Cleaving with Flatteries
In Da 11:34 is the unsaved Church cleaving to the believers or to Christ with flattering words?
CLEAVING: THE CHURCH WANTING TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH CHRIST?
De 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to CLEAVE unto HIM;
De 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest CLEAVE unto HIM: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Jos 23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and CLEAVE unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Ps 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not CLEAVE to ME.
Isa 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall CLEAVE to the house of JACOB.
Ac 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would CLEAVE unto the LORD.
Ro 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; CLEAVE to that which is **good**.
Mr 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none **good** but one, that is, GOD.
CLEAVING: OTHER WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT?
Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be CALLED BY THY NAME, to take away our reproach.
Mt 24:5 For many shall come in MY NAME, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
2Ti 3:5 Having a FORM of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
FLATTERIES: FALSE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION?
Da 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave {to} {them} {with} flatteries <02519>.
Ps 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery <02519>: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Jer 23:12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery <02519> ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD
Da 11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries <02519>.
Ps 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: {} flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Ps 12:3 The LORD shall cut off all FLATTERINGS LIPS, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Pr 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which FLATTERETH with her words;
Pr 29:5 A man that FLATTERETH his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Da 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by FLATTERIES: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
1Th 2:5 For neither at any time used we FLATTERING words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
SUMMARY CONCLUSION:
Da 11:34 appears to be pointing to both salvation and judgment. Salvation as the Elect receive help from God at the unsealing of the Bible (Revelation of Christ) and Judgment as the unsaved church continue to cleave to Christ with flattering words (false gospel).