The Pacific Northwest has been Wicked from the Beginning

From my observations, our culture in the Pacific Northwest has been a culture of selfishness and defiance against God since the beginning of its founding. I didn't notice it until I became born again and my eyes were opened to it. The churches are so bad here we cannot attend them, they don't allow anyone who disagrees with them and they say the Bible is their standard but they use it like a book of suggestions and negate most of the principles and commands of God.

The scriptures that tell us this would happen are as follows:

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths."

Matthew 24:11 "and many false prophets will arise and deceive many."

Acts 20:29 "I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock."

Titus 1:9 "He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it."

1 Timothy 6:3-4 "If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,"

Do not let this discourage you, keep speaking truth, keep looking up and soon we will be with others who love Christ as we love Him.

The Snatching Away is Faster Than We Think

When God said that His church would be snatched away in the twinkling of an eye, this is what He was telling us.

Meaning it would be so fast- a violent snatching, instantly. In an instant we are here, and then there. It cannot be measured in our time.

We will not be floating up as the pictures show, but it will still be just as exciting.

Our eyes twinkle this fast: between 0.1 and 0.4 seconds, not even a full second, a fraction of a second.

We do not make the choice to go up in the rapture; God makes it for us. Just as He transforms us into a new creation when we become born again, we do not transform ourselves; He does that to us.

Ephesians 2:9-10 "…9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life."

Those who think they are changing themselves, depending on their own effort, are not saved and are missing out on the miracle of His transformation in us.

When we trust in Christ, we know He does all the work of transformation in us, grows us and then takes us home when it is time to go. He does it all, all we do is trust in Him.
Hallelujah!!!!

The Bible is a Book of Commands not Suggestions to be Modified

Malachi 1:6 "A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My Honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the Lord of Hosts.
"To You priests who despise My Name. Yet you say; "in what way have we despised Your Name?"

Malachi 1:7 "You offer defiled food on My alter, but say, "In what way have we defiled you." By saying; "The table of the Lord is contemptable, and when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, is it not evil."

Malachi 1:10 "I have no pleasure in you." Says the Lord of hosts, Nor will I accept an offering from your hands."

Many people in churches today accept and endorse divorce and remarriage as though God does not care that you defile marriage and disobey His commands not to divorce and to not remarry after divorce.

Many people accept and endorse disrespectful attitudes and language toward their parents when God said to "honor your father and mother", and "to listen to the instruction of your father and to not despise the teachings of your mother."

They accept the rebellion in others even if they do not do it themselves. And, most adult children today defy God in the commands to listen to the instruction of their father and to not disobey the law of their mother.

Adults train their children by example how to act disobediently while claiming they are teaching them Chrsitianity.

Proverbs 1:8-9 "8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. 9 For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck."

Most believers do not know their Bibles, and those who do ignore the passages they do not like.

The modern Christian in this culture claims to be a Bible believer but walks in disobedience, pretending and demanding that it is good. They mock God's Word and those who bring it. They ask the question in a Bible study, "What does that passage mean to you?", instead of asking, "What did God mean by that passage?"

The leaders of churches demand obedience to them but defy God in his commands and principles while teaching things from humanistic psychology that enhance their sense of superiority, endorsing what God condemns.

Pentecostals are the worst for this practice of using the Bible in ways that promote their own ideas and culture. Even becoming angry when someone corrects them.

The Bible is not a book of good suggestions that can be modified and changed to fit whatever anyone wants to believe. The Bible is God's Word; Jesus Christ is the Word and anyone who changes the Bible to fit their own ideas is negating and rejecting Jesus Christ to follow their own wicked heart.

No Clergy, No Laity, Only Priests

There is no such thing as clergy and laity in the Bible. No one is above another; all have Christ who are born again and all are priests.

1 Peter 2:9 "“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”"

We are Watchng the Effects of 2 Timothy 3 in our Culture Today

The selfish mentality, with the desire to be special and better than others, is here, and God told us it would happen in 2 Timothy 3:1-5
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

Many people, even Christians, are judging others unjustly because of their need to be superior. These people are calling good what God calls bad and they are calling bad what God calls good, while at the same time claiming to be Christians.

Many people who attend the institutional churches are not born again but think they are on their way to heaven. They believe simply by claiming Christianity it means they are saved. Sadly, many will hear these frightening words if they do not repent, admit their sinful nature, and trust in Christ alone.

