If a friend rages at you because you used the Bible to correct them, they were never your friend. Friends who love you do not rage at you, they listen, even considering what you have said.
We live in a "ragingly insane" world right now as described in 2 Timothy 3. Nothing in relationships will be easy from here on out. The culture has been trained to be completely selfish and resistant to correction.
Judges 17:5-6 "…5 Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols and ordained one of his sons as his priest. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
We live in our country now as though there is no governing authority to stop rioting, but one that will close down places of worship for the born again believer.
God is allowing this because of the apostasy in these churches, however it is irrational on the part of the authorities and it is orchestrated by the devil as he controls the minds of unbelievers.
In these last days, God is allowing the devil to have his head right before the rapture and far worse after the rapture during the tribulation.
Those who have trusted Christ will be going home to the marriage supper of the Lamb before literally, all hell breaks loose on this planet. You have never seen a horror movie as terrible as it will be on earth soon.
Revelation 9:9-11 "…9 They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months. 11 They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.…"
The ruler of the devils who will do these terrible things is Satan himself. These terrible stinging locusts will be demons. We sense them in the world today, those who are born again can discern a devil in their midst even if they cannot see him.
The unsaved person's mind is controlled by the devil, but the unsaved think they are having their own thoughts and even that those devilish thoughts are good.
Isaiah 5:20
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"
2 Timothy 4:3
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,"
The world no longer endures anything that might be a direction from God, not even in most churches today. Their traditions are based on human desires, not on God's Word and they love them so much they are unwilling to consider their ways as not being from God.
The only way to survive this time is for the Holy Spirit of God to be sought after continually. Even born again believers can be deceived and confused.
Matthew 24:23-25 "…23At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible. 25See, I have told you in advance.…"
I am confident that this passage applies to those who "say" they are Christians but have never been born again. They will say many right things and even live what appear to be good lives but they have never trusted in Christ.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
Now is the time to evaluate self, asking the Lord if you are truly born again by the Spirit of Christ.
