“‘False prophets of the investment world’ have swindled religious Americans out of nearly $500,000,000 in the past five years,” states The Dallas Morning News. The “Bible-quoting con artists” have victimized over 15,000 Americans in their religiously oriented schemes, according to a report prepared by the national Council of Better Business Bureaus and the North American Securities Administrators Association. Spurred on by the amounts of money raised by TV evangelists, the con artists have taken advantage of the increase in religious programs to close in on their victims. “The schemes have ranged from bogus investment funds offered by self-proclaimed born-again financial planners to givers of ‘divinely inspired’ investment advice about coins, precious metals, real estate and oil drilling programs,” the paper said. A 1990 report. (2 Corinthians 11:13, 14) For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers,disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.?And no wonder, for Satan himself keeps disguising himself as an angel of light.