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 will enter. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’"

From "Raising Up a Generation of Believers

Angela Heidebrecht shared this on her Facebook page.

Found this on X and I was led to share it, it is a very good read.
Satan is not opposed to good morals.

He’s opposed to Jesus Christ.

Read that again because most Christians miss this completely.

Satan doesn’t care if you’re a “good person.” He doesn’t care if you volunteer at the food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesn’t care if you’re kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community.
He cares that you don’t bow the knee to Jesus.

Here’s the deception that’s damning millions:
Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That being a “good person” is the same as being a Christian. That if you just live right, treat people well, and avoid the “big sins,” you’re acceptable to God.

This is a lie straight from the pit of hell.

The Pharisees had impeccable morals. They followed the law meticulously. They were respected, disciplined, and religiously devoted.
Jesus called them children of the devil.

Why? Not because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ.
Satan’s greatest trick isn’t making bad people worse. It’s making good people think they don’t need a Savior.

Think about it:
The atheist who feeds the homeless thinks he’s good enough without God.
The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks she’s enlightened without Christ.

The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks he’s righteous without Jesus.
The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his tithe, and avoids scandal thinks he’s saved without surrender.

All of them are headed to the same place: eternal separation from God.
Because morality doesn’t save. Jesus saves.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

Satan loves moral people who reject Jesus. They’re his best advertisement for the lie that you can earn your way to heaven.
They’re living proof that you can:
•Be kind without Christ
•Be generous without God
•Be disciplined without the Holy Spirit
•Be respected without redemption
And still be lost.

The most dangerous people in hell won’t be the murderers and rapists. They’ll be the moral, upstanding citizens who thought their goodness was good enough.
Their morals became their idol. Their goodness became their god.
And Satan smiled because he’d accomplished his goal: Keep them from Jesus.
Here’s what most Christians don’t understand:

Satan doesn’t need to make you do bad things. He just needs to keep you from doing the ONE thing that matters: surrendering to Christ.
If he can get you to:

•Trust your morals instead of Christ’s sacrifice
•Rely on your goodness instead of God’s grace
•Believe in your works instead of Jesus’ finished work
He’s won.

You can live a moral life and still die lost. You can be a good person and still face judgment. You can avoid all the “big sins” and still end up separated from God forever.

Because the only sin that damns you eternally is rejecting Jesus Christ.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36

Not the murderer who repents and believes in Christ is damned.
Not the thief who turns to Jesus on the cross is damned.

Not the prostitute who washes Jesus’ feet with her tears is damned.
The moral, religious person who rejects Christ is damned.

That’s why Satan loves morality without Jesus. It sends people to hell with a smile on their face, convinced they were good enough.

Stop trusting your morals. Start trusting Jesus.

Your goodness won’t save you. Your works won’t redeem you. Your morality won’t justify you.
Only the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away your sin and make you acceptable to a holy God.
Everything else is just Satan’s distraction from the one thing that actually matters.

Sobering Things About the Last Days

Are We The Final Generation

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WHEN THE WORLD NORMALIZES WHAT GOD CONDEMNS, BELIEVERS MUST STAND FIRMLY ON THE WORD OF GOD!

We are witnessing a troubling pattern that Scripture warned would characterize the last days. What God calls evil is increasingly defended as acceptable, while biblical convictions are dismissed as outdated or intolerant. But truth does not change with culture, and God's standards do not change with public opinion.

Isaiah 5:20 KJV warns:

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.”

Look at Paul's warning in 2 Timothy 3:1–5. He described a generation marked by self-love, pride, disobedience, and pleasure-loving attitudes, having a form of godliness but denying its power.

This is why believers must remain watchful, exercise discernment, and refuse to exchange sound doctrine for popular opinion. We are not called to follow the world's standards but to remain faithful to God's Word.

2 Timothy 4:3–4 KJV also warns that many will turn away their ears from the truth.

The Church's blessed hope remains the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13). We are looking for Christ, not waiting for the world's approval!

A MESSAGE TO THE LOST: The Gospel is that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again the third day (1 Corinthians 15:1–4). Salvation is by grace through faith in Him, not by our works (Ephesians 2:8–9).

The world may change its definition of right and wrong, but the Word of God will never change.

Gwendolyn Wehage

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Amen, and families are dividing, dismissing, and rejecting those who follow the Bible, even in Christian families. There are more unbelievers who call themselves Christians than there are authentic believers who have been transformed by Christ.