I am astounded that so many people who say they are Christians will believe all the conspiracy news reports but will not believe all of what God said in His Word.
Why do so many people keep their eyes on this world at a time when nearly everything is based on lies and the flesh?
It is reasonable to expect that the church would go the way of the world as we reach the end of the church age.
"8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),"
It is impossible to live in this world and escape the evil going on in the world. We live with the injustice in government, families, and communities, sadly even in churches every single day now.
Most of what people believe is not Biblical and is even the opposite of what God commanded in His word from interpersonal relationships to the structure of the church. When we evaluate all that we have been taught with what God says in His Word we will find out that there is very little obedience to Him.
In order to avoid interpreting God's word according to our western mindset or our modern mindset we must keep asking the Holy Spirit to show us the truth. Without consulting with God we will see everything according to the false way we were taught instead of what God meant.
God said that in the last days, there would be a wholesale rejection of God's word even though there would be a form of religion, but which does not honor God.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
(Ragingly Insane) Difficult Times Will Come
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."
This is a description of the end times of apostasy when nearly everything is based on humanistic psychology and personal desires, not on the Word of God. It is a description of churches that "have a form of godliness but deny Christ."
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. 3 For 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. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
We are a small remnant now, those who trusted Christ and who desire to obey Him are very few in number. We are such a small number that it has become difficult to find others who are authentic Christians humble and lovely who seek Christ for His understanding.
Many people will hate us because we have the joy and peace they cannot seem to find, it alludes them, and they hate that someone else has what they cannot find. Rather than asking why we are so at peace and strong to find something they don't have, they are jealous and angry toward those who love Christ.
Pride will not allow them to seek Christ, since they want to believe they are all sufficient within themselves.
Proverbs 16:18
"18 Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling."
Even when they stumble because of their arrogance they will blame others instead of own what they have been within their own souls.
Do not be discouraged, we know what is happening and where it is all going, Christ, told us it would be this way and that we can remain strong, resolute, and with great joy and peace while we are here.
Soon we will be going home, out of this world not to return until the Millennium. Then we know we will reign with Christ while He sits on the throne in Jerusalem. We must keep our eyes fixated on Him and what is coming as we carry out our calling here.
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