before you destroy it (Deut. 13:14-15).

10.   Gather all the spoil into the streets and burn the city with fire and it shall be a heap forever as a witness of God's judgment on idolatry.

11.   Do not build that city again, nor take any of its spoil for yourselves (Deut. 13:16-17).

Two purposes of God in letting false religions and satanic powers operate:

1.     To prove people (Exodus 16:4)

2.     To see if people will love God with all their heart and soul (cp. 2 Cor. 11:18-19; 2 John 1:7-11).

Deut. 13:4