Confronting Perilous Times in These Last Days

Test the Spirit

A good test for someone is for us to speak about Jesus Christ boldly and watch their response, if they are embarrassed or they do not bring Him up on their own, these are clues that person may not be born again. Attending a church gathering is not evidence of a born-again believer.

1 John 4:1-6

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.

4 You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

5 They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

6 We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."

Anger without Justification is Sin

Being angry at someone and refusing to tell them why you are angry proves you like the anger. Discussion can resolve things, hiding only destroys relationships.

Matthew 5:23-24

"Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift."

Matthew 18:15-16 "15 If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16 But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’…"

If you have approached someone who has been treating you disrespectfully and they reject your plea to be sorry and reconciled then you know the ungodly heart of the one who loves to feel superior through their victim mentality.

If someone treats someone disrespectfully for what they have heard about them that they have not seen for themselves, then they are foolish.

Judging others based on gossip is a sin.

Leviticus 19:17

"You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him."

Proverbs 25:9

"Argue your case with your neighbor without betraying another's confidence,"

Luke 17:3

"Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him."

Psalm 141:5

"Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities."

Narcissists and their Victim Mentality

Narcissists always play the victim when they have victimized others.

2 Timothy 3 describes the mentality of the narcissist in the end times.

Narcissists will blame you for everything bad they did to you

and will convince others that you were the one who did the bad thing to them. They are strangely petty as the seek out events to find fault where there is no fault to find.

Narcissists will not believe anything you say or do unless you can prove it with hard evidence but when they make up stories without proof that is expected to be believed.

Reasoning with a narcissist is impossible. They refuse to be reasonable or see anyone else's view if it does not match their own ideas.

Narcissists are continually gossips, they make up ideas in their own head that they want to believe about you that have never happened. They will use words like, "I think they may have", or "do you think they did thus and such?"

Speculation about others is rampant in the heart of a narcissist, they need no evidence and do not rely on seeing things for themselves to discern truth, all they have to do is believe it in their own mind and they count it as fact. Feelings always trump facts in the heart of the narcissist and they never attempt to go to the source to find out the truth.

Narcissists will pump you for information about your life to be able to have a hint of truth to which they add their own version of lies when they gossip to others. Half-truths are a tool on their belt.

Narcissists convince themselves of their own lies, over time they think of them so often and repeat them to others that they begin to believe the lies they have told. If they can convince someone else of a lie then that further solidifies the lie as true in the mind of the narcissist.

In short, the narcissistic condition is demonically inspired. The devil implants feelings and ideas into the minds of those who already have a problem with jealousy and hatred, easily manipulating them to be convinced of their lies and able to convince others of them too.

We only need one example of this in the bible to show how true it is, and that is when the devil planted doubt about God into the mind of Eve, convincing her she could be like God. The desire to be like God was a selfish idea to cause her to disregard what God said and do what she wanted. The devil managed to convince Eve that she was more important than anyone or anything else. And, the devil is still operating this way today in unsuspecting unbelievers who have been trained for the past 50 years that no one matters more than themselves.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult (ragingly insane) 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."

We need not be disturbed by all this when we walk with God and understand these end days of deep deception. It attacks us personally but it does not stick.

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God Spanks His Children

Don't think that believers never sin, and don't think we will get away with sin when we disobey or ignore God's commands.

If someone is all proud of the fact that they are getting away with sin without trials then maybe they are not born again and only think they are saved when they are headed for hell.

God said that He disciplines those whom He loves. Watch out, if we are a believer and are sinning or have unconfessed sin we can expect a spanking from God.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

Hebrews 12:8 "8 If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons."

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