Several New Testament Scriptures Predict A Fall of the Church Into False Doctrines Bernard Pyron

Several New Testament texts predict that the Christian community will
fall into false doctrines. These are II Thessalonians 2: 3, Luke 13:
21, I Corinthians 5: 6-7, Matthew 24: 11, I Timothy 4: 1, II Timothy
3: 1-8, II Timothy 3: 13, II Timothy 4: 3 and II Timothy 4: 4.

And Matthew 24: 11 is not the only place where it is predicted that
many false prophets will arise. Some other verses that show false
prophets will come are II Peter 2: 1 and I John 4: 1.

Revelation 16: 12-14 says: "And the sixth angel poured out his vial
upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,
and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather
them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

This is saying that demon spirits are released which operate through
the mouth, or words of the beast and the false prophet. But the beast
and the false prophet are metaphoric constructs, and not single
individuals, which is one of the fables mentioned by Paul in II
Timothy 4: 4. In addition, the battle which these demon spirits,
inspiring the many false prophets, are to gather the world to is not a
literal, military-type battle, often called the battle of Armageddon
(Revelation 16: 16). Rather, this battle is spiritual, and is between
the huge number of false prophets or false teachers and that remnant
which is found in Revelation 12: 17, and those called the Overcomers
in Revelation 2: 7, 17 and Revelation 3: 5, 12 and 21.

And the large number of false teachers which come against the truth of
Jesus Christ is metaphorically called an army in scripture. Jeremiah
51: 51-53 says "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach:
shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the
sanctuaries of the LORD's house. Wherefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and
through all her land the wounded shall groan. Though Babylon should
mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her
strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD."

Babylon is a metaphor for apostate religion - including Christianity - and the corrupt worldly culture surrounding it. The strangers who have come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house are the army of false teachers. In the next verse the Lord says he will do judgment upon her graven images, not a judgment limited to Babylon's love of graven images, but to her love of false doctrines and practices as well.

Daniel 8:12 says "And an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to
the ground; and it practised, and prospered."

The truth is cast to the ground by a host. Host is Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance number 6635. which is said to mean "...a mass
of persons organized for war, an army, by implication a campaign,
company, host, soldiers, warfare."

This is not the only place in scripture where the metraphor of an army
is used to describe a large number of false teachers who "cast down
the truth to the ground."