Counterfeit or incomplete with some little bit right and much wrong. The counterfeiting, which occurs likely comes from those who have been around a while, but have Not been growing in the things of God. What happens to a plant or an animal that fails to produce new cells as fast as the old ones die... or to fully repair the old ones to the efficiency they had earlier on...? Progress toward physical death.seems like we come to an understanding that the counterfeit comes first, but i guess its hard to imagine that applying to our initial experience?
what did you go out into the wilderness to see?
What did Joshua and Caleb when they went out into that wilderness? What did the rest of the adults who came out of Egypt see?
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:... Prov 29:18
The ones [600,000 without women and children] who died in the wilderness thought they could see, but were they not blind following blind leaders instead of the Leader who could see?
"Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Matt 15:14
Are there any blind around us or among us today... or any who claim that they are not blind when...?
"And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." John 9:40-41