I have to imagine that false teachers must have put years of work into the construction of their message.
I was thinking about this and a short phrase from a Bible passage came to mind:
2 Timothy 4
14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: 15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Alexander made money from false religion. Paul, who came preaching the grace of God encounters someone who opposes that message. In one short phrase, I think Paul asks the Lord to judge Alexander by the thing he wants to be judged by -
his works!
Coming from the apostle who wrote that “man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” there is a powerful sense of Alexander being given over to the judgement of the Great White Throne of Revelation 20:
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.