Because of early-week traveling, I found myself scrambling for time. -- As a result, I thought I would go back to the archives for something of interest for this week’s entry. I then stumbled across this abbreviated piece and when I sat down to look for possible updates, I realized it needed none.
-- Funny how prophecy-related end-time conditions are so consistent when based upon Biblical fact.
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You can sense it - It’s in the air!
It is the scent of things to come -- things prophesied long ago, but are now present in the societal, cultural, and political air we breathe.There is a huge change coming, according to God’s word, and it won’t spell for better times for those who dwell upon the Earth.
The ‘transformation’ of our country is well underway, and has been for decades. - The tide of humanism has all but destroyed the foundation of decency this nation was built upon.
Starting in the 1960’s, we saw the Judicial Branch of our government replace much of the Legislative and Executive Branches involvement in shaping social and cultural positions for this nation.
Roe vs. Wade and the abortion of nearly 50 million babies, followed by prayer and Bible-reading being rejected and then ejected by humanists who now run the public schools -- prepared the way for the complete foundational transformation of church life in America -- and spiritual changes that NO NATION can survive as a moral entity.
The mega church movement that has invited entertainment priorities to replace sound doctrinal teaching and preaching is the result of decades of telling the American people that while church (meaning Christianity) and state must be separate at all costs, the church MUST allow the secular things of the nation --- and all things attendant to humanism -- to be an “intellectual” part of its activities.
Entertainment, pop psychology, secular rock bands with an occasional look at the spiritual, and all sorts of merchandizing, has become part of this transitional change.
The methodologies have worked! - The mega churches have exploded in numbers and have grown wealthy and “influential”. Attendees receive no sound doctrinal meat of God’s word, in most cases, but the people have “been to church”. Their consciences can be clear and it didn’t hurt one bit.
This transformational change the humanists --- and satan --- want is coming to pass.
The result will be the regime of the Antichrist, whom the masses will worship as God.
Psalm 2:1-3 says, “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the Earth set themselves, and rulers take counsel together , against the Lord, and against His anointed, saying, Let us break their banks asunder, and cast away their chords from us.”
So, all this change we’ve seen in recent years has not been good for the condition of this nation, or its church.
We must and should know that true change comes only from the transformed spiritual heart -- a condition produced only through God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen!