(24) False messiahs and false prophets will come and work great miracles and signs. They will even try to fool God's chosen ones.

(1) Someday a prophet may come along who is able to perform miracles or tell what will happen in the future. Then the prophet may say, "Let's start worshiping some new gods--some gods that we know nothing about." (2) (SEE 13:1) (3) If the prophet says this, don't listen! The LORD your God will be watching to find out whether or not you love him with all your heart and soul. (4) You must be completely faithful to the LORD. Worship and obey only the LORD and do this with fear and trembling, (5) because he rescued you from slavery in Egypt. If a prophet tells you to disobey the LORD your God and to stop worshiping him, then that prophet is evil and must be put to death.

(22) On the day of judgment many will call me their Lord. They will say, "We preached in your name, and in your name we forced out demons and worked many miracles." (23) But I will tell them, "I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!"

(13) It worked mighty miracles, and while people watched, it even made fire come down from the sky. (14) This second beast fooled people on earth by working miracles for the first one. Then it talked them into making an idol in the form of the beast that did not die after being wounded by a sword.